Ξ December 16th, 2005 | → 0 Comments | ∇ |
I saw this a few weeks ago, paid the deposit on it but it still needed some work as the garage it was bought from had got it from an insurer as a write-off. The only thing wrong with it was that the front bumper, front right light and cam-belt needed changing, so I got all of that and a new MOT for £800. Drives pretty well and has a huge tank for it’s size. The wheels are the width of pinheads and since Ive never driven a car without ABS I ended up nearly crashing it whilst driving it home. I’d also never experienced motorway driving before (it’s only been two months since I passed my test, and I haven’t driven once since), let alone in a car I’d never previously driven.
Ξ December 16th, 2005 | → 0 Comments | ∇ |
Check out the Studio Ghibli site for, well, a picture of what it will become. I doubt if any reading this can read Japanese but just appreciate the pictures. If you’re unfamilure with Studio Ghibli think: Spirited Away, Princess Monoke, Howls Moving Castle (amung many others).
“Gedo Senki - Tales from Earthsea” (Record of the Gedo War - Tales from Earthsea) is being adapted from Ursula K. Leguin’s Earthsea Cycle and will be released in July 2006. - Animenewsnetwork
We’ll probably see it sometime end of 2007 then. Sigh.
Ξ December 15th, 2005 | → 0 Comments | ∇ |
Aamanita Design makes the best damn flash games out there. If you get addicted to their Samorost game please support them by spending £7 on the second half of Samorost 2. Admittidly it takes a lot for me to actually buy software, but you get the whole download, and don’t have to wait for servers to load pages etc. I know I technically shouldnt, but I’ll pass it through a flash decompiler sometime and strip out the freakishly cool sounds! Give it a go, it’s damn addictive.
Ξ December 7th, 2005 | → 0 Comments | ∇ |
Public Domain Movie Torrents! How freakin’ sweet is this? Free movies in the public domain because they are no longer owned by anyone. As explained on the site:
What is Public Domain?
Works become part of the public domain, meaning no longer OWNED by their creators, when they reach a certain age and/or when the original creator/owner does not renew their copyright.
So it’s totally free and totally legal. Sure, they’re old movies but some are great B movies, especially the martial arts ones.
Don’t listen to those who incite crap: P2P is a fantastic way to share, legally.
Ξ December 5th, 2005 | → 0 Comments | ∇ |
So, not only do Nintendo not sell Japanese games (of which there are literally HUNDREDS more compared to EU releases), in the EU and allow you to play JP games on an EU machine without a freeloader disk or mod-chip, which I can live with and understand because of the language difference, but it’s unsupported outside Japan. I mean, for crying out loud, I just want to load save games from the internet onto it, yet, it wont let me. EDIT: I have just found out you can’t use it for save games. It’s only compatible with some games like Animal Crossing where you can take pictures, despite the fact that the Memory slot is merely a slightly modified SD slot anyway.
Nintendo UK/IRE (who are ONLY reachable through a premium rate 0870 number as the “community” has also been disabled on Nintendo’s site; because that would be free help) tell me that they can’t help me because the SD Memory adapter isn’t avaliable in the EU and works with JP games, where it was originally manufactured. What the hell is the point in that?? It serves no purpose than just pissing off people in the EU who seek out this equipment, despite Nintendo telling me, “there’s no EU market”. It’s like not allowing a video cable you bought abroad to work on a EU TV or something. Even if there’s no market, the fact that users should be entitled to the choice should be enough to leave it open. Sure, don’t provide support, but also don’t deliberately hinder us. Nintendo are still getting money for it at the end of the day, even if it was from the other side of the world. Just because there’s no obvious market doesn’t mean there’s noone in the EU that might want one.
Thanks for nothing, Nintendo. Please don’t end up like Sony.
Ξ December 4th, 2005 | → 0 Comments | ∇ |
41 minutes into Episode 9 of Season 2 of ‘Lost’ there’s a strange hand suddenly appear in shot…
Ξ December 2nd, 2005 | → 0 Comments | ∇ |
ABIT AN8 SLI
I always seem to have a love of ABIT boards, ever since I owned the BD7II-RAID. Currently I run an ABIT AW8-MAX, which has also silent heatpipe goodness and it’s yet another great ABIT board that runs sweet as a nut. That’s the problem with buying hardware, you can read all the reviews you want and still have problems somewhere with something (especially if it’s concerning DDR2). So most people buy into what they know, rather than risk new brands or ones that have previously shown problems. This is why companies like ECS find it hard to break into the enthusiast market.
On the topic of heatpipes - why didn’t Microsoft use something like Shuttle’s ICE tech in making a heatpiped CPU and GPU cooler? Surely drawing the heat through metal pipes towards and directly out the back of the 360 would have worked better than a plastic duct? I’d also like to know if the 360 motherboard holes are the same or similar to something like an LGA socket, which would make watercooling a whole lot easier (and a whole lot quieter and more expensive too).
On the topic of consolse - Gamecube games are always so expensive! Even budget games cost £18. Super Smash Football is nearly £40! However I did manage to get Naruto Gekitou Ninja Taisen 4 from lik-sang which should be arriving in the next few weeks! WOOHOO! Forget DoA 4.. pff.
Zelda: Twilight Princess is also taking forever, but that will undoubtably be worth paying the full whack for.
On the topic of fighting games - Why is it none of them ever contain everything you want, how you like it. They all do things differently but none of them are both elegently simple and yet, still complicated enough to continually entertain you.
