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I'm sure if that happened to anyone on this forum, everything would turn out fine.

Play Google Maps PacMan in the UK for European Extreme difficulty. Play in Times Square for baby novice difficulty.

Not that long really. School mode starts out tedious because your collecting level is so low, but it carries over for NG+ and you can soon get to a point where you've collected and constructed the class project as soon as it is given to you, especially if you invest in the "Tools" early as well to boost collection and reduce energy loss. Then it's just a matter of using free time to 1) Get everyone's back story and 2) Take everyone on trips till their affection is maxed so you can see their school mode ending. Takes a couple of hours or so in front of the TV if you are being maximum efficiency. You also get 200 or so coins per completed run through, so it can help you finish collecting items from the monomonomachine.

Platinum'ed Danganronpa Trigger Happy Havoc. Great game. Highly recommended for Vita owners (especially if you are after a bit of Phoenix Wright on your handheld). Going to go back and Platinum the sequel now I think.

It's about as legible as an under 20's social media posts.

I think sales figures for Vita games are pretty hard to track as most of the bigger releases are cross buy with PS3 and/or PS4. It still gets regular decent titles coming out for it. Like Danganronpa, Persona, and most indie titles (Rogue Legacy by way of a recent example.

It's not dead. Don't be doing that flame bait crap.

Historically this was a requirement by console makers. On PC I'm pretty sure it's the fault of whatever licensed tech they're using requiring x seconds on-screen. Close, the Sony/MS splash is/was a platform holder requirement. They actually don't allow you to include other splashes unless they are a legal (age rating) or contractual (see below) requirement. All the others, Havok, Speedtree et al are down to individual licenses. Quite often you could get a healthy discount on the license for agreeing to show the logo (or depending on your point of view - you have to pay a premium to not include the splash screen). More recently, game publishers have been more keen to get people in the game asap so they are doing things like adding multiple logos to one screen or making them skippable.

On a similar note: https://twitter.com/Chronixal/status/578960486005354496

Sorry, I wasn't clear, I meant the whole MS business experience, OS, Office, Servers, everything MS will be subscription based (if it isn't already).

I'm almost sure we've already have this one, but searching is for losers. A Muslim, a black man and a communist walk into a bar, the barman says "What will it be Mr President?" The only sense I can make of it is like Two on the rocks = no drink specified, so just ice Bartender's enquiry sounds like he's asking if they're "too hot" But then the punchline should be "Yeah" This makes it sound like they've been complimented as hot but THAT ALSO MAKES NO SENSE. WHY DID YOU SHARE THIS WHO EVEN SAID THIS AAAAAAAGGGH Same here, my mind was on the "too hot?" compliment line. Maybe I need to hear the delivery to get it. Even then, I think it's just going to make me feel sad inside.

1. Enterprise software (office et al) is likely going to be a subscription deal (like Adobe is now). 2. Most OS sales are to OEMs and not end users. 3. Most sales of Office licenses are to businesses and not end users. Given the above, it makes sense for MS to give software away to people who might want it (end users) and sell it to people who need it (businesses). Plus, giving 10 away for free guarantees they'll get back most of their market share.

Yeah, technically, they could have given me notice I suppose, and not given me any work during my notice. But, as I said, they needed me more than I needed them, and being a law student, I'd have taken them to tribunal just to cost them money. It's certainly not a tactic I would suggest anyone ever use unless you are genuinely ok with losing the job.

Yeah, since I was on a zero hours contract, and wasn't in breach dropping me for that would have been an unfair dismissal case. Or at the very least an expensive tribunal.

Note that the 0 Hours element cuts both ways (you are not obliged to work more than 0 hours) so it does work for some people. At the time I was on one: 1. I was at uni, so I needed flexibility in case of exams, projects, etc. 2. I had a student loan, so wasn't wholly dependent on the 0 hours income. 3. I had at least one other job (see above). 4. They were understaffed so needed me more than I needed them. This meant that I could pick and choose what days and times I worked, of course this was about 12 years ago, it would be a bold (foolish) person who would today say to their 0 hours boss "I'm busy tomorrow and I'm on a zero hours contract. I'm not coming in and if you don't like it you can try to sack me." (which I did once and it felt GREAT!)

Two what = Too hot (?) No idea.

I was on a 0 hours contract while at Uni. It worked for me at the time. Glad to be out of it now of course.

Given that Ninty *still* does region locking I wouldn't put it past them.

Press X to Ramuh.

There's plenty of third party bluetooth controllers that could accommodate VC stuff.

Depends on who is making the games for phones. If Nintendo is making them, with DeNA handling publishing/distribution, it will cannibalise Nintendo's handheld market. If DeNA is making the games, then they will be mostly match 3 and endless runner spin offs.

You wound me!

For the gf's birthday.

Except of course that Hadrian's is about 3ft high dry-stone. Not miles and miles of ice.