It improved a little cos I got to talk to **** on the phone… hehe! But the day ended bad cos the guy whom I’m avoiding kept calling and smsing me non-stop and I made a mistake in falling for his trick to get me to call him. He messaged me saying that he had something to tell me. Was contemplating if I should call back in which I did in the end cos I was thinking what if it was something important. Was so angry that I could not sleep last night. Anyway today improved a whole lot. Saw pingz in school. Was so happy to see her!!! Then after that I saw ****…. hahaha!Even more happy!!! Hopefully nothing spoils the ending of my day.
You might want to check out the 700 or so words of text next to the score - that should clear up any confusion you have as to why we gave the game the score we gave it.
I truly appreciate approach to videogame reviews. Simply assigning a score and a nice summary to a game is not enough to spark my interest.
What really gets me excited about gaming is the critical analysis of the industry that provides. It’s fun to “eavesdrop” on your conversations from week to week on the podcast and learn not oniy about new games but aiso about the people and organizations behind those games. I can get information from any Joe Schmo on the Internet with a blog, but what keeps me coming back is the fact that doesn’t settle for 5 out of 10. You say the things that need to be said, and you offer valuable analysis on various games and issues. I oftentimes don’t agree with you, but your analysis forces me to think about why I prefer certain types of games over others.
Because of this thought process, I find myself enjoying a larger percentage of games that I purchase for reasons I can clearly identify.
Please continue to do what you are doing. I’m sure it’s demoralizing when somebody on the message boards gives you a hard time for reviewing a game less favorably than they would have, but know that ! respect you guys for being willing to write reviews that accurately represent your actual experience with the game and not what you had hoped It wouid be. Thanks for your hard work and your engaging material.
10 Out Of 10!
Feb 7
To the guys who write the game reviews: Thanks for giving me the heads-up on what s out there, what’s coming up next, and what to avoid. After all, my time is precious, and I don’t want to waste it trying out something lame. Instead, I can focus on checking out the types of games I like, that you have reviewed positively. Once in awhile you are way off, but more often than not, you give me really useful information that saves me tons of time.
I read everything in the mag (even the technical stuff). It gives me lots of info that I can use to argue with the other gamers I run into. It’s aiso useful having helpful hardware recommendations - from what I’ve read, I have compiled a master “wish list” of gaming equipment I hope to acquire in the future. By the way, my parents love that one, too!
New Guy in Town
Feb 3
A new guy in town walks into a bar and notices a large jar filled to the brim with $10 bills. The man approaches the bartender and asks, “What’s up with the jar?”
“Well, you pay $10, and if you pass three tests, then you get all the money.”
“What are the three tests?” asks the man
“Gotta pay first.”
So the guy gives him the $10 bucks, and the bartender adds it to the jar.
“OK, here’s what you have to do. First, you have to drink that whole bottle of pepper tequila — the WHOLE thing at once — and you can’t make a face while doing it. Second, there’s a pit bull chained up out back with a sore tooth. You have to remove the tooth with your bare hands. Third, there is a 90-year-old woman upstairs who’s never had an orgasm in her life. You gotta make things right for her.”
Boring Insider Stuff
Feb 2
The game reviewing/publishing industry is in a rather strange state, with you all being funded by the companies whose products you rate. I hope that they (the major game publishers) reaiize that if readers feel that they aren’t getting honest opinions, they will just assume you guys are shilis, no better than a marketing department. This will make us ignore good ratings even if a game truly deserves it, which in the end hurts their sales. Your review of a game like Crysis was much more spot on than a certain major competitor who gave it a 98 percent…and you know what, I still went out and bought the game. GASP!
We’re Still Friends!
Jan 28
I have friends that I can rely on for reviews of places to eat, music, et cetera. I thought we were friends. You guys have been pushing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. for quite awhile, and the price was right, as I was looking for something new to play. Where to start? Long load times, a system hog (and yet grainy-looking graphics at the same time), and more importantly, disappointing gameplay. The point-and-click text interface is more suited for an adventure game. Lotsa needless wandering around, limited health resources - you get the point. I gotta say, you guys fooled me will be more selective in the future.
This is an enjoyable book based on the author’s mother’s stories and recollections. Anyone who is thinking of putting together a record of family history might take it as a model. Around his mother’s stories the author weaves songs, newspaper cuttings, photographs, and extracts from her cookery books to produce a readable life history.
However, it aims to be not only a life history and a record of one woman’s narrative repertoire, but also a social history. The best bits of social history are probably Ruby Lanham’s accounts of horses and hare coursing. It does give some idea of life in the agricultural depressions of the 1920s and 1930s in rural Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, but the treatment is personal and to some extent “story-fied” by the author’s mother, who was plainly an accomplished storyteller. There is also a fair amount of presentation of self going on in these stories, as Mrs Lanham justifies what she had made of her life. These polished performances may lead to good storytelling, but that is not necessarily the same thing as good history.
Nevertheless, the book does not claim to be a scholarly one, and as a family history it works very well; so we can forgive it this small fault. Overall I enjoyed it, and can recommend There’s a Story That My Mother Told: So I Know It to Be True
as a good read.
This book contains, in facsimile, the texts of twelve short works reporting the trials and misdeeds of various alleged witches, ranging in date from the anonymous The Examination and Confession of certaine Wytches at Chelmsforde (1566) to Francis Bragge’s Witchcraft Further Display’d (1712). Among the woodcuts decorating some of these texts is the frequently reproduced scene of the “swimming” of a witch (title page to Witches Apprehended, Examined and Executed, 1613), the NewburyWitch riding a plank on a river (A most Certain, Strange, and True Discovery of a Witch, 1643), plus a fine gallery of grotesque animal familiars. I have to confess that although the result is undeniably quaint and picturesque, I have some doubt as to the value of facsimile reproduction. Reading tight-packed blackletter print is a visual strain, and I would not choose to study documents in this format rather than in the simpler (and cheaper) option of faithful transcription into amodern font. It appears from the comments in Marion Gibson’s introduction that each text has been chosen to exemplify some underlying aspect of witchcraft accusations and trial—gender politics, sexist stereotyping, political conflict, class, religious assumptions, and above all the roles of women as accused or accusers. This is, of course, in keeping with the aims of the series of which this volume forms part. Her discussion of these socio-historical themes, although brief, is valuable.
Fifty-Dollar Bet
Nov 21
This guy who works at a pickle factory comes home and hands his wife 50 dollars. She asked him what it was from and he told her that he won it in a bet — the guys at the factory bet him 50 dollars that he wouldn’t stick his dick in the pickle slicer.
The wife was surprised and said she wanted to make sure he was still intact. He pulled down his pants and, indeed, it was all there, unharmed.
“But what about the pickle slicer,” asked the wife, perplexed. “Oh, she liked it too,” answered the husband.
Three Men and a Stripper
Oct 2
Three men went into a stripper bar and this stripper came over to them and started to shake her ass.
The first guy goes, “Watch this,” so he licks a 50 dollar bill and sticks it on her ass.
The second guy goes, “Oh yeah? Watch this,” so he takes a 100 dollar bill and licks it and sticks it on her ass.
The third guy goes “That’s nothing!” He takes out his credit card, slides it down her ass crack and takes the money.