Salka

I Want An Idle Thumbs Business Card, Spaff, Please.

No, it's an illegal downloaded warez pirate illegal pirate copy!!!1 The eight and a half hours to unlock it is including the time it's taking me to DOWNLOAD0rz IT!!!1 I haven't tried it since, so maybe something was wrong. I gave it to my brother because he has broadband. It went the way of all the other good games I've ever had and have been dumb enough to 'lend' to my brother. Sigh.

You can't see me now, but I'm crying like a girl.

In the deepest, darkest corner of Ireland, I can assure you it takes no less than .... 8 FUCKING HOURS!!!

Gordon is fucking UGLY and I bet there are lots of girls who would like to see HIM tortured with red hot toothpicks shoved under his FINGERNAILS for EIGHT AND A HALF HOURS. That said, I've heard that, once you actually get to play the game, it's pretty good.

Anybody remember Scalelectrix? [sp?] They were AWESOME.

Same. I had a massive crate of Lego, but no custom sets. And I used to build farms and villages and towns, and skyscrapers, and entire infrastructures. I couldn't use different-coloured bricks in walls because it looked dumb. I did incorporate coloured bricks into some areas of Legotown in order to represent graffiti. Legotania was such an amazing city, that many multi national corporates chose to locate there, including Intel. Then I ran out of Lego and had to bulldoze the Government Housing in order to build a stable for the horses. And horses. One day, my Mom decided to clean my room.

Today I purchased Halo 2 and a Crystal Xbox. On the whole, I give that experience a 5.843 out of 10. I also went to a lecture on Genetics and many pictures of George Bush and Apes were shown by way of demonstration, which is sad because even highly paid University Lecturers are going out of their way to laugh at the US now. I also went to another lecture on dead bodies. That was pretty gross, especially the part with just the heads. I am now an expert on dead people. Here was the coolest part though; At work, I forced a co-worker of mine to buy Full Throttle and he totally digs it. However, he is stuck (something to do with bunnies) and was asking for hints. He is now in love with the game. Then, another co-worker came up and said, "Speaking of games, have you guys heard of Psychonauts??? I downloaded the trailer for it yesterday and at first I thought it was a pixar movie! And it looks hilarious!" at which point the other guy goes, "Oh, yeah, I think I read about that. The little bug-eyed kid with psychic powers." It's weird because it's the first time I've heard people talking about Psychonauts (and Tim Schafer) that aren't, you know, us. It almost brought a tear to my eye. Almost, but not quite, because I am a heartless saleperson with a heart of stone. Or at least, it WOULD be a heart of stone, if I even HAD a heart. But since I don't, it's just an empty hole in my chest, carved of pure marble. To be perfectly honest, I was actually more than a little jealous. I mean, I have followed Psychonauts from it's conception, right through the pregnancy, and that one time there was complications and it had to go into hospital for a while, and I'll be there when it's born. But now there's all these people and they're all like, "Man, Psychonauts, blah blah blah!" and that sucks, because it's like Psychonauts is a cheap tart that's sleeping with everybody in town and isn't my special baby any more. But there is a little echo of sadness that murmers in that cold, dark marble cavern, and it cries, "I miss the days when Psychonauts was unknown but to me! And everybody else from Adventuregamers, IdleForums and AGSforums and also LucasForums but other than that pretty much nobody!" It's like, all this time that Psychonauts has been UNKNOWN, and NOT sitting on shop shelves, there has been a little hole in my heart. But now, that hole is being filled in with the soil of COMPLETION, slowly but surely. I should be happy, and yet I grew used to that little hole. I had become attached to it. I had planted little Forget-me-knots all around the outside of it, and lined it with one-thousand-gauge-plastic, put pebbles in it, and filled it with water. Then I'd put little goldfishies in it, and this one fish that looked like Dori from Finding Nemo, and I called her Dori, too. And there was all this pond weed in the corners, and a couple of lillies. And every day I'd go and sprinkle a little Fish Food on the top. How can fish live in a filled hole? How can Lillies float on stuff that ISN'T water? How can Forget-me-knots --oh, alright, they're still there because they weren't technically IN the hole to start with. But whatever. Now the hole is simply part of a huge meadow filled with grass and forget-me-knots, and dead worms and shit like that. Oh well. They say if you love somebody, you let them go. Or whatever. I don't know. To be perfectly honest, I'm slightly drunk. Hurray for Psychonauts!

Until they start making you sell fucking INSURANCE on DVDs, you have NO IDEA, buddy. Also, to Deadworm and Trep:

Let's not forget where you guys all come from, eh? EH?

You know what I hate? I hate like, when I got The Longest Journey? In a DVD case? And I opened it up, and like, three fucking CDs fell out? Because the DVD case could only properly hold one CD? So some jackass had decided to try and jam all four into it anyway? It's even more annoying than uptalk!

I don't want facts, damnit. I want good old conspiracy. Get with it, Deadsy!

Hang on a fupping second. Don't I get some other, consolation prize? I did make a valuable contribution to this thread after all. It's because of my horribly disfigured face, isn't it? Fup you.

Graffiti. Ahh. I remember once, when I was in 3rd Year/9th Grade, I was making beautiful art on the back of my Homework Diary, and the Professor/Teacher snatched it away from me. "Stop making Graffiti on your book!" she snapped. "Graffiti?" I was stunned. "Yes, stop vandalising it," she said. "Vandalising it?" I echoed, "It's my fupping book." I was sent down to see the Principal, who sentenced me to talk in front of the entire year about the dangers and wrongs of vandalism and cursing. Anyway, most of the Graffiti in Waterford is just 'Rebecca woz ere luvin' 98' and 'IRA Rules' and 'Fuck' and there's this really interesting one in Ballybeg right now, right across the wall of the estate, which reads 'Tom McKenna is a drug dealer, he is a murder fuck tom you murderer fuck you'. But I guess not all Graffiti is like that.

Awesome Obstacle Course? Yes. Yes. Yeah. Pff.

Oh, right. I don't know why, but for some reason I thought he meant they SOMETIMES came in DVD boxes. I don't know. Blah.

I like the smell of the boxes, but otherwise DVD cases are probably better... I guess... In the US, do Console Games come in boxes?

...What would it be? And don't give me the world peace and hunger shit. Everybody knows you're just lying for attention.

Goddamnit, that IS a pretty good explanation... I think he's right, Trep.

Campaign Mode is really dull. Except for right now, when I'm trying to drive a Ghost at high speed off the top of a building onto a giant robo spider thing. I don't know if I can actually make it, but I will try my best. UPDATE: Yeah y'can! UPDATE 2: After all fucking that, he dismounts the Ghost on his left hand side, right off the side off the spider to his doom. Congratufuckinglations, you made me cry.

No it's not! Things that would be COOL would be if it was released and only I bought it!!! Seriously though... I was surprised to hear people talking about it. He's bringing me in the full trailer today which I was too lazy to download myself. It's not that I don't LIKE people knowing about Psychonauts... I am just going to miss the hole.

Happy Birthday, Spaff!

Argh, now I have "If I Could Change the World" by Eric Clapton stuck in my head.

I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, "Hahaha! Prove that you're smarter than Yufster! That should be dead easy! Hahaha!" Well, now you've gone and made a statement like that, you better come through or else you're gonna look real dumb. Here's the problem. I was going to bed, and then I remembered, whoops! I have homework! And Math! So I took out all my notes and everything and sat curled up for about ten minutes before I realized I wasn't thinking anything. Nothing made enough sense to even begin thinking about it. Here's the question, deliciously sketched for you on dodgy-looking A4 lined paper (it's off-colour because of the scanner, but usually it is a creamy white colour). Now, I figured I'd be intelligent (whoa!) and look back on my notes from Friday. Here's what I have for the entirety of my Trigonometry notes so far: Whoops! I have absolutely no idea what any of this means! I think I see 'triangle' spelled without an L, but that's about it. Does this even relate to the homework? What was I thinking when I unconsciously took these notes? What do they mean? I think they might be important. So, unless you solve that question you're going to look mighty dumb, far, far dumber than me. And let's face it; nobody wants that.

I'm turning into a STAUNCH BUSH SUPPORTER, and not just because the CIA have sent me threatening letters and little pouches of white powder with 'SNIFF ME, I AM JUST COCAINE' written on the label. No, in fact, it's because I have developed a new policy; if you can't beat them, join them, enjoy their perks and benefits and free stuff, and then when somebody ELSE beats them, switch back over to the other side and pretend like you were getting insider information for their side all along. In light of this, I'd like to suggest a few changes around here. 1. I would like to see any female moderators removed from moderatorship. 2. I would like to see more poll results being tampered with. 3. I would like 'Democracy' to be replaced with the far cooler, typo-looking spelling, 'Democrazy' 4. Threads must be reviewed by a moderator before being posted, to filter out unwanted political messages, unless those political messages conform to certain standards set by the Moderaters. 5. Freedom of Speech is okay, as long as you don't say anything that could be regarded as threatening to the safety of the freedom of the Forums of Idle Thumbs, or something that may be regarded in a light that suggests you may or may not be involved with or hold links with any hacking organisations both national and international. 6. Posting Records, including Private Messages sent to and from other forum members, must be monitored in the interest of protecting the safety of innocent users. 7. All members must supply moderators with any passwords they have and the internet accounts they protect, and understand that a Moderator reserves the right in any situation to search those accounts for material that may be deemed a threat to the safety and freedom of users without the prior knowledge of that user, or any knowledge at all. 8. No homosexual moderator may be allowed remove the post of a heterosexual member without the prior consent of a heterosexual moderator, as requested personally by GOD in a correspondance with Marek last week. 9. Homosexuals may not use cookies on the website, meaning they must sign in again every time they refresh the page, as this has been a heterosexual thing for billions of years before God even created mankind and they must respect that they can not just come and put their gay all over our cookies. The last thing we need in a time of crisis is for Gay Cookies to make all of the Straight Cookies Crumble, or what have you. 10. Any forum that displays aggressive or questionable behaviour to us, at Idle Forums, or is home to trolls or spammers, or in general endangers our freedom of speech and our safety, or endeavours to put an end to our freedom... and there are plenty of forums out there that hate to see us be free, that hate freedom and hate all that we stand for... any forum that is a threat to the safety of Idle Forumans will be removed. I would also like to say that there is increasing hostility being shown over at the AG forums. We have substantial evidence that the AGers plan to hack the Idle Forums website and forums, and replace all of our very interesting and provocative and beautiful threads with 'The Secret of Monkey Island, what is?' threads. We cannot allow the AGers to quell our freedom of speech like this. As well as this, we have intercepted secret correspondence between two leading moderators over at AG, which claims they also wish to hack your email accounts and send trojan horses and porn onto your PCs, porn which cannot in fact be removed, but stays on your desktop forever. And your Moms will all see it. This is a growing threat to the safety and well-being of our forumers. In fact, I can hear one hacking through the monitor RIGHT NOW. We cannot allow the AGers to undermine our freedom and safety. We WILL not allow them to make us live in fear. We will NOT allow them to spread their hate and gay everywhere. I propose we hack into their computers tomorrow and send them all crap porno and viruses. UPDATE: Dear CIA, thanks for the woolly sweater! It gets really cold over here around this time of the year. Also thank you for the almond-smelling perfume. It's highly addictive.