Mr W Phallus

Although they have been revised somewhat, our laws are in fact very much dictated by The Bible and Christian law. Thanks to the good book, for example, same-sex marriage is still not legal in the UK.

Whilst I have no problem whatsoever with belief or faith (in a deity), I am very much against organised religion.

I find it quite funny, mostly the idea that someone would ever bother making those animations. The violence is so ridiculously over-the-top that I don't feel like it has a connection to real world violence. The other day, when returning from a night out, we passed someone who had been hit by a bus whilst riding their bike. There was no blood or gore, he was just laid there in a foetal position not moving. That was hundred times more disturbing than this video, or any video-game I've ever played in fact. (It kinda sounds like I just walked past the guy and ignored him - he was being looked after by police and ambulance crew.) I don't think I've ever been attracted to a game by gratuitous violence, but it has never put me off either. Having said that, I think Gears of War provides an example of the effective use of gratuitous violence. Executions and chainsawing people are not satisfying because of some primal desire I have to stamp on someone's head or cut someone in half but because they are essentially rubbing your victory into your opponents face. It's like saying 'Look at me, I beat you and I have all the time in the world to finish you off'. Other violence in the game acts as a feedback of your skill. Headshots are satisfying because the sound of your opponents head exploding signals, aurally, that you pulled off a difficult shot. (Compare this to a headshot in Halo where the only signal you get is a small symbol in the corner of the screen (unless your have Grunt Birthday Party on of course), or with TF2 where headshots are accompanied by the critical hit sound.) Similarly landing the perfect shot with an explosive weapon or the shotgun in GoW causes the enemy to explode, signalling that you landed it perfectly. I rarely (if ever) find myself revelling in the actual violence at hand, however.

Well I'd say chaps is a more southern thing (I'm thinking the classic 'tally-ho chaps' WWII RAF pilot) which would explain why I don't hear it much. Doddle I do hear every now and then.

Of course a lot of these terms sound fusty because they are somewhat outdated and rarely used these days.

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/as-easy-as-pie.html Seems credible.

Wow, that looks great. From a practical stand-point it looks a bit dark and theres a lot of visual noise but still...so shiny.

Worst narrator ever. If only David Attenborough could narrate everything.

Yeh I think he looks pretty badass. I'm actually quite looking forward to this film.

Wow, that's some crazy shit, sounds like the premise to a horror movie. Thanks for sharing.

Dead Set was really good satire but it wasn't aiming for flat out lols. I was presuming this would be a comedy because it's written by Joe Cornish and the premise just seems like they're going for laughs, but to be fair apart from watching a few episodes of Adam & Joe I don't know much about Joe so it's entirely possible that he's going for the Dead Set style satire where it's played straight rather than say Brass Eye absurd satire or outright comedy like Shaun of the Dead. I hope this is making sense, because I'm a teeny bit drunk. Sorry if it doesn't.

Should be good but the trailer wasn't that funny. I hope that's just so all the good jokes aren't ruined before you even reach the cinema and not because of a lack of material.

Also a magnum.

Thing I hate about playing Spy is I always seem to bump into enemies at choke points, giving myself away.

I shower when I get up or before going on a night out. If I have a long afternoon nap then go out I sometimes shower thrice in once day. I like showering. The person below me prefers mayonnaise to ketchup on their chips/fries.

I think you're defending this game a little bit too much. Some people have differing opinions y'know? I went in with an open mind because I still bought the game, and I did know that it was primarily a vehicle game, having read reviews to that effect. I still didn't like it. I'm all for originality and games trying things different but if I don't like them, I don't like them. It's simple. The very fact you mentioned 'not what I expected when [you] heard another B&K game was coming out... I loved the N64 games' betrays the fact you approached it from a biased point of view. Besides, how is saying you hated the game - and hate is a very strong word to use - any less extreme than his defense of it, which after all admitted the game was not flawless?

I watched Festen (aka The Celebration) today in my cinema module, and it was brilliant. Incredibly uncomfortable at times for all the right reason, I'd definitely recommended a watch.

I love the bit in that trailer where it starts breaking up then shit gets let loose. Awesome poster is awesome

Well I don't know about that last one but Frontier is ancient and I've played the other one before as well some time ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6nd8kr3Chk

Cyndaquil in Gold, still the best Pokemon game ever, excluding maybe Heart Gold. I think it's always best to go with the fire starter since fire types tend to fairly uncommon in the field. Also naming pokemon? Madness. EDIT: I just remembered, in one game I started to name my starter then changed my mind, renaming it Cyndaquil, forgetting that it would keep that name when it evolved so I ended up with a Typhlosion called Cyndaquil.

I (re)watched The Prestige yesterday. I remembered being a bit disappointed by it the first time I watched it, but I'm not sure why because even knowing all the twists beforehand it was still a great film the second time. It's on iPlayer at the moment so if you haven't seen it and you live in the UK (I'm guessing BBC iPlayer is UK only) I recommend you stop what ever you're doing and watch it right now.

Firstly a thread for this sort of already exists except in a different tense. Maybe we should get the threads merged? Anyways, last book I read was Frankenstein for uni. Last book for pleasure...well there was Maus and I'm halfway through American Psycho but that's been on extended hiatus for a long time because I don't get much time for reading what with all the sleeping work I do. I quite want to read The Bell Jar myself, I've never read any Plath before. Catcher in the Rye and Of Mice And Men are both awesome, so enjoy!

Finally got down to the local cinema today, and saw True Grit. It may not live up to the Coen Brother's best stuff (Fargo, The Big Lebowski) but it was thoroughly enjoyable none-the-less.