TheFlyingGerbil

excel_excel, I don't know if it's possible, but can yuo add a poll into the first post to see which version people have bought. Also, playing pokemon in the pub - does that raise any eyebrows? You're braver than me!

hmmm, asphalt is a launch title for 3DS too. Maybe I should give that a miss but I really want a racing game for it. Hopefully they'll resurrect extreme G

I finally got The World Ends With You. I've been looking for an unused copy on and off since it came out without success. I was quite excited thinking I was getting a new UK copy (which are rarer than hens teeth). When it arrived though it was a US copy. Stupid website lied to me but at least I finally have it now.

The DS is more than enough proof for me that there will be plenty of quality titles. Remember the touch screen was seen as a gimmick when it came out. Now we live in a world of smartphones touch screens hardly seems like such a gimmicky move on Nintendo's part.

Looks like scrooge mcDuck's been fed after midnight.

OMG, shut up - you're making me want to pre-order. Must resist!

Another watch for my collection. The picture doesn't really do it justice though - it looks less 'bitty' in the the flesh.

regardless I think I'd better play it safe. Thinking about it I think the reason I did it is because obviously my real name isn't TheFlyingGerbil, and I think it is nice for people to know your real name - kind of how I like the what Do You Look like thread as it is cool to put a face to the posts also I'd have liked more people to post their voices in the English thread for the same reason. I think on the internet I just kind of forget that the posts that appear are put up by actual people and I like a reminder every now and again. P.S. I know that was an awfully long sentence and now I'm dead self conscious about it!

Yeah that's the clip, Deanb and it also explains what a wheelie bin is. I wanted to post the slip myself but I'm so close to my download cap I can't watch videos until Tueasday :'(

That is exactly what they do. They also lie to your face about stuff being broken so they can get a refund and buy it at the cheaper price. @everyone. I think I'd better try and stop putting my name at the end of my posts! I'm trying to think why I do it but I'm not entirely sure. I used to do it ages ago. Then stopped for a long while and started again. I think you can tell from my posts I don't pretend to be 'super literate' I'm pleased enough with 'fairly comprehensible'. One thing it does make me think though is that maybe people read too much into stuff on the internet? you all seem to have made a lot of assumptions about someone based on a very small thing they do. If the rest of the post is douchey then a name at the bottom isn't really the issue but if the post is fine I can't see what difference the name makes? I'd say the unnecessarily long words are a more accurate pointer to pretentiousness.

Thanks, Thursday Next - I don't recognise her name so it wasn't who I was thinking off. I think I was thinking of Sia. Joe

metres, Dean, metres! (no, before you say it: it doesn't matter that your monitor is in inches!) Joe

OOh, my Gold is about to expire and their offer at the moment to entice me is if I renew they will give me a proper disc version of Fable III. Pretty cool! I was going to wait for the GOTY edition to come out but I may get this and play through it as evil then trade it in for the GOTY version and play it as a good guy. Joe Oh, and arbitarty, that chesty thing was one of my least favourite things in that game. It wasn't buggy for me though at least. How are you stuck and has it been a problem for other people? I think I'm quite lucky as I didn't really notice any bugs when I was playing.

You need a spatula and a good arm. Fling that stuff at her house. Joe Also, did you guys across the pond hear about the woman who put a cat in a wheelie bin here in the UK a few months back? I'm sure I remember reading that it got on the news over there. Pretty weird that she'd do it but hardly international news!

there is a slight catch - the £190 is store credit, it's £180 cash, though that's still quite a good deal. Joe edit: is there any news yet on how you can transfer your DSiWare games over to the 3DS - I'm sure they said you were going to be able to do it.

if it is the thing with the god-awful brain and talking stomach advert, then no - the advert would forswear me from using that site. Joe edit: although coincidentally we did have a chinese meal. Deep fried duck was gorgeous but the Cantonese sauce was a bit too sweet for me.

so how close are you to your 28" monitor, because if you sit 'normal' distance (less that a metre) then does the picture take up most of your vision so you have to 'look around' at the different corners of the screen? Joe

I don't know if you can do this but you need to try and find out if the behaviour is a function of depression or innate to his character. Did you know him before his depression and was he nicer then? One of the traits of depression is self-destruction which can take the form of ruining the good things in your life because you feel you don't deserve them. In this instance it has focused on your friendship. If you think he is just a bad person you can put something like this in an email: "I put a lot of effort into our friendship and don't feel I get that back. I was OK with that when I thought you appreciated it but if you don't there is no reason for me to expend that effort. I you want to put the effort in too or just realise and appreciate what I've done then I'd love for you to contact me." If however you think he is a good person but that is masked by a genuine depressive illness then it is more complicated. While you could just say it's not worth the effort, and you could certainly be forgiven as you have done more than may be expected of you, do remember depression is a disease: how would you react to a friend with cancer when they needed you? That might sound overly dramatic but if he is suffering from real depression it's how you've got to think about it if you want to help him get through it. It will help you put up with his crap if there's a person worth helping at the end of it. You would of course have to explain that to him too. i.e. you think he has some problems he needs help with but you're not able and it's not fair to put it all on your shoulders but if he is willing to try and sort things out your would be willing to help him. If you laid out what you think the matter is and how you think his life might be better in the future, hopefully he can see what he is doing and stop before he pushing someone away who can help him down the right path. It would have to be his decision if he wants to get help but you should make it clear you would leave the door open for him if he shows willing. Anyway. Hope some of that helps but only you can know what feels like the right thing to do. You sound like a good guy if you are concerned enough to worry about him and to have it upset you so you have to feel that whatever decision you come to (and ultimately that he comes to also) you made it from a good place and that is the best that you can do. Joe

Is that because of how close you sit to a PC? Or would you not even have a big screen for a HTPC when you are sitting across the room from it? Joe

i LOVE yorkshire puddings. Did you have a proper Sunday Roast? I am totally jealous. Joe

It seems like more of a replacement for renting games than for buying them. Since I don't rent games I don't think it is for me. Joe

I wander all over game worlds anyway. I'm not a A to B gamer so backtracking is fine. I.m quite looking forward to playing it now. Joe

David Braben agrees with me. Joe P.S. I got that from the News Feed, Dean. Do I get bonus brownie points?! EDIT: The originating article with Braben is interesting he does veer off topic to second hand sales but it is a nice short read.

I just bought (all new) Cursed Mountain for Wii, Blue Dragon for 360 and Animal Kororo for DS for £20 total. It was from a website I've never used before so I hope they actually turn up. Fingers crossed everyone! Joe

I hope this isn't a stupid question - if he hacked the system himself and used it for his own entirely legal reasons then that wouldn't be a problem (I believe the mobile phone jailbreaking rulings say this is OK). it's the fact that he released to it to the wider world knowing it would lead to circumvention of DRM etc. (which I believe is still illegal to do?) that means he's in the spotlight? Like I implied, I have no real clue about this stuff but it seems logical to me that these two situations are very different. Joe