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Comment This heavily borrows from Event Horizon. (Score 1) 87

by Channard on Sunday November 30, 2008 @07:25PM (#25937527) Attached to: <em>Dead Space</em> Highlights Disparity Between Plot and Gameplay

At last I know I'm not the only person to realise what a mediocre game Dead Space is. It really is survival horror by the numbers. In fact, it heavily rips off Event Horizon. I remember wandering back to the ship at the beginning of the game just knowing it was going to blow up. And it did. And then there was the stupid way you were conveniently separated from your fellow crewmen again and again.

Comment Everybody Hates Katamari (Score 2, Insightful) 98

by Channard on Friday November 28, 2008 @11:46AM (#25916297) Attached to: Editor, DLC Coming To <em>Fallout 3</em>

No matter how odd producing DLC so soon after the game's release may seem, it can't beat the Beautiful Katamari DLC for sheer audacity. Which actually unlocked levels that were already there in the game.

Comment And I'll just bet.. (Score 4, Funny) 138

by Channard on Tuesday November 25, 2008 @02:11PM (#25888881) Attached to: 1.4 Billion Pixel Camera To Watch For Asteroids

... the manufacturers only included a 16mb SD card.

Comment Am I just being cynical... (Score 1) 335

by Channard on Tuesday November 25, 2008 @01:35PM (#25888263) Attached to: Arranging Electronic Access For Your Survivors?

.. or would anyone else doubt the supposed claim of a person's death. I know there's been several cases where someone online has supposedly posted their death, just to create drama and attention, only for it to be later revealed they're alive and well? Certainly on networking sites, at least.

Comment More to the point, would you want them to? (Score 4, Funny) 335

by Channard on Tuesday November 25, 2008 @01:21PM (#25888009) Attached to: Arranging Electronic Access For Your Survivors?

'To who it may concern. Please use the below username and password to inform the other posters at AlbinoAmazonAmputeeLovers.com of my sad demise.'

Comment Ubuntu may be fast... (Score -1, Flamebait) 131

by Channard on Tuesday November 25, 2008 @12:09PM (#25886999) Attached to: Benchmarks For Ubuntu vs. OpenSolaris vs. FreeBSD

.. but what it's missing is the ability to easily uninstall it. It's not the only distro not to be easily uninstallable, but it seems daft that you have to start messing about restoring the boot record via Windows boot disk if you want to take it off.

Comment Clone them? They're still with us.. (Score 1) 990

by Channard on Tuesday November 25, 2008 @11:33AM (#25886483) Attached to: Should We Clone a Neanderthal?

Though these days, I believe 'chav' is the proper name given to them.

Journal Journal: MS still won't let you remove your credit card from Live.

Journal by Channard on Tuesday November 25, 2008 @10:27AM

You can argue till you're blue in the face about which the better online service, Microsoft's XBox Live, or Sony's Playstation Network. I think they both have their merits. What I can say for certainty is that there's one respect in which PSN beats Live hands down. And that's the ease by which you can remove your credit card from the service. To remove a credit card from your Playstation Network, you log into your account and select an option in the billing section. To remove your card details f

Comment 'This coffee tastes like piss..' (Score 4, Funny) 176

by Channard on Monday November 24, 2008 @02:49PM (#25875621) Attached to: Drinking Coffee From a Cup In Space

'But it *is* piss, Buzz.' 'Oh good, so it's not just me.' Apologies to Austin Powers.

Comment That'd show him! Or not. (Score 1) 344

by Channard on Monday November 24, 2008 @01:27PM (#25874595) Attached to: Verizon Employees Fired For Snooping Obama's Record

The thing is, even if we were living in some parallel universe where Bush wasn't about to leave office, and this kind of thing could happen, it wouldn't be that great a loss for him. In the UK, at lot of politicians who leave their office for whatever reason end up either working on the board of some big company, or making loads of money on the speaking circuit.

Journal Journal: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (PS3) reviewed.

Journal by Channard on Monday November 24, 2008 @01:08PM

Here's a tip for any games designers out there. If you're taking an existing franchise and introducing a hitherto unknown character, it's a not a good idea to spend the very first level of the game reminding fans how great the old character was. It didn't do Metal Gear Solid 2 any good, and it certainly doesn't do Star Wars: The Force Unleashed any favours either. TFU's first level has you playing as Darth Vader, striding purposefully around the planet of Kashykk, kicking wookie arse. T

Submission + - Student punished for spaghetti beliefs

Submitted by Logicalmoron on Friday March 30, 2007 @04:58PM

Logicalmoron writes: A student has been suspended from school in America for coming to class dressed as a pirate. But the disciplinary action has provoked controversy — because the student says that the ban violates his rights, as the pirate costume is part of his religion. Bryan Killian says that he follows the Pastafarian religion, and that as a crucial part of his faith, he must wear 'full pirate regalia' as prescribed in the holy texts of Pastafarianism. The school, however, say that his pirate garb was disruptive. The school, in North Buncombe, North Carolina, remains adamant that their decision to suspend Killian for a day has nothing to do with his religion, and quite a lot to do with his repeated refusal to heed warnings against wearing pirate outfits. Full Story: http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_artic le_id=43272&in_page_id=2

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