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BBC bringing Doctor Who: The Adventure Games to PC, Mac (Joystiq)
Apr 9th 2010 12:01PM reply to bunches of comments:
1) The Seventh Doctor wiped out all the surviving Daleks and blew up Skaro's sun. He also got Davros and his Dalek faction to do it for him. He then talked the only surviving Dalek into self-destruct. The story was called Remembrance of the Daleks, and curiously touches on civil rights/racism issues, particularly with a guest star who would later be Jeffrey in the Fresh Prince of Bel Air. This is one of many reasons why the 7th Doc was awesome. Ace would be the other. (Teen from housing estate who had serious guts, about 17 years before Rose was invented..but NuWho fans and BBC promotion guff forget that so....)
2) CBS only put up money for part of the first series of Who. I don't think they fund later ones excpet by buying it after its made. There is also a smaller budget this series. The website is NOT the program, and gets its funding from the BBC, i.e TV License money. I am sick of the problems international borders cause digital distribution (Sony PSN says hello) but I am equally sick of the transatlantic scream everytime the UK actually gets something good first...there are ways round things as have been mentioned, but in general, everyone in the world wants everything, right now, for free.
3) At last someone makes a point a click DW adventure game...most logical decision, though I wouldn't mind a FF type RPG or similar things to the Harry Potter games. Stick to a story, tell it through a game (JRPG style.) And the graphics look alright too so far. Matt Smith will probably beok..and the Tardis Console is the first true descendant of the original, having children with the McGann and NuWho consoles on the way.
4) Tennant is gone. Get over it. Yeah he was good a lot of the time, even in some terrible stories..but every Doctor goes. This isn't some twilight fandom thing or nonsense...if you like the show, the Doctor changes actor. If you are watching a show just for its lead actor then...worry. Because that's what made Star Trek fans watch TJ Hooker. ANd tons of people feed the ego of Ricky Gervais due to guest tsars on extras. Don't do that to yourself. This is a show with a 40+ year history, literally hundreds of stories. Lots to go look at and familiarise yourself with. Enjoy. (PS..america got better versions ofthe DVDs than the UK in many case too.)
5) The BBC licensed OTHER PEOPLE to make who audio and books, they had little interest in it themselves for 16 years. Fans kept it alive, the BBC just enjoyed the cash. Go look at the Big Finish website for the majority of Who audio, some of whose plotlines will seem awfully familiar (gallifrey seems accident prone, companions having memory of time iwth Doctor erased or it kills them.......you should see the comics too....)
Its all Who, it all has potential to be great, but you are seriously doing yourselves a disservice with 21st century style false information as facts. One day wikipedia will be telling us about Brave New World written by Huxtable, a doctor in New York.
Is Windows 7 causing battery problems in laptops? (Download Squad)
Mar 24th 2010 10:35AM oh and the 'fix' doesn't do anything apart from prvent you seeing your battery life or charging status at all...sometimes disable/enable will persuade the machine to start charging for a few percent...but very very slowly and usually not charging at all.
Is Windows 7 causing battery problems in laptops? (Download Squad)
Mar 24th 2010 10:33AM samsung R60 plus, on its second battery (so less than a year old battery) and apparently I am at 60 percent wear, except for two days ago when after calibraiting the battery in the bios out of desperation I dropped to 59 percent then shot up to 70 percent wear...
upgraded to win7 from installed vista late last year...and for the last few weeks...this.
watching my battery drain at a rate of something like 5 percent every 5 minutes, with it set to a powersaving mode. Regretting plugging my partners battery in from her machine to test it yesterday, hope the few seconds it was in my machine wasn't enough for Win7 to frak that up too.
Sad thing is..for a while it really did improve battery life...till it norked it right up.
And as the samsung r60plus isn't a supported win7 machine (comes with vista) I am unlikely to see a BIOS update...MS need to sort this out stat, I cannot afford to be dropping 50-70 quid on new batteries every few months, and need to use my laptop out and about.
I posted this because I am sick of hearing people give the 'never happened to me, you lot must be dreaming' or 'buy a mac' posts.
We aren't all made of cash, appleseeds.
DS Lite overclocked (Joystiq Nintendo)
Oct 24th 2006 5:07PM I have me suspicions on its veracity too..... yoshi declares himself to be mario, and, if i remember my mario 64 ds suspend mode right (I could be wrong)it gives you a menu before you go straight back in....
I know the mario soundbite bit could be wrong.
It also seems eminently controllable with the d-pad, whereas this was beyond difficult on the DS version i played....
mind you, why would overclocking be useful on a DS?
