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Game Diary / August 17, 2005 / John
My gaming ennui appears to be lifting! I dusted LoTR off again last night. Long term nelefans will, of course, remember that I got stuck at that part of Helm’s Deep where you get attacked by a neverending stream of trolls with nary a save point or even a chance to change your inventory in
Australia / August 16, 2005 / John / 0
Guhhh – it turns out the Migration Agency hasn’t actually sent the ACS application off yet! I know, I know, they’ve had it for three weeks Anyway, one of my references needed dating so I had to get that done again and then resent. I’m assured that they’ll get it all collated and sent off
Game Diary / August 16, 2005 / John
A spot of Neverwinter Nights on the PC. About an hour or so. It’s an ACE RPG and can be picked up as part of a double pack for a tenner. And that, I’m afraid to say, is it. I have loads of barely played games sitting on the shelf, but I seem to be
Lunchtime Tales / August 9, 2005 / John
It did – with a very loud bang and a splattering of delicious orangey brown beverage. It wasn’t made clear to me at the time exactly why the teacup exploded, but explode it most certainly did. I was a small boy a the time, no taller than four inches, and a teacup was – in
Game Diary / August 7, 2005 / John
Utter crap. Edit : I’ve been asked to expand on this because I’m being very dismissive of a game a lot of people like. So: if you like your FPSes linear, unfair, slow, juddery, derivative and plotless, you’ll like Killzone. And that’s as nice as I can be about it.
Game Diary / August 7, 2005 / John
Crap. Ok, that’s a bit unfair. I’m an old codger and have fond memories of the original worms (basically a reworking of Scorched Earth) and I just don’t think the 3D view works. My kids, however, seem to love it to death because it has tons of unlockables and loads of customisable stuff going on.
Ramblings / August 5, 2005 / John
for me to clean out my mailbox. Do I really need 40,000 emails dating back to the tail end of 2002? I think not. Another thing – if there’s one thing I hate it’s blog comment spam. I enabled comments at 5:30, before leaving work, cos I’ve had a lot of requests. By the time
Ramblings / August 4, 2005 / John
The BBC are running a competition which involves people submitting cool photographs fitting into various categories. Debbie has submitted some photographs she took on a sunny day in Edinburgh (one of them is called Timeless Edinburgh). The quality of the entries is wonderful. Please go have a look. The url is http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/apictureofbritain/gallery/ Have fun!
Australia / July 31, 2005 / John / 0
Ok, so it’s been in less than a week but I’m IMPATIENT godammit! I’m going to have to not be impatient, because we have a very long wait stretching out in front of us. Still, easier said than done. Anyway, popping in by the migration agent’s office on Monday to pick up out passports, certificates,