Other news: cheapo game rip-offs - Jo had picked a some of these, and we played a couple. First, Guess Who? - much like the original (slightly less faces, I think), but the balance is horribly wrong (ie 2/3 of the faces are male, so if one player gets a boy and the other a girl, the latter always wins. Duh). The second was a Monopoly-style game which suffers from the problem that it's far too difficult to acquire money (you don't even get any for passing Go!) and buy stuff is far too expensive - the game ended before I got twice around the board! Best square is the one where you get $200 for "Watching the statue pis" (sic) featuring a picture of a statue cherub with appropriately-placed fountain nozzle - and this is aimed at young kids? Even at £2 each, they're really taking the pis.
Busa Simba!
Other news: cheapo game rip-offs - Jo had picked a some of these, and we played a couple. First, Guess Who? - much like the original (slightly less faces, I think), but the balance is horribly wrong (ie 2/3 of the faces are male, so if one player gets a boy and the other a girl, the latter always wins. Duh). The second was a Monopoly-style game which suffers from the problem that it's far too difficult to acquire money (you don't even get any for passing Go!) and buy stuff is far too expensive - the game ended before I got twice around the board! Best square is the one where you get $200 for "Watching the statue pis" (sic) featuring a picture of a statue cherub with appropriately-placed fountain nozzle - and this is aimed at young kids? Even at £2 each, they're really taking the pis.
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Not quite the Neverending Story
I mentioned a couple of weeks back that I was playing The Longest Journey - an entry of that oft-neglected genre of computer games, the…
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Random media ramblings...
SomethingAwful has a bunch of B-Movie-style poster spoofs which are well worth a look. Page 8 has the HP one, most of the rest are pretty good…
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Movie misdirection...
And the "totally misleading trailer of the week" award goes to Bridge to Terabithia. Given the current cinematic drought, I was happy to catch a…
January 6 2003, 10:45:32 UTC 18 years ago
What you missed. You can just see my tail.
P.S. If the piddling statue is the famous one from Brussels it is called the Manneken Pis, so that might not be a speller (she said charitably).
January 6 2003, 14:56:45 UTC 18 years ago
OK, maybe I'll let them off. That reminds me of a waterfall over a road on Reunion, named Pisse en l'Air...
January 6 2003, 17:04:14 UTC 18 years ago