jayseven

Difficult at the moment as I'm living a cash-only lifestyle :P

Ballsed up a little today; bought some gamerpoints in-store. According to customer services, there's different laws concerning "point payment schemes" in different regions, and as such, both points and gamer accounts are 'region locked'. Which means if you buy points and scratch off the foil stuff, you can't return the card in-store and you can't get the points on your 'foreign' account. However, due to the admittedly rather nicely broad licensing regulations MS have in place, it is possible to simply create a new Australian account to which the code is redeemed, then once DLC is downloaded onto the console any other profile logged in can play it! Phew.

I agree with the majority Telephone work pays above minimum wage, for starters, and in-bound is definitely less of a bitch then outbound. They will train you up heaps, as ultimately you will be representing their company on the phone so they want to make sure you know what to do. Telephone work has a fairly rapid staff turnover, which means that your employers would not expect you to be sticking around forever -- plus going through an agency, as you are, likely means the job is 'temporary' anyway. Ultimately, the skills and learning you'll get from this sort of job is great, too. It will be scary at first but you gotta go for it!

Man, I'd forgotten how much fun Dead Island was. Got 1000g at around the 50 hour mark. Wee bit annoying how, because there's been DLC released, it doesn't count as a 100% completed game. Minor niggle, but hey. Next up, some Dead Space 2. Been playing it for like 30 minute sessions, about 4 hours in and already on the 2nd disc. Wtf?

Over here, you'll pay $7.99 for a 568ml bottle of Bulmers in a 'bottle shop'. That equates to... £5.35ish. That's for one bottle. In a shop. I've not been to a pub yet to see the price comparison, but clearly it's not cheap! The cultural approach to alcohol is hugely different, and it's that different approach to alcohol that the government in the UK is trying to reach, despite whatever 'public service' puppet it tugs across the stage for the public to lap up. As a government, if your public drinks less then they'll be less of a burden on your resources, and potentially more efficient. What's not taken into account, and what is the hardest to take out of the british DNA, is the almost innate relationshop with alcohol that has been brewed (excuse the pun) over the centuries, as well as the ingrained british natural desire to balk at what they're being told to do. Over here, it's legal to drive bare foot, or in 'thongs' (as in the flip-flops, not the panties!). I'm sure there's been some sensible research into the dangers to public 'health' with unshod feet behind the wheel, but if you attempted to ban such behaviour here then you'd have an absolute public outcry, demanding heads to fall. Ultimately it's not about what's good and what's bad for you, it's more about one's liberty, and perhaps a smidge about the 'elected' governing body doing what can easily be percieved to be an act of kicking the people while they're down. It's no secret that those who turn to drink are those who have a harder time dealing with their socio-economic status (there are factsheets that can be faxed out, should the ex-cite-ables be aroused), and it will be those with the lowest income that will find the only luxuries currently affordable - that's pints and quarts, not 3D TVs or other luxuries that are rather more what the lowest earners would deem to be the 'rich man's' luxuries and the poor man's daydream. Fact is, the government needs more money, and the alcohol/cigarette duty is something all parties have meddled with. It's 'safer' for them to retread this area of tax where the argument is easily won. Happiness is irrelevent, says the government, when your health is at risk! [/slight hyperbole]

I've got a local rental shop that offers weekly rentals for 4 AUD (like, ?3ish) on select (read: old) titles; Played Mafia II through rather solidly, only needing the collectables achievements but figured it wasn't worth another $4 just to get those. Played TMNT and got all 1000G in like 4 hours - ridic. Currently been playing Godfather: The Game for 30 hours/1 week and a day - for an xbox/2006 game it is quite meaty, albeit rather repetitive and, in many ways, massively dated. Did anyone else catch this title, or have any memories? There rental shop doesn't have a very large catalogue of weekly rentals on offer, but I think there were two or three maayyybe titles left to try, including duke nukem - then I think I'll have to go halves with my cousin on Skyrim.

So... Who's back?

The 'dad' near the end, with the big fake beard.

Watched it twice and didn't notice Simon Pegg? I think it was Simon Pegg, anyway...

Biggest non-shock of the year so far; Paj is gay.

Good tip I did not know that. Coulda had mo' monaaay!

cehck out the CEX website http://uk.webuy.com/ - do a search for what you want to sell and they'll give you their offer price. It's annoying as it takes time to do each item, but it's worth doing to know how much minimum you should want for your collection. I made a list of all the things I wanted to sell, plus a brief accurate description of the quality, then sent it out to a few interested friends. If I had more time/energy I'd put things on ebay at the CEX-offered price plus P+P to raise any extra dosh. I was just interested in getting rid of things asap so CEX did the trick for me.

I knew jonnas and mr-paul were maff. Basically, it had to be jonnas that was maff because of the way he was 'conversing' with the posts that I was forced to write. What were the other posts in the other phases that jonnas wrote, mr-peeps? I think the game was mostly balanced but that was niggling me throughout. I couldn't commit to anything. Despite my frustration, an enjoyable game with a good amount of confusion!

I was locked in my room all night 'til teh cleaners came in. Nice one whoeverdidthat.

Laying low... its morning! Nothing at all to add just sitting back and soaking it in. Vote: Jonnas for voting for me!

Kewl. Doesn't look particularly unique or special, but I enjoyed Dead Island plenty, so I'll strongly consider this.

Jimbob; what was the memo you got from targetting Rummy the first night? I'm starting to really lose the plot here.

My new power (and jimbob's old one, make of that what you will, those of you who think he is mafia) -- either I can mirror, so anyone who targets me targets themselves, or I can trace someone without being targetable. Come to think of it, it effectively means I'm invisible and/or invincible at night, and I can't be night-killed. Which makes for a rather nice mafia role... doesn't it? Vote: Jimbob based on this alone.

GGIPBYHWARC! My old collection of games was majorly purchased when teh games were sub-£10. There are plenty of bargains out there for that price, just be sure to get a rottentomatoes score as there are obviously some stinkers in the bargain bin.

And where's the obligatory stonking tv gonna go?!

Jonnas visited eevil and aquila last night - eevil wasn't in his office, but aquila was. Was jonnas the one who stopped aquila from being shot, or is that someone else?

Being in Oz sucks for football news, at the moment. No channel we have has any coverage of the prem (no sports package) and no MOTD... iplayer won't let me watch stuff either so I can't catch-up... :'( BBC is so bland about reporting the headlines. Drama has been sucked right out. Hoping I can find some sort of pub or bar or someplace for the euros...