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Oooh, Xbox 360 for $179 before $100 cashback. Very tempting! But it's only 4GB. But I can get Perfect Dark on it!

What other bloody goodness could I play on it?

For some reason I had forgotten whether Ghost-type Pokemon had genders. They do. I have a female Gastly named Morticia.

I'm watching the pantomime, it's so funny.

Oh yeah, and by the way... If I had caught a male Gastly, I would have named him Kyle.

Thank you, Alex!

i am not sure what you mean by "bloody goodness".

i bought an xbox 360 4gb about 2 weeks ago due to finding a youtube video in my search for 1957 chevrolet bel air's that i thought was real until i read in the description that it was from forza 4.

forza 4 is not available on the PC platform, but i had to have the game after searching for more forza 4 stock standard old cars on youtube.

so i bought my xbox 360 4gb for $189, and the forza 4 game for $23.

i am absolutely engrossed with it so far. there are so many selections of cars available, and unlike most motor sport games, many of the cars that one can select are just plain stock standard utilitarian cars. for example the 1963 VW beetle (complete with the skinny tyres and "dak dak" sound).

if one so chooses, one can have the computer AI drive the car you choose either in a race with other cars, or have it go solo around hundreds of choices of race tracks.

obviously the main thrust of the game is to drive yourself to promote your career, but in "free play" mode, one can just pick a car and have the expert AI driver thrash it to it's maximum around any course.
you can witness this from many preset external viewpoints to see how it looks to spectators. the physics engine is superb. my favourite car is the stock standard 1957 chevrolet bel air.

to illustrate the graphical and physical excellence of the game, here is an australian stock standard 1973 XB Falcon 351 GT on the "top gear" test track.
http://youtu.be/grGFfwxe4Io

and i remember you like mustangs. i do not know which ones you like, but there is a large selection of mustangs that you can either have stock standard or you can upgrade them.
here is a reasonably silly person in a mustang. (i can not yet record my races because i do not have a new dedicated external hard drive).
http://youtu.be/IZyaii1ud1s

but the thing that engrosses me most is the capacity of vintage technology, and despite it's shortcomings, if one can learn to "surf" the body roll and trust that the car will not roll over, then older suspension is heaps of fun. it is so forgiving.

old suspension types used to start to yield long before they gave up, and so the feedback to the unfazed driver was very rich. one could decide in real time what to do when an old and tired suspension system hit it's limits.

with the rock solid suspension of today's cars, you do not know you are going to lose control until you catastrophically do.

i would be much braver, and drive much faster in a car with boulevard suspension because i would know what it is going to do before it did it. with racing solid suspension, the first instance that you realize you are out of control is when you are completely out of control.

soft suspension can be coerced into a dance with my methods of control, where as stiff and unyielding suspension will break out of my control without prior notice.

i can not embed any you tube video's at the moment, and the best i can do is link to them, so with particular attention to stock standard cars i will post the following example of a forza 4 physics application to the graphical representation of 2 standard cars of different proportions.

they are the exact cars that civilian customers could buy.
wow. american traffic was happening in the 1960's.
http://youtu.be/tFjcUgiWL1Q


that is what i suggest you could buy to play on your x-box

Oh, boy, what a great Christmas I had!

I really hate to get involved with heated debates. I know I've said this before, but it's true.

I'm not very well anyway, so I've not got the strength.

My back has gone into spasm, so I need to be careful and I've got some kind of flu or something.

I'm having a drop of alcohol because it might just kill the virus, I can't be ill, it's business as usual tomorrow.

I've just unleashed myself on a tin of Cadburys Roses.

Who knows what good fortune may come my way in 2014?

I wish you all the good fortune you deserve.

^ Thank you.

I used to say there aren't enough hours in a day... but how absurd is that notion? I need to re-evaluate how to spread my spare time activities, because it's ludicrous to have all this time on my hands at the moment, and still feel like I'm pressed for time.

Take me out to the ballgame, take me out to the crowd......... wait, it's winter? Aww........

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