Just Me

Tsk.

Basically stay away from BIN's

Looks vaguely familiar:

My others from that thread, since I'm here now:

And a crappy new one for the sake of being topical:

I was about to post this but my phone rang!

Was it a call for you, or had someone tried to text the word "high" without starting a new message first?

I missed last night's fire episode (along with every other episode of the past decade, bar the live one), but thought tonight's departure for Peggy was great stuff.

White Knighting

They don't call me Just for nothing.

They do call me good for nothing, I'll grant you that.

Did you lot decide to change your sigs yourself then? It seems like quite a high number of people. I thought it was some bizarre punishment from "neil" and wondered what you lot had done to deserve it.

I'd have thought sympathising with Mr Seven was its own punishment.

Doesn't attending a convention make her "conventional" by definition?

[Edited for grammar fail.]

I just caught my favourite episode of Mr Bean on one of the satellite channels, probably G.O.L.D. You can't not love his nativity scene.

I don't see the problem with TripleA's idea, and I'm glad we both appreciate the need for white noise on a forum.

Zeke is great though. Fuck the haters!

Neighbours has been 90% awful for years, but I still watch it out of habit, as I grew up with the older characters like Lou Carpenter, Paul Robinson, Toadfish and the Kennedys, and couldn't bear not knowing what becomes of them. If they'd kill that lot off in another plane crash, I could mercifully give up on the show.Home and Away's where it's at. A far greater hit-to-miss ratio, with some absolutely stonking storylines like Miles Copeland's invisible friend and the year-long people smuggling case.

TripleA's review has reminded me that I really need to give Braid another go.

 

I agree that it's a beautiful work of art with plenty to say about gaming and the nature of storytelling itself. I just wish I was better at it. I might kill my savegame and restart from scratch with fresh eyes.

I'm in a similar boat. I want to like it, but I got to a point (shamefully early in the game) where I just couldn't work out what to do. I think it was a bit where time moved forwards or backwards depending on whether you were moving right or left, and nothing I did seemed to interfere with that endless loop. I'm all for a challenge, but it just got frustrating at that point.

Joinnn us! Joinnnnnn us!

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I'm sending SMG2 back, the controls are broken.

Fate is a cruel mistress. SMG2 landed through the door this morning, right after a call informing me of the new job I start on Monday. I was expecting more than a weekend's leisurely play - wonder how soon I can book some leave...

Well yeah, but none of that lends itself to a straight and serious movie. As much as I have a fondness for the MK lore, it's pretty low level fantasy guff for the most part and it doesn't work that well if you're making a movie for grown ups.

A movie doesn't have to be realistic and non-fantastical to appeal to grown-ups. The first two Mortal Kombat films were hammy and cheap because that's just how they were made, not because they didn't strip away all the interdimensional, larger-than-life aspects of the characters and story. Both films could have been a lot better without taking the same approach as this clip.

I wonder what this director/writer would do with the Superman franchise. Give Kansas-born Clark Kent a rocketpack and a pair of those X-ray glasses from Inside Wrestling?

I've always thought the MK universe and awesome cornball mythology were wasted on the mediocre games, so a decent movie would be nice.

But they're not even using the mythology here, are they? Reptile's not a stealth warrior from a dying race, he's a harlequin baby... Baraka's not a general from an interdimensional army, he's a doctor who's stuck knives in his wrists... They're rewriting it all to be more "realistic," with seemingly no Outworld, no mystic powers or warring factions. They've stripped the MK mythology of everything beyond the most basic "someone called Scorpion hates someone called Sub-Zero" acknowledgements.

And for the record while I'm here, I hate threads like this. I'd have missed this Mortal Kombat discussion were it not for CleetusVanDamme's thread, because I generally don't care about movies enough to wade into such a broad, general topic. Same goes for the anonymous "questions" thread. There, I've said my piece...

From this, I have discovered that Super Wrestlemania on the Megadrive is shit. It looks almost identical to Royal Rumble on the SNES, but runs at half the speed and is horrifically unresponsive. Even on the easy setting I was getting trounced in every match. If I put the Auto-turbo switch on on my Competition Pro 6 button keypad (that's right, bitches), then you just get an infinite lock up. It it seemingly impossible to out tap the computer.

Just hover the cursor over Shawn Michaels on the character select screen and put down the controller. Let the best videogame version of any entrance theme ever entertain you by itself.

Now, for the explicit purpose of making ajmcstyles's blood boil:

Super Mario Galaxy 2 - better than perfect?

 

Not just the game of the year, or even of its console generation - could Super Mario Galaxy 2 be the best video game ever made? GameCentral gives its verdict on Nintendo's latest masterpiece.

http://www.metro.co.uk/tech/829948-games-r...er-than-perfect

So we don't know if you'd have the same complaints about that, then. Shame.

compared to say Mario 64 or Sunshine

I was going to ask this in the other thread - have you played the first Galaxy game? Even though I doubt it's anywhere near as poor as you're saying, it would be handy to know if you're including SMG1 in your comparisons, because that's the most obvious measuring stick.

On a happier note, I had an email last night from Game to say my Mario pre-order had shipped (they said last week it would be done early "due to the high volume of pre-orders") and there was a card through the door this afternoon asking me to collect something from the sorting office, so it looks like I know how tomorrow is going to be spent!

Yep, queueing at the sorting office!

Kueller the shill? Wasn't that the villain in 101 Dalmations?

You don't have to answer that.