jayseven

Feeling your 'meh' with games at the moment, daft. I tried to play five games since I got home from work and after loading them up I was just "..." I have no idea why. Just... nothing on my shelf or anything on the XBLA is shouting at me to be played. Work stuff; It's getting ridiculously stupid at work. The place is technically a H+S nightmare with an unmarked step randomly halfway through the room and exposed wiring, with cables in prime trip-up places all over. The owner is making it up as he goes along, telling our clients one thing then us another, then making up lies to explain discrepencies all over the place. Our campaign manager makes personal calls all day, distracts us from calling by chatting with us (tbf I do like her, but it can make it hard to do our job) and she stirs up gossip. One of the newer guys was trained poorly, and spent all day getting shouted at by the campaign manager for doing the job as she told him to do it -- and for things that we all do. You could see him internalising it all and clearly he was going to take that pressure and stress home with him. There's only 4 callers - one starts a new job monday, the other has an interview tomorrow (and is likely to get it) and the third is the guy who's been shouted at who is going to quit -- leaving me. And the current workload for the client (contracted to do 21 hours of calling a day) only has legs for two weeks. So I guess that's the blessing - grit my teeth for two weeks. However! The boss has come up with a plan - to temporarily turn our marketing call-centre into a sales one - the problem is that we're not covered by the Financial Standards Authority, which means technically it's illegal to ask for people's card details over teh phone as we have no safeguards in place whatsoever. Will be spending some time looking for a new job, then! Not managed to save anything since I started. Stress and drama.

Vote: ellmeister. In a bare bones game like this one, I'd see that as more of a mafia role than a town one. Suspicious of ReZ too but his honesty has to buy enough doubt to leave him be for now.

dannyteen-the-dane has evolved into dannychap-the-dane!

I like the idea of this thread, and I hope you can present a good mix of source material! ... But I've not listened to any yet as It's pass my bedtime :P Lame is me.

So once again, I'm in dire need of new music, and figured I'd roll this out one more time. Firstly, this is not a forum to discuss the rights and wrongs of sharing music. So shup already. Sign up if you wish to participate in a random re-allocation of self-made compilation music! I will draw names out of hats and redirect addresses to those involved, BUT only once a good majority of sign-up-ees have confirmed that they have CDs ready and waiting shipment. CDs should, really, contain music you love and adore and wish others felt the same way for. Nobody should feel offended if the CDs are not appreciated. There are no other rules or regulations, aside from the fact that the CD should be a good mix of music (to each's own ability). So yes! Who wants to 'play'? Mashers jayseven

It does go quick to watch. Was produced in an H2G2 perspective to further alienate the human-on-human viewings. Certainly interesting, but nothing truly novel to me (and plently of cleverly ignored points). I certainly felt like I should've been stoned watching it, anyway. Thanks for sharing the video though It is a shame the internet has destroyed our ability to focus beyond a gif.

Yeah the 'trust me man' thing isn't exactly a convincing argument. The point is that you're focusing on losing weight for all the wrong reasons. There's no point being skinny and unhealthy because of it. If you truly want to maintain a decent weight then you need to address your general routine rather than just opting to do this once a year. If you continue to see this 'working' then you'll slip up and do it more and more. No matter how right-minded you think you are. Asessing your understanding of eating disorders on some flakey chick who you have already tarred as 'unable to judge things well' is just excusing your own behavior. If it's taken you a year to put on x amount of weight then you should allow yourself a year to shed it. Giving yourself a week to get into a routine does not prove tha ... Does not prove that you'll have any strength in maintaining healthy eating for long at all. I say this because I have experience with eating disorders too , and I know that it's far safer to nip it in the bud while it's still such a small, minute possible outcome. You lose no kudos for that. And I say all of this because I care! I don't want you short-changing yourself and regretting it one day. Play the long game and play it safe.

Precisely the above. I just skimmed through the posts and copy-pasta'd the last full list. Like pro. Beverage! It's in Hyde Park in a place called the Cockpit - north of the serpentine north-north-north-north-east of the diana memorial. Ideally you should trade numbers with someone as you head there to meet on the bridge west of teh memorial/cockpit, or whatever.

Shorty is refering to the symbol ` in place of the symbol ' ... not saying that rez used the phrase 'instead of'. ReZ is afk in europe, so it's excusible.

Pretty much set for promotion. Going to re-focus on dev. Looks like I should be close to 20 for a fair few players!

ReZ Goafer Dannyboy Jimbob (+ Fez) Dyson Brian Mcoy Cube Flink Eenuh The Peeps jayseven

Scoreboards after Round 4 4 - Heroijan 4 - eenuh 4 - zell 4 - chairdriver 4 - peeps 3 - diageo 3 - jayseven 2 - Dazz 2 - paj 2 - Jonnas 2 - Maddog 1 - mundi 1 - ellmeister 1 - Tales 1 - ReZ 1 - Ashley 1 - Moogle 1 - mr-paul 1 - gmac 1 - Dannyboy 1 - Flink

I think ReZ is completely bullshitting.

Google it. You get varying numbers but ultimately it's going to be more than you'd've thought

9. Matriarchy?

No. Surely you should be striving to be healthy. Sustaining a regular routine should be paramount -- you're essentially exhibiting bulimic behaviour here - binging and purging. You may think these terms are merely things that happen to other people, and that you have it under control and know what you're doing and there's no way you'd be idiotic -- but you are being idiotic. You're constructing your own reasoning and you're ignoring objective reality of the situation. Short term fixes aren't any sort of solution. If you slept for 24 hours your body would burn more than the 600 calories you're talking about. While you may think "good! That means my body will eat itself to survive!" it's no way as simple as that. If you had a child who was the same size as you are now, would you encourage this behaviour?

Scoreboards after Round 3 3 - Heroijan 3 - eenuh 3 - zell 3 - jayseven 3 - chairdriver 3 - peeps 2 - diageo 2 - Dazz 2 - paj 1 - mundi 1 - ellmeister 1 - Tales 1 - ReZ 1 - Ashley 1 - Jonnas 1 - Moogle 1 - Maddog 1 - mr-paul

It's what we're here for, bro. it's heavy shit, but I hope you don't feel guilty or responsible at all. The term 'cry for help' doesn't need to be a negative one - she may have thought she wanted to end it but now you and your family can give her the care and attention she needs to get back on track. Your workplace should be able to give you some leave for a few days if you need it - take it if you do. Give us a buzz if you want to chat about anything at all. *fist bump*

Ja, there is a chance

4. Leo Laporte presents This Week in Google.

Point per question, plus point for question-setter. Clearly nobody's read the rules :P Will go over the thread and check your shizzle, peeps Yeah sorry peepers - you were listed twice with 1pt. Amended!

In that case, automerge prevention force GO! :P

10 questions. You get a point for making a round

Scoreboards after Round 2 2 - Dazz 2 - Heroijan 2 - paj 2 - eenuh 2 - zell 2 - jayseven 2 - chairdriver 1 - mundi 1 - peeps 1 - diageo 1 - ellmeister 1 - Tales 1 - Peeps 1 - ReZ 1 - Ashley Anyone for round 3?