Bushmeister

Spoiler: Click here to viewLet me restate what I said: Start by shooting the three yellow crystals around his head, then shoot at his head until it pops open. Then use the jump pads around you (should be easy to find those) to jump over his head and fire into his brain until he dies)

Errr, being slightly drunk, I'll spoiler this as well (though honestly, who the hell hasn't played through the original Half-Life?) Spoiler: Click here to viewAfter you shoot at Nihilanth/the nodes around his head enough, his head should pop open. There is a teleport that will throw you into the air just above him - just fall into his brains to kill him and clear the boss.

A direct-yet-not-so-direct descendant from punk, grindcore. To clarify, it grew from such extreme punk acts as Discharge, and blossomed into the bands that are still revered in the genre such as Napalm Death, Terrorizer, Repulsion and Extreme Noise Terror. From the early years in the 80's, grind has grown to encompass such things as goregrind (grind with brutal death metal elements) and cybergrind (grind with industrial elements), but even with the addition of new subgenres the general direction of grind has remained very narrow and focused. It is much easier to branch out to death metal and/or metal in general than remain a grindcore band while still pushing the envelope of the genre, but I personally dig the defined boundaries that cage in one of the most extreme styles of music to be found on the planet today.

Thrash Metal Hatesphere Carnal Forge Deathchain National Napalm Syndicate (I pretty much hate thrash metal, so this is the most you'll get out of me) Speed Metal Persuader Rage Progressive Metal Isis Pelican Cult Of Luna Russian Circles Jesu Sludge Metal Acid Bath Soilent Green Mistress The Melvins Buzzov-En (also sometimes spelled as Buzzov-DOT-en) Eyehategod Death Metal (I have no idea how heavy you want this, so here's some random suggestions) Nile Unleashed Dismember Vital Remains Behemoth (only the two most recent albums, "Demigod" and "The Apostasy") Deeds Of Flesh Severe Torture Hate Eternal Meshuggah Hacride Wormed Human Mincer Lykathea Aflame Skinless Melodic Death Metal Eucharist Dimension Zero Armageddon Scar Symmetry Dew Scented

You could try Pommiradio, the only Finnish metal Internet radio station. If you're not afraid of some drunken Nordic babble every now and then, they play a very wide variety of metal music throughougt the day. Go to www.taajuus.fi, it's the topmost station on the list.

Smokin' Aces I went to the rental shop looking for a fun, non-pretentious movie and settled on Smokin' Aces. It was pretty much what I expected: guns, blood, Alicia Keys' boobies and a slew of psychopaths larger than what Thomas Harris could produce in a few decades. I personally am a sucker for these types of movies and series that feature a huge cast of off-the-wall comic stereotypes, and in that respect Smokin' Aces brought the goods (come on, you can't watch this movie and not love the Tremor brothers). The actors were anything from average to good-great (in Ray Liotta's case) and I was pretty surprised that despite the somewhat flat characters no-one slacked off on their performance. Some good visuals too, especially with the few brief torture scenes and seeing people get shot with vastly oversized weaponry. The ending wasn't up to snuff with the rest of the film, but I could forgive that.

Playing Defcon with mates is out of this world, one of the funniest multiplayer games I know. What you need for Defcon is some humour, a few good friends and a lot of twisted strategies to turn everyone else's territory into glowing, radioactive rubble inhabited by naught but cockroaches and Keith Richards. Also, stokes, if you find Defcon a short game, maybe you should play it in Office mode. Hours of fun, guaranteed.

I'd kill for a show with Earth-Sunn O)))-Khanate headlining.

You're not alone, GoGo. I can see the point in someone being upset over Frogger being on the list (although crying for Albert Wesker, a character from perhaps the most haphazard game series ever, seems a bit redundant to me ), but I didn't nominate or vote for any such characters, so I don't care. And on the plus side, pretty much everyone who I voted for is either still coming or didn't even make the list at all, so I'm still riding the suspense train

Hit 62 recently and finally bought my epic mount. To celebrate the occassion, I re-specced my warlock from deep Demonolgy to Affliction/Demonology. It is excessively amusing to have three ogres beat on you and fail to do any real damage because you can drain/regen HP faster than they can take it away

Wait, wait, wait. Piracy killed the music industry? What? Did I miss a memo here or something?

So far everyone I have voted for seems to be in good standing. Unless Blanka and the like got 15 votes or something each... Then my choices seem to be fucked Or at least my #1 choice could be.

Marduk | Emperor Vital Remains | Meshuggah Wormed | Lykathé | Pig Destroyer Anal Cunt | Cause For Effect | Nox Just an all-out, balls-to-the-wall extreme metal romp for a full day.

Professional singers (opera singers etc. people with actual and serious vocal training behind them) can usually hold a note long and steady enough so that their live stuff doesn't differ from their recorded material. Surprisingly, a lot of pop, rock and metal singers do not fall into this category of "professional singers", thus leads to a lot of the difference you hear when listening to a band on the record and then again live. However, there are bands out there that are way better live than on record, Korpiklaani being one of them. The sheer energy and stage presence they possess live is just something that cannot be translated onto a CD, ever.

See, I had a time recently when I was REALLY into Pelican, shortly after I first heard "City Of Echoes", got hold of all their albums, loved them. Now I can't listen to them anymore, purely because I realised the drumming was bland, and somewhat poor. And now, it's all I can hear when I try to listen to them.

"March Into The Sea" by Pelican.

Unleashed are a must. They're very groovy death metal, plus they sing about vikings too so they're right up an Amon Amarth fan's alley. You might also check out the whole viking/folk metal thing and bands like Týr, Ensiferum, Turisas, Falkenbach, Agalloch and Primordial.

1. Guybrush Threepwood (Monkey Island-series) 2. Nameless One (Planescape: Torment) 3. Kane (Command & Conquer-series) 4. The Marine (Doom-series) 5. Larry Laffer (Leisure Suit Larry-series) 6. Frank West (Dead Rising) 7. Toad (Super Mario-series) 8. Jim Raynor (gimme a break here ) (Starcraft) 9. Thrall (Warcraft-series) 10. Max Damage & Red Eagle (Carmageddon-series) I'll let others pick the obvious ones.

Honestly. Who hasn't listened to Summoning needs to right about fucking now. This is what it feels like to hearing all your sword-n-sorcery-fantasies played out chord by chord. This is also EPIC beyond measure. You think power metal is epic? Blah, power metal is just knight ballard Roland-style epic. Summoning is Odyssey-style epic married with Tolkien-style epic bred with Roman fucking warfare-style epic. Just awesome beyond words.