Comments on: Neither A Borrower Nor A Renter Be

By: |[P]|

|[P]| — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:03:23 +0000

Sam, good point, though I guess that's where the 2 discs at a time plan I'm on becomes a bit tricky. I have been meaning to get my flatmate to watch Bones though, because she reminds me of Brennan a lot!

Tom, yes must get back into apocalypse training. Annoyingly my computer has developed a weird bug where it crashes on fullscreening any game. Hopefully it'll sort itself out when I do a clean install of Windows 7 later this month.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:45:08 +0000

On the topic of DLC (well, not really, as it's free!) new Left 4 Dead mini-campaign! Wooo! KILLKILLKILL…

By: Sam C

Sam C — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:24:12 +0000

Don't forget they do loads of TV series as well! We've been ploughing through Dexter Series 1 and 2 – all good fun

By: Sparkie

Sparkie — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:28:25 +0000

When I saw the title I my first thought was that you'd bought a house, but it turned out that the second thought was a bit more accurate…

I'm now nearing the end of a 6-month LoveFilm subscription that Sonya bought for me. It's time to decide whether to keep going with the subscription. At the moment we have no high-def equipment to warrant renting blu-ray, although that is my plan in the long run, and so I guess it boils down to whether I can find enough films that are worth renting but not worth buying. With the business of term approaching, I'll see how much time I have available in this final month.

By: Sam C

Sam C — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:10:18 +0000

And of course this is also if you don't rip the DVDs as well… not that I'd ever suggest doing such a thing!

By: |[P]|

|[P]| — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:56:59 +0000

Once I started working I've definitely become pro-short-but-high-quality games, since I'd rather have a variety of experiences. I'm with you on the Prince of Persia DLC except I went one stage further: I actually really liked the game's original "ending" so avoided the DLC entirely after hearing the gameplay was rubbish (or rather, it was just the bad restrictive indoor bits instead of the open outdoor vistas).

The LoveFilm games packages are slightly more expensive but check carefully as there's one with 2 discs at any time, 4 per month at £9.99 which is perfect for the way I'm using it. That "limitation" isn't really a limit given the amount of time each game will take anyway.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:20:38 +0000

They do GAMES? *signs up*
Now it's a good thing that all the best games are too short.
I also found a great way of dealing with Prince of Persia requiring DLC to finish the game – watch the walkthrough on youtube. Might do this with all snazzy looking games to save money!
And hoorah for Dr. Horrible.

By: |[P]|

|[P]| — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:44:47 +0000

That list was really just suggestions for stuff that I thought you should see (I'd seen most of them before) – which I've also done when I was with a group of people renting films to watch (more often than not in the States). If you hadn't wanted suggestions, then of the ones I hadn't seen I'd happily have bought (and then possibly sold) those!

It was, of course, my first exposure to the ease of LoveFilm so I'm grateful for that. At least it's easy when there isn't a postal strike, but that's not exactly their fault…

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:01:03 +0000

You neglect to mention that we shared my Lovefilm subscription with half the discs being allocated to your list!