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# In board context,
this now looks like you're some kind of floating, grinning Svengali figure offering up a little girl polar bear to have her back doors booted in.
I'm sure that's not your intention.
And it'd be difficult to get sufficient traction on an icy surface anyway.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sat 21 May 2011, 3:48, archived)
# You seem to be a little obsessed with the (w)hole
getting your back doors kicked in subgenre tonight.
Any particular reason?
(I helped save b3ta! 4Q just lurking, Sat 21 May 2011, 3:55, archived)
# Cos I find the phrase amusing.
And I'd just typed a long, detailed, annotated response including links that would've incidentally show my employers in a bad light, got kicked off the net, had to shut down and log on again.
So this.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sat 21 May 2011, 4:20, archived)
# hah ha!
i mean, that sucks dude. i hate it when that happens.
the back door thing does remind me of a women at work a few years ago. she came in to work and told us how somebody had tried to burgle her place by booting her back door in.
there was a second of silence, followed by tears of laughter, followed by weeks of "did you get your back door booted this weekend", etc
(I helped save b3ta! real i'm not happy 'til you're not happy, Sat 21 May 2011, 4:29, archived)
# Ah, office life.
I've just found out how heavily censored everything I do on this connection is.
The link I was going to cite, an example of the friend and colleague who taught me the various shades of the phrase 'kicking the back doors in', has to be rendered thus:
Youtube. Search *author of 'The Wealth of Nations'* + Obama + Miami.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sat 21 May 2011, 4:37, archived)
# waiwavoadb?
edit - ah right, i just re-read your post. it just the dude who explained the term to you.
(I helped save b3ta! real i'm not happy 'til you're not happy, Sat 21 May 2011, 4:46, archived)
# That's the one.
How's LA Noire turning out? Worth sacrificing a few luxuries to get hold of?
Or better to wait a coupla months and get it cheaper?
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sat 21 May 2011, 4:48, archived)
# now, that's a question
the only reason to get a game at release is, imo, for multiplayer so you can play with buddies online and not feel like johnny no mates, or so you can discuss it with others at the time that it's relevent.
it is good. i've played it a fair bit and so far my only complaint is it seems hard to be able to just go off and explore the map and find fun stuff to do, unrelated to the central story line
(I helped save b3ta! real i'm not happy 'til you're not happy, Sat 21 May 2011, 5:03, archived)
# Which makes it sound painfully close to Mafia and Mafia 2, which both had that problem.
But you've answered my question there, so ta ;)
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sat 21 May 2011, 5:29, archived)
# i had mafia 2, which was ok
but you're right with the comparison, so far. it may change as i get further into the game.
red dead was awesome as a good story/game. i would put this between M2 and RDR.
I would put it closer to RDR for being generally better, but closer to M2 for how it seems to play, so far. you on xbox, or ps3?
(I helped save b3ta! real i'm not happy 'til you're not happy, Sat 21 May 2011, 5:34, archived)
# xbox here.
Loved the characterisation/narrative in RDR, but found the gameplay itself a bit humdrum.
Brain is stalling over what M2 is, though. Unless it's Mass Effect 2, which I liked but found a tad sterile.
(Favourites are Fallout 3 etc and Oblivion)
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sat 21 May 2011, 5:55, archived)
# Mafia 2
I have Mass Effect 2, though i haven't played it yet. still.
Fallout 3 was good, but i lost interest after doing a few of the expansions (i bought the ultimate edition for £20, long after it was released) I think i enjoyed the story in RDR as i did a lot of the side missions with a buddy, so we spent hours picking flowers and laughing about playing a game which entailed picking flowers.
Most of the characters in LA N are very good, it is very much like playing a movie. I recommend buying it, though not at the expense of food, beer or prositutes.
is your gamertag Sea Tramp?
(I helped save b3ta! real i'm not happy 'til you're not happy, Sat 21 May 2011, 6:12, archived)
# Not an online gamer myself.
The whole experience, as far as I can tell, seems to combine the very least enjoyable aspects of playing computer games with the very least enjoyable aspects of being with people.
Into an unenjoyable whole.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sat 21 May 2011, 6:40, archived)
# ah, it can seem that way. it can be hilarious too
it really depends on what games you tend to play online.
(I helped save b3ta! real i'm not happy 'til you're not happy, Sat 21 May 2011, 7:16, archived)
# Only this one, really.
And it does my fucking head in, but I keep coming back!
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sat 21 May 2011, 7:38, archived)
# sounds a lot like xbox live
(I helped save b3ta! real i'm not happy 'til you're not happy, Sat 21 May 2011, 8:21, archived)
# I had no idea you were employed.
Is it something that specifically requires a crepuscular bent?
(I helped save b3ta! 4Q just lurking, Sat 21 May 2011, 5:02, archived)
# god light?

*had to google crepuscular*
(I helped save b3ta! real i'm not happy 'til you're not happy, Sat 21 May 2011, 5:06, archived)
# Yep, I'm employed. Must be pretty good at what I do to have been allowed so much time off soul-sick that I seem to've become a nite-shift regular.
This is not the usual way of things. I should be 10am-6pm, and so sick of gazing at a computer screen after that that I'd run screaming from the internet.
So it goes.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sat 21 May 2011, 5:18, archived)