Hmmm, not much to say about this, as not actually live yet but if this actually works as they're advertising then I won't mind the fact they got the domain www.gog.com. Of course, they're saying it stands for good old games rather than grumpy old geeks but hey, I like old games, I like cheap games, what's not to like?

Think I might reinstall Fallout 2 tonight tho. Or maybe Shogo:MAD ;)

The one problem with the plan I suspect, is that people like myself and Psybernoid are probably their target market and we've already played most of the good old games (and in psybernoids case, they're prolly all still in boxes in a certain bedroom cupboard) but maybe it'll mean I actually get round to finally playing Giants: Citizen Kabuto or Beyond Good and Evil sometime…

Actually, who am I trying to kid? I've had both of them on disk for how many years and still not even got round to installing them…

So many months, so few posts, and now…what on earth could drag me back to the keyboard to rant after so many other things have been and gone and been left uncommented?

How about Hayden Christensen being mooted as playing Case in the film version of Neuromancer? 

No.

Please no.

He didn't single-handedly ruin the star wars prequels he was in but he certainly didn't help matters.

Jumper looks like it could've been an interesting film (and I was looking forward to plenty of poor B3ta spinoffs like Cardigan or Sweater) but I've not yet seen a single good review of that. I've certainly not seen anything that would give the impression he's a good actor let down by a poor film, so I'm assuming he's as bad in that as he was in Star Wars. Anyone who knows me will know that that doesn't necessarily mean I won't watch Jumper anyway though - There's many a bad film I actually enjoy, and it might be the good kind of bad - i.e. Mortal Kombat 1 rather than Mortal Kombat 2. Resident Evil rather than Resident Evil Apocalypse. And getting back to the William Gibson/Sprawl side of things, I'll include Johnny Mnemonic in my list of poor films that I "don't actually mind".

Did I just admit that to the net? Hmmm. Ok, I'm sorry. I know it's shockingly awful and dated and corny and every criticism you may throw at it is probably entirely correct and justified but still…it's Johnny Mnemonic! It's almost there! /Izzard "In my miiiiiind!"

And Keanu, ok so he's just a great big dumb plank in the film but I could live with that, I could see Johnny being like that.

Something in my mind keeps telling me "Just imagine how kickass it would be if it was good!" and I keep watching…

But Hayden Christensen as Case? No. Just no. Please somebody stop this sick joke now. I'd rather they didn't make the film at all. I'd rather it stayed as a dream in my head, rather it remained only as a book, a series of mp3s for long car journeys and a dated old game on my c64 I'll never play again.

Neuromancer > Blade Runner in my mind and casting this charisma-bypass of an 'actor' in the lead role is just absolute heresy.

It'd be like Blade Runner remade as an action movie starring Vin Diesel, retiring replicants left right and centre.

It'd be like a Hanna-Barbera or Filmation version of Ghost in the Shell

It'd be like taking a classic Asimov book and turning it into a Will Smith action movie complete with kickass motorbike chase sequence.

Oh, wait.

Oh Frak.

Seems to be a thing with Gigerpunk & I posting things to wear, and this entry is no exception.

Ladies & gentlemen, I give you

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The IDE belt

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Available for £12 at Kustom

Sure, could probably be made yourself from an old cable or two - but it does have an allure of sorts. 

This is actually pretty neat.

The ability to actually 'draw' on a building. I bet Jarre really wishes he came up with this…

Well. Probably not.

Still, seems someone has gone and managed to get XP running on an 7MHz Pentium.

Why?

Fecked if I know. There's pushing the boundaries of what's possible, and then there's utterly wasting your time with crap like this.

Still, it's good to know that if I ever manage to travel back in time to 1995, I can take my copy of XP with me…

More can be read about this lunacy here. 

There's not really much more I need to say, is there? 

Oh, apart from it's a voice changer helmet, that's not obvious from the picture is it?

Still, it's lovely anyway isn't it? 

Imagine the fun you could have with one of those. Imagine if you had a barbeque in the summer and people were only allowed to come if they were wearing either one of those or one of the new Dr Who Cyberman voice changers…wouldn't that be the most surreal bbq ever?

"Barbeque sauce is the right of ALL sentient beings!"

Or, after dropping a burger into the flames, as usually happens at some point, "One shall stand…one shall fall" 

In fact, wonder if I could mod the barbeque currently sat outside to make it look a little more decepticon-y? It's very large, made of metal and has wheels, after all…

Hmmm…

/starts stroking chin 

Remember those promises of CDs?

They could be thrown around, scratched, eaten off of  and even used as an impromptu frisbee.

Well, that's what Tomorrows World would have had us believe anyway.

Finally however, it seems that those jam-eating, frisbee-throwing dreams of our childhood have come to fruition.

Yup, apparently, the Blu-ray optical disc is pretty much indestructible. 

 Shame the guy can't strike a match though…..