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The idea of that kind of scheme is quite clever. Say you get two prices from game - x is worth £3, y is £4. At HMV normally they'd give you £2 for x and £7 for y... so they'll save in the end, and you think you're getting a good deal!

Your mother is your uncle and I have proof.

I bought this game on impulse after Mundi mentioned it - it only came out last friday, and I've only just gotten round to playing it. Heavy, heavy Twin peaks undertones (and over!), which may draw some comparisons to Alan Wake - but having only just completed the Prologue, it's hard to say just yet. Things I've noticed; - Controls are... iffy, but I'm getting used to them. It's because they have strafe buttons mapped onto the shoulders of your pad - something that seems quite out of place, but the game seems to be based upon old-school Resi-style controls but with a camera that follows you. - The graphics look like the game is an early PS2 game - good character models but textures and general map design so far appears a little lazy. - But the game has utterly won me over with its weirdness and its humour. I don't care to talk anymore. I wanted to make this thread so I could really just ask Mundi where he's at in the game. I'm gonna try and do the next section tonight.

I think with TWD it's hard to put the whole OMZ GOMBIES stuff away and just approach it and evaluate it as a TV show. ReZ and many others are rating the first show based PRIMARILY on how well it deals with the source material. If it ticks the boxes now then we can rest assured that we're in for a real treat for however many seasons we get! As a pilot/first episode I think it did precisely what was needed of it, and in typical AMC fashion it didn't patronise us with leading music (that I recall!). It posed enough questions and presented enough scenarios for the viewer's own imagination to run away with that nagging thought if what would I do if I was in this situation? it also didn't over-exert itself and try and cram too much stuff in, and it didn't skip much out. There was pretty much only one scene invented for the TV cliffhangaholic audience, but that's inevitable in transforming the source material into rigid timeframes of storytelling. Also, being Zombies, I suppose that the pilot/first ep doesn't really show you anything you've not seen before. We've seen enough films to perhaps be a little immune to 'the horror, the horror!' of it all... Enough I'm bored now.

This has to be at least the third thread you've made for Breaking Bad by now, ReZ :P yeah, I love the show. hate how long we're having to wait for it though.

Were you talking to me?

Literally just got it updated. "Annoyed" that I hda to go through a noob tutorial. I like how now, when you go to your 'profile' then scroll left to see your achievement summaries, you can press Y to play teh game straight away (if it's playable). Mind you! That might've been on the old dash, I can't remember. The game library has been streamlined and loads faster... aside from that, it's barely that different. I welcome it.

By law you do not have to put your DOB down anymore, but that's really to protect old farts and young upstarts.

- Cube accidentally pointed the first one out -- it's "highlight" not "hilight" (near end of first paragraph) and "businesses" not "business'" - You should be specific about teh GCSE/whatevs grades relevant to the job you're applying for, e.g. maths, english, IT, art, graphics (unless they're shite grades) - Don't dress up jobs that are irrelevant - If I wasn't getting a train shortly, I'd try and reword some bits for ya - I don't think there's actually anything particularly bad about the CV, dawg. Just be sure that everything they've asked for you have proved experience on somewhere.

It's curious how you immediately bring other people into the equation. In my mind this topic was conceived based on the notion that ultimately it is you alone who has to face and make the choices that alter your life. I presume that your reply is forked to prick both my OP and Paj's situational posit, and if the latter is the case then certainly, group dynamics plays a great deal in how you behave in that instance. I'm trying to get at your core. One's being tends to ebb one way more than the other. When I'm socialising I can be one of many different facets, constructed from one of many more reasons and/or stimuli. To draw it back; put yourself in the shoes of the character in the comic in my first post. Do you immediately step into the transporter, or do you wait a while first? The strip's point is that waiting does nothing whatsoever externally, it only churns the internal cogs. The strip's only reference to any others is merely an expulsive decree that the right thing to do is to take a gamble, which is where the analogy specifically chooses to ignore true, unquantifiable context to which we really base our decisions upon. The argument is that some people will immediately/fairly quickly step straight into the transporter, unafraid of the impact a difference in choice can create, whereas other people will sit and double-guess everything; is the label accurate? Am I truly safe here? While you can apply these concepts to individual social situations, to do so would truly be besides the point. We face our greatest choices largely alone. The only antithesis to this is in the development of strong bonds - or love, if you will. But even this is not to be bound up with general social concoctions, in which there is no doubt we all act differently depending on who surrounds us.

Goafer; you always struck my as an active person (I've changed the title :P) -- you go out hunting down derelict buildings, you have savings, you take any job until the right one turns up. Chair; then that's passive :P In terms of what your personality is, in terms of how you approach your choices, depending on who is around you is about as passive as it gets.

Well that's sentimentality 0 - 1 reality! One of the things I loved about reading TWD, I have to say (now that I'm IN BEFORE TV SHOW, etc :P).

That's being aggressive. Passive would be waiting for someone to take charge and tell you what to do. You've weighed up the potential outcomes for both scenarios and you've decided to take action before it's 'too late' -- having a self-made definition of 'too late' that the others did not have. Other factors involved, such as the belief that it was doable, will affect when it is 'too late' for you. If you thought the task at hand was impossible then maybe you'd've rallied for a new leader instead? I think I operate on a different timescale, though. I think it takes longer for 'me' to feel that the calculations are complete, and that it is probably a better option to take the risk and step inside that transporter. I'll get there in the end and I'll think "well I knew that was the answer ages ago!", but others may have risked it sooner. I said to you earlier; sometimes it's everyone else and their 'helpful' two cents that gets in the way. I start worrying about how my decision will affect them rather than focusing on what's best for me.

I think the "I haven't read the full article" bit should be rectified. It isn't saying that fear as a mechanism is totally destroyed, rather that the study is claiming it can remove a specific fear by altering how the brain reacts to the stimuli. I'm no neurophysisist/psycologist/whatever, but it isn't clear as to how this changes the actual memory. It suggests that the memory is still there just stripped of its traumatic identity, which would mean that personalities wouldn't be totally fucked up - they'd essentially be reverted to how they were before the trauma... Obv. a lot more research will be needed. Fuck ethics.

Do you take the left road, or do you go straight ahead? Do you pull over and wait and see which way the other cars are going, and follow them - or purposefully pick the road least travelled? Do you drive down each road for a little way and see what it looks like ahead, or perhaps do you judge the correct route upon the scenery that each way seems to provide? Or do you just pull over and decide "this is my destination"..? What if there are no other cars? How long do you wait? How can you be sure the immediate scenery is representative of the whole drive? Do you stress out because, no matter what you do or what you try, you still go nowhere? Do you choose to sit there and not go anywhere at all? When you play chess, do you take the most aggressive move or do you sit back and play it safe, awaiting your opponent's mistake that may never come? I'm in a stupid place. In my late teens I was always taking the incentive, being the glue to keep my friends together, being the yes man and experiencing anything and everything. Life was, back then, relatively safe. I was in college, Uni was next, so I was cool. No worries. But since then I went to uni and while I maintained my sponatious nature, disregarding previous similar experiences and deciding to let the new moment take precedence, while I maintained an almost hedonistic outlook on life, I slowly regressed into a passive state, depended too much on the waves of life to carry me and plonk me down wherever it deemed fit. Perfect opportunities would fall into my lap... But now it's different. Now I sit around, not exactly waiting for the next opportunity to tumble down but instead to slowly soak my experiences in... I wait for my receptors to carve and sculpt away until a vague form of the answer to What Next? is shaped and identifiable. Endofrant. Tl:dr = Are you passive or aggressive in life? Do you know what you want?

Yeah he plays assholes a lot :P

True story. I'll get into it/both. Was thinking about it; I think Kim Coates would make a grrreat Guv.

The wank jar was Jordan's thing, wasn't it? I mentioned it on his facebook page once and he blew up about it. Something about DUDE MY MOM IS ON HERE?!!"!£!$VPH

I've weaned myself off of takeaways in general as best I can - theoretically It's once a month, with me and my mate taking it in turns to pay. My entire time in Sheffield was spent within walking distance of takeaway places, it was so hard to just walk past those smells! Also, sheffield prices really put shame to Pizza Hut/Dominos. I never felt that the quality difference justified the doubled price-tag. That chicago town x-factor pizza is fantastic, mind you. Remember the football feast one they had during the world cup? MMM!

Good to see you again, Llama A fun little video! Pray, will you be sticking around?

Did you have a cactus jack tee on underneath? Twofer outfits are teh winz!

Lol! Gimme a break! I only just got the compendium...

Watched (and very much enjoyed) the pilot/first episode. Mate at a party last night lent me Compendium One, which has the first 45 issues in it! Total Win.