The Grotto
Britain’s summer is long gone (what there was of it) and the winter weather is creeping in, so it’s time for another change to the general chit-chat area of slickhouse. Due to Adamskii’s suggestion of The Grotto, this post is titled - The Grotto.
Think of Santa sitting by a warm fire, with his big white beard hanging from his chubby chin. Maybe a pipe in one hand and a list of presents to deliver in the other…
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October 5th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Ooh! I get to play Santa this Christmas! Just got to grow a big white beard in the coming weeks and put on a bit more weight - feel free to feed me mince pies and whisky in the run-up to the big day.
October 9th, 2008 at 11:24 am
mmmm MIIIIINCE! MINTHY MINTH MINTHHHHH
October 13th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
I guess you already know, you only need to make out 1 invitation now I suppose :\
October 13th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
We guessed from the wonders of facebook. Hope everything’s OK and let us know if you need anything. You’re always welcome in the land of yellow-bellys!
October 14th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Cheers y’all!
October 22nd, 2008 at 7:25 pm
UTOH!! is my life in danger again?!
http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6199726.html?tag=latestheadlines;title;1
Oh well got nothing else to do these days….
October 22nd, 2008 at 7:44 pm
I bought some slippers this evening! They’re the first pair I’ve hand in over 10 years! I feel old. How does it feel having another member of the tea drinking, slipper wearing club Adamskii? I take it you still do the aforementioned things?
October 22nd, 2008 at 7:54 pm
They’ve officially confirmed the KOTOR-eque MMO being developed by LucasArts/BioWare!
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Bah, i posted that, where’d it go?
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:29 pm
I wear flip flops at the mo :D
October 28th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Im going to be learning .NET and ASP from December, have you ever done this, whats it like?
October 29th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Bit-tech reported that the browsed on the ps3 has been improved with last update, i concur, its waaaaay better. fast and seems very compatible so far. Much success!
October 31st, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Whats happpened here? its dead!
November 1st, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Good point! Like a zombie.
Ben’s bought a PS3, but had been playing over the standard scart connection. So last weekend we picked him up a HDMI cable. I had a go on GTA4, but found the game to look nowhere near as good as on the 360.
We’re moving onto ASP.NET at work, as most of the code is in classic ASP. I have to admit that programming in ASP (.NET/classic) is a lot of fun, far better than the C++/Pascal days at Uni. Mainly because of the real world applications aspect.
November 4th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Thats good but….. I have to learn C++ as well now, lol mental. Gonna be a mental December.
I find 8/10 games(demos) do look better on 360. Aliasing being the biggest issue for whatever reason.
November 4th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
We’re getting a wii soon, with wii sports and wii fit as they’re a lot of fun. I’ve been tempted by a PS3 in the past, due to Blu-Ray now being the dominating format, but I’ll have to wait longer…
Thinking about it, if I looked back at the projects we did in Uni (written in C++), I bet I’ll get it all straight away. It’s funny looking back at how I used to be a guessing programmer - hoping it would work.
Si says you’ll be getting CoD 5 when it’s out next Friday? I’ll be picking up a copy but not sure when (wedding funds).
November 7th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Aye man a wii good console for partay stuff for sure. Hopefully I will get the C++ stuff more as well. I guess it was mostly down to not being arsed in Uni & being distracted by the finer things in life hehe. Hopefully it should come to me a bit easier now that ill be forced to do it with little distraction at work. If i had to learn it at home tho there is not a chance id pick it up!
The rumour is Call of duty 5 will be 29.99 at sainsbury’s nxt week so if you get it then there might be a good idea. I may well get it yes, assuming it gets some decent reviews. Ive bought 2 & 3 then for some retarded reason skipped the best version (4) so might get back on track with this one. PLus I seen a video of the secret Zombie coop mode and that looked pretty fun.
Ill give the beta a trial (up now on marketplace) and see how that is.
November 19th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
at work they made 2 developers redundant. Somehow I’ve dodged the bullets.
November 20th, 2008 at 8:36 am
You’re like Neo - dodging them bullets. Good job! Quite literally.
December 1st, 2008 at 1:35 pm
anyone know a good motherboard for either a quad 6600 or a dual core 2 e8400?
December 1st, 2008 at 9:29 pm
I take it your current one has died? Or does it not support the Q6600/E8400? I wouldn’t know what board to go for though - as only looked at them a few months back when my AM2 board died. If you’re opting for an upgrade, why not hold off until i7 drops in price?
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:07 pm
nah erm its not for me, its for me dad but there are literally hundreds of boards, im not so sure where to look
December 24th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
It’s Christmas Eve, Lily is now in bed asleep. We’re tracking Santa and watching TV waiting for the big day! Speaking of TV, we’ve nearly filled the 80GB/80hours V+ box with all the films that have been on over the past few days.
Anyway, hope you all have a great Christmas - and Santa brings you everything you hoped for!