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Wouldn't that put you 25 miles into the ocean? I keed. Partially. I demand a smiley with a cricket bat

I'll never understand it. I've seen hotels larger than your nation. I just don't see how there's room for dialects. I could travel 30 miles in one direction and accents might change so much that I'd have difficulty understanding, or I might travel 100 miles in another direction and have a perfectly good conversation, for all I know it might be the same in France or Germany. In other news Gingrich promises MOON BASE!

For whatever reason we have a silly amount of dialects, Bill Bryson wrote a pretty good book that touched on it but I can't remember the details.

On the subject of what I'm playing now, I decided to try Daggerfall, if I'd have played it when I was 15 my mind would have been truly blown, unfortunately it's now just a curious distraction, I don't know if I'll complete it but I'll definitely have an honest go at it. It occurs to me that the dazzling amount of options amount to bugger all if your imagination isn't doing most of the work, I do wish I'd got my hands on it when it first came out, maybe the story will grab me as I get deeper into it.

It's been so long since I had a decent Cornish pasty that I've decided they're a myth.

I haven't completed the Dark Brotherhood or the Thieves guild yet so I don't know how they pan out, the Mage's College was fun and lengthy but I thought it lacked a bit of background info, I have no idea why the Eye of Magnus was in Saarthal or why one of the Gauldur brothers (one of my favourite quests) was magically shielded by it, those magical flying sperm creatures that attack the town also have me scratching my head. The Civil War was a let down, the set up was believable and interesting with so many chances for subterfuge and trickery but they boiled it down to a few assault missions with soldiers spawning out of thin air Bethesda's world building with Obsidian's quest design and writing would produce the game to end my social life, though I'd be happy enough if Bethesda just hired back a few of their old designers/writers, maybe they don't want to come back

Yeah I like Ron Paul, I don't think he's got all the answers but I agree with a good amount of what he says, he'd get my vote if I weren't a pasty old worlder, the fact that most big media want him silenced is the clincher, they do not like him one bit.

I've recently been fighting this feeling that I enjoyed Oblivion's main quest (with OOO) more than Skyrim's, it feels a bit heretical to be nostalgic for Oblivion, perhaps it was just the grind involved in closing all the gates but the idea seems far more daunting than defeating Alduin, I've already done it twice, it took me years to defeat Dagon a second time. Maybe that's my real complaint about Skyrim, the quest lines are a bit short, it seems to be the trade off for having so much content in the world, it actually makes me hungry for some DLC, so basically my problem is that I want more filler combat? Neither one gives me a lore boner like Morrowind though, as a game I think it's almost broken but the story just yanks at something inside me, pretty much like PST does.

Some new info about that "1999" mode in Bioshock 2, seems it's mostly about the mechanics and not plot but I'm still curious.

Kinect can suck it but of Tim Schafer showing off Double Fine's new "game" is fun.

This clip of Jon Stewart talking about the media's treatment of Ron Paul made me chuckle.

I first played PST about three years ago so nostalgia doesn't really apply for me, it was just a good, involving story.

I keep getting the itch to pay PST again but last time it ruined all other games for about six months

There should be a tiny micro usb thingy in the box somewhere.

I've never been that fussy about keyboards, right now I'm using a Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000 and it's fine, I quite like the low action keys, mice drive me to desperation though, so many stupid button configurations and the DPI wars are a joke, I keep trying expensive mice only to find they don't track on anything other than premium UFO skin from the Roswell crash I've settled on a Logitech M500 for now but even this mouse suffers from a reallly dumb design decision, you need the precision of a surgeon to middle click without accidentally sidescrolling, so I need to keep the Logitech software installed simply to disable sidescrolling in web browsers...

Fan feedback prompts BioShock Infinite 1999 Mode "BioShock Infinite will include "1999 Mode", a harder version of the game where your characters' choices have "irreversible implications", developer Irrational Games has announced."

It's looking positive, just as long as they don't come back next year and steamroll through re-branded versions of the bills

the scary part about this is how many 'OMG IT'S DEAD! I SHALL FAIL SCHOOL!" notes there are. Imagine the horror of having to move yourself bodily down to the library and search for books... Books? What the hell are books?! Those things you rent from Amazon

I played for an hour or two last night, it's a really mixed bag for me, I hate the chunky Warcraft art style but appreciate the slightly more mature direction, kinda enjoyed the combat but hated the weird delay before objects and monsters register the hit. The story barely registered with me but I suppose the old amnesiac corpse route is tried and true, the only thing I really like is the use of skills and character progression, it's definitely an RPG but I think I'll wait for a year of patches and DLC.

Heh, it's when you run into people you were at first and middle school with, and you see them married, carting 2.5 kids around, and putting shopping into a family wagon... I can never tell whether that makes me feel too damn old, or as if I've never actually gotten around to growing up.... I usually try to suppress a smug laugh over the fact that I didn't fall into the same trap, then I go back to my empty home and watch Family Guy

I'm mildly interested, mostly because the mechanics look fun and the world is big, the rest I'm not so sure about but I'll give that demo a whirl.

Looks very nice, what game is that?

I've been neglecting my Terry Pratchett books so this morning I read the first 50 pages of Making Money, I can tell I'm going to enjoy it, if only because the insane banking system of Ankh Morpork still makes more sense than our real world equivalent

I nearly bought L.A. Noire but then the Rockstar tumour in my brain started to itch, I did a quick search and decided to leave it, I'll see how it looks in a year.