James

Siri is my mum's first name. It's quite weird to hear it mentioned all over the place all of a sudden.

If, hypothetically, you were to move out, you would presumably no longer have to work for your parents, and would therefore be eligible for unemployment benefits. Would this be enough to cover your living expenses while you searched for work, or is that not feasible? It might not be comfortable, but it sounds like you need to break out of your current situation and put yourself in a position of self-determination. I think it's psychologically important to be able to claim responsibility for your own life, and it's difficult to do that when somebody else seems to be calling all the shots. DISCLAIMER: Not an expert on living.

I would definitely like to try Horde mode with three or more players. I didn't get to play it much in GoW2, but it seemed pretty fun, and the changes they've made sound like they're Good Things. I would also be curious to try four-player co-op, although my primary story experiences will probably be solo and two-player with an actual real-life friend/cohort. Broblix, whilst I enjoyed both the previous Gears games, I would caution against storming through them all in quick succession. There's a pretty basic core formula which, when combined with the saturation of loud noises and testosterone, could become quite draining. Your mileage may vary, of course, but for me they're the sort of games where after I'm done with them I want to move on to something else. Then again, I did play each both solo and co-op in fairly quick succession, so there is that. I don't know, it's up to you of course. The story's nothing amazing, but I understand wanting to experience it all.

I have it on PC, but am yet to start.

There's also media depictions and social expectations and all that.

Only recently having discovered jsfiddle, I find this very cool. Well done those people!

I guess if you're going to have fun with spam bots it's probably safest to quote the post.

THAT PROGRAM WAS THE BEST! I spent many happy hours with my cousin making dumb movies about a guy in a skeleton suit who ran around shooting people to the Doom E1M1 music, and a mysterious guy who could float around at will, and an ambulance driver who would say "What's that noise?" before something fell from the sky on his head. Also we used the Quake grenade sound timed the same way it is in the rolling demo. God, such nerds.

Reamde... Read me... Subliminal messages! No? Oh, OK then.

I had Games Factory! Wasn't it like £100? I remember saving up a bunch of pocket money and birthday money until I thought I had enough, then getting to the shop and finding out that I didn't have as much as I thought, and ending up counting out all my copper coins and paying in exact change. Then I made pretty much the same game twice with two different friends and a screensaver that required a CD to be in the drive to play the right song and that was about it. None of this is useful to you.

Yes, I really liked the overall mood of it, but the ending felt rather flat. I guess that might be true to the book, which I haven't read. I didn't realize it was directed by the same guy as Let the Right On In, anyway. I really like that film, although I think I love the book a little more. Him throwing the mug on the ground was probably the best bit of that film. It was kind of weird watching a superhero film where I was enjoying the comedy a lot more than the action.

Not that you should have to, but putting your query in quotes seems to help, although Moby-Dick is still result number two.

Carl Stone - Al-Noor (excerpt) Something a little different than my other contributions to this thread. (Discovered via the often excellent and never predictable Do or DIY radio show podcast thing.)

Well the art is obviously in the telling, in the form. Either it works for you or it doesn't, but that's really more to do with you than it is to do with poetry, I think. Not that I'm generally especially moved by poetry – I'm not – but I'd be very hesitant to imply that that was anything to do with the "purpose" or content of poetry. It's probably more to do with my environment and upbringing. Or my being a massive stupid-head.

No! Wait! I've analysed all the relevant variables, crunched some numbers, and come up with something that is a witty and universally appealing pun that concisely conveys the content of your podcastular offering: Ultrafuck Shitpunisher Christ Turbo ζ Deluxx What do you think?

I don't know, there wasn't anything surprising about it.

They mainly focus on temp stuff, but as I said, I got my job (which I've been at for approaching four years) through an agency. I don't think they're different institutions or anything. It's worth investigating, anyway. In any case, you have my sympathies. I absolutely hate looking for work, which may be part of why I stuck with my job through some pretty crappy patches (it's OK now, mind).

I'm not really equipped to give particularly involved advice, but have you ever tried finding a job through an agency? Don't give up on directly contacting companies, but it's an agency's job to find you a job, so you might have some joy with that. It's how pretty much everyone at the company I work for was hired, including myself.

I presume that's Farenheit. Miffy was talking in Celsius. Still, 100° F is 37.8° C, which is pretty bloody hot. (For reference, 30° C is 86° F.)

That's superficially similar to something I did quite a while ago:

He fucking loves it.

I love it.

I was briefly obsessed with that thing. I came back to it recently, and much of the magic was gone. I felt a little sad.

Apparently that Mr B fellow he's quarrelling with went to the same school as me.

Because he gets to respond to and refute every point. I mean, aren't you familiar with the idiom "having the last word"; that's what the phrase means. It means you have the argument no-one can respond to. You define the terms on which the discussion is ended. Of course, it has to end with somebody, but it's Hayek in both videos, and in the first he has the whole latter half, and the whole thing is written as Keynes building up an argument and Hayek knocking it down, rather than a more level back-and-forth. I hope I don't seem like I'm having a go at you or anything; I just find it surprising that you see it so differently than I do.