jayseven

Asda had Bioshock 2 for £17... but I didn't buy it!! Instead I couldn't resist a peek into gamestation today... nearly bought mass effect, the club, gears 2 and splinter cell: double agent for £20 but decided instead to just get left 4 dead 2 for £20, figuring I'm not going to play all those games at once and I still have a few I've not touched that I bought or borrowed. A mate told me a little 'bout L4D2 so I thought it would be a safer bet... Main problem is that, starting tomorrow, I'm not likely to have my xbox connected to live for at least 10 days, and even after that I'll probably have to look fora wireless adapter. SAD FACE

Just to point out that there's a fantasy football league thread in the playground. Make a team at the official premier league site and join the n-e league and see if you're just a fan or actually a pundit, eh? [/shamelesspromotion]

Personally I think I used to be more active in the wee hours, but for the last 3 weeks I've been going to bed before 12 and getting up around 8am so I'm currently most active in the mornings and just after dinner!

I hate to say it, but this is a day-1 purchase for me. I am already orgasming over the idea of playing non-stop online for like 24 hours when I buy it. If I manage to get it before the official release date then that's the only chance the game has of me playing the campaign mode for the first month or so. Considering the last game I bought on release date was... Er... probably a gamecube game, I don't think it's that big a deal!

Sliders, when they pretty much returned to the REAL universe, only thanks to someone fixing a squeaking gate after 5 years of their absence, they immediately left to continue their 'search for home'. The hook for the audience was reduced far more than was necessary! Mighty Boosh: Aside from milky joe; when they left the zoo. Scrubs; when J.D. had a baby.

Just over half-way now. Just did a bit where there was an elevator -- I found I could jump onto a bit of rope on the left by leaping from the top of the elevator but I couldn't do anything from there so just gave up and moved on to a bit with a fly/mosquito. I tend to do a couple of tricky bits each time I play, now.

Woooo another win Potentially could drag myself out of the relegation zone... Not banking on it, though. Last game against happenstance could be crucial. My dev. form is looking fairly good, good enough to play full-strength teams most of the time for the rest of the season. Everyone should finish on 12 or more dev. value so I should see ONLY positive skill changes with a few double jumps.

Michael Cane spelling fail.

Lol :P I once dropped three care packages at once but nothing like that!

The compromise comes later because then it truly combines what we all, hopefully, will feel are the best elements of the old and the new, so I guess in this respect we can say we agree that we're not talking about different things? By putting 'could', 'assume', 'might' and 'imply' in your sentence (and the singular 'one') you were emphasising what exactly? That you're aware that many people will interpret the 'experiment' differently? I took the implication of your statement to be that YOU could assume the implication -- that this was your view, thus you were demanding change because you assume experiments = change. Whether the = is causal, implicate or necessity is irrelevant. Just pedantic nonsense that... ... leads me to trust your form of dialogue is constructed to be passive-aggressive - Backed up by the well-if-we're-both-hypocrites-then-you're-still-worse rebuttal. See, here I can't tell if you missed the 'joke' or not. I pretended to not have read it in order to avoid several sentiments that I mentioned previous; that of your attempt to draw reaction through pedantry and lack of context. But you thought I really did ignore you? Yep, pretty much! Ok, let me try and calm this down a bit. There are positives and negatives to all of the threads that were locked. Some had more positives than negatives, but in an effort to try and truly see how the forum operates without the massive threads, nigh-on all were locked. Potential areas of interest that have arisen are; how do newbs feel when faced with a few massive threads vs. loads of little ones? How does the community feel change? Does teh quality of new threads increase? Does the quality of posts decrease? Will people post more or less? What sort of threads are made often? Are some topics neglected with the new style? Are some neglected with the old? ... And so on. If you ask for my personal opinion -- or any mod/admin -- you may get different reactions between them, or between the opinion we hold and the role we hold. I miss several big threads but I respect the decision made and am very excited by how the forum's changed and what the future may hold. The point we've said several times is this is not permanent. The reasonings behind your individual opinions on the matter is not something I want to tear apart, but I think I'm cornering myself here and opening myself up for a fight rather than a debate. The part of this that I want to concentrate on is the 'subject that demands multi threads'. I'm kind of arguing that the 'subject' the UIG covered, that is, pictures of us, is just one 'tag' the thread really had. It was an amalgamation of a variety of types of subjects in one thread. Again, there are pros and cons to this. Instead of hyperbolic retorts to sections of my posts, give me some recognition of my argument if you want a fair debate. Was the UIG perfect? Can you not name some cons for the big threads? Another reason why the 'experiment' isn't over. Inflated thread production doesn't give us a true picture of teh pros and cons, and leads us to future alterations that simply aren't constructive. The forums were, while our home, not perfect by far. It isn't now, either, but it isn't bad enough either, is it?

I don't get what you're asking/implying... That there's only been one photo-related thread since this all started? Who's fault is that? The UIG would go weeks, months without any such funsies. I don't get what your point is, here... I'm suggesting that the mega threads, such as UIG, can be replicated in parts in such a way that you trim the excess that nobody gives a shit about, such as That Night You Went Out And Got Drunk (I'm sure I said that already) and skip to the fun bits. That only one attempt has been made at such a thread does not prove that the UIG is better, it just proves that users can't be arsed. Ah! Yes! I see. Sorry. Yes, we're deliberating about what to do next. The experiment is not the end of change, it is to assess the weight of favoured discussions and to consider a subforum thing. I initially thought we'd covered this in previous pages in regards to potential sub-foruming some stuff, but looking back I see there was no 'official' voice, just other people saying what I, at least, thought on the matter. We don't want to go promising that things will go this way or that because we don't feel like we've seen enough of the life without the old massive threads, and personally I don't think I've seen enough creativity yet. I guess part of my response was just general annoyance at the fact that this thread was still getting responses... not aimed at you, just the general thing, that "I get it" feeling washes over me whenever I read up on this thread and it just angers me - I forget that you guys are a bit clueless about what's being done about it, but I can't go making promises for anyone while we're still weighing our options up. I don't know what you mean. Can you say this bit again but so that I can understand, please? Experiment does not demand adaptation... But you're not being pedantic here, you're just assuming things and trying to incite some sort of... response... Which is here! Well actually, it's more that anything anyone is saying here is also being echoed ahead of time by us lot in the background, only we're actually trying to be more productive than you (specifically you when I say that, Murray, as others aren't trying to incite anger/pity). NO YOU! Sorry, didn't read this bit.

Made me jizz a little saving videos is awesome and one of only a few things that annoy me about MW2 -- the other main one being that I can't check out other people's titles/badges/stats, not even my friends, which I think is a bit backwards. Looking forward to the reveal!

Fuck you, Dan, fuck you.

You were talking to dan with your question, weren't you? We're all repeating ourselves! You are saying you're pretty happy with it but thread [x] should be back. We are saying the experiment is not over, things are slowly being discussed backstage, be more creative in the mean-time. We are listening to you are we are trying to be polite. But to be blunt; You are not getting your threads back until we say so. So stop asking us. We cannot be reasoned with, so stop with the calculatorial dictionarified blargaphonical detriphony! The more you go on about it, the longer we will take and the less you will be grateful. That's how it works.

Yeah, stuff like the order of placing at the start (which is always house AND road); starts with the oldest person then clockwise, then when it gets to the last person putting their first set down, they put their second down then the order is reversed 'til it gets to the oldest person who then rolls the dice to start. Also; the resources that surround your second property are given to you immediately before any dice is rolled. You can only build a house on an intersection so long as the three connecting intersections are NOT occupied... so effectively each hex has a max. of three settlement spaces! The game, under all these rules, encourages road building much more, and honestly every game I've had with full rules (minus the dice-roll thing, which I discovered while reading the almanac as my mates played on teh last day) has been exceedingly close because the limitation in expanding rapidly initially means nobody really gets a great advantage when it comes to the resources, and trading becomes a huge focus. But yeah -- I've always really enjoyed the way we played it! Make sure you're free the weekend after next!

Just checked on play.com and they have season 2 in stock, ready to dispatch. 3 should, surely, be airing somewhere about now, ey? The show usually starts in January (amirite, dan? I do forget...) so it's not that bad... only 5 months away!

ReZ; there is argument against the threads, and it isn't ridiculous. I'm just tired of repeating myself.

Thread-Rip, it be. Essentially; people listening to loud music on the bus/train can be annoying. But sometimes I listen to my music loud and wish everyone on the bus could hear it and thought it was as awesome as I thought it was so we could break into a spontaneous Love Of Life and group-hug all our troubles away. I forget whether merging the posts to this thread will make the moved posts come before this post, so maybe this will make no sense. Or maybe it'll make more! I like in-ear bud 'phones because I can't afford the cans and I feel silly with them and it's harder to wear a hat/hoodie, and they take up more space and they remind me of hearing tests. I hate that weird non-noise that you get when you wear them. The sound of YOUR OWN EAR, or whatever.

Yes I am It started with the intention of getting a full deck's worth of jokers. I forget how many I have, only 30 or so, I think. Everything I own is still in boxes and I won't actually be back at my family home for at least two more weeks (!!) but I'll dig it out. My friend lent me a book where the main character collects jokers after she found out I did similar. The character would buy packs solely for the joker, and there was some interesting philosophy behind it. I don't go as far as that, but essentially I ask people, when we play cards, "can I have your joker?" - some say "er, sure" straight off. I also collect(ed) train tickets! Some people here might remember I once even made a thread asking if anyone could send me any, as I used them for roaches for my rolled cigarettes. I've started using filters now, but I still have a good eight-inch stack (that's what innuendo said!) of them for no reason whatsoever. I want to start a new collection. Like Toby jugs, or something.

I think the problem isn't the lack of UIG or PYP, more just a lack of imagination for creative new ways to instigate discussions of things you want to talk about. Yes the sporadic, spontaneous gems that were found in the mass threads are less likely to be found currently, but the shit/diamonds ratio currently is much more favourable than it was before. If you miss a thread then you will miss it for a particular reason that may or may not be unique to you or a few others. Try and come up with an interesting thread that replicates that essence - if it bombs then, frankly, it was a shit idea and nobody wanted to talk about it or see your twelve pictures of you at Club Generic doing the Disco Dance, or whatever. PYP always annoyed me/bored me. You bought new shoes for running? Why not make a thread about the shoes you bought, your reasons for buying it, the running route you've come up with (perhaps a screenshot of google maps for stalker purposes) and then ask to see other people's routes, or maybe ask for tips on running. If you've just bought a box of doughnuts then go fuck off and who gives a shit. I'm bored of writing this now. I think I made my point in the first sentence. I'm thinking ham salad in a bagel for lunch, but we only have weird mustard. There's mustard/horseradish and mustard/red pesto and I just want mustard. Got some Biltong too. Go me.

Precisely how will your 'method' be any easier/different to the thread/code/play method?

Had a game of Rummikub last night, actually! The hardest thing with boardgames, as Spambot testified elsewhere, is that you need a dedicated bunch of mates to play them with.

MANCHILDREN ASSEMBLE!! Ahem. I currently collect salsa pot lids. Doritos have just released a pepperoni salsa with a purple lid! Also collect jokers from card decks. I'm not as dedicated a hoarder as i used to be. My mate's been collecting his cinema tickets. Every single one. Ever. Since he was like 3. He has hundreds of the fuckers!

I'm lolling in my grave!