NumberSix

Number Six, whats your gamertag? I'll add everyone I've not got later tonight

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Sorry, only just saw this: it's KaiMac

How does this work online? I've only ever played games against randoms picked out by the system. Is the tourny set up somewhere, or do we just play our individual games and report back the results?

# 1 choice: Chargers

# 2 choice: Bengals

(assuming I'm one of the eight, of course!)

Me too, although I'm in the states so timing may be an issue. GMT -8 here. Defo interested if we can sort it out timing wise.

Fuck. I reckon I know my football, but I'm not playing you until I've practiced a bit more

Excellent advice though.

Just played my first game online. Got absolutely destroyed.

I'm up for this, altough I'm in the US so might have Lag/timing issues. I'm eight hours behind you lot.

GT: KaiMac

Pardon?

He said his dad is gonna beat your dad up.

It's a nice idea, based on the whole netflix thing, but ultimately a flawed concept IMO.  Games cost far more for an online venture to buy in for resale than DVD's, and the turnaround time with customers is much longer.  So, they'll need a proportionately larger investment to have enough copies of new games (which they have to buy at premium prices) and before long sequelitus will have reduced their stock to a very low value.  The margins can't be pretty, and the competition is fierce.

So, just don't sign up for any more than a month at a time is my advice.  Just in case.

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I've been using www.gamefly.com for a few months now, and have nothing but good things to say about them. The latest releases do sometimes have a little wait, but I've always managed to get my 2nd or 3rd choice. I've got 40 games in my queue... two out at a time for the price of half a game a month. Games I really like I can buy off them for a reduced price (guaranteed to work, plus you've had a chance to take a look at the cd before you buy). All formats, loads of games, really quick shipping. I like 'em a lot.

I need to learn Omaha H/L properly. I win pretty consistently at hold 'em, but keep getting schooled at OHL. Insane game.

Brad Pitt deserves an honorable mention, surely.

still, it is pretty weird the way fox treats this show

maybe murdoch is still twitching after 'fight club'

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What's weird is that Fox made it in the first place, to be honest. It really isn't a network show, either content or ratings wise. Best comedy around though, imo. I really hope they manage to work something out with the rights.

I'd have enjoyed Rounders much more if....

at the end he'd ended up losing and getting decapitated. That would have been much better.

Tilt is very enjoyable, in a throwaway ESPN drama kind of way: i'm sure torrents are available somewhere.

All the casinos have poker rooms

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A good few don't actually, especially some of the lower rent ones

but try to do Disneyland, take the 2 day tickets and go twice. you may not think you'll like it but trust me it's fantastic

Disneyland is as close to hell on earth as it is possible to get. Staggeringly nasty place. Magic Mountain is the only theme park worth visiting in southern california, imo.

i couldn't find any actual poker (classic or hold em) in the casinos. Where are the poker rooms?

Prob is they don't make the casinos much money (relative to the main casiono revenue stream: slot machines), so they tend to be a bit hidden.... prob half the strip casinos have 'em though. Harrah's is a good place to start, imo: nice and friendly, not so much bullshit.

Was the sleep thing when the battery runs out someone posted earlier an early april fool's?

I'm on my fourth bloody unit now. First one bought on friday, half a dozen dead pixels, two of which were slap bang in the middle of the screen. Fine for games, shit for movies. Exchanged for a second saturday morning. That one went back today: bizzarely warped screen at the bottom. What looked like little waves in the screen itself. Third one today had bubbles in the plastic of the screen and didn't even make it out of the shop. My fourth (and final) unit has a perfect screen, but the pop out slot where the discs go is slightly bent, so it doesn't sit flush against the main body of the unit.

It's a lovely, lovely thing, but I'm shocked at the build quality of the four I've seen. I'm not the type to take things back usually, but if they're going to charge $250 for it, it should come out of the box perfect imo.

Still, Wipeout and Lumines *are* absolutely lovely. A very very impressive bit of kit, manufacturing problems aside. I can only assume that the warehouse that supplied my local shops had a shitload of duds. Or Sony couldn't be arsed to check them properly, or something.

It's a bit of a poof sport, non?

Have you ever watched it?

Just for one film I would love to see a black, hispanic or asian man play bond. It would give the film such a different feel.

Laurence Fishburne.

bet365poker.com sounds like it'd do the job for you. Perfectly good software (much better than bloody will hill's), tables from 5/10 up and plenty of people on at all hours of the day.

Changing how it performs?

Gosh. Whatever next?

Ohh... maybe?

Just teasing, I bet.

aha, the Microsoft game 'n watch.

For anyone who's still waiting for the big announcement:

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/news.php?aid=6093

Indeed, on a serious note, there seems to be no pending statement on Xbox2

They've already said there won't be an announcement on it.

Sorry, thought everyone knew.