Salka

Happy Birthday! I will come back to this thread and post something awesome when I am less drunk, tired and crap.

Makes me feel popular. Don't ruin this for me.

Looks amazing, and also that creature is a giant version of my cat Lili

This thread is making me feel very popular and attractive. Thank you.

FUUUUUUUUU!!!!!

Life has been seriously put into perspective for me over the past few days. Doing temp work at a drop-in centre for drug addicts... I meet people who are so fucked and desperate and in agony from heroin withdrawel. The other day a woman phoned and said that she had missed her appointment for a dose of Methadone because she had tried to commit suicide. She was about to ask for another appointment but then just sighed heavily and said "never mind, it doesn't matter anymore."

Only one worked for me, no idea why the other doesn't. It's not my cat, I rescued him from Ireland where they do terrible things to stray cats. I smuggled him back into the UK, a perilous 20 hour journey that involved trains, cars, and a ferry across the sea with a small impatient kitten in a box. I gave him to a friend, and he is now a fat naughty bastard and eats all the pies.

BIRTHDAY PREZZANTS. Geif them to me.

Oh Dan you really are a cunt. Everyone else - thanks, I shall post pictures and stories in this thread later stories of magical things. Here's one to start you off Okay, so I don't have any birthday related photos yet... but this will do for now.

Fuck being unemployed, holy shit. Not only was it a nause to sign up for unemployment benefits in the first place, which is only to be expected, but I kept getting told false or confused information by government people throughout... my partner can claim, my partner can't claim. I'm not elligible for benefit, no wait, I am. Whoops we accidentally forgot to pay you any benefit at all for the past six weeks. etc. Besides that, even though I informed them ages ago that my partner got a new job, they kept paying me rent money which, naturally, I kept paying the rent with. Now the council just slapped me with a £700 bill for money they "overpaid" me. Not only was the amount of money they thought they'd paid me incorrect - the actual sum overpaid was £450 - but they announced that if I don't pay it by the end of the month they'll take legal action against me. As though I am purposely attempting to swindle them or something, when in fact I told them about my change of circumstances, they kept paying me, and I kept using the fucking money they gave me to pay the rent because that's what the money is fucking for. They informed me of this all by sending me an envelope about half an inch thick, full of meaningless bits of paper with random numbers added and subtracted with the end conclusion being: £21.50 - £0.00 = minus £1124. Meanwhile the jobseekers people still haven't paid me any jobseekers allowance in about six weeks. So what with the council demanding £700 back, only £450 of which they ever gave me, and Jobseekers accidentally forgetting to give me any money at all, what the fuck. What are these people doing?!??

Just 'cos it's the 13th installment of the series and still making money for Square, doesn't make it not shite. I admit I haven't played the latest one and should hold off one judging until I have, but I have been so sorely disappointed by every one since 9 that it is going to take a lot to make me give the series another go. I have no idea who it is that keeps buying FF games and funding Square to go on producing more of the same steaming shit. It's all just so lame and uninspiring and blah. The characters are all so bland these days, the stories are all the same, the worlds are all so generic. FF makes me sad

FF games have been making me sad for almost 10 years now.

Has anybody mentioned Better Off Ted yet? I totally recommend it. I've only seen two episodes so far but I can see myself becoming addicted. It makes me think of Portal crossed with Arrested Development. Probably because of the intro and the fact that Portia de Rossa is in it, more than anything else, but still.... really great show.

Soggy biscuit?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klmhNSu2ZbY&NR=1 This is creepy as fuck.

There's a video on some VHS somewhere, of Spaff when he was 5 years old, pulling ribbons out of a cardboard tube and yelling "It's MAGIC!!!!" FYI.

fyi yes, it was.

...Nice.

Stop getting so worked up Dan, it's not becoming of a lady.

I don't think it's a problem that can never be solved. It can definitely be improved on, don't you agree? Think of early games where you couldn't explore areas that hadn't been set as walkable areas, couldn't open doors that were just part of the background, etc. There was usually only one way to complete the game or solve the puzzles, although some kinds had multiple endings or puzzle solutions. Compare them with Hitman: Blood Money, in which you have all manner of options and ways to complete missions, or MGS in which there's a whole bunch of ways to progress through the game. Stuff gets better all the time. If people had have just given up back in 1991 and assumed it was impossible to improve that stuff any more, then games like Hitman wouldn't exist now. Saying that people who take an issue with it shouldn't be playing video games is a ridiculous thing to say. You can't tell me you've never found a flaw in another otherwise great game, or wished it could be improved on in certain ways. This doesn't mean you shouldn't be playing video games. I don't know why you would think or say that. Essentially what you are saying is, "If someone thinks Hitman: Blood Money could be a better game, then they shouldn't be playing video games."

No, that's not what I'm saying. I'm just pointing out why people could find it frustrating. I think that this is a fair point to make, no matter how good the game may be. There is always room for improvement and to make things better. Your defensive reponse reminds me of the way some WoW players defend WoW's faults instead of discussing how they could be fixed in the future.

I am afraid I haven't played this game so feel free to ignore my opinion. However, I understand where Bistro is coming from in terms of it being frustrating that some things are possible but other solutions that people might think of, aren't. I've experienced this in other games before, and I hate it. In a game where you're supposed to think of different clever little ways of killing people, I can see that for some people it would be very frustrating. I am one of those people who would think of ridiculous ways to try and kill people That said, I haven't played it, just pointing out where Bistro is coming from.

Glastonbury '09, and starting my full-time art course in September. Council tax being refunded. Not having a job, most people I know who do have a job aren't enjoying it. Have sunburn even though it's only April. Though it was delayed for several months, soon one of my best friends will have to move away. I have no money. One of my cats is a douche.

I think this game is a kinda cool social experiment. From what I understand, he has no actual gameplay rules or systems in mind, it's just an environment that you can manipulate, right? POTENTIALLY you can team up with others in the game to build villages and then THEORETICALLY you could attack other villages, but I don't believe that's necessarily the goal of the game. I read somewhere that Eskil doesn't know what he wants it to be and is going to wait and see what the players decide to do with the world. I think that is kinda cool, in a way. But it doesn't strike me as a particularly amazing game, and I am not sure why it is getting so much... wait for it.... LOVE. It seems more like just a cool experiment to see how people would interact with a changing/changeable environment, or how they would/could work together to build communities etc., and to see how that could work with future MMOs where there is also gameplay involved. I don't know, I'm just making this shit up, I don't even know what I'm trying to say, bye.

CELEB Big Brother star Ulrika Jonsson has revealed how she believed for years that a traumatic date-rape ordeal was her own fault. In a TV interview she said: “I felt I’d allowed myself into a situation which I shouldn't have. I blamed myself." http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2333342.ece You blamed yourself did you? Let's look at the circumstances leading up to this alleged rape. So you didn't tell him to stop and he then asked if you wanted to see a film. It sounds almost like he had no idea of the atrocious attack he had just carried out! He didn't realise what he'd done??? But surely you gave some kind of sign that you didn't want to have sex with him?? Okay so he's your date, not a stranger. Well, okay, you were kissing and then groping occurred. I guess if that's not what you were expecting to happen, it could be a bit of a surprise. You FELT like saying no? You were PROBABLY saying no?? But you might not have. And he didn't seem to have any idea that he'd raped you, which kind of lends itself to the theory that you didn't say no. Or when you FEEL like saying no, but actually don't, because men should be able to read your mind or something. "Are you okay?" "Yes I'm FINE." "Do you want sex?" "Yes that sounds FINE." Funny that. I think it's pretty fucking dodgy to call that rape. It seems that the problem here isn't rape, it's Ulrikka being too retarded to give any decent indication that she doesn't want to have sex with the guy she's dating. Man I'm so angry, this serves me right for reading the sun. Rape is really serious and the word 'rapist' probably shouldn't be used to describe a guy who had sex with a girl he was dating, who failed utterly to convey that she didn't want to have sex.