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    "The Last Metroid Is In Captivity. The Galaxy Is At Peace"

    The start of Super Metroid and hearing this for the first time in an age where voice samples were few and far between gave me shivers.

     

    The final battle with Mother Brain. From the point she first goes down and surprises you by coming back bigger and badder than ever, all the way to having a few points of health left and being saved in the dying moments by the last metroid, classic stuff.

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    Well the New York explosion didn't happen either so maybe HRG won't get shot (or whatever) due to intervention.

    I've always thought a great turnaround for this season would be some sort of "kill the cheerleader, save the world" plot... would the heroes be willing to kill Claire to save the planet rather than doing a nice thing?

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    decided on the 60gig version with resistance and heavely sword from amazon for 350 quid, makes sense as I'd want those games anyway so this way I get a bigger hard drive and backwards compat for free. I'm still in Canada on holiday though so I won't be able to pick it up until a week on Sunday!

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    Although I beleive that Wii will sell a lot this Xmas, how massive it will be depends on Nintendo's advertising strategy. If they manage to produce some excellent and compelling adverts showcasing both the traditional gameplay of mario and metroid alongside the family friendly gameplay of wii sports and mario & sonic then they will be huge. If they sit on it and just go by word of mouth, then they will just sell well.

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    Yeah, you're right. Any VB language is good to learn basic programming from, but the jump from VB.NET to C# isn't that huge these days yet the gains are really remarkable so my advice will always be to try and get into C# if your doing VB.NET.

    Also, most of the framework versions are automatically downloaded via windows update these days anyway and at 60 MB, it's hardly massive for the gain in stability .NET provides.

    Anyway, this is off topic... I just like talking about programming! Yes, that's a geeky thing to say!

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    I was wondering where the hell it was, will do now!

     

    I just watched the video about the forge feature and wow, I wasn't expecting stuff this cool!

     

    Yeah, they've undersold the forge stuff I reckon. If they'd mentioned a map editor from the start they would probably have turned a few heads but calling it "The Forge" means that people don't really know what it is straight away.

     

    It'll be interesting to see how it works though, I thought epic were complaining about microsoft not allowing user generated maps in Unreal Tournament because everything has to be certified by MS, but it looks like Halo is managing to do it!

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    Hi, Captain Obvious Here... just thought I'd remind people to delete the Halo 3 beta from your hard drive, that will clear up a good gig of data ready for all the Halo 3 videos and levels you'll be creating. The Halo 3 beta will probably be listed as part of the crackdown dlc, so it's hidden a little!

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    VB6 is still very popular. (And once you learn how to program in one language it is generally easy to export those skills to another language.) People seem to hate vb.NET's reliance on the .NET Framework. It's considered unnecessary bloatware by many. Not me though, I think it's a nice and easy language to get to grips with.

     

    I've never met anyone that consideres .NET framework to be bloatware but anyway, C# is the way to go, it's better paid, better syntax and makes you a better programmer.

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