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There was one Pride FC match where the guy got trapped in a double armbar and had to tap out with his knee. And here it is:

Yeah, I've got it now. Combat Drone is boss. Time to develop a second profile as an Infiltrator now I've got Tac Cloak. As far as scarves go, I'm not wearing it in combat, I'm wearing it while walking around the spaceship.

I'm level 10. How do I change my skills loadout? There's things I've put points into that I can't select for use in combat.

SAM's first joke is supposed to not be funny. But I laughed. The Jacket/ Scarf combo looks better than the short sleeved look on SisRyder.

Judging by this (incredible) TV show, it would probably hurt for a lot longer than that:

I've managed to research quite a few weapons, but I can't develop any of them because there's been no omni-gel canisters on either of the worlds I've visited. Although I did thaw out some scientists to give me regular mineral drops, so maybe I'll be making more guns than I can carry soon. I should have been putting points into Combat Drone. The Engineer profile I unlocked is all about giving me bonuses to Tech Constructs I can't make, because I'm all Fireballs and Lightning Bolts.

Yeah... you wonder why so many people are on the Mayweather bandwagon when Roy Jones Jr wasn't exactly that long ago, and was better in almost every way.

Holy shit, new Gorillaz!

This one guy on the Nexus wanted me to leave his necklace on the spot on Eos where his brother liked to sit and think, before he was shot. But if he hadn't got shot, he'd have died of radiation poisoning anyway. I was starting to think it was a set-up to kill the Pathfinder.

I'm level 4, I'm on Eos, and all my skill points are in Incinerate, Overload and Energy Drain. Meaning I can instantly detonate Fire Combos whenever I want, and recoup Shields off powerful enemies. Never really specced a pure tech before, but it works pretty well so far. See that eye tattoo that's also on the back of the neck? It's in 2 pieces, it's not going all the way around the scalp. I like to make my characters bald. Especially if they're women.

Depends, what does she look like?

Didn't expect to be hearing 's voice in a Mass Effect game ever again. But I did.

You aren't missing much with the TV show. GTA Trevor's in it now, but only for about five minutes every four weeks. I strongly doubt you'd lose anything from doing season two of the game without doing one first (having only done the first one myself).

I bought it. Had to, really. It's odd, because when you're on a planet or in combat, everything looks fantastic. It's only when you get back on your ship and the helmets come off that things go bad.

OK, what was with all those posts complaining about a 2 hour install? I put the disc in and was creating Star Ryder fourteen minutes later,

Xavier Woods, High School Wrestler. Big E, Iowa Hawkeye. And I can't find a picture of a young Kofi Kingston. I can find pictures of Kofi Sarkodie, but he's an MLS footballer.

Would Savage have quit on his RAW commentary gig to go to WCW if they hadn't signed Hogan, though? I mean, the only reason people were jumping at all was because the word in the biz was 'Bischoff has an unlimited chequebook, and he's a mark'. And that word got out because of Hogan's stupidly generous initial contract (which later became even more ridiculously generous).

I'm pretty sure that of everyone who's posted in this thread, the number who've actually watched the Paige tapes is in the low single figures.

Excision (2012) is a slow burner domestic horror starring Annalynne McCord as a teenager who's more disturbed than she seems, Traci Lords as her uptight suburban mother, John Waters as her Priest/ Therapist, Ray Wise as the High School Principal and Malcolm McDowell as her Maths Teacher. It's pretty fantastic, actually. I was surprised it was directed by a man, because it seemed to be a part of that female horror movement that's going on now, films like Raw and that. It's very much concerned with the sexual thoughts of a disturbed girl... there's this weird medicalised violence fetish, like surgical, painless violence. It's good. Great cast, anyway. Marlee Matlin's in one scene too. Redbelt (2008) doesn't really work. I think the idea it's going for is to do with having a guy with the philosophical man of peace idea you get from traditional Martial Arts, and imagine what that would be like in an MMA setting. But it ends up just being a parable about how wealthy people are corrupt and they corrupt you... and the actual combat scenes don't work, because you've got guys doing BJJ but always going submission before position (so they can have lots of dramatic escapes and reversals) and it just looks like they aren't the calm, composed fighters the story of the film tries to sell them as. They fight a fast paced, high-risk, low-percentage-chance-of-success style even though the story of the film is telling us they are Zen guys. And Zen guys fight like Gunnar Nelson or Lyoto Machida, economy of movement and precise technique, low risk, high chance of success. And Tim Allen is miscast, they should have got a Stallone type (Frank Stallone would have been cheaper than Tim Allen) because he was playing an action movie guy who random bar assholes would want to beat up just to say they'd done it. Also, no athletic commission in America would sanction a fight sport where one combatant has to randomly fight blindfold or with one hand tied behind his back. I noticed that they said it was sanctioned by the California State Commission, which they could get away with because that doesn't exist. They couldn't say California State Athletic Commission because that's an actual thing and they could sue them. Like how Vic Mackey (a fictional LA Policeman) always banged on a door and shouted 'Police', because if he shouted 'LAPD' the actual LAPD could sue the show for misrepresentation. The actress who played Vic Mackey's wife is in Redbelt. She plays a Cop's wife.

Just finished Cold Six and started Blood's a Rover. Glad I re-read the whole trilogy rather than skipping straight to the unread one, because there was much that had slipped my mind. I see what you mean about bits of Cold Six reading like an outline, there are bits of it where it looks like he wrote a list of what would happen in a scene intending to turn it into actual prose with adjectives and that later, but forgot and it was published as a list of sequential events. I'm glad I did read Perfidia though, because there's a character from that (he was 18 in 1942) who turns up in Rover (he's 44 in 1968) having not appeared in any of Ellroy's work in between. Which makes sense on one level, if he was forever somewhere else (and very little of the first two thirds of the Underworld USA trilogy takes place in California, and he was still in the Army during the events of the LA Quartet). When Ellroy was getting loads of mainstream press in the 90s (between the LA Confidential movie and Cold Six book) I saw him saying in an interview he couldn't wait for all the Clintons to die so he could write about them, because they're worse (more corrupt) than the Kennedys were. But reading the Underworld USA books, the Kennedys don't look that bad (except Joe), and the real villains of the piece are J Edgar Hoover and the mafia bosses, right?

Usually you can just switch it on via the joypad. And yeah, it didn't come with a manual. Can you spot the power button there? It's in the shot.

I'm trophy hunting on GTA5 next-gen story mode. And haven't got a current PS Plus account, so I'm not doing anything online. I did start Dragon Age Inquisition before the PS4 came, but I can go back to that any time. And there's nothing pressing on my unplayed pile (God of War 2 remastered, God of War 3, Deus Ex Human Revolution, Dead Island... Bioshock trilogy (I hate FPS's) and that's it).

I think it's partly, like, a lot of people choose a look early in life, and stick with it forever... but, because they're dressing really fashionable for the 1950s in the 2000s, and everyone of their generation also looks like that, to everyone who wasn't born that long ago, it becomes an 'old person thing'.

So then: Is Andromeda worth buying at full price on day of release (tomorrow UK), or is it worth waiting a couple of months for a price drop?

And randomly it starts working again. Apparently those tiny little thinner than a penny things at the front (between the gloss bit and the matt bit) are the power and eject buttons. And powering it up by pressing that worked.