The Bard

If anyone here is playing it on PC; are the controls ok? I've heard that there seems to be some remnant of stick acceleration on the PC version which just seems bizarre. Unfortunately it was the same with the original Dead Space, which made is nearly unplayable on PC.

Is it humanly possible to do 100 push ups without having the physique of Bruce Lee though? I've been stuck on a maximum of 54 give or take, for the last three years. Anyway, I started playing Monkey Island 2 yesterday. God I love the music in that game, for some reason it's one of those games which has a soundtrack that sounds better played through a 16bit sound chip rather than orchestrated.

Regarding Ellmeister's point of "unknowing funding," I think the difference between this, and most other things which your money might be funding something with an unsavory background is the fact that with dogs, there is a clear and incredibly viable alternative to buying pedigree dogs. In fact, it's an alternative that's incentivised by lower prices and often healthier dogs.

I really like that yeah, the whole of the narrative is conveyed in the visual space. There's some pretty cool games that do that, where they try to convey the entirety of whatever message they have in the act of actualy playing the game. For example the game "Passage," it's like a 2 meg download and super pixellated graphics, which suit its incredibly abstract style, but you're basically a blue figure, and as you walk forward you either have the ability to go on alone, and this will grant you access to certain pathways. However, you also have the ability to meet a pink figure, and if you do, you become attached; two character models where there was one. This means you can't access some of the side branches that you could as a solitary figure, but it comes with the benefit of companionship. So it's cool, I love stuff like that, little exploratory games, sort of like parables.

Yeah man, just looked at some benchmarks, and it seems that there's little difference between the two in terms of gaming. I pretty much just want a CPU that won't limit the performance I'm going to get out of Battlefield 3 and Rage for example. Also, seeing as you seem to know a lil bit about this ish, is it worthwhile getting a 6970 when the price comes down a little bit, or should I get another 5770 and get some XFX action going? Still don't know what motherboard I should go for though =p.

Too many buts bro. That shit doesn't need to be qualified =p

O rly? So you're saying that there won't be any palpable difference in performance between the two? I'm running a q8200 atm, what kinda performance jump do you reckon I can expect with an i5 2500k?

Well shit on my face and call me Ackbar. What do we have here? Flink having a less than glowing impression of Prime, and then elsewhere giving us shit for having the temerity to point out Other M's pretty obvious assitude? Dude, that game was made by a studio who's only good game was made by a contingent that left the studio en masse almost two years before Other M came out. Fuck me in the mouth if this isn't bullshit.

I'm gonna get on this wagon. I'm looking to build a PC too, but the only thing I'm lost with is the motherboard. What would go well with this processor: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Intel-Sandybridge-i7-2600K-Quad-Core-Processor/dp/B004FA8NOQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1315168875&sr=8-1 ? Gonna stick with my HD5770 for the meantime, since ATI are gonna launch a new set of GPUs in Oct, hopefully that should knock the 6970 down a notch in terms of price.

Wait what? Disgaea is a launch game? Fuck me that's incredible. If it has online multiplayer, that shit's getting bought day one.

Shit, I haven't ever played it on PS3, but I remember watching the 1up show like three years ago, and they really seemed to think that the controls worked well once you acclimated to them. Either way, it's fuckin' Wipeout, can't wait to race while tranced out to some Chemical Bros.

I'm gonna buy this for the same reason I bought a PSP like 3 times (and then sold it back to the store after I got bored): Wipeout. And shit, this time it'll even have gyroscopic controls, something that people say works really well with Wipeout HD on the PS3. Add Disgaea and FF: Tactics to the list, and you have something that amounts to at least a temporary purchace for me

This game is one pretty good reason why it was dumb as fuck to not have two analog nubs on the system.

Wouldn't say it's any more impersonal than the advice you're gonna get on a fucking Nintendo forum bro.

Alyssa Bereznak is a rancid, odious creature who is not only someone who you would not look at twice, but is also thick as fudge. I think maybe you should concede that you're stereotyping women somewhat if you expect them all to have that kind of reaction to your line of work. On second thoughts, maybe what you percieve them to think only really reflects your own opinion. In which case you got other problems to figure out first. Also, I don't think any sane human would build a personality profile on you based on urban dictionary. You can chill, that shit just doesn't happen. Most important thing; no matter what anyone tells you, getting women interested in you isn't some sort of algorithmic system that can be learnt and played. You gotta have a sense of intuition. No amount of advice is going to come close to the experience of just nutting up and doing it.

You know, if you do go and talk to any random girl, make it out just by your manner that you're interested, you'll feel like a king even if she rejects you, entirely because you had the balls to actually go to her and do it. Of course, if you can muster the kind of confidence it takes to do that, its just as likely girls will be coming up to you. Then again, its one of those circular things; you only get the confidence to do it once it's already worked in your favour once before. Shit maybe you just have to stick it out and try to get lucky. Try to put yourself in situations where you're around single women more often. Fuck it, if a bunch of you guys have this problem and are based in the same area, why don't you meet up and go on the prowl?

I'm not sure I wanna buy the wares this guy is hawkin:

Interesting article regarding Steve Jobs' rage

Is it bad that I believe a coloured strip of paper more than her? .

Nah, she only went off the pill two and a half months ago, and she really isn't the promiscuous type, so I believe her when she says she hasn't slept with anyone. I think she's just being a hypochondriac; she's listing all the classical symptoms, but she just did a home test and it was negative. Though, I'm struggling to think of anything else that could be consistent with the symptoms other than food intolerances. Either way, I was nice to catch up with her, it's been a bit of a bummer since we broke up.

Those bulbous green sacks need to be replaced with my visage doing an impression of trollface.

God I love that Fleetwood album. I also have a guilty streak for the Chilli Peppers up to a point. It's just that you never forget the albums you grew up with and Californication is one of those. Anyway, I just discovered Adam D. and Jesse Leach's project Times of Grace. Pretty much distills everything I loved about KSE's brand of Metalcore. Genuinely loving it, reminds me so much of a time in my life I feel slightly disconnected with now.

It's been five months since we had er, relations, and she insists that she hasn't had sex with anyone else since. It's just the fact that she hasn't had her period in almost three months, ever since she went off the pill, been in for the blood test and everything, and is just waiting for the results. When I asked her if she wanted to "make babby" it wasn't in a literal sense. Seriously though, just the thought of a kid is enough to put me off sex for the forseeable future.

Oh god, I've been talking to my ex, and she thinks she might be pregnant. Good lord.

There is no story. It is simply a Diablo-esque exercise in the speed with which you can click the left mouse button transposed to a console shooter experience. And yeah, it is kind of ugly, even the art style; the enemies are pretty boring looking, and the cel shading somehow manages to look monochromatic. It's just way way too desaturated. Nevertheless, it puts you in really fun combat situations so long as you're playing with others/ friends. I played about 10 hours of it with my ex and it was one of the most fun gaming experiences I've had in recent times.