I imagine they're taught like kids at school; using word and spreadsheets.

I imagine that learning with a uni, is a bit like school, where it's always a slow process they take you through, and it's very basic.

Occasionally at school you'd meet an IT teacher, who really knew there stuff and in thruthleness wanted to teach children they can actually use computers for, something worth learning.

I remember when we thought Gran Turismo 1 was approaching photo realism.

My desk.

I don't have a wheel, that chair is fudged, I need a new one.

And yes, I probably should sit further from the TV.

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Deer Hunter 2004 is quite fun.

You can wander for half an hour only glimpsing a deer before it buggers off.

It makes every hit feel really accomplished.

Some lady idiot the other day nearly made me hit her.

I was in the right hand lane (the correct lane), she was in left. My exit was the third, hers was the fourth, I had to almost stop so I could get to where I was going.

So I had to give her the finger.

I do smoke. Have done for around a year, maybe two.

Around september, I started smoking loads, but recently have cut down, not trying to, but just have without thinking about it.

Quote from Kid222 :

when he comes into confectionery

You make me sick

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There is no Setup.exe in 1.11 version.

I can only play on 800x600 with no hdr effects etc...

Have you tried changing the options ingame?

Personally if you get some anti aliasing on there, those graphics would be pretty nice.

Looks good, at a perfect time too. I've been bored and fancied playing something different for a bit.

I've watched That 70's Show and never found it funny, I just don't get what's funny about it.

I think it's hideously awful.

A couple of weeks ago, on the sunday it snowed alot, I tried to start the car, lights just flickered and it refused to start.

We had to jump start it. That may have had something to do with the cold though, who knows.

My dad reckons maybe it's a dodgy contact, because I've had dash lights flicker before.

I don't speed often, rarely go much more than 75 on motorways. Never do stupid speed in built up areas. Occasioanlly pass over 30, but that's it.

That reminds me, last tuesday when there was still alot of snow about, I saw a BMW driving around, they'd scraped snow off the front and side windows, but left the rear windscreen covered in snow.

Just watched that video, on the full thing can you do offline with bots like that?

I think what set the demo apart from other shooters is atmosphere, CoD 4 never did anything new or amazing, however what it did do it did very well.

This seems to be the case with KZ2, it's a superb, tidy shooter. I thought the sounds were very good along with graphics, models and the ragdolls. Everything looked like it had weight to it.

What I want to see is the KZ2 engine being used for other games and shooters. For example a current day shooter would kick arse on that engine.

Last edited by DTrott, Mon 9 Feb 2009, 18:00.

At the local tesco I always park there for college, and there's always this one merc, always parked badly, never in the lines. It's even more annoying as he's in the car parking space I planned on parking next to.

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I enjoyed it. The controls took a bit of getting used to, but then I think that about every PS3 shooter. I want the controls to match CoD4 on the 360 and they hardly ever do. But once I got over that it was pretty good.
Push-to-cover system was a little clunky (although that may have just been down to me getting used to the controls) and I can imagine most people not bothering with it at all other than when absolutely necessary.

Voice acting was solid, some nice set pieces, really nice engine, decent scope for multiplayer. It might be "yet another FPS" but if you ignore that and judge it on it's own merits it is pretty good.

I found the aiming button as R3 annoying, but if you change controller settings to Alternative 2, L1 is aim, and R3 is Melee (I think) it's much easier.

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So how does MGS1 tie in with MGS3?

Big Boss in MGS3, is the father of the other Snakes.

I've played a bit of MG1 and MG2, found them very hard and read up on the story.

Completed MGS1, MGS2, MGS3 and MGS4. I'm still not entirely up on the story though.

In chronological order storywise the games are: MGS3, MG1, MG2, MGS1, MGS2, MGS4.

I'd go into greater deal, but it's so complicated.

I am long sited and have astigmatism, I always wear my glasses and have done for as long as I can remember. My lenses alone cost £200.

My current frames are Ray Bans.

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Without even checking it out I am certain that that actually means: most of the music I listen to isn't there.

most alternative/independat music isn't there, especially hiphop

I found the demo very impressive, made me want to get the full game.

Spotify is a fairly new music service/music player, similar to last.fm.

Here's a quote thing from their site:

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What is Spotify?

Spotify is a new way to enjoy music. Simply download and install, before you know it you’ll be singing along to the genre, artist or song of your choice. With Spotify you are never far away from the song you want.

There are no restrictions in terms of what you can listen to or when. Forget about the hassle of waiting for files to download and fill up your hard drive before you get round to organising them. Spotify is instant, fun and simple.

Because music is social, Spotify allows you to share songs and playlists with friends, and even work together on collaborative playlists, Friday afternoon in the office might never be the same again! We’re music lovers like everyone else.

We want to connect millions of people with their favorite songs by creating a product that people love to use. We respect creativity and believe in fairly compensating artists for their work. We’ve cleared the rights to use the music you’ll listen to in Spotify.

Because I'm too lazy to actually write out properly the good stuff about it have some bullet points (stolen from someone elses blog!):

• Free Music
• Music streamed from the internet - no hard drive space
• You can’t tell it’s streamed from the internet - instant playback and brilliant quality
• Search is incredibly fast
• Application is incredibly fast
• Drag complete albums to your playlist
• Artist view shows compilation CDs that they’re on - and you can drag those to your playlist
• Share your playlists - they’re updated live when you change them!
• Collaborative playlists
• And all this uses less memory than Winamp

• The Free version is only available in Sweden, Norway, Finland, the UK, France and Spain.
• Some artists aren't there.
• And the occasional ad between songs.

Apart fromt these few negatives, it's awesome.

http://www.spotify.com/en/

And to join up without an invite: https://www.spotify.com/en/get-started/

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If it was my mum or dad, they'd stand at the back door of the house. Shout at me telling me to get off, then go back in.

Had a mess about of Pure on the demo, it's a fairly fun game, I wouldn't buy it personally, but would play it round a mates.

As for MCLA, I bought this a couple of weeks ago, it's a really good game, it really is. Physics aren't realistic in anyway, but the cars handle in a way that's fun. Cars feel like they have a fair bit of weight to them.

Customisation isn't that good, most boltons for the cars look fairly crap. It's still a fairly good game, I picked it up on a whim, when I saw it being sold for only £17 on play.com.

I didn't know what to expect and found a fairly good game. I also bought TDU at the same time, I've only played it for about 5 minutes and didn't enjoy it.