Author: John

Poverty

Well, some progress at last. The assurance of support bond was wired to Australia today, so our bank account is several thousand pounds  lighter, but it’s one more milestone passed. Things are looking good on the house front. We really just have the medicals to pay for and that’s us. Here’s hoping for some feedback

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….and as expected…..

it didn’t quite go according to plan. Essentially, the sale has been delayed a week to allow the buyers to sort out some issues they have. It will be going ahead next week, though. Either that or it’ll be going back on the market.

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Houses

Well, another few days on. Our house sale is looming – 7th April is the entry date. While we have no real cause to be concerned, we’re a *teensy* bit worried about everything going according to plan because it’s not a normal sale. We’re trying our best not to worry about things but, as the

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Call of Cthulhu – Dark Corners of the Earth (PC)

Chapter Two complet0red. The beginning of Chapter Three gives me the heebie jeebies and, as there’s a lot going on, the framerate is giving me some problems. I shouldn’t really complain – I’m running it on a Celeron 1.3 laptop with ATI X300 Mobility graphics card, so 1280x800x32 16:9 aspect is probably expecting a bit

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Call of Cthulhu – Dark Corners of the Earth (PC)

I’ve been a fan of H.P. Lovecraft’s eerie tales since I was fourteen years old. His particular brand of creepiness appeals to me, for some reason. His fiction generally centers on the concept that man is just a very small part of the universe and there are things out there which are simply to hideous/vast/old/evil

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Well, it’s not so bad.

Had some further clarification from our agent and the delay isn’t as bad as it first looked. Rather than being an additional 4-5 months processing, all that’s changed is the initial queue before a case officer is allocated. So rather than waiting 1-4 months after lodgement for a case officer to be allocated, it’s 4-5

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Zelda – Link to the Bloody Annoying Boss

Ok, on the top of the tower lives a worm. The worm lives on a platform floating in the air with a hole in the middle. This worm has one weakness – the four pixel dot at the end of its tail. If you’re fortunate enough to hit it, it runs about even faster. Six

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Generations

Well, there’s no doubt about it – a ‘New Generation’ of consoles is being forced upon us, the gaming public, whether we think there’s life left in the current generation or not. Out of the current generation, despite having owned all consoles, the only ones I currently own are the GameCube, Nintendo DS, and numerous

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Final Fantasy I & II

No way! I discovered a cool thing that I never noticed before! On the title page, if you press R you get a music player so you can listen to all the music that’s been unlocked during gameplay (like it does in Fire Emblem). Given that the music is magnificent, this is a Good Thing(tm).

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Zelda – Link to the Past (GBA)

Gah – can’t remember. Let’s see – Flippers GET! Butterfly net GET! Magic Mirror GET! Magic Boomerang GET! I also managed to teleport to dark Hyrule, but unfortunately I didn’t have a moonstone of some kind so I turned into a giant bunny. Which was fun in a giant bunny kind of way. And it

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