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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Finish 52 Challenge 2023 |
| Mr Dave |
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Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2023 11:55
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Satsuma wrote: That’s right, I’m a master of all the game genres. Yes, even that one you’re thinking of now.
NSFW animal based visual novels? |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Finish 52 Challenge 2023 |
| Satsuma |
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Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2023 0:07
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| 1) Cuphead: Delicious Last Course DLC (Xbox) 2) A Plague’s Tale: Requiem (Xbox) 3) High on Life (Xbox) 4) The Forest (PS) 5) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade (PS) 6) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (PS) 7) Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Switch) 8 ) Axiom Verge 2 (PS) 9) Bayonetta 3 (Switc... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: The Movie topic |
| JBR |
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Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2022 15:28
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Replies: 21125
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| Black Adam. The story of Black Adam (pronounced to rhyme with "Tarmacadam", I believe). The testosterone in the script-writers' meetings must have been off the scale, and it starts off as it it's going to borrow from movie genres all over the place, while dropping plot liberally in. It's a... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: General Purpose US TV thread |
| JBR |
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Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2022 17:27
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Replies: 8686
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| The Afterparty; a murder at an afterparty that follows a school reunion. Start with that, then each episode is one character telling, unreliably, their story. I think it might end up as a brilliant idea - the unreliable narrator means they can introduce different genres as each person imagines thems... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Games of the Decade |
| DBSnappa |
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Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2020 15:32
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Replies: 39
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| As a big fan of 'cosy catastrophe' science-fiction the marrying of one of my favourite literary genres with the city builder format was pretty much a match made in heaven for me. I would hear some book recommendations, if you would be so kind. Also, going by your list, you may enjoy a game called T... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Games of the Decade |
| NervousPete |
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Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2020 15:02
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| 10: Frostpunk As a big fan of 'cosy catastrophe' science-fiction the marrying of one of my favourite literary genres with the city builder format was pretty much a match made in heaven for me. Crucially although a dark tale, Frostpunk is never entirely a bleak one, and the satisfaction of creating a... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Spotify - Free music streaming thingy |
| Mimi |
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Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 16:06
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Replies: 572
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| I know you all love the Spotify yearly round-up, but Ocado have jumped on that bandwagon. What genres of food did you buy? What snacks streamed into your mouth more than anyone else’s? Did you download tenderstem broccoli more times than anyone else in the West Midlands (you didn’t, because I did)? |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: What have you bought? |
| BikNorton |
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Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2020 17:05
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Replies: 3949
Views: 154079
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| If anyone's looking for a pair of wireless headphones and doesn't mind spending a few bob, I'll just give a shout out for these fellas, which are phenomenally good. (You don't have to take my word for it, they've won all the awards.) Sony WH-1000XM3 Amazon are currently knocking them out for £244 (... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: What have you bought? |
| Hearthly |
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Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2020 10:14
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Replies: 3949
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| If anyone's looking for a pair of wireless headphones and doesn't mind spending a few bob, I'll just give a shout out for these fellas, which are phenomenally good. (You don't have to take my word for it, they've won all the awards.) Sony WH-1000XM3 Amazon are currently knocking them out for £244 (r... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: DOOM |
| Hearthly |
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Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2018 14:15
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Replies: 673
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| Or you could, you know, not shit on a game you've not played in an entirely different genre and entirely different goals in the doom thread... up to you. It's possible to have an informed opinion about a game without having played it, and I'm hardly 'shitting' on it, it's one bracketed sentence in ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Nintendo Switch (formerly "NX") |
| Hearthly |
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Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2018 9:48
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Replies: 1781
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| I think Zelda is not very good because I enjoy playing bullet hell shooters and Zelda doesn’t have any bullet hell patterns to avoid. Ikaruga shits all over Zelda. It has a spaceship, actual music, lasers, lots of shooting, and there’s no downtime. Just endless blasting. Zelda hasn’t got any of tha... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Notable notes |
| devilman |
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Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2018 21:11
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Replies: 52
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| Anyway, my list has to be the spreadsheet of all my games. It lists the name, format, publisher, year of release, genre, date I bought it and how much I paid. There's other tabs that have fancy graphs breaking down how much I've spent each year and the most popular genres amongst other things. I ha... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Notable notes |
| TheVision |
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Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2018 20:47
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| That list of rechargeable batteries would have been useful. I've recently lost 4. I have a feeling they were in a toy that's ended up at the charity shop. Anyway, my list has to be the spreadsheet of all my games. It lists the name, format, publisher, year of release, genre, date I bought it and how... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: GPOYW thread |
| Findus Fop |
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 17:40
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Replies: 3040
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| Alien could be moved to another setting and still tell the same story. Name a sci-fi film that couldn't. Anything where future tech was a critical part of the story surely e.g. Minority Report, The Matrix, Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell. What he said. I think you could flip them all to a fantasy ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Arcade is dead |
| zaphod79 |
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Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2017 10:10
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| https://www.housemarque.com/arcade-is-dead/ Arcade is Dead End of an Era – Long Live Arcade, and Now For Something Completely Different Letter to the fans For more than 20 years we’ve been carrying the torch for arcade, bringing arcade coin-op inspired games to the market with a Housemarque twist, a... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: The Movie topic |
| MaliA |
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Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2017 11:11
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Replies: 21125
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| Sci-Fi *can* be a setting. But mostly is isn't. I'd go the other way around. It can be a genre, but mostly it isn't. Most sci-fi films can be characterised as drama in space/future, horror in space/future, war in space/future etc, police buddy movie in space/future etc. I'd say that it's a genre ju... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: The Movie topic |
| markg |
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Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2017 10:58
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Replies: 21125
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| Sci-Fi *can* be a setting. But mostly is isn't. I'd go the other way around. It can be a genre, but mostly it isn't. Most sci-fi films can be characterised as drama in space/future, horror in space/future, war in space/future etc, police buddy movie in space/future etc. I'd say that it's a genre ju... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Xbox Game Pass: Netflix, but for your Xbox games |
| Doctor Glyndwr |
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Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2017 15:10
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Replies: 35
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| https://majornelson.com/2017/02/28/introducing-xbox-game-pass-unlimited-access-to-more-than-100-games/ At Xbox... Today, we’re continuing our commitment to give you more options to diversify and expand your library of games with Xbox Game Pass, a new gaming subscription service coming later this spr... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: General Purpose US TV thread |
| Mimi |
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Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 16:00
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Replies: 8686
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| I remember once listening to a group of three women discussing the books after they'd all read what I think was the third in the series. They each declared that they were actually in love with the character, and how he made them feel all giddy, and how well written it was (even though there was a pr... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Celebrity Deathlist 2016 |
| Cavey |
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Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2016 14:17
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Replies: 1105
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| Following Lemmy, very sorry to hear of Bowie's passing as well - we're losing all the original thinkers and greats, difficult to see how they're going to be replaced. RIP sir; Life On Mars: what an absolutely seminal track, still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end even after all the... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: PCVR |
| Doctor Glyndwr |
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Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 17:33
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Replies: 1104
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| They weren't a new concept at all, they just became more popular from the PS1 era onwards. I know, I had analogue flight sticks on PCs for many years before the N64 (1996) put them on consoles. But only a small number of games in specific genres used them until the N64, then they soon became the de... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: PS4 confirmed |
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Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 13:59
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Replies: 2597
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| Firmware 3.0 due out tomorrow - list of new stuff http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2015/09/29/everything-you-need-to-know-about-ps4-system-software-3-00-out-tomorrow/?emcid=social_20150929_53189216&adbid=648815297990778880&adbpl=tw&adbpr=36969785 Everything you need to know about PS4 syste... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: PC gaming hardware thread. |
| MaysLanding |
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Posted: Tue May 05, 2015 17:56
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| Yay, so I'm breaking my duck for this year and this is the first review (with data) that I've done in an absolute age. Today's review concentrates on the Intel Pentium G3258, also known as the 20th Anniversary CPU. I have built a completely mismatched PC using parts I had lying around for months. Th... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: The Movie topic |
| MrChris |
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Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2015 11:27
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| This is actually fucking mental. There isn't some equation which you can apply to reliably define genres and then categorise films into them. Sci-fi is a genre because it's a genre, you can go on Netflix and there is a section for sci-fi or browse Amazon for a book etc. etc. There isn't one for &qu... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: The Movie topic |
| markg |
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Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2015 10:44
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| Sci fi is a setting, not a genre. I believe you're quoting someone there. A genius, perchance. Indeed! It was me wasnt it? Sci fi is a setting. End of. I think you're confusing "science fiction" with "futuristic setting". I don't think of Star Wars or Firefly as science fiction.... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: The Walking Dead |
| Hearthly |
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Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2015 17:02
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Replies: 1658
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| Piffle! What the fuck are the zombies running on this far into the outbreak? How are they 'surviving' freezing winters and blazing hot summers? What is their fuel? This does not make sense and has never been explained. Who gives a fuck? It's also not been explained how they're coming back from the ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
| Hearthly |
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Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2014 16:51
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Replies: 30627
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| CAR GET! IPOD GET! Car is fab, exactly what I was hoping for, a really tight point-and-squirt hot hatch BUT perfectly tame and easy to get along with as a family car. Keep it under 4000rpm and nothing much really happens, did 60 miles on family duties today and it was a very easy car to get along wi... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Gaming Trivial Pursuit |
| DBSnappa |
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 0:24
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Replies: 49
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| I do think you need a seasoning of obscure/esoteric questions, but that's all. If it's all "What was the Poke command for unlimited lives in Manic Miner" then you're going to lose the interest of most of the people playing. Assuming that all of the players are gamers, then test their muscl... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Next gen not very next gen |
| Mr Dom |
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Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 17:04
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Replies: 207
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| I hate to say it, but most last-gen games didn't do 60fps either - smoke & mirrors, my friend... I know that, which is why I'm not keen to move on with consoles. Burnout Paradise ran beautifully, though, so it was clearly possible, when the developers went for it. At the end of the day, go by w... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: PS4 confirmed |
| Bamba |
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Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 16:18
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| I'm talking about average in the mathematical sense. So a cross-section of all types of games on average, demos harm sales. So for devs, it makes little sense to make them. By 'types of games' I presume you mean different genres which is fair enough, but 'average' is still meaningless in this conte... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: PS4 confirmed |
| myp |
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Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2014 14:53
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| Yeah I wasn't really expecting a whole set of exciting new gaming genres to have been invented for it. And to me everything does look miles better, going back to the PS3 was actually quite jarring, makes the new consoles feel long overdue. That's odd, because I swap between PS3 (720p), Vita (960x54... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Games of the Generation |
| Dr Lave |
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Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 13:26
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| Off the top of my head Modern Warfare Left 4 Dead Portal 2 Mass Effect 2 Assassins Creed 2 Oblivion The Last of Us Fallout 3 I'll need to have a think. My problem with a list like this one (for example, not picking on ya - sorry), is that bar Portal and TLoU (maybe?) the are all games that have and... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Top Gear |
| Cavey |
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Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 14:26
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Replies: 663
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| Have you seen the reviews coming in for the GT3? Everybody seems to love it. I have mate, and broadly that's true - but I'm reading between the lines of some of the reviews I'm more inclined to trust, most notably from Car and Evo. They all seem to talk about "positive" steering in spite ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Bits & Bobs 40 |
| MrChris |
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Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 22:22
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| Take That are awesome. I have seen them live three times. You also enjoy Xfactor, so your opinion on, well, pretty much anything is worth precisely zip. You're the guy they call when they want to find out what the lowest common denominator thinks. No, I just have fantastic taste in music, across al... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Bits & Bobs 40 |
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Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 22:19
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Replies: 2971
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| Take That are awesome. I have seen them live three times. You also enjoy Xfactor, so your opinion on, well, pretty much anything is worth precisely zip. You're the guy they call when they want to find out what the lowest common denominator thinks. No, I just have fantastic taste in music, across al... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Bits & Bobs 40 |
| MrChris |
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Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 22:16
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Replies: 2971
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| Take That are awesome. I have seen them live three times. You also enjoy Xfactor, so your opinion on, well, pretty much anything is worth precisely zip. You're the guy they call when they want to find out what the lowest common denominator thinks. No, I just have fantastic taste in music, across al... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Bits & Bobs 40 |
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Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 22:12
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| Take That are awesome. I have seen them live three times. You also enjoy Xfactor, so your opinion on, well, pretty much anything is worth precisely zip. You're the guy they call when they want to find out what the lowest common denominator thinks. No, I just have fantastic taste in music, across al... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Next Generation (TM) - speculation, hype and whinging thread |
| markg |
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Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 9:35
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Replies: 1134
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| You cite Modern Warfare as an example of something that is perfectly fine - sure - but that's because it's running on an ancient engine that has seen only incremental improvement over the last six years. It runs at 60 FPS, sure, but at the cost of looking pretty ugly and rendering at a sub 720p res... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: 2011: Best year ever for games? |
| Doctor Glyndwr |
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Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 18:04
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WTB wrote: Surely there are only so many genres, niches and gameplay tropes that can be thought up. Quite. Almost every plotline about greed driving someone to do something unsavoury for gain before ultimately getting caught out is basically just Macbeth, after all. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: 2011: Best year ever for games? |
| WTB |
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Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 18:01
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| I don't understand why "more of the same" is so frowned upon in video games, but is let off in film, TV and other mediums. Sure, I'm all for innovation and something genuinely new every now and then, but it's unrealistic to expect the majority of games to be anything other than the refinem... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: C64 Gaming Challenge |
| zaphod79 |
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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 14:36
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| Okay following on from all the C64 love in this thread here : http://www.beexcellenttoeachother.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7444 I'll pull together a set of C64 games and emulators to run a "C64 Gaming Challenge" The suggested games so far : Action Biker B.C. II: Grog's Revenge B... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Quake/Doom/Duke3d |
| Hearthly |
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Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 18:40
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Replies: 86
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WTB wrote: Deus Ex is fantastic and one of my favourite games of all time as well. But, it's an RPG!
An FPS RPG 
Certainly I didn't feel I'd 'crossed genres', despite having never had an interest in RPGs before. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: The pointless emulation thread - fruit machines |
| Hearthly |
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 12:34
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| Whilst very broadly correct, that's a very risky assumption though, as we both know to our cost mate, and I'd never recommend anyone works on this basis, chasing their losses in the belief that the pre-determined code 'compensator' will come to their rescue. It's a complex area and certainly not so... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Beex CD Swap |
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Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 17:05
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Hurrah! Finally sent mine (well asked the post monkey to send them, anyway)
Would ask that any receipients listen all the way through, as i've just realised i put some odd ones near the start, but did try and mix up the genres a bit. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: DVDs and alphabeticalness |
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Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 12:43
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| I sort them by director and chronological order, or by genre and alphabetical order. You have two ways of sorting them? Also - what genres do you use? Gaywood was unhappy with my genres because I had 'action' and 'triller / drama' sections. If I have a number of films by one director, I lump them a... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: The iPhone thread |
| Curiosity |
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 15:42
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Replies: 5818
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| I've enjoyed my playthrough of it (year 18 now) and while I've enjoyed it, it's become a bit repetitive. Training staff I find is really, really tedious, and it seems more cost effective to use the best outside writer/artist/sound engineer you can get instead of laboriously levelling one of your in... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: The iPhone thread |
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 0:06
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| I've enjoyed my playthrough of it (year 18 now) and while I've enjoyed it, it's become a bit repetitive. Training staff I find is really, really tedious, and it seems more cost effective to use the best outside writer/artist/sound engineer you can get instead of laboriously levelling one of your int... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Scott Pilgrim - Film Review |
| NervousPete |
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Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 23:30
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Replies: 146
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| The worst thing about Scott Pilgrim is the sheer depth of the pit of guilt that would swallow me whole if I even tried to reveal any of the utterly wonderful jokes and conceits played out in the movie. Remember that bit from Spaced with the argument between Tim and Daisy in the guise of a Tekken fig... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: The death of ITV |
| Warhead |
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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 0:48
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| ........... Yep, ITV used to be capable of churning out high quality stuff across all genres. Just look at the range of output from Thames for example: http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/itvlondon/thames-progsmenu.html Some good stuff there - I still watch repeats of Minder and The Sweeney. Even though they... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: The death of ITV |
| chinnyhill10 |
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Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 14:53
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| When was the last "must watch" programme on ITV? Probably the Bill Bryson series about 10 fucking years ago. That was good, yes. I don't think I've personally even watched anything on ITV in my recent past. Just the ITV branding is enough to dissuade me from looking at the channel listing... |
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