Be Excellent To Each Other

He wasn't going to do it, but he spoke to a careers advisor who suggested he take the plunge and when it didn't work out, he caused a big splash elsewhere. It's not many actors who manage two turns before hitting the rock bottom but that's what happened with Expendables 3 and (BANG! - Enough! Grim...)

Yeah, not being a brilliant diver worked out quite well for him in the end.

I really want to see 'the Book of Mormon'.

You're an absolute amateur for not having those in the first place. Next you'll be telling me you don't have a serial number column either!

Myp wanks a lot.

This doesn't merit a whole thread so: I started playing Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs a few days ago and holy shit is it ugly. I mean it's all low-res textures and whatnot as well, but that's not what I mean. It seems to have this weird 'wash' over the whole thing which makes stuff difficult to look at in a really weird way. It's not just that it's dark, because I've tried turning the gamma slider up pretty high and all that does it make everything go a weird colour, while being a bit brighter of course, but it's still really hard to look at for any length of time. The entire time I'm playing it I feel like someone's managed to rub a layer of vaseline on my eyeballs without me noticing. It's so bad I began wondering if my monitor was actually fucked, although it looks fine on the desktop and other games I've played recently. It's almost exactly like the effect you get when you look at a flat screen TV from too wide an angle; bits of the picture drop out and others lose their contrast.

The game itself hasn't been very interesting thus far, although that's probably due to my immersion being utterly fucked by the hideous visuals, and I'm getting a bit annoyed by the 'puzzles' (i.e. go right up to every object in every room and see if a hand icon appears which means you can do something, otherwise you'll miss something and spend ages circling around the same area wondering what the fuck's going on) but I want to play through it. I'm curious whether anyone else has played it and whether you experienced anything like what I'm talking about? Or whether I really should start investigating monitor/driver issues. I'm half-tempted to hook the PC up the TV in the living room just to see what it looks like there.

How a master assassin rolls in Dishonoured.



Damn that game was groovy.

I sez.

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Weirdly I noticed a weird hazy blue/brown hue to everything but I imagine I must have thought it was part of the style (I imagine). I do remember having some issues though.

Mind you, I didn't miss any puzzle pieces. I thought it was fairly linear and reasonably choreographed so you knew when you had to poke or pull something.

I refused to buy it as I couldn't get the first Amnesia working because it used OpenGL. What is this, 1995?

But only if it were.

Yeah, that's the kind of thing I'm talking about and I imagine it has been done on purpose but, perhaps in combination with my admittedly crap monitor, it's making the entire thing near impossible to put up with. This is totally going to end up with me buying a new monitor, which I was going to do about a year back and didn't go through with. The reasons why I wanted to, and why I didn't bother, are lost to me though.



It's probably just me being dim but I was wandering about the house right at the start and to progress you need to 'open' on a painting in the bathroom. I'd been in the bathroom and walked around it a good few times and saw nothing to make me think, "Ooh, I better go right up to that random object as it'll have a crucial secret behind it!" The same thing happened at another point when you have to shift a glass case containing a bear around or you can't progress. It's possibly another consequence of it looking all weird and shit for me though, that's hardly going to improve my ability to pick out important objects after all.

If I had a stuffed bear in a glass case it would be THE most important object in the room that wasn't me. To eBay!

OMG, the Jesus shot!

In videogame related news:

Borderlands is still super fun. more so now that I'm getting harder, stronger and faster. I'm playing as a soldier and have reached level 13. Tesco have a special offer to get Borderlands 1 and 2 for £18, so that's worth a look.

£11.71 from Amazon if you don't mind them second hand.

Everyone should play it! it's acebest!

Just come off the phone with a hosting provider that is providing hosting for one of our clients.

Said client has paid for hosting with these guys up until the end of the 31st July.

They've switched the site off at 12 noon and are refusing to turn it back on because, and I quote, "we won't be here at midnight to turn the website off when the hosting expires."

I am both disgusted and dumbfounded.

WTFF?

Inorite? I was hoping to do a HTTrack on the website to take a copy of it before it went down (said host provided me with FTP access to download the actual files, but refused to provide a DB dump) but now that plan is scuppered.

Like a big van that goes 'ner-ner, ner-ner' full of poorly people.

Recently been on in Blackpool. I was intrigued enough to watch some clips but wasn't impressed

Last day in my current job today, and starting the new one on Monday. The last two months have really dragged.

I would have thought it was right up your street.

I was given an antique piano yesterday that works fine but needs a bit of visual restoration. The idea is for it to be a feature in my new living room, and it might even make me learn how to play the piano.

Anyway, turns out it's an Eungblut & Eungblut piano, from London. Manufactured some time between 1880 and 1910, and there are an estimated 100 of them in the UK.

Next obvious question: how much is it worth?

And how did you get it to the first floor flat?

No idea how much it's worth.

And I had it put into my storage lock-up, no way in hell was I getting that up a flight of steps. Fortunately, when I move (hopefully within the next week or two) it'll sit nicely in my new living room.

I had delightful metal images of you and Zeppo engaged in a Right Said Fred montage. The Bernerd Cribbins Right Said Fred, you fithy creatures.

I used to play that song a lot when I was a nipper.

I was thinking Chuckle Brothers myself.

Mark Radcliffe covered it on a Children in Need album a few years back. It's awesome!

Beex is FORBIDDEN!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28605400

The Ugandan courts have annulled the anti-homosexuality law

Awesome! I've just got my phone back and all repaired from HTC and it seems that replacing the screen has involved replacing the entire front of the phone. This takes care of the dent in the speaker grill from my cat casually batting the thing off the kitchen worktop and ensures full resale value whenever I finally swap it out!

Fuck yeah. Keep away, Yahoo! scummers.

Alton Towers on Monday! Woooo!

Looked into booking into the hotel on the Sunday night, to save an early start. 200 fucking quid, without theme park entry! fuck that!

Does anyone else buy shoes/trainers online?

If so, recommend me some sites. I'm venturing into the unknown.

I've used these people in the past:
http://www.cloggs.co.uk/

Nike.com
Sports Direct

I actually prefer to try shoes on and can't be fussed with sending things back.

Facebook is down.

Sort it the fuck out, Zio.

FTFY

Right uphis Aveneu.
Q.

Has anyone used or know of a service called myfax.com?

I used myfax about 15 years ago I think. So long ago that the registration info isn't in my 10 year old Gmail account.

The mildly interesting life of Mr Trooper #152

Every since I had my tonsils out, I can no longer hold in a sneeze.

Stay tuned for another exciting episode next week.

Do you get an indication the sneeze is coming at least so you can turn your head away from the person you're speaking to?

Let's test it at the cottage. Do you feel lucky?

Was it alright though? Simple, straightforward, cheap etc?