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I had a quick play with this again. Overall, it reminds me of Noby Noby Boy, except with no charm and absolutely nothing to capture my imagination.

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Excellent work, BigJKO Lacabra, what platform?

I am celebrating the end of the world with: Accounting now, booze later. Might have these in the wrong order.

Originally it was a washing powder box with a smiling baby on it. I was sat at the kitchen table with that and a permanent marker around, I think something about terrorism had just been on the news, and one thing led to another.

You did an incredible amount of judging people you don't know in that post, Thunder. Can you see why you come across as a little abrasive when you say things like this? Those people I've asked are intensely good people, with whom I've spent a lot of time and in whom I have a lot of trust. I'd suggest holding your tongue after making assumptions about them, and I think you're actually striking at a very big difference in personalities here: Some people would rather know, some people would rather not. You're in the former camp; not everyone is. In the case of my friend, I'm unsure, so I'm going to broach it exactly as I suggested before, and pretty much as subbes say: Just tell her I met him, ask if he's always a dick, and see where it goes. It's entirely possible that the best thing for her is to not know, even if you think that wouldn't be the best thing for you. This is not about you. Or me. It is about what's best for her, which you don't know, and I don't know. That makes it non-trivial, and far from a no-brainer. I see what you're saying, but those suggesting not to tell her have good points too. Such as: "I don't see what she gains from knowing someone was disparaging behind her back". Quite possibly just discomfort at work and no actual advantage. If you come back to this with another counterpoint, I promise I will just ignore you, because I can see where this is going and do not want to get into another incredibly tiring Argument On The Internet. As if this situation weren't exasperating enough for me, you seem to feel a need to add contention from another side.

There have been a few, but I think this is my favourite.

Thunder, season five spoilers below. Don't click!

I would love it if god existed, but spent eternity hemming and hawing over social situations. I think this is probably what I'll do at some point, and follow on according to how she reacts:

Patters too!

It's arguable that I'm doing this whichever choice I make. I've asked a bunch of people so far, and the majority advice is coming out as "Don't tell her, it might make things worse".

It is fake, but it is as you say very well done.

Happy Birthday, miffy495!

In that RPS interview, he reminds me of conversations I had with shit contemporary artists about a decade ago, because I thought that if their work needed a lengthy artists statement on the wall next to it in order to make sense, they'd failed at whatever it was they were trying to do. At the point where the FC3 guy condemns "modern art" as struggling for relevance, my eyebrow shot up so high it almost circled my head. His terminology being almost four decades out of date shows he hasn't engaged with the art world he's talking about. John is bang on with this concluding statement:

Thanks. Scrobbs, that's not a bad idea, but I'm generally too direct to go fishing; it would almost certainly come out as "I met [name] the other day. Is he always a dickhead, or did I just catch him on a bad day?" I noticed that she did stop coming to a regular event that he also attends. My theory: He's a fucking creep, all the time. My curiosity doesn't matter though; what's best for my friend does. I think that's probably keeping quiet.

Dilemma time: I had an appointment with someone recently, and was representing an organisation I volunteer for. He was incredibly rude to me several times, and I bit my tongue. It was the right thing to do, even though I came extremely close to telling him to eat a bag of dicks and get out, and not having done so annoyed me later. In future, I may have to deal with him again, but as myself so it'll be fine (for me). He is an arrogant, cold, aloof person. A part of what he did as soon as I met him seemed like a blatant power game to make me uncomfortable, so in the moment what it actually made me think was "Oh, right. You have issues". He's articulate and emotive enough that it's clearly not something like Asperger's. What's really troubling me is this: Just before he left, he mentioned where he worked, and it turns out he's in the same small department there as a friend. I said "Oh, you must know so-and-so", to which he replied with a very long pause, then, voice dripping with contempt "Yes. I shouldn't, but I do. Anyway, enough about her…". He started work there about four months ago, five months after she joined. She seems very happy in her job, she's a good friend and a very good person. Do I tell her or not? On one hand, if he's ever going to be a scheming little shit at work, I feel she should be forewarned. On the other, she's smart and probably made him exactly the same way I did. Also, if she's happy at work, I probably shouldn't voice anything that might corrupt that.

The first Matrix film is the only one I've ever tried to rewatch, and I agree: It felt tainted by the sequels. In the original, I thought the Baudrillard reference to On Nihilism* was a really interesting counterpoint to the protagonists. I thought the ending of the first was going to go in some really interesting directions in the sequels, but instead they disappeared into a completionist scifi wank about messianic prophecies. Also, The Matrix trilogy ruined long coats for men. * The hollow book Keanu Reeves keeps discs in is Simulacra and Simulation. It falls open to this chapter.

I won't negotiate with apologists. Playgrounds is one tacky-ass idea for a feature and deserves every bit of mockery it got.

Actually, the contrast between what they implied the site would be, and the rewritten press releases and trivial features like this that have occurred, is a pretty big thing to nitpick. Also, slightly hilarious.

Polygon have been running feature articles on their writers and editors homes: http://www.polygon.c...-brian-crecente http://www.polygon.c...922/playgrounds http://www.polygon.c...nds-chris-grant Responses I have liked so far: http://twitter.com/r...651671791616000 http://twitter.com/r...56293113495552 http://twitter.com/d...51886909087745

It might be the fault of the book, but still: It's a bad-to-middling film with some very good scenes. It doesn't help my opinion that this was the second time I'd ever been to an IMAX screen, and I expected it to be… different. The first one I went to was eight stories high, this one was (I learned later) the standard size and felt a lot like going to the cinema normally does. I don't think it affected the film itself by much, but it definitely primed me with an anticlimax.

Oh yeah! I used delayed gratification at all times for similar reasons. It makes any site you waste time on just a little bit less sticky, and I've been a lot more productive since installing it.

American sweets/bars with peanut butter tend to be good, but the chocolate is indeed shite. I brought a load back for my housemates one year because it had cool names, and we were all disappointed.

I just came out of it thinking "That was… alright". The first hour or so consisted of people pottering round a house, interleaved with battle scenes that didn't seem particularly connected. It was a long and, I thought, clumsy setup that lacked drama. The attempts at comedy, while probably truer to the book, clashed horribly with dramatic fantasy tone and made it feel like the film had a split personality. I don't remember their being so much fighting in the book, and lot of that and the character appearances seemed like fan service for LoTR film fans. I thought the frame rate was very interesting, and largely agree with Thunder. In scenes with just people, their quicker movements looked sped up at first. It worked best in scenes with creatures (eagles, trolls etc.), as if pushing the actors a little bit into the uncanny valley helped them to mesh more with the CGI.

Yeah, that's looking gorgeous. Like a modern, higher definition Amiga game. For some reason, it reminds me of both The Lost Vikings and Blocks That Matter. Nice work