Comments on: I’ve Got Confessions To Make

By: I Like That You Can Slow Down, by Tom Francis

I Like That You Can Slow Down, by Tom Francis — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 19:04:37 +0000

[…] I only just got this, but Yeah Yeah Yeah is an instant favourite. The Sounds are usually pretty straightforward rock, but here they’re going a little more electronic – some tracks feel more about rhythms and samples than the conventional structure they’ve stuck to before. On Yeah Yeah Yeah it’s excitingly new, but the rest of the album isn’t standing up to Rubicon yet (see I’ve Got Confessions To Make). […]

By: Tom Lawrence

Tom Lawrence — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 10:44:09 +0000

Lungs is now avaialable for listening on Spotify, for their customary no pennies:

http://open.spotify.com/album/3OoDl71DoYeATqaeelKgT0

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:13:00 +0000

I actually missed Falling until just recently, because stupid Amazon mislabelled it as a demo version of Dog Days – which I’d have no interest in. I was then bonus annoyed to find that what I thought would be a new song, Falling, was just a slightly rubbish version of Dog Days. I hate you Amazon.

Between Two Lungs might be my favourite too.

By: Mr. Brit

Mr. Brit — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:11:57 +0000

‘Falling’ is another bonus disc treat if you ask me. Currently swaying between ‘Bird Song’ and ‘Between two lungs’ for favourite.
Which two songs weren’t you excited about? I’m guessing ‘Cosmic love’ and ‘Blinding’ as I have listened to all the others enough to know the lyrics of by heart by now.
Also, never heard The Sounds before but thank you!

By: nine

nine — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 04:18:02 +0000

Yeah it is, that and Bird Song are the redeeming factors. Thanks for recommending Florence.. again.

PS, if you aren’t a wilco fan yet try the latest album.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:15:17 +0000

Am I right in thinking The Hardest of Hearts is only on the bonus disc? For the most part, yeah, I don’t want shitty demos when I have the good version of the songs on the main disc. But that song is magnificent, well worth it.

By: nine

nine — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:13:58 +0000

Just got my copy of Lungs today. The bonus disc with the deluxe edition is pretty poor, but the main disc is GREAT!

By: Pod

Pod — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:17:57 +0000

I like this

By: Jason L

Jason L — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:23:30 +0000

Dagda: Earth Defense Force/Chikyuu Boueigun. Especially Chikyuu Boueigun 2 for the PS2, which includes a jetpack.

MartinJ: But so many Cthulhoids look like vaginas in the first place…Of course, ‘sometimes a giant monster is just a giant monster’.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:18:32 +0000

Yeah, region restrictions are why I can’t buy MP3s from Amazon.com – last time I tried, at least. I’m not whinging though because the UK Amazon has since caught up in selection, and is still pretty goram cheap. Young Tom used to pay £15 for albums at Our shitty Price.

By: nine

nine — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:52:12 +0000

This is what annoys me about the music industry. I can’t buy Lungs from iTunes or Amazon because of region restrictions. So I’ve pirated it, and now I need to remember to buy a real copy once it’s out. Which, of course, will be lower quality. Argh.

By: nine

nine — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:40:56 +0000

Lungs is cheaper on amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Lungs/dp/B002F6FQGK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1247118015&sr=8-2

By: EGTF

EGTF — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:31:31 +0000

@MartinJ How do we take you right? Freud just had a heart attack in his grave.

By: MartinJ

MartinJ — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:26:25 +0000

Don’t take me wrong, but did anyone else think that Elisabeth Greene as the boss looks like a mix up of a Cthulu monster and a female reproduction organ?

By: Dagda

Dagda — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:33:43 +0000

@Redhawk: Yeah, can’t say I disagree with you on that score; Mercer’s characterization kinda takes a last-minute swerve on that matter.

@Pentadact: On the topic of bosses, the final battle with Elisabeth Greene is an overly-long slog against a laughable monster design that I lost at the last minute on my first try- after half an hour of play- because the 30th helicopter I hijacked flew out of the combat zone while I was doing so.

I absolutely loved it.

It’s the epic sense of scale- the fact that you’re taking cover behind skyscrapers and engaging this titanic enemy, soaring through the air a hundred stories up. It makes me dream of more boss battles against more giant foes, mobile ones who slowly clamber between the upper sections of different skyscrapers or trundle down streets and have to be ambushed from side alleyways.

By: Redhawk

Redhawk — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:21:36 +0000

@Dagda: considering the amount of concern you have for the surviving population in the rest of the game, I don’t see why this is a problem.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:34:06 +0000

Beat him, pretty much the same tactic. I forgot I hadn’t upgraded my Devastator juice to the max, so that let me get three blasts ready by the time the countdown started. Rubbish boss.

By: Dagda

Dagda — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:22:27 +0000

I beat him on my first try, with the help of two Critical Pain devastators as soon as the countdown started.

The bomb is going to go off right next to the island if you just leave it there, killing much of the surviving population.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:40:41 +0000

This fight makes me sad. Once the time limit starts, I can’t find out a way to do damage to him fast enough without losing all my health, and with the troops gone I’ve got no way to regenerate it. The parked choppers are all blown up by then, and stealing the attacking ones takes a while and doesn’t get much damage in before he one-shots them with his ultra-pounce.

I am moved to wonder: the bomb is basically a sound tactic, so why can’t I swim to shore?

By: MartinJ

MartinJ — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:28:15 +0000

Not helicopters, helicopter rockets.

By: Robert64

Robert64 — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:28:07 +0000

Just completed it. My main problem was that the bosses seemed to drag on and on, with not many new interesting elements introduced to keep me interested.
Anyone else beat the final boss by repeatedly throwing helicopters at it?

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:37:40 +0000

J-Man – Florence album is great so far. Two tracks I’m not wild about, but the rest is super strong. I rate Between Two Lungs and Drumming Song up with Dog Days and Rabbit Heart.

By: Dante

Dante — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:22:15 +0000

Aye, particlarly hard bosses can usually be defeated by jumping around a lot and whipfisting them from a distance.

That’s a power from the game by the way, not the bizzare sex act it sounds like.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:01:31 +0000

There’s certainly plenty of bullshit, but I’m finding what EGTF found – dumb missions that would be unforgivable in another game are really only a minor quibble in this one. I think it’s because your abilities are so ridiculous that there’s always a fairly easy way past a problem, even if it’s not obvious at first.

By: Redhawk

Redhawk — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:43:04 +0000

@Robert64: Have you gotten to the part where the game becomes a giant mass of knockback and bullshit? Fun game and all, but its another one of those that you can just see Amazing Game written and then scribbled out in favor of Decent Game.

By: Robert64

Robert64 — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:18:57 +0000

After reading this, I finally caved and bought Prototype. It has now consumed two full days of my life.

By: Jason L

Jason L — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:04:47 +0000

OK, NM. Sorry. Feed Sidebar has reported open bugs with its read/unread function.

By: J-Man

J-Man — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:20:12 +0000

Does anyone know if the new Florence album is good?

By: Jason L

Jason L — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:55:00 +0000

And I didn’t answer the question. Yes, that’s exactly what happens. Obviously the whole point of the extension is that it’s usually set to show only new items.

By: Jason L

Jason L — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:52:33 +0000

My mistake, I thought the ‘by’ part on the comments feed was done through XML wizardry, meaning that there would have been a dozen ‘Comment on I’ve Got Confessions To Make’s in a row for example. With the author included in the title…hm, although maybe the author got lazy and cut the comparison off at 32 characters or something. Again, before pinning this on your feed I really need to stop using the extension I like and switch to another one for a week to see if it’s got the same problem. I was just taking the conversational opportunity to pass along preliminary information.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:09:22 +0000

Hm, so new posts show in the feed but aren’t flagged up as unread?

What things have the same name in my feed?

By: Jason L

Jason L — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:54:25 +0000

As long as we (were) talking about the RSS feed, I have a problem where only some of the new feed items get ‘highlighted’ as new. I think it may only start marking items when it gets a comment on a different post than the last marked read one, i.e. a different item name. This problem hasn’t shown up on any other feed, but if it has to do with feed items having the same name that would make sense – none of my other feeds have that (Can anyone think of another feed that has many items with the same name/title?) I use the Feed Sidebar extension, but I think I tested it with some bookmark toolbar highlighter and had the same problem.

This isn’t a full-blown bug report yet, since I still haven’t completed the necessary testing to pin it down on my end. Just, if anyone complains about things not showing up in RSS maybe they mean this.

By: Dante

Dante — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:24:02 +0000

Star Trek Plot Generator:

Planet contains:

1) Weird Aliens
2) Warring Factions
3) Time Machine
4) God

1) Are Aliens female? (go to a) Are they living in a utopia (b) are they attacking you? (c) Or are they just weird? (d)
2) Is war a thinly veiled social allegory? (e) Is one side just plain evil? (f) Or is war just a senseless waste of life? (g)
3) Are you in the twentieth century? (h) Are you at a historically important event? (i) Or are you in your own past? (j)
4) Is God a computer? (k) Otherwise (e)

a) Boldly go
b) Destroy utopia in name of freedom
c) Victory by technobabble
d) Stare at them a bit, then (a)
e) Make philosophical speech
f) Set phasers to kill
g) (e), then (a)
h) Make jokes about contemporary culture, then (a)
i) Mess it up, change history, then change it back, then (a)
j) Try to avoid paradox, fail, (c) then (a)
k) Destroy computer

I spent way too long doing that. And I haven’t even put holodeck malfunctions or energy beings in yet.

By: Lack_26

Lack_26 — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:15:58 +0000

I’ve been listening to The Sounds since you mentioned them on Twitter, I haven’t listened to the new album (I wonder if it’ll turn up on Spotify) but I think my favourites from their previous are Tony the Beat, Hope You’re Happy Now and Hit Me. Oh yeah, Rock ‘n Roll is good too.

Also, what do you think of the new Florence album, I’ve listened to it through, er… less than legal means since I wont be around to get the album for a few weeks and would rather it wasn’t sitting in the letter box. But I’ll get it once I’m back, mainly for My Boy Build Coffins, even though I prefer the version on youtube that they did in that park.

By: SenatorPalpatine

SenatorPalpatine — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:47:45 +0000

I enjoy clicking my RSS feed to come here when there’s a new post. This site is uniquely designed and easy on the eyes, not to mention the content.

By: Jazmeister

Jazmeister — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:01:11 +0000

I swear that’s his superpower.

By: EGTF

EGTF — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:13:37 +0000

Wow, you actually read that? Cheers Tom! Sorry to disappoint with part two, I know it didn’t have the same charm.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:54:32 +0000

Florence and the Machine update! Even though the album isn’t technically out till tomorrow, you can buy the MP3 version of the 2-disc special edition for £8 on Amazon right now:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lungs-Expanded/dp/B002DOB7EY/ref=mb_oe_o

By: The_B

The_B — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:37:03 +0000

I quite enjoyed Prototype while it lasted, can’t see myself returning to finish all the side missions or play the New Game + mode though, to be honest.

And some of the targeting was infurating, especially trying to get Intrigue targets that were too happy to wade into an Infected area.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:23:15 +0000

Fixed the RSS problem, future posts should come through in full. Finding the solution was made inordinately hard by the fact that a moderator on the WordPress support forums is in denial that this problem even exists. He not only accuses people who report it of lying, but locks threads about it to prevent people sharing solutions. THANKS CHUM.

By: Bumface the Brave

Bumface the Brave — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:16:48 +0000

“Do you find that some bands just sound like two guitars and some drums… The Sounds are one of the few that don’t.”

Maybe you’re not listening to the right music? Chortle!

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:31:18 +0000

Loved your Prototype love story about Steven by the way, Ed. Ooh, there's a part two!

By: EGTF

EGTF — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:21:35 +0000

Turning into a dumpy woman and flying still hasn’t gotten old for me. Prototype is pretty good too.

By: LaZodiac

LaZodiac — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:30:10 +0000

er, shit. That was me. Forgot I deleted my cookies awhile ago.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:29:45 +0000

I think I’m going to rent Prototype. Is it really as fun as people say?

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:26:07 +0000

Good once it gets going, but the slightly clumsy sexy talk in the opening verses is a bit offputting.

By: Graham

Graham — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:33:46 +0000

Everyone knows that Tony The Beat is their best song.

Although I haven’t listened to the new album yet.

By: Thomas Lawrence

Thomas Lawrence — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:56:50 +0000

My stuff from James is showing up as excerpts only (if that) on my RSS reader, and has been since…. March 16th, I think? The post then about the Nameless Mod shows up in full in the reader (this is Google Reader, if it matters), but the subsequent post (“Lord I just Don’t Care”, about the wonderful Florence + the Machine) I only get the second paragraph, and it deteriorates from there.

My specific feed URL is: http://www.pentadact.com/index.php/feed

By: Jazmeister

Jazmeister — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:43:05 +0000

Thomas: Seconded.

Tom: You fix it by plastering ads everywhere. I knew you were in this racket for the millions of cash moneys.

Also, lovely Deus Ex article! I just read it to my wife, and it helped break up the monotony of a long, bleak HD-format.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:00:50 +0000

Speaking of which – are you finding posts now come through as excerpts in the RSS feed? I am, and they shouldn’t. It’s always been set to include full posts in the feed and I don’t like forcing people to come here, but I can’t figure out how to fix it.