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    $2.50 Reviews: Drive (2011)

    Saw this on reddit, it's very relevant: http://imgur.com/a/C3jUq My girlfriend's brother made me watch the film. It's pretty sweet.
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    Album Review: mmpsuf - Retina

    Hey hey! I know I haven't been posting music reviews here for a while now. But I've still been churning them up, and have recently taken up a position at Muzik Dizcovery [http://www.muzikdizcovery.com/]. So if you're ever interested in reading more of my ramblings, that's the place to look. Oh...
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    Caffeine: Skyrim

    Seems I'm not the only one popping his head in again.
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    Dark Souls Post-Review: GotY 2011

    You playing on Xbox? I've just read a comparison thing and apparently there's a delay in attacking/blocking/parrying which isn't evident on the PS3 version.
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    Dark Souls Post-Review: GotY 2011

    I agree with you, though some of their story lines helped a lot. Solair's, especially, was heartbreaking.
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    Dark Souls Post-Review: GotY 2011

    Well, it depends how you see grinding. Skyrim has a bit of grinding for levels, whereas Darks Souls has you grinding just to get better at the mechanics of it. It's perfectly possibly to finish the game without levelling at all, just harder. And there are no "quests", per se, in Dark Souls...
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    Dark Souls Post-Review: GotY 2011

    My experience of Bastion involved a trackpad, so that probably effected things hugely. If it ever hops on over to the PS3, I'll get to experience it without the frustration. Yes I probably should have now that you mention it. Thanks.
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    Dark Souls Post-Review: GotY 2011

    Ehh, really? There's a rhythm to it, and definitely no examples - anywhere - of it being "delayed". As far as shield bashing goes (I presume you're not talking about parrying), I think the option of bashing and staggering the enemy in a huge time gap would bring up a lot of balance issue in...
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    $2.50 Reviews: Boot Camp (2008)

    Marter, you're an absolute hero. How many reviews is it now?
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    Dark Souls Post-Review: GotY 2011

    It's been too long, I've forgotten most of the coding. It was the most I could do to remember (img_inline) and (h?). Also, the site's changed since my last visit - quote boxes work differently. Grr. After 100+ music reviews on the trot (a lot of them elsewhere on the net, I finally took the...
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    Dark Souls Post-Review: GotY 2011

    Sometimes, a game will be so large, complex or time consuming that standard reviews are forced into focusing on the game's basic mechanics and early experiences. The idea behind a post-review is to assume that the reader already knows the fundamentals of a game, and to skip over this in order to...
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    Do you tend to avoid 'off-topic' sub-boards on forums?

    Well your post didn't make too much sense but I'll go ahead and answer your thread anyway... No, no I don't. For one I'm posting in one now, also in the forums I've been having affairs with recently they're pretty much where I set up shop. There's always a nice range of interesting people to...
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    Album Review: Bombay Bicycle Club - A Different Kind of Fix

      Bombay Bicycle Club?s first album was unexpected, in fact it really came from nowhere. It was fresh and manic in just how big the sound coming from the LP was. Needless to say, NME and Radio 1 soon picked it up (only just after everyone else) so promptly started to drip-feed the general...
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    Steve Jobs resigns from Apple

    I think the guy who designs and came up with he ideas for many of the apple products is still working though (I forget his name, in any case the scrolling wheel and slide menus were all him too), so I don't think the products will take a hit. I don't think Apply will stay being so popular...
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    First review: Fountains of Wayne - Sky Full of Holes

    I'll watch it later, I'm about to post up a video-music review and I've done a few before so I should be able to help you. Anyway, for now you can embed youtube videos by grabbing the url after the = sign and putting it after youtube= in square brackets. Ta-dah!