Mr W Phallus

There are funny pictures of it on google images. Honest.

A different right click attack would be cool for swords, or maybe right click could block.

You forgot prized = highly valued Yay for homophones.

I don't think I ever tried the first 2 on legendary to be honest, back in those days I wasn't as much into gaming so I wasn't that good and wouldn't bother putting the effort in. I think I managed about half of Halo 3 and all but the final mission on ODST. I think.

Ninja Gaiden (Black) is probably the hardest that i've given a proper go at. Even with Ninja Dog mode it wasn't much easier. Afterthought: I've never completed a Halo Game on legendary either.

So I logged onto the TAY minecraft server and a house at spawn was covered in spider's webs. Since when did this happen?

The escapist video review gave away every plot twist by showing footage, I'm guessing Valve made a couple of promo puzzles not to ruin anything and Gametrailers used them so as not to ruin anything. Haven't watched the gametrailers vid yet, though. EDIT: Maybe not, but still they did a MUCH better job than Escapist with their choice of footage.

To be fair, even though they use a bit too much, there is something very spacey about lens flare.

Just finished The Girl Who Played With Fire. All in all a great read, and just like the first book I got off to the slow part but then polished of 3/4 of the book in 2 days. If I was going to criticise anything it would be the moments where Larsson seems to take a slight departure from an otherwise entirely realistic (if dramatic) world. The blond giant, for example, is a bit too blond giant-ey, but I'm thinking specifically [major plot climax spoiler here]

Looks very Mass Effecty. Lens Flare 3, now with more Mass Effect!

I don't see how a simplified levelling system has anything to do with consoles. Graphics and controls, sure you can make an argument for, but levelling?

Well I wouldn't recommend it on the strength of its prose (its in translation anyway to be fair) but I quite enjoyed it. My sister actually preferred it to the film. Be prepared for some extremely graphic scenes, I'd be tempted to say it borders on the gratuitous at times. I'd also point out that I read it before seeing the film, so I don't know if knowing the general plot already might diminish your enjoyment of the novel. EDIT: That first bit sounds a bit harsh - the writing style wasn't anything special, it wasn't particularly bad though.

By book, are you referring to Let The Right One in Gerbil?

There are some days when I just hate the internet. 1. The article begins with the fallacy that the original Portal is a feminist game. In what way is it a feminist game? Because the two main characters are female? That just makes it...well nothing, that means absolutely nothing. Unless you read read the incineration of the companion cube is some sort of ritual rejection of male companionship. (Hint that is meant to sound ridiculous.) 2. Exactly. Why would you want to prevent immersion in a game? This applies whether Valve's target demographic is white, fat, teenage misogynists, or you know...anyone who isn't actually Chell. 3. The article is sexist. et cetera 4. The article attempts to demonstrate Valve's sexism by showing us box art that shows an androgynous stick person and two androgynous robots respectively. 5. The issue of weight and attractiveness is not exclusive to women, but society does tend to judge women more harshly. If anything, however, the fact that these insults and have no real impact on Chell and she triumphs regardless is a rejection of these shallow values and empowers women to ignore societal pressures constantly telling them to worry about their weight/looks etc. In addition GLaDOS' bitchiness itself, and her role as antagonist, paints her insults in a negative light - it doesn't encourage the audience to act like this. Finally GLaDOS is a robot, she doesn't care about weight, she's just preying on human weaknesses. 6. Unfortunately most of the counter-responses will be equally as stupid and invalid and will only serve to validate the OP's opinion. Well that's enough ranting for now. A few months down the line I'll have forgotten most of the puzzles, and whilst I'm sure it won't take as long it should still present a relaxing challenge. Besides I replayed a few bits today and it's still enjoyable just listening to Wheatley, GLaDOS and the turrets. I just wish they had the extra time trial/least portals/least steps modes from the first game but I guess they'll come later.

Don't worry about it, a lot of my info has come from you talking about the news you got from Game Informer so I'm not complaining. As for the whole game breaking thing, definitely, although the thing I liked about Oblivion was that the acrobatics skill was actually put in purposefully by the developers, so it was more like rule bending than breaking, and that was a huge part of why I found the game so immersive. Still we don't know that much about it so I'll stay hopeful.

I wish they'd clarify what you have to do to unlock items in the game. Well to be honest I'm never going to buy an item myself, but I unlocked a hat through achievements that I saw on sale in a screen shot - some people are going to be pissed if they end up unlocking an item they just bought.

I wonder if they'll call it a cartoon. (Inter-threadual reference ) I'd imagine they keep the prostitution in but not explicitly announce it as such. I actually hope they make her a prostitute in The Dark Knight Rises, I think it would help get rid of the stigma of the Halle Berry film, and it certainly fulfils the grittiness quota. Besides after the non-fulfilment of the love interests in the first two films, it would be nice to have an overtly sexual character to mess with Bruce's head.

I liked the moon jumping. At least I liked what it meant for climbing onto buildings in town. I guess I was reading into the no acrobatics/cheap tricks comments a bit, since I haven't heard them first hand, were they from the podcast as well?

Interesting, I don't know whether to be disappointed because I like The Long Halloween or happy because I won't already know the Holiday twist. In quasi-related news, I just spotted this over at /film: http://www.slashfilm.com/animated-batman-year-one-key-voice-cast-announced/

Well this is what I was planning on doing, but when you can't climb onto a rock and slaughter the witless AI from out of reach where's the fun? Has there been any news whether spears are back in?

I'm presuming you tried the Robot Enrichment page?

You cannot denounce responsibility for the things you say by blaming others people's reactions to them. Now regardless of who was the first to get angry or insult the other person, you cannot deny that many of your comments were intended to exacerbate the situation. This comment for example: Cool passive-aggressiveness, bro. I'm don't want to take sides here and I'm not saying that RockyRan is faultless but if you're going to provoke people, don't try and place the blame completely on them.

That's good to know, now I just need my friend to get home from work and finish the SP campaign and hopefully he'll be up for some coop.