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Links234

Did you mean this forum, xerces?

Passenger

Links234 wrote: »

not really bruised up passenger (as I went to type that, my fingers seemed to spell your name passgenger )

Ah that's good anyway. Bruising after the needle sometimes happens.

Passenger

Links234 wrote: »

Did you mean this forum, xerces?

When you post in some forums, the post count doesn't change. Is that intentional, Links?

Links234

Passenger wrote: »

Ah that's good anyway. Bruising after the needle sometimes happens.

Yeah, but even then I've had worse... got one of my monthly implant syringes that went through a nerve once, it hurt like hell and it was like a burning sensation. I don't wish those injections on anyone at the best of times, but hitting the nerve was insane :eek: nerve pain sucks

Links234

Passenger wrote: »

When you post in some forums, the post count doesn't change. Is that intentional, Links?

as far as I know, posts in places like Personal Issues don't add to your post count, there's a few others. I don't know why though

Passenger

Links234 wrote: »

Yeah, but even then I've had worse... got one of my monthly implant syringes that went through a nerve once, it hurt like hell and it was like a burning sensation. I don't wish those injections on anyone at the best of times, but hitting the nerve was insane :eek: nerve pain sucks

Yowza! :eek: Too much information there, Links.

Links234 wrote: »

as far as I know, posts in places like Personal Issues don't add to your post count, there's a few others. I don't know why though

Aye, it was the Puzzles & Quizzes forum. Maybe forums like that are a haven for people just trying to up their post count. Like the Song Title Game thread.

Links234

hehe I've not given you anywhere neat too much info yet

but yeah, that makes sense about the puzzles and quizzes forum

xerces

Links234 wrote: »

Did you mean this forum, xerces?

Ah yes, that's the one I can access. I take it there is also a separate private forum that you moderate :-)

That's cool, if I have any questions I'll pm you or create a thread in the forum I'm able to access.

Links234

Also, WOO HOO!

I'm gonna have this framed:



(click for full size)

now all I need is a frame

Spot the fangirl

Passenger

Nice one, Links.

Bottom left?

Links234

that's one of my boots just edging into view

Links234

so, gotta ask, how'd you get on listening to those Versailles tracks the other day Passenger?

Passenger

Links234 wrote: »

so, gotta ask, how'd you get on listening to those Versailles tracks the other day Passenger?

Didn't I say?!

I think they are technically proficient musicians and they have a very theatrical onstage presence with the costumes but I think I preferred the studio versions of the songs. Or maybe that's just the second album? Is the whole androgynous look a part of their schtick or are they like that off stage too?

While I appreciate them as talented musicians and love neo-classical/power metal, Galneryus are probably the best from Japan that I've heard.

You probably already know them or do you? Here's some vids.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7cPQYT5hfo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmAHNPU6HUg

Links234

Passenger wrote: »

Didn't I say?!

My bad didn't think you had actually listened to them then for some reason

Passenger wrote: »

You probably already know them or do you?

I do, but you know I lost track of them since they got the new singer. I didn't think he was as good as the other guy, but I must listen to some of their later stuff.

Did you know Leda of Deluhi/Undivide used to play bass with them? it's how I got into Deluhi in the first place that's him in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjnNOkjnLVI

Passenger

Links234 wrote: »

My bad didn't think you had actually listened to them then for some reason

I listened to every video when you posted them. Apologies if my review wasn't particularly comprehensive. :pac:

Links234 wrote: »

Did you know Leda of Deluhi/Undivide used to play bass with them? it's how I got into Deluhi in the first place

I only know Deluhi from what you post in the Now Listening To... thread. Must gives some of their albums a proper gander. Do you recommend anything in particular?

And that video for New Legend is proper Power Metal.

Links234

no problem

Deluhi are a bit odd as they've had a huge amount of singles, an EP, but only one album Yggdalive, and an album where they updated a load of songs which is sort of a best of I guess called Vandalism.

I'd just go for Vandalism if you wanted an introduction, it's absolutely fantastic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNlVfW6bV3M

Leda's new project Undivide is pretty cool too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc8ChqSZbJ4

Links234

also I really wanna get Leda's guitar DVD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4UB8pSAFMk

and also his guitar :pac:

Passenger

Nice one, Links. Basically start anywhere with their discography then?! The Frontier video is a pretty rockin' performance. Though the Bass player has this contrived look of nonchalance throughout the video. How hard is it to play the instrument properly?! :cool: Not convinced with Undivide however.

Passenger

Links234 wrote: »

also I really wanna get Leda's guitar DVD

and also his guitar :pac:

Can you speak or understand Japanese?

Links234

yeah I much prefer Deluhi, Undivide is great but much more mechanical and technical sounding a lot of the time. compare it to the melody in this track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjYGRBjgzXs

I can't speak half enough Japanese as I probably should at this point

xerces

Links234 wrote: »

Also, WOO HOO!

I'm gonna have this framed:

Nice one Links, I must give Versaille a listen some time. I know what it's like to get excited about a poster, I had this framed recently:



Between that and my choice of avatar, I realise I've become a full-blown Rockstar Games fanboy :eek:.

Passenger

Nice one, Xerces. What did you think of the box art?

Links234

my girlfriend has an Amon Amarth poster she wants framed, I might get a frame for her if it fits mine

xerces

Passenger wrote: »

Nice one, Xerces. What did you think of the box art?

I like it, it's consistent with previous GTA releases. Trevor's ugly mug to the right of the GTAV logo spoils it a little though I think! It's interesting Franklin's dog 'Chop' is on the cover, I reckon he'll be some sort of controllable sidekick.

My favourite is the San Andreas box art.

Links234

glorious morning for once!

Beruthiel

My tickets for The Gazette arrived from Paris yesterday. \0/
Happy.

Saw Rammstein in Barcelona last Sunday night and as usual, they were superb.

Links234

Beruthiel wrote: »

My tickets for The Gazette arrived from Paris yesterday. \0/
Happy.

Saw Rammstein in Barcelona last Sunday night and as usual, they were superb.

sometimes I wonder if you just want to make me stew with jealousy :pac:

Zwillinge

Nice one plants

I thought it was cute/nice

http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/news/according-to-a-uk-gardening-expert-plants-love-metal-well-played-plants/

Beruthiel

Links234 wrote: »

sometimes I wonder if you just want to make me stew with jealousy :pac:

Would it comfort you at all to know that I thought of you when they played Links?

Links234

I'm currently trying to wrap my head around modes, and getting to grip with Dorian. who knew playing guitar would be some complicated? :pac:

Beruthiel wrote: »

Would it comfort you at all to know that I thought of you when they played Links?

a little

Nailz

xerces wrote: »

*GTA V poster*

Between that and my choice of avatar, I realise I've become a full-blown Rockstar Games fanboy :eek:.

You jammy fecker! I want one, how did you get it, went into the shop and asked?? Because I see it's one of the "COMING SPRING 2013" posters, and is therefore useless to video game stores now.

I know what you mean about you becoming a R* fanboy though, because I'm the same, everything they've ever release I had to have, even the R* port of the original Max Payne game to iOS I simply couldn't go without buying it, but the Max Payne series is class anyway so you can't go wrong there.

And the first one they'd developed last year, Max Payne 3 only improved the series; replayed it directly after finishing it the first time round and I rarely do that! R* never failed to impress, I can't think of one game they'd developed in which I was disappointed with.

Feck, all this talk is making want to play RDR again, but I can't!!! :mad:

Passenger

Been meaning to check out Max Payne 3. Rockstar have a pretty high standard with their output. You know what you're getting when you part with your spondulicks.

Links234

speaking of games, I really wanna get that Dishonored DLC

you guys played Dishonored at all? wonderful game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcSc4uBc3nQ

Passenger

Not really much of a gamer tbh. The last game I played was Read Dead Redemption, which was by all intents and purposes, a masterpiece.

Nailz

Passenger wrote: »

Been meaning to check out Max Payne 3. Rockstar have a pretty high standard with their output. You know what you're getting when you part with your spondulicks.

Exactomundo dude! And I can only assume that your sig is a reference to GTA Vice City, yes? With regards Max Payne 3, seeing the final kill of a gun fight never gets old in that game, watching the bust of about 8 pellets from the shotgun fire through the air in slow motion looks so impressive with the engine they've used, yet is still cartoonish enough not to be fucked up.

Nailz

Links234 wrote: »

speaking of games, I really wanna get that Dishonored DLC

you guys played Dishonored at all? wonderful game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcSc4uBc3nQ

Ah yeah sure I was talking about that here a couple of days ago. Only half way through it, and it's remained that way since January, and will continue to be as long as my PlayStation is still situated 10,000km west of my location; but I'm definitely looking forward to finally finishing it because I was enjoying it so much.

Passenger wrote: »

Not really much of a gamer tbh. The last game I played was Read Dead Redemption, which was by all intents and purposes, a masterpiece.

Hell yes!!

That's all I've got to say about that.

Links234

I seem to love stealthy kinda games, before Dishonored, I absolutely loved Deus Ex Human Revolution

Passenger

Nailz wrote: »

Exactomundo dude! And I can only assume that your sig is a reference to GTA Vice City, yes?

Correctamundo duder! :pac: Love Fist!

Nailz wrote: »

With regards Max Payne 3, seeing the final kill of a gun fight never gets old in that game, watching the bust of about 8 pellets from the shotgun fire through the air in slow motion looks so impressive with the engine they've used, yet is still cartoonish enough not to be fucked up.

May have to check it out so. The reviews were pretty good too. I'll have a look on ebay.

Nailz

Links234 wrote: »

I seem to love stealthy kinda games, before Dishonored, I absolutely loved Deus Ex Human Revolution

Have you ever played any of the Thief series? I haven't myself but I've been meaning to for quite some time now as I've been told repeatedly by many of my fellow nerdy friends (I do an IS course in college, so there's a lot of them) that they're probably the best stealth games ever made.

Used to love the MGS series, still revisit the first MGS for the PSOne on occasion, that was a fantastic game. Although, the more the storyline went on down through the series the more annoying it got, like the dialogue sequences just got so hateful at certain points, but what the first MGS game was it's a fantastic game.

GLaDOS

Links234 wrote: »

I absolutely loved Deus Ex Human Revolution

Was a brilliant game, ever play the first one? One of the best gaming story lines I've played

Nailz

Passenger wrote: »

Correctamundo duder! :pac: Love Fist!

Hehe, one of my favourite advertisements on V-Rock was the Love Fist promo where they had a snippet of a song in the background and the lyrics went "FIST! Fist till morning!!" Hilarious stuff!

Links234

yeah, used to love MGS!

played a little Thief 2, but that's it. I was thinking of getting Thief 3 but put off because it's meant to be very scary. I'm not able to play scary games, I know I sound like a total wuss, but I actually only managed about an hour and a half of Metro 2033 I was getting so creeped out. I'll try play more at some stage but yeah, I get freaked out way easy.

Passenger

Nailz wrote: »

Hehe, one of my favourite advertisements on V-Rock was the Love Fist promo where they had a snippet of a song in the background and the lyrics went "FIST! Fist till morning!!" Hilarious stuff!

V-Rock was pretty memorable alright. Tell me that this isn't rockin'!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOwqGZR0dDs

Links234

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Was a brilliant game, ever play the first one? One of the best gaming story lines I've played

oh one of the best games ever made

2nd one was a big let down though, so I'm glad Human Revolution made up for it.

Nailz

Links234 wrote: »

yeah, used to love MGS!

played a little Thief 2, but that's it. I was thinking of getting Thief 3 but put off because it's meant to be very scary. I'm not able to play scary games, I know I sound like a total wuss, but I actually only managed about an hour and a half of Metro 2033 I was getting so creeped out. I'll try play more at some stage but yeah, I get freaked out way easy.

Haha, Metro 2033 was a pretty good game, I don't suppose you ever tried the first Dead Space then? How did you put up with some of the scary Vault based objectives in Fallout? I'm not terribly gone on Horror titles to be honest, but I appreciate a good Survival Horror concept though, although nothing's really amazed me in that genre yet, granted that I don't have a good enough computer to run DayZ but that's not really a horror title, just survivalist shooter.

Looking forward to The Last Of Us though, that looks like it's going to be a great game! I remember playing a similar concept with a game called I Am Alive, but it was really based as a short indie release on a low budget so I don't think it quite reached the standards that it could've if it was given some effort, but I think The Last Of Us will be impressive.

Links234

Nope, didn't play Dead Space

Didn't even play Fallout

Nailz

Links234 wrote: »

Nope, didn't play Dead Space

Didn't even play Fallout

Dagnabbit Links! Go out buy F3 and NV right now, you who loves Bethesda, it's probably the essential two Bethesda games. So go and buy them pronto, and we'll see you again in 3 months!

bnt

I have my doubts about the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, like many here, but it does serve as a pretext for scenes like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-xEr489gHY

Guitar: Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters)
Drums: Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters)
Bass: Nick Raskulinecz (producer of the last two Rush albums.
playing the 2112 Overture, as Rush was inducted in to the R&RHoF last night. More details & videos here.

Nailz

Don't know if you folks seen this but DTP decided to play "Love?" in Santiago last Sunday!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBazgfGVXQw

A shocking rarity for him to call up an old SYL song these days, after promising to not play SYL ever again, even considering that gig at the Roundhouse last October in London were Jed joined DTP on stage for "Love?" and "Detox", was pretty certain that's the last of it you'd hear. Playing it in Chile was totally spontaneous though!

Passenger

I wouldn't be surprised if he started playing more SYL stuff live. Don't think SYL will reunite however as Devin has stated many times that SYL are finished. They even released a vinyl box set recently too so SYL is a lot more prominent on Devin's conscious then it once was.