The Peeps

Back at work tomorrow after two weeks off... ugh.

Hence the sucking jokes

Happy Birthday Dyson

I like your blog post about it :p good idea for a tattoo. I think if I ever got a tattoo it would have to be gaming related but I've not had that moment where an image just clicks for me yet. Currently I don't think I'll ever get one but maybe I'll see something one day and I'll want to transfer it to my skin

Much needed win Doesn't move me from 8th place though. At least the scores are still close! Losing today would've put me way behind.

Yeah the one I have now is Seagate and was perfectly fine... until it wasn't. Looked on ebuyer and the prices were fairly similar to the one I posted so I just went with that. Thanks for your comments guys

I was surprised that there wasn't already a thread on it. I'm sure most people on here (at least those that have posted) have been aware of it for a while. Glad to see it's losing support

The other spies rounded up on Agent 78. He had appeared to be a vital ally but this last day his behaviour has been overly suspicious. The Agents did not take kindly to traitors and promptly had him executed. It was only when they began to clear out his office that they found a number of threats against his family, along with a set of documents with explicit instructions he was to follow. Agent 78 has been executed. He was good. Yvonne is no longer in the game. DAY FIVE Is Over NIGHT FIVE Begins Now Please Send In Your PMs Players (12): @mr\-paul @Nintendohnut @ReZourceman @Rummy Dead (4): Zell Diageo Dannyboy-the-Dane Yvonne

I'm looking to buy a new internal HDD as my current one is quite old and I'm having some issues with it... I don't need anything fancy, just something up to date. I had a quick look and saw this: http://www.dixons.co.uk/gbuk/whitebox-generic-internal-3-5-sata-hard-drive-1tb-11255568-pdt.html Just wanted to see if there are better deals to go for or any preferred brands. Thanks for any help :p <obviously this was meant to go in tech... can a mod move it please? @Dan Dare or anyone else :p

Love the new direction of this thread. I'm playing the game on the best settings. Perfect graphics & male, white character and spawned in the West. It's a bit cheap but I get the easiest time of anyone.

Votes: Yvonne (5): Tales, Rummy, Jonnas, Aqui1a, DuD Majority is 7

It's an awkward situation but you still made a voluntary donation which is essentially giving someone money for nothing. I might be wrong but there's no contractual obligation to offer anything in return if you're given a donation? Obviously you trust that service to do only certain things with that money but it's still your choice to give them cash. You're just adding content to their webspace. They own it all and it's theirs to do with as they please. Mostly talking out of my arse here so feel free to let me know if I'm wrong with any facts or whatever. I can see how users would be annoyed but how annoyed would you be if they were taken down for good by this bill? In a moral sense I'd say they're completely dependant on their users and you absolutely have a right to stop them taking their website down... unfortunately that's not how it works.

Well I wouldn't say they're doing it to strike fear into people but I guess it comes down to how anyone interprets their actions. Websites aren't strictly a service though... at least there's no obligation for websites like wikipedia to stay up just for the general public of internet users. If they want to take down their own website, we don't have a right to stop them because we want to use their service.

Indie is not dead.

Votes: Yvonne (3): Nintendohnut, Tales, Rummy Majority is 7

Good explanation of what the bill is setting out to do:

I don't really see the list to be in consecutive order anymore. Lots of people are up there who aren't ready and probably have no intention of making those games anymore :p Tales I think that's a good idea but you run the risk of everyone picking the same shows if they have to be broad enough to ensure that you know them. Worth a shot though. I loved the Norse mafia so I look forward to another game by you. I'm very much against people posting sign-ups if they're not already ready to start the game (no offence to people who have done so ) so if you don't think you're going to be able to run it until March then hold off on making any sign-ups until nearer the time.

Well you called it terrorism and put up a definition of terrorism and claimed it abides to that definition. And it doesn't :p So which part of that was exaggerated? I know you're against SOPA and you have a vested interest in this but you were wrong when you called the blackout terrorism. I accept that you don't like the blackouts and you have good reason not to - perhaps there are better ways to go about it. But it's not terrorism.

I'm not going bald but I started getting grey hairs a few years ago (I'm 23 now). It's never really bothered me and there's not enough for anyone to even notice from a distance but if you look close it is quite noticeable. I don't mind if I go grey but it's annoying when people feel they have to point it out like I didn't already know :p How far has your hair line receded? It probably looks worse than it is to you. Has anyone else said anything about it?

mnml - minimal. I'm in.

The blackouts are a protest, not terrorism. You can't just say oh it fits the definition and then make exceptions like remove 'violent' from it. That just means it doesn't fit the definition. The only part that fits is that they're trying to coerce people to their way of thinking - like all protests try to do. I agree with the blackout because a lot of people on the internet will ignore anything they're not interested in. It's only when they're physically prevented from doing something that they actually take notice. It's only for 24 hours and notice was given. It's just an opportunity for these sites to educate people and show them how serious this Bill is. If you call these blackouts terrorism then you have to label every peaceful protest a form of terrorism.

Well someone needs to start one soon :p I'm not in any!

So SOPA is the Stop Online Piracy Act and I don't think we've had a thread about it... at least not in the last 4 pages of this board (unless I missed it). Do people know about this? What are your views? Obviously the Bill is to try and stop online piracy which is a problem but the argument against it is that it's too broad and can potentially end up shutting down innocent websites with no illegal content. The full Bill can be found here. The reason I'm making the thread is because I looked on BBC News and saw that some websites are going to go offline for 24 hours in protest of the Bill. The most notable websites taking part in the blackout are Wikipedia and Reddit. So do you think this Bill should be passed? Is online piracy even a problem for you? Is this internet censorship? Do you support the protest? Who shot Mr. Burns? :p SOPA explained - BBC News Web Blackout Protest

I watched Midnight in Paris not long ago. I really enjoyed it Good to see Woody Allen can still deliver.