Ben X
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Seriously though, that Anita talk is good. It's all stuff I knew but presented very well and really underlines how much logical straining gators and such go through in order to undermine her. Also: they say Lemmings isn't real gaming? What is wrong with these people?!
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But enough about your avatar...
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This thread only gets FOUR stars due to Jake's low audio levels. Speaking of ratings, is it possible for me to go rate Thumbs on iTunes online without getting the software or anything? Also, is that survey for advertisers still going? I don't think it ever got linked on a forum thread and there was no way I was going to remember it from listening to the 'cast until getting to a computer.
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What the fuck, BadHat?
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I still appreciate you highlighting the deal because I may well buy it and wait for the market to catch up and actually make it a viable proposition for me to read the book I bought.
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http://www.thefrisky.com/2011-12-02/18-wtf-christmas-themed-sex-toys/
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Yeah, I know. But trying to sugar-coat it for her isn't going to help anything. You only have a certain amount of time left, you need to be direct. It may actually make for a happier ending.
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I'm always getting ocarinas in my stocking.
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pboshe - it's easy how to tell her: "I think you're great, but you're messing me around and I'm not up for that, so let's call it a day."
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Fascist.
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I'm reticent to get books from them as they don't work on Kindle and the only one I tried reading on my Android phone via the Google app had some formatting issues. Still not beating the thousands of years old medium there, e-books.
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Well, Tesco have put out the Chrimbo chocolate tins (Quality Street etc). They haven't labelled them as Xmas related yet, but they're all stacked up ready. Christmas 2015 is starting to heat up! Less than 4 months of it left!
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Just because they're unofficial, doesn't mean you can't put them on your CV. Big your experience up as much as possible, and when they ask about it in interview they'll know from your responses that you didn't just make it all up.
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It depends if it makes a noise.
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Yeah, in my experience NHS medical staff are generally good (although I've had some shitty GPs - jacks of all trades, masters of none) but waiting times are horrific.
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What is there to know that these straight friends don't? (Must admit, I found out quite late in life that tampon sizes relates to heaviness of flow rather than size of vagina.)
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Yeah, I also like to do that when my mind wanders while listening to a podcast.
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It pisses a lot of UK (or just English?) women off that sanitary products are treated as luxury items and therefore taxed like crazy. Going back a bit (and kind of off-topic, sorry), here are some students who don't need trigger-warnings (or any help at all!) to act coddled and infantilised: http://www.avclub.com/article/duke-students-refuse-read-alison-bechdels-fun-home-224339
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I've never heard "jealous" used in that way, interesting that it used to mean that.
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I'm having problems getting this working properly. I'm playing from the Ultimate Doom CD, but that has some problem with the graphics going all pink/white/green. I tried Chocolate Doom but that has a horrible filtering thing going on that I can't get rid of. Unfortunately, I tried loading up Doom 1 (from my CD install) and now that's got the same graphical problems despite me having played it through only recently. No idea what's going on... EDIT: okay, a quick reset fixed it all. Not much different to Doom 1 yet - the super shotgun is nice and satisfying, and the enemies all seem to take friendly fire now, which I only saw on the Spider Demon fight with the cacodemons previously. If I get bored, I might skip forward to episode 3 so I can just see all the new enemy types straight away... EDIT 2: oh, one difference I have noticed is that the music is less speed metal now and more 70s sci-fi/horror. It's not as immediate, but it's pretty cool.
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Okay, I played through a bit of Marathon. While it is cool to see a bit of narrative coming in (reading weird AI burblings on the terminals and at least a token effort of dressing door keys as level-specific items like teleport network cards or whatever), and stuff like friendly robot NPCs, the controls are a lot more fiddly than DooMTM - I felt like I'd gone back to Wolfenstein 3D in a lot of ways - and it's ugly in comparison. These points might be affected by the porting of it, not sure. I wonder whether it was designed with mouse-look in mind, for one. Also, it has save points which are really annoying (especially due to their placement), which combined with a high difficulty level (I had to put it down to "kindergarten" to get past the first level!) make this quite frustrating. I would have pushed on, but I've come up against a door puzzle which seems to be a progress bottleneck. There are 4 switches which all have various open/close effects on the vertical pillars which make up the door. I guess I've got to press them in the right order, but I can't figure it out, so fuck it. So, that's it for Marathon. Next: DooMTM II (which I might stick on easy and speed through until I get bored, depending on how different to the first one it is)
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#subtlenamedropping
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This may not help at all, but The Swindle ran into some Windows 10 driver issues for that controller. There are a couple of possible fixes here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/369110/discussions/1/535152276588693722/
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Does anyone have a good way of getting notified of deals on books and comics, especially if you can have a watchlist of specific titles? Basically, I'd like isthereanydeal.com for books/comics. (Things I'd currently be watching out for include the Wild Cards books and Transmetropolitan comics going on sale as the former are hella expensive and the latter don't seem to be have a single physical collected edition.)
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Thanks! I wonder if comixology do wishlist notifications like Steam's (when they're working)...
