TheFlyingGerbil

I like to read a book before I see a film purely because I don't like picturing the film in my head as I read. I just recorded the Watchmen, which finally inspired me to read the book which has been sitting on my shelf for over a year so I can watch the film.

I just watched Connie and Carla and while I'm sure critically it wasn't a masterpiece I had a stupid grin on my face the whole time. chikapow!

I've never seen The Fall, but I'm hoping it will have the same sort of spectacle as The Cell plus Lee Pace is adorable. And I know it's not exactly seasonal but Elf is probably my second favourite Christmas film (after Olive, the other Reindeer) and I watch it every year on TV. Now I have the blu ray! The only downside is that the picture is squashed looking which I am trying hard not to let bother me (I'm guessing because the inlay is shorter than on DVD, but it looks like some sort of sloppy job you'd get on a DVD at a car boot sale).

if you're not sure you'll like it, wait until it is $15-$20?

I still have the non-DX cartridge, but I don't have anything to play it on, but I read that this has an extra dungeon so I'm happy to buy it. The main reason I got it now though was to have proof I've been to the eShop for the Ambassador program. Not that I don't trust Nintendo not to mess it up!

Apparently it uses Ubisoft's 'always on' DRM even if you buy it through steam?

I loved Cannon Fodder too - Sensible Software also made the only football game I've ever liked. Sensible Soccer

A liquid in a bottle. I cannot believe that never even crossed my mind.

Is the tea in those big bottles loose leaf? I always think of loose leaf as a bit fancy which flies in the face of buying it in those economy size bottles. If it is in bags it is even more inexplicable: pouring out teabags is just mental.

ADD IN: I appologise in advance if this post is difficult to follow, my head is a mess So do you think you* expect an RPG to last longer because of its more sedate pace? ie wandering around more, lots of text to read, slower paced combat etc. and if more intense games are shorter do you think there is an ideal number of plot points/experiences/set pieces (I cant think of a good word - I hope you know what I mean) for a game and different genres just have that same number but in a different density. I guess then the problem would arise if a game spreads those 'points' too thinly so it seems tedious getting between them and the game overly long. Or if they do not have enough points embedded in the fundamentals of the game and the developer has to add them in artificially. I guess the other problem if you go with this theory is if the density if different to what the player has come to expect from the genre. *general 'you' not anyone in particular.

I just got 4200 MS points for £22.39 using a £10 promotional voucher and 10% discount. Quite the bargain I think. I'll probably use it to buy bastion and from dust (when they first get reduced in price of course!). edit: sorry about the double post. Wasn't thinking

You can trade fable iii in to amazon for a £13.60 gift certificate.

so basically you have two types of hash brown on your plate? That's all we wanted to know. Weirdo. I think I have a new one for this thread thinking about a discount I got today. I used a voucher to get £10 pounds off, but I see most American's on here mentioning using coupons. Oh and do as many IRL American's have coupon cutting sessions as they seem to constantly mention on TV or is it just some sort easy code for 'this person has to watch their money'?

Like Dean said. Bacon: yum, maple syrup: yum, bacon and maple syrup: ABOMINATION.

We have bacon in the UK as smoked, sweet cure or dry cure. Any of those three can be back or streaky. I would say as a general rule people eat dry cure in a sandwich and use smoked as an ingredient in cooking (as it is more salty it's a bit much on a sandwich) I'd say sweet cure is definitely the least popular in this country and it always makes my toes curl when I see people pouring maple syrup on bacon in American movies/TV programmes. Ewww. Also on Wikipedia, it says USAers use the term rasher of bacon to mean a serving of bacon (ie several slices) whereas in the UK a rasher is a single slice and is the most common way to refer to slices. That kind of reminds me about the confusion around rounds of bread/toast. A round of bread/toast is one slice but a round of sandwiches is two slices of bread (making one sandwich) but some people take it to mean one slice of bread still so you could end up with only half a sandwich!

I'm sure there's a joke somewhere in that post about a typical Halo player but no, before you assume, I didn't down vote any of your posts in here.

Fuck that noise. Most kids know most of the standard swears by the time they're five or six. Fucking swearing never hurt anybody and isn't likely to. Knowing swear words and seeing them normalised by being posted on websites by paid writers is not the same thing. No it doesn't hurt anyone to see a swearword neither does seeing anything ugly - that doesn't mean I want to see it or be subjected to it every day.

I always thought titbit was correct but that some people (mostly in USA) use tidbit because they are embarrassed to say/write TIT ::snicker:: Dunking biscuits in tea is completely gross - it ruins the tea and the biscuit. If I have a biscuit with tea I have it after I've drunk the tea else the sweetness of the biscuit makes the tea taste more bitter.

I hope I like it. It should be interesting at least.

Plug for the Generation Eight thread I started! Generation Eight Discussion

This article is quite interesting about who get in or is chucked out of metacritic's pool of reviewers it uses.

I watched TimeCrimes quite a while ago so I don't remember exactly how it went but I'm sure I remember thinking it just got a bit ridiculous. Enjoyable nonetheless.

I don't know why you think it is a good thing that the WiiU may force the other console manufacturers to release their consoles sooner - we all know what happened last time MS rushed out a console.

I don't post most of the CDs I buy but I'm posting this one as the cover is awesome plus I'm super glad it actually arrived as I had to use an importer I'd never heard of.