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Post by DC on Jun 3, 2010 10:27:12 GMT
I saw a lovely handbag yesterday, just Narkles shade.
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Post by floplexter on Jun 3, 2010 10:55:14 GMT
Ah yes, my doppelganger.
Me= 6/3/69 He= 3/6/69
I think I win.
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Post by hornet on Jul 6, 2010 11:48:00 GMT
Hi chaps. Sorry I've not been around a lot lately. I'm not dead, it's just that I do most of my idle web-wandering at work via the JesusPhone, and this site's a little bit awkward to navigate on the little screen.
So, to sum up: I am not dead. Moo is a canute.
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Post by floplexter on Jul 6, 2010 11:53:53 GMT
I never really notice you gone, Pres, because every time I watch an episode of Big Bang Theory, I think of you.
Not sure why, to be honest.
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Post by Moo on Jul 6, 2010 11:57:36 GMT
You've missed very little, El Pres, Pops is even more Scottish, Coffs is a bit grumpier, I have a dead man's eye. Same old, same old.
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Post by coffers on Jul 6, 2010 12:14:07 GMT
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Jul 6, 2010 13:08:52 GMT
Hi chaps. Sorry I've not been around a lot lately. I'm not dead, it's just that I do most of my idle web-wandering at work via the JesusPhone, and this site's a little bit awkward to navigate on the little screen. So, to sum up: I am not dead. Moo is a canute. Now I've got my laptop back I'm sure I'll annoy you on Steam a little bit more. However, "Rodafowa is playing Left 4 Dead 2" didn't seem to be the best time to ask you how your petunias are. Did you pick up Borderlands during the Steam Madness, Mr Horn? It has that there online co-op thingy.
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Post by DC on Jul 6, 2010 14:34:40 GMT
I didn't. Poof.
And I too saw Horn playing Left 4 Dead 2.
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Post by hornet on Jul 6, 2010 14:52:33 GMT
Did you pick up Borderlands during the Steam Madness, Mr Horn? It has that there online co-op thingy. I didn't, because we've got it on the EggBox. Admittedly, we've got Left 4 Dead 2 on the EggBox too, but I fancied L4D2 a lot more than Borderlands. Wouldn't mind giving Dawn Of War II co-op a try at some stage, if you've got it / are up for it?
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Post by DC on Jul 6, 2010 14:57:59 GMT
I have it, am working my way through the original series of DoW at the moment.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Jul 6, 2010 15:29:30 GMT
I didn't buy DoW. Largely because on a scale of zero to 114,921,098,374,716,236 for ability at RTS I'm at about 4.
I've always been utterly woeful at them, since the days of WarCraft 1 - I can do the "here's your stuff, when it's gone, you're doomed" thing, (I rocked at Close Combat), but anything with RTS capture-and-build elements to it I'm utterly pathetic. Even Company of Heroes, which I adore, I'm largely terrible at.
Borderlands is fun so far - a FPS/RPG hybrid that might get a bit samey in single player, but supposedly roxxorz in groups online.
It's essentially gun p0rn at its simplest - yes, the rpg level up elements are nice, but when you hit "compare" on some new gun you find and all the arrows are green then it's like opening the briefcase on Pulp Fiction.
In fact, often you don't even need to check the arrows because if you find something much awesomer than what you're holding, you character will say something. The last uber sniper rifle I found my character went "oooh... shiny."
Mainly because it's a sniper rifle with +200% critical chance and +200% critical damage, which means it makes a mess of people from a very long way away - usually if you hit someone you don't get the number pop off to show damage inflicted, you just sort of get a red mist.
It only carries three rounds before reload instead of the regular sniper rifle six, but if you don't miss, you don't need more than one.
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Post by Sonic on Jul 8, 2010 12:02:27 GMT
Plus no one can retaliate from that distance easily either too. Nice to see you back Horn :thumb:
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Post by hornet on Jul 8, 2010 23:10:45 GMT
I didn't buy DoW. Largely because on a scale of zero to 114,921,098,374,716,236 for ability at RTS I'm at about 4. I've always been utterly woeful at them, since the days of WarCraft 1 - I can do the "here's your stuff, when it's gone, you're doomed" thing, (I rocked at Close Combat), but anything with RTS capture-and-build elements to it I'm utterly pathetic. Even Company of Heroes, which I adore, I'm largely terrible at. Borderlands is fun so far - a FPS/RPG hybrid that might get a bit samey in single player, but supposedly roxxorz in groups online. It's essentially gun p0rn at its simplest - yes, the rpg level up elements are nice, but when you hit "compare" on some new gun you find and all the arrows are green then it's like opening the briefcase on Pulp Fiction. In fact, often you don't even need to check the arrows because if you find something much awesomer than what you're holding, you character will say something. The last uber sniper rifle I found my character went "oooh... shiny." Mainly because it's a sniper rifle with +200% critical chance and +200% critical damage, which means it makes a mess of people from a very long way away - usually if you hit someone you don't get the number pop off to show damage inflicted, you just sort of get a red mist. It only carries three rounds before reload instead of the regular sniper rifle six, but if you don't miss, you don't need more than one. Man, I wish you'd said all that before 6pm on Monday. :moop: I'll keep an eye out for the next time it's £cheap.
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Post by coffers on Nov 1, 2010 12:49:56 GMT
I guess Moo's new job may prevent him accessing this board until he susses out the lie of the land?
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Nov 1, 2010 13:20:09 GMT
He's working at a university, so I'm sure he currently has underpants on his head while he drinks cheap beer from a shoe.
So just like his home life.
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Post by coffers on Nov 1, 2010 13:53:05 GMT
while he drinks cheap beer from a shoe. So just like his home life. Sound's like Uni has gone downhill since my day, we used to drink cheap beer from a boot, in fact the boot we drank it from held 4 pints of the stuff.
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Post by coffers on Nov 3, 2010 12:41:10 GMT
If he can't get on from work, then he is internetless until he gets his monitor power supply.
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Post by Moo on Nov 3, 2010 12:47:36 GMT
I guess Moo's new job may prevent him accessing this board until he susses out the lie of the land? Yoink! Still without thingie at home. Being a little cautious with this, as you correctly assume.
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Post by Narcizo on Dec 16, 2010 8:27:48 GMT
So, erm, hello then.
I've finished having my nervous breakdown and sorted a sort of job.
Ironic fact #1: After being paid for not working for years this last (half) year I've been working without being paid and enjoyed far, far much more than what I was doing at ReadSoft.
Ironic fact #2: I'm (going to be) a IT techie/helpdesk operator and a) know shag all about IT, b) know a similar amount about anything else technical and c) until about 6 months or so ago I was, liderally, phobic about talking on telephones.
Anyway, long-winded, borong story short you may have noticed that I wasn't, shall we say, happy with my lot in life for the last five years or so. It seems that playing FM/Civ all day, watching wrestling on the Internet and not actually talking to real, live people except to fob them off about work isn't actually the way forward. Who could have known. So after I got laid off at ReadSoft it was a bit difficult to adjust to actually having to do something.
Resulting in a year and a bit of therapy (luckily not of Therapy? because as much as I might like them every so often it would be a bit too much) and happy pills. Fortunately the therapy showed me that as miserable and rubbish as I was feeling there are a ton of people who are more miserable. Grumpiness is in the eye of the beholder.
Anyway I'm off the pills and having being doing work-training/rehailitation/whatever at Höörs Councils IT department for the last six months and will be employed by them from January. Because I'm a moderately changed man. As proven by the fact that I'm writing this instead of working. But I am because I can wield the phone with only minor misgivings and I actually like meeting and talking to teachers and social workers and whatnot that are our users. (Not really the correct IT attitude I know but what can you do)?
So there you go. What are you lot doing.
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Post by DC on Dec 16, 2010 8:57:03 GMT
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Post by Narcizo on Dec 16, 2010 9:35:23 GMT
Congrats, Eugghh, hmmm and hehe.
Although not necessarily in that order.
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Post by coffers on Dec 16, 2010 9:57:59 GMT
In case you didn't know, I'm now a Grandfather to twin boys, I can't remember if you were around when they were born. Oh and I gave up playing GloF and disolved the Guild though I still probably have an account on there.
Apart from that I'm desperate to retire, but then I always was.
As I said in the otehr thread, nice to see you back.
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Post by Moo on Dec 16, 2010 10:29:29 GMT
Nice to see you back, Narkle. And I can now say that, I suppose. Just glide yourself back in here gently, I'm pretty sure we were part of the problem.
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Post by coffers on Dec 16, 2010 10:36:42 GMT
I don't know about that Moo, I was a grumpy old bugger before I found you lot I don't think much has changed there.
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Post by DC on Dec 16, 2010 10:38:35 GMT
You're just older :checkit:
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