Ben X

Do we have a thread like this specifically for games already? Because I want to remember the name of the platformer I used to play on a shitty IBM-PC back in the late 80s/early 90s where iirc you control a little pink square with a face navigating single screen levels with all the platforms made up of similar small squares on plain backgrounds, only a step up from ASCII graphics. It was kind of a Super MeatBoy predecessor and I think it was called Jumping Jason or something like that.

Although it's a particularly unenergetic high, which is pretty ironic seeing as he's surrounded by snow.

Woo hoo! No need to post a threatening open letter on Reddit to them about playing with fire!

Yeah, presumably gators will be emailing them to voice disapproval, so hopefully positive feedback will prevent any "we made a huge mistake" boxes from getting ticked over at Intel.

Apparently Netflix will be clamping down on region unlocking over the next few months due to studio pressure. Of course, they may just be saying that to appease the studios and may be aware that they'll lose a lot of subscribers if they successfully prevent unlocking. Hopefully people would just find other ways round it anyway.

"Nevermind" is not a word, it is an album title!

Yeah, Dan did all the in-game art (I did some concept stuff). We did draw the comics together, in alternating panels - but Dan is better at that art than me too, I was just aping his style. Maybe I'll do a Harvey Pekar style comic about my job hunting...

Either that or he's high...

Yes, this. I really enjoyed it, came out feeling energised. Blimey, this happened to the Walking With Dinosaurs movie as well, didn't it? It was going to keep to the show's nature documentary style, albeit following a single dinosaur herd, then they decided it needed the dinosaurs to be voiced and do poop jokes. There must be some focus group company that keeps telling production companies that people hate non-talking dinosaurs. I hope they're not advising the Jurassic World team - then again...

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I hope everyone is writing to Intel to show their approval!

I agree, admin should merge all existing Christmas threads (there are at least four). OR: Actually it will have hoverboards this year.

Hooray, it's very nearly the Christmas season! If you don't join in you're a and a So MAKE MERRY, MOTHERFUCKERS WOOOO! Has anyone got their present list and shopping done yet?

Yeah, see, the problem is I'm more of an "ideas man"...

No, trying for a permanent/fixed-term admin role paying minimum £20K pa (hopefully a bit more than that though). If I can't find anything in the next month or so, I'll be heading back to Reed and getting something from them...

Cambridge seems to have put theirs up for 2015 already, and lots of private residences have followed suit!

Fuuuuck, I'll hand in my C+H fan club membership card

Thanks

And GROSS is Get Rid Of Smelly girlS.

Oh, it's going really well! I haven't been offered any jobs yet but applying for them is so FUN!

Looks great. I especially love Riker's smirk!

This is a relatively long post about something rather boring, but it's also a PSA for UKers (and a good general reminder for everyone to keep their receipts and paperwork forever, even if it means scanning to save on space). As I tweeted recently, if you're paying your council tax directly at the post office or whatever, rather than direct debit, make sure you keep the receipts forever. Three and a half years ago, I rented a flat for 6 months. I paid my council tax at the post office because I knew I wouldn't be there long and I didn't want to set up a direct debit and end up overpaying or getting screwed by the council somehow. This Christmas, I got a letter from a collections agency telling me that I owed the council £255 and that if I didn't pay within 14 days of the letter (never mind it being Christmas, a time when a lot of people are away and the council itself is closed for most of those 14 days) then PROCEEDINGS COURT BAILIFFS ETC. No correspondence from the council, just straight up threat letter from some independent company. I called the council today, and it turns out surprise surprise they have no record of me paying them £430. What they did have a record of was me being there two months longer than I actually was. Thankfully, partly because a friend of mine had the exact same thing happen to them and with no proof had to pay out hundreds of pounds they didn't owe, I had kept the receipts for three and a half years. So I told them that, and they said that I should email them the proof, and that £125 of that debt was a no-payment charge. A no-payment charge from a council who didn't contact me for three and a half years to ask for payment. Apparently I should have paid less than £130 in total and it seems I am actually owed about £300. We'll see how quick they are to pay that back to me - perhaps I should send the bailiffs round to them. (Although I'm not confident that this is correct either - I suspect I paid around the correct amount and the person I spoke to was reading something wrong, which at least is a nice change from maliciously trying to con me out of hundreds of pounds.) In summary - it seems to me that UK city councils will purposefully lose records and then wait for long enough that you're likely to have not kept yours, and then not only ask you to pay your tax a second time but also charge you £125 for absolutely nothing, indirectly through a thug company.

Yeah, the sea-lion comic doesn't work as a good argument against GG or anything, it's more of a "this is how it feels" thing. I don't think transposing it from a discussion about an ostensible political movement to one about disabled people is fair, though. The point is that you wouldn't expect to get this kind of response if you, say, tweeted at a friend that you don't like Democrats. Although it would still be a bizarre way to respond to someone who said they "could do without people with spinal deformities". (Also, a minor point: White refers to the people in the strip as "two clearly privileged dudes", whereas one of them is clearly a woman.)

It's his girlfriend's stuff (see also her manga in the Plug Your Shit thread).