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Dimrill's patience.

I like the feeling that they're wanking off next to me.

The ones of gaming that both Valve and their sycophants like Gillen are convinced that they're pushing.

I thought L4D and TF2 were both even more extreme cases of 'look how clever we're being, ooh, hehehe, we're fucking geniuses'.

Really? TF2 is basic, but works. L4D is clever, but I'm not convinced it trumpets that fact.

Keep in mind Meaty only played a little TF2 and has never played L4D.

Technology. Not just the physics engine, but everything it runs on. Remember, the other games all use the Source engine, and without the amount of time and money they pump into making Tech Demo 3 Half Life 3 etc, those games wouldn't benefit from it.

You've never played a match where both sides are deadlocked with three turrets in the intelligence room, then.

I've still not played anything off Orange Box except Portal and TF2.

No. I've played a good 100 matches where they aren't, though.

I love TF2, even if the server list system is infuriatingly orderless and can't be filtered. I love L4D as well, and believe that it is fairly innovative, but not really pushing boundaries. It is great though. I also don't think Valve are immodest, it's just that the press tend to slather over them too much.

I have never played a dead-locked match in TF2 - maybe I'm lucky.

Haven't played HL2 since release, though I am replaying Episode 2.

The press go on about them largely because Valve's marketing is second to none, and I don't just mean within their industry. They're one of extreeemely few companies whose marketing people might not be immediately skewered on big rusty spears were I to get round to taking over the world.

My nan sent me some lovely orchids today.

This thread requires more kalmar.

Where's everyone gone?

Oh, I remember.

I just got my first payslip since my paycut, it was bigger than I had been expecting. My wages were bigger I mean, not the paycut

Is that because you can't do maths?

No, it's because of tax and wotnot. Was a 20% paycut, but my take-home pay after tax and NI seems to have only gone down by about 16%, which perhaps should have occurred to me before but SHUT UP.

ouch 20% that is grim

Fuck you, buddy.

not you. You big cuddly beast.

That's almost as cute as Andy Bear.

Aww. Andy Bear x

Don't even think about thinking about it.

For what it's worth, I turn up 20% less frequently too now. Wednesday is poker and xbox day

how come they cut it. They tried 5% at our place

It's not like I wrote something on it for the top 50 games ever, or anything...

Stop in on your way down then. You're more than welcome.

What are you talking about? I see no evidence.

I'M BORED! Why hasn't anyone bought Halo ODST yet? EH!?

I've got it! and so has Robajon... and some other people.

Then why aren't you all online to get a legendary campaggen going?!


It's the year 2009 and I'm STILL having to hop and jump up mountains in open-world games. What the fuck is wrong with games developers?! I'm pretty fucking sure that Sir Edmund Hilary didn't fucking jump up Everest.

You're so gay for Kovacs these days. Who isn't, mind.

It was £38.47 in Tesco, and can thusly can fuck right off.

I had to use a Tesco earlier. This distressing experience was made worse by a girl bounding up to me in a headset telling me that I should use the self service till not wait in the queue.

Listen love, I'm a fucking customer, it's not my job to take items and make them go "beep".

I did give it a go as it happens. I did think about accidentally not swiping some items but then remembered the video I made about EPOS fraud systems and decided against it (hundreds of miles away on a some god forsaken windswept industrial estate a video will be being recorded of you swiping which also knows what items you are swiping).

Really? it was only £35 in GAME.

They won't do anything if you make a mistake anyway. I managed to miss off some curtains when I last shopped at Ikea. I had my receipt checked by security on the way out, noticed the mistake, and had to pay for it. In supermarkets, the staff will happily override any errors without checking into it at all, so I doubt you'd ever get caught unless you were acting very suspiciously. I'm not condoning stealing, mind.

Yup. But then, Tesco are touchers.

What what???

Can someone remind me the name of utility you can use to resize animated Gifs?

I know it was mentioned but can't find it.

Finally I get to watch Question Time!

Dead cute girl did just that for me at Tesco the other day. Her passcode was "2222", which I'm not sure being that cute quite makes up for. I missed half the login code though, so couldn't quite get away with a free shop.

I'm sure this can only be £2.99 well spent...

Here's hoping some hateful child is given that instead of the proper game when he asks for 'Guitar Hero' for Christmas, and tantrums so hard his head bursts.

It says it is made by Activision - do you think it is? I mean, did you buy it at a reputable outlet, or a market stall, etc?

Well as reputable as Home Bargains is I guess. It's properly licensed with 10 tracks on it but on the back, as well as saying Activision, it says it's made by Basic Fun Inc. China, which inspires no end of confidence. I shall try it out now and report back

Going out as a friend of MrsA's and an ex colleague of mine is leaving for Munich. I think there'll be an ex girlfriend of mine also in attendance.

Looking forward to that one, then.

I think I've gone blind.

Right, we need it to have 20 different songs, and...

Sorry sir, we can't do that. The best we can give you is ten. Otherwise you'll need to approach our sister company, Advanced Fun Inc.

They've captured the spirit of the GH games - you can't play the 10th track, 'Jessica' until you've played the previous 9. Well I say track, they're about 30 seconds long.

Oh and you have to play it on the hardest skill level for the notes to bear any relation to what you're listening to.

Also, the instructions don't explain how to play the long notes properly.

Other than that... well worth £2.99 if you want to create a sizeable bulge in your trousers.

Bike behind us just lost its back end and lowsided into a curb. Biker is okay, bike isn't too bad: bit of fairing damage, busted radiator, broken clutch lever etc.

Rach has managed to burn her hand on the exhaust picking the bike up, the idiot. Didn't think to warn her.

Nasty stuff.