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In Appreciation
In anticipation of Saturday, I pulled out the last discbox. The MP3s roll around on my playlist at work fairly regularly, but I'd forgotten how fucking great it sounds on speakers - they really give it room to breathe (whereas I find their more claustrophobic previous stuff tends to be better on headphones).
Only four more sleeps...
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Fifth post of the year
Fourth one with any content. Third one that wasn't precipitated by an major event outside my control. Hmf.
Firstly, my embarrassingly large Christmas haul:
BooksThe Joke's Over - Ralph Steadman (hopefully going to see Gonzo at the Phoenix tomorrow too ( Read more... ) -
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FUCK YES
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Easter weekend
Got my copy of Odin Sphere, which is absurdly pretty - in my ideal parallel universe where the Saturn reigned supreme and 3D was a failed experiment, all games look like this. I'm not convinced by the play mechanics yet though (particularly the alchemy, which seems to require dozens of items, yet limits you to a tiny inventory ( Read more... ) -
Radiohead tickets
On sale at 10:00AM GMT
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ETA: Dublin tickets on sale now! -
In Rainbows
Got it! Remarkably painless - grabbed at a whopping 300Kb/s and listening now ( Read more... ) -
War!
"War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing!" - Edwin Starr, War ( Read more... ) -
Stop! Bombertime.
Last week, I asked:
Board and card games are the traditional ancestors of the videogame. Many of them have lasted through the ages, unchanged since their conception. There's no need for Chess VIII: Bishop's Last Stand. With the goldfish-like attention span of gamers, could any videogame ever claim such timelessness? Retro compilations do sell, but ( Read more... )