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I love j-law. I can't think of a single Barry post where it isn't an appropriate answer.

Yeah, maybe you should be more original when picking avatars, skip. Does the monkey alignment currently on offer make you Barry's b!tch?

I was suspicious of Glasgow's motives at first. One fears that it starts with a simple acceptance of a friend request, and will somehow end with Glasgow breaking and entering into your home so he can masturbate into your sock drawer. These fears remain unconfirmed.

Why must you ruin this prospective poster's potential with your approval?

Didn't realise I'd have Brian "keep 'em peeled" Earsy keeping me honest. Bugger.

You're wrong, but you don't have to be sorry. It's a good shout. I like Bill Hicks. Goatboy was the outlet for the vast majority of his sexual perversion. The Goatboy TSW character could be a similar conduit for my filth, and he also shares an economy with words ("Good to have goals" instead of "It's good to have goals", etc) It's a good line of reasoning, but it's not me, kidda. I've never had more than one username on any given forum. Everything I've ever contributed to SaintsWeb has been under the auspices of this phonetically pleasing palindrome.

And here was me speaking generally. Didn't realise we'd have a real life taker You're scum, trousers, and I say that as the unkempt bastard chuckling at the over-busy townsfolk under cover of a laptop screen I dawdle off once the headless chickens have disappeared from view.

That southern hospitality in action again. To prevent the screams of generalisation, I should say that commuters tend to be amongst the worst. Scared little townsfolk emerging at Waterloo and instantly trying to walk at 7mph because they assume that's what you do in London.

Yeah, the experience is always going to be relative to the user. I've still got a pile of shame from last gen that I'll probably never get around to playing, so I should probably take a leaf out of your book. Anyone (myself included) who buys a console in the first year of release is slightly mad. Your jumping on point will be the same as most; when there are enough reasons to do so. Main differences between the versions are resolution and framerate. The last-gen stuff runs at sub-HD @ 30FPS. Next-gen is 60 FPS regardless, but the PS4 is doing 1080p.

Nice comparison video showing all four versions of Metal Gear Solid : Ground Zeroes. Looks to be a bigger leap between PS3 and PS4 than the 360 / One.

Bump, and the reason for the bump is that I'm just about to finish AJP Taylor's Origins of the Second World War. AJP Taylor broke ranks with this book in the 60s, largely because the central thesis diverted from the conventional wisdom of the day; "the sole reason the Second World War started was because Hitler was evil and hell-bent on world domination". Time has been kind to his work; Buchanan's book references it heavily, and as posters like VFTT have confirmed, AJP Taylor is now one of the most respected historians covering the era. Taylor depicts the build-up to the war as a colossal series of miscalculations, with the treatment accorded to Poland the key catalyst for the war. Poland was a new state, forged after the settlement of 1919. According to Taylor, Hitler had no interest in invading Poland. The plan was to form a coalition with the Poles to achieve mutual objectives in Ukraine. A key obstacle was Danzig, the Free City of ethnic Germans in Polish territory, under League of Nations jurisdiction. Of all the German claims, Danzig was perhaps the least contentious. The League of Nations preached self-determination, and Memel had already decided to exercise this principle in breaking away from Lithuania. The Lithuanians recognised the legitimacy of that change in sovereignty. Danzig was a stronger claim. Britain unilaterally offered both its and France's support to Poland in the event of German aggression. This had the effect of making the Polish more bellicose with their dealings with everyone, especially Germany. They were even cheeky with us; there were virtually no caveats to this guarantee. Poland didn't need to negotiate over Danzig; she was "protected" by two powers come what may. Practically, the guarantee was worthless. Neither France nor Britain were in any position to make good on their promise; Poland put blind faith in a bluff and compounded the situation by provoking the Germans. She was destroyed and the vast majority of Europe suffered in the events that followed. None of this legitimises the role of the aggressor and Hitler was always going east. If there is one thing to learn from this period, it's that you should never put foreign policy, particularly the decision to go to war, in another country's hands. That's exactly what we did in Poland, and rather worryingly, we're falling prey to the same sort of shenanigans now. The modern-day parallels are obvious. Where Poland was guaranteed security by first power Britain, Israel is similarly backed by the first power of our age. Despite the recent and welcome thawing of relations with Tehran, Washington is still signed up to a number of Israeli "red lines", events that would plunge it into war with Iran. Isn't this the modern day equivalent of the Polish guarantee?

Miley Cyrus and her people are exploitative f**kers that are going to capitalise on her pre-built fame to promote this travesty of a pop career, and it's mostly going to involve selling sex to the kids that used to watch Hannah Montana. I've said it before; I always thought Billy Ray Cyrus was a c**t too. If only Bill Hicks had got his ideas off the ground sooner. Maybe all of this could have been avoided.

Just another example of the controlled media keeping articulate dissent down

Patience Nah, not just you. Played the first one through twice; once for each path. Haven't gotten around to finishing the second yet, although should get back on it before this is released. I think this'll do good numbers. It's released in a relatively quiet period and there will be a lot of people itching for a big new game.

The clubs FA cup history involved not winning it ever, except for one year. We're doing alright on that basis.

I had a post-termination covenant at one of my former employers. I do not believe that they are legally enforceable ( I think right to trade trumps it ), although I chose to honour it because it simply prevented me from working in the same city doing a similar job; I had the option of taking my skills elsewhere. This sounds like its global; can't see it standing up.

Going to have to stop doing this, otherwise I'll be doing it every day for the rest of the generation. All from Eurogamer. PS4 sales shoot through 5m ahead of Japan launch Thief 1080p on PS4, 900p on One More developers on PS4 than any other home console

Not too keen on big console games shrunk down to handheld size. Gave Uncharted a brief go but abandoned it because of framerate, etc. Hotline Miami is superb, as is Guacamelee. I've also got Super Stardust. TxK is also very good; my mate did one of the tunes for it.

And whatchoo gonna do when Hulkamania runs all over Toon? NUFC are such a joke club now this'd be a step up. The Kinnear episode would have been a top-drawer WWE storyline.

Who doesn't love a good pun?

So House of Cards S2 is done. I remember reading a review of the first season which said that the acid test of this show was whether it was good enough for you to want to play the next episode. It's definitely that. Like the first season, you could argue that some of the sub-plots seem a bit like filler, but they're never entirely wasted. The Rachel side-plot is a big part of Stamper's character development. It ends up going somewhere. The transition works really well. House of Cards was a great concept in the UK; it works just as well, if not better, when stretched over the US political framework. It's also a cynic's wet dream; it's full of back-channeled deals, double-crossing and generally paints the political system as something entirely corroded. There doesn't seem to be a straight-shooter amongst them; all self-serving political machines that'd throw grandmothers under buses for votes. Some take that more literally than others. Given the constitutional differences, there's a big departure from To Play The King and this season really represents the departure point from the original show. I can see this running for more than three seasons and get the feeling that it'll very much be its own thing from now on.