The LBTN Express

Taker is sampled on Violent By Design, I think the track is Death March, not 100% on that though. I'm a huge Jedi Mind fan, and love all their work. What do you think of the albums you've got of theirs? I'm interested to know as I know Visions of Ghandi was slated but I thought it was great album, the latin flavor and especially the stand out track Tibetan Black Magicians.

I think it's bullshit to change the rating way after it's release for something that is not supposed to be accessible. The way I think about it is, if these supposed kids are downloading these things for maxdrives, for their PC, then they'll probably already be downloading porn.

Does anyone know where I could get a good 2005 update for this game? Also does anyone know where to download any patches for it? I've been searching round google and could only find one place, but the downloads didn't work. Thanks. Also whilst we're on the subject of ICC games has anyone heard anything about ICC2005. Sounds good with the inclusion of the Twenty20 game.

Yeah the ECW text is almost impossible to read and Bubbha needs moving slightly. 7/10.

The pkm files are stuff like goals, so if your running extra detail on every league you're running you'll have a whole host of stored goals from every game simmed somewhere in your game file that will slow the game down.

The best duo I've had up front was Torres and Ronaldo whilst playing at Chelsea. They were backed up by Drogba (who kept netting 15+ goals a season despite playing off the bench), Beattie (Used as a bit of extra muscle in Euro & Cup games) and Filippe Oliveira sp? (Who I brought up through the youth and reserves). The striker I've signed that was best value for money is in my current game as Notts Forest, Henri Camara who netted 39 goals in all competitions.

Just got Notts Forest promoted back into the Premiership with what is to be fair a mediocre team (I posted it earlier in the thread). Thomas Myhre, despite my assistant telling me he wasn't a worthwhile signing, took the league by storm keeping 20+ clean sheets. Some of the credit has to go to Michael Dawson who despite constant offers from bigger clubs I managed to keep ahold of and keep happy. Kris Commons has come through great which I knew he would after I offloaded Andy Reid. But the main reason for the promotion is Henri Camara who signed from Wolves in the summer for 1.3million. He had a great season scoring 39 in all competitions, just missing the 40 mark due to playing in the African Nations Cup. Peter Crouch, my other main striker had a dissapointing season after signing for 1million from Soton. I thought him and Henri would get at least 50 goals between them, but Crouch only managed to find the net 5 times all season. I've made some big signings in the summer, all bosmans, due to not having any money to buy people with. Chris Sutton, Keiran Dyer and a Czech DC (Can't remember his name) have all signed despite only being offered around £9,500 to £11,500 in wages each. I'm fairly optimistic about the upcoming season but my main aim is to not finish bottom of the league because I know I'm going down. But I'm confident I'll bounce straight back up with the youngsters and the 'stars' I've got, all of which I'll be able to keep because I've stuck to a realistic budget knowing that if I went crazy and we went down we'd almost certainly go into administration.

Team America - 8/10 Awesome stuff from Trey and Matt. The only films that have made me laugh out loud in the last year are this and Napoleon Dynamite. An Evening With Kevin Smith - 9/10 I'd been meaning to pick this up for some time and I finally did. Kevin Smith is an absolute genius and this two disc DVD set proves it. The feature is 3 and half hours long and not one part of it is boring or in the least bit tedious. A must get for any Smith fan. Clerks - 9/10 After watching the above DVD I thought I'd rewatch Clerks and it never gets old, awesome movie.

Yyyyup. UP's right on the money here. The only song he didn't mention that I'd add is God. I think that one's rather powerful. ←

Sin City - 8.5/10 Closer - 6.5/10

100 Bullets is a good one. Another one of my personal faves is Preacher by Garth Ennis about a half-angel/half-demon hybrid that is hunting down a cowardly and craven God to punish him for failing mankind. It's one of the best comics I've read. I don't know if it's still going as I got my stuff (issues 1-30) off ebay a few years ago.

What you've got to take into account is the eras Pele and Maradonna played in. When Pele played it was pretty much common for him to be kicked all over the pitch and it's amazing that he never had a major serious injury. If Pele played in the early 80's to late 80's he'd have been even better than he was.

Currently in my second season as Notts Forest, just outside the playoffs at about the half way stage after a pretty poor first season (14th) which saw all my star players (apart from Dawson) leave. Andy Reid went to Wigan for 2.5million after bitching about wanting to move to a bigger club. David Johnson started bitching so he went to Birmingham for 2.8million and then Marlon King, who I was going to build my team around next season also wanted out so he went to Villa for 500k, so I played much of the season without a real front two as I settled for Gareth Taylor and Craig Westcarr. I signed Mark Kennedy from Wolves for 1.2million and he was playing well till he got injured and then he wanted out, so I offloaded him to Gillingham for 600k. Fortunately Kris Commons is like a god, so after going through Reid and Kennedy, Commons who was in my reserves has come through and has around 16-18 assists so far. For this season I also bolstered my attack with the signings of Peter Crouch (for 1mill after he netted 10 in 9 games on loan at QPR), Henri Camara (1.3mill) and Leon Knight (250k) and all are banging in goals, especially Camara who has 16 in 12 starts. I also got Alex Sheehan from someone (can't remember who) and he's awesome at left back, I think he's 17/18 years old too. So here's my current team GK - Thomas Myhre DR - Chris Baird DL - Alex Sheehan DC - Michael Dawson DC - Wes Morgan / Andy Todd ML - Kris Commons MR - Eugen Bopp / Paul Devlin MC - Robert Hughes / Richard Langley MC - Paul Evans (Player Of The Year) FC - Henri Camara FC - Leon Knight / Peter Crouch Also, mudda how much did you sign Torres for or did you get him on a bosman? It took me 36.5million to get him for Chelsea.

You'll have quite a problem on your hands, at least from my experience. And in my Chelsea game, I was 10 pts ahead of Arsenal during Christmas, but they have started gaining ground on me and reduced the deficit to just 5 pts after my run of draws after Xmas. But I've just got Rio Ferdinand to join me . He's been transfer-listed by his own request at Man Utd, and I managed to buy him for 22 m euros. Let's hope he'll stop the last-minute goals that I've been conceding. ←

1. Star Wars: MARK HAMILL 2. Jay & Silent Bob: Mark Hamill to BEN AFFLECK 3. Paycheck: Ben Affleck to UMA THURMAN 4. Kill Bill: Uma Thurman to LUCY LIU 5. Charlies Angels: Lucy Liu to SAM ROCKWELL 6. Welcome To Collingwood: Sam Rockwell to WILLIAM H. MACY 7. Magnolia: William H. Macy to TOM CRUISE 8. Collateral: Tom Cruise to JAMIE FOXX 9. Any Given Sunday: Jamie Foxx to CAMERON DIAZ 10. The Sweetest Thing: Cameron Diaz EDIT: Wasn't that hard really, I could have gone quite a few ways on each of them, I must own a lot of DVD's (somewhere in the 400 mark). Might try one with just actresses and one with just actors later when I get home and can check my collection.

Any Stoupe beat that he's done with Jedi Mind, plus the whole of the Rip The Jacker album (that was pure gold). Plus a lot of RZA's stuff on Genius/GZA's Liquid Swords. That's just some great Dark Fu production and beats. EDIT: Added an 's'

I think it was Jay-Z saying he'd dumbed down (simplified his lyrics) for his audience/mainstream to sell more records, saying if lyrics alone sold, he'd be more like Kweli. Same with Kweli saying if lyrics sold he'd be rich. At least that's what I took it as when I first heard it.

I've got a game going where I'm in my sixth year at the moment. I started off at Chelsea winning the league three times in a row. Then in my fourth year I was sacked whilst sitting in fourth, not too far behind, with Ronaldo (7 months, cruciate), Torres and Lampard all injured (which is why I was in fourth). I had an awesome team. When I was sacked I was immediately offered the Portugal job, so I took it, deciding I'd take a year out of club management. I've got a 100% record with Portugal and have qualified for the next World Cup, with the next game being a friendly against England. Near the end of the fifth season, I saw that Middlesborough were in need of a new manager. They'd been fucked over it seemed, barely able to put out a team without including reserves and youth team players. So I took it, with them being pretty much safe from relegation, giving me time to rebuild. I kept them out of relegation, finishing 17th. I'm now about 12 games into the next season, 3rd in the league with only one loss and about 5-6 points ahead of my old club Chelsea (who have won the league 5 times in a row) which is great. During the summer I managed to make a number of world class additions to the squad with my World Class rating as a manager going a long way to helping me do that. I signed, Yakubu, Hubschmann sp? (Central Defender and is awesome), Mathiu Flamini (from Chelsea), Maxwell (Brazilian leftback), Simon Francis (Right back who I took a gamble on as he was awesome when he played for Bradford a year or so ago in real life), Amdy Faye (who has been great this season) and last but not least Ronaldo, who took a huge paycut to join me at Middlesborough after falling out of favour at Chelsea due to injuries. When Ronaldo signed, he went down with another cruciate injury for 9 months, I put him in rehab and he was back within two months and has just started playing again making three appearances as sub and scoring twice. I might post my squad a bit later when I get home and can get into my game.

At least it's better than the last one and if it wasn't for the collar this would actually be pretty decent.

As long as they sort out the AI I'll be picking this up, like when they'd get to the last tackle in their own half, or any other time they'd never kick it, instead they'd just take the tackle setting you up with great possession and an almost guaranteed try.

I'm going to wait a bit, see what people say about it before I jump in and buy it because I'm content enough playing FM for the time being.

David Beckham is overated. He's underperformed in every major tournament and he needs to be taken of the time for a period of time to give him a kick up the backside to start making him play to his full potential or just have SWP replace him for good. I honestly don't see the attraction in David Beckham, sure he can work hard and take some good free kicks and corners, but I haven't seen him do that for a while for England and to have him take every single corner and free kick is no good, it needs some variation as teams/players start to get wise to same type of in swinging or out swinging corner every time. He's not as overated as some (Gary Neville, dont get me started on him.), but he is not as valuable to the England team as made out to be.

KOTOR is the best RPG I've ever played. It ranks somewhere in my top 3 games of all time. The Sith Lords (KOTOR II) isn't released over here till the 11th of Feb and I'm eagerly anticipating it's release.

I found the quickest way to the circle, landing etc part of fligth school was to get off the ground as quickly as possible, pulling back on the analog stick as soon as you set off. Then as soon as your off the ground close the landing gear then head for the first corona at the slightest angle. It takes about two or three seconds off your overall time.