greenpenguino

CP3S said:

Bingowings said:

I've never actually had a taco... ever.

Do they even have tacos in Scotland? Anywhere? Mexican restaurants seemed extremely rare when I was in the UK (though I did find one in England, and the food was really weird).

I had Tacos the other day, but I don't think we have a Taco Bell or similar Taco chain here in the UK. We should though, I lllllllllloooove me some Tacos.

I quite like it. True, it's very dialogue heavy, but the dialogue isn't bad (I've certainly read worse.) For some reason, the way Dr. Caldwell was written I kept reading him in Stephen Fry's voice. :/

There's nothing really wrong with writing fan fiction, it does get quite a bad reputation because the majority of it is awful. But there are some gems inside the manure pile that is fan fiction, it just requires digging and a talent for telling stories. As well as good spelling, there are loads of fan fics I've seen with terrible spelling and punctuation.

xhonzi said:

I really liked 2.  Exploring Columbia for the first time is similar to exploring Rapture for the first time (though I preferred Rapture) which is something 2 can't/doesn't do.  Don't expect that a return to Rapture will be the same as exploring it again for the first time, and I think you would enjoy 2 just fine.  It is all new parts of Rapture, however, and it's 10 years later, so there are differences.  2 Definitely has highlights as well, that outshine portions of the Irrational games.

If it's a choice betwixt playing 1 again and playing 2, I would recommend playing 2.

In fact, (and I realize I might get run out of town on a sky-rail for saying this) I think the combat/gameplay was best in 2.

So there.

Hmmm... Might have to go play it then, maybe.

CP3S said:

So, I sat down to pen Bioshock 3. Remember my whole storyline about a group breaking off and making a new civilization on an island? Yeah, I totally sat down to write that in earnest. Spent a bit of time making an outline, wrote a few pages, somewhere in there logged onto OT.com and read Xhonzi post something about being too busy for the site and going away... And then I thought, wait a minute? What is the point? And I stopped writing it.

Okay, so, you were the catalyst that made me realize it was a pointless thing to write, but I didn't decide it was pointless only because you were gone, I just realized it was all around pointless in general.

Too bad though, it would have been amazing! But no, you had to go and leave the forum. Jerk.

No! Don't stop writing! If there's a story you want to tell, write it!

After playing Bioshock 1 and quite a bit of Infinite (I've been told by loads of friends to steer clear of 2, as they don't think it's particularly good) I was thinking that maybe a Bioshock game set in space might be fairly good, even though it kind of already exists in the form of 'System Shock'.

You could set it in the 1970s and have the player character somehow get to a base on the moon (maybe by a lighthouse that is actually a rocket, I dunno)

When you arrive on the base the political angle this time could be a more extremist version of Early World War 2 Britain (rationing, attitudes that were prevalent during the time, evacuation, patriotism, less Dieselpunk more... I dunno WW2-punk???) Although come to think of it, maybe that'd just be more of the same compared to the first two Bioshock games.

Considering the fact that the Bioshock games seem to have an element of deconstruction going in in them, maybe if there's another Bioshock game it serve as a reconstruction of the elements that the other games had previously deconstructed.

Bingowings said:

Seeing as Doctor Nine claims to have never seen his ears before it's possible that he regenerated not long before Rose bumped into him (maybe even in her shop which would explain the modern looking clothes).

That's actually quite a good theory, and his more eccentric moments in that episode can be chalked up to post-regenerative craziness, which has been mentioned before in the past.

TheBoost said:

I'm really getting into Matt Smith, despite his face resembling melted wax. 

A friend of mine said he looked like handsome man... who had just been whacked in the face with a shovel.

Hey, wait a sec! I didn't get a link!

Can I have one please Frinkie???

"North Korea"

TV's Frink said:

Who has a security camera that good?

I hear your Mom/Mum does.

Oh snap!!!

"electron joke I'm positive Awful puns"

Bingowings said:

When I was young LOL meant 'lots of love' (a bit like SWALK being 'sealed with a loving kiss'). 

Oo! I like that one.

Bingowings said:

Marmalade on toast.

There was a program on BBC Radio 4 the other day that talked about marmalade... it was fairly interesting.

TV's Frink said:

greenpenguino said:

TV's Frink said:

But was it greenie?  I need to know!

Yeah it was me.

Good to know, since I gave you credit for it on the DVD...

Yippee!!! That's so wizard!!

doubleKO said:

DOUBLE STANDARDS!

Hey! That's my line!!!

"Deep fried Cheddar cheese"

Your guess is as good as mine...

:-/

TV's Frink said:

But was it greenie?  I need to know!

Yeah it was me.

Oh yeah, and I'm back from my crazy whirlwind life to come hang with you gals and guys once again. It's only been about four weeks, but it seems like ages. Did I miss anything?

I could be wrong, but I've never heard orchestral high strings played in the soundtrack of a game. You know when the strings section of an orchestra takes over giving the score a beautiful majestic melody.

Stuff like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcOXFm6tz40

(0.00 to 0.57ish)

But then again I have an ear for strings and brass. I can tell in a game/film's score when it isn't really an orchestra but done on a computer.

SilverWook said:

They won't stop making DH sequels until McClane goes into space. (After being cryogenically frozen for 100 years.) Alan Rickman's character will be resurrected as a clone, and Reginald VelJohnson will return as a cyborg cop with a twinkie addiction. ;)

I'd buy that for a dollar!!!

Oh wait, wrong movie...

zombie84 said:

Oh for the love of god, please play Shadow of the Colossus. I missed it it on PS2 but when my roommate came home one day a year ago with a PS3 HD remake of it...man, I was hooked. I'm kind of embarrassed it went right over my head when it first came out. If you play it all the way through, yeah it's a bit repetitive. But it's probably one of the best PS2 games I have played, and that's saying something. Get the HD remake if you can, it is much more impressive, and comes bundled with Ico, which isn't as good but is still worth owning.

*High fives zombie*

Yeeeaaaaahhhh!!!

I've said it before, but you should totally check out Spec Ops: The Line. It has a great story based upon the book "Heart of Darkness" and brutally deconstructs modern military shooters. It's great.

CP3S said:

A whole freaking ounce? That girl is loaded!

She owns a Super NES, I now fully approve of this girl.

Seconded!!!

On a downer note, my girlfriend broke up with me, quit the uni course we were both on and is going back to finland. :(

sean wookie said:

Bingowings said:

sean wookie said:

AntcuFaalb said:

Bingowings said:

In my book a lack of a car is a positive like the lack of broadcast television in your home.

I've never wanted a car.

I've sometimes wished I was able to learn to drive so I could hire one once in a while but ownership of a car is a millstone, a money vampire and an environmental pollutant.

Yes, but public transportation in the USA sucks.

My fifteen minute commute to work by car takes over two hours by public transportation (bus).

We have bus systems in the Detroit area, but I've never used them.

There's an interesting experiment for you.

Plan a journey in the Detroit area and take the bus.

Calculate the time and the price and balance it against the average price of a car (tax, parking, fuel etc).

Next time you meet a fancy pants car owning internet date you can relate the findings of your experiment to her.

This is Detroit, I'd get killed just stepping into the city.

Didn't OCP fix that with the new 'RoboCop' thingamajig??

Bingowings said:

Oh God, the second Black Mirror story White Bear was draining to watch.

Possibly the most ghastly (in a good way) piece of television since Threads.

It knocked the usually grim of the week Utopia into a cocked hat.

Oh gosh. I haven't seen the latest episode yet, but I have seen Threads multiple times. Considering how utterly miserable I felt after watching Threads I'm apprehensive about watching White Bear now.

Bingowings said:

Resident Evil Retribution (2012).

<snip!>

It's a bit like The Crystal Maze with zombies.

</snip!>

Ooo!! Is Richard O'Brien in it? I loved that show as a child!

Bingowings said:

A really bad week for Roobarb fans :-(

Bob Godfrey 91.

I was just talking about him today, it's odd finding this out now.

I used to love Roobarb as a child, I used to watch it a lot when I was sick and had to stay at home. A lot of creative people that I grew up either watching, or watching their work are dying lately. Like I said before, mortality sucks.