Recent content by bimbley

Argh! I need a new LoK game so badly that simply the mention of it here is likely to leave me constipated for a week. And it's CHRISTMAS god damn you. You've constipated me at christmas! Have you no ethics? Mind you, weren't Raziel and Kain last seen having been shlurped into one being in...

Good idea, because you've made yourself look very stupid. As someone who has bothered to educate themself in something before sounding off like an expert in it, very little annoys me quite as much as the fuckwits who act as though just because they're from England they've got some kind of...

Thanks Brendan, this is really personal but manages to avoid being overly familiar or soppy. I think a lot of people will recognise the willing but confused parent, who doesn't quite 'get' gaming. Yours is a great example of the way any media, including games, can be used to find common ground...

This is actually really interesting. Do you really wish they didn't count? And if so, may I ask why? The general consensus seems to be that there is, at times, an active pursuit of a high post count. And yet the poster with the highest count, (and I must confess to a double-take when I saw...

Ok, I don't want to start a flame war here. I'm just genuinely interested in a frame of mind which I don't understand. I don't float around many web forums, so I'm not sure if this is something that's particular to The Escapist or more widespread, but why do so many people seem to post such...

Be a good chap and point me to the exact point where Tolkein explains that his invented universe is subject to the processes of evolution, would you? I seem to be under the impression that The Silmarillion, (sp?) and Unfinished Tales set out a very specific creationist history. On a more...

One of the truly great moments in gaming history, this. It's rather difficult to recreate the effect of experiencing it for the first time all these years later, since it has become a part of gaming culture. For me the purpose of Mantis is exactly the same as that of Bertolt Brecht's 4th wall...

So glad you picked up on this. I love music and really enjoyed games like Vib-Ribbon and Lammy, but I have some kind of brain-block when it comes to actually understanding musicality. I have nothing but admiration for musical people, but left to myself I struggle to judge which of two similar...

Amen to that. Seems counter-intuitive to be hiding content guys! Yes there's ways around this, but why on Earth would you persist with a change that your readers are forced to counter-act? -Bim

Quite true, but seeing as tigermilk's statement was an incorrect reading of one of mine I think it's worthwhile to correct him or her. It might well be true of other stores, but it isn't what I was suggesting. I also can't guarantee that your local bookshop employee isn't reading a book and...

No... the games used by employees were sold on as preowned. Sounds like good business sense to me. -Bim

Fair enough that sounds like a shitty situation, but it seems to me that your problem was with Mr Duche rather than gutting in general. Say I go to the coffee shop and order an espresso and the server chooses that moment to snap, (his missus left him this morning, his boss made him clean up the...

Interestingly this is very different from my perception of the games retail industry in the UK. I've known a few people who've worked in Game and Gamestation shops, and all of them have been keen gamers. A friend working for Game also told me about how employees were encouraged to take the new...

You might want to consider learning how to spell 'our', reading up on some basic grammar, and rereading your posts to see whether they make any sense before accusing the rest of the world of being 'idiots'. -Bim

Eh? Am I missing something here? Play demo. Like demo. Am an absolute prick who thinks paying for things is for other people. Get pirated game. Play game. Seems like the way it'd go to me. -Bim