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Don't award these dreadful puns, Patters. I think we should oppose trophies.
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It also works as an expansion of the doppelganger in the original game...
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You're right! I'll bet everyone on this forum will want to hear the minutiae of my life! I work at an eye hospital in the patient records library, and the overtime involves getting rid of the thousands of temp. notes that have accumulated, by finding the real notes and merging them. It's taken over my life for the last 6 months or so, and I've finally decided I can't take any more, so that's that. The tax is from 2009-10, the most recent year in which I worked in telly and film before getting a more boring yet reliable job. I got charged Basic Rate tax for pretty much the whole year, so I need to get every single invoice, P45 and P60 (contacting the production companies' notoriously slow-to-respond financial departments where necessary) and send them all off to the tax office so they can figure out how much I was (presumably) overcharged and send me a lovely cheque. I'm hoping for a couple of hundred quid. CHOOSE, THUNDERPEEL, BUT CHOOSE WISELY.
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But which one would be your favourite if you HAD to choose?
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I'll take that to mean you're excited too, brkl.
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I'm changing my advice to this. In my life, I'm currently rife with anticipation. I'm finally finishing off my overtime so I can get in the gym, claim my tax back, and work on some creative projects, including one with Thunderpeel, and this: http://twitter.com/#!/danthat/status/121934230187028480
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Oh, really? Great, thanks Oubliette!
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Dammit, scummvm doesn't work on 2.0+. I was getting all excited
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Sure! (Little League is 16 year old girls, right?)
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Fucking hell, this is the best idea ever. Is this easy/legal in the UK?
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Oh, what the hell: Tanu, I've been biting my tongue, but here's my advice for you: It sounds to me like a symptom of your nervous disorder is to make things more complicated in your head than they really are, possibly as a way of avoiding certain things. And to be brutally frank, it sounds like your self-pitying is getting in the way of achieving things. I understand you're having panic attacks and depression, and that those are very real, tough things to deal with, but the only way you're going to deal with them is to force yourself to be positive and active and to change the situation you're in. Either your parents are crazy arseholes, or you're over-reacting to their attempts at help, or both. Telling you not to apply for jobs because you might get a manager that makes you cry is fucking awful parenting, whatever the motivation, to the point where I wonder if you're misinterpreting or exaggerating in your head in order to give yourself distractions and inconsequential things to waste your energy on. If this is not the case, and your father really did pull that shit, it is still your responsibility to yourself to recognise that kind of behaviour as detrimental and ridiculous and not allow it to spin you out. Whatever the truth, here's my advice: 1) Get a job, unconnected to your family. I know you're finding this difficult, but it sounds like you're going about it in very weird, convoluted ways. You don't need to tell your prospective employers about you owning a company or whatever (I don't even understand that bit, sounds like overcomplicating things). Googling products isn't going to work. You want blue-collar work, all the little details don't matter. You know what employers want from bc workers? Someone who shows up on time, works hard and doesn't cause trouble. All your CV need convey is "worked as butcher for family, knows what hard work is, isn't a serial killer". Things may work a little differently where you live, but a variant on this should work: spend all day every day going round every single factory, restaurant, fast food joint, bar, pub, temp agency or whatever, near you, speaking to someone face to face and handing in your CV. Don't be weird or over-talkative, just friendly, polite and succinct. Eventually, somewhere will need a grunt and give you a call. Keep expanding your radius until you get something. The economy may be fucked, but jobs still need doing and companies are still making money. If you can't get a job, you're either using the wrong criteria or the wrong techniques. Examine these and adjust them. If you hear yourself thinking "I can't get a job, it is impossible", then know that you are lying to and oppressing yourself. 2) Explain your very simple plan to your parents (ie getting a job unconnected from them). The worst action they can take is throw you out and make you homeless. If they actually do this, they're the worst parents ever and you'll simply have to refuse to go until it's not disastrous for you. Any negative reaction less than that is something you can simply ignore. This step is simply to give yourself a strong position from which to conduct rational dialogue with them. If they throw any bullying or bad ideas your way, you can simply say "no, this is what I'm doing, it's not changing, and I'd appreciate your support." This is all you need say to them. Don't let them troll you into pointless arguments, this is where all your energy gets wasted and your nerves get frazzled. Whenever it starts to happen, just walk away. And remember that they're weak humans just like you. They're probably pulling all this shit because they're afraid of losing you, or they don't want you to make the mistakes they made. Or maybe they're just crazy arseholes. Whatever the case, you are an adult and the strong, young lifeblood of the family. Remember that. 3) Once that job happens, stick at it. Keep your head down and be a good little wage-monkey. Mistakes I have made in the past include being too enthusiastic, overly helpful and nakedly ambitious, and thereby pissing off my co-workers and superiors. For the first six months at least, just be a steady, reliable worker. 4) You will now have some independence and a stronger position from which to plan your life. If you want to keep living with your parents, then you can contribute financially and set some rules about how that arrangement will work, safe in the knowledge that if they take that arsehole step of throwing you out, you can go rent a crappy place to live, and survive. Again, I hope that this is not something they'd do, and instead they will respect you for sorting shit out. Of course, living with your parents in their house is always going to carry certain irritations with it. Until you're the main earner of the household, or they're old and decrepit enough to entirely rely on you, there's going to be power issues and the risk of infantilisation. This is what you are avoiding by setting some rules to make sure everyone gets along as much as possible, and by simply ignoring any attempts of theirs to control you. If you want to move out, then try to leave on good terms. But if they bully or hang the threat of not speaking to you ever again or whatever over you, then just ignore it. Be the better person. They'll come round (and, again, if not they're crazy arseholes and you're better off without them). At the very least, you'll be able to afford regular therapy, which will also help strengthen you. (If you feel it's not helping, or making you worse, get a different therapist, until you find one that works for you.) You can also now try to plan a career. Looking for interesting jobs is a lot easier when you've got a steady wage. Want to get into, for example, game design? Read articles on how to do that. Dedicate spare time to improving yourself in that direction. Get prepared and confident and well-informed. Chase your dream. But all this starts with baby-steps 1-3. The bottom line is, Tanu: change things, be strong. If something appears to be an impossible obstacle, take a step back and ask yourself if that's really true. Again, sorry if this all comes across as horribly patronising or misinformed, but it is mostly based on lessons I learnt myself the hard way, over far too long a time.
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Frankly, Speedy, it sounds to me like she just doesn't fancy you but is too nice/indoctrinated by patriachal society to tell you that straight. She likes you as a friend but nothing more, but worries that you won't be able to accept that and things will get messy. So she's cutting the whole thing off and giving you a bullshit excuse. My advice: 1) Accept that sometimes the perfect girl for you just won't like you in that way, just as some perfectly nice people will take a dislike to and get irritated by you for no particular reason, but it's okay and normal and not anything you're doing wrong and balanced out by the plenty of people who do find you attractive and really value your friendship. (I'm being very presumptuous here, perhaps you know all this shit already, but it took me a looong time to figure out, and my time at university would have been better for realising it earlier. Also, wish I'd realised that most everyone was as inexperienced and lacking in confidence at sex as me, and acknowledging that fact early on in any proceedings would have led to much more satisfaction and fun.) 2) Stay out of contact with her for at least a couple of months. One term at uni should do it (i am old, do they still call them 'terms'?). Then call her, and say very frankly and concisely, "hey, sorry my crush on you made things weird, I get that you don't want to be any more than friends and that's totally cool. Wanna hang out some time?" But only if you mean it. Otherwise you need to repeat steps 1 and 2a. I normally don't post on these threads because I worry about being presumptuous, patronising, obvious or fake. But this sounded very much like the kind of stuff I'd tie myself in knots about when I was your age and I'd love to GO BACK and give myself this advice. So there you go. She's not the one for you, its nothing to do with you, chill out, forget about it, go reinvent yourself at uni and have fun.
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They're dressing up Nottm city centre as Hyrule for the Saturday of this! Girls as Link, baby!
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I decided to go to the start with their analysis of Burton's Batman, and MAN they are wrong about everything.
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When you guys say English language version, you mean English subtitles, right?
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Thanks TP, you are brillo!
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Yeah, but I drink it slower!
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We've just released a proper, real, non-joke Special Edition! http://www.sizefivegames.com/2011/09/23/announcing-ben-there-dan-that-special-edition/ It's pay what you want (£2 minimum, Steam owners will hopefully be getting auto-upgraded), and I believe Toblix has already bought it for a very generous sum. Thanks Toblix, you're brlllo!
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RPSathon was great fun. I gave into lager towards the end because of the free bar, but drinking ale for the first few rounds definitely saved me from any embarrassing mishaps. Good to see you again, Nach!
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Probably mostly for noyb: After spending an afternoon fighting with Virtual Floppy Drive, I've given up. I'm trying to install and play some more old multi-disk Klik N Play/Games Factory games. I've got the contents of each floppy disk in folders, which I've managed to turn into .iso image files. I don't have the actual disks or an actual floppy drive. As far as I can tell, I need to: 1) create a virtual floppy drive 2) use the vfd software to start the install process on the first disk then swap between the disks as the install program demands (I'm hoping I'll be able to minimise the install program to do this) 3) once the game is installed, follow Rob's linked article to run Win 3.1 in DOSbox and either play the game straight away or install KnP and then play the game through that. Does this sound the correct way to go about it? Anyone able to recommend another bit of freeware or option for creating a vfd rather than VFD? Would it be better to post this on glorioustrainwrecks.com?
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I've posted here: http://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/1938 Noyb, please lend support in case I get flamed or ignored!
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It got bad to middling reviews, and it'll probably work just as well/better on telly anyway.