Reflections – Page 37 – Iain Douglas Stewart

LOL of the week: Angry green bag

By Iain 24 August 2010ReflectionsNo Comments

On the train home I spotted an ideal "http://happychairishappy.com/" photo opportunity. I call it "Angry bag does not like being squashed". Our first home-made LOL! Let's see if we can get it up on to http://happychairishappy.com/!

Fighting fire with fire

By Iain 16 August 2010Reflections, VideogamesNo Comments

This is all about Firefight, the super cool mode on Halo 3: ODST where you are in an arena and wave after wave of Covenant rush at you, shooting their futuristic neon laser guns in your direction. It was going to be about Pokémon, I figured I'd not written about it in a while. I am still playing Pokémon Emerald…

Bubble-heads unite!

By Iain 16 August 2010Internet, Reflections, VideogamesNo Comments

There I was, playing Halo 3, waiting for Matchmaking to do it's stuff, as you do. The teams popped up, and whose was the first name I noticed, directly above mine on the blue team? Blimey, it's only GRcade moderator The Alchemist "Tiarny" Penguin. I fired off a quick "hi lol" message to him just as the game was starting…

Revenge of The Jobcentre

By Iain 14 August 2010ReflectionsNo Comments

So, I went to the Jobcentre on Wednesday, not in the hope that they'd give me free money (I was 99% sure they wouldn't), but in the hope that they'd give me a letter that I could show to the bank so I could open a new bank account with Natwest. Jane banks with them, so it'd make sense in…

Quiet week

By Iain 8 August 2010ReflectionsNo Comments

Last week was... quiet, not a lot happened. I found out Barclays closed my bank account because it was inactive, and wanted me to spend £80 on a passport to re-open it. Rubbish. Jane was off for a few days last week, her appendix was grumbling, giving her jip. Poor girl. Next week will be quiet in a different kind…

Delving into the memory banks

By Iain 6 August 2010Reflections, VideogamesNo Comments

If you read the forum at all, you may notice I'm trying to drum up some support for this idea I had for a nice little feature on here. Called Memorable Gaming Moments (the post tag will be "MGM" so you can easily find all the articles in the feature), it is basically what it sounds like: People write about…

My Pokémon adventure continues…

By Iain 22 July 2010Reflections, VideogamesNo Comments

...and I'm still thoroughly enjoying it. I've just beat the final Gym and am gearing up to the Victory Road/Indigo Plateau finale. I enjoyed the three little islands that weren't in the original Red and Blue, although it was a pretty slight diversion. I've caught all three Legendary birds, defeated Team Rocket but probably still need to do a bit…

But Daddy I wanted to eat the lemon

By Iain 18 July 2010Reflections, Videogames2 Comments

Went to see Jasmine (and Mum, David and Katie as well) yesterday, got to give her her belated birthday presents. We got her this turtle thing that plays little tunes while roaming around launching little plastic balls out of it's back that'll encourage her to crawl after it. Well, we put some batteries in it and as soon as it…

I’m playing Pokémon on my PSP

By Iain 11 July 2010Internet, Reflections, VideogamesNo Comments

This week I finally got around to enabling homebrew on my PSP. It was very easy, mostly thanks to my PSP being one of the old "Phat" models. I eventually found some suitable emulators and some questionable software - It was a bit tricky thanks to the gamut of sites that are mostly keywords designed to send you round and…

Grifball!

By Iain 7 July 2010Reflections, VideogamesNo Comments

Bungie's Double XP Weekend playlist of choice this last weekend was Grifball. I adore Grifball. Created by Burnie Burns of Rooster Teeth, thanks to the wonder of Halo 3's Forge map creation tool and the fully customisable game-types, then combined with being able to spread these around via your own personal File Share, Grifball is undoubtedly the most successful user-created…