MikeJD

Oh yeah. I think it's called 'Estate'. Yep, I like that one. It has some nice undergrowth near Flag A in the Domination game - good place to hide your C4.

Although 'the kids' usually haven't been around long enough to realise it, 99.9% of all new releases are covers. Fact. Well not really, but you know what I mean. Always makes me laugh when someone posts a YouTube comment saying how a 20 year old version of their favourite band's new song isn't as good as the 'original'.

I'm trying to think which one is the 'big-ass house'

But.... but why? I played a little of the Black Ops campaign last night. It was... ok, but felt more 'on rails' than ever before. I got tired of long sequences where I'm still 'in the game' but with no control over my character's movement, not allowed to raise my gun or even look left and right by more than a few degrees. If you can't move the action forward without making a zombie of the player (no, not those zombies!), that's poor design. The single player modes in these games are gradually being reduced to a series of spectacular set pieces where you're more of an observer than a participant - maybe given a single button to bash if you're lucky. And the action so far in Black Ops is too fantastical for me - firing a huge makeshift catapult - jumping from a bike to a truck to a train, and all with hardly any challenge to the player. One thing I notice about the Treyarch games is the 'invisible walls' - too many low-lying objects that you're just not allowed to jump over. And their enemy AI is weak. If you don't approach guys head on they will often just ignore you. Thank God for multiplayer!

[curmudgeon voice]Yep, as usual some UK shops opened at midnight so that the 'really dedicated fans' could get hold of their copy a whole nine hours ahead of everyone else. I just strolled into my local supermarket at lunchtime today and picked one up, about £7 cheaper than those stores were charging. Maybe I'm missing part of the experience, but I think that gives me bragging rights at least equal to anyone who's been playing the game all morning and is probably just about thawed out.

Just wow. Iron Man!

Just the way I read that the first time. You can't do that these days, of course. Damned health and safety culture.

I think there are inkjet inks designed to resist UV and water damage, but they'll be specialist - certainly not your standard cartridges. That said, I've printed up team stickers before now that have lasted surprisingly well on exterior windows, but then I live in a country not known for its sunshine. The sticker on my helmet has been there for a couple of years and still looks fine - of course my helmet spends most of its time in a dark bag, but it has been wet a few times. I guess it's a question of durability over cost. Since DIY inkjet printing is relatively cheap, you can probably afford to replace stickers on a regular basis. But if you're looking for permanence, I'd go to a professional printer.

Exactly. Surely one of the first things any prospective employer will do these days is look for you on the web. Interestingly, I read that having no online presence can count against you. But presumably not as badly as, say, a Facebook page showing you passed out in a strip club!

You know, I'm strangely attracted to one of those cowboys. The other one (in the pale hat) isn't bad either.

Not a one. Maybe switching off all the lights and hiding on the floor had something to do with it. Trouble is, most of the trick or treaters round my way look a bit like this.

Umm, whatcha mean? We did a Star Trek theme this year. Last year we were cowboys. Are you saying you have to stick to goblins and ghouls? It's an American thing. In the UK we only do spooky for Halloween, which makes sense since, you know, it's a spooky day. In the States it's a free-for-all. Which makes no sense at all. Zombie cowboys. Those would be ok. And the only Star Trek connection that should be allowed is the Shatner mask from the original Halloween movie.

Yeah, nasty stuff. It's weird enough when you've slept on your arm and you can only move that by lifting it with your other hand. Imagine having to lift your head!

You could have just gone to bed an hour earlier. That seems to me like a better prospect than 6 months of dark evenings. The only good thing about putting the clocks back in the winter is that it gives us something to look forward to in March.

I actually liked Silent Hill a lot more than I expected to, and I haven't played the game (though I was aware of it). I thought the movie was stylish, and lots of it was original and nicely reminiscent of the stuff of bad dreams. The only things I didn't really like were the female cop - who just seemed too glamorous to convince - and Sean Bloody Bean, who I think is one of the most overrated actors out there. He always seems wooden to me, and his accents - whether he's trying to do American or 'posh' English - seem to be constantly at war with his Yorkshire roots . I'm also going to stick my neck out and say I enjoyed the remake of The Ring more than the original. Great atmosphere, decent performances and superbly understated special effects. Everyone seems to bash Hollywood remakes of Japanese horror, but I don't think it's fair in that case. I'm really weary of torture porn, which seems to rely on this idea that nastier = better - so I've got a downer on 'Saw' and all its imitators. My favourite horror/ suspense movies are Se7en, Alien, Wolf Creek, The Shining, The Descent, Jaws and The Sixth Sense.

(8) Almost everyone posting comments on YouTube. Special mocking reserved for anyone who just repeats something from the video and then says 'LOL.' Oh, and anyone using the words 'faggot' or 'gay' to express dislike.

The comments section of that report is even more entertaining than the report itself. I thought grammar Nazism here was bad! Oh, and did anyone else notice the related link 'Patient's Prostate Removed in First All-Robot Surgery': and really want it to say 'Patient's Head Removed in First All-Robot Surgery'?

This whole thread has an error running through it - you were missing an 's'. Sorry, I'm just standing in until Shropshire gets here.

I'll be interested in the next version, where you can deploy the wing in freefall having driven off a cliff, James Bond-style.

psst....I just did... pfft....I just did... Fixed it for you.

Has anyone actually managed to capture a fart in a cup to verify this?

He's just following in Dad's footsteps.

Pah. If he'd been SAS, he'd have had ya.

Like it.

Well, I've passed quite a few jump number milestones and never yet been pied, thrown in a pond or forced to skydive naked. It does happen over here, but I don't think it's as common as it is in the States. I have bought plenty of beers!