Yes. It helps me think. I don't think I ever could not talk to myself and still be able to think properly. (That makes no sense =O )

Yes, yes it very much is. I've seen people suffering from it pretty badly in hospital. It's behaviour and beliefs that are potentially harmful to another person. It's not just about hearing voices. There's more too it than that.

I've had batteries degrade with other devices, but never my laptop battery. That said, my current battery laptop isn't that old. 

The Elder Scrolls Online in April (I'm a BIG Elder Scrolls fan, and I literally cannot wait for the next game to come out) and Dragon Age: Inquisition. Although given that Dragon II wasn't that great or worth the amount I spent on it...I'm kind of wary about it. I seriously hope the new Dragon Age is worth it. 

Um....yes. I do. I take it everyday, and I have no choice but to pretty much take it. It's not exactly a life or death things but the consequences of me not taking it wouldn't be that pleasant, and more likely, I will be on it for the rest of my life. It does bother me sometimes. The side effects aren't exactly very pleasant, I pretty much feel exhausted all the time. But, it's better than the alternative really, and if it stops another relapse of my illness and allows me to function as normal person, then great. I'll take that over the illness any day. 

Given that I live in the UK, it's pretty much BBC. I like the lack of adverts. I never seem to watch anything live on it though, I just seem to watch everything on catch up and on netflix. But the BBC basically just do a whole load of dramas, Doctor Who, Sherlock, the news...its a useful channel. 

Oh crud, I'm my dragonborn...well, I guess I could always shout and "FUS RO DAH" at things, and then shout a dragon out of thin air and fly away on it. 

Here's what I'm hoping:

Something to do with the New Jedi Order. Luke Skywalker is somewhat of a legend, but he isn't involved. It's not just a "sith strike back" as it most likely will be. There will actually be a story to it beyond the rise of a new Darth Vadeer...who will most likely be Anakins son that no-one knew about.

Anything other than some clichéd crap. I didn't think the prequels were that bad...heck, I almost preferred them to the original trilogy. I don't know why at all. A lot of people don't like them much for some reason. 

YES YES YES YES YES. I can wait for this. I know it's on a sub, but it is so worth it. Trust me. It is going to be amazing when they finally release it. I'm only hoping that they do actually update the game and add new content regularly, and listen to the fans and not let it turn into a WOW clone by making everything super easy to do, or by not updating and letting it turn into a SWTOR clone (as everyone seems to think it will do.)

Yes. Dragon Age 2. I spent £30 on that game and it turned out that I had to play a human and the whole story was...not so great, the characters seemed to have no depth whatsoever, and the ending...do not even get me started on the ending. They made this great game and story with Dragon Age: Origins, I played the Dalish Elf right through to the end and I was just amazed at how great the story had been, I was hoping for something good...

I got some rubbish from EA that they seemed to have spent very little time on. 

Oh, and Anders decided to blow up the chapel with a load of innocent people inside it. Ruined my characters dreams of romance with him. I was forced to decide whether or not she'd want to live with a murderer that was also the man of her dreams, or whether to kill him and have it all over with. 

I seriously hope they don't mess up Dragon age Inquisitions. 

I usually play a wood elf (Bosmer) for some reason. I've sometimes played other classes such as the Dark elves or the Bretons, but I've never really got into them much. I pretty much play the stealthy archer type with some one-handed (usually swords), destruction magic and conjuration magic, usually wearing light armour. I can never find a class that really fits my play style on Morrowind or Oblivion. I just end up making a custom class. 

I guess I'm going to end up playing as a Nightblade when Elder Scrolls Online comes out. Seems to be the only class that would fit how I like playing.

Actually, it's a Nintendo DS (I'm that young). I ended up getting the original version, before they added all the 3D stuff and the interactive stuff...with nintendogs included. It kept breaking because of the hinges being not so strong on it. But I loved it. 

Before that...I would just play on the computer. Didn't have much on there at all really. And my parents were kind of strict about what I could and couldn't play.

Animal Crossing: City folk (or sometimes called "lets go to the city") is the third instalment of the Animal Crossing series. There isn't any aim to the game at all, it seems. Other than living in a peaceful little village that you get to name with other bipedal animals and visiting "The city" where there is fancy designer shops, a homeless dog that shines shoes, and a suspicious looking shop that sells fraudulent paintings.

You start the game on a bus, where you get to name your character, name the town you are going, and enter discussion with a character called "Rover" (who you will see every time you attempt to start the game) and the bus driver called Kapp'n on the way to start a new life in a new town. You are dropped off, sent to the town hall, introduced to the old tortoise mayor, and then sent to choose one of four possible homes to live it. 

After choosing your home, (which is empty, it turns out) you are confronted by the local shopkeeper, who informs you that you're neck deep in debt (You don't get the house for free. You have a mortgage to pay off, although not paying off the mortgage...really has no effect other than you can't expand your house and you have less room for furniture), and to help, pretty much forces you to take a position as a part time worker at his shop, Nooks Cranny. You end up spending the next few minutes running around the town planting trees and flowers, posting notices on the town notice board, sending letters to the villagers advertising the shop (to which I'm sure they were thrilled to receive), delivering carpets and furniture to the villagers...until eventually he declares he has no more jobs for you, and let's you go without paying you at all really (although he does take a paltry amount of your mortgage before sending you on your way.)

After you have finished working for Tom Nook...the game stops having aims really. In order to pay off any loans though and expand your house, or to buy any furniture or clothing, you have to earn money by collecting items in various ways, and selling them off...to Tom Nook. Essentially, the majority of your money will be going to Tom Nook. Something a lot of players resent. 

At first, earning money is done by shaking trees to collect fruit (your town will have one of the five fruits available in the game. Selling fruits from other towns will earn you more money, and is a way to earn income. However, unless you know someone else with the game and visit there town over WiFi, you can't get other types of fruit than the type you have been randomly assigned) or by collecting shells from the beach. After selling these to Tom Nook, you can buy whatever tools he has available that day. Thankfully, they change every day. Tom Nook also sells furniture (some of which is completely useless, odd looking, and you'd wonder why on earth anyone would have some big carpet covered mountain in there house), flowers, and tools.

The tools basically have different uses, and all the key to earning money (known as "bells" in game). The Fishing Rod is basically used to fish in the ocean and the river, the Net used to catch bugs (although this is less useful in the window), the shovel dig up fossils and "gyroids" (basically metal things that look like a tin can that basically make a very annoying noise if you put them in your house. Thankfully, however, you can either sell them, or give them to another character who has some use for them...but we'll come to him later) wherever there is a star shaped crack on the ground, slingshots that shoot down mysterious, magical floating parcels that float over your town carried by a balloon carrying what could be rare furniture (somehow defying gravity and the laws of physics), an axe that can cut down trees, and a timer which does very little...but time things. 

The seasons change in real time, the environment changing with it. Different fish will appear in the winter than will in the summer. During the summer for example, you may encounter a sharks fin sticking out of ocean, which will lead you to a catch that will earn you a whole load of bells. Summer also seems to be the only time that you can catch bugs...or when there are any bugs in the village at all. In fact, about the only bug you seem to be able to catch in the winter is a pill bug which was scurry past you if you rudely hit the rock it was deciding to hide in (and mysteriously, rocks sometimes have bags of money hiding in them. Someone in the village seems to make an effort of hiding a lot of money in the cracks of rocks, waiting for someone to hit it with a shovel and for it all to burst out...)

Thankfully, to solve this, Nintendo has allowed us to change the date! YAY! The downside is...that if you spent ages growing flowers and keeping your town weed free...your town will now be covered in weeds, all the flowers you spent hours lovingly caring for wilted, the villagers will all be mad because you went AWOL for a long time without informing them (I once changed the date to 2099. Nobody had aged a day. But they were all annoyed), and perhaps even moved out leaving a "I wish we were friends like we used to be" letter in your mailbox for you to pick up. But...this does allow you to change the furniture that Tom Nook is selling, and otherwise catch fish and bugs that you couldn't if you played on real time. 

There's also "festivals" in the game. Some are real life festivals (New years eve is celebrated, as is Valentines, Mothers Day), some seem to be made up and completely bizarre (Such as "mole day"). Some will allow you to gain furniture and clothing you can't buy in shops or gain in other ways. Some will feature a "catch the biggest fish" you can tournament. Some will just cause the villagers to go on and on and on about it until you are sick to death of hearing about it. 

The city seems to be the only new addition to the game (everything else seems to have been in the games predecessor, Animal Crossing:Wild World for the Nintendo DS, released a few years earlier). The city contains very few things that are actually new in the game, however. One of the new things is the addition of the "Designer Department Store."  What this actually is, is a shop that sells very expensive furniture and clothing that rarely changes and is occasionally visited by the very fashionable giraffe Gracey Grace who will declare that you are very fashionable if you turn up to the shop dressed as an Orange. 

The city also contains a theatre, where for a cost, you can watch an odd looking creature making extremely bad jokes (but on the plus side, you learn "emotions", which you can then use when talking via WiFi, or just because they look good), an office which judges how good looking your house is by mysteriously sneaking into it in the early hours of the morning and gives a score of it (and then, if it's the highest scoring house, making an exact replica of it in the back room), a hairdresser which is essentially just...a hair dresser, and an auction house. Which was pretty useless and did absolutely nothing. The game also introduces animals that aren't just frolicking around in a forest fishing and catching butterflies all day long with the addition of a Shoe Shiner who will sometimes appear in the city, seemingly down on his luck. And if you walk down a back alley, you will end stumbling across a dodgy store run by a suspicious looking fox called Redd, who will always took about hiding something illegal from the "Fuzz" every-time you approach, before realizing it's you and continuing to sell you some dodgy wares. 

Continuing on, the game also installs fear into the players heart if they do something as mundane as forgetting to save. Yes...it does not like it if you do not save. The character of Resetti makes return, popping out of the ground if you forget to save your game and giving you a long lecture that turns more and more angry the more times he comes, that is effective in reminding you to save, simply so you don't have to bother spending ten minutes dealing with the annoying mole. Supposedly, it was effective enough that it was making younger children cry, and Nintendo had to release a warning on the game advising parents to make sure there child saved the game so Resetti did not appear. So...if you are a younger player who may be upset by this, I advise you remember to save each time. Of course, you may also find Resetti's any tirades hilarious, and keep "resetting", or quitting without saving to allow them to keep happening. 

So...Animal Crossing is a light-hearted game with humour, wit and peacefulness. Despite the fact that there is very few changes from the DS version of the game, it is still a fun and relaxing game to play. There is a satisfaction to have by finally managing to pay off the seemingly endless debt that Tom Nook forces on you by making you expand your house each time you manage to pay off a loan, and finally managing to complete the museum. And although the game is slow...it can be extremely rewarding to watch your time change as time passes, and to sit and watch villagers come and go.