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I would honestly lol if Sazh was the Black Mage in XIII-2.

Indeed, but they will still wear out. It's not like this is an everlasting tyre so cost per unit, durability and weight are critical for mainstream use.

I'm guessing that foam filled tyres don't deform properly, but I have no science to back that up. Solid rubber tyres would be too heavy, if these weigh around the same as a road tyre they would be far safer. You'd still have to change them regularly as the tread would wear out and you'd end up with no grip and green spokes flailing about, but they should fail more gracefully than air-filled tyres.

I am Legend the book? Cos that Will Smith film got it very wrong. Of course. ... What do you take me for?! Just checking. I know we're generally a well read bunch, but it's always safer to be sure.

A lot of you probably pronounce "Lieutenant" wrong.

Pretty much agree with this. I don't really mind which imaginary friend helps you out when you're feeling low, but to suggest that being more religious will make us somehow better people is utter tosh.

wrt the bridgestone tyres. Would like to know how much they weigh. Also, I don't care how pretty they think the spokes look, just stick a sidewall on the bloody things if that's what needs doing. The mass market won't give a crap about the silly green spokes, they just want low maintenance, safe tyres.

What's with all the hate for Chocobo music? Don't get me wrong, that metal remix was useless, but I like the Chocobo hook.

Maybe you are the same person, but just didn't know it till now?

I am Legend the book? Cos that Will Smith film got it very wrong.

There's always Hitman for your stealth action. Or Assassin's Creed if you prefer hiding in plain sight. I'm pretty excited for Rising. It's a spin off so I don't mind that it's a different genre. I enjoyed Dirge of Cerberus and that's about as far from an FF title as you can get.

A bear there was, A bear, A BEAR! All black and brown, And covered with hair!

Sort of Infamous 2 spoiler.... Not sure if I need to spoiler it or not... but I hate getting bleated at for this stuff, so there ya go. EDIT: Also, mushroom zombies made me think "Firewalker".

I got it. I just wasn't sure exactly what you were asking. It also was not your best work. @Ethan I expected that to be the case. Though it has happened in the UK recently.

And I totally agree (and was pretty unequivocal about my opinion earlier) that this carpet bomb emailing is a deplorable practice. However there's an old saying that goes: If someone does something that is perceived as unjust, you doing something else that is generally regarded as bad behaviour neither repairs their wrongdoing nor absolves you of your own misdeeds.

Do you mean are they allowed to change parties?

Exactly. I can get behind pirating a game for demoing purposes, but playing the game, deciding to buy it and then changing your mind after a scare-tactic? People are supposed to believe your self-righteous reasons after that? You're implying that he's fibbing to get games for free. While I do not like it when someone decides to play through a game to completion and then not pay the creator, Johnny's hardly the kind of person that would lie to make his actions appear to be justified. He may do something that I don't like, but he's not going to be dishonest about it. Not accusing Johnny of dishonesty (beyond dishonestly acquiring a copy of the game of course...). It's you who is inferring that. I'm just that his argument that it is a stand against tyranny appears somewhat undermined by the fact that he benefits from his protest. Going for a somewhat clumsy analogy, if you turn up to an anti-fur protest wearing a mink coat you aren't going to get away with telling people that it is ok cos it's freezing out and you stole it from the local mink coat shop because you hate how evil they are... It's also a bit odd to get up in arms about a company who made a game that you pirated sending out letters to people who they suspect of pirating the game. I mean you can't exactly say that they are way off the mark in thinking that some people may have pirated the game can you?

True enough. Though I did find it a little more intuitive than the DS3.

I suppose it is a somewhat different take given that we are post outbreak and into the last survivors bit of the zom-pocalypse. Maybe that will give it a fresher feel? Dead Rising 2 is in a similar post Zombie state, but they have the Zombies under control to an extent. I'm still waiting for someone to do a Zombie game with an I am Legend twist. Where you start off defending humanity against the infected hordes and end up (Spoilered in case someone has not read the I am Legend and wants to without it being spoiled. Even if it is totally in Rosebud / Aeris territory by now.)

Resident Evil 5 is Move compatible and a great fit (Resi 4 Wii being the daddy of that one). Heavy Rain is super with it too. I've not tried Resistance 3 yet, but I intend to have a go with Infamous this week.

@Johnny: The reason people are taking issue with you is because you say that you disagree with the practices that the company engage in, but you still use their products. If you're going to make a moral stand against a company's practices then you ought to carry that through and boycott their products altogether. Personally, I simply do not get this concept that you have a right (or as it seems sometimes a duty) to consume everything that every developer puts out there. Would it have been so difficult to say "These guys suck, they and their products can all go to hell."? It would make your argument seem more like righteous indignation and less like jumping on the first flimsy reason you find to get an already reasonably priced title for free.

Jesus.. Is Alton Brown related to Emmett L?

Combine one of these... http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/hasselback-potato-slicer/ With one of these... http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001CDLL7K/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_3?pf_rd_p=103612307&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B000TAPCEA&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=1JQXPG3VYN5XY8MGCCD2 And I will make Hasselhoff potatoes all day long.

Really? The general rule in the UK is that the loser pays.

Forget that. There is more to life than cutting almost all the way through a potato. Unless there is a "hasselbacker" machine, these things can piss off to the same place as cutting radishes to look like flowers.