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smedjames -- though to log in I'm jayseven_NE but there ya go.

I've added a fair chunk of the above-mentioned games to my wishlist, and I have a great library to be getting on with. Tonight I play Half Life and conduct a test to see how long my laptop lasts. Gonna buy me one of those cooler stand things, and a USB multi-adapter thing as I need to get my external hard-drive involed (along with a mouse, headset, and the cooling table thing, it's getting ridiculous).

FTL's learning curve is pretty good. Getting to grips with it now - going from world 1 to 3 to now having 7 as my PB. Unlocked a 2nd ship so will give that a go... Laptop is straining after 'long' sessions... and coinciding with my landlord giving me a PC table and chair it looks more likely that I'll be trying to save for a PC... even though it'll be some years yet. Gonna give both FTL a run through, then go back to Papers, Please and see if I can kick more ass now I have a moise and a desk and stuff. Thanks to the advise and help (and codes) from everyone!

Congrats Dannyboy! Seems like you barely started..! How times flies. Congrats on the FTOSOTY (not stopping with the acronyms just yet!). HBOS were always a bit pedantic about LOAs, but never noticed the calls taking too long. At least HBOS HAS call centres that deal with our requests. HSBC's call centres are in asia, and none of them can tell us anything despite having authority, and their PPI department has no telephones (actually sounds like a decent job :P) However HSBC won't charge us £10 for a DSAR as they know we're after PPI stuff, so they just send us refs for the PPI-related finances. Muy easy. What's the share-selling like?

@ReZourceman for a moment I thought that maybe I've spoken to you, or a colleague, but it's probably more likely that HBOS has a separate PPI complaints department? HBOS are generally very straightforward with us, they do get a bit pedantic about LOAs though. Have you ever spoken to a CMC? Most places stopped selling PPI in 2009 when shit kicked off. Especially if the insurance was included in the product -- the ppi was supposed to be optional. Those other insurances are fine - if you're hire-purchasing a good then the store probably technically owns the item, so the insurance is as much for them as it is for the consumer. You have to also make sure that you don't run ramble through the contract - it isn't enough to say "the contract was read through," because the consumer has to be fully informed... but then that may be for non-insurance/complaints related reasons! Ramble over.

Ah I see. Just need to be smart about when and where to buy the games. GOG is great because there's a much larger proportion of games that I can run - and loaaads of memories of games that everyone was playing when I was a kid but my computer was never good enough... deus ex, thief, kingpin to name a few. Also MAD THANKS to @Cube as he just sent me a FTL code for steam. I was very close to buying it last night but managed to retain some common sense...

Ah well. At least you know it's your issue and not the rest of the world at fault.

I always intended to get Mark of the Ninja on XBLA but never got round to it -- kudos to the GOG recommendations - I knew of steam but never eally knew of GOG. I was walking home after the pub this evening and my colleague and I were discussing old gmes, and I said that I'd LOVE to play Theme Hospital again... lo and behold these games... are NOT available on steam, but thanks to you guys I see they're available on GOG. Not only that but GOG is telling me "hey dude! Dungeon keeper I and II is dirt cheap too!" ... I never played 2 so... yeah...I think I'm going to be having a LOT of fun with GOG. Thanks guys! *watches money drain away*

Thank you to everyone for suggestions - I think so far I've had a lot of great suggestions that I'll wishlist fiirst then purchase once I'm comfortable my laptop will run them. @Ike I WILL check them out at some point. I'm going to be careful and not buy too many games now and be pissed off when a sale comes round and the games I bought but didn't play are now 85% off... Yeah I want that to NOT happen! @gaggle64 GOG is a great shout - never considered it... will investigate heavily! I'll make a note of those games. Hotline Miami's come across my radar before so I'll check that out. @drahkon good list there - FTL's on my wishlist - which is basically my shopping list. Will get a game on there once i'm done with the game I'm playing. Met up with some programmer friends last weekend and they kept talking about it (they were trying to come up with a co-op miultiplayer version of the game!) so I'm bound to plug into this soon! I can't remember why but Sperlunky was offputting initially. Will double check why my brain produced that outcome. I still haven't played too much of dark souls (or demon souls!) so I'm not sure I can endure that kind of platformer punishment! @Goafer good to hear I'm a complete computer noob, and I've been hedging bets with my laptop's power. If I can play Dear Esther then I will be very pleased. I'm hoping that this sunday I'll have a chance to investigate -- I haven't checked but I think Stanley Parable was similar specs to Dear Esther (prob wrong) if that's the case then I want to check Stanley first! @Goron_3 cheers for the recs - hotline miami simply has to happen now there's been so many poeple mentioning it. I think I saw steamworld dig earlier today but just wasn't sure about it. Metroidvania type games are the ones where I always doubt them... yet after 3 or 4 hours I'm in love.... it's about getting to that love point first.

@Serebii I have told my friends that I know of the owner/runner/whatevertitleyouhave of one of the world's biggest pokemon websites (I would say THE but I don't think there are any 90s-designed websites that are actually leading the field anywhere, so I hedge my bets) and every time the are in awe. Like, seriously - you meet these people they would be all stuttering and star-struck and in awe of you. Now, I'm not saying that you should approach random girls with this attitude -- I get that you have some sort of shame/guilt thing which is totally undeserved, but I am saying (again?! is this 2011?) that you have to be comfortable with yourself first before you will find someone who is comfortable with you. If you are constantly seeking recognition or acceptance then you will only find sadness and depression. Type stuff. I do have this one work colleague who would totally bone you - but if you were all coy and "mmmnhhh I want you to reassure me" then she would immediately be switched off. She's seen your pictures and everything. Would bone you. She. Would. Bone. You. Srsly. The looks = good. It's the attitude. ATTITUDE. Also if you learn Swedish then she would probably forgive a lot of attitude stuff. Just speak swedish all the time and she wouldn't care what you said (she can't speak a word of it, just has a thing for the language) she loves pokemon, loves swedish language, and loves sex.

If you have holiday due to you then you may be within your rights to take the time off rather than work the last week, and still be paid. Oh wait -- retail. FUCK RETAIL. Never get full statutory holiday in those kind of jobs. And PPI is "payment protection insurance" -- when you sell someone a sofa for £1k and set it up so they pay £50 a week for 3000000 weeks you could offer them an insurance -- pay an extra £x a month, and if you are out of work then your balance will be paid for you for a whole year!!!!!!" ... unless you knew you are already unemployed, working less than full-time hours, have a sick-pay scheme at work, knew you would lose your job in the next 90 days, have enough savings to cover the balance, forgot to tell us about an illness or disability, are a student, retired already, have lived in teh uk for less than 18 months, quit your job instead of being fired, or get a decent redundency package... Then you're just paying £x a month for nothing. But your company's supposed sales techniques made it mandatory to explain all this, alongside the actual cost of teh insurance plus interest and how it stretched out the cost of repaying the actual sofa. Yeah, you'll do all that in a sale, right? ... Sorry. Hard week at work. You think I rambled then? I literally just delted like seven huge paragraphs of further boring shit. I NEED TO LET GO IT IS WEEKEND NOW.

Thrashed Bastion on XBLA - one of my favourite games evar. Garry's mod.. not sure it'll work on my laptop. Audioserf is something I used to love watching my friends play -- thing is I have no MP3s!! Kerbal Space Program is a game I've seen/heard a lot about and is going to go on my wishlist. Dead Esther is precisely the kind of game I wanted to hear about and, provided my laptop can handle it, I will definitely take that idea up! Good list dude (as in, the other suggestions will get a look too)

Ok! Wishlisted. I'm trying to be sensible and not buy games that I'm not playing... and I just literally bought a lucasarts bundle because it contained the first computer game I remember (Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis). I will play Ys without knowing anything about it! Be proud.

Decided to evolve from the stone ages to the iron age! Got Steam. Loving Papers, Please - but struggling to decide what games to get. Mostly I'm laptop-bound, so I'm not sure I can play most games. My specs, according to this sticker here, are; - Intel core 2 solo processor SU3500 (1.4GHz, 800MHz FSB) - Intel GMA 4500MHD Up to 1244 MB - 3GB DDR3 Memory ... Does this mean I can or cannot play games that require 2GHz games, for example? I've basically consigned myself to indue, basic games, but I'm clueless. Any help? EDIT: I already own VVVVVV, Braid and Machinarium, and System Shock 2.

Do you have a contract at the shoe place that says how many hours of holiday you can have? Do you know how many you have spare? ... In any instance it's a week away from a better job (by the sounds of it) -- just don't sell anyone PPI in the new job, ok! (brighthouse do the hire-purchase of household goods, and they're one of the gammy bastards that essentially refuse to admit they ever missold anything pre-2005, insurance-wise). Yay bringing work home for the weekend!

My good news is kinda lame. I have been allowed to write the letter that we're sending to a bank that is effectively accusing them of libel and failing to uphold an FCA conduct of business principle. I get to CC in the ISO, FOS and the FSA. Yay, acronyms! If it's 'successful' either the bank will recompense several thousand moolahs, or they will be fined some sort of amount of dosh. Hopefully. In actuality, I have no idea what will happen. Probably nothing. But it is fun! FCA ISO FSA FOS DSAR FSCS FLA DISP COBS LL HR SB DB UTL MDR LOA MPPI MPC! Wow work is so cool.

@nightwolf - the 'reasonable' is weighted in your favour. Office of Fair Trading (OFT) say that essentially the contract between you and your employer can be seen as a contract between a customer and a supplier. I would strongly advise that you contact CAB. They are aware that most employees feel that simply referring to statutory rights would put you in the shit in some way at work, but if you are worried that just carrying the knowledge of restricted holidays is a stress and a burden on your day-to-day job, it is definitely worth sorting out. It may be that it's not as restrictive as you think. Forced overtime does require you to have signed away certain rights, however again it has to be reasonable. If you have any doubts then contact CAB or OFT.

Congrats Dazz So does this mean you'll have one full-time job instead of two part-time?

Did you play Deadly Premonition? Shadows of the Damned? Darkness? And what's the deal with this "year of shame" -- I thought you weren't supposed to buy any new games :P

Lol exactly. That's the crux of the issue, isn't it? Number of units sold is great when you're making money and comparing stats to your rivals, but how do you measure number of active units? At the time it doesn't matter if they're active or not because hey! You've made money! I think this 'generation' (wii u, xbone, ps4) has been one of the toughest, because the previous lasted so long. Previous measures aren't entirely relevent. You have to factor in the idea that a 10-year generation means people go from 8 to 18 -- from pre-pubescent to drinking age. A lot changes. Nintendo have a real hard fight ahead, considering how multiple markets that affect gaming are changing. Can it be definitively stated that consoles will operate through TVs, through broadband connections in 10 years time?

A proper Tourettes diagnosis needs there to be a verbal tic as well as the motor ones, iirc (my dad deals with mental health, innit). If you already have an OCD diagnosis then it's very much unlikely to be Tourettes. As you said stress etc can lead to the tics.. and are you sure it's a tic and not a recurrent spasm! I get infrequent spasms in my eyelid muscles, like... once a year I guess... and it re-appears for a few days. I also get serious SERIOUS foot cramp which keeps happening for a few days then stops. Anecdotal (wordoftheday), but still!

I am probably wrong, but is the Wii U the first console nintendo has sold at a loss per unit (pre-price cuts, for previous generations) for a long time? The Xbox strategy was to lose money first gen in order to build up a user base, then use the user base to grow money with 2nd gen. What is it that nintendo has done differently with teh Wii U compared to the Wii? Well I would imagine that introducing a massive new market to the gaming world works wonders for a short while... but how many people that bought a wii to use wii fit used it for more than 6 months? More than 3? Can the same poeple then go out and spend £300 again, now that they know they gave up so easily on the last gen? The last gen's market should not be looked at based on units sold. I'm sure someone will fetch a stat (please do), but if you compared units sold vs total units sold you'd probably see that, compared to the competitors, the wii sells less games per units. When you bring out a new console that is nowhere near as revolutionary, that doesn't draw NEW people in, you're going to encounter difficulty. Which is why microsoft burned their first gen in order to build a gamer user base. Many would argue that nintendo has failed to address the 'hardcore' gamer last gen, and may be paying for it this gen. At this point I've realised that I may well be regurgitating arguments oft heard 'round here, so I'll shh.

It's a tough one because I can only give my opinion. Currently I probably would just make do with blu-tac and paper posters, but ideally the foamex scenario wins out over framed prints for the reasons you mentioned. I think it's a great idea to be able to offer foamex or framed prints, assuming the cost/profit to you is the same.

I'd be interested in getting those as a viable alternative to framed versions - but I don't know the cost difference. How must more costly would it be, assuming I already had a nail in the wall, to get a print and a frame, or to just get a print and get the frame myself? The designs are great and I'm sure there's a market there. What is the risk? Do you have to buy a load of stock before selling them or can you do it like the redbubble tees and just let the orders come in, selling at £60 for A0 no matter the quantity of sales?