Recent content by SYSTEM-J

This review made me laugh even though I haven't played the game yet, chiefly because most of the issues he raises come straight from the 1994 original that I know and love. In particular, the joke about Nigeria withdrawing funding cracked me up, because it was always Nigeria who would make a...

Try having a normal conversation with her, like you would with anyone else, making an effort to be friendly and witty and interesting. If you get along and she seems to like you, at the end of the conversation ask for her phone number, and suggest going for a drink sometime. Going up to someone...

I'd recommend a label called Ultimae Records, it's a French ambient label. You may have heard of one of their artists called Solar Fields, as he did the score to Mirror's Edge. Other artists worth listening to from the label include Aes Dana, Carbon Based Lifeforms and HUVA Network, although...

Golden Age hater, you sum it up pretty neatly.

I don't even know where to begin with this. Firstly, what connects Citizen Kane with The Beatles or Lolita? Are they supposed to be examples of something "moving forward"? Or are they just examples of something being really good, with the inference that nothing is good anymore? Citizen Kane...

All of these, not just for being pretty and stylish, but also for perfectly encapsulating the music contained within. Most of them are great albums too, which probably influenced the decision making process.

I'm sorry, but I really don't think this is a good review. Everyone on Earth has either seen Alien or is very familiar with the premise and probably a number of key scenes. Summarising the plot or making basic value judgements like "The effects were good" is essentially pointless in this kind of...

Although "organic" is not an antonym of electronic (or synthetic) and it annoys me when people call a record organic just because it has a few live instruments in, it's an effective dichotomy. "Electronic music", despite being such a massive field of music, is grouped together because it...

To be honest, I never liked it at the time and I've always thought it was overrated. I did used to love Link To The Past back in the day, though. I replayed that a couple of years back and managed to get quite a long way into the Dark World before getting bored, which is quite impressive for a...

I'm having my first story published in a national anthology in October, so soon I will be a published author. I recently finished my second story and have sent it out to a few places to try and get that published as well. There have been a couple of rejection letters so far, but my first story...

It cuts both ways. When you discover a brilliant solution to a long-standing problem you're unlikely to think "Ignorance was bliss". Equally, there are some things that will plague you after you're exposed to them.

The word "all" does tend to rhyme nicely with itself...

I wouldn't call this horror as such, more a sci-fi/action hybrid, but I can see why you might call it a horror film and it'd definitely be up there on my genre-hybrid shout-out list.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamstring I know you don't use them during a push-up, but they've been very tight the last few days from some manual work I did, so I was expecting some pain from keeping my legs straight and suspended. Turns out it wasn't painful at all. Luckily I didn't roll...

Well, my hamstrings are pretty tight right now which may make this painful, but otherwise 63 shouldn't be a problem.