The Bard

God I love the internet.

Spore for example, had a maximum of three installs, so if your computer fucked up, or you wanted to install it on a laptop as well as a desktop, you had to be super careful. If you ran out of installs, you had to go through the indignity of calling their customer support service at the costly sum of £1/min just to get one more measly install. I just don't like the idea of a game that automatically assumes that I'm a criminal. Then there is Ubisoft's starforce (a sort of DRM middleware), which actually installed malware on your rig. Digital Rights Management is a difficult thing, but there's a surefire alternative; release your game on Steam. Honesty is incentivised on there just by the fact that if you're caught cheating or pirating, you run the risk of being banned from the service and losing access to your entire library of games.

But it totally worked this time: Anyway, this looks to be a heinous piece of shit. Just look at the way they tried to stir up hype for it; fabricated a comic book series that they tried to sell off as if it was a long running line with some sense of prestige.

It looks like this is going to do well, and seems to have a decent amount of hype among people I've talked to. Such a shame that Company of Heroes online went down the toilet =(

God, Kevin Conroy's voice makes me tingle in my giblets.

Dude, there is literally nothing better than Adventure Time. The best show Cartoon Network has had for years.

Fair enough, but I just feel that playing any given fighter that's positioned as a rather technical one, such as SF4 is kinda redundant without an arcade stick. The whole of the fun you get from it is stringing together cancelled combo chains seven moves deep and creating your own play style that is totally impossible with the DS controls. But I guess expecting it to be the same game as it is on console is a bit ridiculous.

Even though, objectively speaking, DoA is shite? My reccommendation would be to not waste your money on a fighter for 3DS.

The original sure, but fuck you if you think Mass Effect 2 was bad.

I am in a land in a far away place where the caravan camels roam. Where it's flat and immense and the heat is intense, it's barbaric, and shit ain't home. Honestly, you picked the worst time bro, I would except I'm not in England for another month yet.

This shit just reminded me that I have a permanent infraction. Can't remember what for Ah the good ol days.

Subcrawl means something else entirely to me and my friends. It means we go to every subway along a 5 mile stretch of road in Manchester, and order a 6 inch ark (a sub of our own invention, as it consists of one of every animal they serve) at each one. Awesome times.

Yeah, I can't sight read. I think it's a perpetual weakness of guitar players. Just finished learning Opeth's Leper Affinity in its entirety, one of my favourite songs. Currently trying to work on my lead playing though, getting more into a bluesy style of playing appropriated from soloists like Brent Hinds and Eddie Hazel, whereas previously I was all about stuff by Alexi Laiho etc; clean picked neoclassical shred. Also just finished learning the absolutely beautiful Elephant Man solo, by Mastodon, gonna find something else to learn =D.

I've been in Saudi for, lets say, 7 days now, even though the days and nights are interminable and I've lost all track of real time that isn't tied to some abstract number I see on my computer monitor. Been lying in bed pretty much all day every day, because there is 45C heat on a daily basis and I genuinely cannot muster the motivation to get out/ do anything other than read and drink way way too much coffee/ steal sedatives out of my parent's medicine shelf. On top of that I've got the worst back ache, and a gnarly unkempt beard. Need to come back to England, my blood is too thick for this climate.

Yeah, I'm gonna need a full account of physical transactions there Dyson. Pron is blocked in this country.

Oh shit. West is Iago I presume? That could actually be incredible.

If we do ever meet. This will be my greeting. I used to enact the opening with my housemate's cat as Simba. Good/psychotic times. Watched it on the plane recently. It's one of those things that for me is really strongly resonant with childhood memories. Each scene in that film makes me giddy. I remember back when it was embarrassing to admit I liked Mary Poppins

I reckon my favourite has to be between Aladdin, Mary Poppins and Hercules. Not quite as fond of the older animated classics. Dick Van Dyke's british accent is so fucking retarded though.

Er, the thing is, I've logged on to the eshop before, but not since the ambassador program was announced, and I won't have access to my 3DS for at least a month. Do I need to sign on before the 12th even though I've been on the eshop previously?

I went to see both The Dark Knight and Harry Potter by myself, yes the latter is a little wahjah, but when I go with a bunch of people I'm always excessively aware of what I percieve their response to parts of the film are. I pretty much always prefer watching films by myself.

"One does not simply walk into Wardour!" Forget who said it, but this was probably the best moment of that day

Yeah man, Maddox functions on a staunch unwillingness to accept utterly trivial things, and his rhetoric is lapped up and taken as serious argument by his idiot fans. The guy can eat a dick.

I would like to be played by John C McGinley. Get the guy a months tanning bed regime, decurl that ridiculous perm, and you got the personality

Yeah, I think this time I'll get it on 360 rather than PC so I actually have people to play with