jayseven

You should watch The Man From Earth - it's a thinky, one-set movie that essays through dialogues all sorts of fun stuff like this. Go look it up I think "you'd be bored after a really, really, reaaallly long time" is a silly way of being objective about it. With the environment around me changing, with people changing, it would take aeons to truly discover everything, see all different types of people, learn all. While I'm not denying that ultimately I'd probably get bored, I still think it'd be fascinating to experience. For as long as mankind continues, each year would produce several lifetimes worth of music, literature, art, movies, tv, video games and so on to indulge in. With life being so 'short' at 70-110 years on earth currently, extending that would remove any haste in 'achieving' anything. As for being only 'one man' -- I'd be 'the endless man'. If there was an invincible person who had lived through thousands of years, they would be treated as a prime source of information, as one who has truly been there before. I don't see how, after a few millennia studying philosophy and observing all different walks of life, I wouldn't be able to write several theses on more idyll and ideal ways of living that'd be attainable. By being immortal, one truly reduces the possibility of failure to next-to-none. As a pet hobby, no doubt I'd do lots of research into my own condition and try and produce some sort of fail-safe, endless unconsciousness - surely if I had my braincells and body cells scattered across the galaxy it'd somewhat affect my state of mind. of course, if there's some sort of 'invincible cell' from which my entire organism reconstructs itself from, then perhaps I could concoct an endless machine to trim it and maintain a status quo. With only 5 minutes of thought I've got some avenues for investigation already :P The main downside is that aside from immortality I would still physically be at the will of any oppressor or ruler who choses to use me as an example. I imagine I'd spend many a chunk of my experience being maimed, tortured, cut open and examined and with no great strength, what's stopping those who have me in a collar from doing that from eternity? Probably the hope and knowledge that eventually mankind would die, that eventually any concrete prison or underwater coffin I'd find myself in would erode away and I'd be 'free' again. In those circumstances the worry is, of course, attaining insanity first - which is likely - unless immortality and ultimate healing means my mind, too, could be repaired over time... But I'm not sure if delving that far into the postulated scenario really does anything for us. But yeah - this is why I mentioned immortality in my living hell thread - it's pretty much what kids do in a school playground; "times infinity" any problem and it's just vastly exponentially more dreadful. Immediate moral issues would be (and again, I refer to the movie The Man From Earth) - who do you tell? Do you make it known globally, and risk irrepairable alteration of the psyche of the collective consciousness? I'd probably spend a long, long time keeping it schtum. But perhaps the inevitable severing of connection with the rest of humanity would lead to my own hedonistic phase, full of all sorts of wonky S+M and power hungry world-domination type stuff. Then again i'm sure I'd have a mega-philosophical phase, where I decide to jump through the sun before landing back on earth six months later (hopefully not accidentally bringing with me some absurd zombie species of photon that destroys everything). I very much believe that the importance life is in the journey as much as it is in the inevitability of death. But if I were unique, and it weren't a universal epidemic that would just end up with nihilistic existence where all resources are used up and all that is left is babies that we then use to build everything with, then I don't see why it can't be seen as a fantastic voyage of truly epic and magnificent proportions. So yeah. Does anyone know which crossroads mephistopheles hangs out at?

Why not swap your pokemafia 11 with the other one in your list, to add some variety?

Fffuuuuuuu.... Been playing BG&E for a couple of hours without saving. Game freezes. Reboot. All progress lost. Fucking... non-autosave bloody last-gen nonsense. I'll have to leave it for a few days. Gah. Also downloaded Stacking which is great fun so far. Leaps a bit from the first kinda-introductory level to the second from a collect-'em-all feel to a bit more of a point-and-click mode of try-every-possible-combination -- not to a huge extent, of course, but it certainly crossed between being good-natured fun to demanding I release the inner OCD monster.

Well it should casuse the rate of diagnosed HIV to go up... People who don't test who have HIV (there will be some!) will continue, né?

(That'd be different with other levels, I'm sure. LAVA!) ... But yeah. Sonic is just soo... lost. I mean, the game's not caught up with the current gen and I don't really think their 'modern' idea of sonic (a 1-player racing game) is all that up-to-date. 1st-person sonic in a fully open environment with a time limit to collect rings and free little furry things and kill enemies. That's what's needed. Mind you, I was never bothered about sonic when i was younger either so I don't have that nostalgia addiction that sonic fans need their fix for.

"In total 25,656 cases of HIV infection were diagnosed and reported for 2008 by 27 of the 30 EU/EEA countries (61 cases per million population); data were missing for Austria, Denmark and Liechtenstein; data from Spain and Italy do not have a national coverage" "The predominant mode of transmission is sexual contact among men who have sex with men (MSM) (40%), followed by heterosexual contact (29%), when individuals from countries with generalised epidemics (19% of all diagnosed HIV cases) are excluded. Injecting drug use accounted for 6% of diagnosed HIV cases." "The number of HIV cases among men who have sex with men (MSM) has increased by 19% between 2004 and 2008 " (note the 56.7% rise for italy) "The highest proportion of the total number of HIV cases in EU/EFTA countries was reported among MSM." http://www.eurosurveillance.org/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=19422 Just a few wildly annoying quotes to throw in for no reason other to cause temper tantrums. Feel free to provide your own list of citations. Far more interesting than some numbers pulled out of a hat. The only thing I found in my 2-minute search was this. I also found somewhere that italy has an opt-out thing with blood; something about you only being allowed to give blood if you have a test for HIV. I think. I've closed the tab and forgotten, so anything you've got to read is cool Just to reiterate; if hiv is more prevailant in individuals who have bum sex then it's common sense for people who have bum sex to have themselves tested more often. Equally, it's common sense to be more conservative about having blood from bumsexers, when, despite how often you personally may test, there's no guarentee that everyone will. Again, as you yourself admit, plenty of people will go ahead and donate anyway. People like you are confident you do not have the disease. If everyone was tested all the time then surely everyone would know who not to have sex with, and nobody would have to be tested again six months down the line. And stuff. Things. I'm only replying because you quoted me directly.

We've had a two-GM mafia before, haven't we? Maddog and zell, or something?

mr-paul - I don't get a lot of disposable time these days! Work + commute + food prep bleeeeaaauuugh. I try to keep up with the posts but it's not always easy - especially when I spend 30 mins reading through posts just to find someone else has made a point/asked a question i was going to ask. Today was my aunt's wedding 3 hours away. Just got back 30 mins ago. 200 posts in this thread were waiting for me and tbf once I saw your post about me I basically skimmed the rest. As a side-note - I spent most of the gent's mafia being rather succinct. When I decide to speak up and join in - oh, yeah, buttrape.

Is what I think of your joke!

Oh wait we're trying to debate with Mad Monkey now? *leaves thread*

I love the phrase "practicing" sex. It's like, WHEN DOES THE REAL SEX BEGIN?!

I'm becoming more and more convinced that anything I say in this thread leads to the opposite happening. I will save this power for the right occasion.

Not sure if Mr-paul's post covered it earlier as I skimmed (gay guy on telly that I want to watch :P)... AIDs/HIV does not immediately show up in blood screenings so there's an increased risk with the new 10-year plan with transmitting the disease. Regardless of morality, there will likely be a rise in HIV in blood transfusions now -- albeit minute. It's not meant to be any sort of vindictive assault on homosexuality - surely you can understand that the primary reason for blood-donation restrictions is a health and safety one. Surely it's in everyone's favour that HIV/AIDs transmission is reduced. You may feel like it is a slight against yourself, but it's not intended to offend you. If they hated you then they'd say "oh you're gay? Then you have to give 9 pints." There are plenty of other ways for you to, y'know, do good for the world than sit there for 20 minutes bleeding.

TAURUS moogle. I see dat. lol. Yes, I've not had the same haircut twice in maaany years. Not really out of choice, I'm just shit with barbers!

ReZ that vid was awesome my sig was in it! Trolololo. Totes waiting for my verj to finish uploading. Shall be greusome. Spellint for twin. Here's mine!

So it's been there but not as visible? Sweet. I presume having a squad full of horsies means pressure is extra schweet. My youngest midfielder has the skill, along with rocket and goal instincts. Fuck yeah.

Lol. Sorry. Said I'd get 3-1 and got 6-1! IE at work keeps crashing when I try and see the site so I dunno how many of my dudes made x11 or who scored my goals or anything. Certainly made my day a little brighter :P

Hot dickings you say? Lol sorry I can't get past that.

Oh man I just remembered part of my dream. Paj was getting a massive tattoo - this comic book panel that took up his torso. Was a flying woman with a unicorn spike and it said "BOOM!" in massic old-school letters. He also had a third nipple and a boob attached to it. Lol. Yes I'm serious.

I am usually good at remembering my dreams, and I tend to pop on here first thing in the morning, so I'll add to this thread tomorrow

Having read up on this -- he was basically trying to make a (very, very, bad and tasteless) joke that got spun by the press. Imagine ReZ getting a press conference for some reason then starting his paedo jokes - same response.

Please do not fill my inbox with such amounts of win. Please. PLEAAASE.

... oh very very deary deary me. Well he's certainly never getting into hollywood then, is he? :P