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Ben Wilson

I spotted PLANGENCY in a conundrum attack today and was rather chuffed about it, though to be fair this is largely because I've set it in an msn game before now.

Ben Wilson

http://newarkadvertiser.co.uk/phpbb2/vi ... 4905683541

It's amazing what you can find if you're bored enough and with a fully functioning google... I'm stumped as to what photo was used though.

Ben Wilson

Current favourites include: Aerosmith- 'Livin' on the Edge' Foo Fighters- 'Everlong' Guns n Roses- 'Shackler's Revenge' Incidentally most of my songs are bought off of iTunes and then burnt onto CD to be ripped into windows media player, which is a non-shit media player (and also so they can be put ...

Ben Wilson

Please direct all wordlist-related enquiries to the wordlist-related enquiries department

Ben Wilson

I know this has been brought up at least once before, but I thought with Christmas gone, we could bring this up again? So if you learn words for Countdown, do you learn the meanings as well? As you already know, I don't. It's not particularly that meanings don't interest me because they do, it's si...

Ben Wilson

Do you have any game recommendations Michael? So far my list would include: Burnout Paradise Crazy Taxi 3 Dead Rising Grand Theft Auto IV Marble Blast Ultra Midnight Club 3 Midtown Madness 3 Mr Driller Online Pac-Man CE Paperboy Portal: Still Alive Sonic Unleashed Texas Hold 'Em Uno When we're not ...

Ben Wilson

What's the ruling on going on Countdown twice? I thought it was a big fat no, but I've been confused since I discovered that Junaid had been on before... EDIT: Why am I on here when I could be in bed while Santa delivers my pressies? :roll: I think you have to have been young and lost your first sh...

Ben Wilson

A few I collected in recent weeks, only just got round to uploading- http://www.nebagram.co.uk/images/shittingoneself.PNG Practice game (hence the screenshot instead of a recap) of an unlimited csw game against Rex. http://www.nebagram.co.uk/images/lovely.PNG Who says Ann Widdecombe isn't classy? ht...

Ben Wilson

Where did I put my COLIN 2006 spreadsheet? Oh wait, right here.

Soo Reams: Ass Romeo
Gary Male: Real Gamy
Jon Corby: Cry on Job

-and my favourite-

Dan Vanniasingham: Man's hand in Vagina

Ben Wilson

Eoin.V.Monaghan wrote:how do you play apterous plum,prune etc. coz when i log on no challenges from the bots come up

why do i always hav problems with apterous?

Um, you challenge them.

Ben Wilson

Portal: Still Alive Okay, you get to live another year. :D There's someone on YouTube called Zach aka funny1allways and he does a playthough of Portal and it's just so funny. Another game that looks good is Mirror's Edge and I would also probably get Sonic Unleashed as it's different to the Wii ver...

Ben Wilson

And yet watching Deal or No Deal is something people gain credibility for watching. Credibility among whom? The other morons who watch it. As for me, I've always liked the show, and when I applied and passed the audition it did gain me a bit of popularity amongst my school friends, but these were p...

Ben Wilson

Joseph Bolas wrote:Portal: Still Alive

Okay, you get to live another year.

Ben Wilson

Joseph Bolas wrote:Don't do that, I appreciate the recommendations

Fair enough, top ten xbla games coming up-

Banjo-Kazooie
Castlevania:SOTN
Carcassonne
Marble Blast Ultra
Pac-Man CE
SWoS
Sonic 2
Space Giraffe
Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo Remix
Super Puzzle Fighter 2 HD

Ben Wilson

As for my top ten games... Fallout 3 Oblivion Rock Band 2 Banjo Kazooie Nuts & Bolts Crackdown Orange Box Bioshock PGR4 GTA4 (overrated IMO, nowhere near as good as san andreas) Call of Duty 5 Out of that list, I would probably only buy GTA4 :D. Given you have the universally dreadful Fuzion Fr...

Ben Wilson

Burnout Paradise Dead Rising Fuzion Frenzy 2 Grand Theft Auto IV Midnight Club 3 Midtown Madness 3 GTA IV is complete ownage (on PS3 anyway). [ After Countdown, of course. I'm not even going to go into how Kai got his hands on an 18-rated game but it's miles better on 360 than on PS3, AND has exclu...

Ben Wilson

Record equaller!!!!!!

Ben Wilson

In all seriousness though, yes I do own a 360, have done since launch and not regretted it. Xbox Live Arcade is vastly superior to Playstation Network and WiiWare/Virtual Console in terms of the quantity and quality of downloadable games, and now they're started adding Xbox Community games too (JB, ...

Ben Wilson

I really shouldn't be posting this, but is John Bradley the only person to have 'lost' to The Duellist? http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=11959 Hell no, not even close. Can't recall specific cases off the top of my head but a few people have blanked entire duels before. In the old days, tho...

Ben Wilson

Kai Laddiman wrote:
Joseph Bolas wrote:I am staring a topic on the XBOX 360, as I plan to own one after Christmas
Don't. PS3.

Kai's quite right, don't get a PS3.

Ben Wilson

This looked like it was really fun- kudos to Charlie for the organisationing, here's hoping next time I'll be well enough to participate!

Ben Wilson

To be fair the couples, in my mind, finished in order of the quality of their showdances. Compated to previous efforts, Lisa's was lifeless and dull. Rachel's was exciting, but not anything we hadn't seen before, say from the likes of Mark Ramprakash or Alesha Dixon. Tom's, however, was truly uniqu...

Ben Wilson

Merry Christmas to all the production crew- keep up the good work in 2009!

Ben Wilson

http://www.apterous.org/duelresults.php?duel=169

Get in.

Shame I can't make it two in a row, I'm so screwed up with flu I can barely see the screen.

Ben Wilson

To be fair the couples, in my mind, finished in order of the quality of their showdances. Compated to previous efforts, Lisa's was lifeless and dull. Rachel's was exciting, but not anything we hadn't seen before, say from the likes of Mark Ramprakash or Alesha Dixon. Tom's, however, was truly unique...

Ben Wilson

Kirk Bevins wrote:
Ben Wilson wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=3675

Pouter was disallowed in this one (and thank you Charlie for choosing my best game to kick my arse in :p) despite the fact it's in the ODE2r.
Cus there is no E, you muppet.

Cock-up in the recap then. :p (which admittedly I wrote)

Ben Wilson

Charlie takes a very admirable stance on the issue of censorship, and never is he more benevolent than when a forum member's mode of expression happens to involve fat babies. For example, instead of purging my avatar outright like a true dictator would, Charlie has dedicated to me a custom-made ava...

Ben Wilson

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=3675

Pouter was disallowed in this one (and thank you Charlie for choosing my best game to kick my arse in :p) despite the fact it's in the ODE2r.

Ben Wilson

All the new features do indeed rock. :) I'm thinking there are a few items missing from the list of collectables though. As a few people mentioned at the coc, getting a Rex on a stick by hammering him in a conundrum attack is all well and good, but beating him in a 9 or 15 rounder deserves special r...

Ben Wilson

New hypergoatdown record:

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=15524

Ben Wilson

And here's the new COLIN perpetual trophy, which the winner of COLIN 2009 will get to keep for a year- http://colin.nebagram.co.uk/DSC01076.JPG and a close up of the plate- http://colin.nebagram.co.uk/DSC01077.JPG What you can't make out as clearly are the inscriptions on the top 2 shields, the top ...

Ben Wilson

The thing is, forums like this actually contain specific filters that can be tweaked to change swear words into non-swearing, e.g. fuck->flip or bollocks->balls, that sort of thing. If it really becomes an issue, it can be controlled.

Ben Wilson

Conor wrote:In?

Play Paul (Howe) first.

Seriously.

Ben Wilson

Martin Smith wrote:I met a girl called Jupiter a few years ago. That's the kind of name which makes me think hippies should be sterilised

EDIT: Is Jupiter even a word?

Doubly worrying at that was the name of a male Roman god.

Can't help but feel for the children in this news story though.

Ben Wilson

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=15179

Even with it being on csw, where bots are stronger, I don't think I've ever seen prune play so well.

Ben Wilson

I'm running a 1280x960 resolution and I can just get them all on the same screen if I line it up perfectly. I have to admit, after the three minutes I've given it, the scheme is growing on me.

Ben Wilson

Just for the record I am NOT Dudley's daughter!!! And Corby, you really want my sling? Sure, but only if you haven't washed it. This pretty much goes for any garment from any female forummers by the way. Way to go to make a lady feel not very special any more. It's OK Danielle - I'll have it. Nah, ...

Ben Wilson

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pCqkHbn9ANo

Yep, there is a reason I just posted a Duran Duran music video to c4c, and that's because this song was #1 in the British charts the day I was born.

I think you can guess the theme I intend for this thread so I'll just pass it over to you.

Ben Wilson

Count me in, though I do have to question how a 'swiss paired round robin' would work.

Ben Wilson

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=14593

The only thing stopping this from being perfect on the letters is my shitty typing, therefore I'm claiming it anyways. Particularly as it's CSW.

Even though the selections were piss-easy...

Ben Wilson

I hereby claim the title of 12 days of Christmas duel champion. :p Though admittedly this is only because Paul (Howe) didn't play the 12th's.

...And yes, COASTWISE was a total guess.

Pissed off about GAITED^ and ANTIHERO^ getting KOed by DC though.

Ben Wilson

It's just a nightmare to host on MSN. Separate chat windows for all the players to send out hole cards, having to keep a running total of everyone's chips, getting people to act in turn, etc. Real life would be much quicker and easier to run. But the game did run surprisingly well; it was almost a ...

Ben Wilson

Texas Hold'em Goatdown: Several people occupy a table, each is handed three letters that they keep hidden from the other players. Bets are placed. Then four letters are laid out on the table. Bets are placed again. Then the eighth and ninth letters are laid out, with betting taking place after each...

Ben Wilson

Jo is fine, as are 2-letter words and, indeed, 1-letter 'words'.

Ben Wilson

Yay, I got 924 same way as Junaid.

Bit disappointed EXONUMIA^ isn't ODE-friendly though (and it doesn't take an S in Collins anyway, it already being a plural).

Ben Wilson

Please tell me this wasnt the Monday night after i rushed home, please no. Fear not, it was Tuesday evening. Still though, dammit- next time I'm going to remember to actually book more tickets, free up some more time and remember to bring more pants. :) Plenty of Scrabblers I could needle into appl...

Ben Wilson

Everything in this thread so far is true (with the possible exception of Stelling > Whiteley). Jeff and Rachel are the perfect pairing and series 60 will be utterly fantastic, if the c of c recordings were anything to go by.

Ben Wilson

Haven't had an alphaconundrum puzzle in ages, now I come to think of it. Hyperalphagoatconundrum puzzle would be even better. Snap to it, Cullen (or whoever it was who did it last time out).

Ben Wilson

Today's (Thursday's) duel was friggin' awesome. More like that in future please.

Ben Wilson

Got another two, both played by my mate Martin (not Gardner) at Scrabble and both ODE-friendly this time- SLUGABED, literally pronounced slug-a-bed, meaning a lazy git, and the triply darrenic TAIKONAUT, the Chinese equivalent of a western astronaut or a Russian cosmonaut.

Ben Wilson

I have a couple that came up recently during Collins dictionary-based apterous play- KAIKAWAKA is a wonderfully obscure word the bloody thing threw me as a goatconundrum (dropping one of the Ks), and SEMPERVIVUM is a word I'm dying to play in scrabble, preferably around PERV.

Ben Wilson

There was a Java update the other day, maybe it's something to do with that? Mine's been a bit funny since about then. Like the edges of windows flashing in a sort of yellow or brown colour and lots of exclamation marks in triangles. That's happened to me since the Java update, but I've had no free...

Ben Wilson

Kai Laddiman wrote:Just out of interest, what do you reckon the lowest max in a Hypercountdown letters round has been?

I'm sure there's been a round with a max of 6 in the past, and possibly a 5. Theoretically a max of 4 could quite easily be fixed with shite enough letters, dunno about a 3 though.

Ben Wilson

Got the final R this time.

(nearly NOTARIZED in the IONIZER round)

Ben Wilson

Ha...'Charlie Reams' is an anagram of 'I smear Rachel'. :lol: Also 'Junaid Mubeen' becomes 'u mundane jibe' (although that is not as good). 'Kai Laddiman' - 'I am a kind lad' :D Well, Charlie's anagram is a lot better than if he were still called Soo. ;) (Ass Romeo, in case you werw wondering :D)

Ben Wilson

I'm just bracing myself for Jo Brand's persistent, "I've got a 7", followed by an ever sooooo funny ( NOT! ) explanation of the "meaning" of the "word." Surely Des and Carol could have got a better guest for their final week. Final week, perhaps, but there is a... diff...

Ben Wilson

That's enough speculating for now.

Ben Wilson

I must say I had a fabulous day today. Thanks to everyone who always make trips to the studios great fun. It was good to meet some new faces who I've apterousised with recently and it was good to see the old faces again. It was also nice to bump into Kate Horton. I'm so excited about the new year a...

Ben Wilson

Today's duel was so evil it makes Zef look like St. Frigging Francis of Frigging Assisi. That is all.

Ben Wilson

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=14101

Quite easily the worst I have ever played in recent memory.

Despite the difficulty of the last two spots.

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