The Bard

I think I'm gonna try and go substance-free for this one, see if I can't hold a conversation that I actually remember =p. We also missed out on the pyramid last time which was bare shit.

Man Ys is so so good.

Yeah dude, it'll be like closing the village pub early on a friday night; the patrons will just go and shit on the war memorial and piss in the town square water feature instead. I don't know why I haven't posted on here yet actually, probably because I'm usually too catatonic to type.

I used to get fairly obsessive about TV shows, even when I'd already seen the entire run, I'd go out and purchase season DVD's entirely for the extra content. Prime example being Scrubs, even though the additional stuff barely amounted to shit.

Get Down Goblin is amazing. I love watching things like this even though they make me shudder in vicarious embarrassment. Like this: Its inspiring, the level of sincerity that seems to have been put into creating something so bad

Good joke.

Or, you know, you have no soul?

Yeah. I love the little punchlines usually on the last couple of frames on Hitler's tee. Mix Master Race. Wehrmacht Bitches At. So good. I really want that Heilvetica tshirt.

Now now, this isn't a Gertrude Stein novel.

Yeah but there's more to talk about with memories than reducing them with scientific abstraction. Sometimes its better to talk about the actual experience. You just said that you have a good ability to retain memories which means you're eminently qualified to talk about them . My memory tends to fluctuate; sometimes I can recall experiences very clearly and with detail and other times the same information is unavailable, which is a baffling and sometimes frightning experience.

I know what the general idea of a hipster is, just never ever met anyone who conforms to that stereotype. I do like the application here though. Heilvetica. Genius.

This is funny as fuck. Discuss. Hipster Hitler My personal favourite: Also; what are hipsters? Do they exist? Have you ever met one? Are they just an imaginary construction by the man behind the curtain, designed to turn young people against each other?

Cheers Danny Ego +1 Not true though, I'm sure you have lots to add.

Sex makes you fatter. You're not considering the inevitable post coitus munchies.

Do you think it's the sort of multiplayer that has the longevity of a Halo, for example? I'm just asking because I really want to get it and dive into the multiplayer, because I know I'll get sucked in, since its very much just an AC version of The Ship (a Source Engine game that came out ages ago), but I don't really have the time right now because of uni. Really hope theres a good player base around summer, and that it hasn't dwindled to nothing by the time I get around to it. Alternatively, the next Assassins Creed should have this too =).

This is going to be amazing. I'm confident. Need to play the first again.

Pretty much, Dan. Self control is a limited resource, clustering all the things that will require a serious focus of will into the turn of the new year is just begging for failure. Here's the research to which Dan might be alluding: The more shit you saddle your brain with, the more likely it is to short circuit and bail on everything

Manchester could be cool, its a nice town, but I'm not sure there's very much to do for a throng of gamer nerds other than drink, which I'm totally fine with, but I know some members may want to veto. I may also have a free house =p.

I think I need to get in on that complimenting people thing because I do mean to a lot of the time, its just that its easier and more fun to be a sarky shit. I'm good at being unnecessarily harsh sometimes, although its usually tongue in cheek, people don't always interpret it that way. Besides, reciprocity is a fundamental law of humanity. I'd like it to swing my way sometimes too Also; be more motivated in general.

This, pretty much. I'm good at negative thought patterns and cyclical self abuse. Mostly I'd like to have been more driven or capable when I was younger so I wouldn't feel like I'd wasted my younger years on things that I would inevitably forget. Would like to not have been a fattie in my teen years so I would have gotten more play. I have that weird unfeasable fantasy of going back in time with the cognitive powers and mindset I have now and inhabiting the body of my 8 year old self and blowing some minds. Could be kinda wierd though.

Fo shizzle, dizzle. If we're gonna pub it, lets not do central because the prices there are hideous. Pub crawl in the east end? Or better yet, cross town Tesco's crawl?

Why does nobody post in the threads that actually have some interesting content? As for memories, there are ways in which I agree with Daft, in that our minds are less concerned with historical posterity when it comes to documenting information within our neurones, but are trying to create a sense of narrative that conforms to a conception of our sense of self. The neurological aspect of their lack of "stability" as Daft put it, is to do with a molecule called CREB, and it's action within the physical substrate of our memories is absolutely fascinating: Memories are based in the interconnections of synaptic dendrites, which are sort of the branches of the neuronal tree. What is absolutely fascinating is that whenever we undertake to remember a memory, CREB is deployed between the synaptic clefts and causes the dendritic interconnections between neurones to become loose and malleable whereas before they were tightly tied together. It allows them to shift, subtly, and their movements are informed by our mood, or subjective sensibility in the present, or even because of a new interpretation based on knowledge that we've gained about the situation since then. We believe what we want to believe and rationalise after the fact. Human beings are less rational, and more rationalising. Reminds me of the chapter on the Ascetic Ideal in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals where he talks about Wagner's ideological graduation over time, from the virility and sensual leanings in his youth, to his ascetism in old age when the biological pangs that drove his youthful ideologies wore down. Sometimes the outcomes of our lives are unchosen and unpredictable, but we come to build up a mental support structure and ideology to surround and justify what they have made us. Just take a look at the "Regrets" thread. A lot of people in there are saying that they don't really regret the things that they kinda regret because it has made them who they are. Self justification is a necessary part of being human, and sometimes the validity of our memories have to suffer because of it. I need to stop with the long posts. HEYZEUS.

Pomplamoose bug the shit out of me

Ok, I didn't go to the student demonstrations, but I will full on riot if this is the case. The reasons to live in this country are diminishing one by one.

Nah, he just has some sort of learning difficulty