July 2011
1 post
BBC Three Show Generator →
June 2011
2 posts
May 2011
4 posts
roronicuspondicusx asked: Halllo! It's the Amy Pond cosplayer from Saturday! :D <3 My real name is Kellee by the way. :D
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MCM London Expo
gottagetmyjam:
OH MY GOD THERE WERE SO MANY DOCTOR COSPLAYERS THERE.
Here is the most adorable doctor cosplayer ever. *w*
This picture probably sums up my Saturday - getting hugged lots and having lots of photos taken. Bizarre day - exhausting but very fun.
January 2011
1 post
October 2010
1 post
DJ Dreadful presents - The Worst Remixes Ever →
September 2010
2 posts
August 2010
3 posts
“How to watch Doctor Who: Start with Season 1 (27) with Christopher Ecclestone -...”
– Keyser Soze presents quite possibly the most accurate message board post ever. Where to start watching Doctor Who, from the NeoGAF forums.
Experiments in Data Visualisation →
TIGA released some interesting stats on the development industry in the UK - comparisons between independent studios and such. Most sites ran this as a story with the statistics from the press release, but I wanted to try something a little bit different.
I do like numbers and maths, but it’s also fun to explore them in a different way - so I built a mini interactive visualisation thing....
Ask me about Loom: Episode 1: Man, doze glasses! →
A completely original podcast (almost) about video games. Jonathan goes hands on and hands off with the Nintendo 3DS and Kinect, Bacon designs a store logo, Rog hosts the first edition of the Ask Me About Loom Chart Show – and the team accidentally go to Pride London.
July 2010
3 posts
Everything looks better with a fez →
Well, Doctor Who characters do.
Please, please stop believing →
Glee and The X-Factor are both popular shows. Channel Five decided to combine them. This was not a good idea.
Enter Don’t Stop Believing, a show which manages to copy and ruin two shows, destroy the English language and cause ears to bleed across the country.
May 2010
1 post
Updating The Linc →
So I’ve accidentally become a web designer again - and the first of my three current website projects has gone live.
I’ve touched up the website for the student paper at the University, The Linc, where I’m the Assistant Deputy Editor - which is pretty much a madeup title meaning “he does some stuff and is a bit important but not the most”.
You can see the new site...
April 2010
3 posts
Fox sees "Muslim image" in logo for Nuclear... →
Another ridiculous outing for Fox News. I particularly like the bit where they forget the word “logo”.
I wonder if Fox News is secretly a Chris Morris project?
Cadbury cafes to hit high streets →
“The chocolate-maker has secured the backing of new owner Kraft for a series of branded offering afternoon tea and an on-site chocolatier service, making large versions of popular bars such as Curly Wurlys and Flakes.
As many as 60 outlets could be opened over the next three to five years.”
This is amazing news.
Hats and Wigs has moved →
The best content from the blog is over there, with some older blog articles too. I’m gonna be posting more stuff on there soon, and hopefully still the odd thing on tumblr too.
February 2010
25 posts
56. Alcoholic
Does anyone have the number for Alcoholics Anonymous? I’m pretty sure I can hardly type and that we were locked in a pub tonight. I’ll write a proper blog soon. Promise.
55. Questions. Again.
It’s another round of Questions on the blog, and this time they’re from Twitter. This might be because I’m lazy. Oh, right, it is. So I’ve searched for anything with a question mark and will now take 5 questions…
@mrrickybell asks: have ur parents read your bio? Yes, they’ve read it. And this blog. That’s probably quite worrying.
@annieveillette asks: Je...
54. Idea
Could you stick a deep fat fryer in a deep fat fryer? It’d go well with my plans of laminating a laminator.
Also, if the Queen gets to 100, will she send herself a telegram?
…yeah, that’s about all I’ve got to say for now.
53. Graze
Regular readers of this blog tend to be concerned about my eating habits, or rather, the lack of them. Thankfully this has improved recently and not just due to ‘editorial meetings’ in The Shed, but actually remembering to cook food and eat it. (If you’re interested, tonight was a pizza. Highly exciting, I know.)
However, thanks to some silly new website, I’m going beyond...
51. Writing
Technically, the rules of #oneaday mean that a “day” is the time from waking up to going to bed at night. So even though it’s almost 6am, it’s still a day.
For once it’s not just due to procrastination that I’m up at this time, rather that I’ve been hard at work writing various articles for things slightly more important than this blog. You know...
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50. Table
Someone’s nicked the bloody kitchen table! There’s some different one there now. I don’t like it. I want our red one back. It’s bigger.
Where’s the bloody table gone?!
49. Advert Break
Ok, SeeSaw, 60 seconds of adverts before my show starts. Let’s see how much I can write. This might be a problem as I don’t have any ideas. So, I’ll be uncreative and cover a few things I’ve been up to:
…crap, the break’s over.
Ooh, another one, fantastic. This might take several episodes of Hustle. So for a University task, I’ve got to start a blog and write 6 entries with a minimum of...
48. Fire Alarm
Dear the person responsible for the fire alarms at University halls of residence,
Fuck you.
No, seriously, fuck you.
Yeah, you know the alarms work. You test them every Wednesday for about 20 seconds just before noon. The alarms work. We can hear them. It’s loud.
So when you decide to wake us up and get us all outside at 6:30, the only words I can have for you are those of sheer and utter...
47. Blogging
I was asked a question today – a rather tough one. Well, that’s not really different to most things I’m asked, but this one stood out for the reason that it was in a split second in which I was paying attention to what was going on.
“So why do you blog?”
It’s a good question. Much of the things people write are nothing but inane twaddle, personal waffle and uninformed opinionated bullshit. Hence...
46. PlayZone
One of the disappointing things about getting older (although I don’t look it) is that adventure playgrounds become a place where you can’t really go. Indoor play areas, too. Unless you’re taking a child there it looks slightly suspicious even though you just want to go down the vertical slide.
Enter PlayZone, the play centre with enough ballpits, slides and rope-climbing areas for adults. Not...
45. Sleep
In Pokemon, there’s a limit to how many moves your creature can learn. After having 4 attacks, Pidgey’s going to have to forget something so that he can learn Whirlwind.
I’m slightly worried that this appears to have happened to me. Since in the last two weeks I’ve managed to eat on a regular basis my sleeping pattern seems to have gradually deteriorated to the point where I’ll end up lying in...
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44. Cycling
I am convinced that cyclists hate me. This is entirely an irrational thought, but every time I’m walking around Lincoln and one passes me by I get the feeling they despise me. This is probably because in reverse, for no reason whatsoever, I hate them.
It’s possibly an inferiority complex. Look at those BASTARDS, look at them moving at a faster speed, yet not using petrol and being environmentally...
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43. The Great Stair Theory
Quite possibly one of the best ideas I’ve ever come up with is one called the ‘Great Stair Theory’. Well, I say it’s one of the best – as other people and I seem to have remembered it at least 4 years on, it must be slightly good. …or maybe it’s memorable for the wrong reasons.
The idea originated on a message board called Pixeltendo. One member, probably aged around 11 at the time, posted a...
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42. Chart Show
Radio 1’s chart show is a bit boring. I think that’s because when you’re playing the top 40 records in the UK, much of those making up your station’s playlist, you sort of have to like them. Or pretend to. Or just say “that was, this is, here’s our special guest from a band, how excited are you to have sales figures better than someone else?”
My proposal to make it more interesting is to combine...
41. Bioshock 2
Rapture truly did feel like a different world. A haunting and atmospheric dystopia with the most incredible sound made 2007’s Bioshock such a memorable game. As happens when something is successful, it’s been done again as the sequel is released this week.
So it’s no surprise that the second that Bioshock 2 appeared on Steam that I was ready to download it. Well, apart from having no idea about...
40. Crazy Bones
One of the best things about being a kid is that following trends isn’t frowned upon, rather it’s expected and even encouraged. You’re not going to be mocked for just liking something as it’s cool, rather you’ll get laughed at if you don’t. For me, it was Pokemon cards, but as far as I can tell there’s an even more ridiculous collectable for kids these days.
The “GoGos Crazy Bones” or whatever...
39. Facebook (2)
There are few things in the world that seem to enrage people as much as Facebook. Global warming, the war in Iraq, corruption at the highest levels in society… nope, they all pale in comparison to the sheer anger you can see when the layout of Facebook is modified.
Everybody hates change, and when Facebook does it, you have to think about the phrase “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”.
Then...
38. Peggle
Just a quick game of Peggle, we said. Just a quick game.
…
There is no such thing as a quick game of Peggle.
This is something I’ve failed to grasp over a few years now and for however many times I think I’ve learnt… Popcap’s ability to create games more addictive than thought humanly possible will draw me back in.
Looking at the game factually, it’s unbelievably simple. You’ve got...
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37. Wallet
What do you mean, “it’s so obvious you can’t be arsed”? Are you seriously suggesting I looked on my desk and chose to write about the first thing there as a quick way of writing 100 words or so and then heading to bed? How dare you… be so accurate?
Reflecting my highly manly personality, my wallet isn’t anything special or leather, rather a yellow, velcro sealed piece of tat with the...
36. Organisation
With the amount people use technology throughout the day for communication, information and entertainment, it’s no surprise that someone who is on the computer 29 hours a day (hello!) organises their life mainly though digital means.
It’d be too easy to have a paper calendar, and also too easy to ignore. Instead, I tend to rely on the great god Google to keep my arrangements in check. I’d be...
35. My Immortal
Oh god. My apartment has discovered the most deadly drinking game ever. It’s not Ring of Fire, HITLER or anything similar, rather a game based on what can only be described as the worst fanfiction known to mankind.
Called ‘My Immortal’, it’s a work that may at some point have been based on Harry Potter, but somehow has been set in a bizarro world where everybody listens to My Chemical Romance, is...
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34. Vancouver 2010 →
This post was originally written for British Gaming Blog
Massive sport events mean two things. One, the TV schedules are packed with coverage of events I know little or nothing about, and two, tie in video games. With the Winter Olympics coming up, Sega’s released their inevitable Vancouver 2010 game.
Vancouver 2010 boasts a whopping 14 different events in its main menu. This, quite simply, is...
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33. Questions (2)
Alright, it’s time for another dose of ‘reader mail’! Not that anyone reads this, rather it’s questions submitted anonymously via the website Formspring. Let’s see if the internet can be mature and ask decent questions this time round… here’s another 10.
Do you like hammocks? Yes. I tend to find they’re rather small though. At the Latitude Festival...
32. MAG 256
This post was written for British Gaming Blog. I’ll post it there in the morning. I’m tired, damn it.
Sony’s new PS3 game MAG, which stands for Massive Action Game, is both the laziest title in the history of gaming and a pretty accurate description of what happens. It’s certainly a game, shooting does classify as action, and it is of a considerable scale. MAG’s hook...
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31. Carnage
It’s a Monday night, the start of February, and it’s pretty cold. What better things are there to do than spend £8 on a t-shirt and go ahead and drink yourself in to oblivion? According to many students, not much, as the bar crawl event ‘Carnage’ has returned to Lincoln. And just like I did three months ago, I’m getting highly involved with the spirit of binge drinking by sitting in my room on a...
January 2010
30 posts
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30. Review
Being a games journalist (or in my case pretending to be a games journalist) has several perks. These include free trips, free games and free swag. On the other hand, you also have to review games such as Vancouver 2010.
It’s Sega’s official Winter Olympics game, and it’s fallen to me to review it for British Gaming Blog. My lack of enthusiasm isn’t particularly as it’s a bad game, just that...
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29. SeeSaw
Video catchup services are a life-saver at University. BBC iPlayer and 4OD make up pretty much all of my TV viewing (well, excluding the TVs in The Shed) due to both allowing you to watch things at your own times and also that as long as you’re not watching content as it is being broadcast you don’t have to pay for a TV license.
That doesn’t stop TV Licensing being completely a pain, sending...
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28. Podcast
Occasionally, I write words about video games. Some of these are for more serious publications than others and by that I mean that I can’t just make jokes about masturbation (the content of half of this blog and about a third of British Gaming Blog) in some of them. One of these is the fantastic student paper and website The Linc, one I recommend not just because I write for them, but also because...
27. Marriage
I don’t remember the ceremony, how it happened, or even why, but it appears I’m married.
This might come as a shocking revelation to you (the thought of me being married), but don’t worry, it was as unexpected for me as well.
It only dawned on me the other day when after a lecture Ashleigh asked me if I wanted to go in to town as she had to go to the bank and pick a few things up. Fair enough,...