Recent content by Meathands

Really? Six pages in and nobody has pointed out that WiiU is the only lyric in the Doctor Who theme tune? For shame, Escapists. OT: It could be good, but I'm acutely aware that the games I fire up on the Wii most frequently have Gamecube written on the case, and can be played with a bottle in...

The Gary Glitter "I hear you were going for a date with Sue from HR" "Yep, I thought I'd play it low-key and just take her up the Gary Glitter"

I had to drive a van full of soup and shelving to a hotel to build a mock-up of a supermarket aisle with two different types of packaging for market research. One of the odder jobs I've had.

I've just tried it, and can happily confirm that the information is so inaccurate that it might as well be completely useless. The nearest location to my house it's tagged is a clear 14 miles away, and it's decided that I spend nearly all my time in Reading, which is both somewhere I haven't...

Lemmings, on the Atari STE. Which is still a brilliant game, so where's that on XBLA, Microsoft?

I wouldn't have predicted anything about Red Dead, were it not for getting the soundtrack with the game. There were a few definite revelations in the lyrics. Also, I found out the other day that Duke Nukem's going to end with a fucking titanic gun battle, but keep it under your hat, alright?

Whilst I appreciate that the thrust of this thread is whether responsibility lies with child, parent or Microsoft, I feel cheated of a spot of info. How the buggering fuck do you spend that much money on Live? That's got to be an HD movie every night and arcade games on top of that. Who is...

Singing, either quietly while someone speaks to you or loudly as they walk away. Also simply looking straight past people at that thing, yeah, that thing, what the hell is that? It kind of looks like some kind of a thing I should recognise. It's also far more interesting than you. And...

Fresh bread just isn't right unless you've actually sweated into it whilst kneading. Nor are are any Christmas confections worth eating unless you were liberally swigging from a bottle of cooking brandy whilst making them. Man baking is the only thing that works as a visual metaphor for the joy...

Clearly Welsh. Most accents are capable of annoying me, but I could listen to Rhod Gilbert's podcast just for the voice. Plus it's the best way to confuse any tourists who can't follow the language well.

Frankly, I love smoking. I was a 20+ stone teenager before I started smoking, and having tried both means of guaranteeing titanic heart failure, I prefer the one that means I can wear things other than elastic-waisted tracksuits and marquee sized t-shirts. Some people just need to do...

Just had a bit of Elbow in the car, so 'I've been working on a cocktail, called Grounds For Divorce' - Grounds For Divorce For that matter, anything that comes out of Neil Hannon's mouth is poetry.

Recently watching TMWRNJ and Stoppit and Tidyup. TV hasn't been right since the nineties. That, and the proustian rush of cow farms.

Psychonauts. I loved this game, but 3D platformers are anathema to me, and that final bit in the circus ultimately ended with me abandoning gaming for about three weeks. I couldn't stay mad at gaming though, not matter how much it hurts me I know that there's till some love in there.

As far as I'm concerned it's still the best sofa-multiplayer console game that there is. Got a weekend off work coming up and I've already organised to have some friends round and run it through a projector. There is one massive problem with it though, as the Imperial transporter is...