At 5/12/10 11:04 PM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote: Can someone please explain why Gameplay bother running both Game and Gamestation when they could just use one brand name instead?

Because then they can target two different gamer markets. Gamestation targets the late-teens to mid-twenties demographic, selling trade-ins on last month's popular titles for today's cutting edge shooter, while Game focusses more on family friendly titles and selling titles in deals for the cash concious parents.

It also allows for market dominance of the high street. With that kind of mindset they've got twice as many stores selling thier product than Computer Exchange and any independant store can manage, without appearing to be Starbucks.

And, finally, it's a carryover from when the merger between Game and Electronics Boutique formed EB-Games and they suddenly had a lot of similarily branded stores in high-demand high street space that they couldn't really brand twice with the same logo (see aforementioned Starbucks reason)

At 5/13/10 04:54 AM, citricsquid wrote: Steam is great :D

It looks it, but it needs more games for mac. =(

inb4 giant mac vs ps shitstorm

At 5/13/10 11:16 AM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote:

At 5/13/10 04:54 AM, citricsquid wrote: Steam is great :D

It looks it, but it needs more games for mac. =(

inb4 giant mac vs ps shitstorm

Linux has Steam now.

I think I may install Linux.

I added all you guys on steam, my only friend was getting lonely on the list :(

At 5/13/10 06:26 PM, HDXmike wrote: Delta, wheres caxe gone ?

It has its own wiki. It's also a piece of shit.

http://lib.haxe.org/

God, what the fuck! I'm just back in from the pub and I need to have a slash, but as far as I can make out it sounds like my housemate is having a bath. A BATH A FUCKING 3 AM. God I hate him so much.

More than I hate Kayn and that's saying something.

He's left his room unlocked, tempted to piss all over it.

At 5/13/10 10:08 PM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote: I need to have a slash,

Your British colloquialisms mean nothing to me.

At 5/13/10 08:16 PM, GustTheASGuy wrote: It has its own wiki. It's also a piece of shit.

<3 don't worry, when i can be arsed it'll be re-written in a sensible language :P

http://news.aol.co.uk/girl-lied-over-rap e-to-get/article/20100513111648062762808

What is wrong with the world?

At 5/13/10 10:08 PM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote:

More than I hate Kayn and that's saying something.

F.O.&.D Harry. <3

Hey. Can anyone who's been dabbling in Obj-C and iPhone Development tell me when it starts to get FUN? The entire process just fills me with a general sense of malaise.

At 5/14/10 04:23 AM, KaynSlamdyke wrote:

At 5/13/10 10:08 PM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote:

More than I hate Kayn and that's saying something.

F.O.&.D Harry. <3

Hey. Can anyone who's been dabbling in Obj-C and iPhone Development tell me when it starts to get FUN? The entire process just fills me with a general sense of malaise.

3 hours in or so there's a huge plot twist in development and everything starts to go uphill for about 2 hours, then it kinda goes back to how it was... soz :(

Im pissed off with you Newgrounds!

Just got a slip through the door saying my NG Store package wasnt delivered because there was an unpaid £13.50 customs charge. Its been taken off to the "nearest" warehouse 15 bastard miles away. I dont drive so I've gotta now get it REdelivered to my nearest Post Office branch to pick it up and pay the fucking fee.

why

At 5/14/10 07:59 AM, Jimp wrote: why

Because that's how Customs works in the UK. HMRC tells Royal Mail there's a charge, and Royal Mail withold the postage until you fork over the coinage.

Kayn you know everything! :) I guess its not really NG's fault, bah!

Sam, I've never had a fee before now and ive ordered stuff twice before. This is just a meat boy plush + 2 comics my girlfriend ordered - I cant imagine it weighs much at all!

Has anyone seen videos of LittleBigPlanet 2? I was a big fan of the original and think it deserved all the praise it received, this one looks even more ambitious and could again be very innovative.

I really like the idea of user created games with multiple levels, some of the original user LBP levels were great, hopefully this will appeal to a wider audience and make lots more possible :)

At 5/14/10 10:05 AM, citricsquid wrote: I'm considering ordering but never had custom fees before; is it only for specific items or does it depend on weight?

From my understanding here...

Dependant entirely on the product, HMRC adds an Excise Duty - to encourage you to buy from within the country. VAT (17.5% currently, 20% likely by sometime next year) is then strapped onto any purchase that goes through border control. Custom fees are then attached to anything with a commercial value above £135 that causes an excise duty of £9 or more.

Anything costing less than £18 does not have VAT assigned. Balance your shipping fees with the customs charges (exceptions: tobacco, perfume)

Gifts priced under £40 are not subject to customs charges - however, if customs notices a large consignment of goods being shipped under the guise of gifts, they'll persue it quite nastily. NG will attach a customs sheet onto the parcel that'll give the estimate of the value of the goods, and customs will stamp it and note thier charges there. No, they will not say it's a gift - although I assume the bronzed awards are flagged up as such.

Customs Guide.

If any animators need some extra cash:

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1166 612

At 5/13/10 02:22 AM, knugen wrote:

As I developer I found most of them quite interesting and I ended up playing the whole game through again just for those comments ^^

I love how in the comments they even say somethin' along the lines of "some testers enjoyed doing this level the ninja way." and how the left ya able to do the ninja way as it would be using portal skills ya ain't been taught yet.

I've watch Darryl beat portal twice, start to finish in one go, the second was with the comments too. I think Valve has comments like that in Half Life also... however I've never gotten into half life.

Also a few days back I had a 12 hour hangover...., Serves me right slammin' back all 'em warm beers. Oh, and I really dug the cam in the party on Pico day/Toms b-day. Was real neat - we need to see if we can figure that out for meet ups. Have the online community involved in the party. :)

(Muahahha... yes I never left, just haven't felt like posting much.)

I have a knew love also gentlemen... strip clubs. Other day I realize I got the age and ID for it so why not? :D

ARTISTS WHO ORGANIZE THEIR LIBRARIES PROPERLY AND FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS OF THE PROGRAMMER...
...are hard to come by but when you finally get one it's the most relieving thing in the world. Sam's MovieClips are so organized I came.

At 5/14/10 08:57 PM, Archon68 wrote: ARTISTS WHO ORGANIZE THEIR LIBRARIES PROPERLY AND FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS OF THE PROGRAMMER...
...are hard to come by but when you finally get one it's the most relieving thing in the world. Sam's MovieClips are so organized I came.

I'll make you scream ;)

...wut.

pfff never follow your programmers instructions. artists should be rebelious children.

At 5/14/10 10:12 AM, Jimp wrote: Has anyone seen videos of LittleBigPlanet 2? I was a big fan of the original and think it deserved all the praise it received, this one looks even more ambitious and could again be very innovative.

I really like the idea of user created games with multiple levels, some of the original user LBP levels were great, hopefully this will appeal to a wider audience and make lots more possible :)

I really enjoyed LBP 1 and I'm really looking forward to this one. It's pretty awesome how they're trying to combine *all* kinds of games into one. Platformer, RTS, action, and even RPG. I'd like to see how they'll pull this off.

At 5/15/10 08:23 AM, 4urentertainment wrote: I really enjoyed LBP 1 and I'm really looking forward to this one. It's pretty awesome how they're trying to combine *all* kinds of games into one. Platformer, RTS, action, and even RPG. I'd like to see how they'll pull this off.

I loved LBP as well. Knowing MediaMolecule, they'll pull it off really, really well.

Did anyone play Little Big Adventure? :(

At 5/15/10 11:33 AM, Sam wrote: Did anyone play Little Big Adventure? :(

I got out of the asylum once or twice, before being driven insane by the game and stopping playing. Despite that, much nostalgia remains in my soul for Twinsen.

At 5/15/10 11:33 AM, Sam wrote: Did anyone play Little Big Adventure? :(

Oh! I thought you said "Little Big Planet"! Hence Kayn's comment confused me greatly.
My dad played it, so the game is probably somewhere in my house. But I don't remember it too well sadly.

What a waste of my 5,000th post.

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At 5/15/10 07:07 PM, HDXmike wrote:

At 5/15/10 06:49 PM, Archon68 wrote: What a waste of my 5,000th post.

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As if , there's little chance it could have been good

don't feed the trolls

At 5/15/10 07:07 PM, HDXmike wrote: As if , there's little chance it could have been good, what does it matter anyway its not like people are going to dig back through your posts JUST to see all your thousands (it would be hard to tell anyway seeing as the most recent is numbered as 1)

What's your problem? I'm just poking fun at myself. No need to get all aggressive. Seriously.

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