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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?

Food-wise, I skip a lot of breakfasts, tend to have a sandwich and a pasta pot for brunch, lots of pepsi max during the day then a standard dinner - pizza or pasta. Getting a job meant I had to cut down on my drinking hours, which helped :P I tend to not be able to afford take-aways, and I have an allergy which stops me from eating shit food. I am very thankful for my luck Having said that, I don't think I have the willpower to even attempt a fitness regime. I have this whole thing about people gathering in a room to run on the spot. Why bother? Bleh.

(Just wanted to say - nice to see you on gen chit-chat Zechs! I've lurked/stalked you elsewhere on the board :P) I've lost [x] weight! I did it by eating sensibly and doing casual exercies (walking from the train station to work and back 5 days a week...) ! [/on topic]

Let's try and utilise our IRC room during this, fellas Should be fun!

To die is a frightful thing. But to have lived and been forgotten is a much scarier thought for me. In a morbid way, I hope that more people attend my funeral than my wedding - it would signify a life well lived, show that people were affected by my short spell of existence. So yes, for me, my life is a success if more people attend my funeral than my wedding :P If my girlfriend reads this, then I've probably damaged my chances of getting married in the first place, which at least gives me more chance of being a success! Anyway. Yeah. We've had a thread like this before but it was something I've been thinking about. I hate feeling pressured into living a 'successful' life based on what someone else thinks. Considering at the end of all this there's nothing, that any meaning to be found in life is given, it stretches me mentally and emotionally trying to justify my own life or the choices I make. I've never been to a funeral. My aunt died just over a year ago, but she lived in australia so we couldn't make the actual service. Instead my mum and her sisters and a couple of cousins met up at a church and shared stories and read a prayer and everyone cried and I just sat there wishing I would cry too. So yeah. Experiences? Opinions?

Just over half-way through Consider Phlebas and it's really fantastic. Cannot believe it was written 25ish years ago. Banks is good at not showing where the story is really going for a good few-hundred pages... Yeah. Just really enjoying it.

I work in a teeny tiny call centre - 4 of us on the phones with a campaign manager and the owner making up the entire staff of the place. We work out of an old stable (lol), but of course this doesn't matter when you're on the phone - customers won't see you or the place! We've recently attained a new 'contract' working for the monaco tourist authority, generally just calling London-based companies and seeing if they ever hold conferences or events in europe and whether they'd consider going to monaco. Tomorrow we're going to be 'entertaining' some people from the monaco board who are hoping to give us a 20-minute presentation. Been asked to go smart/casual, which is fine as I have smartcaj trousers and shorts and all that, but it's just going to be a bit... embarassing. On top of that I've had my brain cells rounded up and thoroughly waterboarded this weekend, so I feel tired as hell, and generally the feeling in the office is a bit odd at the moment as everyone is looking to jump ship. One colleague actually had a 20-minute phone interview in the middle of Friday. I used to criticise people with a job who complained about their workday being slow or boring, but I really sympathise now. Bleh. Yej. SOMEONE PAY ME TO BE AWESOME.

It's not a direct attack at MBAM (I'm pleased she had a mysteriously good weekend) but just a comment at those sorts of posts you see on facebook. My cousin is very bad for it; "FOR FUX SAIK!!" will be his typical kind of post, followed by 10 "OMG sup hun???!?Radsf" and 1 "They do night courses for spelling, mate". I think I'm a bit conservative about stuff..?

Nothing here either. Write-ups are spartan, aren't they?

Interesting read - makes me wonder if we'll see more betas now.

What is this, facebook? Please don't post 'fishing' posts. It makes being nosy really difficult.

Couldn't've done it without tales. Cheers mate! :P

What? Of course you can beat a dog. Let it clamp on your arm/leg, then hop over its back and snap the neck. It's against packs of dogs where there's going to be an issue.

Darksiders was great because the armegeddon level of difficulty was perfect (as daft originally said, way back when). The storyline was who-cares, the gameplay was nothing-new, but as has been said (by daft and shorty) it was a good mix of adventure and hack-and-slash. It was only ever tricky when one was momentarily lost, or struggled with the correct strategy for a boss. In this sense, the game was extremely old-school. It didn't bother greatly with reams of collectables or too much back-tracking - it was, essentially, a very well paced game. Gameplay, it scores 10/10. Graphics, sound, mastery, story, whatever - irrelevent. Gameplay was perfect. I would welcome a 'more of the same' sequel, but it's clear that there being 4 horsemen this game is hoping to attain a franchise level of greatness, which means, to me, they'll attempt to modernise the game too much. It can be compared to zelda beause the gameplay is equal to the 13-year-old game. I worry that they'll try to pay too much homage to other successes... But yeah. Essentially the game never struck above its weight. Didn't try to be complex with its battles or complex with the dungeon maps - it just threw the game down and said "deal with it". There's plenty that can go wrong. But fingers crossed!

Was enjoying a few cans in the park earlier and a guy went past walking his dog. His dog saw the game of football and thought "crikey! Ball! Things! Woo!" and went running off, pestering everyone. The owner simply shouted "Tikka! TIKKA! TIIIKKKAAA!!" ... which did nothing whatsoever. It was a bull mastiff terrier dog of mad. Essentially, he got the dog because it looked 'ard, rather than out of love or compassion. His failure to relate to the creature meant he had no rapport, and thus he got hollered at/slapped/beaten up by the footballers who were annoyed at his unruly pup. Yes.

Bro. yes. Get. WINZ! HUGS! THINGS!

Lol no - I was watching this thread like a hawk :P I was inactive at certain times each day but I made more posts on the mafia forum by miles compared to this thread. I never had to intervene, and by avoiding voting I didn't get too much attention on myself. Dohnut organised the last couple of nights of actions, and on one night we all failed to get our targets in order -- but yeah essentially I rolled with my current "omg jayseven isn't ever here" character and got away with murder. Only once. We had me controlling one person and a roleblocker - once we identified the investigators and protectors/roleblockers we strategised well to maximise our efficiency. Jonnas turned rogue, but a few of us suspected it was going to happen -- we didn't do anything to stop it but thankfully he just reduced townie majority rather than taking us out, too. Diageo bought some favour by doing the classic "I'm town and found this person good", thus getting their favour. Ultimately, though, it was dohnut's genius that steered the lynch away from dyson and instead onto the townie dazz that essentially guarenteed us a win. It was a minute gamble ultimately, but we just got away with everything all the time.

Audio F-Zero X was soooo cool. Mega fast, dark, dirty stuff. Pretty much the only racer I've ever loved to death. Loved the X cup's randomly generated courses. I went through a phase of basically doing all of the cups on all of the difficulties with all of the racers... Sold my copy to afford the Wii... then years later bought Rokhed's copy off him (which I must still have somewhere). GX was a stunning game, and the music was good (but just not as memorable for me -- probably because I had weeks of gametime in X) but perhaps too much ephasis was placed on the looks/visuals, whereas with X I earned the stun :P yeah, too many memories and stuff. I must've gotten the game when I was 12 or 13? Doesn't surprise me that younger guys prefer GX as that's just more readily accessed. Mmm.

Yeah. Pop music can be slow, I thought.

He did kid's tv shows in the style of 'pop' music. He sang postman pat and teletubbies...

Yeah... Changevote: No Lynch.