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The "let's split up" thing was definitely the biggest ball-drop in terms of good writing. They were all sitting about by themselves way too often from halfway through. And the fact that anyone in the movie ever goes within eye-shot of a window after the first assault. That was just mind-boggling. IRL you'd be so paranoid about windows you'd probably crawl everywhere, if you moved at all. But I suppose I'm referring to how incapacitated a lot of them were by shock when it all started. That was really realistic. Loads of them just sat around crying/screaming until the one or two lucid people got them moving, even then they just moved somewhere else and continued crying/screaming (often alone, which was stupid). Nothing really struck me as outright dumb – what bits are you referring to? Also I liked the "twist" and the whole concept of what was going on. It was really nice and not overplayed, like a good one-room drama. I feel it would make a great stage play.

I watched You're Next last night Bloody loved it. Went in expecting a decent slasher flick Got a very well written, phenomenally taught thriller. All the characters seem like real people, for better and worse. Some of them you fully hate but you empathise with. Then when they all start getting killed, it feels real. 99% of their responses are realistic, conveying panic and trauma and shock. They try to deal with things and generally fuck up. Only one character doesn't. Broadly they don't do things which are too unsafe, though there are exceptions, as always. It verges very slightly into 80s video-nasty violence too, but it never goes over the top. The violence always has a place - it tells us more about the characters or the story, every time. Plus an all-time classic ending in my opinion. The splash screen didn't work but the hints of what might happen afterwards were great

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What the hell That guy isn't just down the rabbit hole He is the rabbit hole What a read

Potentially contentious opinion: I prefer Batman Returns to Burton's first Batman immensely. I always thought it was the other way around until I watched all the Batman films with my gf a few months back - she had never seen any of them. I was basically just waiting it out until Batman Begins which is my favourite. While Batman '88 is decent and entertaining, it takes some really weird liberties with the story, and it doesn't have too much impact. Watching Returns right after it took me by surprise, even though I'd seen it probably 6 times. Powerhouse actors well-cast everywhere, a story which wasn't great but was entertaining as shit and fit the canon better than the first, some really nasty/gross stuff in there. Was awesome. Also yes, Batman Forever is entertaining enough. Worth it for Riddler alone. But Batman & Robin? That is as bad as The Phantom Menace. Even the great cast couldn't save that one. On-topic: I'm a casual Star Wars fan, so I didn't even know Lucas weren't involved in the new ones. Suddenly everything makes sense. Edit: Do people think that the new SW film is going to be "darker" because Disney realise that the main body of its fanbase are now in their 20s-50s? That it doesn't necessarily appeal to "just kids" that much anymore?

For my girlfriend's birthday, I did loads of research into co-op games which are good for couples as well as groups. This one came up trumps: We played it four times yesterday. It's fucking glorious. Fast turns, perfect random elements, challenging but not unfair, easily scalable to simple/complicated and long/short games, simple principles, great theme/mechanic combination. It's a real winner and I look forward to bringing it to all my family, too. Sure it'll be a favourite all round. Thumbnail description: Each player is a firefighter who has been called out to an emergency. A large house is on fire and the flames are spreading rapidly (and randomly). There are survivors throughout the place but you can never be sure where. Each turn you move through the building, fight fires, save people and chop down walls. After your actions you roll dice to see where smoke emerges, possibly igniting new fires or causing explosive chain reactions that might damage the building. If you save 7 survivors you win (but you can keep going to save 10 for a perfect game if you want). But if 4 survivors die, or the building collapses, you lose. The building collapses when you run out of Damage Markers. Explosions (when fire is placed on fire) damage nearby walls, and you can damage walls by Chopping them. If a wall segment has two damage markers on it, you can pass through it like a door. But there are only 25 Damage Markers or so in the box, so you can run out quickly if you're going axe-happy. One of many ingenious mechanics which really elevate the risk/reward nature of the gameplay. Fast, fun, engaging, deep. Yes yes yes.

In Upper Cathedral Ward I just found the mummified dude, did the Make Contact move a few times, nothing happened, left. I haven't actually played since. I presume the real boss on the Catherdal's ground floor past all the hounds Yeah. I was being lazy at first because I was on my phone. Cool, thanks. Don't think I've found the real hunter's dream yet, but I will. Also Arianna's baby? Who wha?

True – and I guess that's near impossible to gauge in a consistent way But you can also imagine public transport infrastructure exploding as a byproduct of not allowing anyone to drive into cities anymore, so infrastructure would theoretically get a boost anyway

I also get the subway when the weather's not nice. It's not cheap but it's not expensive either. I can often go weeks without topping up my smartcard. The politics don't really impact much on it in this case. We do get hit by some fairly gnarly charges on our car, which my gf uses most days – but that's fair enough. Cars should be banned in urban areas anyway. At the very least everyone in/near a city should be disincentivised to use them. There's no need for that shit unless you live in the countryside/small towns.

Do you have to kill them to get it?! And I thought we needed all three items for the "true" ending

I am in literally the exact same situation. Bar the fact that I don't have medical cover from my work. But I'd say this is made up for by the very healthy state of the Scottish NHS. The health and social care up here really is amazing. It's absolutely a principles thing for me. Basically my life carries on generally the same no matter who is in power. But I know many people, and in the past have known even more, who have been terribly affected by right wing policies, and I just can't stand that shit happening anymore. My parents are included in this.

The post I've just seen on facebook puts Labour's total votes at around 40,000, and tories at a total 34,000. Tories have like 70 more seats. It's great. And that, my friends, is the problem with first past the post. Like GOH! said, it is largely to blame for the US's terrible system. I read some really insightful info the other day about how Republican/Democrat are meaningless even beyond the bipartisan FPTP system in the USA. I'll find the info and post it in the relevant thread. Was insanely mindblowing.

I really feel for you in the safe-seat situation. That is terrible times. I used to be in a safe seat for labour – who I supported then, but didn't make it any less shitty knowing it didn't matter who I voted for. FPTP is just disgusting. FYI there's a petition for electoral reform in Westminster which has been getting tens of thousands of signatures a day since it began last week – sign up here: https://www.change.org/p/party-leaders-reform-our-voting-system-to-make-it-fair-and-representative-makeseatsmatchvotes?recruiter=12116900&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=autopublish&utm_term=des-lg-action_alert-no_msg&fb_ref=Default Edit: Let me know if the link works for you, it's ridiculous

Neither have I In this case the point is that the strip is exaggerating the stupidity of fart jokes to the realm of meta-fart. It's fart-satire

Ha, well said. Well the vast majority of votes are wasted so I guess we're actually the norm regardless of how we voted. I was really close to voting for the 'Cannabis is Safer than Alcohol' party. At least their manifesto is based purely on fact.

Strange, you forgot to caption that one So, starting top left and going clockwise: Dean, Thursday, Gerbil, me, Hottie...

So you only get on item from either I/A? You don't need both? Thank god I've got A Not that I've had time to play in the last week – sorry I didn't get back to you Thursday. Gf has free evenings this week so my gaming time is down a lot. From next week she'll be back on evenings and I'll be doing all sortsa shit

Its all fucked Everything's fucked Goodbye NHS Goodbye people without opportunities receiving any sort of support I literally stood at the polling station for like 5 minutes just staring at the list. Not a single good option. No party at Westminster is a good choice. It was all just a case of 'lesser evils'. Eventually I voted Labour, because our local representative is labour and a legit good guy. I marginally agree with labour and think Milliband could be an intelligent leader even though he's a doofus, and that sealed the deal. It was the least of all the evils. The least dark shade of grey. And labour didn't even get in. That continues the trend of every single vote I have ever made in the UK being a wasted one. Every vote in my entire life has gone to waste. Slightly less so in Scottish elections, but even then SNP muscled everyone else out then for the most part. It's kinda nice that we're SNP landslide. In a sensible, nice world that means we'd get another referendum and can fuck off out of the shitty old UK. But the world doesn't work that way so we're probably stuck having our NHS dismantled and things just generally ruined Woohoo life

Well, this has been a few years coming... Owned it since about 2011 or so. Another good title struck from the backlog. Really fun game. It didn't get great reviews because it's rough as fuck, and the budget was clearly stretched to a hair's breadth. The draw distance is tiny and it gets fairly grim frame rate drops even on 360 and PS3 (it was crossplat with PS2 et al, too). Spider-man is written okay and the story is actually really good, but most of the dialogue is agonizing, with bad VA on the whole, bar a couple of great characters. The combat and sandbox, though, is brilliant. It feels like the first combat system to really capture Spider-man's mobility and speed, with fights which range over whole blocks of Manhattan and really mess the city up in thrilling ways. Not to mention they fixed mid-air combat entirely. It's amazing, you use Y/triangle to zip towards an enemy to strike them, and it's developed to let you chain this zip attack onto other enemies. You can literally have five minute fights with Vulture's symbiote goons while a hundred feet above the nearest skyscraper. So unpolished though, christ. The graphics and animations are pretty good, but the cutscenes are painfully choppy, side missions and even main missions disappear and reappear at random. When you finish the game, you don't just get to mess around in the sandbox - if you choose 'continue', it just takes you to the credits again. Haha! It's surreal. There's also a classic 'bad cutscene planning' bit where you fight one solitary guy on the SHIELD platform, then when it cuts to cutscene the thing is covered in soldiers battling symbiotes. It's just like "wha? There was no one there!" Good game though, some great boss fights and brilliant web-slinging. It captures the energetic madness of the Marvel universe more than any superhero game yet, I think. It's really fun and has some phenomenal, cinematic fights which you are totally in control of.

Lol, I used blood vials repeatedly. That is so unfair. I didn't even think twice about it. Too busy enjoying the novelty of a co-op encounter I suppose. Edit: PS that is some badass shit, Anne Frankly he would have beaten us if I hadn't used BVs

Sup Connor. Great to have you around.

Keepin it classy as always, Strange

Wtf how was i supposed to know that And just remembered i need to go to Iosefka again. I hope she hasn't disappeared since i slew the spider

I think I felt the same way about Dark souls and Demon's, IDD. Which is why i never finished either. Bloodborne is immediately more accessible and fun imho. Not sure if you're there yet.