The Bard

Wait, you're saying you want graphics comparable to the current gen of home consoles, yet the game you're anticipating is FFX? That is so crazy . From videos of Wipeout HD, I am already sold on what the system can do graphically. I guess a decent point of comparison would be to expect the sort of disparity that there was between the original PSP and the PS2, where the PSP was actually more comparable to the Dreamcast, at least graphically.

I'll of course be there this year, to hear the lamentations of your liqueur dispensaries. Will have to catch the last tube home though, so I'll be leaving earlier than usual. You're all welcome to come hang out though .

Except the fact that they're absolutely masterful songwriters, backed by an excellent composer with a great sense of adapting strings and orchestral sections to pop music, and finally the fact that they had without a doubt the best production of their era. Of course, they could just as easily languished in obscurity if it wasn't for a few beneficial circumstances, so I guess ascribing success solely to musical competence isn't wise.

The guitar is eternal, it's just slightly displaced from mainstream consciousness. The "thing" with the the guitar, what it was that caused popular fascination with it, was its timbral qualities, and what kept that fascination alive is its incredible diversity and ability to produce new sounds depending on what you did to the signal. The problem though is, people are becoming less and less interested in analog music; shit that has a discinctly manual and human element contained within the actual struggle to play the damn thing, and more interested in the novelty factor of different qualities of sound synthesised precisely and clinically. The guitar is something of a go between. Either way, analog, expressedly manual instruments have something that digital, electronic music can never replace, and vice versa, it's just the novelty of the new that fascinates everyone, as well as the fact that dub, dance, electro etc has become about as inextricably associated with contemporary culture as Motley Crue and Bon Jovi were with the Eighties. And look at em now; nobody but middle aged housewives marauding for a nostalgia dicking gives a fuck.

I actually wanted to write an article about the types of games that involve mastering a skill wherein your inputs have a direct correlation with the output on the screen, where improvement really involves learning the systems of the game, and how these types of games differ from the sort where progress or ability is abstracted into a magic number which increases, meaning that your in game performance is superior without your actual input changing very much at all. Which is what I thought this guy was going for when I read the title, but it seems like a different angle.

I assume it's going to be pretty fucking similar to Wipeout HD. Anyone know what PSN games are going to be available on Vita?

Can't stop listening to some of the breakbeat classics from the late nineties/ early noughties, and this is the fucking epitome of the best of that genre: Can't get enough of Adam Freeland.

I would actually kill to see this. The music has always been the best thing about the Final Fantasy series.

I'm getting a distant, unpleasantly familiar yet overwhelming air of cuntishness, on a base of barely literate, a twist of douchelord, with some good old oaf seasoning..

Is that actually what you said? I think I'll probably go in depth with that shit. When they ask "Why?" I'll be like, well, how familiar are you with season 5 of Peep Show? And then go on a diatribe that makes me sound like a psychopath.

For fucks sake, why do I have to call in to cancel LoveFilm, and have to deal with their undoubtedly doe eyed, passive aggressive questions? Why can't I just press a fucking button?

Spent the last two days really refining my hybrid picking (a guitar technique where you use a pick as well as your middle and index finders) and written some pretty fantastic flowing arpeggios. First time I've felt a sense of accomplishment in months

Well she did say she had the equivalent of a photographic memory, except for hearing. It was just explaining it to the invariably retarded demographic of the Oprah Winfrey show by way of analogy.

Anyone up for a sesh tonight then?

Got space for a sexy house guest?

What you thought you were the only one? Bitch please, I clearly said "chips." =p

Calling it a language is a little misleading tbh, its not like it's a vast system of interpenetrating referential forms, its just the vocal equivalent of a myoclonic jerk. Still, very impressed that she managed to figure this out simply through observation.

Haha yeah. Still, its near the tube so I don't actually have to be in the open for that long . Whereabouts you staying these days?

I haven't told them directly for a few reasons; 1. I love my family and the only thing it would do is upset them and create a fissure between us. 2. I'm trying to demonstrate to them how fucking anachronistic an unlivable an ideology Islam is. That would not work if I simply came out as a non-muslim. 3. I have no balls.

Hahahahahaha. Oh Dannyboy, never apologise for a legitimate funny I know the couch isn't very deep, but we could move the back cushion and spoon while we whisper sweet nothings and watch re-runs of Dawson's Creek. Just one question; do you wanna be the big spoon, or the little spoon?

Jesus, you skinny bastard, I have trouble fitting into my 32". Those chocolate chips go straight on my ass.

Thank ye Flinksy, I fully expect a 2012 meat sexy after party to go down at my new abode.

Shit wouldn't be so egregious if, say, the fucker had some armour, amarite?

It's ok, I'm all sorts of nutty. But really though, even if there isn't a wealth of original content on the machine at launch (which to be fair, there actually is for a change), there would still be a hell of a lot of PSP original games that I missed out on which I'd be more than happy to download. Never played either of the God of War games on the console for example, which I'm really excited to check out. This console has got me pretty damn excited, and that's a strange feeling because it's been a long ass time.

I'm sure you could coax one of N-E's many deprived love monkeys into your den of wonders To give you an idea, the nearest tube stop is Black Horse Road, which is kinda why I can afford such a nice place