CP3S

Wouldn't be surprised if you weren't kidding, most people think that. The fact is, I can't stand TV in the slightest. The surest way to drive me mad or the quickest way to torture me into betraying someone would be to set me in front of a TV. I am not kidding or exaggerating when I say I'd rather be water boarded. Far, far less cruel and unusual.

When my older sister first discovered I didn't even so much as own a TV (do now for the Xbox, but I didn't play games back then), she made it a point to give me the warning that people without a TVs are usually more than just a little weird. So it goes. In an attempt to seem slightly more normal, I once got my hands on a TV stand and put an aquarium on it then angled all my furniture at it. Ironically, years later I was given a PS2 so I bought a TV and placed it on an aquarium stand (because it was all I had handy, TV stand was long gone by then)... I just now realized how humorous that is.

Another thing about me people find weird, I own less than ten DVDs (and only one Blu-ray).

TK-949 said:

I'm really happy with the german translation and voices. Wheatly is dubbed by Tobias Meister, one of my favorite Voiceactors, who has done the voices of Brad Pitt, Jack Black, Robert Downey Junior, Kiefer Sutherland, Gary Sinise, as well as Darth Maul in Episode I and Yoda in Episodes II, III and Clone Wars (both series).

Wow, that is weird to think about the same voice actor doing all those voices... you really should play it in English one go through though, to me Stephen Merchant totally makes the character of Wheatly, it would be a shame to completely miss that.

xhonzi said:

CP3S said:

thejediknighthusezni said:

The greatest misconception about '1984' is that GO was warning us about what could happen. That is true, but only part of the truth.

Oh man, I just fell in love with you... a little.

 Alright...

Greenpenguino- care to join Gaffer and me on our date?

Wait, just now caught this...

Awww, I am making Xhonzi jealous by professing my love for all these new members. That is really sweet.

I don't watch broadcast television. And even though I am an American myself, I have a really hard time getting my head around American comedy so I rarely ever bother with it.

The fact that I haven't had cable or even an antenna hooked up to a TV for a good ten years now ought to explain a lot.

RedFive said:

Thursday night on NBC.  Community, The Office, Parks & Recreation, and 30 Rock.

I love the fact that I have only ever heard of one of those shows!

TheBoost said:

"The Music Man."

One of my all time favs. Made my wife watch it. She dug it to, so we can stay married.

When you say, "The Music Man" you better not be talking about a film starring Mathew Broderick... because then I am not sure if we could stay married.

I get made fun of because I like musicals... and The Music Man is one of my favorites. My Fair Lady is another really awesome musical (stems from my interest in linguistics and dialects, I think) that I haven't seen in a really long time... wonder if it is on netflix instant watch...

Bingowings said:

...should we survive the massive increase in solar flare activity.

So much doom and gloom from this one!

I am pretty sure he didn't say anything that anyone who has so much as looked at the game box wouldn't know.

Maybe I can make an extra account, use a 48 hour gold card and help you get the Professor Portal achievement with it. That ought to work.

Hahaha! Wow, that is funny. I am now going to change that phrase to "shooting a fish in a barrel" from now on, and use it to refer to something extremely difficult.

Hadn't realized that show had gotten so ridiculous.

With the excitement of Stephen Merchant in Portal 2, I've begun watching the Ricky Gervais show.

doubleofive said:

 

CP3S said:

Sounds good! In fact, that achievement is for beating just one set of the co-op missions, that would only take about thirty minutes. Free this evening if you are up for it.

Did you beat all of the coop yet?

 

No, but I've beaten the section you need for the Professor Portal achievement.

Hmm, I see what you mean, it does say "After you beat co-op..."

Sounds good! In fact, that achievement is for beating just one set of the co-op missions, that would only take about thirty minutes. Free this evening if you are up for it. Kind of sucks it is only a way way achievement and I can't help you get it as well.

As for the hugs one, that is funny we were just wondering how we'd get this one last night, since you are the only person on our friends list with the game, for some reason I totally forgot that your wife would count as well since she has her own account.

Leonardo said:

I just wish I could remember who I stole that quote from.

Ha! My sig worthy quote wasn't stolen! It was a product of my own technology paranoia.

xhonzi said:

doubleofive said:

Except for the last level [of Portal 1], [...] that part sucked and you don't really want to replay it.

What?  Whaaaaaaaaaaaaat?  WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!?!?

Actually, I agree with 005. As much as I loved the entire experience the first time through, on subsequent play thoughs I find myself being really bored during the early levels, loving the higher test chambers, then losing interest during the escape section. The story mode was extremely entertaining in Portal, but I found those extra levels in Still Alive to be perfect, despite no story or GlaDOS voice overs, and wished they would have kept coming. Portal with something like 100 or so test chambers progressively becoming more difficult and complicated (maybe even becoming hair pullingly difficult), and perhaps a level editor (like Halo's, for example) would be my perfect Portal game.

Well, so far my Portal 2 experience, other than a ten minute or so venture into the single player for curiosities sake) has been completely on the multiplayer side, which is all test chambers, save for tiny little snippets at the end of each section of test chambers. They are really fun, but I find myself wishing there was a way to bump up the challenge level. It feels like we are figuring them out and breezing our way through them way, way, way too fast. And having two brains on the case instead of just one makes it all that much easier to crack. I am hoping it will surprise us and prove to have a lot more content than I think it will, but I really don't think so. I've heard people say the co-op campaign is six hour long, but we've spent less than three and are already in the fourth set of test chambers, which I think is the final set.

The issues 005 mentioned has kind of been Valves thing these last few years. While their older things like Half-Life were long story driven campaigns, they seem to have fallen into the habit (starting way back with Counter-Strike, actually) of scoping out small developers with promising and original ideas, then buying them out, employing their developers, and allowing them to run with these ideas in ways they previously never would have been able to dream of. Which is actually really cool. This was the case with both Portal and Left 4 Dead, both of which are extremely original and unlike anything else on the market. The quality level is extremely high, and they are extremely pretty and well polished (didn't realize how true that was until playing games like Fallout: New Vegas and Assassin's Creed II, both massive games with tons of longevity, but extremely glitchy and clunky), but the experience ends up feeling short. It is worth it, because the experience of these games is so far beyond anything else on the market, but at the same time it is hard not to look back and feel like you've experienced this fantastic demo over and over and over again and are now ready to experience the real product... which doesn't exist.

I haven't played Portal 2 enough to say if that is the case with it or not.

xhonzi said:

TheBoost said:

In the OP, would the Doctor actually be KILLING Daleks? Or preventing them from ever existing?

It seems to me the morallity of those two actions, while perhaps similar, aren't the same thing.

Sort of the difference between not shooting a 5 year old kid and not getting your wife/girlfriend/mistress/neighbour preggers?

From what Bingo said, it is more like not shooting a five year old kid compared to not shooting his mother in the abdomen when she is only five weeks pregnant.

How much of a difference is that, really?

Leonardo said:

As I keep repeating to my vegetarian (or vegan) friends, vegetables are living beings too, they're just easier to catch.

Someone put this in your sig.

Haha! A bit late, but I do appreciate it Puggo! I had forgotten I had asked that question in this thread.

A few months ago I ended up jumping in the series with the first episode of the 2005 series. Took me a while to warm up to it, but I ended up really enjoying it. Just made it through the last David Tennant episode yesterday, a short while before I heard the news of Elizabeth Sladen's death. And yes, Blink was an absolutely brilliant episode! Watched the first Matt Smith episode last night, and just out of curiosity of what the other Doctors were liked, I took a break from the first Tennant season to watch The Five Doctors.

Kind of getting Who'd out by now... but since this thread was originally posted, I have been kind of interested in seeing Genesis of the Daleks sometime.

Well... I am glad we had this conversation...

Wow, someone's glass is down to the last sip!

It isn't that bad. May not be as good as some imaginary utopia you can envision in your head (non-sense bs like cold fusion and global veganism), but it is actually pretty awesome and amazing.

Personally, I still think the machines taking over is a bigger and more immediate threat than global warming.

xhonzi said:

That is truly tragic.  It makes me think it can't be the physical disk... that it must either be some bug you walked into the way you (and others) played the game (not that it's your fault- just that it's a software bug that doesn't affect everybody) or some hardware specific thing.  It really is bizarre. 

Did you get to the Glyphs yet?  That was one of my favourite parts of ACII.  I think you would like them.  Surely if you've been collecting everything else, you were collecting/solving glyphs?

Obviously it couldn't be the physical disk. Enough hits come up on google to confirm it is a common problem, even across platforms. Seems it has something to do with the auto-save.

Yes, I did really like the glyphs and the puzzles, usually pretty simple and stright forward, but still really enjoyed them. I had every single glyph, save for the ones in Venice, since I haven't been there yet... blah.

A: Turquoise and ultramarine.

Q: Isn't it sad when your neighbor talks to her dogs like they are people, using phrases like, "Oh, hang on guys, I need to run inside for a minute I'll be right back." as if that really means something to them?

I added some zeros at the beginning and end to disguise it a bit.

How awesome would it be if that was my real serial number?

I still can't believe Assassin's Creed II did that to me... I spent way more time playing that game over the last few days than I'd really care to admit, and now it is all gone. I even took the time to painstakingly collect every collectable I could as I went along. I had ever feather except for the ones in Venice, all the statues, and all but two seals... renovated every building, built one of each kind of shop as was working toward upgrading them... healthy amount of art purchases... *sob*

Primer!

1. On one level it is the story of a bunch of guys accidentally inventing a time machine and going back in time and doing stuff.

2. On another level it is the story of a bunch of guys accidentally inventing a time machine and going back and... I don't even know, man. I DON'T EVEN KNOW!