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This may be a stupid question (and at this point I'm only asking because I'm curious), but how am I supposed to do the badge pursuit challenge if my copy of the game didn't include any photo negatives? Google has been very little help, and all I can seem to find are either walkthroughs or people discussing the negatives. I hear they're all in or around landmarks? Am I supposed to figure that out on my own, because as far as I can tell, there hasn't been a single hint in-game about how and where to find these elusive badges?

Everything looks pretty reddish in that photo, so it's kind of hard to see what your hair really looks like, but I'm going to assume it looks great. At least if you dress up as Tintin, you can pass as someone who just has a bad dress sense to non-fans. ... Though I suppose the same could be said for Harry Potter cosplayers.

Wait, we can pick who we want to be now? In that case, I want to be Ashley ReZ Jayseven actually, never mind. Happy birthday, Gavin. May it be a glorious day of cake-eating and getting one day older.

Haha, I'm liking the Tintin cosplay. Now you just need to convince your boyfriend to grow a beard for the next time you're in Australia and you're all set.

Does this mean you're not a spam bot? Welcome, friend of Daniel.

But he can't flaunt his penis in public. He's not ReZ.

He gave the game a low rating and explained why in the review. He found the gameplay repetitive, the story was terrible, the graphics were underwhelming, he didn't like the multiplayer... You could argue that, "oh, clearly he has a beef with the developer/the Wii/life in general", but those are just assumptions. Maybe he just really disliked the game? I occasionally review Tomb Raider levels for a website, and sometimes I play a level that is just so obviously bad that I have no choice but to write a scathing review of it, and then other people love the level. Last year, I reviewed thirty levels for a competition, and one of my least favorite levels ended up winning. So it's all very subjective. And anyway, the review really isn't the point here. Maybe the review is extremely biased - maybe T. Michael Murdock is just a terrible reviewer overall! But does that really make what High Voltage Software did any better? It's like if I was hurling insults at you and you could either be the bigger man and walk away, or go get your friends and beat me up. Is that really all we should expect from game developers? Just because this reviewer acted unprofessionally (maybe), that doesn't excuse what High Voltage Software did. Not to mention the fact that I'm sure the Conduit games have received high ratings from some reviewers just by virtue of being shooters on the Wii, and I'm betting no one had a problem with those reviews.

So now reviewers should be afraid to give low ratings not only because the websites they work for may lose ad revenue/may not get any more review copies, but because game developers may go after them personally? I haven't played Conduit 2, so I don't know if the Joystiq review is accurate or not (though reading it, I do think the reviewer justifies his rating), but sometimes games get bad reviews. Most people would just deal with it. They wouldn't encourage their employees to slam the reviewer's novel. It's really childish and unprofessional.

The guy reviewing Conduit 2 for Jostiq trashed the game and some of the children over at High Voltage Software decided to retaliate by giving his novel a bunch of one-star ratings on Amazon.com. Very classy.

Dan's ginger, so he probably can't be out in the sun.

This is the conduct of a respectable game developer.

Yes. Spiritual successor, technically.

I take it you're not a fan of Gilmore Girls, then? Also, season six of Desperate Housewives? They just finished season seven last Sunday, so I'm not sure this 'waiting for subtitles' business is worth it!

I'm not sure in which category you're putting House when you say "shows like these", but you could always watch it with Flink and ask him what people are saying. "What did House just say?" "What does that medical term mean?" He'd love that. It'd be romantic.

I was wondering where you people were watching episodes that haven't even aired yet. My interest in House plummeted after I found out that Lisa Edelstein isn't returning for season eight. It's made even worse by the fact that it'll likely be the final season. ... I'm not sure how watching it on your computer is any different from watching it on your TV, other than the long wait? Well, I guess there's a chance it might be dubbed, but that would just make it worse.

They're obviously The Fabulous Four.

Lars von Trier: "I'm a Nazi. I think Hitler was a great man." Kirsten Dunst: "Please stop I am so embarrassed I wish I were dead." Lars von Trier: "Don't worry - there's a point to all of this." *Much later* Lars von Trier: "So, yeah, I'm a Nazi."

Don't worry, Hamish - they abolished the "pictures of people at the Doctor Who Experience" quota a couple of months ago. Plus I like the idea of every Doctor Who fan taking the exact same pictures.

Haha, I should have said, ENJOY SUMMER.

The obvious solution here is that Serebii should be smirking.

Wow, you're way ahead of the rest of us! Also, enjoy having NOTHING TO WATCH once you've finally caught up.

He's also an alien.

Everything's coming up Nightwolf!