Thursday what did you buy?!! OMG 360 elite!

[MrAngryFace]

More as this story develops...

[Bacon]

Coffee from Starbucks.

[Van Cruncheon]

welcome to the elite.

[Cravis]

Someday I will get an elite when mine craps out. Launch unit that is still going strong.... *knocks on wood*

[Van Cruncheon]

my launch unit was going strong, but i upgraded to an elite anyway. it's just better to be one of the elite.



also hdmi out

[MCD]

i'm waiting for the icon sku.

[Mupepe]

Devil's Backbone DVD

Also, bought these yesterday...

[CajoleJuice]

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Is that really the boxart?

[Mupepe]

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Is that really the boxart?

very similar.  that little swoop come from the bottom to the right side isn't as big if i recall correctly and there's some quote about it being an adrenaline thrillride or some shit.

[hyp]

elite

i bought mine ever since my other 360 crapped out (last winter) and it's been golden.

[Mupepe]

WTF does beyond High Definition mean anyway. Jesus thats ugly.

Sony propaganda nonsense.

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seriously I think it's a stab at HD DVD for simply being a high definition dvd.  instead, blu ray is something more.  like that.

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[Eric P]

I bought a Magazine on Middle Eastern Art (Bidoun), a magazine on Asian American Culture and Art (Giant Robot), a magazine which normally deals with East Coast Art and Culture doing a special on London (Swindle), and a magazine out of LA dealing with West Coast Culture (Anthem)

Elitist like whoa

[Mupepe]

You're the only elitist I would ever marry

[MrAngryFace]

[Van Cruncheon]

[Mupepe]

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[Mupepe]

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[CajoleJuice]

year of ps3 continues

[Phoenix Dark]

MAF you're gonna like The Orphanage. It's very disturbing and the ending almost made me cry  :'(

I BOUGHT SOMETHING

[Eric P]

thanks to the book i'm currently reading i went Gothic Novel mad.

# 1 of: The Monk (Penguin Classics)

The story concerns Ambrosio - a pious, well-respected monk in Spain - and his violent downfall. He is undone by carnal lust for his pupil, a woman disguised as a monk (Matilda), who tempts him to transgress, and, once satisfied by her, is overcome with desire for the innocent Antonia. Using magic spells Matilda aids him in seducing Antonia, whom he later rapes and kills. Matilda is eventually revealed as an instrument of Satan in female form, who has orchestrated Ambrosio's downfall from the start. In the middle of telling this story Lewis frequently makes further digressions, which serve to heighten the Gothic atmosphere of the tale while doing little to move along the main plot. A lengthy story about a "Bleeding Nun" is told, and many incidental verses are introduced. A second romance, between Lorenzo and Antonia, also gives way to a tale of Lorenzo's sister being tortured by hypocritical nuns (as a result of a third romantic plot). Eventually, the story catches back up with Ambrosio, and in several pages of impassioned prose, Ambrosio is delivered into the hands of the Inquisition; he escapes by selling his soul to the devil for his deliverance from the death sentence which awaits him. The story ends with the devil preventing Ambrosio's attempted final repentance, and the sinful monk's prolonged torturous death.

# 1 of: The Mysteries of Udolpho (Penguin Classics)

The Mysteries of Udolpho is a quintessential Gothic romance, replete with incidents of physical and psychological terror; remote, crumbling castles; seemingly supernatural events; a brooding, scheming villain; and a persecuted heroine. To this mix Radcliffe adds extensive descriptions of exotic landscapes in the Pyrenees and Apennines. Set in 1584 in southern France and northern Italy, the novel focuses on the plight of Emily St. Aubert, a young French woman who is orphaned after the death of her father. Emily suffers imprisonment in the castle Udolpho at the hands of Signor Montoni, an Italian brigand who has married her aunt and guardian Madame Cheron. Emily's romance with Valancourt, the younger brother of Count Duvarney, is frustrated by Montoni and others. Emily also endeavors to discover an explanation for the mysterious relationship between her father and the Marchioness de Villeroi, a mystery which appears to have connections to the castle Udolpho...

# 1 of: The Italian (Penguin Classics)

The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents (1797) is a novel belonging to the Gothic genre and written by the English author Ann Radcliffe. The events are set in 1764, thirty- three years previous to its publication date. It is the last book Radcliffe published during her lifetime (although she did go on to produce the novel 'Gaston de Blondville', which was published posthumously in 1826). The Italian has a dark, mysterious and sombre atmosphere, and concerns the themes of love, devotion and persecution by the Holy Inquisition. It also deals with issues prevalent at the time of the French Revolution, such as religion, aristocracy and nationality. Radcliffe's renowned use of veil imagery is considered to have reached its height of sophistication and complexity in 'The Italian'; concealment and disguise are central themes of the novel. In line with late eighteenth-century sensibility and its parallel fetishisation of the sublime and the sentimentally pastoral, heightened emotional states of Radcliffe's characters are often reflected through the pathetic fallacy in the surrounding scenes of nature.

# 1 of: Melmoth the Wanderer (Penguin Classics)

Melmoth the Wanderer is a gothic novel published in 1820, written by Charles Robert Maturin (uncle of Jane Wilde who was mother of Oscar Wilde).

The central character, John Melmoth (a Wandering Jew type), is a scholar who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for 150 extra years of life and spends that time searching for someone who will take over the pact for him. The novel actually takes place in the present, but this back story is revealed through several nested stories-within-a-story that work backwards through time (usually through the Gothic trope of old books).

The novel was cited by Karl Edward Wagner as one of the thirteen best supernatural horror novels[1], and by H. P. Lovecraft as "an enormous stride in the evolution of the horror-tale".[2]. The novel, which is usually considered to be the last great work of "high Gothic" fiction, goes beyond being just an entertaining horror plot. It offers some insightful social commentary on early nineteenth century England and, throughout the novel, it bitterly attacks Roman Catholicism while expounding the virtues of Protestantism's comparative unassuming simplicity.

[Powerslave]

goddamn elitists

[Joe Molotov]

[demi]

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fat

[MrAngryFace]

[Grecco]

Jumper Griffins Story

X360

[BlueTsunami]

Continuing with the series...



Blind buy with this one, I've never read Terry Goodkind

[Eric P]

Blind buy with this one, I've never read Terry Goodkind

http://news.ansible.co.uk/a233supp.html

[BlueTsunami]

what the hell?

If anything, it was real suspensful

[Joe Molotov]

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fat

You're going to be begging for that sweet, sweet balance board action once Microsoft and Sony decide to close down their gaming divisions.

[MyNameIsMethodis]

Apacolypto was a cool movie. The only thing I love more than indians dieing are asians.

[demi]

You're going to be begging for that sweet, sweet balance board action once Microsoft and Sony decide to close down their gaming divisions.

If that consists of you sitting on my face, I am all for it

[Joe Molotov]

It doesn't.

[Van Cruncheon]

i'd like to point out that my eee pc supports higher resolutions and probably has better graphics performance than the wii

[MyNameIsMethodis]

My PDA has a higher resolution than that POS.

[demi]

It doesn't.

Oooh, you're such a good liar

[Smooth Groove]

Maf, nice haul. 

Did you win the lottery or something this week? 

[MrAngryFace]

paycheck in the middle of the month is the fun one since my car is paid off now lol. The one at the end of the month is a big fat frown.

[Mondain]

Star Trek The Original Series on HD-DOA for like 1/5th of the suggested retail price

Neo Geo Battle Coliseum for like 7 bucks

Bottles of soda pop that use sugarcane

and litter, along with cat food for my new black kitty

[MrAngryFace]

I like how you have to passively brag about every item lol

[Cravis]

Neo Geo Battle Coliseum for like 7 bucks

How is that? I've been debating about picking it up. I think Amazon has it for 10.00.

[Rman]

paycheck in the middle of the month is the fun one since my car is paid off now lol. The one at the end of the month is a big fat frown.

ditto

[Tauntaun]

MAF you're gonna like The Orphanage. It's very disturbing and the ending almost made me cry  :'(

I BOUGHT SOMETHING
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That looks awesome, worth picking up?

[Phoenix Dark]

I read the first chapter last night. It's pretty good. Like Prole said it's a real page turner, and things happen real fast. The first chapter basically sets up the characters (interestingly the book isn't big of describing characters, instead introducing characters painted by their actions) and by the end they're given their big mission.