Thursday Next

This just in: Thursday Next is secretly a teenage girl! That's exactly the result I got in my copy of Bliss! How odd.

Sounds like a novel way of dealing with a nuisance. I'd like to see this rule applied to all the wankers on public transport who think I'd like to hear the shitty hip hop crackling out of the pathetic tinny speaker on their knobby iPhone.

Hey, I like FFXIII, I'm on my second playthrough and really enjoying it (now that I'm back on Pulse).

It's just a bit of fun isn't it? I certainly didn't sit there for half an hour pondering each answer, I just went with what sounded most like me on the first reading. Same as I do with those "Which [noun] are you?" tests in celeb magazines and such. I'm certainly not about to start looking at my never ending quest for power in a new light having done this test any more than I'd head to the make-up counter of Boots if my "Which comic book villain are you?" test came back with the answer "The Joker".

Completely disagree with you Dean. If a book is written in Chinese, or braille and is read out to you in English, does that make it not art? Does the requirement for an interpretive medium prevent it being art? Code is a language that most of us don't understand, so we use machines to interpret the code into a form we do understand. If we learned computer code as we did our native language then we would be like Cypher. "All I see now is Blonde, Brunette, Redhead..."

Milk!? Philistine.

ITT "Hugh Jackman is attractive to women" awareness group.

You get a sense of achievement. I did get them all and was thoroughly unimpressed.

Would you like to earn 1000xp for making a cup of tea?

I'm pretty pumped for first class. I often enjoy the "origin" parts of superhero films more than the shenanigans of established supers. This film will hinge on the development of the relationship between Charles and Eric.If they click on screen then the film will be great, if they're flat or there is no chemistry it will be another bland super hero film that takes itself too seriously.

We do have income taxes and National insurance. Everyone in the UK under the age of 65 has an £7,475 "Personal Allowance" (that is, if you earn up to that much it is free from income tax). Earnings between £7,475 and £35,000 are charged at 20% Earnings between £35,000 and £150,000 are charged at 40% Earnings over £150,000 are charged at 50%. There's also different rates for earnings from savings and dividends which I can go into further if you'd like... National Insurance directly funds things like your State Pension as well as... the additional State Pension, sometimes called the State Second Pension Jobseeker's Allowance - the 'contribution-based' element Employment and Support Allowance - the 'contribution-based' element Maternity Allowance bereavement benefits - Bereavement Allowance, Bereavement Payment and Widowed Parent's Allowance Incapacity Benefit Earnings between £139/wk and £817/wk, are charged at 12% Earnings above £817/wk, are charged at 2%. So, for the basic rate of tax payer you're looking at giving 1/4 to 1/3 of your wages to the tax man in order to fund all the free education and prescriptions to the jobless layabouts in Scotland. Lovely.

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Oh, didn't see that bit. Nah, story is full of crap to the best of my knowledge. I wouldn't be surprised if we have a prototype of something somewhere, but certainly nothing that you could call a "Nextbox". It's not showing on any of my sku plans whereas another rumoured but as yet unconfirmed console is.

Must be our shiny new devkits then. MS aren't doing "Dev kits" and "Test kits" any more, they're just doing a "Dev/Test kit" which is cheaper than the existing test kit (which itself was the cheaper of the two).

There are new cheaper dev/test kits. Not sure if that's what these are...

@Ethan: Never had a problem with the sticks. They could be improved by making them (and the triggers) concave, but otherwise they don't cause me any problems. The alternative controller is great. Thanks. Also, I can't stick shmups either. They just don't appeal no matter how many improbably large chested loli-mecha-spaceship-hostesses are in them.

I miss online gaming. I'd just picked up Killzone 3 as well and was looking forward to a change from BFBC2.

Typical filler episode. Decent enough, didn't set my world on fire. Next one should be more arc-y.

You do make sure to comment on the article once you've read the headline though right? I mean you have to read the headline and then comment a strong opinion for or against. It's just not Kotaku otherwise.

Oh man, I would LOVE Scotland to try and fund all their free university education and free prescriptions without London taxes bolstering their economy. There's only so much Irn-Bru you can export.

I got KZ3 the other day. Also my sister kindly got me the sharpshooter for my birthday. It's way more fun than playing with analogue sticks.

They're pretty much doing whatever they can to fix it. I know a couple of people have expressed a degree of reticence over returning to PSN, but I have no such qualms. People will bitch eternally though, Sony could offer to refund any fraudulent transactions for the rest of time and people would still bitch about it.

Wonder if we're gonna have some sort of "Go somewhere as Ezio, hit a dead end, go back as Altair to find the way through, go back to Ezio to progress" mechanic? I mean, I don't think you'll be able to change history, so not changing the landscape per se, more finding a hidden switch that has become obscured over the passage of time.

I also voted "Yes".