Latin for "it goes without saying".

A corroner has warned children of the risks of playing on moving vehicles. While it is a tragedy that a kid died, part of me just keeps wondering "what were they thinking?". By 10 you should know the Green Cross Code nevermind make the connection that playing on a several tonne vehicle would be anything less than dangerous.

So Chrono Trigger isn't coming out until 2009. For Europe anyway. Why do we constantly get shafted like this?

Whenever something awesome gets given a date, simply add 5-11 months onto the date and you have the European release. Even with consoles. America and Japan got theirs before Christmas, whilst the rest of us waited until March to see the light of day of the PS3. And that was a stripped down broken version with little to no backwards compatibilty and an extra $100 equivilant added on. Why does the games industry abuse us so?:cry:

At least I have Persona 3 to play until then.

I noticed everyone had one of these so I felt left out. :(

1. I'm from North Britain, statistically the most likely area to be the victim of crime.

2. I'm at uni, studying Psychology with Law. My dissertation is on Loneliness and Internet Usage.

3. I have a phobia of mannaquins. The worst ones are the ones with wigs.

4. I've been gaming since 1991 when I got a MegaDrive and Sonic The Hedgehog 1

5. I consider the original Tomb Raider to be one of the best games ever made

6. I have unproportionately long pinky fingers.

7. My favourite food is pizza.

8. I know very basic Japanese and I'm going to live in Japan within the next 3 years.

9. My main username, Tamachan87, is also shared by an Italian girl who draws yaoi on DeviantArt.

10. My birthday is Christmas Day.

So yeah...there you go.

EDIT: Edited, twice because numbers didn't show up.

Ok so Yahtzee has taken his already outspoken rage against webcomic Ctrl-Alt-Del in his recent review. A large portion of me agrees with what Yahtzee is saying, no matter which way you look at it, this is a laugh-a-day wacky webcomic which has suddenly decided to become some kind of daytime soap opera. Even the game related stuff he's done recently just leaves me with this bitter taste in my mouth that this is "the webcomic that killed a baby".

I'll admit that I liked Ctrl-Alt-Del for a long time, I've read through all of them a number of times, and while Tim Buckley does do some hits and misses (as we all) it seems like he's suddenly become that guy. You know the one; he used to be funny and you hung out with him, but then he suddenly cracks a racist joke. You begin to feel more and more awkward around him, wondering if he's going to try more on it or if you're going to become associated with him because you hang around him. No matter what he does from now on, this will always be at the back of my mind.

On the other hand, a part of me feels sorry for Tim. His CAD series is very popular but so is Yahtzee. There will be a bit of traffic coming his way from people who've never heard of him, but there is no doubt in my mind that there will be a number of people who will actively stop visiting CAD on the sole reasoning that Yahtzee said so, which is sad.

I still enjoy reading the older CAD comics and can see the formation of a storyline emerging, so maybe Buckley thought that a serious storyline would be the next logical step; maybe to show his versitility as a writer, I don't know. The thing that bothers me is that the exceptions to the rule that pop up every now and then. For example, a long running gag is Ethan getting shot with an arrow for no perticular reason, and yet we have these "serious" bits and bobs thrown in every now and then that stick for the rest of the series. It's hard to keep track on what should and should not be taken seriously.

Anyway, make of it what you will. My final thought is that Tim Buckley is a talented artist with lots of potential, but he needs to learn what should and shouldn't belong in certain strips. Take a note from VG Cats's book, no not update when the magic 8-ball tells you to, but have numerous side projects for different themes.

You know what's rubbish about growing up? Not being able to fit Hula Hoops on your fingers anymore. They should make adult sized Hula Hoops so I can play that game again, where you have 1 on each finger and you race your mate to see who can eat them all the fastest.

I have a confession. Well, not so much a confession as a statement.

I'm 20 years old and I've never been drunk.

For as long as I can remember I can't stand alcohol. In both meanings of the word. Physically, I take a few sips of something that tastes nothing like what it's supposed to (ie. vodka and coke tastes like grape juice and beer tastes like fizzy battery acid) and I begin to feel incredibly sick with a huge headache and red face. My feelings towards drinking has changed more than James Hetfields facial hair. At first I was a bit ashamed I couldn't drink, often pretending I just have the occassional kiddy drink like WKD, and wished that I was just a little bit more tolerent of the stuff. Then the older I got, the less it bothered me and I just calmly declined any offers with an explanation if asked.

Now I can't stand alcohol. The stuff is the main reason I don't get to see half my friends most of the time. My idea of a good time with friends is to hang out anywhere and have a good chat or do something fun like go to the cinemas. Now, being in university, half of my friends have this idea that having a "good time" is somehow objectively measure by how much you can remember of the previous night, or if you're lucky enough to remember, how much you've consumed. When I'm pestered onto these nights out I become insanely bored, often leaving early because I simply have nothing better to do.

Being completely sober I have made some amusing observations. I can catagorise what kind of drunk people can become.

• Born again sober: Always the first to throw up, very lightweight. Often seen resting head against the porcelin of a toilet saying "Never again...never again".
• The lover: Goes around telling everyone how much they love you. Usually this is swiftly followed by Born again sober
• Waterworks: Becomes incredibly emotional over the slightest of things. Won't make a whole lot of sense. Can also fall into the lover catagory, or become incredibly bitter towards anything and everything.
• The Genius: Is often heard saying "I've got a great idea!" which can end up with hilarious consequences posted up on YouTube.
• Sir Mopesalot: Stops talking. Completely. You'll be lucky if you can get a visual response out of them.
• Hungry Hungry Hippo: No night out is complete without cheesy garlic bread and greasy meat of questionable origins at 3am.

There's more but I'm tired.

On a lighter note - transsexual toilets opened in Thailand. I dunno why but that makes me smile a bit. It's kind of nice to know that people are becoming more tolerant of that which is different. I can't see it coming to Britain in a million years, however. This'd be like waving a red flag at a bull for skin heads.

BBC News has recently put up an article how the trust PC mouse is on it's last legs so to speak. Everything's going the way of wireless pointers and touch screen interfaces but this all feels a little forced for my tastes.

Yes, this is certainly the way forward for mobile technology. The iPhone is plenty proof of this, however much of an overpriced, flawed piece of crap it is; people want the most out of their gadgets while taking up the minimum amount (usable) of space. Hell, all laptops these days come with touchpads that (barely) work fine. But everyone will agree that nothing beats the trusty mouse. Why? Because it just works. Move it left, the cursor moves left. No worries about if dragging your finger across the screen will accidently result in dragging a random program halfway across your desktop, or highlighting most of your screen like a Christmas tree, it just works.

The main reason why this won't happen are the people behind most of the advancements of PC hardware - the gamers. Every tried controlling Kane's army with a touchpad? Think you can snipe with your greasy finger leaving smudgy marks everywhere? Remember how impossibly frustrating it was to aim with the Wiimote on Red Steel?

Until something obviously better comes along I think we're going to be seeing the mouse longer than "3 to 5 years".

So I suppose I should start a blog. I already have one going that I update sporadically but that's more of a group effort than my own. Not sure who would read this either or how you'd stumble across it but the sexy people in OT should stop by and say hi if they wanted. Any religious debates or girl problems shall be glared at until I figure out how the bloody hell I work this thing properly.

Anyway for those who don't know (ie. everyone): this is me

Courtesy of the OT Photobucket. Kinda wierd actually, my original photo had my friend in it, but he has since been photoshopped out which tells me some random stranger has spent time working on my photo...

With this being Gamespot and a blog, I guess I should blog about games then...I have been invited to play in the Quake Live beta and my first impressions are pretty dull. The game itself plays within your browser, which is kinda funky, but the novelty wears off pretty quick when you have to download data everytime it loads up. Essentially this game is just Quake III and the people playing it are the same foaming at the mouth trigger happy nutters who still play Counter Strike 1.6. It's hard to guage how this game fairs out on a regular critical level when you spawn constantly in front of someone with 200 armour and a perfectly aimed rocket aimed at that young supple flesh you've grown so fond of. If I was to rate it on the few hours that I've played so far, I'd rate it a 5 or 6. I could see this being a 7 or 8 IF you're good at it.

I also picked up Alone In The Dark on the PC on the cheap from GAME. I can tell from the offstart that this game was made for the console market, mainly because of the control scheme as well as the fact it's the only PC game I've come across that doesn't create a shortcut on the desktop after installing as well as you have to exit the goddamn game before it'll change any display settings. I am delighted, however, that the main character isn't the guy on the front of the box at all, but the red indian feller from Prey.

Well, anyway I've waffled on for too long. Perhaps in vain. Prove me wrong, leave me a comment, if only to say hi.

- Tamachan87

PS. I'm well aware that that isn't my username here, but it's my username everywhere else.