The Bard

Yeah, I suppose in the same was as TP, but like with Zelda, I would have been alright playing it with a cube controller. I guess I just like the look of the PS2 version better.

Chinese. Nothing better than chinese food.

I personally much prefer the shots from the PS2 version. I don't like getting my dusty old PS2 out and setting it up, but considering I can go out, get Okami for under a tenner and play it straight away... It seems ridiculous that they're going on about it being unchanged, apart from the controls, and yet a distinctive graphical quirk is missing, and that just stinks of lazyness to me. Controls; they probably are better, but to be honest, they're probably not doing to add much to the experience.

That's so fucking shit. Why would I buy it on Wii when I can get it cheaper and better looking on PS2? Bullshit.

Nope, it won't be possible. Lame eh? Anyway, I'm gonna use this as an opportunity to say: Get the fuck online and play some Gears with me!

Spent the whole day playing Gears with my mate. Had some lollage with Dyson. Good fun overall.

Anyone who wants a game o Gears, get yo ass on Live pronto.

Gaiden literally translates to "Side Story" I think. I don't know where I got that from, but I'm sure it's accurate.

Holy shit, two things: 1. Striders leg looks like beeeef. 2. Daniel has the hairiest leg iz eva seeeeeen. It's like, hairier than mine. But iss cool cause I'd still tap that.

I thought Evil Empire sucked monkey dick. Battle of LA was a good rock record, but their first is of course, a classic. Ugh...can't believe I missed Behemoth by a few days. Spent all of today listening to Demigod and Satanica. .

Woke up at 6, showered, ate, took train to london. Went to Queen Marys, sat there not talking to anyone and seeming like an antisocial prick, had interview, which lasted 20 minutes, and then, the guy basically tells me, "LOLZ WE"RE GoNNa make you an offer." So...I pay 60 quid to go to London, for a guy to ask me about books I read 4 years ago, essentially throwing the last 2 weeks worth of prep down the shitter. I might seem a sour, ungrateful bastard, but that's because I am. Then I went on a cool campus tour. Rooms are fucking tiny! Anyway, I went to trocadero after that, paid 50p to play 2 hours worth of Street Fighter, got on the train (which took a fucking record 1hour 50minutes) to Manchester, and here I am. And now I have nothing to do. Oh well, at least now I can boast about having recieved offers from every uni I've applied to . Say it with me people: The Bard is king...

Oh my god hotness, I wanna bang you.

Lolz Beardyman is bringing sexy back. Best pun ever. Say it!

This game looks, quite frankly, amazing. I mean, the concept is just so thoroughly ridiculous that I can't help but love it. Is Charles Barkley actually doing the voice overs for this? "The Chaos Dunk, a jam so powerful its mere existence threatens the balance of chaos and order. Flash forward 12 years to the post-cyberpocalyptic ruins of Neo New York, 2053. A Chaos Dunk rocks the island of Manhattan, killing 15 million." Just...pure win.

No point trying to approach a discussion Socratically with a science student. *shudders* I joke. This thread makes me want to cause myself grevious bodily harm.

I've done absolutely fuck all today apart from try to prepare what I'm gonna say tomorrow for my interview. Screw it, I'll just ad lib it. Worked out a little and also just had the most massive ass protein shake ever, I swear, the things was a vegans nightmare. Tomorrow is gonna be so shit.

I love how you missed the point entirely. Grunchy here is saying that he needs to change the Wii's output from PAL 50 to 480p, and in the Wii menu this is done by choosing whether your Wii is hooked up to a HD/EDTV or to a normal tv. I would post a step by step guide, but I'm too lazy, so instead I'll just tell you where all the buttons are, you'll have to feel them out by indication of the vibration I suppose: 1. From the Wii Main Menu, the Wii Options (the little round icon) is on the bottom left of the screen, feel for that and click on it. 2. On the Wii options screen there are three icons, click on the rightmost one. Which will lead you to the Wii system settings menu. 3. The third icon from the top is "Screen", click on this, and keep the Wii pointer dead still, as on the next screen you also want to click on the third icon "TV Type." 4. On the final page the ED/HDTV option is the third, and after that there are two adjacent icons at the very bottom. The left one is "back" and the one on the right is "confirm." You're gonna need to click on "confirm." Also: Monitors have a native resolution of 720p, and the Wii's maximum is 480p, so I'm not entirely sure it'll work anyway. Hope it helps.

"This seems like a good idea." I feel dirty all over. Edit: damn you grunch!!

It all started with a bottle of JD and my dads affectation for using my sippy cup as a shot glass. JK. I started at about 14, got wasted off a hauge bottle of Jim Beam in the field behind my house, then I came home and slept like a baby for about 20 hours. Life was never the same again.

I did, and I maintain that any amount of alcohol is bad for you. Beneficial, too perhaps, but that's irrelevant. You complain that I took your metaphor too literally, and in a reciprocal gesture, I'm going to say that you look and rely too much solely on the tangible; you speak only of medical and physical benefits, and that is totally beside the point of what drugs are for in the first place. That is the true reason why your view is purely trivial; you speak without experience, and thus can have nothing more than a vicarious appreciation of drugs in the first place.

Yeah, that's a perfectly viable likening, presuming, of course, that these particular fish have somehow transcended the need for water as a respiratory medium (seeing as nobody in this thread is dependent on drugs, and most of us don't use them anymore). Of course, then, their willingness to preserve water would be more a genuinely benevolent act to preserve their fellow, less fortunate fish. In this metaphor I prefer to see the water dependent fish as self important, inexperienced know it alls with a penchant for bad analogies and fascist tendencies. Wrong. Basic chemistry: Alcohol, no matter the amount, is broken down into aldehydes and ketones in the digestive tract; poisonous substances that damage synaptic clefts (which is why many long term drinkers have hilariously inept motor functions). Alcohol, and it's removal from the blood stream is also what's responsible for what could very well be every liver disease/ infection/ ailment under the sun.

Yeah, and I'm sure you speak from experience. I used to smoke weed, I've taken Ex and Ketamine, none of them fucked me up, and I don't do them anymore because 1. I got bored 2. I didn't like the culture associated with them 3. Alcohol is the socially respectable man's mind altering drug of choice. I just find the huge number of assumptions present in your comments to be fucking hilarious.

The irony...it's...it's awe inspiring. That someone professing to be so philanthropic in their intent could hold such disgust and lack of esteem for anyone that says something that conflicts with their beliefs, just shows the fact that you don't really give a fuck about anything more than your own sense of importance. It's either that, or your whining naivete that prevent me from taking you seriously. You look at things far too idealistically. Yes, if smoking was banned, more people would have better health, but inevitably, it's your experiences that shape what you think and who you are; take away the right to choose, and you're taking away people's right to life. Yes, smokers are more likely to die early, junkies sometimes fund their addiction through crime: Statistics say so. The thing is, that statistics mean nothing. You and I are not statistics. To downplay ones individuality to the point where it's nothing more than a number on a page is an insult to a fundamental hallmark of being human; I'm saying the right to individualism is the most important right of all, in a rambling, not altogether coherent way. You can argue the bad effects of smoking all you want, I'll back you up from first hand experience, but what you can't do is force people to make the choice that to you is the right one. Nobody here is arguing that smoking isn't detrimental to health. The thing you don't seem to be able to accept is that to some people, physical well being isn't the most important aspect of ones life.

Pain in the arse? You must have one hairy colon. That is my sick joke for the day. I jokes

Yup, the date is TBC atm. If anyone else wants to come down and join in the fun, that would be cool .