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BritGAF |OT6| Dark Souls? More like Arse Holes
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That was so bad you should be locked up in Bantanamo Bay.
Messofanego
Banned
Way easier to ignore and prioritise emails so the workers' could get blocked off.
You think bus workers want strikes? No, they'd rather get paid and be working. Strikes are often a last resort and call for help. By contrast, tube drivers get a collective pay deal rather than a company-by-company basis.
Strike action is the last resort. Weve been forced into this position by the operators refusal to even meet with us. Passengers sitting side by side on the same route expect to pay the same fare, so why shouldnt drivers expect to be paid the same rate?
The bus operators need to stop pleading poverty in defending pay inequality and collectively start negotiating about a fairer deal for Londons bus workers.
The bus operators need to stop pleading poverty in defending pay inequality and collectively start negotiating about a fairer deal for Londons bus workers.
As others have said, a passport is all you need. My girlfriend is Greek and she came here at seventeen with just her passport.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
You are wise beyond your years.
Ah, Big Daddys. They were never less than terrifying for me. Bioshock, whatever anyone says, is one of those games where all the parts sync up damn near perfectly. Shame they lost a lot of the "ecosystem" for Infinite.
This one?
Saw that at ATP a few years back (ROCKNROLLGRRR). Adrian Utley (guitarist from Portishead) and a small orchestra provided the score, live. It was incredible. If it's the one I'm thinking of. Which I think it is.
show me your skeleton
Member
so i have the internet again:
oh my.
i've also added you sploatee to my xbox live account super happy fun friendship zone. we can now ignore each other on there, much the same way i do screaming meat. i often just curse every time he comes online because i think the noise is an unlocked achievement.
oh my.
i've also added you sploatee to my xbox live account super happy fun friendship zone. we can now ignore each other on there, much the same way i do screaming meat. i often just curse every time he comes online because i think the noise is an unlocked achievement.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
So, on a smoking break I voiced my dislike for my colleagues bitching about a new colleague behind said new colleague's back... and earned the ire of all the smokers. Eep. I don't even like the new person that much, but I couldn't stand all the hyena jeering. I think I'm allergic to bullying.
I'd play with you, brah (sans mic), but you never seem to play anything multiplayer that I've got. ;(
I'd play with you, brah (sans mic), but you never seem to play anything multiplayer that I've got. ;(
show me your skeleton
Member
i don't even have gold at the moment so there we go! i'd also be sans mic. mainly because if i started talking the fact that i'm actually benedict cumberbatch would be discovered.
oh.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
From your posts, I could be persuaded to believe that.
You are wise beyond your years.
Ah, Big Daddys. They were never less than terrifying for me. Bioshock, whatever anyone says, is one of those games where all the parts sync up damn near perfectly. Shame they lost a lot of the "ecosystem" for Infinite.
This one?
Saw that at ATP a few years back (ROCKNROLLGRRR). Adrian Utley (guitarist from Portishead) and a small orchestra provided the score, live. It was incredible. If it's the one I'm thinking of. Which I think it is.
I love the world they created with Rapture. Very interesting and thought provoking. Not sure about the rest that much but I'm trying to get out of the habit of "rating games" as its just tiring and gets it the way of digesting a game on its own merits.
Ah it's not that Joan of Arc one. That might be the Preminger one.
Watching some of Stalker tonight. Excited!! Seen it before but I love the umm two Tarkovsky films I've seen. They make my brain go to good places.
so i have the internet again:
oh my.
i've also added you sploatee to my xbox live account super happy fun friendship zone. we can now ignore each other on there, much the same way i do screaming meat. i often just curse every time he comes online because i think the noise is an unlocked achievement.
UNNERVED
Not really. I don't play many Xbo MP games apart from the odd couple of games of Titanfall. If I've got it though and you've got it, happy to play whatever.
But you've not got live gold! Ok! See you on the Ikaruga scoreboards!
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
*Tosses desk*
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
Dragon's Dogma is definitely a hidden gem for its genre. The writing is very non-nonsensical, but fun. And the combat system is so hype. Like, battles are so fluid and amazing to play that I don't know if I can ever go back to an Elder Scrolls game having been able to jump and fly through the air off my pawn's shield only to grab onto a dragon and do Shadow of the Colossus style platforming before hacking and slashing it in the face.
so i have the internet again:
oh my.
i've also added you sploatee to my xbox live account super happy fun friendship zone. we can now ignore each other on there, much the same way i do screaming meat. i often just curse every time he comes online because i think the noise is an unlocked achievement.
Edit: Higher ping is due to Wi-Fi.
show me your skeleton
Member
Edit: Higher ping is due to Wi-Fi.
GOD DAMN YOU DRAGON WITCH.
that sound you hear is me desperately calling virgin to upgrade my account.
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
Going out at night with no lantern fuel...that's a paddlin'. I think monsters actually increase in number if you have your lantern off too. Also before I knew how the brine worked (or that it was simply a gimmick plot device to explain what is essentially an invisible wall) I was terrified of water. I thought that a tentacle could possibly pull you in or something just for being nearby. That would have been pretty cool actually.
*shakes fist*
Watch it, matey. Don't be getting your Joans of Arc confused around here.
That character is now cursed to never finish the game.
I will just avoid boats that travel to elf islands
dapperbandit
Banned
Stalker is really good, one of the few "art" films I've got a lot of time for. Just the way it's shot, that weird transition to color, the music and the mysterious goings on in general. But I don't think I ever made it through Solaris without phasing out or nodding off.
Stalker is beautiful, isn't it? Especially for what is effectively a few Russian blokes messing around in a forest.
Emma's never stayed awake through Solaris. I really like it though. The opening act is the toughest bit I think (the driving scene spills over into pure art installation cinema imo) but after that I found it settles into a conventional-ish sci fi film. Ish.
dapperbandit
Banned
If you have a PC that could play it I'd encourage you to give the Stalker game a go. Inspired by the film and a few books here and there but it's own entity really. Captures a similar atmosphere of traipsing through polluted/radioactive bogs and wetland in Ukraine.
Mayflash are releasing 3rd party gamecube controller adapters. With their track record record, they should be solid quality and fully working. It's live on playasia for pre-order. It also doubles up as a gamecube controller to PC adapter if you're possibly using Dolphin.
Ah, the Ukrainian wetland. The finest wetland.
(Ta for the tip. Sadly my laptop is a convertible pen tab thing that can't run anything that involves an element of 3D.)
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
WATCHUGUNNADOBOUDIT?!
Always got a soft spot for ES since I stumbled on the mindbogglingly original world of Morrowind. I wish they would move away from that dull Lord of the Rings/Game of Thrones aesthetic bollocks and give us more madness like Morrowind and Shivering Isles.
Combat-wise, I'm okay with it. I usually use Illusion to bypass all the riffraff.
79p is a cheap cost to pay to protest Cameron and have freedom of speech. After all, freedom isn't free, there's a hefty fuckin' fee, and if you don't put in your 79p, who will?
Do tell.
EDIT: so anyway, WhatsApp users, can anyone tell me what I need to do to get set up and pay my 79p and whatnot? I literally know nothing about this app other than Cameron wants to ban it.
show me your skeleton
Member
it's free for a year. you just download it via your google megashop or apple wondermart and then it's on your phoneamabob and it uses word-shapes to send insults to other human shaped meat that you already know, via the wonderness of inter-air-telecommuni-typing. don't forget though that it'll use your ACTUAL TELEPHONE NUMERAL so suddenly everyone will be like OI OI SLAPPER, LOOK WHO'S RIDDEN IN TO THAT THERE WHATSAPP TOWN ON HIS SHINY NEW PHONEHORSE and you'll have to explain as to why you're doing it and it's all because of a website's fault and maybe you'll find your mum on it and her account photo will be really graphic and in rather poor taste. oh dear.
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
If they created a game with Dragon's Dogma style combat system and Elder Scrolls world building and writing it would be the GOAT.
Was your house stuck in 1995 for the last 20 years?
Ignorance is bliss.
Musha_Soturi
Member
Granny's Garden is in the App Store
Yaaaaaaay
Yaaaaaaay
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
Ignorance needs to get back to work and finish my garden terrace
Nerdkiller
Membeur
AOL is still available in the UK?
Also the pic of my snowman that my sis took.
INFIDEL
Nerdkiller
Membeur
Yeah, yeah, I've seen the thread. Too bad they don't have any real political powers against us.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Yeah, yeah, I've seen the thread. Too bad they don't have any real political powers against us.
TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared
Member
Its worth going all the way to Northern Ireland for sainsburys curry. This is so incredible mmmmm
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
![QUOTE]This works on humans too.](http://i.imgur.com/0RepDYP.gf[/MG][/QUOTE]This works on humans too.)
(Sorry this is a bit apropos of nothing...)
Bioshock's pretty good, isn't it? I've just
. Unfortunately I'm already dimly aware of
but I still have lots of questions which I hope will be answered before it ends. I'm playing it on hard difficulty and while it was fine until now, it's really becoming a game of resource management. I wasted quite a lot of dollars and now I'm on the back foot a bit.
Is the narrow FOV a design decision? It was very disorientating at first but once I accepted that it's really a horror game first and then a shooter second (or maybe third) I realised it added to the claustrophobia.
I think the thing I admire most about it is how focused it is. It's almost too dense with activity at times. I also like how you can have three different sets of behaviours all going on at the same time - it makes me happy seeing Big Daddies vs splicers vs bots all happening while I'm crouching in a corner somewhere trying not to use my last 6 pistol bullets.
In fact, the only thing that's grating with me at the moment is the number of times I've played that hacking minigame. I think the setting helps make some of the old horror clichés (
feel a bit fresh. It's no Anor Londo but it's a very very fine setting
There you go. Bit garbled but that's my brain dump. As you were!
Bioshock's pretty good, isn't it? I've just
completed Sander Cohen's great masterpiece
"Would you kindly?"
Is the narrow FOV a design decision? It was very disorientating at first but once I accepted that it's really a horror game first and then a shooter second (or maybe third) I realised it added to the claustrophobia.
I think the thing I admire most about it is how focused it is. It's almost too dense with activity at times. I also like how you can have three different sets of behaviours all going on at the same time - it makes me happy seeing Big Daddies vs splicers vs bots all happening while I'm crouching in a corner somewhere trying not to use my last 6 pistol bullets.
In fact, the only thing that's grating with me at the moment is the number of times I've played that hacking minigame. I think the setting helps make some of the old horror clichés (
mad doctor!
psycho artist!
There you go. Bit garbled but that's my brain dump. As you were!
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
I loved what I played of the first Bioshock and it sounds like you have grasped on a lot of the elements which make it a great game. I have yet to finish it actually (no one look at my hours played on Steam). The really enjoyed how the story was fleshed out with the little audio diaries and the way the atmosphere in the game really puts you in a dark place (literally and metaphorically). Should probably go back and do that at some point, along with Amnesia.
Nerdkiller
Membeur
Oh, do I have a fellow Irishperson in this thread? LET US SECEDE FROM THESE PEOPLE!
Yeah. I'm kind of deliberately ignoring the more speculative / philosophical ideas the game explores out here on der GAF but one other thing that's really impressive is the absence of silence. You always have either splicers muttering to themselves, the groans of Big Daddies, the chatter of a Little Sister or the vending machines burbling on. You never seem to get a moment's rest and when you do, you've usually just found an audio log. Combine that with the narrow FOV, the small spaces and the bloody enemies everywhere and I really feel on edge when I'm playing it (in a good way). It's made me curious to try Alien Isolation as I imagine that will play on long silences punctuated by your head being splattered open.
I didn't warm to Bioshock at first because there wasn't enough time for me to think about what was going on (I like der Dark Souls and Fez because they just leave you to it and Dark Souls especially uses silence so so well) - everything felt cluttered and like every moment was so stuffed with content I couldn't really get a handle on it. But now I've gotten used to it I get what Ken L was going for (I think). It's like this lunatic carnival. There's also probably an interesting piece somewhere about how it reflects 1950s and wider "America" (not just the Atlas Shrugged stuff but the capitalism, the organised crime, the immigration...)
Weird that it was so popular, though. Playing it now it seems pretty out there for a big AAA release.
(Sorry this is a bit apropos of nothing...)
Bioshock's pretty good, isn't it? I've just. Unfortunately I'm already dimly aware ofcompleted Sander Cohen's great masterpiecebut I still have lots of questions which I hope will be answered before it ends. I'm playing it on hard difficulty and while it was fine until now, it's really becoming a game of resource management. I wasted quite a lot of dollars and now I'm on the back foot a bit."Would you kindly?"
Is the narrow FOV a design decision? It was very disorientating at first but once I accepted that it's really a horror game first and then a shooter second (or maybe third) I realised it added to the claustrophobia.
I think the thing I admire most about it is how focused it is. It's almost too dense with activity at times. I also like how you can have three different sets of behaviours all going on at the same time - it makes me happy seeing Big Daddies vs splicers vs bots all happening while I'm crouching in a corner somewhere trying not to use my last 6 pistol bullets.
In fact, the only thing that's grating with me at the moment is the number of times I've played that hacking minigame. I think the setting helps make some of the old horror clichés (mad doctor!feel a bit fresh. It's no Anor Londo but it's a very very fine settingpsycho artist!
There you go. Bit garbled but that's my brain dump. As you were!
After finishing it, did you
kill Sander Cohen or just leave?
I think Rapture's one of the best created level/game designs of the last generation.