jayseven

Sucks when your secret identity's out, huh?

Dwarf; plenty of good writers do it. Ian Bank's Culture series has been written over, what, 20+ years? Each one is fairly distinct, hefty and tomelike, yet they all exist within a given environment. I'd argue that most serial stories are indeed digestable in unordered segments - but of course best enjoyed chronologically.

Vote: Heroicjanitor. Ted was boom. Rummy's character is myt next suspect. And I'm wary of Ell for wanting to hunt someone/anyone down.

Mates, I'm totes gonna go all ape-shit and examine write-ups tomorrow night. Compare who is mentioned when, etc. It's sooo all there. I trust two people at the moment. Role-call, anyone? One mafia left, what is there to lose if we just bare our souls and RIP OUT TEH 'ONESTY!

I'll pretend the ban is for the elbow, not for the swearing. He swore at an inanimate object. When doing so he did not visualise the millions watching, instead he visualised his own personal demons, represented by the camera. He has a lot of pressure, and I don't think he's ever coped with it. Plus! Swearing on a football pitch? They're doing it all the time. You can lip-read their insults all-too-often, and frankly swear words are just words. Stop being wet pansies.

Currently I've been all "OMG FRIDAY FRIDAY DAY AFTER THURSDAY" for the last 3 weeks. Also I am very prone to say "OMG WHICH SEAT DO I TAKE" yet literally nobody knows what I am on about. Sux.

We get the occasional thread about books that never lasts long enough to get going, or rarely demands resurrecting. Please use this thread for your general book comments. I hope. Since I started work I've had a whole lot less time to do as I please, yet I've begun to read a hell of a lot more. I have a book for my train journeys called Shantaram, a 900-page epic that I'm not even half-way through yet and already it's been spell-binding and mind-opening. It's about an australian who has arrived in early 80's Bombay after escaping an Australian Jail, who falls in love with the city and its people. It is relentless, descriptive, engaging and optimistic. At night I tend to read The Corner before bed time (dan-likes-trees got the book too, or showed an interest, right?). It's from the writers behind The Wire, again set in Baltimore, centered around a couple of streets. it is more expansive than its sister show because there's a heavy political undertone; there are frequent essays into how the drug-fuelled culture is an impossible beast to tame, while at the same time there are believable lives played before the reader. To leave a few general questions for you - and don't feel you have to reply to any or all at once - Are you reading currently? Do you have a typical type of book? Do you buy books or borrow from the library? What was the last book you read? What is your favourite book? When do you read? And so on. Don't all rush at once.

^Props. Ambiance is the only way forward, if you have to listen to music while reading. Currently I'm reading a book set in Bombay and I suppose I'd listen to Arabesque music if I had to - but too often the music is too jarring with the context of the book. Music is often, to me, a time-wasting tool. On a train or for a long walk - books are far too enjoyable in themselves to be distracted away from. However, occasionally you get bloody lucky and get a great song matching a great part of a book, and that moment will stick with you forever!

Happy burfdaze! Genuinely hope you are coming to this year's meat (zomg it's easter why hasn't rez made a thread for it/I bet he makes one now) so we can have some drinks and be all weird/awesome.

I've been quiet for a while because generally I have little to offer. I'm a cheerleader, I protect. Last night I could protect two people as Aqui1a targetted me the previous night. I was torn about who to defend and went for Zell and aqui1a instead of dazz and aqui1a, which i was considering. I think someone (I would but I have no time) should check over the voting patterns and see what they can find.

HOT; yes! The lego games are a great bit of innocent fun. The batman one really surprised me, but all of the lego games are still faaaiiirly steep, price-wise. Darksiders, however, was made to be played on apocalyptic. So spot-on with the balance between challenge and severity. The first (second?) boss is the stupidest/most unfair. A great game to 1000/1000, which i'm sure you'll do.

Continuing with my budget-themed gaming, I just bought The Club for the lols, as well as the double-pack of Indiana Jones Lego and Kung Fu Panda. I've actually heard that KFP is a decent little game, and I thoroughly enjoyed Lego Batman. Club is... well at £3 I don't have high expectations at all, but at least I'll be able to I've actually played the game.

I came in here just to post what Magnus said. Really is the best ending ever!

^That's pretty much what Shorty reckons People paid a pittance from india to physically get past verifications and post thinly-guised spam. We must be on some sort of database as we get them fairly frequently.

Cube; yeah but you have double/triple the points me and rez have :P ReZ; yeah, mad bro. One game left -- fuck it! My dev values are shite anyway...

Shit day! Got emergency-taxed which I can't sort out 'til next week, after the tax year switches - hoping that doesn't mean they'll wait 'til next april to pay me the monies (sure that's not the case). Then my boss somehow makes it seem like good news when she, after firing two people, says to me "you can come in monday and tuesday and we'll definitely have work for you," essentially saying weds I may not have a job, despite making the most calls this week and getting the most quotes AND solving some other problemz in the office. And people want to go to the shit pub tonight. But hey, weekend, woo.

Aqui|a - you didn't get roleblocked :P remember people, not everything appears in the write-up!

Lol default tactics. ReZ! Chellenge is on next season to see who out of us two can do better!

Ashley; just set all your security settings to "friends only" and you won't have to worry about potential embarassment.

I hereby request to attend the party. The honour would be all mine.

Man, I've been making that slip-up/getting that response all week.

ReZ! Would you lend me invincible if I paid P&P here and back?

Gimme a WHO! Gimme an A! Gimme a GIVES A SHIT! :P Srsly; yeah.

I've been busy defying my critics and turning my vampiric night-shade lifestyle into a 9-5 job! Last monday my mate called me at lunch and said there was an opening at his workplace... a B2B telesales firm (¬___¬). I then started on tuesday! It's a train ride away, so even before my first payday I shelled out £34.20 for a week ticket and began The Job. I'm calling up existing companies to check their contact details and try to see if they want a quote for our services. It's "luke-warm" calling, so it's a completely varied reaction. I don't really have any targets currently, though i try to aim for 25 calls a minute. Currently this week I'm in the lead for the most quote achieved - which is, like, cool and stuff. So yeah! It's nice to be working, to know that the future's that little bit brighter. On friday I'll be paid roughly 5 times the amount I've been living on weekly for 8 months. I am planning to continue spending thriftish amounts, and I'm looking forward to being able to say "yes!" to friends when they invite me out. I'm going to keep looking for a job, though -there's a company nearby that pays £10 an hour for a similar/easier job, and I'd be saving on teh £35 a week trainfare. Finger and finger are crossed

I sit, and I watch. Your arguments are not concise, and when you basically say "oh more half-evidence? YOU MUST BE WRONG!" to several different people, and when there've been 3 mafia deaths already, it's easier to assume you're mafia than it is to assume you're right. Even if you're town, this whole furure will shed light all over the place. We already have another suspect to grill tomorrow, so from the town's point of view it's really not that big a risk to sever you. Personally, I thought aqui|a/ando was maff from the start - even before ReZ tried to suggest that it was clever mafia tactic to target their own and made me paranoid and uncertain. Aqui|a's been largely let fly with his ability... but then it surely makes sense that it's a townie role, so water under the bridge. But yes; I go to work 5 days a week for 7 hours plus two hours of travelling then have to cook my dinner from scratch when I get home have been sitting aside and merely following the topic. Why not? The more I stay out of the milling and tilling, the easier it is to go through the thread and piece together all the puzzles when I throw my pieces into the mix.