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For PS3. Bought it used since I don't think there's many places doing it new. The Saints Row Third stuff has grabbed my interest and since SRII has always been on the edges of my radar I thought I might give it a spin.

The link you gave is just a search,. It's annoying how it works but on Google maps if you want to link to a specific place you need to hit the link button in the corner.

Hmm, go on then.

I own both of them on DVD. Star Wars on Blu-Ray one day maybe. The person below me will be there to remind us after the 3.2 update how often "the person below me" thread used to end up with multiple people replying to the same question.

Quite the cast.

No, I'm quite a fan of necromancy on forums tbh. If the thread was meant to stay in the grave it dies off again soon enough. The person below me is hyped for Part 2 of Deathly Hallows. edit: that nope was at BskyB

I don't think he was overlooking globalisation, just it's a bit of a different topic for a different time.

We'll see your opinion when mandarin starts filtering into american English. If the world was Civilization the US would have a pink-purple glob of cultural force extending to the Kepler belt. As it currently stands the US is a net exporter of language, mannerisms, phrases and lots of other stuff. So from your view everything is pretty much the same. you turn on your PC, go to the net, and there's nothing really out of the ordinary. Everything is priced in dollars. You turn on the TV and watch The Office, laughing at Steven Carells jokes. Then feeling hungry you go out and get some Fish n Chips. Hell yeah we got that one. Actually Fish n Chips. Imagine that it wasn't the only example of British English around. People start saying about going out to the pub. your kids are asking if you have any pop to drink. You'd start to feel a tad uncomfortable. Yes languages change, develop, pick up new words. But not on this scale and speed. As for your main point: Yes a single language would be pretty practical. But I'd be surprised if it ultimately turns out to be derived from English. edit: or Swahili.

Pretty good article. Worth a read for americans. The culture impact of america on the rest of the world is huge. But it manges to do it so subtly in UK cos we share much already. It's like a form of osmosis. And it has started to wear down on what england/english is. Just this feeling that you're in England, but there's american everywhere and there's not really anyway to stop it. Well there is but way too much effort. Battra will arrive in London for his honeymoon, and apart from the touristy stuff of Union Jacks everywhere I'd imagine there wouldn't be much difference to visiting the big city in US. Want something warm to drink? Go to Starbucks. A quick bite to eat, pop into Subway and have it your way. He asks for a soda, people will know what he means. Whereas if we went to the US and ask for pop the waitress would bring her dad over. And apart from "Bloody hell" n "rooty-tooty point-n-shooty" it's a very one way stream of words and culture. It's hardest on the education system. Trying to explain to little joe why he was marked down for writing "the color of my dog is gray". "But miss all the words on the internet say that's right" "yes but the internet is written in a different language". I wouldn't be surprised if nearing 2050 British English is a near extinct language since it's most children who are so heavily exposed to american english though the net, TV, film etc. btw computers not having British English as a display option is effing annoying. Sure it offers the language option, but it still uses american english. They'll port OSes to whole other languages completely different in structure and even the characters used. But damn if they'll change a few words to british english.

Game of Thrones: Clash of Kings for the second series? They didn't really think out that acronym did they.

The current 360 would be a tough job for a modern PC to emulate. The next xbox? Hah!

yeah it's been going around the net past few days. I'm highly doubtful. Windows 8 runs on X86, with the new addition of ARM. Xbox 360 is a PPC chip. It'd require a hefty bit of hardware emulation. Modern PC's are just getting the hang of the PS2. It doesn't make much sense either. Most of the 360 library is old, and it'll be well in it's twilight years when Win 8 comes out. So a fair chunk is either multi-plat, so already on PC, or will be bought used. At this point people who've really wanted a 360 would have bought one. Wired pads are seemingly being phased out which would make playing 360 games a pain (yeah there's the receiver, but it's like £25. A bit of a hefty sum tbh) It just seems such a pointless thing that I don't see it happening. I don't really see the money to be made in it, which is about the only reason MS would do this given people are already making games specifically for PC, without the need for emulation, anyway.

No you weren't meant to have a new topic Howdy ho.

that probably wasn't me then.

I've been reading Nochni Dozor. AKA Night Watch. I've not read in a while. Afterwards I think I'll read some of Ian Irvines three worlds trilogy after.

So since I'm currently having an issue with Writing I thought "you know what get rid of external forces and crank out some classical" Who would have thought the classical music would have been part of that external forces. I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don't wanna know. Some things are best left unsaid. I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful it can't be expressed in words, and it makes your heart ache because of it.

I saw FC2 and went to quickly check. Much the same praise as I'd give though you seem to have a much higher tolerance to the issues it had. Far Cry 3 will be a game I'll be watching with eagle eyes. COD4 I grabbed in a steam sale last year. I was late to it. I enjoyed it. It was very well done and MW2 did not do it a service at all. I liked the Chernobyl mission. Even if I feel the sniping at the end was a bit scripted

Ah fuck I hit the wrong button on P4's post.

http://kotaku.com/people/JMFB/ Yeah that Joe Brown is Gawker staff. Hey it's hip, but damn it must be a fair bit of a nightmare. I know Gawker is really into their FB with "like us on FB" "only people who liked us in FB can access this comp" "Friend the writers on FB" "only FB is worth having for sharing" (which they later went back on) There's services and programs specifically built for this kind of stuff. Google Apps being a big one, why use a social network for that kind of stuff?

Games Feel free to add to it. It's a bit hodge podge since it ranges from Dragon Age to Crysis and back to Fallout. Also What Are You Listening Too in Spotify form: WRUL2 It goes to about page 20 or so I think. There's 13 hours of music there so don't listen to it all at once if you're on a free one I've also enabled it as collaborative if people want to continue building it up.

heheh. This is something they felt was worthy of a cross post? Is this truly what "The Gadget Guide" and "The gamers guide" have been reduced to? If you're really really aching to run an article about Spotify on a gaming site surely the most obvious would be something like "here's a look at some of the best video game music Spotify provides" than "hahah, this is what my boss listens to". And reminding people of the existence of Nick Denton isn't really a great move since most folks of kotaku know him as the guy who pushed the redesign regardless of all the push against it. I like how the featured comment is someone pointing out how facebook isn't exactly the best tool for corporate management. edit: Games It's collaborative, feel free to add to it.

The timing of this all was really off. At a time when we're all pretty much moving on. The active part of Kotakuites has pretty much left it for dead, the forum has dropped all naming references to kotaku. And then this. Which could have gone perfectly fine had Joel chosen to stick to discussing steam groups instead of choosing to throw around accusations of Brian "Xbox Pure" Crecente. Which I guess at least the side effect/bonus of this is that at least the reaction to the accusation does at least confirm I would never say anything like that. Yes I have a grudge with crecente. Yes I think he's a bit of a cock and a joke. Yes I think Totilo or pretty much anyone else would do better in his position. No I wouldn't issue death threats on him, his kid or anyone else.

Oh yeah I guess I coulda just done that