eBay – Iain Douglas Stewart

Progress

By Iain 19 September 2013Books, Creativity, Internet, Music, Reflections, Site Related, VideogamesNo Comments

Just some stuff that I need to get out of my head: I feel like the Youtube/Twitch stuff has lost momentum. It's mainly because the shitty laptop I bought off eBay was too shit to process videos at a high resolution, and our broadband is too slow to stream it. I'm saving up for a more powerful new laptop, but…

Sitrep

By Iain 11 August 2013Books, Creativity, Films/TV, Internet, Reflections, Site Related, VideogamesNo Comments

That's short for situation report, which is what this post is intending to be as it's been over a week since my last post, which is well naughty of me. Where am I right now? Well, smack bang in the middle of a bunch of ideas. I recently bought a capture device for the Xbox - plan is to record…

MGM – The most pointless thing I’ve ever won

By Iain 25 August 2010VideogamesNo Comments

I was once a keen Amiga enthusiast and I used to read Amiga Format. They ran competitions every month, but I never entered any. David and I were visiting our Father one weekend, and Amiga Format was running it's biggest competition ever, two whole pages of general knowledge questions - the prize was an Amiga 570 CD Drive. As there…

Dead bunnies and easy games

By Iain 23 May 2010Music, Reflections, Videogames2 Comments

One of Claire’s rabbits died earlier in the week. They had been smelly for the past few weeks now, and when she finally got around to cleaning the hutch out, the poor thing had a huge abscess full of maggots. It was really quite something to behold. She rushed off to the vets with it, only to be told it had to be put down as they had eaten all the way through the rabbit’s abdomen and up to it’s lungs and was pretty much gonna die anyway, whatever they did. So that was exciting.

I sold some stuff on the eBay earlier in the week, so had a bit of cash to spare which I used to get some Microsoft Points. I had it in my head to get 5 Arcade games that were 400 points each, and a new song for Lips. Here’s what I ended up with and what I thought of them:

Are you a pirate?

By Iain 19 November 2009Films/TV, Internet, Music, Reflections, VideogamesNo Comments

Do you pirate games? Do you illegally download music? Watch dodgy copies of films bought from suspect looking guys sitting on the high street? Do you regret doing any of this? Personally, I try not to pirate anything. Things like Spotify and last.fm are brilliant, I've got into quite a few artists that I probably wouldn't have otherwise and actually…

Hardware escapades

By Iain 20 August 2009VideogamesNo Comments

For years and years, as long as I can remember, whenever I bought a console it has survived until the day I eBayed it. Then, we decided to buy some Xbox 360s for Phantasy Star Universe. After a while, my first 360 started freezing randomly whilst playing. I took it back to Game and swapped it for a new one…

Goodbye, old friend

By Iain 3 April 2009VideogamesNo Comments

One of the causalties of the move was my Edge collection, it was quite a sad moment putting them all in the recycling bin. Whilst by no means a complete set, it was an impressive sight to behold. Looking at the inside cover of E200 brought it all back. My bookshelves used to look like this! And here they are,…

One uneventful day of many

By Iain 3 March 2005Internet, ReflectionsNo Comments

This was originally posted in the Bloggers section on the now-defunct Poopgang forum. Well, one out of three isn't bad, eh? eBay and user page will have to wait 'til another time. Today's just been... well... I dunno... uneventful. Oh well.

I hate the Jobcentre

By Iain 2 March 2005Internet, Reflections, VideogamesNo Comments

This was originally posted in the Bloggers section on the now-defunct Poopgang forum. I finished the DMC2 review this afternoon, it rocks. There was a slight dispute over the score, but all is good. I went and signed on, got given a couple of jobs to apply for, great. Good luck me. I hate the Jobcentre. There's always a gang…

AFK!

By Iain 1 March 2005Reflections, VideogamesNo Comments

This was originally posted in the Bloggers section on the now-defunct Poopgang forum. So... how was today? Alright. Had a quick go on Advance Guardian Heroes, it wasn't too bad. They've taken the whole "Use the triggers to move from plane to plane" out and it kinda messes with the dynamic. Expect a mini-critique soon. Maybe. I'm just off for…