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[TdC]

hmm I find myself hating the brain-dead systems at work more than usual today

 

[rynnor]

I'm finding myself in agreement with Toht.

Kickstarter mugs are not investors - just cash cows to be milked then politely ignored.

Either its vapourware and you never get anything or they already pretty much finished and your 'investment' is pure profit for them.

Exactly what rights do you think kickstarter mugs have?

 

[Scouse]

I'm finding myself in agreement with Toht.

Kickstarter mugs are not investors - just cash cows to be milked then politely ignored.

Either its vapourware and you never get anything or they already pretty much finished and your 'investment' is pure profit for them.

Exactly what rights do you think kickstarter mugs have?

Lets ignore the fact that established developers and publishers with cash in the bank are subverting kickstarter (the bubble will burst because of this) and look at what it's supposed to be: A forum for getting projects off the ground for people who can't raise / don't have the capital.

You know up-front that you could be funding vapourware. You know you could lose it all. You are aware of all the risks. It's very much like shareholding - the risk of losing everything with the payoff being a game that you bought in to at the beginning of development that you decide is worth attempting to get off the ground.

As for "rights"? What rights? You don't have any. And that's fine. That's an up-front choice.


Purchasing a product is different. You've a well-established right to expect it to work. You've a right to expect your money back if it's not forthcoming or doesn't work as advertised. If you pay for it in advance and you get shit then you're a fool - and digital distribution is a pile of chuff when it comes to this - you can't get your money back easily on broken product.

Publishers know this and are milking the fools by offering "working product" and providing piles of unfinished toss. It's tantamount to fraud.


The two situations are not even remotely similar.

 

[Raven]

With regards to Bioshock infinite - I am actually tempted by the pre-purchase because of X-Com, I have no got around to buying it yet but intended to later on. A hard up mate would welcome Bioshock 1 as a gift too.

I would be buying it on release day anyway.

 

[CorNokZ]

Stayed home yesterday, because I use public transportation, and we were supposedly getting a massive blizzard with several inches of snow. We got fuck all snow..

Today I got up early to go to classes and guess what.. A FUCKING BLIZZARD!

 

[rynnor]

Stayed home yesterday, because I use public transportation, and we were supposedly getting a massive blizzard with several inches of snow. We got fuck all snow..

Today I got up early to go to classes and guess what.. A FUCKING BLIZZARD!

Your not getting your forecasts from the Met office by any chance?

They forecasted this winter as warmer than average for the UK - its actually been below average every month - some way below - march is almost half the average currently - brr

 

[old.Tohtori]

With regards to Bioshock infinite - I am actually tempted by the pre-purchase because of X-Com, I have no got around to buying it yet but intended to later on. A hard up mate would welcome Bioshock 1 as a gift too.

I would be buying it on release day anyway.

I've got bio 1&2 unplayed, so i'm sure i'll get infinite at some point. Might as well get the pre-purchase and get a gift xcom for someone. Sure i could trade it for some dota 2 muguffins or some such

 

[TdC]

tbh I'm not sure that Bio 1 even works any more. I remember deciding to replay it about two years ago and it just kept crashing :-/

 

[old.Tohtori]

The initial catalyst was a cute girl falling asleep, looking like a cute puppy falling asleep.
I was sitting in the bus.
A short person entered the bus and sat infront of me just as i started to crack a smile at the falling asleep puppy thing.


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iKjkPgVQcE


I'd like to thank jebus, buddha and all other deities for helping me keep it in. Thw rose part was realising that i was IN the giggle loop and remembering that coupling thing.

 

[Cerb]

tbh I'm not sure that Bio 1 even works any more. I remember deciding to replay it about two years ago and it just kept crashing :-/

Is it supposed to fucking freak me out as much as it does? Because it gives my big girls blouse and a heart all sorts of attacks the few times I've tried to play it.

God I'm such a coward.

 

[TdC]

never play Amnesia then Cerb

 

[soze]

I have something I need to talk to a college about but I think they will all find it as either bragging or use it as a tool to get what they want which puts me in the shit with the higher ups. And it is contextual that it would take me ages to explain to anyone else. Tis a right cunt.

 

[ileks]

I have something I need to talk to a college about but I think they will all find it as either bragging or use it as a tool to get what they want which puts me in the shit with the higher ups. And it is contextual that it would take me ages to explain to anyone else. Tis a right cunt.

What?

edit - did you mean colleague?

 

[soze]

What?

edit - did you mean colleague?

Yes I did. And I am fairly sure what i typed was closer to what i meant than a place of higher education which i clearly need

 

[Raven]

People who get given a very precise deadline plenty of time in advance, along with several reminders that the time limit is about to run out and if they don't sort their shit out life will get more difficult for them. Then bitch and moan about it when you just go ahead with it.

Employment law needs to be sorted so useless cunts can be fired easier!

 

[sayward]

Doing 8hrs of copying tv to tape overnight and ending up with 8hrs of black screen! What a waste of time!!!

 

[Raven]

Auditors who don't understand the systems and processes that they are trying to audit.

 

[Chilly]

People who get given a very precise deadline plenty of time in advance, along with several reminders that the time limit is about to run out and if they don't sort their shit out life will get more difficult for them. Then bitch and moan about it when you just go ahead with it.

Employment law needs to be sorted so useless cunts can be fired easier!

I think the law is flexible enough. You have to tell them they're shit, then let them prove they are in fact not shit (but in reality fuck up again), make sure they have any appropriate training, give them a formal warning, then kick them the fuck out, right? Bit of a pita, but it has to be a balance between employers and employees rights. Too much of either is bad for everyone.

 

[Lamp]

You're at a box junction and you do the right thing: you wait until there's a space on the otherside for your car to move into without sitting in the yellow grid. A gap appears. You go for it. Out of nowhere, and without any any indication, a car on the offside tears past you, overtakes, and moves into your gap as you brake and find yourself in the box.

 

[Raven]

Snow.

It's just boring now.

 

[Punishment]

Driving work truck today when wind put a tree's branch flying out to hit my wing mirror and sent it through my passanger side window in an explosion of glass, was great fun cleaning out all the glass and making the call to my boss who was tbh extremely reasonable about it.

Still somehow feel i could have avoided it and like abit of a prat oh well

 

[Lamp]

Driving work truck today when wind put a tree's branch flying out to hit my wing mirror and sent it through my passanger side window in an explosion of glass, was great fun cleaning out all the glass and making the call to my boss who was tbh extremely reasonable about it.

Still somehow feel i could have avoided it and like abit of a prat oh well

How are you supposed to avoid a randomly flying tree branch? Not your fault. Go home & make an enormous chocolate cake. Present it to your wife. Watch her eyes light up. For me? You shouldn't have? OK, you say, and eat the entire cake like a pig. You'll feel so much better

 

[Punishment]

Hehe

Shit like that fairly shakes the old confidence when its out of your control, drove home slowly in the ST

 

[old.Tohtori]

Doing the right thing and getting sh*t for it.

 

[MYstIC G]

Spambots posing as people who don't like melted chocolate bars... ffs

 

[Raven]

How do you know it was a bot?

It said it was female and 25!

There might have been boobs.

 

[leggy]

Girls who don't like giving blowjobs. What the fuck is the point in them?

 

[old.Tohtori]

Girls who don't like giving blowjobs. What the fuck is the point in them?

Ad to that the ones who still expect oral and you've got a chicken dinner.

 

[soze]

I hate girls that try and kiss me after having my cock in their mouth. I have been told since being knee high to a grass hopper to wash my hands after touching it so no way its going in my mouth. It is why I like a blow job to be a separate act. When they are done it is teeth brushing time. If you do it during the warm up keep your mouth to yourself. That has got me in more than one argument. But I honestly would not mind being told the same after eating out.

 

[Raven]

Imagine how she feels when giving a BJ post anal then?!