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I dunno if you read this...

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but it's hilarious.

That was wonderful!

Looking forward to the new series, if only to see what Moffat will bring to it.

I shall learn how clocks work and change my beard styling.

I was really looking forward to the announcement of Wolverine on Ice: The Musical. Then everyone had to be all sensible and point out all the reasons why the takeover probably wouldn't affect Marvel in any big way

It is a really good game and it's well worth playing, but if you can handle waiting until a price drop, do so

I'm not very good with scary films - The Orphanage keeps getting mentioned, but I found it more mysterious than scary. Rec is a good choice though.

Eden Lake hasn't been mentioned yet? I found it exceptionally disturbing, rather than outright scary, but it did the job.

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STAR TREK! Holy fuck! AMAZING!

Just saw it. It made me feel all tingly inside.

I'm trying to read "Fateful Choices" by Ian Kershaw, who I love because of his Hitler biographies, but I just can't get into this one.

In the meantime, I'm on book 3, part one of "A Song of Ice and Fire," which was rather randomly lent to me by an off-license worker. I am now addicted to the series.

I got Alliance by Jonathan Fenby, which is all about Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt in all their merry meetings together. Bar Antony Beevor's stuff, it's so far been one of the few non-fiction books that has genuinely gripped me.

Other than that, I have the entire Calvin and Hobbes collection being sent to me this next week. Joy!

The original Clone Wars cartoon was really fucking good - but I hate CGI and am not the least bit interested in watching this film.

I loved the cartoon and its style, and I don't mind CGI in films (Pixar, dammit), but I don't really care for this. The cartoons didn't really seem to be taking themselves too seriously, which I always thought was the best fun of Star Wars. This does, however.

I saw this the other day. First time I've ever laughed at Garfield

The scene was a bit extraneous, but maybe it had something to with them just having been in a helicopter crash and being even more disoriented than they already were???

True, still had the presence of mind to pick up the camera and continue filming though.

I suspect the distributors had more to do with the inclusion of that scene - "but when do we actually SEE the monster? - research shows that 27.83% more popcorn is sold when you get to see the monster" - type of thing!

Yeah, I was a bit surprised with that scene. Really didn't expect to see the monster in such detail beyond the out-of-focus shots we got for the rest of the film.

I loved it. Probably more than I expected, and particularly due to the fact that the film never really explained anything, because why the devil should any of the characters have that sort of information?

Suffered a tiny bit from stupid-character syndrome, which seems to bug me more nowadays than it used to, particularly:

4. How the fuck could you fail to see a skyscraper sized monster when turning round to get the camera?!?!?

I almost laughed at that' date=' wondering how it managed to sneak up on them.

Star Trek trailer made me squee a bit as well :O

I also downloaded the game Fahrenhiet (I know its old but its new to me) its a fuckin great game, totally immersive. It's like a movie, great story, action, suspence and even 1 or 2 scares. Anyone else played it?

My favourite game of 2006, got a bit weird towards the end, but a definite recommendation to anyone.

Portal for 2007, I would have paid the full 30 just for it alone. The Half-Life episodes and TF2 was just the icing on the cake, lie or not

Then you have to read "World War Z" which is the follow up.

It's brilliant.

That's just a fictional story about a massive zombie war, right? I may have to get it

'Guns, Germs and Steel' by Jared Diamond, aka why Eurasians got all the stuff at the expense of everyone else, turns out, its geography.

Just got that today, looking forward to it.

Just finishing Stephen Ambrose' D-Day, which is far too focused on the American landings. He's still very complimentary to the Brits, but not enough to consider this as a good book for an overall view of the landings, and I think just one chapter is devoted to the Canadian beach!

Currently reading Max Brooks The Zombie Survival Guide. Using it as reference material, and it turns out it's a fantastic read

The band name was: Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

Album: List of Street Fighter II V episodes

..... I didn't dare go farther....

Not sure if theses were all this year, but I liked em....

Pan's Labyrinth

I think it was released in 2006, but I only saw it this year and love it muchly. One of my favourite films now

Sign Mika Aaritalo, he's a fucking titan.

Quoted for truth.

First FM game I've ever bought on release, normally I wait a year or so. Enjoying it, though I'm still confused by all the buttons being on the top of the screen. Other than that, it's a FM game, so I'm addicted.

Imperium by Robert Harris, which i just couldnt put down.

Ooh, I'll remember that!

Reading Brian Greene's Elegant Universe, which is a fantastic book about string theory for folk who have no idea about physics/mathematics but find such things interesting. Which means I love it, but am damned if I have to explain it to anybody

There's the Build Centre down by the beach where I used to get my boiler suits, but I don't remember if they do white ones.

Location

Deric Longden's Paws in the Proceedings, which was about as lovely as I expected.

All out of books now, though. Which is a bit of a bugger.

Portal is fantastic, and I felt ever-so-guilty about the automated gun turrets. Never gave a crap about the Companion Cube after meeting them

Working my way through the Half-Life Episodes, which are fantastic regardless. Team Fortress is grand as well. If ever there was a 'well worth the money' game, this is it.

Was all set to go into town to get the new FM, didn't bloody realise this came out as well. Shall have to get it as well, if only for Portal. And everything else that comes with it.

We got a box in to the shop I work at, which was surprisingly fantastic.

I'm not entirely convinced the customers will be able to buy any before the staff have munched their way through.

There isn't, and I haven't heard of any plans for one yet. You may be able to find some good user-mods to download that change the game to a Clone-War setting.

Thanks for reminding me of this game though, I never really gave it a chance, so have dragged it back into the light.