Diddums

Poor Dylan. This is going to be his initiation into manhood, we'll scar the fucker for life.

Yessir. Also, I imagine that Tam and Co will be arriving at some point too, so they can drop their shit off (and their luggage) and we can babysit him for the night whilst they do the romantic dinner thing. What's the deal with Hi My Name is Dylan and booze?

Ok cool, so the only person lugging his shit around all night is Euan. I'm OK with that.

Ok, here's MY plan. What YOUR plan is up to you. I will adapt to accommodate: Meet Stretch at 4 at Brixton. Drop his shit off here, leave the car and go for a beer at Brixton. Then we'll meet up with Rich and Cal at Victoria, or you two can pick up Euan and catch a vittoriashizzle down to Brizton and meet us there. Either way, whatever man. Whatever.

I wasn't hinting for money you dumb poofs. I've been banking on this for months so don't worry about it. You guys can buy me a beer and a jaeger when we're out on Shaturday.

If you can't find it then you're blind.

Erm. Dunno. Ask Stretch, I don't know where he's going. I fought Brixton but that's also Victoria line so fark nose.

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Don't worry, we won't be too hammered.

Nah, on the way home. We do want to meet these fuckers before Dylan kills 'em all.

I'm meeting up with Rich at 4pm, I think Stretch is arriving at 6ish. Then we'll go for a drink and cruise up to Victoria to pick you up, and go to mine and drink until our faces are numb. Am I missing anyone/thing?

I think Firday's pretty much going to be spent at mine. Drinkypoos are spensiff here in London and Eurogamer will probably fleece us a bit too, so I just bought four cases of beer, two bottles of Jaeger, two bottles of sours, loads of crisps & snax and other shite for us to consume. If anyone wants spirits you'll hafta bring your own, I just coined a hundo on booze alone so meh. Of course if you want to bring anything else that's cool too.

Yessir. Brighter one FTW.

Don't stop driving until you get to London.

Try again. And yes.

That's awfully sexeh you evil fiend! Oh, have some moar goodness!

Has a Veyron. Wears a wife beater. #gangsta

Or Scotland.

Holy shit, this is amazing. Ordnance Survey, the people that map stuff, have recreated GB in Minecraft, to the block. All 22 BILLION of them. Clicky Ordnance Survey, the body responsible for mapping Great Britain from top to toe, have recreated 86,000 square miles of it in Minecraft. The map was built in two weeks by intern Joseph Braybrook and OS's Innovation Labs team using the mapping authority's OpenData products, and can be downloaded to explore for free. Ordnance Survey’s data covers England, Scotland, Wales and their surrounding islands. The resulting Minecraft map incorporates 224,000 of Great Britain’s 229,848 square km. “We think we may have created the largest Minecraft world ever built based on real-world data,” OS Innovation Lab Manager Graham Dunlop told the BBC. “The resulting map shows the massive potential not just for using Minecraft for computer technology and geography purposes in schools, but also the huge scope of applications for OS OpenData too.” Once downloaded, the map starts new players on the spot of OS’s head office in Southampton. From there, they can make mainland Britain - 22 billion blocks of it - their playground. Using a combination of two programs - OS Terrain 50 and OS VectorMap - the mapping authority has managed to port a 3D model of the earth surface into the game, and overlay it with accurately placed bodies of water, woodland and roads. The entire generation process took about seven hours on a “modest” desktop PC. OS have found equivalent materials for each of the key terrain types in their maps. Motorways are built in diamond, for instance, and B Roads from pumpkin. “Each blocks represents a ground area of 50 square metres,” write OS. “The raw height data is stored in metres and must be scaled down to fit within the 256 block height limit in Minecraft. A maximum height of 2 500 metres was chosen, which means Ben Nevis, appears just over 128 blocks high. “Although this exaggerates the real-world height, it preserves low-lying coastal features such as Bournemouth's cliffs, adding interest to the landscape.” Bloody hell, eh? You can find the map to download here - it’s approximately 3.6GB uncompressed. OS have also provided coordinates for some notable geographical landmarks, including Mount Snowdon, the site of London, and Lake Windermere. Wow. Just wow.

Sup dude, welcome to the new site

let me know what happens Dave, I'd like to keep this as smooth as possible for everyone. Try clearing the cache, that usually helps too.

Busy shopping for this weekend. Got stuck at Bison and Bird. Having a Mojito. You lot had best bring your drinking faces.

I'll check this out later!