Like all good Northern Europeans we’re off setting things on fire and drinking hot booze, but we nevertheless wanted to wish you all a pleasant year end, and thank you all for making the past many months so entertaining. 2009, we’ve been informed, will be even better, at least if you like reading about PC games. Which we do.
Thanks, Internet. Here’s to the future.
Thanks, internet.
Thinternet.
Happy Zombie Jesus day!!!
Wait, wrong one…
I celebrated NYE on my own like a cunt.
And yes, 2009 will be horrible. Enjoy your poverty everyone.
Funny, I was just about to mention the worst gaming experience of my new year being seeing all the people yelling “HNY” instead of “Happy New Year” in world of warcraft and just above me is MetalCircus calling New Years Eve.
Am I the only one who feels the greeting is diluted if it wasn’t even worth typing out in full?
@Eamo: Don’t worry, you’re not the only who thought that.
For anyone who is interested a cracked version of 2009 just showed up on pirates bay. 0 day piracy even in the face of gregorian drm. Now you are free you enjoy this year as long as you like. The only issue is you have to stop your calender passing 31/12/2009
Happy Birthday everybody!
Relax.
I spent midnight playing MINERVA: Metastasis. Finished it this morning. Harpy Neu Yah.
Midnight found me playing Tabula Rasa and staring out the window. A neighbor had hired one of those fireworks contractor to light up the sky and make sure everyone was awake for miles around. And possibly to remind people he was irritating and filthy rich.
Still, nice show, which is a subtle reminder that like much of 2008, in the new year we’ll probably be spending too much time behind a monitor playing games that both entertain and mildly irritate at the same time.
“The only issue is you have to stop your calender passing 31/12/2009″
I’m going to assume you’re either from the UK/Ireland, or Canadian, because I didn’t have to mentally convert that date into day/month/year, from month/day/year (which always confused me. Why would month be first?)
Oh yeah, and happy new years to all. Hopefully this year will be much better than last year. Although, to be honest, as a gaming year it was rather good.
Was told last year that apparently everyones got it wrong and the date is actually supposed to be described as year/month/day, but being that I’ve grown up with it being day/month/year, I like it just the way it is in the UK.
@Erlam: Or Europe. I think most of us also have d/m/y stamps.
Happy New RPS !
Peter Molyneux says nothing exciting is coming out in 2009 and when has he ever been wrong, eh?
(which always confused me. Why would month be first?)
Because Americans are perverse like that.
Merry Newt Year all. Horray for Salamandridae!
Happy New Year RPS.
Happy New year! Day late, but whatever, still the 1st. Here’s to more Russian games!
Well, for us programmers, it’s terribly convenient if you also put the year first (so YYYYMMDD), because then you can treat it as a simple integer when sorting (most significant digits are first).
Apart from that, I don’t have strong feelings either way, but I wish people could settle on one format. When I see a date like 05/07/08, I always have to scan the page for other dates until I find one where one of the numbers is above 12 to work out what format they’re using.
Just heard about this new year thing. Happy new year!
Frankie has the best comment, btw.