Happy changing the calendar!

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Nice pretty picture for new year!

At some point, we’ll stop using this picture and actually do a new one. Maybe next year….

It’s the 1st of January 2015 and that means a day off. After that we go back to work and carry on with the stuff from last year.

Not exactly the message of hope and dreams but it is at least grounded in the reality we live in.

In a change from last year’s New Years, I will attempt to start the first of January in a way other than nursing a particularly bad hangover now that we’re all older and in some ways, perhaps not much wiser and be assured of not waking up next a mysterious stranger which seemed like a good idea at the time and awkwardly trying to make for the front door.

This year, that can come Friday the 2nd January instead when it’s cheaper to wander out and do the exact same thing without forgetting to sing a song you don’t know at midnight, not unless that song was “What is Love” by Haddaway.

Then again you would never see that on the BBC at midnight, so here it is from YouTube instead.

New Years Eve always fragments people in terms of what they should be doing on such an occasion and the endless discussion afterwards seems to play out like a contest to see who is a better human being. There never seems to be a right answer to this, and over the years, various enterprises have been proposed and implemented, with no certainty of the outcome of the evening at all. Aside from sleeping afterwards.

Maybe you get tired from playing games with complete strangers, complaining that they were cheating and suggesting naughty things to do to themselves, or like many others you were thrilled to be watching Fireworks go bang in the night sky to celebrate the start of something rather grand in comparison to what happened before.

Perhaps you spend the night pining over someone who is out of reach while watching Bridget Jones’ Diary, forever lamenting a chance to seize the opportunities when it was presented, and resort to getting back onto Tinder, just so you can pretend to have a dating life. Maybe there was nothing good on the TV and you just ate chips from the day before. Perhaps you’re even one of those people who went to the gym at 1am on New Years Day as it was going to be quieter then.

Maybe you’re just relieved to have gotten to the end of year alive and in no worse position than when you started the year. Or you made the big decision to change everything and now am loving every minute of the results of that change.

Whatever happened, whatever you chose to do which made you happy, sad, fat, thin, rich, poor, we here at Ooh Sometimes will leave you with this message;

Just have a decent new year, where on reflection you can get to the end of 2015 and just say when asked how it was; not bad.

Go Go Broforce Rangers…

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In a world where terrorists, CEOs, bankers on Wall Street, and the chap that does all those Cillit Bang adverts plot the downfall of all humankind while laughing a lot and probably doing drugs and doing all the sex with the women who take the monies, we feel safer that one army will defend our freedoms and leave no building standing or anyone alive afterwards.

Broforce, ACTIVATE!

Seriously….the fact that this game exists, means there is some form of god. A god who perhaps had a bit too much time on his / her hands and who has seen every action film ever made and decided that Team America and the Expendables were not enough.

Made by the clearly bat-s**t crazy fun-loving people at Free Lives Games, Broforce is a side-scrolling run and gun platform video game in the style that we used to know and love on consoles from years ago. At this point remains on Steam Early Access with the goal being the full release going out in 2015, so what you get at the moment is the work in progress. Continue reading →

Hanging with the cool kids

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With the change of pace towards Christmas this year, it was clear that the normal constant stream of going out and getting drink exercises was never going to be repeated, and frankly sometimes you just want to do something a little different. When money is also on the short supply, you then start looking around for something different.

In this case, there was an option to wander across the road to sit with the cool kids at a local university at an all night cinema event. The basic premise is simple enough, 5 films, starting from the early evening, all the way through the night to the early morning. Who will survive? (Cus explosions and epic soundtrack)

University, where everyone has way more hair than Chewbacca.

Now when you hear about the local university’s cinema, your mind will have already conjured up a poky little hole where someone just plonks a TV from the 1980s on the table and 100 weirdos gather round it to watch ET for the first time. This was far from the reality of what was presented.

The room was well laid out with seating nicked from the local canteen, the screen itself was surprisingly good quality and the sound system way above the two little pocket speakers you would expect with a cinema on the cheap. One of the things they offered was the “all-you-can-eat” hot food and drink throughout the night for just £5 a head.

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The 2014 Christmas Message

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Tree’s up.

It’s the 25th of December (if the auto publish kicked in correctly) and that means for the first time in a number of years, a slightly more festive (and timely, again if the auto publish kicked in correctly) Ooh Sometimes message to be displayed to those who may have gotten bored after shopping on Amazon today for 69p toothbrushes.

Though to be honest, in a strange sort of way, I actually hope no-one is reading this because you are instead sharing the time off with the people who matter the most to you, even if that is just yourself in a bedroom eating cookie dough while watching repeats of Ugly Betty. As long as you’re happy, who cares?

In recent years, I must confess, I hadn’t bothered with writing anything for the big day itself.

The level of sarcasm and depression that always gets casually thrown out onto the screen now seems over the top for what is, for most, a far nicer time of year where you actually can put the rest of life on hold, even just for a day. Continue reading →

We need you!

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That’s right campers, we need you for science!

Or more accurately, we need you to provide some feedback on what Ooh Sometimes can do for you.

We’d like to know either in the comments below or via the newly created email address; feedback at oohsometimes dot com (sorry all, but for the simple reason of spam bots etc, it has to be written that way) about what you think about what gets posted up on here. The contact page also remains open for writing back to us as well.

All comments and critique are welcome even it’s brutal. It may be the only way to get any better, even if it opens the floodgates for a barrage of insults about various mums.

For example, since the content has been flowing a little bit more than before, have you found it boring, informative or is it life changing? Hell, is it full of Vitamin D and it gives you a shiny coat?

What kind of content would you like to see on here? Would you prefer more content about the fun world of gaming, some sarcastic rubbish on films, or even writing about important issues such as your tax return or what kind of bread is nice with Marmite.

In essence, what topics would you like to see here?

Also, would you like to see different types of media content as well as written material?

We do have a Youtube page seldom used and it’s been years since the OohSometimes Podcast was around, though perhaps that’s not entirely a bad thing all things considered. Any decent feedback will be responded to, displayed for all to see and at some point, we will have another post with what was gathered and what happens next.

The floor is now yours.

Living on a prayer

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Sorry boys and girls, but in comparison to recent postings on the blog, I will be remarking on a subject which is a nasty bump back down to reality and not as much fun as the general custom of having a laugh and posting complete crap about how great you are on Facebook.

By some messed up measure of economic power within the UK, I technically come into the top 20% of earners which even being down in London is a remarkable achievement. But it’s also remarkable how far that doesn’t go, and it’s worse if you have a family too in tow along with an expensive drug habit. Maybe….err….

Since various massive expenses have come into play, mainly as a result of moving into a new place, the phrase “living paycheck to paycheck” has never really been more utmost in my mind and it becomes disheartening to see that the minus sign next to the bank balance never goes away.

One day, we will all dream to earn this much…

There are big expenses upcoming which in essence will ensure that minus sign remains permanently fixed next to any amount listed for some time to come. Loans taken, need to be paid back. Credit cards charge interest if you leave amounts on them for too long.

In essence, it’s all the makings of the same story you’ve heard time and time again from people that in worse positions end up in. Continue reading →

So Hearthstoned right now…

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It’s here!

A nice little update here since the article written about the nice lazy way to waste your life can be nicely summed up as follows;

Hearthstone is now available on Android Tablets.

Having first came out to the nations of Australia, Canada (who probably said sorry to everyone about it, just like we do), and New Zealand (I can only presume there was a massive demand on the set of the Hobbit), it very quickly spread worldwide to the cries of nerds and people who spend far too much time on the toilet. 

Ladies and Gentleman, the hearthstone throne is now a reality. Oh dear god, the reality of playing in bed too and not even moving much. The horror, the deliciously geeky horror. Of course shiny shiny IPad owners have had this joy for quite some time and this is one of the best things to happen on the Android platform, however you still will wonder what is different to what you see on fully fledged systems. Continue reading →

None of the Above

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You can see an election is coming, more so with the recent autumn statement that everyone is now blaming each other for all the problems in the world and this is what the pattern of behavior we should expect to see until May where the nation will see what kind of newly deluded manics will be in charge of the expense fund.

Back in 2010, when the question came up last, it was at a time when the world economy was basically in tatters at the hands of various banks / poker players who were bailed out to the tune of billions and none of whom were prosecuted. There was no clear winner at that election as many were clearly divided as who was the best choice was with the bad information presented at the time. However, because various people such as Dave still wanted power, the Pirates of the Coalition began charting a course over the three seas of lies, treachery and deceit occasionally while getting lost up a canal in Birmingham. Continue reading →

Hearthstoned

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In the continuation of recent trending rubbish posted on this old blog once again (don’t worry, the boredom will set in soon and then it will be at least 6 months before you see anything new) can we tempt you to pull up a chair by the hearth as a wee Scottish announcer says and listen to a tale of misery, woe and some would wonder why? Why indeed?

The 2 is the mental age of the card….

When it comes to the realm of modern gaming, we get used to everything blowing up with a story written on the back of a cigarette packet with voice acting from the bloke who turned up in every video game going. So when this card game turned up out of nowhere over a year ago from the likes of Blizzard Entertainment, it was rather strange. But delve into it and it turns out to be something far more interesting and comical that you would expect. Continue reading →

Keeps going and going and going….

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Have a good long look at the below image and I mean, not just a matter of seconds look, I mean look at it like Brian Sewell, the world’s poshest art critic would and come up with some elegant witty banter about it;

Now in HD…..

You decided to read on did you? Are you sure you want to do so, considering how amazing that image above is? Go on, best to go back and have another good long hard stare at it. Maybe while having a nice cup of tea too.

Do that for about 2 and half hours.

Congratulations! You have just simulated what watching The Hobbit: An unexpected Journey is like. The colour beige in cinematic form. Such a loaded statement isn’t it? The kind that drives various internet trolls ablaze with the potential insults about your mum and the ways they will now rape and kill you.

But before the digital warriors come forth to defend the movie’s honour as being a masterpiece and I don’t what I’m talking about, let’s sprinkle some context onto the situation. After which, you may then send the death threats and rape messages.

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