deanb

Well I'm on now. Just started up. Having to rejig myself to the controls.

I've only bought CTR on the PSN Classics. Good game, shame that the PS3 emu doesn't do multi-tap. Also I recommend Critter Crunch. Cute game, looks great on a 1080p screen. I think I got it for £3 which was a good price. Kinda short, but it has replayibitly in challenge modes n such.

I'll probably regret this later, but what the hell. Anyway thought I'd bring it up cos I read some interesting quotes on Gamasutra today I thought kind of vaguely summed up my thoughts on the matter: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/32840/Zyngas_Tian_Games_Are_Craft_Not_Art.php Yes it's Zynga, but it'd be stupid to completely dismiss it because of that. I've always been of the thought they're not exactly an art. Yes there may be many artistic elements, but it's mostly added on and unnecessary; it may have writing work for it, but it doesn't need it to be a game. It may have fancy graphics or FMVs, doesn't need it either. A novel without writing is nothing, a movie without moving images, is just a Voice over. etc. What games have in common, from Pong to Uncharted to Ico is programming. And you'd be hard pushed to call that art. But it is a craft, it's a skill. Even the more flamboyant looking games than Pong level stuff it's closer to design than art. Which the two are separate. Design has aesthetic, but planned and functional form. That's why it's Web design, Architectural design, Product design etc. I think many folks who argue that games are art get art and design mixed up. My Bed is not intended to be slept in. It's purely for the aesthetic. Whereas games are functional, they have to, to be playable. MS Office is also functional and programmed (and up until 2003 version had games built in too) Also I'm not putting games down. Nothing will change in gaming anyway whether they were called art or not. I kind of find the whole thing to be a bit of a farce. Call of Duty isn't suddenly going to get better plotlines because some unknown organization headed by, I assume from the way folks go on about him in this matter, Roger Ebert declares games art. Shadow of the Colossus won't get any less moving because it's called programming. It just seems like gamers grasping for straws in some effort to say their past time is more worthwhile than person x's past time. Oh n anyone who suggests that art is something that evokes an emotional response? I will ban you. And if you get pissed off at that I shall submit your ban report to be hung up at the Tate gallery.

I may have to seek out Ethan at some point...

I've only got a relatively small collection. My mum has a big video collection so I never needed one, so my collection is only a couple of years in the making. It's currently about 40:60 BD:DVD, but that'll increase over time (I've mostly just been buying blu-rays recently) A large chunk of my "collection" is pirated stuff, but normally if I like it I'll go out n pick it up. If I don't no loss.

Nah they've not banned, but they stripped Topeks star n shoved him in the cornfield, though it later turned out the loss of a star was from going all Spartacus on them with "I'm deanb": http://kotaku.com/comment/36588231 - originally had a link to this place and a blurb on the kotakuites TF2 n MC server.

I have a star on Steam, but nope, no star on Kotaku. The person below me is unemployed

http://www.gametrailers.com/user-movie/castlevania-in-robot-chicken/326412

Hey it's that person.... (blue bird avatar yeah?)

See I want a beard like that, though maybe slightly more tamed. But I have a feeling I'll never manage it

You know aborigines use boomerangs for hunting right?

And been me? I dunno.,.

Hah forgot I had two Chrome installs. So wiped the second one of the few extensions it had. It's running on the same tabs I stuck on FF (which is now, without touching it, at 116MB) and it's running 64MB altogether. Also turns out you can hit the "Stats for Nerds" button on Chrome task manager and it'll also list Firefox's stats if you have that open too. Anyway as previously stated memory doesn't matter too much, even 116MB is like 2% of total memory on my system. I could open another 30+ versions of FF before it starts to get too big. Having Live Mail open uses more than anything else I have open (except when opening games).

Just finished Megamind. I'm not a huge Will Farrell fan but he was good in this, maybe he should just stick to VA. Soundtrack was pretty good too. Story felt a tad short. Also trailers ruined it with the whole thing about Metroman not being dead.

Yeah, I'm afraid of playing Morrowind incase it makes FO3 n Oblivion seem bad since everyone who has played Morrowind seems to dislike those. I loved em, it's what makes me excited for Skyrim.

edit: maybe a little bit of one Original:True... I'd guess. I don't even know what gaming theme food is. Like those recipes for WoW food? or we talking those japanese lunchboxes with sushi n stuff shaped like Mario? Or something else? The person below me is an Apple fanboy

Yeah I'd imagine with FromSoftwares previous PS3 experience that versions more likely to come out better.

Okay little memory test. I've stripped FF of all installed plug-ins and add-ins except the basic ones like flash, foxit, java, n WMP. I've then copy pasted all my current chrome tabs over to Firefox (which btw do you know how fucking awesome that right click option of "Paste & Go" is. Paste n Search just as awesome, but not required for copying URLs. Those little things. First comments: how come Gappoi has different Favicons for different browsers? Also wow RPS looks quite different without any adblock running. At the moment Chrome is 150MB (gotta love that built in Task manager) and Firfox at 89MB..wait make that 91MB. Chrome has it's extensions installed btw cos I can't be arsed removing them. (that'd be stumbleupon, Google Reader, Google Cal, Adblock, Speed dial, screnshot, instapaper, goo.gl, n Evernote. Oh n flash since that's built in. ) If you want I can install all those onto Firefox. see how that goes down too. Actually it's kind of funny that folks say on one hand the add-ons for FF make it great, but on the other suggest you need to strip them all to make it not as wonky. Also on talk of ingontio: Win 7 support in Chrome is nice, get to Incognito without having to first open the browser. Also Incognito doesn't force you to stop everything else you were browsing and shift over. It's not just raw speed that makes Chrome quicker, but all the little minor conveniences built in. Also I did a quick check: FF3.6 still reloads the entire tab and video when you tear it off.

My beef with Pachter would be that the guy is paid to know about games, and he's so often off base on even the most basic things. Also he seems a bit too into Activision if you ask me. I get that he's more a man for the publishers and less so for the gamers, but even then the info he gives you have to wonder how he's still in a job. Also I can only see GT hiring him on becuase he so frequently makes comments that are pro-publisher n anti-gamer/consumer that it leads to great flame war/raging stuff that drives up hits.

I used rockmelt for a while. It was basically things that could be done in add-ons. It ran several versions behind chrome, had a wonky Twitter client. It's essentially something that could be done just with having Chrome and any IM client that supports twitter n facebook chat. Or with ChromeBird extension. Maybe someone who is always on Facebook chat might like it? But I don't use that so...

Yeah it's Equal Opportunities gone mad. Dude cheater, it had nothing to do with any disability, it was irrelevant. If MS had reversed their decision then that'd of fucked em over, it's like saying "It's bad to cheater, we will punish you, oh unless you're handicapped in some way and it's all fine". He didn't get banned btw, just had his gamerscore and achievements stripped and his gamertag marked as [cheater]

Aye it's all my housemate is waiting on for confirmation. He's liking the larger size too as he hopes it means he doesn't have to use The Claw anymore.

http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/google_chrome_portable And awesome to use due to the gmail sync. And yeah I forgot I sometimes use IE for the various sites that require it, normally microsoft sites.