TheFlyingGerbil

My monster cable is the best £90 I ever spent. it makes my pictures so HD.

I'm guessing it's just set up incorrectly, or maybe it was a video of the game, not the game itself? Maybe they need to buy a monster cable for it. Oh, and don't worry, TCP, neck tubes are definitely not hipster. The only scarves that annoy me are the houndstooth ones with the tassled edges. Men wear those all year, and I pretty much auto-hate anyone I see with one.

We put our decorations up this weekend so I'm feeling festive. When do you guys put your decorations up? Any unusual traditions in your family? Have you got all your shopping done, or will you be dashing around on Christmas Eve? Let's discuss how awesome Christmas is and how All I want for Christmas is You by Mariah Carey is the best Christmas song ever.

Sorry to bring the tone of the thread down, but I was wondering which drinks are least likely to give you a hangover? Is it all just myths and speculation, is it different for different people, or can I really spare myself the misery - and no, before you ask drinking less is not an option!

I bought Emmy the Great, This is Christmas album, and have been listening to Christmas music most of the day while we were putting the Christmas decorations up. Got all my shopping done so I can just enjoy the run up to Christmas now and am feeling pretty festive

I love the width of the pad - I've always hated how close together my hands are on traditional gamepads. It's the natural distance you hold your hands apart, including for example at a keyboard. Speaking of Rayman Legends, the demo is supposed to be available for download on the 13th of December. Kind of weird when the game isn't out until March but it's worth having a look come Thursday. Hopefully we'll get some more demos on there as at the moment the EU only has one, but never look a gift horse in the mouth - at least they're doing them.

An apparently EU only 'feature' is that you can only download 18 rated titles between 11pm and 3am, this is regardless of any age restriction settings you have enabled/disabled, and even if you don't have a minor registered on your system. This is pretty ridiculous - I generally game in the afternoon and if the mood takes me to buy a downloadable game (which is surely the point) I can't until night when the mood may have passed. Grrrr.

the succession issue hasn't been agreed by the commonwealth nations yet. I guess they all thought they had more time. I'm guessing it needs to be sorted before the baby is born. On related - though not political - news the nurse who was duped by the prank call to the hospital has been found dead.

I hate sounding like an old duffer but I think it's all the low-waisted jeans. If you pull them up they squish your spuds, but if you have them lower then it's muffin tops ahoy.

I really hate it when staff pass opinions like that - it seems really unprofessional to me and obviously effects sales. On a side note - another massively slow update today

Anyone play a game with accomplishments yet? How do they work?

I want an unused copy of Meteos. It is about as likely as half the stuff in this thread

They've got a public profile page under construction on the Nintendo site so you may be able to linkify it soon. Edit: OK, so my previous post wasn't 100% accurate. I think you get a glowing friend icon if you click on someone in MiiVerse and send a request from their profile page. Only one of you have to do this. If you add someone in manually from the friend screen you both have to add each other's name and it doesn't give a notification. It's even more convoluted than before. At least on the Wii it only sucked in one way, now you don't even know if it's sucking or not :/

I got my Wii U today - I think it's the first time I got a console at launch and I like it. The update was a bit of a dampener even though I knew it was coming. I walked the dogs and took a shower but would have been pretty miffed if I'd sat there that long expecting it to only take a few minutes. There were a few weird quirks with the set up - what's up with not being allowed to change your timezone?! Seems like a bit of a random thing to lock down. I also noticed while I was using the stylus that a couple of times I accidentally pressed a couple of face buttons with the side of my right hand. If I can't get into the habit of holding it in a better way that could get annoying pretty fast. For a similar reason I'd have put the speakers at the top of the controller, though I think they sound surprisingly good. I think the pad battery also lasted even less than I was expecting, I hardly felt like I'd picked it up before the red battery light came on, I think I'm going to have to get used to playing with it plugged in. I love the miiverse thing so far, people's comments popping up in Nintendo Land when you finish a level is so cool, and I like that you give posts 'yeahs' if you like them. I had a bit of a drama getting the console so the pack-in is the only game I have at the moment, but I'm gong to get a few downloadable games first. Probably Puddle and Trine 2 as they're on sale as a launch promo. That's also a good sign there's sales on already. Though it's a bit pants the Premium cashback thing is only 8% not the 10% I'm sure they said it was going to be. apparently you have to spend £62.50 to get a £5 code so while that's better than nothing, it's not really going to increase the amount of stuff I buy. Anyway, I think this all comes across as a bit more negative than I intended as I really am happy with it!

My Nintendo ID is FriendlyGroke. I would be happy for anyone/everyone here to add me Since I think there was some confusion, you do not both need to add each other. If someone adds you, when you press the home button the friend icon glows and pops up a message when you click on it, so it all works rather smoothly. edit: Dean if you come in here, the NIntendo ID doesn't show up under my name? Is it supposed to or does it only show on my profile page?

I don't think I've ever found a bread with stuff baked in to it that tastes better than plain bread with the same stuff added on after.

ugh. I thought the whole point of the new system was you didn't have to swap details, you could just send requests. Is the only advancement that the name is easier to remember than the number on the Wii? I'm pretty disappointed with that considering people have spent the last five years saying how awful it was you couldn't send friend requests. NIntendo really do defy logic sometimes. edit: TCPs posts gives me a glimmer of hope. Also, I see you made the 3DS code thread. Can you change the name of that to Nintendo IDs and people can add there names in there? We could probably all just add each other in there as I doubt there's much worry of many people pushing up against their friend list limit too soon on their Wii U.

Dishonored is £14.99 at GMG, plus an extra 25% off with the code GMG25-G4VDR-0ZL4Q.

Thanks, Dean! Not even close to my first ebook purchase, but I can't pass up a bargain like that - though I have to admit offers like this do mean I find it hard to spend more than £3 or £4 on a (e)book now.

I'm way ahead of you there. I haven't even bothered downloading this lot as I know I won't actually get around to playing them in the foreseeable future.

£6.49 ($10) for 5 games with a GOG offer. I think Dean posted the details in Game Deals but I'd say their emails are worth subscribing too as they often have good offers.

I got the same email, and I lapsed to silver... 4 months ago, maybe a bit more. Evil bar stools aren't showing me the 2 months for £2 offer any more so I ain't buyin' it.

Is there anything in the Bible that says only men can be priests, or that women can't be?