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Quote: JonCole : As if Valve heard my video card's cry, Crysis Maximum Edition is the weekend deal on Steam. Once I'm done downloading, I'm curious to see how it'll run. Do tell! I'm interested to hear. I thought my rig was pretty hardcore, but Crysis brought it to its knees. What proc have you got?

I just came from the movies by the way. It was a twofer, by which I mean that I paid for a single ticket, but just snuck into another movie when the first one was done. That was the first time I ever did something like that. The movie I paid for was This Is It, which I was suckered into believing would be halfway decent. But it was tremendously boring and failboat. Even through an ironic Michael Jackson-is-crazy lens, it doesn't offer...

I second most of the ones mentioned already, but especially Arrested Development , as surprisingly few people seem to have seen it. Not mentioned already, from the list: The Office (both of them, but the UK one particularly) Dexter Flight of the Concords It's a pretty good list, although not much animation (where's South Park, Family Guy, American Dad, Robot Chicken)? How I Met Your Mother is... watchable. If you can stand to watch...

Me again. If you're after something Electronically uplifting/pulse-raising, Thomas Summer is consistently turning out embarassingly good mixes at the moment. I've just finished listening to his 'Day One' set and it's superb--download it and give it a try for a good taster.

Quote: Rawru : From what I've heard Precious is actually a confidence booster? Sort of? It's about someone who's been crapped on by life but is an amazing person. A select few people notice this and try to get her to be... victorious? I cant think of the right word. So, dark and 'mature' in a lot of ways, but also courageous and uplifting? I haven't seen it so I guess I cant say, thats just what I picked up from...

Quote: Scrobbs : So what is the point behind Precious? To clarify a little, I know of people things like this have happened to in real life (lot of friends who work in mental health in Leeds), with no happy ending etc. - life just carries on, leaving them a mental ruin. I have very little desire to see a film in which it happens. I get the feeling, from Ebert's review, that it's not going to happen. I don't know. I'll tell...

I know what he looks like, it's just this guy really looked like him but with a beard. I know Kieron has flirted with beardry before, but I wasn't sure if he has one at the moment. So I got TP to go check for me

Jason Scott can be a bit of a blowhard at times, but he does have good insight into old BBS and network history. He had a presentation recently about low-fi porn, ANSI, Atari, BBS stuff, that was kinda interesting and amusing.

So what is the point behind Precious? To clarify a little, I know of people things like this have happened to in real life (lot of friends who work in mental health in Leeds), with no happy ending etc. - life just carries on, leaving them a mental ruin. I have very little desire to see a film in which it happens.

Quote: bbX1138 : Oh shit, I forgot about that. And it wasn't even him, was it? Jesus, any more stories of what a drunken pillock I was that night? Not you weren't, you were actually quite good in bed JamesM said.