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Posts tagged Half Life
It Should Be On TV
Jul 20th
“I like the idea in “Archives of Pain” I took from Michael Foucault, when he advocates a return to nineteen-century values of execution and capital punishment. You know. It appeals to me, but you shouldn’t only bring back capital punishment. It should be compulsory that your body be kept, have oil poured over it and More ...
Too Many Times
Jul 6th
Things just seemed to go too wrong too many times – Tony Hancock’s suicide note Completed Half-Life: Opposing Force., The ending is in the same vein as the original, which I suppose keeps things consistent, but it’s a bit of an anti-climax to be honest. Henman is playing Ivanisavic today, am I the only Brit More ...
The Freeman
Jul 3rd
Completed Half-Life, at last. It’s definitely one of the longest games I’ve played (excluding the Final Fantasy series of course); I like the ending, it’s very cool, but not all that satisfying, I won’t say too much here ‘cos I don’t want to ruin it for anyone who’s playing the game through now. Started Half-Life: More ...
Unreal Tournament Tournament
Jun 30th
Went to the Hursley Network Gaming Event; knocked out in the first round of the Unreal Tournament tournament, but won a few of the single matches. Dropped round Paul’s house on the way back (and a very nice house it is too), met Shelly & had a few beers with Paul before heading back home. More ...
It Comes Soon Enough
Jun 10th
I never think of the future, it comes soon enough. – Albert Einstein, 1930 Recorded my entire Radiohead catalogue into mp3 to burn onto a single cd, unfortunately at 160 kbps they won’t all fit on a single CD so I have to redo the lot at a lower bit rate tomorrow. On the plus More ...