TheFlyingGerbil

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

It's like those parodies you got when the wii first came out except I don't think you were meant to watch those and actually think it was a good idea to make them into a real game. Joe EDIT: anyone know what the song is that singer sounds really familiar.

Congrats, that is some pretty cool news. Joe

...I did it on purpose...? The thing that bothers me about people pointing out grammar/spelling is that they just as frequently make mistakes in their replies. Joe

EU box art. It is better. Joe

That reminds me that I don't like Grammar Nazis. Fair enough if their are a load of mistakes on a professional website, but if it is in the comments or a personal blog etc. then just get over it: it just makes you look really petty and I will probably not even care if you make a valid point after your little diatribe. Joe

No tuition fees at all until Labour introduced them. Don't get me wrong the Conservatives said they were probably going to introduce them which was one of the reasons Labour did so well - they got in on a lie and boy did they start as they meant to go on. I don't really think you can say the same thing about the Lib Dems, they are not the UK Government. They're part of a coalition and having only 15% of coalition seats means yours is not going to be the main view holding sway in the Cabinet. I'm sure they argued their corner and I think they actually got more concessions from the Tories than their number of seats would warrant but they aren't going to get it all their own way. Joe

Damnit, my post just disappeared. I won't type it all out again as it is making me angry to think about for too long! You didn't pay anything to go to uni before labour got in. Their 1997 Manifesto promised not to introduce tuition fees which brought out a lot of students to vote for them for the first time. One of the first things they did when they got into power was introduce tuition fees. They broke the specific and unambiguous pledge as soon as they got the opportunity. For there next manifesto they pledged not to raise income tax and implied they wouldn't raise the overall tax burden. They then raised national insurance. You know, the other mandatory PAYE tax so exactly the same as raising income tax. Not to mention all the other taxes they raised massively increasing the tax burden on every pound you earn. They also got rid of the 10p tax. That's Labour the working man's party. Of course by then they knew that working class people are never going to change their votes from Labour so they thought "fuck those morons - they'll take whatever shit we fling at them and beg for more" So they pandered to the middle income earners -typically Conservative voters - by changing income taxes to increase the burden on lower income earners and lower it for middle income earners. That is the exact opposite of what tax is for which is to spread wealth down the chain but that wouldn't increase their voting base so that's not what they did. Basically, while Conservatives may be no bunch of roses at least they are doing what they said they would do before the election. Labour gave deliberately misleading (income tax) and blatant lies (tuition fees) to get into and to maintain power in successive elections. Joe

I just finished The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher I enjoyed it but she dragged it out to much in the middle it could easily have been 100 pages shorter. Anyone have any opinions on what really happened? Joe

Yes. 13 years old because labour introduced them after promising not to in their manifesto. After it was introduced it was inevitable it would be raised. You're angry at the wrong Government. Joe

My copy of Fragile Dreams just arrived. I got it because it was mentioned in a thread on the Nintendo board about games that don't get the love they deserve. Joe

I'm on my second though it's not because the first one broke. I bought a 160gb slim with a pretty decent bundle. Only a few weeks later the 250gb one came out with uncharted 2 as a pack-in, I traded in my 160gb with two old Wii games and £20 and got the 250gb with UC2 and GTA IV. Bargain. Joe

My first pokemon was Pearl. I don't remember which one I started with because the game just assumed you'd been playing pokemon all your life so I had no clue what the heck I was supposed to be doing and gave up. Joe

My vote is for "luk wot I dun made!" Joe EDIT: Is it possible that when you press 'mark forum read' it kicks you out to the main page? I assume every who presses the button is because the are done with that particular subfoum.

I found a mini orange inside my main orange - much better than finding Jesus in there! Joe

Mother/Earthbound. I don't know why they don't release them on the VC (I think it's something to do with licensing all the bits of song they used?). It is such a famous game I really want to play it and I know you can get it illegally but I don't want to do that. Joe

I'm a complete crybaby at films - really[/i} bad but I just don't get emotional over games. Maybe it's because you only play the game in bursts I don't get into it so much? I don't know, but it's certainly not because I'm not in touch with my emotions! :'( Joe

Young Frankenstein. I know it's supposed to be a classic but I just didn't think it was funny. It wasn't bad enough for me to turn off but I did end up with my reading book open. Joe EDIT: Just watched The Prestige. It was enjoyable but rather obvious 'twist' and I am usually blindsided by twisted so it must have been really clunky.

I'm listening to Mandy Moore - Only hope on Spotify. If liking it's wrong I don't want to be right! Here it is in the film A Walk To Remember which is a complete tear jerker for a Wusstopher Williams like me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ofeDruIwTM I also love this clip of her singing Stupid Cupid in The Princess Diaries. The rendition of the song isn't too great but I love the dancing and everything makes me giggle like a school girl. Oh and that reminds me of this. Mean girls is awesome and this clip just made me literally LOL (LLOL?) twice watching it just now. I know it's Lindsay Lohan but I'm not just obsessed with Mandy Moore! So in conclusion: I like films aimed at tweenage girls: so sue me! Joe

It wasn't at all before my time I had an Amiga 500. It had a GIGANTIC (about 15cm) modulator sticking out the back to plug it into the TV which if you ever moved anything on the desk even slightly it would dislodge from its port and you'd lose the signal - particularly annoying during a frantic bout of Street Fighter (unless you were losing, lol). It was pretty ace actually, I used to love the speech synthesiser on it and the games were ace. You can tell how fond of it we were as we actually thought it was a good idea to buy an Amiga CD32. That was less successful Oh, and I have no idea what those abbreviations mintycrys used, sorry. They've made a new Amiga OS version 4 which is still supported but it only works on PowerPCs. Joe P.S. I've just noticed how old this thread is but after typing all that I'm bloomin' well gonna post it!

I wouldn't hold your breath - I would say they will put minimal effort into the port. Joe

I have that but never actually played it. The 'harder version' description put me off. Joe

I'm now imagining a William Shatner-style performance and am quite excited. You're right about 'notorious'. I'd say it's because I'm Welsh but I don't speak a word of that. Joe

If you want a fun game to play with non-gamers Blue Toad Mystery Files is a good laugh. You can get the six episodes for cheap in a bundle now. Joe