jayseven

^I like what you say. Since I stopped smoking I've noticed an increase in fitness. Noticed that I can walk farther up the hill home before I start panting. I go on 12k walks once (twice if lucky) a week, the second half of the trip with around 5kg, if not more, strapped to my back. I keep reading and seeing about all the benefits of running. I went out on a run a couple of times as a smoker 7 months ago and did dreadful, but the thing is my retinal detachment means I'm really scared to run. It sounds silly but after a run (even during) my vision gets really bad, and some of the detachment symptoms appear. I keep meaning to set up the bike indoors (got one of those stabiliser thingies to turn a regular bike into an exercise bike) and cycle away to a film. Then I think I'll end up with massive legs but no upper body strength! Fear is what stops me. I need to go get my eyes checked/sorted out but can't do that (v. expensive in Oz), so I've got a lovely excuse. I eat really well (though could cut down on crisps) and I weigh about 11st/70kg, I just think I'm rather bleh.

I don't know why you're eureaka-ing after quoting me then talking about jimbob :P

Weel done eenuh! I think that technically a sunny summer day counts as both -I'll add yoiur points on to the board.

ReZ I'm going to argue that Cool as a cucumber and Breaking Bad are too similar... but then I'm also going to argue to you that your t-shirt in any picture would be acceptible as a multibish for breaking bad, so your points score will remain the same. :P @Animal I see your bishes now! Good stuff. I used to have that watch!

I forgot how useless I'd become at these games. I don't really know what else to do besides shake my head and sigh. On day 3 I did state something along the lines of "I think I trust Cube" - my minute addition to the thread. I haven't lied anywhere. Is there not anyone who can set the record straight? If I'm going to get the lynches piled on then I'll vote: Diageo, because I think the fact that he has lied is something to follow up.

Depends on the kind of redirect. If the mafia have the ability to make someone do a kill for them then it doesn't matter who their original target was.

@The Peeps Not denying it - I targetted him, but was roleblocked by a paralysing jolt of electricity, which I'm inferring was heroicjanitor's roleblocking ability. It's a case of wrong place, wrong time. I'm Charles Darwin, I can investigate people to learn a little about them. So far I've targetted; Night 1: Tales - could not find him during the night, as if he has 'vanished' Night 2: Cube - he has ability to track another player and broadcast it in write-up, though he did not always have this power Night 3: Dannyboy - looks at the bodies Night 4: heroijan - I got zapped, so unable to get info.

Lol. I believe heroijan targetted me last night, causing me to be paralysed my electricity. I understand that the mafia will jump at this chance. Sighs! Please just remember the different timezone (I'm 9 hours ahead i.e. I have 1am before you have 1am. 9 hours before, etc).

You're not in the picture @Diageo :P

Yes :P All a bit confusing eh? Nami's not playing this time.

Lol; I taught my cousin teh word 'pleb' a few months ago and he's spread it to his school. Your usage reminded me to check the wiki backstory as i couldn't remember what it really meant... So now he's loaded up with "plebe" and "plebby." We had already come up with "preb" - there's a large asian community so the engrish wordplay works, but mostly we decided it means "pre-pubescent pleb," a most damning insult for teenagers.

Can I (re)join eights and ell? P.S. got utterly thrashed by jimbob! For some reason I thought I was playing a different team altogether - but no excuse. A sound thrashing! Well done jimbob

Fixed Nemi's pics (mostly...) But @Animal yours aren't showing for me, not even if I paste the url in directly.

Amateurs! Me and my pals never let the ID-less one anywhere near the shops when we were stocking up. How strict are you? If the guy with ID is 21 and the other one looks a similar age, do you sell anyway?

The 'outing' was a follow-through of the tidbit of information I had. It cannot be complained that I am suspicious for I am quiet, then complained that I am suspicious for I speak. If I had nothing to follow up on then I'd have nothing to say, so I'd be silent. Dannyboy outed himself, I just followed a line of enquiry. If that sort of thing means I'm suspicious then I'm sure you'll have plenty of others to accuse next I thought it was reasonable to 'oust' danny considering he was associating with the bodies of victims. @DuD I've not been redirected any night, as far as I'm aware.

It's the middle of the night so there's nobody there (lots of cars) so it's not really logical why I'm staring ... The way the lollipop lights flash out of sync is all I could focus on.

@Retro_Link I read it before I went to uni... so that's over 5 years ago now. I don't remember any of it! Lots of philosophy.

Just to point out that I'm on a drastically different timezone to you folks! I have no idea why your list, heroijan, is totally skewed towards the quiet. That's not a great list. I believe Jimbob's explanations (he's been quiet elsewhere on the boards), and I know that I've kept quiet, and that I'm good, so that leads me to wonder what happens to your list of suspects next? If you want to write out each name with your explanations for each position then I'll pay creedence to it. I'm not a great fan of teh whole pitchfork approach right now.

Name the last time a movie was good when we only knew who the producer was when it was announced :P

I read Cloud Atlas first, then read Number 9 Dream and recently Ghostwritten then The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (had to look it up to remember). I haven't finished Black Swan Green. One thing David mitchell loves is Jazz. Another is eastern culture. number9dream and, I suppose, Retro's overheard element of Cloud Atlas are kind of attempts to cash in on the steampunk of Snow Crash (neil stephenson) [neal?]. Black Swan Green is a poor try to merge autobigraphy with storytelling (imo). 1000 Autumns is, to me, the first [the guy in the boat] chapter of Cloud Atlas expanded. Ghostwritten is like a collection of short stories strung togehter through common themes (jazz music; eastern philosophy)... BUT! Cloud Atlas IS more engrossing. It is the most direct of his works, yet also the most complicated narratively. But the narrative structure is easy to split up ( abcddcba!). @Supergrunch is a known fan and will be better at remembering than I. I do also remember reading a short story Mitchell wrote that was published in a new free-mag distributed at train stations that I just couldn't care about... But 1000 Autumns was lovely to read. In a sense it was rather tell-tale, but the fact that he's written something that hollywood ISN'T currently producing means that he's not trying to be the next crichton, which means I find it far more enjoyable to read his well-written film scripts. Cloud Atlas was always meant to be too complicated to shoot as one movie, it felt. Ghostwritten was always more of a TV series.

Let's hope the actual missing woman will still be found, regardless of another silly woman's attempt to claim that she's been found safely!

OK so as a producer he's attached to many money-making schemes. That's nice and stuff. But MGS is such a bonkers series of events... and the whole thing is based on a range of ridiculous b-movies, so it's going to be hard to imagine that they do it well! Whether it's more like Resident Evil, Doom or Hitman is yet to be decided... But what I DO know is that producers are NOT the reason anyone goes to see a movie.

Well to be fair, console games do not really have the modding community, do they? And suggesting this is like a driving add-on to a sports game is a little hyperbolic! It's more like adding a create-your-own-house mode to... well, any game. Again, it doesn't expand on the gameplay itself but rather lends more tools to the player's imagination. I don't yet see the comparison to the horse armour. THAT took a lot less hours of coding work from them, and provides a lot less hours of entertainment.

I've read up on this and I cannot see how it's at all like horse armour! The DLC is attempting to enable the serious role-playing addicts to further their imagination. The PC platform is rife with modding communities that inject new life into a game, and it's kind of refreshing to see a new take on DLC rather than the mundane mappack or bonus missions. Though I totally get what you're saying - it's not exactly Skyrim really, is it! I think it's good to have DLC breaking out of the mould and offering alternative gameplay options. lols.

Cloud Atlas isn't hard to follow, and perhaps it benefits from allowing sections to sink in. I used to recommend it to people all the time but I've found being over-ehtusiastic about things leads to people being let down by them :P Of Mice And Men is the 'in' book here! It's seriously short - my copy is 91 pages long. I read it twice last week. As Daft said, it's more of a parable than a novel, with perhaps a gritty 'truth' at the end. If you can get it cheap (which you surely can!) then definitely! Well worth having in your 'read' pile. I'm currently reading literature set at schools as I'm tutoring a couple of kids (I won't stop telling people) - so I'm reading short books, plays and watching movies which is reawakening the student in me. Still got Dearly Devoted Dexter and Railsea by Mieville sitting here. And a sydney history book which I promised an old man to read...