TheFlyingGerbil

He's done loads and they're all pretty adorable.

I do feel the characters actually had character (and development) in Skyward Sword compared to other Zelda games and it seemed to be the plot that drove you forward rather than just the discovery of new items. Definitely an enjoyable game.

I loved skyward sword too. I think we're just ahead of the curve-there arms to be a tendency to hate new recent Zeldas when they come out and opinions mellow and even become postpone over time.I guess people have such a long time to build up expectations between Zelda games their never going to be what people have imagined and put takes a while to get some perspective. You could always transfer the save over to your Wii u. The HDMI out really improved the picture for me.

Urgh. When that happens in Zelda it actually makes me want to kill myself and continue (without saving, obviously) rather than listen to it if I know there are no hearts nearby.

I just bought the four 3DS streetpass games. They're reduced by a third at the moment (£8.99). I've wanted them for a while but the normal price of £13.49 for them is mental. Nearly crumbled at bought them full price a few months ago too so glad I resisted. £8.99 still seems like a lot but trying to think of them as £2.25 each which doesn't seem so bad and I've had plenty of use out of the two free ones so...

Why not stick with the k400r until you decide rather than spend $10 on a temporary one?

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Not sure how you can defend someone on their third offence. The annoying thing is footballers seem to get away with anything if they are any good at playing, with fines that sound big but amount to a couple of days wages for them, or bans that seem to mostly span off-season friendlies.

This is quite handy. I think a lot of people (including British people) use some of these terms interchangeably and don't realise there is a difference.

The biggest plot twist he will ever pull off would be making another decent film

What's the first thing you're going to play? edit: woohoo! You mentioning the transfer process reminded me that LostWinds wouldn't transfer over when I did it ages ago, so while a little annoyed I wrote it off at the time as a casualty of progress. I just did a quick search now. They fixed the problem in April this year and since I am so disorganised I haven't got around to selling my Wii yet so I can transfer it over now. Landed!

Not really a trope that needs to go, but with all the recent "look at our graphics" trailers it reminds me that I really don't know why developers insist on showing off waterfalls which invariably look awful no matter how lovely everything else looks. The one I specifically remember from E3 this year was The Witcher, but there were definitely others and it's a perennial problem. I think the issue is they can only make water look convincing when it is not interacting with anything. Flat bodies of water can look lovely, and the most graphically "wow" thing in a scene until they meet with a character, a boat, the shore etc. and with waterfalls being entirely interaction with other objects the result is inevitably ropey and looks like fire used to in the 90s when it was super obvious it was half a dozen 2D animations sat on top of each other at angles.

The hours long out-of-the-box mandatory update to add basic functionality didn't exactly endear you to it, and while it probably wasn't any slower than the PS3 OS, it should have been a lot quicker being 6 years more modern. I still think in general use it could be faster, but it doesn't cause frustration like it did.

Some refurbs are completely unused customer returns, so it can just be a matter of getting lucky, which it looks like you have. I had the same luck with a rowing machine - it was very obvious it had never been assembled and I saved around half of the new price. Yay us! Also, while I'm here I want to say how much I love the new quick start feature - so good for a short burst of Mario Kart, LttP or popping in to the eShop. I've definitely thought before now I couldn't be bothered waiting for a console to start up if I'm not going in for a decent gaming session and this seems literally instant. So glad they've managed to improve the OS, it's at a level I'm happy with now so any further improvements would just be icing on the cake.

Last one is funnier here (sfw, no sound)

What are examples of terrible British baked goods? I wouldn't even call pancakes baked goods myself and it's not like we don't have pancakes here, people just generally prefer the bigger flatter more crepe like ones. Of course ours aren't as paper thin as a French crepe. I guess you like what you grow up with as I find American style pancakes kind of dry and tasteless. But I've never had them in America so maybe no one here makes them right. If anyone had any tips on making them nice I'd love to be convinced of their virtues.

What would be the difference between cheap and dear dice and what's the numbering on the back left die? Is it going up in tens? Also, if you're buying them does that mean board games don't come with them when you buy them? Is there a standard set that would show you to play most games?

i read the article, prior to my previous post. it says they're brownies without cocoa. I've never seen one without white chocolate chips in so it is bascally what i said and completely different to the oat flapjack in the photo

Sounds good and I always do the side stuff so should be decent value. guess now I only have to hope they reduce it in the EU. probably shouldn't get my hopes up.

Is the freedom cry dlc any good? Not sure I've ever bought any story SLC before so not sure what sort of value to expect

The bottom picture isn't like a Blondie, which is just a white chocolate brownie isn't it? The photo Is still made of oats. Just oats butter and sugar mixed and baked. I've never made crumpets before, but I have made pikelets. I think the only difference is you pour the batter into a ring when you're frying it to make it taller and therefore a crumpet. Definitely worth the effort to make them fresh. Absolutely yummy. I prefer pikelets to crumpets, which can be a bit rubbery. A nice one is nice though and we probably have them more than pikelets as they're hard to find.

Entered my first tournament today. It was for hosts and listeners of a group of Gay gaming podcasts. It was 12 races but was open for 2 hours. I kind of wish you could re-enter it. There was plenty of time to do another batch of 12 tracks and many people would have been happy to. Not sure if that's a mandatory condition or one they chose to implement though? How's everyone doing with online? I've lost my connection once or twice but apart from that it seems really solid, not had any noticeable lag or anything even when worldwide, unless they just hide it better than in previous games. My score is only 1200 so far. I've seen one over 3000 so I wonder if they match you with people with similar scores? Anyway it's good fun and fast to do if I'm done with cups for the day.

nothing is important in the grand scheme of things. I guess in regards to the uncharted series we won't know until the fourth one is out. But weren't the first three supposed to be a trilogy and with four being the first one on a new console too I will imagine it would be ok to skip three. Having said that there may be the possibility of a rerelease of the first three in an upscaled collection?

The capital R only just manages to save that sentence.