Fuel (the game not the stuff you put in your car)

Right ... where do I start with this game ? well lets look at the sole positive of this game for me , I like the game is presented. Good enough detail on the vehicles and nice scenery and dirt gets on the vehicles which is good to see an attention to detail I guess.

Now I said I like the graphics but the game is 130km square which sounds all well and good ... that is quite an area , I've been away on holiday on distances further than 130km away but it is all fairly similar and it is a little boring going through 130km square of a of copy/paste scenery. I have only been to the first 2 areas , but I have been informed by someone who has completed the game that all the other areas are pretty much all the same.

Secondly the difficulty curve of the game is a little harsh due to offroad nature of some of the tracks you can stick to the tracks but if you slightly cut a corner a checkpoint is on the game will massively punish you for it and it is not hard to miss a corner by a fair bit as all the vehicles slide massively like there are oil slicks on the road at the slightest provocation and on the hardest difficulty the AI will actively ram you like they want you off the track. This can be rather amusingly fixed by a vehicle selection bug which can let you take a truck to a bike race and have revenge.

Thirdly the open world thing with racing games with all the racing games I've played with it on (namely this and burnout paradise) have had issues , burnout had long boring drives to races and getting lost and I can report the issues I had with burnout I had alot worse with fuel even to the point of the game's guidance system telling me to drive directly into thew water.

Also if you are looking for quick achievements from this game don't bother it's one of them games with alot of little pointed achievements that can be awkward to get , but it only goes to prove just how massive game is. So overall if you want a game that you can throw massive amounts of time at doing pretty much the same thing over and over knock yourself out ... but beware of the repetitiveness , the sadistic cheating AI and a Sat Nav Guidance system that drives like it was programmed by Mr Bean.

Well that was a long Hiatus...

((Picture Entirely Unrelated.))

and not much has happened in it really ...

I have got round to making a new version of my Don Zaloog deck (after like 3 years)



been playing it on YVD and it seems stable enough. I've taken up battle Spirits and Been painting more 40K , mainly my deathwing and I prob will be doing a let's play Final Fantasy 8 here when I finish my painting.

oh and I changed my xbox gamertag to wneivf.

watch this space~ xD

me and nidas on the world cup top 16:

well this is just copy/pastes of myself and Nidas on the top 16 of the world cup on MSN.

Urugauy vs South Korea

jarvis says:
*I reckon Urugauy , it's gonna take a better team to beat that Uruguay defense ? xD
Nidas says:
*yeah uruguay easy i reckon, i still peg them as potential champs xD

Verdict - Urugauy

USA vs Ghana

jarvis says:
*Yanks/Ghana ? xD
*I reckon Yanks , I don't really rate Ghana , from what I've seen they got thru with luck xD
*tho I haven't seen enough of ghana to judge xD
Nidas says:
*yanks and ghana are both pretty meh tbh xD

Verdict - USA

Germany vs England

jarvis says:
*yeah xD
*Germany/England should be us , we've been Improving as they've been getting worse xD
Nidas says:
*yeah, tho in before penalties xD
jarvis says:
*god , yeah , we've been practicing this time tho =P
Nidas says:
*hopefully that actually makes a difference, i have no faith in james' penalty saving xD

Verdict - England

Argentina vs Mexico

jarvis says:
*in b4 maradonna fucks up ? xD
*do they have random drugs tests for coaches ? :P
Nidas says:
*rofl xD
*i REALLY hope that prick doesnt go too far... xD
jarvis says:
*but yeah , it will prob be his yr ... without needing the hand of god xD

Verdict - Argentina

Netherlands vs Slovakia

jarvis says:
*but yeah , it will prob be his yr ... without needing the hand of god xD
*as great a footballing Nation Slovakia is I just can't see them beating Holland :P
*10-0 Holland ? xD
Nidas says:
*yeah holland will win that easy xD

Verdict - Netherlands

Brazil vs Chile

jarvis says:
*Chile got rly unlucky with the draw , poor sods don't stand a chance after how well they did xD
Nidas says:
*yeah, no way did spain deserve to top that group xd
jarvis says:
*u never know with football but we can almost certainly say the game of the next round would be Holland/Brazil ? xD
Nidas says:
*o yeah xD
*netherlands may pull off a surprise win, who knows /XD

Verdict - Brazil

Paraguay vs Japan

jarvis says:
*Paraguay/Japan - not seen enough of either but I'm thinking Japan ? xD
Nidas says:
*judging by how shit para were against NZ, im guessing japan indeed on that one xD
jarvis says:
*well whoever is gonna get killed by the winner of Spain/Port xD


Verdict - Japan

Spain vs Portugal

Nidas says:
*prob gonna be spain xD
*now theyve cleared their group, they should be port comfortably really /XD
jarvis says:
*yeah ronaldo is not enough to beat spain on his own :P
Nidas says:
*hes only scored 1 goal so far xD
*he's like an overrated version of owen, fast, but thats it xD
*international defences are too canny and just shut him down /XD
jarvis says:
*and wears alot of hair gel :P
*hair gel + ego = ronaldo :P
Nidas says:
*he always attacks down the left side all the time ive watched him, and usually theres like 3 defenders waiting there for him when he gets there, and they just bully him off the ball, leaving him diving and whining for a free kick xD


Verdict - Spain

let's see how many we get right lol.

Thanks to Nidas for his part in this , Shameless overbooru plug for him.

My Personal Anime Hell (pt1 ?)

Image found on Sankaku Complex

I am writing this out because at the time of writing my net connection has been down for like 8 hours now and I am so bored I am reduced to writing silly blog entries in notepad...

so in the theme of hell I decided to name and some shame animes that I personally hate and what I wouldn't reccomend to anyone ... no matter how desperate you are ( so I'm counting out my personal hates that I know other people like such as Evangelion , pardise kiss and 5cm per second ) , so lets begin

Happy Seven

Just finished this now and I have to say if I had the internet to distract me I would have prob split this into 2 viewings as the net would have distracted me away from this garbage ... so the story goes there are basically 7 magic girls , another magic girl who's powers are dormant ... and a magic boy who everyone wants a piece of because he's a nice guy (you know the type ...) and it's down to them to save the world from ... I didn't really get it , most of it was spent exterminating enemies that had pretty much nothing to do with or loosely related with the bigger picture , yeah I do have to say as much as I don't like Nanoha it stuck to the story and made the characters kinda their own characters instead of cliches and there was only like 3/4 main characters , not like 8/9 in the immeadiate front cast, avoid this , there has been better anime made since this (without the internet I can't look up how old it is but going off the artwork it predates like 90% of the anime I've seen) and avoid this if you can.

EDIT: it was actually made in 2005 , it just looks cheap , I don't think the 4:3 ratio helped it there.

Okusama wa Jouseki (My wife is a highschool girl)

when I read this I thought Onegai Teacher but Genders swapped ... how wrong was I ? Onegai had some humour , Onegai had likeable characters and Onegai wasn't just sheer painful to watch. All this anime boils down to is a young teacher (average nice guy again) and a schoolgirl having to hide the fact they are married while they go to school together ... every girl wants the teacher which makes the schoolgirl extremely jealous (most of her time is spent whining) ... and that is about it really , they try to make it funny but it's just ruined by the unrealistic situation that takes itself too seriously and some characters finding out and being okay with it ... if this was In real life if he gave away as much signals as he did in there he'd be facing a jail sentence before anyone can say PE-DO-PH-IL-A. This was so bad even the subbers (lime) left a message saying that they hoped people liked it as much as they hated subbing it and if you couldn't have just found something better to watch.

Haruhi Second Season

This is Second Season Syndrome at it's finest, Haruhi shows up again after a okay first episode (not quite hitting Season 1 standards but fairly good) Endless Eight happens , then 4 episodes of not much else happens ... then that is all. I just hope the dissapearance movie makes up for it and Endless Eight can be erased from the memory.

as the title says this is a part 1 , may do another one if I can be bothered to.

oi , England ... wtf are you doin' ?

1-1 to USA ... okay , I recognise they are a fairly good team , it's one of the youngest teams they've ever fielded and alot of them have had premiership experience and they did well in the confederations cup , but still it's no excuse not to win against a team that football isn't even their main sport and 'football' is something different to an American and they call it 'soccer' and a girl's sport.

0-0 to Algeria ... yeah , this is a team that only just made it through on the African ticket ... only just and I have to say looking at the African teams I have to imagine that qualifying on the Africa ticket is alot easier than qualifying through UEFA , this is basically a team of France rejects , a team that has a Italian Serie B player in it ... this is a team we should be dismissing 3 or 4 - 0 but for the most part they looked to dominate us.

Where did it all go wrong , if England doesn't pull a convincing result against Slovenia and come out of this Group Fabio Capello has alot to answer for ... how could a team go from a pre-tournament favourite to a side that loses possession at the slightest pressure and seems very lack lustre and silly on the attack.

come on England , I hope for you cus on this form we are probably going to lose to Slovenia , if England go out I will probably support Brazil as they are the only realistic team that aren't Argentina.

some of my wall folder

Well , nothing more to say about these than I like Touhou alot and most of them were found on Konachan , Sankaku Complex and other boorus which could be found on the overbooru linked on the right of the page

... credit due to the respective artists of these images.

GTA vs Bully vs Red Dead Redemption

and now that I have 100% completed Red Dead redemption I can make my first entry in like 9 days and what better use is it to compare the game I just 100%-ed

Story

Red Dead has a fairly good cowboy story that would make for a good cowboy movie if it was a little shorter , the main guy as yahtzee said he's pretty much Niko Belic without the accent but the ending is quite the shock and well done , it's just a shame on how you have to continue after not giving anything away. GTA was very similar but in the big city , there was certainly more going on and more stories at the smaller space and the ending I have to say was also good but on Balance I prefer the red dead one and as for the Bully one it does not stand up really , they are all cliched characters , I just can't take controlling a school too seriously ... especially when the cliques are Brainless , Jokes ,inbreds and 60's throwbacks respectively so on balance this is 1-0-0 to Red Dead

Gameplay

All 3 are sandboxes with 3rd person shooters and driving , Bully's aim is a semi manual and the weapons look more in the place in a Dennis the menace cartoon rather of a sandbox game aimed at adults and of course bully is aimed at adults this was made clear when Rockstar defended it from real kids being inspired to bullying from playing the game. In Bully since your in school you have to attend classes and take tests which in some subjects can get rather tedious. Bully also has a fair where games can be played like shoot the bottle , test of strength and other games you'd expect at the fair , they don't really add much but then again neither does GTA with it's Strip Clubs and Bowling alleys and they slightly do more than that. GTA's Aim system is fully automatic but the difficulty is that much higher than bully's to make up for it and the aim system is nice to use and you can get away with fancy diving that looks good. Red Dead redemption has a system similar to GTA but the snap system is made a fair bit harder to use which is good because in places the GTA system got too easy cycling between targets with the right analogue stick is kinda too easy and the dead-eye bullet time system prevents it from being too hard , as for the side stuff Red Dead Redemption easily has the most enjoyable of the three , nothing like hunting bears and cougars, since when could you do that in the other 2 and clearing criminal hideouts and the like. so in short Bully is baby's first sandbox , GTA is flashy and more about the spectacle most the time and Red Dead is balanced and functional , I will give GTA the point for being the most fun and Red Dead for having the best things to do making it 2-1-0 to Red Dead

Vehicles

Bully has a skateboard , a bike and a go-kart ... and that is about it really , the go kart handles way too fast for how small the map is , the Bike is okay but a bit bad at cornering and the skateboard is good around a small area but in the whole map it does take quite a while to get anywhere you want in it. Red Dead Redemption has mainly horses which are good that when you whistle they come running but that said some of the horses can be dim-witted and when you whistle for them they do sometimes run away from you and if they are near a sheer drop and you whistle for them some of them wouldn't think twice about throwing themselves off the drop killing themselves which can be a little irritating as a new horse takes a while to come. GTA sticks to the proven formula of Cars and Motorbikes ... and helicopters and I for one like the GTA car controls once you get used to it , they did feel a little heavy at first but it was kinda what I expected of a real car, 1 more for GTA, so it's 2-2-0 now.

Online Play

Bully has none so this is a zero for this by default a zero for bully , GTA has a free-roam mode which can be played with friends and online play-lists which can be played on versus , there is not much to do but mess about on the free-roam and auto-aim is turned off in the ranked play-lists which is a real struggle to see the targets and Americans can seem to draw a headshot on you before you even see them. whereas Red Dead Redemption has a free-roam mode where you can clear out gang hideouts and do other challenges with other people and over the internet and unlike the GTA player levels they actually mean something by unlocking new guns , characters and mounts and the like , overall it feels more complete and better made than the online GTA. so since this is the last one I can be bothered to do right now that makes it RDR 3 - GTA 2 - Bully 0

I will close by saying if you new to sandboxes play bully , it's ridiculous , it's cliched , it's a laugh and not much more. If you are not planning to play online too much go with GTA , it's more enjoyable and it has more expansion games which you could download and use your GTA disc for and if you want a good short blast with alot to do and good alternative to GTA which difficulty curve's is enough to pose a challenge and good online mode which I recommend playing with your friends go for Red Dead Redemption.

Red Dead Redemption - First Impressions

(( Pic found on Some Wordpress that Google image search pointed me to. ))

Red Dead Redemption or Grand Theft Auto circa 1910 , played a 5 hour all-nighter on it last night and so far it seems so far so good.

Lets get the GTA similarities out the way first , you are a ex-criminal from Serbia The east coast , who wants to set things right so you come into Liberty City the wild west to settle down into a life of luxury with your cousin make a last hit because the government is threatening your family or something (didn't really pay the story too much mind). you get a range of weapons (like GTA) you go round completing missions for various people (like GTA) , but so far as I can see that's where the similarities to GTA end.

No Auto-targeting on this like GTA (considering how small some of the targets are this can become an issue) but they thought about this and gave you a new mode called Dead-eye where you can slow things down to bullet-time (yes,yes I know ... matrix cliché again lol) but it does help , especially when chasing things on horseback and I suppose Auto-Targeting would have made horse-chases too easy. Another obvious difference is technology levels which has it's advantages and disadvantages no more mobile phones so no more "NNNIIIKKOOO , IT'S YA COUSIN ... WANNA DO SOMETHING COMPLETELY UNRELATED TO THE GAME !?!?!" which wound alot of people up. No more cars , well I'm sure cars existed back then but they were nothing much past model Ts so for the purpose of this game as far as I can see they are totally omitted and replaced by horses which is good in the way that you can whistle for your horse and it would come running but I personally find it worse as I found horse controls unintuitive and it took me a long while to get used to. Speaking of the side games unrelated to the game they have gotten better in my opinion instead of bowling which if you knew how to do it you could get a strike every time or Darts where the aiming was way too slow you get throwing horseshoes which is actually fairly hard to start with but once you get the hang of it is fun. Five Finger Fillet which is stabbing in-between your fingers using buttons and the old western cliché of Poker , well it had to be done really. Unlike the big city setting of liberty city it is set in the wilderness with various wildlife like wild horses you can lasso and tame wild deer that you can shoot and skin and sell the meat and hide to the shops ... and wild Coyotes that you can shoot and skin and sell it to shops ... well your seeing a pattern here.

So Far only playing the first few mission and playing all the side distractions it is pretty fun so far , I miss the Radio stations of GTA but the new stuff the put in and some of the old stuff they left out makes it worth it , Might make another entry on the online mode when I go on it or when I Complete the game.

New car

Yes my new car is a R reg (that's 1998 I think) Vauxhall Corsa , like the one pictured ... except it's blue ... and the right way up ... at the minute.

had to take some time to get used to the pedals as my old car was very different , my old car being a L red (that's 1994) Purgeot 106. My main nagging complaint with the pedals is that the surface of the clutch pedal feels too slippery and my foot tends to slide across it which when last time I checked is not a good health and safety feature of modern cars , oh but this is balanced out by the accelerator pedal being way too close to the car wall in my opinion so when I push down on the throttle I have to twist my ankle to the left a little and I can see that getting a bit harmful to me on longer journeys and as with the clutch if I twist too fast my foot would slip so yeah may have to do some rally type braking using my left foot on the brake and right on the accelerator and left on the brake if need lol.

My other complaints for this car are there is no power steering , but then again neither did the Purgeot and the in it's defence the Vauxhall's steering does feel much lighter , no central locking ... but neither did the Purgeot , there's a massive dent on the passenger side front door but then again my driver's side back window didn't open on the Purgeot after a dodgy repair job by autoglass. The Vauxhall has that stupid reverse gear change all Vuaxhalls seem to have (well the Vauxhall van I drove had one) and after being used to having the reverse at the bottom-right it will take me a while to adjust to having it on the top-left with a catch again and I can't have keys cut cheaply that means that me and my dad have to share the same key for a while which means I have to leave the house with 2 sets of keys (car and other keys)

The three big things that are good about this are the ride comfort , it feels alot smoother than the Purgeot. The acceleration is much quicker than the Purgeot (tho it still seems to struggle to get past 60-70ish) and it was a cheap car , not as cheap as the Purgeot which I got for £200 but hey £300 isn't too bad for a car.

updating the trend.

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2 Quickdraw Synchron
3 junk Synchron
3 quilbolt hedgehog
3 Synchron Explorer
2 road Synchron
2 jutte fighter
1 Giant Rat
1 Koaki Meru Bergzak
1 morphing jar
1 Sangan
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3 warrior ret alive
3 Book of Moon
2 Monster Reincarnation
2 Smashing Ground
1 Scapegoat
1 Card Destruction
1 Foolish Burial
1 Reinforcement of the army
1 Heavy Storm
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3 Imperial Iron Wall
2 Stralight Road
1 Torrential Tribute
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2 Junk Destroyer
2 Stardust Dragon
1 Road Warrior
1 Nitro Warrior
1 Junk Archer
1 Black Rose Dragon
1 Flamvell Uraquazis
1 Gaia Knight Force of the Earth
1 Brionac
1 Goyo Guardian
3 Junk Warrior

This is basically updating my Junk Spam deck to reflect the new starter deck with the synchron explorer being the key card , quickdraw and road being quick 6's and 7's with foolish , card destruction and morphing jar being my drawing and dumping power for the junk's benifit mainly Warrior returning alive and monster reincarnation returning key monsters to the hand. I will have to buy 3 copies of the deck to try this out ... if it doesn't oh well.

my worst game characters ... part 1 ?

Big the Cat - Sonic Adventure.

need I say much on this one ? The whole back story for him being that his pet frog ran away from him and he has to get it back by fishing ... FISHING IN A SONIC GAME !?!?! as much as I do like Sonic Adventure adding big the cat to it was like farting in a lift ... well yeah he's sucks , does he get better later on ? short answer to that is no, he makes his second and only other main-game appearance in the awful sonic heroes and guess what , his frog goes missing again so he joins up with two other joke characters, perennial series joke Amy Rose and Cream who's only main appearance as far as I'm aware being heroes itself , needless to say I'm sure big was added to make the other 2 members of team rose seem like less of a joke , so yeah this is one cat that needs to get hit by a car.

Navvi - Legend of Zelda

HEY !!! LISTEN !!! HEY !!! LISTEN !!! ... nuff said.

various NPC Characters - Pokemon (recent ones)

This wasn't as bad back in the days in red and blue , when you did watch this it did activate a glitch which is maybe why they have done this in the recent ones ...

you know what I mean by them NPCs that go like HEY DO YOU KNOW HOW TO CATCH A POKEMON !!! to which anyone playing this game would reply 'yes this is like my 4th/5th/6th Pokemon game already' and they follow up with WELL LET ME SHOW YOU !!! , the general speed at the start of a pokemon game is unbearable these recent generations.

... if they were worried about the glitch they should cut these NPCs altogether , I'm sure the 1 in a 10,000ish new pokemon players could just find out easy by good interface design or just experimenting like we all did in red and blue.

I will moan about more characters that annoy me maybe in the future.

Turning to the dark side

(( Pic unrelated , found on Gelbooru. ))

well not exactly I just decided my next army would be Dark Angels , despite the way they sound they are a Space Marine force and have nothing to do with darkness in any way.

more specifically I went for a deathwing terminators list cus terminators are sheer walking awesome , although for cheapness I have gone without alot of options cus of all my figures I bought for this bar the HQ being Black Reach figures I bought on the cheap off ebay but then again I'd rather have the £95 I'd save not having the options than being the £95 down and having a slightly more effective army , also this will not be my main army , my main army will still be my orks , this is more a side project I'm working on that I can realistically complete instead of my 100's of orks.

my 1500 list so far is

HQ - Belial [130pts]
Elite - BR Dread [125pts]
Elite - BR Dread [125pts]
Troop - BR Termies w/Army Standard [240pts]
Troop - BR Termies w/Chain Fist [220pts]
Troop - BR Termies w/Chain Fist [220pts]
Troop - BR Termies w/Chain Fist [220pts]
Troop - BR Termies w/Chain Fist [220pts]
Total - 1500pts

I know this list will lose alot but meh , I'm used to losing being an ork player lol.

you know you need a new laptop when...

(( Pic unrelated , found on Gelbooru. ))

yeah , I have had a new computer since the laptop but since I've started watching anime on the laptop again on it. my main reasons for wanting a new laptop being ...

- When I watch anime on it video and audio timing goes out of sync alot of the time.
- it only has 40GB in total which was a fair amount when I bought it but now I only have like 2GB left on the thing and that includes me purging restore points using CCleaner regularly.
- A Firefox window and a MSN window open seems to demand like 70-80% of the CPU for some reason.
- Windows 7 has been out a while and my laptop can just about handle XP
- After defragging it 3 times using the MS DeFragger tool it still shows up as like 35% fragmented.
- A firefox process that wasn't even running in the foreground the other day zapped like 90% of the processing power and I had to shut it down manually using task manager.
- After a dodgy system restore a while back after the repair ppl finished with it the wireless card seemed to died and I had to download a seperate program to run it which take up precious processing power

but saying that I do like my laptop , I have spent alot of time on it the best part of 3/4 years I reckon and it has a really nice screen that shows up pictures and media really clearly (well media when it can synch with the audio). Also when I play Touhou on it the slowdown of the processor does help at times but I think that counts as cheating really lol.

oh well enough of me moaning , I should save some money and do something about it.

Painboy

very simular to the warboss as I showed yesterday expect I used the stipling brush with Blood red paint for the gore , the tank of goo was Orkhide Shade under a coat of Goblin green and the skin used the same as the warboss but more golin green than the warboss.

pictures below.

Warboss

Well I had to do this sooner or later ...and it's been later rather than sooner , must have had this over 6 months or so , prob coming upto 9. But then again last time I was painting it was boy after boy after boy and yeah the number of boyz used in a average ork army is head-crushing , I run relativly few boyz for an ork player and still I run 66 which is alot compare to the average of like 20/30 marines in a marine army of a simular size.

for the skin I used Orkhide shade with a badab black wash then Knarlok green and then I topped it off with a little goblin Green. The weapons armour were boltgun metal washed with badab black then highlighted with chainmail and the reds I used Mechrite and blood red.

Pictures of the outcome below , meh still another warboss , 30/40-odd boyz , 1 painboy , 20-ish nobz and still plenty of other stuff to go.

Why I think flash will be round for a long time to come.

I don't know if anyone else has been reading this whole apple vs adobe row with Apple claiming flash is dead a product of a bygone era ... maybe they haven't said that but I know they have been basically declaring war on flash as a format - removing flash support from their iTrendy thing whatever it is , I really don't think adobe care too much on that front but I bet they care about the way apple have been bashing them and to be honest I think their some of their criticisms are just silly , let me put this the way I see it.

loads of people are trained in Flash, I even did a computing HND and that was one of the modules not to mention the media people having even more to do with flash for the production of their media content and I don't think that many people would look on too kindly for their skills to become as good as non-existent , I know people who have spent years and years on flash honing their skills , if a format is that widely spread and that widely trained and supported there surely can't be anything fundamentally wrong with it.

Which brings me on to their 2nd point , I am fairly sure apple are quoted as saying that Flash was made for an era of Mouse and Keyboard ... no , I'm sorry ... even though your iTrendy thing may be touch screen or ego controlled but most other formats of computer are still mouse and keyboard controlled , granted that some of it are laptop touch pads but you can get USB mouses if you want a mouse to control it with and anything other than a game in flash would take that in mind because I don't know if anyone reading this has had any formal computer training but you would know to make your interfaces not that awkward in the sheer amount of HCI (Human Computer Interaction/Interface) lectures you get rammed in your face - what if old/disabled/non technology adept people use your technology , etc.

Apple are not the only ones with their iTrendy touchscreen phone stuff too, Microsoft and Google , 2 Companies which I'm sure are bigger than Apple are also making these devices and want to guess what they are using for their interfaces ? you guessed it FLASH.

so not so much of a case of it being bad like they are saying , I think it's a case of jealous rivalry.

My first and poss last adventure with Airfix

yeah , I have to admit I have wanted to do an airfix model since I seen it on that James May toy program (I know I know , should have built that house of lego instead lol) as with the program I went with the spitfire model , let me say this on the program the kids made it look easy , trust me on this it is nowhere near easy , credit to them they did well ... as for me judge for yourself.

the brushstrokes are far from good , I messed up the decals , I messed up sticking the bottom half so there's a gap in the top half and the bottom half and top , I put the pilot too high so the cockpit has to be an open one

oh well tried my best lol

Come on England

yeah, I know what everybody's thinking ... it's that time of 4 years again , England will never re-live the glory of '66 so why do we even get ourselves worked up for disappointment ?

I do admit that I also thought that at the start of this one , Rooney being our only realistic chance of lifting the world cup and that he is on the border of injury , Cashley Cole having trouble with the press (as an Arsenal fan I am glad to see him being a *** catching up with him , lol why did he have affairs with the wife he had ? what a *** ) Same with John Terry and him being stripped of the Captaincy ( yeah something must be running in the money-infected water of Chelski ).

But then I looked at the potential tournament progress we could make if we win our group (and lets be real here , any group where USA is consider the best of the other teams is no real threat to even a weakened England) it is very possible that we could reach the Semi-final as if results go as expected I see all the really hard hitters being kept from us till then apart from a Quarter-final against France and with the state they are in after qualifying in the way they did I don't expect them to be as dangerous as they could be.

Also with the potential trouble this year with certain people being offended with us being 'racist' by wearing our ENGLAND shirts and flying our ENGLAND flags in ENGLAND !!! yes I'm sorry , if you are offended by ENGLISH patriotism in ENGLAND at this once in every 2 year event (4 years now cus of McClaren failing us at Euros) please go back to wherever it is you come from ... oh and another thing , if you find it offensive for us to wear England shirts and Fly England flags then why do some of you wave foreign flags and wear foreign sports shirts ? what if we find that offensive ? ... oh wait it doesn't work like that does it ? that would be racist.

I see the likely top 4 of this World cup being Brazil, Spain, Portugal or Holland and England. So what I'm going to say is don't get excited for this world cup because you think we have a clear chance of winning cus we do not , it is possible but then again it is also in theory possible for a team like the Swiss to win it , but it is highly possible for us to reach the top 4 which would be great for England and not been done since Italia '90. The other reason is that people should get excited for this is keep English patriotism alive , if you have origins from another country and support your country of origin for the World cup , Cricket cup , Rugby cup , whatever ... we respect that , please respect us in showing support for our country in our country , we are not being racist ... and I for one have no idea why you are suggesting we are

I think I've said enough.

Modern Day Royalty

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1 Gorz the Emissary of Darkness
3 Caius the Shadow Monarch
3 Raiza the Storm Monarch
2 Thestalos the Firestorm Monarch
2 Cyber Dragon
2 Krebons
2 Level Eater
2 Treeborn Frog
2 Dandylion
2 Spore
1 Morphing Jar
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3 Book of Moon
2 Pot of Avarice
1 One For One
1 Foolish Burial
1 Heavy Storm
1 Mystical Space Typhoon
1 Brain Control
1 Card Destruction
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3 Phoenix Wing Wind Blast
2 Bottomless Trap Hole
1 Torrential Tribute
1 Mirror Force
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3 Stardust Dragon
1 Colossal Fighter
1 Ally of Justice Light Gazer
1 Red Dragon Archfiend
2 Psychic Lifetrancer
1 Black Rose Dragon
2 Gaia Knight, the Force of Earth
2 Flamvell Uruquizas
1 Goyo Guardian
1 Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier

Who said that monarchs are long dead ? well they may not be meta right now but the cards that once dominated the game are still useful, this variant use the get tribute fodder at all costs method but making full advantage of Frog and Dandy being at 2 as well as level eater which could come in handy ever if a monster should need a level dropped to be synchro'ed off , 3 Wing Blasts makes use of the massive amount of discard fodder and one for one has 6 hittable targets. As with the old monarch philosophy every spell and trap in this deck is chainable which makes it enough to hit if not slow down other decks like Sworn's dragon or Glad's Bestiari and wing blast completely stumping the otherwise impervious Infernity Guardian.

overall I think this deck has some potential but still some way to go , if some key cards in other decks get hit then maybe , just maybe the monarchs will reign supreme again ?

Thinking of joining a trend (ver 1.0)

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3 Quickdraw Synchron
2 Cyber Dragon
2 Destiny Hero - Malicious
2 Destiny Hero - Dasher
1 The Tricky
3 Quillbolt Hedgehog
3 Level Eater
2 Junk Synchron
2 Road Synchron
1 Elemental Hero Stratos
1 Morphing Jar
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3 The Warrior Returning Alive
3 Book of Moon
2 Hand Destruction
1 Reinforcement of the Army
1 Destiny Draw
1 One For One
1 Foolish Burial
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2 Bottomless Trap Hole
1 Torrential Tribute
1 Mirror Force
1 Call Of The Haunted
1 Limit Reverse
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2 Stardust Dragon
1 Road Warrior
2 Junk Archer
1 Ancient Sacred Wyvern
1 Nitro Warrior
2 Drill Warrior
1 Goyo Guardian
1 Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
1 Turbo Warrior
3 Junk Warrior

My inspiration came from a friend at locals who I must say probably played a better version of this Quickdraw spam , but the idea still stays the same , use quickdraws and cards that are good for the discard to spam snychro monsters. I know there are quicker and more effient ways of doing that with having more options in your Synchro (lol infernitys) but this is one of them original ideas you use in fun duels. Other cards I'd have liked to see in here would have seen Dandylion in here but I couldn't think what to take out. Oh well this will probaly get tested and it will give me ideas for a version 2 of this if I follow this idea up.

New Pokemon

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I don't know what anyone thinks about these new pokemon that have came up but I have to say that I think things have been going down since Red and Blue , I do admit that I do like the Generation 4 starters. Monferno for one does indeed look awesome imo and is a pretty brutal pokemon , I especially love how it can use grass knot to give pokemon like Tyranitar and Rhypeior something to think about.

But this new generation's offering really does look like they are scraping the bottom of the barrel. As with every other generation there's the Fire one , the Grass one and the Water one ... but what else did you expect ? although saying that I did hear a rumour that the starters were going to be Dark , Fighting and Psychic this gen but in my opinion at least it was a good idea not to go with that , Imagine having a abra as a starting option in Red (well an abra that knew confusion or something for arguement's sake.) Granted it would do nothing on the dark-type your rival would pick but for the rest of the game seeing as so many pokemon either have a weakness or are not strong anyway against psychic attacks that would probably leave the dark type and fighting type largely unused. Lets have a look at these new starters anyway.

The Grass one is called Tsutaaja (none of the English names have been anounced as of yet). My first impressions of this were that this looked like Grass Cross-breed of Cyndaquil and Buizel but I have to admit this has been a grower on me , if I was asked to pick the starter at this moment in time without seeing the evolutions aside I would pick this one myself.

The Fire one is called Pokabu and from the looks of it it is a fire pig , I'm sure this will end in delicious results, but putting the bacon jokes aside this is the middle one of this gen by the looks of it , it does look like it has to the potential to evolve into something cool (flame bodied annoyed boar maybe ?) but still after 5 gens of design I think this could be better , the only unevolved fire I prefer this to is torchic.

The Grass one is called Mijumaru ... yeah , I don't know about anyone else but this is the one I really don't like of this generation ... it just looks stupid and for the most part it dragged the other two for being in the same lineup as it and from the looks of it 4chan agrees with me. So far there is no hope for this one but hopefully it will evolve into something cool.

Now for the Player Protagonists , all pokemon protagonists are designed to be age 11 which makes no sense when they get to become league champion and overthrow a evil criminal origination such as team rocket. Nintendo have seemed to have taken note of this and bumped them up to wise old experienced age of ... 15 , well it's a start. Maybe within two or three gens we will have player characters that are realistic ages to be leaving home and out on an adventure on their own , but then again there could be a pokemon game where you don't have to sit through hours of tutorials before you get to play the actual game ... yeah , I doubt that is going to happen. The Male character does look better than the Male GenIV Male character but then again that is not saying much really , he does look like a palette-swap gold , just a bit older and the Female , I did not like her at first but like the Grass starter she has grown on me especially since I've seen that she wears shorts , looking at the first pics I thought she just wore and exact copy of the Diamond and Pearl Female outfit and that is what I didn't like ... I mean , 3 years to design and they just throw up the same thing. I admit though that I do like her hair , the wavy look does look good on her.

Meh , enough ranting. I will know if my fears are confirmed or I will be pleasantly surprised soon enough.

Finished messing about with the settings for now

I've gone for a Patchouli knowledge based theme like the one one my website.

not sure I like this theme , I think I prefered the fancier ones but this will do for now I guess.

First Post

Thought I'd give this a shot and it is something to link to my site ... so yeah , maybe they will be more of these to come , maybe not.

watch this space really.