Thursday Next

I have blood vials coming out of my ears. To the point where I filled the storage chest as well as my inventory. Quicksilver bullets however. Those are a pain to farm. Giving me 20 of them every time I wake would be much appreciated.

Cheers Hotty! Arkham and Uncharted for me.

Done. Also, didn't realise that it was that "stream of conciousness" arse clown Tim Rogers. Still a good article.

This article makes the Castlevania comparison really well.

You often find that a term gets picked up by a couple of people and then explodes. One annoying recent one for me was (for obvious reasons): Netcode. As in "Fix the netcode DICE." By which people often meant, "I have latency issues when playing against West Coast Americans from the UK, please fix the laws of physics."

Yeah, there is a fair bit of that to it. Obvioulsy you don't get new ways of traversing, But there is that feeling of unlocking new areas and connecting them to old ones with shortcuts.

Feel like I have finally settled into the groove of this game. The biggest leap I find is swapping your concept of "progress". Progress used to mean going from a to b to c while your level goes from 1 to 2 to 3. Now progress is going from a to b to c to d so that you unlock a way to get from a to d skipping b and c entirely and then levelling up or repeating the cycle from a to d to e to f until you unlock the a to f shortcut. It's quite jarring at first because it sometimes feels like I've made no progress till I look back and realise that I'm skipping whole swathes that used to take 10-15 minutes to traverse and am wailing in on fights that would previously have been heart thumping, titanic struggles.

Ah, I thought Ivan worked for Stark, didn't realise it was his dad, and the extremis guy was a fired researcher of his. Oh well, the explosions and stuff were pretty.

Mostly current or former employees iirc.

That annoyed me too. It was probably the only "fresh" idea in the film, and they shot their bolt straight away.

That is the real issue. I only said the above to be like "I don't blame Lego that much for not having the domain already registered" Yeah, that's really the only unsavoury point for me. Mitigated somewhat by that fact that it pointed to stuff related to Lego Dimensions. If it had pointed to Polygon's front page, or an unrelated Mcwhertor article, I'd be less inclined to give him a pass. Very true, although in Lego's case, they hadn't even technically announced Dimensions yet and, if they wanted to keep it secret, buying the domain 'legodimensions.com' wouldn't exactly have been subtle. Still, McWhertor pls You can anonymously register a domain so that a WhoIs won't show the actual owner. Then for all the outside world knew it could have been John Legodo setting up a website for his mains electrical installation services. But then fountain-of-knowledge TN shows that even that argument wasn't well-founded. Yeah, sucks to be Lego – sucks even harder to be ethically-problematic McWhertor It'd still show up as a registration of "legodimensions.com" though, and concatenated like that it would almost certainly be read as a Lego thing, though I suppose it could be a wiki detailing the size and shape of every lego block. In an ideal world Mcwhertor would have gone all the way through to "Buy It Now" then sent Lego an email saying that the url wasn't purchased and waited to see how long it took for the domain to be snapped up. Such is life. I'd chalk this up to a no harm, no foul.

Given that Sony aren't crowing about the numbers. I'm guessing somewhere around not great and pants.

Yeah, that's really the only unsavoury point for me. Mitigated somewhat by that fact that it pointed to stuff related to Lego Dimensions. If it had pointed to Polygon's front page, or an unrelated Mcwhertor article, I'd be less inclined to give him a pass. Very true, although in Lego's case, they hadn't even technically announced Dimensions yet and, if they wanted to keep it secret, buying the domain 'legodimensions.com' wouldn't exactly have been subtle. Still, McWhertor pls You can anonymously register a domain so that a WhoIs won't show the actual owner. Then for all the outside world knew it could have been John Legodo setting up a website for his mains electrical installation services.

I get the point, Uncharted Trilogy is a jewel in the crown of the PS Now service, and for the many people who made the perilous journey from Xbox 360 to PS4 ownership it would be their first (and only) opportunity to play the series, making it a killer app for PS Now. By offering the games on disc, there is a risk of undermining the current value of PS Now, and indeed of the entire concept: If all classics are going to get a remaster, then what is the point of a subscription service that offers you access to unremastered classics?

In Mcwhertor's defence, he claims he didn't have any info that wasn't publicly available, and had only gone through with the domain purchase to see if there was a hold on it from someone else (e.g. Lego or WB Games). He directed the traffic to (admittedly Polygon) pages that were related to the game and as soon as he was contacted he handed the domain over. If anything, Lego and WB Games need to get their shit together. Other companies start registering domain names as soon as a name is decided on. It costs eff all and stops people squatting on the domain and doing all sorts of nefarious stuff. In short, Mcwhertor was perhaps a little bit cheeky in going all the way through with the purchase, but I think it can be attributed to being a bit overzealous in his attempts to "investigate". Lego and WB Games dropped the ball by not registering the domain ages ago. Lego and WB Games should be thanking their lucky stars that a good guy got the domain and not a baddy. Sony need to watch out for this too, their TM registrations have been woefully slack of late.

Treating isn't about buying politicians with big sums of money. It's about incentivising people to vote for you by giving them stuff. It doesn't matter how small the incentive is, the point is that elections should be voted on based on the policies of the party / candidate, not on a free lunch. Of course this will be spun as picking on the little guy and all that jazz, but the rule is you can't buy votes, it doesn't matter what price the vote is bought for. It's a matter of principle, not of scale. Finally, it's being investigated. Because if you break a law (even as a matter of technicality), and it is reported to the police, they technically have to investigate it, then make a decision, along with the CPS based on amount of evidence, likelihood of conviction and public policy whether or not to follow through with it. In all likelihood, there will be no charges because it is de minimis and there was no corrupt intent.

I'm pretty sure the "Treating" element here comes in the form of playing a game or two of pool with Jimmy White (under the entertainment category) rather than a sausage roll or two. "A person is guilty of treating if... they directly or indirectly give or provide any food, drink, entertainment or provision to corruptly influence any voter to vote or refrain from voting."

Do you mean "what is the point of the remaster when I can play the originals on PS Now?"?

There are four of them.

I'd be more inclined to vote for Labour if David was in charge. I'm not putting Ed bloody Miliband around a table with Merkel and Putin. He'd get eaten alive.

Our left and right are a *lot* closer to the middle than your left and right. Even so, I think that is what irked a lot of people.

I've been all over the thrice cursed sewers and have not seen an NPC. I've also got no idea where the hell I'm supposed to go next. Every door I open is just a new way to visit somewhere I've already been. Which sounds wonderfully philosophical, but doesn't help me progress in the game...