WTF

but do you drop the h for historical? Man we need to get Mitchell on the case XD.

A historical event... lol where's this heading?

well in that case I usually prefer a historian because an historian sounds wrong because like you historian without an h reminds me of Astorian which is just weird.

oh yeah my bad you need to pay via paypal.

Well the historian thing is primarily dependant on how you pronounce historian isn't it? The h isn't silent (Soft h) in the most technical sense so it should be a historian rather than an historian. However if you pronounce it with the vowel sound first then an is correct. Similarly this is probably English vs English but it's correct in the usage of vowels. British people would say a herb since the h isn't supposed to be silent. However in the states many say 'erb and thus an hern isn't incorrect there because of the pronounciation. It's universally accepted that if you make a vowel sound when you pronounce something you can use an. 'An' is used to prevent the awkward break if you were to use 'a' right before a word that begins with a vowel pronouciation. Hence in these cases it depends on how you pronounce the word in the first place and is actually independant of the word but dependant on the pronounciation where you come from in general.

Well if you've got any trouble let me know. Btw heads up, I don't really know if we many people in Germany on here but if you are beware you can't activate the SR3 key on steam (Though the dlc works). This is because Germany doesn't allow for the uncensored SR3 so it's probably IP blocked and you might need to try it via an external ip. Sorry for those in Germany. So far for everyone else it works fine.

You can buy it I believe, if people bought it with a US billing address I can't imagine why you couldn't. Probably need to buy via a proxy?

I could trade with you Ethan. I've already got the acheivement but I could still do it no probs . And Doc Seuss, I was just delaying buying Tropico 4 but if there's something you'd like in exchange for it I wouldn't mind it. I can't see what my last 3 tickets were as yet since there's some error on my inventory.

So THQ UK is selling Saints Row PC with the Genki DLC and season's pass - all together for £14.99 http://store.thq.com...uctID.233244200 Considering the season's pass itself goes for 12.99 this is the best price it'll be for all of that content for a year. and yes its a steamcode. Just opt out of the 3.99 they charge you to let you download the stuff from their site for 3 years and you should get this price

I didn't mean these forums, I've been following at least 6 different threads on this and honestly this is the only place where people aren't whining as much. edited to add: Some people are even saying a game is bad because they want the acheivements only and can't get them quickly. A few games are bad but RoI isn't that terrible I played the game with someone last night and get the acheivement. We went on a 2v3 after the first guy dropped out and that match lasted about 2 hours before we finally won it. 2v3 on PVP btw.

Since the year's over now I'll recommend a few films that I enjoyed this year. Arirang (Not the Korean TV but the Kim Ki duk film. Full Disclosure: One of my close friends has worked on this film but I liked it even outside of that). Midnight in Paris (It's a love/hate thing but the film had some strong performances here and there). Drive (I'm sure those who have seen can say it's a slick film) Take Shelter (it's not what you'd think and not everyone can appreciate it unfortunately but Michael Shannon's portrayal was excellent) Hanna (mostly cause of the music) 50/50 (good film to go on a date with) While the girl with a dragon tattoo was good cinema I have issues with the story but the film was good. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Cumberbatch was pretty good in it as well and decent performances throughout but it's old school suspense so it takes a while to sink in) A Dangerous Method was pretty decent to be honest. The Artist is actually excellent cinema. In fact if there's a film I would recommend watching this year it's that. If you do like Almodovar The Skin I live in is the usual type. There's a few more but I'll recommend them when it's closer to release but most of these have already been released.

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/leonardo-da-vinci-painter-at-the-court-of-milan?tab=1 Tickets to that for my birthday.

Why is everyone wasting their coals so early? Either way it's entirely random. I suppose that means those who collect have a better chance of getting the valve pack (I know it's pointless but the valve pack makes for good gifts to those who don't have those games which isn't entirely bad and considering they're giving a 1000 away and based on those who joined the group there's 700k in the chances I'd say for those with a few coals the chances are higher since everyone seems to be converting the coals to prizes for the most part?). Besides I've noticed a pattern people who redeem coals at a similar time seem to be getting same-ish items. I've seen 3 people get the activision coupon from a 7 coal convert and they did it about in a span of 2 hours. I've seen a few get that basketball game about 7 if my tracking is correct within a span of 4 hours. I think the coupons while random are tied to a date i.e. there are more coupons of a said type available on a day. My advice is wait and see what people are getting before converting your coals and to actually convert them on the last date . However on all the threads I read it is amusing reading the amount of disgruntling. I'm sort of enjoying the randomness. And lol people do buy railworks for some reason. I'd much rather buy an actual trainset when I move to a bigger house. XD

hate to tell you spork but tomorrow railworks is on a daily at 90% off... As seen on PC gamer--> http://oi41.tinypic.com/2j1vji0.jpg But chin up there's always someone might want to buy it in January-March

I've got 7 coal, a 50% off on x 3 gold, 25% off atari, 50% off APOX (I mean really? -.-), 25% off a single valve game and 50% off total war shogun 2. If anyone wants the coupons I'd be glad to trade for coal. I suppose shogun 2 could be useful. I'm betting the price will come down before the standalone expansion is released in March so that would make it cheaper than 50% of what it is now though you can get it for 70% off currently at gamersgate.

I hate myself. ;_;. I tried so hard not to buy anything -.- But ended up with a fair few: Rayman Origins for £15 and MGS: Collection (Early Birthday gift to myself since it's barely 2 weeks away - bah!) So lets see XBLA Guwange Radiant Silvergun plus spare points PSP Corpse Party (technically PSN but whatever) PS3 PSN Titles - Mickey's Wild Adventure aka Mickey Mania Sonic CD DIsc Titles Rayman Origins MGS Collection (Both As mentioned earlier) PC Indie Royale Xmas stuff Humble Indie Bundle 4 Get Games Bundle Indie Gala Bundle Settlers 5, 6 and 7 The Witcher 1 (since it's a fucking pain to install the regular version from the disc and get it working on win 7 64 bit and it was £1, I have a spare key lying around now I think) Command and Conquer 3: Tiberian Sun on Origin Crysis 2 from d2d before they ran out of keys Shogun 2 expansion DLC The Polynomial EYE Cybermancy Chantelise NWN2 platinum Runaway 2 and 3 Psychonauts Fable 1 Dungeons of Dreadmore expansion Dead Island DLC Star wars TFU2 Limbo Civ 5 DLC Deus EX DLC New Vegas last DLC Yeah a few are from steam towards the closing of the prev sale. Red faction was £3 on gamespot downloads aka impulse (it was a steam code). I've also practically got all the Dungeons and Dragons (the missing IWD and BG1 and some others) games from GoG too. I'm glad they were all cheap but still it adds up.

I bought a fair few things but I wanted to specifically mention that I bought Shadows of Katmai. Sure it's stupid but hey watch this video and gaze at it's ridiculousness. Btw it's insanely cheap At the 30 second mark something far too silly happens.

@Strangelove. It's coming out on the 21st in the EU, and on the 27th in the US (because they were advised to wait a week since the 20th has a lot of games which probably means they're not taking a break this Christmas for the store publish or might be on some auto-timer. Anyway the regular price is £9.99 or $15. Don't know the Euro price. It's coming at a discount (yet to be confirmed the nature but probably a freebie considering I can't think trine2 will be given away for free) and has a platinum trophy as well for the trophywhores.

@dean Mentioned it like about 6 hours ago before your post.

Just to add to that Strangelove there's also a PSN discount for Stranger's Wrath (dunno if it's a 100% or something less). I do know that there's a day one almost free title just not sure if it's this or Trine. Regardless Stranger's Wrath HD has a day 1 discount for plus users in PAL and US.

That's cool. But there's the thing that the only reason a lot of stores are open today is because they've paid a lot of rent upfront and it's sort of impossible for them to cut down some of the stores yet. We're going to see downsizing of the stores. I mean it's only natural since specialist retailers on the physical streets are a dying lot. The past four years at Oxford Street does give an indication that most stores aren't permanent. Not to mention the weird ebay 3 day store thing. We might actually see smaller retail stores as opposed to big boutique stores (then again aren't game's stores on Oxford street smallish. I'm just saying they'll downsize on being a physical presence themselves. In a market like ours where people do mostly buy products online it's only better for stores to tap into that market. Yes they can sell the physical goods but selling codes is technically a lot cheaper for them. Even if they were to sell the codes on a receipt in a store. The whole issue of stock clearance doesn't really come into heavy play and they can manipulate the markets a bit more strongly. They would definitely like a piece of the Steampie but it's just harder. OT to that discussion but relevant to the PS Vita discussion --> http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2011/12/vita-accounts/ Multiple PSN accounts are possible, you just need to buy more than one memory card. I think I could deal with that.

@TN. I know how digital sales work which is why I brought in the Apple comparison, retailers make jack out of that. However it's going to head in the direction of digital sales for consoles as well. It's inevitable that sales will hit the digital side more. That's also why I said that I've observed reports, insider talk and other that Sony seems to have had extended discussions with specific retailers who now seem to be selling digital content in their stores albeit mostly first party titles. Also why I brought up that they could have a discussion to sell codes for these products which can be redeemed at the store. This would be interesting because there's bound to be a markup. We're already aware that Vita games are priced at the same ceiling as 3DS games i.e. 39.99 USD to £34.99 most likely out here. That would mean the physical products would RRP for £34.99. They could sell codes for the digital items for £26.25 where they'd give the retailer wiggle room for the cut. Consider that proprietary flash carts are more expensive generally to print out rather than just digital which would account for bandwidth costs. In the case of third party dls they could waiver bandwidth costs for the first x downloads (likely close to 50k) and reduce costs to give them incentive (although this would be for later). It would explain why digital sales are currently cheaper for the vita than physical. It's not like they'd keep the same cut percentage for both physical and retail. We already have plenty of other products where retailers barely get anything, just take a look at the gift voucher sections. In the long run, they'd not be against this because this way they can play more on the digital front. of course this isn't beneficial to third parties too much. Not to mention out here they do sort of devalue money because the £25 PSN cards and £39.99 13 month live subs are post consumer VAT prices and that's how they can afford to sell it for a tiny bit cheaper usually. The gift thing I mentioned was separate from this, it's mostly to do with being able to purchase codes and gift for digital only titles from the store itself or purchase as gift option that you'd come across when you check out from stores like steam, gamersgate etc. It's not a bad thing to have on the console space. On steam it's mostly there so people can take advantage of regional pricing issues or titles such as saints row which are held back on steam but present (will be directly purchasable at a later date, currently only redeemable).