The Bard

Daft. I demand that you get Company of Heroes.

Woah Bioshock? That's comes as a surprise. I can't think of another game that pulled me along so completely. Also, very much agree with the above. I can't put up with the tedium of racing simulaturs, in the vein of Forza or Gran Turismo. Also thought Oblivion was god awful. I would substantiate this claim, but I feel that anyone with any sense won't need an explanation.

Ah wow. I think I was one of the few people that really loved the first game. Starbreeze have a habit of taking shit IP and turning it into absolute gold. Sincerely hope they improve the shooting mechanics a fuckton, and keep out of anything resembling the hell stages. Jesus they were a chore.

Giant who gives a fuck? I mean, I would like to be given a fuck, sure, but really, all this bullshit holiday does is propagate the whole economy of hallmark-card affection in some sort of cynical transaction for kinky sex. That made no sense. Sorry, I've not had sleep for weeks and am going insane.

Suffering from chronic fatigue (according to student doctor), as a result of stress induced insomnia and the fact that I've not had an actual bed to sleep on for ages. Also my old place was situated right the fuck next to a major London road where construction work was occurring, and it was infested with bed bugs. This wouldn't be a problem, tbh, except that I feel perceptibly stupider. Like, I can't think straight, can't link two thoughts together, and its really really fucking annoying. On top of that, my sleep schedule is so disturbed that I can never really get more than 2 hours of continuous sleep at any one time, so I've rather stupidly taken to dosing myself with copious amounts of alcohol. Which really doesn't help my enfeebled mental condition.

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I'm usually annoyed by such people. I think I'd be the dickhead tavern keeper that would charge you extra for a bed because of your funny hair.

I kinda want a PSP2 now more than a 3DS, just for the prospect of playing an awesome looking version of Wipeout on the go. Yes, I will pay any asking price for Wipeout.

For me it was strictly metal. Which is probably why I didn't have any friends. It could also have been the rage.

I use Facebook, even though I have fundamental qualms with it. Anyone read the lengthy Zadie Smite diatribe on why Facebook licks balls?

The goonsquad over at somethingawful are good fun sometimes. But they're American, so are therefore plagued with all the tragic idiocy of their kind. To be honest, this place is the only one I kinda stick around, because not everyone is a complete dipshit. Some of the worst are the IGN and Ultimate-Guitar forums. There is some genuine idiot cultural hegemony going on over there.

Interesting take on the song, I prefer the original, but the emphasis on the expression of the beat at the beginning adds an ominous quality. Love Cash.

That is actually the best thing I've ever heard. Wish I was there

Do want. Thinking of playing through the original again, although I never completed it back in the day because I had the borked PC version.

This was clearly the product of a shroom trip. "Have you ever thought about infinite space?" "..." "It just keeps going...and going...and going..." If its anything like every other Star Trek game, it should be avoided like a cactus shafting.

Chrono Trigger - Stepping out into the murky, misty world of 600AD and the music plays and you're just overcome by the aesthetic, and the sombre beauty of this ostensibly cartoonish and caracaturised world. Bioshock - When you realise that "Would You Kindly" serves as a fantastic metaphor for the agency of the player in any video game, or more precisely, the lack of it. I think someone should apply Foucauldian power relations to videogame theory, and how, even though, as Ebert says, there seems to be a "Smorgasboard of options," really, there isn't and it is all a fairly directed affair. Yes. Videogames need to be made more pretentious. Half Life 2: Episode 2 - The Ending. Probably the most harrowing, affecting ending to any shooter I've played (which isn't saying much for the typically unemotional and rote shooter fare of today) with Alex's sobs lingering way into the credits and you are left contemplating the implications of the events, and what exactly the bloated sacks of shit known as the advisors are actually for? Company of Heroes - Destroying a particularly annoying opposing force in a 2v2 and seeing upon finishing the game that the whole map is just an armor graveyard full of decimated shermans, halftracks, bikes and discarded weaponry. Fucking awe inspiring. Oh, and its also the best strategy game ever made. FACT. Mass Effect 2 - I don't even know where to start with this game of incredible moments. Pretty much the best game of this generation, perhaps outside of Bioshock. Had a forum argument about why this game is awesome, so this may seem to be a bit out of context:

Why do you sound American? I have no answer to this, because I don't know. I can only speculate, and say its because I learnt English when I was 7 years old by watching The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Tru Fax. Why are you such a belligerent hellian? This is an exhausting question, mainly because its near impossible to recount all the myriad ways in which I'm better than you all.

I'll probably die in my decrepit old age trying to pull of a low-med kick into shoryuken/ super combo in Street Fighter 3: Third Strike

The Victoria and Albert is indeed awe inspiring

You have to draw the distinction between calories gained from the alcohol itself (ie. the ethanol molecule) and whatever else may be in the beverage. Calories from Ethanol can't be stored as fat, so what you need to be aware of is the Ethanol: Other shit ratio in a drink. Go for spirits (I usually just go for this with no mixer, since the quantity of coke that goes with these drinks is enough to make a man puke). Of course, even though alcohol can't be stored as fat, it increases the body's ability to store other things you ingest as fat. So make sure you don't go for a greasy kebab after a night out.

"Easy" connotes no relativity. Sure, enduring what you described is harder, but it in no way makes taking your own life "easy." People who kill themselves are to be pitied, not to be chided after the fact.

Yeah, because overriding a biological imperitive that has been entrenched since the fucking beginning of biological time, is "easy."

My best friend killed himself almost exactly a year and a half ago. We'd known each other through high school and he was one of the few people I would consider a true friend during those years. Sometimes we'd talk about suicide, since both of us were in a pretty bad place mentally at the time (although suicide was never a serious and prolonged consideration for me), but somehow I managed to pull through and then went off to uni. Trust me, in a headspace like that, you can't muster enthusiasm for anything other than perhaps recognising your own predicament in another person. Anyone who says suicide is "stupid" seems to always present an argument centered around "perspective," or "seeking help," but thats beside the point, when your mental condition is so contorted and prolonged to the point that it becomes all you know, any idea of escape from it just seems unfathomable. Anyone who says suicide is "selfish," is presuming the sort of agency that comes with ordinary mental existence. I used to have panic attacks that came with the sort of terror and entrapment that made me instantly wish to be put down, it was unendurable. We aren't some sort of Tralfamadorians (Slaughterhouse 5 reference ftw) who exist outside time, and our perspective is situated directly in the moment. I think it pathetic to pass judgement on something of which you have no personal understanding.

I love me some Denny's

I avoid these hurdles by choosing not to do anything with my life.