Marsh

I deleted a lot of my friends list. Have readded you now.

Browse the net [thanks to my monitor switch making it oh so tempting to switch between the PC and 360 during loading screens and dull cutscenes] and a friend of mine has a nifty portable DVD player that he uses to watch standup comedy or Family Guy.

I finished solo tour vocals on expert today. Then I celebrated by scoring 100% on Sabbath's Paranoid. I had achievements pouring out of my eyeballs. Next I'll try and master the drums, but the few times I have tried it with friends I have struggled on easy and found medium impossible. I can't use my feet and arms at the same time, it's like trying to swat a fly and drive at the same time. I get distracted and end up kicking when I'm supposed to be drumming, and vice versa. My coordination on the drums is diabolical. I don't even want to think about hard/expert right now. Guitar I'm saving until last because I can do that alright thanks to Guitar Hero. That way I can finish the game with some dignity, rather than screaming and shouting about what a pile of shite song X is.

Looks better. One thing I would suggest for that particular piece is selecting the left hand edge of your piece (where you can see the join) and feathering the edge so it isn't so harsh. There's no right or wrong way to do a mural, it's just a bit of fun, but it's best if you can't see the join. Another method would be cutting around the edge of the blue & orange warp pattern to remove the warped sand texture. Without that, it would probably flow more naturally.

I'm a bit put off by it being a 1-player game, but I have Batman Begins for the PS2 and would be interested in this as well. Like others, despite my registered interest I won't be rushing out to buy it. I'll wait for some reviews. My purchase basically hinges on whether or not it is a good quality game. They have my interest but have to prove their game is worth my £40.

^ This.

Today I bought the Guitar Hero 3 bundle from Tesco for £44 after lots of nagging from friends. Had a woman in the supermarket bitch about me very loudly to her husband because I didn't say thank you when she stopped her trolley to let me through. I kept my cool because I didn't want to curbstomp any parasitical chain-smoking jizz swallowers tonight when I could be playing Guitar Hero. Waited ages for the cashier to get the real game out of the warehouse. I think their warehouse was somewhere near The Moon. That's how long it took. Meanwhile, I got chatting to another cashier who seemed quite smug that Tesco were selling it so cheap. Brought it home. Started to unpack the contents of the box and put the guitar together. Got nagged some more by friends ringing me to see if I had it yet. Finished putting the guitar together and popped my Guitar Hero cherry. Boom! Pure awesomeness. Played a few games online and then launched into career mode. 23 songs and 2 bosses later, at 2AM, it's time for a break. I want to play it again already.

This might sound incredibly stupid, but I had no idea who Fox was until I watched the film. Have I been living under a rock or something? I thought it was just Alfred [and Raj Al Ghul?] that knew Bruce Wayne was Batman. Why have I never heard of Fox before in relation to Batman?

They giggled through the entire movie? Did they stop every now and then to breathe?

I've preordered this on Play.com for £29.99 Will be nice to get something a bit different from SvR. I bought all the SmackDown games until 2007 (that's 8 of them). After that, I figured I had bought the same game enough times and avoided 2008. Whether TNA iMPACT! is any good or not, it'll make a refreshing change to buy a different wrestling game.

Megadrive wins for me. Toejam & Earl Sonic Streets of Rage Golden Axe Lion King Bubsy Chuck Rock Cool Spot Psycho Pinball Turtles Hyperstone Heist Theme Park Slime World All rocked. SNES admittedly had Super Bomberman, but that was eventually ported to the Megadrive as well.

Fuck, that was yesterday?

Turns out Avril Lavigne isn't cool anymore so either I have to go by myself or not at all. That's quite a bitchy thing to do after I bought her the tickets. She's laying in bed catching up on sleep instead. There's no way I'm driving 4 hours to Cardiff and 4 hours back on my own. Then getting home at 3am and getting up for work at 8am. This is an annoying waste of £70. *Moan*

God-Awful, I'd love to, but I don't have tickets. If there are still some available nearer the time I'll almost definitely go. I don't normally book things so far in advance. K, I'm living in Kent. So I was thinking that if they were gigging up north I'd have to drive up past you anyway. I really know nothing about Pip's shows - which are worth going to, etc, so I'll trust your judgement on it and go to whichever one you suggest, wherever that may be.

I was probably adjusting my monocle at the time.

K, let me know when / where it is and I'll drive up there, picking you up along the way. I wasn't joking, I actually want to see Pip.

I've just booked tickets to see Avril Lavigne on Saturday in Cardiff. It's more for the other half, and I wasn't sure whether she would rather a surprise Avril gig or a surprise Girls Aloud gig. I went with Avril because I like her music better than I do Girls Aloud. I think I'd prefer Avril with laryngitis over Girls Aloud. I think I seem to pick all the unpopular-with-EWB bands, like Nickelback and now Avril Lavigne. If it's any consolation, I want to see Kate Nash. Her MySpace also pimps Scroobius Pip, which means I want to see them as well by proxy. Anyone else going? This thread is about celebrating Avril Lavigne, and how her music doesn't rock my world but the idea of an Avril gig is far more appealing than it should be. Because it's Avril Lavigne.

Try the back button. It changes your view.

360: DTVincent

F-A-Q. It's an abbreviation of Frequently Asked Question. It is not an acronym. An example of an acronym is FIFA or IKEA - these spoken words exist independently to their abbreviated counterparts (I.K.E.A.) to form a word that refers to 'Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd' but is not that word. Another example is the commonly used word 'laser'. This is an acronym for 'Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation' - but laser is a word in its own right. Frequently Asked Question is abbreviated to F-A-Q, but that word cannot be turned into an acronym. Although people can turn it into an acronym if they try hard enough, it would only serve to remove clarity as many people you speak to would not understand what you are on about- which would lead you to a much lengthier explanation than if you were to have correctly said F-A-Q to begin with. A good example of this would be the Phonejacker sketch, 'Hmv'. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QdIbKzBB1X8 The same bugs me with MySQL / MySequel, SCSI / Scuzzy, etc. Why do people have to try so hard to be smart or clever? Why can't they just stick to abbreviations as they were intended?

And what software you use. I'm using The GIMP, for example.

Lol, does it really say Kittie? *Squints* Yeah, I can just about see that now. I was sitting here thinking, "Does it say King? Kune? Or is the N a H?" Good job overall though. Sorry if I sounded harsh.

^ I really can't read the text on this one. They are all very busy / scratchy / grungy. I prefer it when you do other styles. These images would give me a headache after a while. For example, the picture of Orton kicking Triple H in the head is not needed, it just makes the image busier. The fact that there's another picture of Orton hiding the kick, just makes it confusing, in a "Why is there a random pair of legs in an Orton sig?" kind of way. The other thing I would say is that I don't like the random contrast / brightness changes that you can see on Quinton's (?) body. Why are they there? If it's just random stocks over the top, I don't like it. Sorry. There are things I do like about them as well, like how in the second image the background is clearly defined as the band looking at themselves, with the foreground picture being presented as the focus very well, both by the outline on the cut and also the subtle suggestion of where you should be looking because of the background girls looking at the foreground cut as well. But yeah, none of them are awful or anything. It's the style of them as much as anything that I dislike looking at, and what's one mans junk is another mans treasure - so I'm probably not the best person to critique this type of image.

If you felt that way with a $170 price tag, how would you have felt with a $360 price tag? That is effectively what we are facing. Plays price is definitely a step in the right direction.