Time to put the christmas decorations…

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Yes dear friends it is that time of year….again.

As you can see at the moment, it was time to dig out the old images and theme settings for yet another dose of christ-all-mighty-mas cheer, the same old bloody songs being repeated and sold for the same price as last year, almost as if the record companies and radio stations think it’s the first time we’ve all heard Noddy Holder shout “It’s Christmas, it actually is, honest, I’m not kidding this time.” since yesterday.

The thing is, I rather don’t like Christmas. After last year’s beginning of the credit crunch goodness, things haven’t really changed at all.

Seems more in keeping with today's world.You still have to worry what to get people, as you look like a complete and utter rag that’s been tossed all over by Hitler if you fail to turn up with anything short of something amazing, like the cure for cancer, or a remote control house. You got me a jumper to keep the cold out….bastard!

You still end up attending office parties which are just as painful as being in the office as the same people are there, only this time armed with drink, all pretending to like each other but deep down all of them secretly wanting to take out a gun and re-enact the columbine school shootings and may be get a better score.

You have put out 20 year old decorations round the house making the place look more like a council estate complete with burned out Ford Orion than at any other time of the year, buy too much drink and food along with stomach pump, all in the effort to get into the spirit of things. Maybe get a big telly to make sure that the time spent with your loved ones is watching Doctor Who instead any amount of human contact.

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Happy December!

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Good December to you all campers, and for those of you still wondering if anything happened aside from getting annoyed by the over hyping of Call of Duty Modern Dustpan and Brish 12: The next insult in November, the answer as far as the blog goes is no. Most other sites on the internet of course tell you differently

So enjoy this piece of video from U-bend which did the rounds during November:

How that makes up for anything over November I have no real idea to be honest, as really it’s just a rubbish attempt to say “Hey Guys, what’s new and have you seen this!?!” to which most people would respond P**s off, you stealing my oxygen.

So much has happened, so little time and so little drive to do anything at all. I suppose more profound things could be written in a witty and downright trouser tickling manner, such is in keeping with previous works here, that the honor of beholding such literary prowess should be kept for another time.

For those wondering, suffice it to say, yes I’m still about, still working hard with nothing to so for it. Business as usual as they say.

Modern Prudence

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Just a day after the post about how expensive Modern Warfare 2 was in a certain chain and how much profiteering was about to occur, it seems the UK supermarkets are coming to the rescue, with Sainsburys for a limited time selling the Xbox and PS3 versions for £26, which even with my bad maths skills works out a lot less than what Computer Exchange was selling it for as of yesterday.

At last, more reasonable pricing I think you’ll agree. Just a shame the PC version once again gets overlooked for such a decrease by the majority.

Also because we live in cash-strapping times with other, perhaps more important things to worry about, we may want to know about other cheap deals on offer that we may not otherwise hear about.

Enter: http://savygamer.co.uk/

This site is updated quite often with the latest deals by all retailers, be an actual store or online distribution via Steam or your other favourite services.

Now go my gaming minions, go and save a wee bit of cash on stuff you didn’t need in the first place!

And Finally: It’s time for a late edit!

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Modern Warfare

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In the last few weeks there has been strive among the gaming community about the “so-close, you can smell the napalm” release of Call of Duty: Mighty Fart 2, mainly the PC people at large to be honest, after being told the beloved multi-player mode would not have dedicated servers, no modding of the game at all, 18 players maximum on a peer-to-peer basis with the only difference between the console versions and this would be you can use a keyboard and mouse to play, and can turn the resolution up a bit more.

Add the insult of being charged more for it anyway for very little extra and also even if you have the disks now, you still cannot activate on Steam yet till release day while the Xbox and PS3 people happily lark about online as I type this, even to the point where the Xbox 360 version was the first one to be pirated and out for all to test with, and to be honest, even the old saying “All publicity is good publicity” seems to be getting stretched a fair bit.

What’s more silly was this sight today as i walked back from the local supermarket, carrying 30 packets of super noodles and a dirty mag;

At King's cross, you could get a lady of the evening for 50 quid...just saying...

That’s right, already, even before the proper street date of Tuesday 10th, (12th for PC thanks to Timezone differences on Steam) there are second hand copies of the game to be had, at the bargain price from this particular chain of Computer Exchange for £75. That’s just the standard version as well kids, not the fancy ones with a baked bean tin or Night Vision goggles you’d struggle to get the NHS to help pay for (Even if they are prescription).

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Eurogamer Expo 2009

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It’s been a long time since I wrote about anything topical or otherwise here at oohsometimes, but for once the journalistic hat gets put on.

The 31st of October not only brought all freaks of nature for all Hallow’s eve for gathering chocolate, drinking too much and dressing only slightly worse than they do normally, it was the time of year for another Eurogamer expo in London, where companies from around the globe showcase their upcoming wares for the months ahead.

The annual meeting of the social lepers.....

On the back of the successful first year, they moved to a bigger venue, and allowed even more happy go lucky people to enjoy the wonders of events only really enjoyed by those willing to travel to PAX or Quakecon in the US.

Just like last year, the place was stuffed to the gills with XBOX 360s, Playstations, Wiis (which looks strange to write down as a plural) and even some PCs on the main floor, which was a change from last year in itself. The poor old PC has taken a real bashing of late in terms of gaming creditability and it was good to see some games being showcased on the platform even if there weren’t many.

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Another post where I fill in the gaps…

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Well here we are again on the internet on a Sunday evening typing out various questionable in terms of grammar sentences in an attempt to write something people actually would want to read.

It’s been a few weeks since last time I wrote on these fair digital pages, where it seems that being freed from the woes that is Adulthood, being responsible, having to wash and then fail miserably at being socially acceptable, I proceeded to board an expensive EasyJet flight back out to the promised land known as Spain for the forth time this year.

Enter the required picture to illistrate I wasn't in the UK.

Remarkably I achieved very little during this period of time, that was the aim of the trip to be fair. Wake up, wander round, have better coffee than what they serve in Britain, and not spend time in front of the screen, staring at the Windows Clock watching my life disappear one minute at a time.

Just before I left for the sunnier 27 degree climb, I was resigning myself to the fact that IT Support in general is a soulless profession and it appeared my mouth was becoming looser than a lady of the evening. Clearly the lack of fun needed to be addressed at the time, and for once not by destroying zombie hordes and saving the last known hot woman for your own naughty needs.

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Please leave a message…

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Apathy starts at home, it then moves onto a bus to get to work.I’m not here right now, please leave a message after the beep.

BEEP.

Ok, this is not really a recording, it’s just another post written before I got on a plane stating I’m not about. This may not appear to be anything new, after all I seem to have that ability narrowed down to a fine art.

It’s just I won’t be able to answer emails or add comments of no value to Facebook or Twitter, as I will be away from these technical handcuffs to spend time away from it all, recharge the batteries, shout out to the natives asking for chips and letting the belly hang out wherever possible.

Business as usual will resume when I’m able to earn lots of money without working for a living. Damn, that will never happen.

Big Screen Laziness

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While August and September drifted through my existence without so much of a peep about how much people are resorting to tactics last seen in the Planet of the Apes movies in terms of succeeding in moving up the corporate ladder, there was of course the opportunity to laugh at various cinematic masterpieces, even when it’s inappropriate.

Here are three examples of such movies witnessed during the time of, well, August and September. Sorry, it appears the mastery of the English language has once again escaped me, which doesn’t bode well for the following;

Witness the truth. Bruce saved us during World War 2...

Incontinent Barristers

Given the fact that the cinematic world got a hard-on when Pulp Fiction set in World War 2 (not II, it wasn’t pronounced WW eye-eye), it’s not hard to see why we all didn’t want to watch this.

The facts that Bradley The Pitt has actually acted very well in some films in recent memory, thus raising him up beyond masturbation material for women and gay men alike and this film was coming from Quincy Tarantella, the man behind some quite remarkable films, in which Mich…sorry Samuel Jackson played the same guy over and over and yet it was still cool.

Enter this lovely film about a group of jolly upset people, all wanting to have a good talking to a certain Hitler fella with the dodgy little tash on his head, to see if he would be convinced to stop the war and also have a long sleep from which he wouldn’t wake up from.

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Madrid in Pictures…again…

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Given the fact that during September I dropped off the face of the earth from a blogging point of view, there were some nice events that occurred, one of which was the trip to Madrid once more to save the day as it were, and the fact that a picture can speak a thousand words, allow me to display lots of pictures in order to re-dress the balance and save me from having to explain anything in great detail.

Been there, done that now.

Let’s start with the required picture of a city street for no other reason than it allows me to wander onto a subject we all enjoy: Prostitution.

For those who are unfamiliar with the concept, it’s basically people enjoying other people for some payment of both money and perhaps a modicum of self-esteem, though perhaps that last part may not be a problem.

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