Richard's Online Journal

Greetings and salutations. In case you were wondering, Richard Cobbett is a writer and journalist and producer of many other things involving words. He likes cats, hates spiders, and plays a lot of games. This is his website...

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Jan

MP For A Week

Filed in: best-qte-ever, games, politics, screenshot, simmandelson

Actual unedited screenshot from Parliament's new edutainment game designed to teach children how politics works. Yes. Seriously.

Click here to play the game. How fast can you be fired for telling the Chief Whip to go boil her head and sabotaging your own speech about the evils of computer games? My desk was clear by Tuesday lunchtime, and only because I accidentally did something competent on Monday. I’m sorry! Won’t happen again, I swear!

Oh, to hell with it. I’m off to play Yes Prime Minister again.

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Mar

Ding! Level 80!

Filed in: games, rpg, screenshot, warcraft, yesshesagirl

The tragic part is that I’m not sure if this is achievement or confession…

Feb

Dumbest Zombie Survivor Ever

Filed in: horror, movies, screenshot, stupid, yetnotuweboll

People in horror movies do stupid things, but I think House of the Dead 2 has to win a prize for this one. The story so far: You’re trapped in a rubbish sequel to an even worse movie. You’re a trained zombie-killing commando scientist from an organisation that exists specifically to kill zombies. Their blood is so infectious, even a humble mosquito can zombify you if it recently fed on one. If anyone on your team even scratches themselves in a funny way, everyone is instructed to spin round and blast their head off, just in case they go all ‘brains brains’ or start posting YouTube comments.

And then, in a three-on-one situation in which all three are human and armed to the teeth, with enough distance from the newly zombified target to wheel in a Sherman tank… you do this. Zombiedom’s too good for you.