Hot Heart

Imagine if Bruce Wayne were scared of spiders in the bath...or clowns.

Bit of a sidetrack... As far as weapons go, I think the Mass Effect or Prototype alternatives are quite good ie. using a selection wheel and slowing or pausing the game while the button is held. Though, the thing you have consider is which button you use and what you sacrifice. In Mass Effect, I believe they moved grenades onto the face buttons (the back button, I think?) and ME2 did away with them altogether. You're gonna make people select from the wheel with the right stick, and you want it a button they can hold down so it has to be a shoulder button. But you need one for firing, one for zooming in...do you want one for reloading and one for quick grenades? I think you could probably write something quite interesting looking at certain controls for different games.

But he doesn't call himself The Goddamn Batman. He should though.

Like 'kleenex', 'cellotape' is a brand thing as in sticky 'cellophane' (cellulose film). But as Dean said, we say that or sticky tape. Band-aids = plasters.

Hmm, maybe your suggestion was more offensive...

Don't know who that is. But mine was a joke as in David Frost, famous for his Nixon interview as shown in 'Frost/Nixon' (and not much else).

Ah, GTA IV memories...

Yeah. My friends and I started referring to it as U2AT. I think we call it UC2 here. Get with the program, David Frost! SHEESH!

Buttman Begins.

Yikes... Don't think I could ever ace some of the sections...

He's not manly. Sometimes, he wears women's clothes.

I wanna be...that guy.

Perhaps the same could be said of ALL religions... Wait, what were we discussing?

My point =/= your point (I meant it as a mockery of 'machismo')

What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

Yes, we're all quite aware. It's simply a matter of personal preference.

Like staySICK was saying, I get the feeling they just won't have him 'bulk up' when using venom. Just makes him stronger and quicker at healing. Having the effect would just look silly.

I really like them. I discovered them via Pandora (when it was available over here) through listening to Hot Snakes, I think. Vocalist sounds a bit like the guy from Rocket From The Crypt (who was also in Hot Snakes) whereas it's got a pretty cool simple three-piece rock sound. I think I've heard them described as Elvis Costello meets Hot Snakes. Which I guess is kinda accurate. I might put some stuff up on YouTube because all I can find is live stuff.

Can't say I was ever really paying attention to the dialogue beyond thinking 'Oh, god, is that Jennifer Hale?'

I liked Futures. It was a bit more 'pop-rock' in certain ways but I think it had a good mix of tracks. They definitely have a real talent for writing quite succinct and powerful lyrics. The EP was good, but the album after that I felt was lacking in some ways; sounded just a tad too 'poppy' for most of it. Their latest took a while to grow on me. Again, it has some really good tracks and some not so great ones. But, yeah, definitely don't think they're going to capture that Clarity magic again. I meant to ask you, have you ever heard of Apollo Up!? (This reminded me because the guy in that played bass in AYWKUBTTOFTD for a bit)

I still think they put out some good stuff on each album, but they're definitely not going to match Clarity again. Apparently, they 'got away' with that album at the time due to a lot less studio-tinkering.

As well as trying to be 'realistic', I think it's partly a console-led thing. You don't have loads of keys on a controller so rather than keep making you switch them out in a menu, they limit it to a maximum of 4.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDFpcVMe75Q So catchy.

He actually looks a lot like Smooves' picture in Knightfall. Not huge like that cover...