Why I hate the iPhone being the new Amiga

Posted in games, haylp!, import, iOS, stupidity on August 30th, 2011 by RevStu

I haven't played Flashback in almost 20 years. The iOS port is burdened with a control system so faffy and unintuitive that I had to sit through the entire intro sequence three times in the first 15 minutes (including one full shutdown and reboot due to a particularly cretinous oversight on the developer's part*). Now I'm here, which experienced Flashback players will recognise as being roughly six seconds from the start:

HOW IN THE HOLY NAME OF THE POPE'S TINY WITHERED COCK DO YOU GET BACK OUT OF THIS SCREEN?

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$100,000 Name That Tune Challenge

Posted in haylp!, music on October 18th, 2010 by RevStu

WoSblog needs your help, chums. I happened to be in Top Man earlier today, and heard a rather spiffy tune being played over the tannoy. However, there was nobody in sight to ask what it was, plus I didn't want to draw attention to the fact that I was in Top Man. 

I scribbled down a few of the lyrics from the end of the song, which was a reverby fuzz-pop number in the vein of the Raveonettes (or maybe The Enemy at a pinch), in which a male singer repeated the line:

"Oh, when I die, when I disappear, leave my troubles behind"

But surprisingly a Google lyrics search has failed to turn up anything even remotely close. Sound familiar to anyone? Get the right answer and you could win $100,000! Although it would have to be a heck of a coincidence.

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