what, seriously?

Afraid so. I did spot a spelling error, if that's any good.

Afraid so. I did spot a spelling error, if that's any good.huh....seemed pretty self-contained to me...

oh well. I fail once again. :-/

here's less fail.....or more based on your personal definition :p

NSFW due to cursing...lots of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfISlGLNU

huh....seemed pretty self-contained to me...

oh well. I fail once again. :-/

Could kinda work out the joke it was trying to tell, but the references were a bit too obscure for me.

Was the joke that the MS Word paperclip is evil?

The year 2000 called, but they don't want their paperclip joke back because it was never funny in the first place.

I figured you guys would enjoy this comic:

http://www.hookiedookiepanic.com/geist/comic.php?ID=56

can't really say if anyone would like the rest of the comic one way or another, but that one specifically was worth sharing :p
yeah, the paperclip, which went out with office 2003. really fúcking topical, thanks akurykorykouroyrkouroyrokruorkyroku

I think we've established I'm an idiot with no taste.

let's move on, shall we?

I think we've established I'm an idiot with no taste.

let's move on, shall we?Oh I think we established that when you got a MySpace account :p

I think we've established I'm an idiot with no taste.

let's move on, shall we?

American moron. :)




:p

you all just wish you were cool like me :cool:

HAHA!!

http://8tracks.com/teamteamwork/the-ocarina-of-rhyme

this is hilarious. a couple of them are actually not too horrible (IE: it doesn't hurt to listen to them, though I doubt anyone here is going to be downloading them soon). they're somewhat amusing.

I figured you guys would enjoy this comic:

http://www.hookiedookiepanic.com/geist/comic.php?ID=56

can't really say if anyone would like the rest of the comic one way or another, but that one specifically was worth sharing :p

Has that computer got the word Dell written on it?

I think the comic would have been good without the third panel. What was it for? An intentional anti-climax?

Maybe they got some kind of plot going. A terrible one.

I think the comic would have been good without the third panel. What was it for? An intentional anti-climax?

Do you mean 'good' or just 'better'?

I played Peggle in local multiplayer mode with my brother for most of the afternoon yesterday. I got beaten by a million points. He pulled off some of the luckiest random shots ever, the *******. :p
Also, lucky spin is overpowered. :mad:

Spooky Ball is brilliant if you can clear all the pegs except for the two greens and an orange. Your ball still drops back into the top of the screen so you get 300,000+ for one shot. :cool:

Do you mean 'good' or just 'better'?

I do think it would be good. A Clippy parody talking about stuff like that is a bit of a laugh, even if it's a small one.

I played Peggle in local multiplayer mode with my brother for most of the afternoon yesterday. I got beaten by a million points. He pulled off some of the luckiest random shots ever, the *******. :p
Also, lucky spin is overpowered. :mad:
nah, lucky spin is dumb. my friend and i (the pro-est of peggle players) have established that zen ball is number one, followed closely by the pyramid. spooky ball is pretty much unquestionably the worst

I like the Zen Ball character a lot.
Can give you the most awesome slides with a lot of special bonuses, but sometimes also barely hits any orange pegs at all.

Also, the electrobolt character from Peggle Nights is good.

The most evil teleporter levels can be found in Peggle Extreme.

nah, lucky spin is dumb. my friend and i (the pro-est of peggle players) have established that zen ball is number one, followed closely by the pyramid. spooky ball is pretty much unquestionably the worst

The lucky hat is pretty usefull sometimes, and the triple score can be devastating with the right shot at the right time.

I am ridiculously proud of the second panel in today's Turnus.
(http://turnus.wurmz.net/)

I'm tempted to make it my avatar but that might just be wierd.

The lucky hat is pretty usefull sometimes, and the triple score can be devastating with the right shot at the right time.
Bah!
I seem to only get the triple score when I want to pass a low score challenge. :p

The lucky hat is pretty usefull sometimes, and the triple score can be devastating with the right shot at the right time.
i guess if you're doing a top score run, lucky spin could be useful. otherwise, not so much

Peggle sounds increasingly like a variant of Calvinball.

Isn't Calvinball a variant of itself?

i guess if you're doing a top score run, lucky spin could be useful. otherwise, not so much
I was talking about duel mode. It got to a point where both me and my brother would only choose lucky spin. It's too overpowered. :p

Peggle sounds increasingly like a variant of Calvinball.

I wonder if calvinball could be made into a video game. That would be either the greatest game ever or the greatest screwup ever. :p

It'd probably just be one big sandbox. You could do it with Gmod if you put your mind to it. :p

question: is it possible to have seperate backgrounds for multiple monitors in Vista? if so, how do you set it?

question: is it possible to have seperate backgrounds for multiple monitors in Vista? if so, how do you set it?

Not without some special software. You might have to make one really wide picture with both of the images you want to use that will span across two monitors. A bit of work, but the same effect.

Paul.Power says (22:27):
I wonder when they'll have a game based on chemistry
A game that isn't EleMental :p
<SupSuper> Supreme King Awesome Thunderpants says (22:27):
:p
Paul.Power says (22:28):
VIRTUAL BURETTE SIMULATOR
<SupSuper> Supreme King Awesome Thunderpants says (22:28):
bored much? :p
Paul.Power says (22:28):
ALL THE THRILL OF TITRATION, NONE OF THE ACCIDENTAL POOLS OF SODIUM HYDROXIDE ON THE FLOOR
Paul.Power says (22:29):
CAN YOU TURN THE TAP OFF AT THE RIGHT MOMENT?

Google have released some of their street view images for the UK. I saw one of their cars while I was driving along the A59 but they haven't made that available online yet. My house at university is online. However I think the photos must have been taken somewhere from July-October (due to my car not being there, and the building work on campus)

http://maps.google.co.uk
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7954596.stm

Neither my university nor my home is online :( But that's most likely because the uni campus is "technically" private property and I can't see campus security letting the google cars on, and my home is in the middle of nowhere :p

How do you eat yours?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrCb_fNmSTA

Holy crap.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XTGBOKqccw&feature=related

Holy crap.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XTGBOKqccw&feature=related

I raise you 200:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeF7yLkEECs

i raise you 200:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yef7ylkeecs

HAX .
:mad:

Yeah yeah very impresive but they didn't pot a single ball.:rolleyes:

Hell I didn't even see a table what kind of trick shot was that?

Hell I didn't even see a table what kind of trick shot was that?the shot was just SO awesome that the tables and balls all just melted immediately before the recording :p

the shot was just SO awesome that the tables and balls all just melted immediately before the recording :p

Oh yeah, I pull that trick all the time. :cool: Grovelling inevitably ensues.

And :) at the current thread title.

Oh glod no.

(not that I mind the show exactly, but aaargh Nicholas Parsons)

http://kotaku.com/5181300/onlive-makes-pc-upgrades-extinct-lets-you-play-crysis-on-your-tv

If they do manage to pull this off without it sucking, I will be seriously impressed.

"The concept is simple. Your controller input isn't going from your hand to the controller to the machine in front of you, it's going from your hand to the controller through the internet to OnLive's machines then back again as streamed video."

I hate to say this, but:

lol lag

That's why it requires broadband and I think it also requires living close to the servers. I'm not so sure about that tho, but it would seem obvious.

On another note: Max Payne 3. (http://kotaku.com/5180253/max-payne-3-hits-this-winter) I came.

http://kotaku.com/5181625/see-onlive-in-action
Here's more info on Onlive. You can have people spectate your game...

This thing will either crash to the ground faster than the Phantom or it'll be the second coming of Jesus.

What country is it in? I doubt you can avoid the lag using it through BT's marvellous network.

I suspect it would end up cheaper just buying a decent graphics card than paying for the subscription and internet connection. But, I'll be interesting in seeing if it progresses.

That's why it requires broadband and I think it also requires living close to the servers. I'm not so sure about that tho, but it would seem obvious.

On another note: Max Payne 3. (http://kotaku.com/5180253/max-payne-3-hits-this-winter) I came.I love it how nobody complains about sequelitis if they actually liked the original. :p

spooky ball is pretty much unquestionably the worst

Hey, just because you suck with it doesn't mean it's not great! I suck with Zen Ball; I get low extra zen which means my shots can't be improved much either because they're awesome in the first place or because they're so crap even the wise old owl can't get much out of them.

I think the alien guy is the worst.

I love it how nobody complains about sequelitis if they actually liked the original. :p

.. or trust the people making it.

But we haven't really been given anything to like or dislike about it yet.

The longer the gap between sequels the more likely a schism in the fanbase is.

Hey, just because you suck with it doesn't mean it's not great! I suck with Zen Ball; I get low extra zen which means my shots can't be improved much either because they're awesome in the first place or because they're so crap even the wise old owl can't get much out of them.

I think the alien guy is the worst.
Flippers is indisputably the worst. There's only one level that it sort of works in. In the rest of the levels it is absolutely useless. :p

I love it how nobody complains about sequelitis if they actually liked the original. :p
I don't think I've ever complained about sequelitis. If I did then I don't know what I was on tho. :p

So... it's basically a THIN client but with Windows, and WAN.

Or with my ISP, it'd be like playing a videogame on YouTube... at low res... which is being converted to 0% quality jpg... frame by frame... and then painted... and delivered to my house... by a blind goldfish... who's dead.

Even this post took 45 minutes to 'upload'.

Even this post took 45 minutes to 'upload'.
Why did you put upload in inverted commas?

Because the dead fish which delivers my posts doesn't know how to use the 'net. It puts the posts in there manually with its fin(ger)s.

Yeah I don't see this being a big success.

I mean, the whole "remote playing" is easy. There's already plenty of software that allows you to indirectly control another computer, or watch someone else's games, etc.

But as everyone mentioned, lag. All these methods are known for being remarkably connection-intensive, and thus laggy. Not to mention if you wanna keep a reasonable 20fps or something. There's been plenty of claims before to "magically" make lagless gaming with funky rerouting and filtering and hardware and what not and none of them have ever made it past vaporware.

This deserves a mention somewhere:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/newsbeat/newsid_7961000/7961224.stm

This deserves a mention somewhere:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/newsbeat/newsid_7961000/7961224.stm

When I saw that, the headline was 'comedy painting' rather than '*****'.

I got my 5-in-1 Geek Pen (http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/tools/b23c/), but I can't seem to make it work. I think I'm probably too dumb to figure out how the batteries are supposed to go in. :(

I've googled, and all the mentions I get are that there's supposedly a seperator between two of the three batteries -- I didn't find one -- and one site says only two of the batteries are actually needed. Blerk. There's nothing on the pen, and the packaging was about as useless as it could possibly have hoped to be.

Grunt.

Edit: There also exists a chance that I got a friggin' bum pen, of course.

Edit again, why do I always edit everything I post 4 times to add new thoughts: Actually I'd say the highest likelihood is probably that the absence of the seperator is actually my problem, and the three batteries simply spent themselves while stockpiled. I'll have to look for replacements, though they're obscure little things.

The man who looks like a thumb:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/milo_yiannopoulos/blog/2009/02/16/who_is_thumbman_the_bloke_that_looks_like_a_thumb

The man who looks like a thumb:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/milo_yiannopoulos/blog/2009/02/16/who_is_thumbman_the_bloke_that_looks_like_a_thumb

Is that the only photo of him? Looks like an illusion created by the angle of the shot.

Is that the only photo of him? Looks like an illusion created by the angle of the shot.

Are you sure

I've been pleasantly surprised by the level designs in Psychonauts. Makes me wonder if inspiration was drawn from here for Super Mario Galaxy, for the similarities in some levels...

The man who looks like a thumb:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/milo_yiannopoulos/blog/2009/02/16/who_is_thumbman_the_bloke_that_looks_like_a_thumb

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Ba9h0isrrds/SYLx7smvJJI/AAAAAAAAACk/Km62UQIVA_Y/s400/thumbman-knows-about-his-thumb-like-appearance-an-11034-1233245109-0.jpg

Are you sure

The camera is pointing right up his nostrils. Wouldn't anybody with a massive neck, is bald and has no chin look like that from that angle?

The camera is pointing right up his nostrils. Wouldn't anybody with a massive neck, is bald and has no chin look like that from that angle?

I'm pretty sure Pickleworm's point was that it's thunderously obvious that it's more to do with camera angle than genuine thumb-like physiology.

Edit: spellchecker has no problem with 'thunderously'. I thought I made it up.

Edit: spellchecker has no problem with 'thunderously'. I thought I made it up.

Sounds like a perfect adverb to me. I might have to adopt that into my common vocabulary.

Vista has begun to mix up what icons windows should have in the task manager. Folders are getting the Firefox icon and so on. Very confusing.

Andrew Taylor is sitting to my right.

Andrew Taylor is sitting to my right.

And we are BOTH STILL READING THE FORUM.

Are you sharing a PC to do it and taking turns to log in and respond?

We have our own laptops.

Let's hope neither of us spam or else the IP check is going to ruin us.

Has anybody seen any of those Google streetview cars?
They look like one of those PSA (Public Service Announcement) vans.

When I was doing my driving test, I ended up following one for quite some time. How do they work exactly? A 360 degree photograph every second?

While riding the subway home last night, the train somehow forgot the names of all the stops, so every place was called (null).

Next stop (null)

Xinos lives in the nothingness/a black hole (depending on whether it's programming or linux)

Ours just randomly mix up the stops every now and then.

Ours serves sandwiches.

Ours just randomly mix up the stops every now and then.
My train comes from Exeter, then becomes a new train at Salisbury (but still going the same way) as it joins onto 6 more carriages. However, they set the "new train" flag (so it shows the list of stations) but they forget to say it's coming from Salisbury instead of Exeter, so it shows all the wrong stations and gives everyone a heart attack :p

I don't have a train. :(

I don't have a brain. :(

*buurrrrp*

My train gets migraines.

Don't worry, I'm sure Paul can draw you all a train.

Not if it's electric :p

Agents are GOOOOOOOooo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXZGzhsS-5I&feature=channel)

Anyone using Google Mail? They appear to have changed "Inbox" to "inbox" (and yet left all the other links capitalised). Strange.

Anyone using Google Mail? They appear to have changed "Inbox" to "inbox" (and yet left all the other links capitalised). Strange.
I noticed that yesterday but it seems to be back to normal today :confused:

Agents are GOOOOOOOooo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXZGzhsS-5I&feature=channel)

Awesome! :D

Agents are GOOOOOOOooo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXZGzhsS-5I&feature=channel)

Roxic

****ING CHARACTERS

Agents are GOOOOOOOooo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXZGzhsS-5I&feature=channel)Ahahahahaha...

duos vere valde april fossor iocus

http://kotaku.com/5192983/the-cruelest-april-fools-joke-in-japan

http://kotaku.com/5193387/kojima-celebrates-april-fools-day-in-style

EGO utor is. sententia EGO would partis

http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/rc/b527/

I hate when news comes out on April 1st.

Apparently they're putting a super NXT in orbit around Earth. There are people in NASA who have leaked info today and so on. I'll eat my hat if it's true. I'll also most likely cream myself. :(

http://kotaku.com/5194059/blizzards-april-fools-day-spectacular
Blizzad won april fools.
http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/04/01/the-forums-have-been-rpd/
WE NEED THIS ON THIS FORUM. :mad:

Queen gets an iPod from Obama: http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/04/01/obama-gives-the-queen-of-england-an-ipod/

Apparently she already owns one though, as well as a Wii, and a Blackberry, and has her own email account.

http://www.blackbirdhome.com/

http://www.blackbirdhome.com/TELL me that's a joke!

Now they're even more of a minority; the only community to have its own browser.

Damnit. Someone develop a Worms community browser. It would be easy, just make sure it doesn't run on anything above Win98 without a patch and make it so the patch can only be downloaded through that browser.

Firstly, what on earth is the point? Secondly, why does it need its own browser? Isn't a FF skin and bunch of links in the personal toolbar thing sufficient?

Strange.

No way, man! That's just latching on the white man's supremacist ideals!

Actually, it IS just a browser built on Mozilla technology which uniformly provides its users with a series of plugins/add-ons/bookmarks/skin/etc.

Someone should make Hotbird, which would be a porn browser that put porn results higher in your searches. Much like the internet already, but it would be flesh-coloured or something.

Someone should make Hotbird, which would be a porn browser that put porn results higher in your searches. Much like the internet already, but it would be flesh-coloured or something.and all the buttons could be boobs with piercings in the shape of arrows and such! :cool:

Roll on April Fools 2010!

Roll on April Fools 2010!

I'm confused.

Are you saying Blackbird is an April Fool's joke? I'm pretty sure it's been around for a while, you know, and there are other examples such as Flock.

Maybe I have been REALLY had, but it'd be quite an elaborate joke if it's not real.

I'm confused.

Are you saying Blackbird is an April Fool's joke? I'm pretty sure it's been around for a while, you know, and there are other examples such as Flock.

Maybe I have been REALLY had, but it'd be quite an elaborate joke if it's not real.

I think he meant that Hotbird would make a nice april fool's joke for 2010. :p

Ugh, oh yeah. That's totally obvious, too (that that's what he meant, I mean).

Man, I must need way more coffee. Nothing to see here.

so. who broke the forum? :p

Has it been off for 3 full days?

If only Sel/APJ/AJP were around.

so. who broke the forum? :p

The more pressing question is: who fixed it, and where can I find them? :mad:

so. who broke the forum? :p
I didn't do it. Nobody saw me do it. You can't prove anything!
Has it been off for 3 full days?

If only Sel/APJ/AJP were around.
It seems if the database goes kaput like that, volcadmin gets a text message informing him. However, that only works when you don't leave the mobile in the office over the weekend...
The more pressing question is: who fixed it, and where can I find them? :mad:

volcadmin, T17HQ :p

Arnold Rimmer, his locker, this morning.

Mr. Green in the Library with the Pipe?

Alice, in Wonderland, with a white bunny.

Hey guys it's more wtf time: http://io9.com/5201110/terminators-%252B-transformers-%252B-crazy-wigs--kung-fu-cyborg

Oh my god.

Edit: http://kotaku.com/5202716/shadow-of-the-colossus-getting-big-screen-adaptation-all-hope-lost

oh my word.

Hey guys it's more wtf time: http://io9.com/5201110/terminators-%252B-transformers-%252B-crazy-wigs--kung-fu-cyborgoh. oh god. oh god yes! :D

Oh my god.

Edit: http://kotaku.com/5202716/shadow-of-the-colossus-getting-big-screen-adaptation-all-hope-lost

oh my word.....shadows made one of the greatest games ever. it will also make one of the WORST movies ever....

I don't think they'll be able to transmit my scorn for every single tricky timed button sequence.

Games are to painting what movies are to paintings.

Therefore, game based movies will always suck.

Or, just maybe, I'm not seeing the bigger picture; a painting about painting might be quite phenomenal.

I dunno.

Games are to painting what movies are to paintings.

Therefore, game based movies will always suck.

Or, just maybe, I'm not seeing the bigger picture; a painting about painting might be quite phenomenal.

I dunno.You've lost me. How does adding an s make a difference?

You've lost me. How does adding an s make a difference?
Games are like the act of painting while movies are like looking at paintings?

Games are like the act of painting while movies are like looking at paintings?

Yes and no.

Games are to painting (verb) what movies are to paintings (noun).

So, games are interactive, like when you paint something whereas movies are passive, like when you look at a painting.

Yes and no.

Games are to painting (verb) what movies are to paintings (noun).

So, games are interactive, like when you paint something whereas movies are passive, like when you look at a painting.

Most games don't require or let the player to be creative..
So if watching a movie is like looking at a painting, then most games are more like picking up the canvas and running around with it. :p

Maybe.

The point I was making didn't take creatvity into account, only that you can directly affect the outcome (albeit far more restricted in a game). I don't want to get too caught up in comparing every facet of each activity, though, as it was just a passing thought.

Actually your analogy works just as well, since neither would translate well into each other, or something.

I dunno. Look, the REAL issue here is that film license games suck and game license films suck.

This does not include the Mega Man X anime as that is great.

Games are to painting (verb) what movies are to paintings (noun)
That logic could get tricky with this game:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_(game)

From what I've read that game does have objectives of sorts, and there is a definite sense of progress, though I appreciate where you're coming from.

That logic could get tricky with this game:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_(game)

Yes, but that's a special case. You know you're going to have difficulties of that sort when the man responsible named himself after a character from Final Fantasy VII. :p

I'm glad I never did that. I renamed mine with obscenities, as any self-respecting teenager should.

For years I didn't know who Cloud was.

That logic could get tricky with this game:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_(game)Why hasn't anyone made an URL parser that takes in account closing parenthesis yet?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/flower_(game)

Like this?

Yes and no.

Games are to painting (verb) what movies are to paintings (noun).

So, games are interactive, like when you paint something whereas movies are passive, like when you look at a painting.
Isn'that exactly what I said?

Besides wouldn't movies be more like watching someone else paint?

Besides wouldn't movies be more like watching someone else paint?

No. Unless it was a painting designed to be watched being painted. The painting is a finished work, as is the film. And they're entirely passive (as far as anything is).

But gaming is more like watching a movie than painting a picture. It's interactive, appreciating someone else's work. It's not creative, unless it's one of those pretentious games that are creative, and that depends on the definition of 'game'.

I think we all know what he meant. the purpose of language is to get a point across. he succeeded. quit being pedantic *******s :p

But that's what we signed up for. :(

Isn'that exactly what I said?

Besides wouldn't movies be more like watching someone else paint?

Oh, so it is. I must have misread your post.

No. Unless it was a painting designed to be watched being painted. The painting is a finished work, as is the film. And they're entirely passive (as far as anything is).

But gaming is more like watching a movie than painting a picture. It's interactive, appreciating someone else's work. It's not creative, unless it's one of those pretentious games that are creative, and that depends on the definition of 'game'.

Any game with UGC can be creative. Worms, for example, is made infinitely better thanks to the creativity behind speechbanks, graves, flags, teams, schemes and maps. LittleBigPlanet is another obvious example, as well as things like Guitar Hero World Tour with it's music studio.

I know what you're saying, though, and I counter it with modern art. It's about as creative as kicking a wall, though producing modern art is still an interactive process and looking at it is still a passive act. And it gets its own special galleries.

I think we all know what he meant. the purpose of language is to get a point across. he succeeded. quit being pedantic *******s :p

But it's fun! No, you're right. Everyone else is a pedantic *******. ;)

I think there comes a time when you should just admit it was a bad comparison to begin with instead of trying to find ways of making it work. Comparisons are used to explain something in a simpler way, so having to explain the comparison just seems counter intuitive..

I know what you're saying, though, and I counter it with modern art. It's about as creative as kicking a wall, though producing modern art is still an interactive process and looking at it is still a passive act. And it gets its own special galleries.

No no no no no no no no no

The only worthwhile comparason between Games and Movies is that Games aren't Movies.

No no no no no no no no no
were emptyquoting possible, i would do so here

No no no no no no no no no

Oohhhhh yes.

http://upperjames.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/dog.jpg

Oohhhhh yes.

Damnitdamnitdamnit.

I should have picked up on that opportunity. I am so ashamed of myself. :(

Woo, internet access after five days of no internet access!

This week we closed up business for vacation, so we rented a nice small cabin in the mountains near the city of Durango, Mexico.

The place was lovely, it had solar powered lights, and a chimney for heat. Around 10 hours away from home tho, so it was a long ride Plus it was our first time coming here so it felt even longer. :p
Nights were cold and days were just about fine. It had a river crossing right next to it, and there was plenty of places to explore around. Took plenty of pictures but I have to sort them out first.

We only had it rented till today, because someone else already had booked it for today, so we came back to the city of Durango and were staying in a hotel here tonight and will head back home tomorrow.

All in all, it was a good vacation.

Damnitdamnitdamnit.

I should have picked up on that opportunity. I am so ashamed of myself. :(
i don't get it

i don't get it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchill_Insurance

UK based insurance company well-known for it's mascot, a talking bull-dog that frequenty says: "Oohhhhh yes."

Give the dog a phone.

Back home. It's hot in here. Also, still no Metallica tour date announced for Monterrey. :(

They will be playing in Mexico City(They have opened 3 dates over there), and rumor says they have been negotiating a fourth date in Monterrey, which is where I live, but nothing has been announced yet. D:

I don't see why they wouldn't come here. It would be a guaranteed full, and we have great places for it to be played on.

http://www.kirainet.com/english/amazing-stop-motion/

that is extremely neat.

Must have taken ages though.

Also ...

Also ...

how did.

what.

EDIT: also, awesome stop-motion.

Also ...

None of that applied to me. Owned :cool:

None of that applied to me. Owned :cool:

Lies!:mad::mad::mad:

None of that applied to me. Owned :cool:

Here, I edited it just for you:
http://vader.wurmz.net/images/misc/uncross.jpg

I believe the technical term would be owned.

Here, I edited it just for you:
Daaaaamn! It's like you can read my mind!

Here, I edited it just for you:
http://vader.wurmz.net/images/misc/uncross.jpg

Haha! I'm right handed! :cool:

Haha! I'm right handed! :cool:
Right handed persons most likely have their right hand on their mouse.

Right handed persons most likely have their right hand on their mouse.Good heavens, is that what kids are doing it with these days?

Right handed persons most likely have their right hand on their mouse.

Actually, that isn't always true. At least, for me it isn't.

This is all stuff we need to know. Shall we add this information under 'join date' and 'location'?

Yes .
No wait... no. That's not right...


It should be twice the size as join date/location. Yes.

Here, I edited it just for you:
http://vader.wurmz.net/images/misc/uncross.jpg

How did....

what....

You win this time, Vader.

You are now breathing manually.

You are now breathing manually.

Hah, I have been trying that one on my family recently. It does not seem to work that well though. >.>

I don't get it.

It's a subconscious suggestion.

I guess it's like a reminder that you're actually breathing, so that instead of it being a subconscious thing you aren't thinking about (automatic), you start thinking about it (manual)

Didn't work for me at fist as I didn't understand what Xinos was on about :p

That's cool. I'll try that on annoying, stupid customers.

Didn't work for me at fist as I didn't understand what Xinos was on about :p

Yes, I often have that effect on people.

I hate it when that happens, I always think about breathing at the most inoppurtune moments :p

i hate it when that happens, i always think about breathing at the most inoppurtune moments :p

HOW DO I BREETH AIR

allcaps

Like a bull in a china shop... or a supermarket
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8017391.stm

That's so cool.

So on a random nostalgia trip, I just did a spot of inventory of all my handheld-console games.

Game Boy: 16 games
Alleyway
Boxxle
Dr. Mario
French Translator
Golf
Mario & Yoshi
Othello
Pinball Fantasies
Space Invaders
Side Pocket
Super RC Pro-Am
Tennis
Tetris
Tetris 2
Worms
Yoshi's Cookie

Game Boy Color: 8 games
Chessmaster
David O'Leary's Total Soccer 2000
F1 World Grand Prix II
Jimmy White's Cueball
Micro Machines 1 and 2 Twin Turbo
Microsoft Puzzle Collection Entertainment Pack
Microsoft The Best of Entertainment Pack
Worms Armageddon

Game Boy Advance: 10 games
Advance Wars
Advance Wars 2
Columns Crown
Pinball Challenge
Puyo Pop Fever
Sheep
SimCity 2000
Sonic Advance 1
Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf
Worms World Party

DS: 25 games
Advance Wars Dark Conflict
Advance Wars Dual Strike
Age of Empires: The Age of Kings
Cars
Drawn to Life
Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training
Electroplankton
Geometry Wars Galaxies
Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
MarioKart DS
Meteos
Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt (yes I know it's a demo :p)
Polarium
Professor Layton and the Curious Village
Puyo Pop Fever
Puzzle League DS
SimCity DS
Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood
Sonic Rush
Sonic Rush Adventure
Super Monkey Ball Touch & Roll
Tetris DS
Worms Open Warfare
Worms Open Warfare 2
Zoo Keeper

I like this idea. I've only ever had a DS and a PSP (excluding the GP32 and GP2X) but for what it's worth here's my handhelds list:

DS: 13 Games
Advance Wars: Dual Strike
Drawn To Life
Electroplankton
Mario Kart DS
New Super Mario Bros.
Nintendo Touch Golf: Birdie Challenge
Nintendogs: Dalmation & Friends
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team
Pokémon Ranger
Sonic Rush
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
Worms: Open Warfare
Worms: Open Warfare 2

DS: 2 Applications
Nintendo DS Browser
Nintendo MP3 Player

PSP: 4 Games
Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness (what more do you need?)
Gitaroo Man Lives!
Infected
Lemmings

And just because I can, here's a photo of my Games Cabinet™. It's not everything (my Wii games, PS3 games and console collection aren't in there) but I love it. The left-hand box is full of peripherals (mostly SN-Pro Pads) and the right hand box is full of US SNES cartridges (plus my girlfriend's GameBoy Pocket and its games). Click for bigness:

http://vader.wurmz.net/images/misc/gamescabinet_sm.jpg (http://vader.wurmz.net/images/misc/gamescabinet.jpg)

I have a big list of retro games/consoles. It isn't quite complete, but it's only missing about 5 or 6 games (and 0 consoles).
Nintendo Entertainment System
Paperboy (NES-PY-UKV)
Snake Rattle N Roll (NES-RJ-UKV)
Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt (NES-MH-UKV)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES-UM-UKV)
Turbo racing (NES-44-UKV)

Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Battletoads in Battlemaniacs (SNSP-NX-UKV)
Donkey Kong Country (SNSP-8X-UKV)
F-Zero (SNSP-FZ-UKV)
Family Dog (SNSP-D8-UKV)
Krusty's Super Fun house (SNSP-FH-UKV)
Lamborghini American Challenge (SNSP-L8-UKV)
Mario Paint (SNSP-MP-UKV)
Nintendo Scope 6 (SNSP-LR-UKV)
Starwing (SNSP-FO-UKV)
Street Fighter II (SNSP-S2-UKV)
Super Game Boy (SNSP-A-SG-UKV)
Super Mario All Stars (SNSP-4M-UKV)
Super Mario Kart (SNSP-MK-UKV)
Super Mario World (SNSP-MW-UKV)
Super Metroid (SNSP-R1-UKV)
The Simpsons: Bart's Nightmare (SNSP-BN-NOE)
Yoshi's Safari (SNSP-RH-UKV)

Nintendo 64
007 Goldeneye (NUS-NGEP-EUR)
Diddy Kong Racing (NUS-NDYP-EUR)
F-Zero X (NUS-NFZP-EUR)
F1 Pole Position 64 (NUS-NHGP-EUR)
LEGO Racers (NUS-NLGP-EUR)
Mario Kart 64 (NUS-NKTP-EUR)
Perfect Dark (NUS-NPDP-EUR)
Pokémon Stadium (NUS-NPOP-EUR)
Super Mario 64 (NUS-NSMP-EUR)
Tetrisphere (NUS-NTPP-EUR)
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (NUS-NZLP-AUS)

Sega Master System II
Asterix (9008)
Black Belt (5054)
Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse (7053)
Laser Ghost (7074)
Lemmings (7108)
Rescue Mission (5106)
Shooting Gallery (5072)
Sonic The Hedgehog (7076)
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (9015)
Space Gun (9010)
The Terminator (27025-50)
Walt Disney's Classic The Jungle Book (27069-50)

Sega Mega Drive (I and II)
Altered Beast
Earthworm Jim
Ecco the Dolphin
Ecco: The Tides of Time
F-22 Interceptor Advanced Tactical Fighter

Sega Mega Drive (cont.)
Game Genie Video Game Enhancer
Jack Nicklaus' Power Challenge Golf
LHX Attack Chopper
McDonald's Global Gladiators
Mega Games 3
Mega Games I
Menacer 6-Game Cartridge
Micro Machines Turbo Tournament 96
Mortal Combat
PGA Tour Golf III
Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure
Sonic & Knuckles
Sonic 3
Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball
Stargate
T2: The Arcade Game
Taz in Escape from Mars
Theme Park
Worms

Sega Saturn
Daytona USA
Die Hard Trilogy
Earthworm Jim 2
Resident Evil
Sega Rally Championship
Sonic 3d Flickies' Island
Sonic Jam
Virtua Fighter
Wipeout

Sega Dreamcast
ChuChu Rocket!
Dead or Alive 2
Power Stone
Sonic Adventure
The House of the Dead 2
Worms World Party

Atari 2600
Adventure
air-sea battle
Atlantis
championship soccer
combat
Dig Dug
Frogger
Kangaroo
missile command
outlaw
pac-man
Pitfall

Atari 2600 (cont.)
Riddle of the Sphinx
Sky Skipper
Snoopy and the Red Baron
space war
super breakout
Tennis

Nintendo Famicom
Power-Joy PJ-008

Nintendo Famicom Disk System
Famicom Grand Prix II 3D Hot Rally
Super Mario Bros. + Soccer
Super Mario Bros. 2 (J)

Sega Mega-CD
Sega Classics Arcade Collection
Sonic CD
Thunderhawk

Sony Playstation
Civilization II
Crash Bandicoot 3 Warped
Overblood 2
Time Crisis

Bandai Wonderswan
Final Fantasy Chocobo Tales
Medarot - Perfect Edition - Kuwagata Version

SNK NeoGeo Pocket Color
Pac-Man
Sonic the Hedgehog Pocket Adventure

Sega Game Gear
Alien 3
G-Loc Air Battle
Lemmings
Sonic the Hedgehog (x2)
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (x2)
Streets of Rage

Amstrad GX4000
Burnin' Rubber

Nintendo Game Boy / Game Boy Color
Alien 3
Dr. Mario
F-1 Race
Game Boy Camera
Pokémon Blue
Pokémon Red
Pokémon Silver
Super Mario Land
Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3

NEC PC Engine
Adventure Island
PC Man
PC Man 2
PC Man 3

Atari Lynx
Pinball Jam
The Fidelity Ultimate Chess Challenge

Tiger Electronics Game.com
Indy 500
Lights Out
Williams Arcade Classics
And various Amiga 600/1200 games

Commodore 16 games
Commodore 64 games
Sinclair ZX81 Games
Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games
Commodore Amiga demos

(and 0 consoles)

Do you still have your Mario Paint mouse and mouse pad? I lost my pad :(

Nice collection there, though! How many are boxed with a manual?

Nice museum Muzer.

Are you guys familiar with Backloggery (http://www.backloggery.com/)?

Me neither. I'll check it out sooner or later. :p

Vader, that photo is a beautiful sight. I want to carress everything in it.

seriously. I need that cabinet :p

Do you still have your Mario Paint mouse and mouse pad? I lost my pad
Due to my age, the vast majority of these I bought used. I have a mouse, but not a pad :(

Nice collection there, though! How many are boxed with a manual?
Not many, I care more about the games than the collection status. It's just a really cheap way to play some awesome games legally.

Are you guys familiar with Backloggery (http://www.backloggery.com/)?
I've heard of that, I never got around to filling it in properly (due to the fact that I suck at most games and have only completed a few ;P)




And because I'm feeling quite decisively un-lazy, I've decided to catalogue the few not in that big catalogue. Most of these I bought with a MD II just because it had Worms with it and I wanted to see just how bad it was :p. The ones I will add (once I've finished editting this post) are:
Ecco: The Tides of Time (MD)
Jack Nicklaus' Power Challenge Golf (MD)
LHX Attack Chopper (MD)
McDonald's Global Gladiators (MD)
Mega Games 3 (MD)
Micro Machines Turbo Tournament 96 (MD)
PGA Tour Golf III (MD)
Worms (MD)
Donkey Kong Country (SNES)
Dr. Mario (GB)


YET AGAIN EDIT:

Sadly, my SNES is currently dead (from a modding accident). I could never be bothered to buy a new one, but I WANNA PLEH ON SMK :<

So how do they define "beaten", "completed" and "mastered", then?

Here's a handheld inventory, seeing as I can see the cases from here. Keep in mind that at one point I had many more games than this, but over the years I have bought, sold, and traded in many a thing.

DS
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Brain Age
Contact
Chrono Trigger
The Legend of Zelda: The Phantom Hourglass
Mario Kart DS
New Super Mario Bros
New Zealand Story Revolution
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Planet Puzzle League
Pokemon Pear
Sonic Rush
Super Princess Peach
Tetris DS
Worms: Open Warfare 2
Yoshi's Island DS

PSP
Lemmings (pre-release review copy)
Warhammer 40,000: Squad Command
Worms Open Warfare 2

Game Boy Advance
Final Fantasy VI
The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap
Payback
Pokemon LeafGreen
Qwak
Super Mario Bros.
WarioLand 4

Game Boy
Worms

Vader, that photo is a beautiful sight. I want to carress everything in it.

That's the MIMP Mega Man X and Japanese Rockman X carts talking, isn't it? Thanks! :)

Actually I need a second one to house the rest of my stuff. I don't quite have Muzer's collection but what I have I like to display in a cabinet.

Maybe I should photograph my desk, too, since it's positively littered with geeky crap (Transformers, gashapons, mini-mates, LEGO, a Mega Man figure)... but then again it might just show me up for the childish geek I am. ;)

Paul, their system works as follows:

Null
Not counted in your backlog statistics.

Unfinished
No significant accomplishments.

Beaten
The main objective has been accomplished. Usually marked by the defeat of a final boss and/or viewing of credits.

Completed
For games which are 100% done. All extras and modes have been unlocked and finished. All significant items have been collected.

Mastered
A special rank for completed games in which a difficult, user-defined challenge or speed run has been successfully finished.

I'm marking Infected (PSP) as Mastered as I did QA on it and can get through it all in about 2 hours. Unfortunately I can't mark Mega Man X as Mastered until I do the "no upgrades" run through... I must get around to that at some point.

Zombie avatar maker! http://www.popcap.com/promos/pvz/

So how do they define "beaten", "completed" and "mastered", then?
Unfinished - No significant accomplishments. What injustice did these poor games commit to incur such neglect? No one knows for sure. They now spend their days sitting on shelves, silently crying out to be played. The most unfortunate are still encased in their shrink wrap tombs, having never even once been nestled in the warm embrace of a game system that has been powered on.

Beaten - The main objective has been accomplished. Usually marked by the defeat of a final boss and/or viewing of credits. You've stormed the castle, rescued the girl, and saved the universe from the clutches of an unspeakable evil. Consider yourself a hero! Some games don't have that obvious climactic victory, but chances are, you can find some goal to reach before considering it beaten.

Completed - For games which are 100% done. All extras and modes have been unlocked and finished. All significant items have been collected. Are you a completionist? Spent the extra time so you could say you did everything? Or maybe there just wasn't a whole lot to do outside of beating the final boss. Either way, nothing is more satisfying than a good ol' 100%.

Mastered is a special status for Completed games, marked by a crystal icon. Master crystals are earned by challenging yourself beyond a game's usual scope. For example, you could pass up health expansions to limit yourself to the least possible health throughout the game, or you could use the weakest equipment. Speed runs are also a great idea. Be creative and push your skills to the limit!

I have very little Handheld games, and I keep track of them all in my Mobygames profile (http://www.mobygames.com/user/sheet/view/havelist/userSheetId,65089/), so here's a copy-paste:

Game Boy (2 games total)
F-1 Race
Pokémon Blue

Game Boy Advance (6 games total)
Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising
Earthworm Jim 2
F-Zero: Maximum Velocity
Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX
Super Mario Advance
Worms World Party

Game Boy Color (1 games total)
Earthworm Jim: Menace 2 the Galaxy

Yeah my parents were cheapskates so I didn't get a lot of games, I usually had to borrow them. :p

We on IRC laughed at the new thread title. Approved. :p

My handheld catalogue so far is:

DSi:
Chrono Trigger
Peggle: Dual Shot
GTA: Chinatown Wars
Bird and Beans (Dsiware)
Brain Age Express: Math (Dsiware)

:p

Oh right, also:

GameGear:
Castle of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse

Although I don't have a GameGear. Never had it even. I don't know where this game came from...

Aww, I have a broken GameGear upstairs somewhere too. It's been that way ever since I lent it to a schoolmate's sister in 1999 or something silly like that. :(

Not that many games to go with it because I mostly borrowed them from my two cousins who had what appeared to be all of them, but there should be around a dozen, many of them Sonic games. Oh and Robocod, which was awesome. Also Ecco the Dolphin. And Devilish, a freaky flipper game that I remember being extremely hard. Good times!

We on IRC laughed at the new thread title. Approved. :p

I aim to please.

I aim to please.who are you and what have you done with andrewtaylor?

I got a free Utili-key (http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/tools/6d98/) with my accumulated Geek Points. 'spretty rad. I mean, how handy is it to have all of these things in the same place as your car keys? You're never without them.

still annoys me that I once had 5500 geek points and forgot to buy random crap till I went over 6000 for the uber laser pointer of pointlessness.

how good is chinatown wars?

Very good so far. :cool:

Listen to this speech about how easy it is to make money using Google. Every sentence sounds like a direct tug at moody public thoughts. The guy pops up in the bottom right corner after a few seconds.

http://google-moneytree.com/

Listen to this speech about how easy it is to make money using Google. Every sentence sounds like a direct tug at moody public thoughts. The guy pops up in the bottom right corner after a few seconds.

http://google-moneytree.com/
hahahahaha

I like how the 'offer ends in' timer starts from 10:00 every time you refresh the page.

I like how the 'offer ends in' timer starts from 10:00 every time you refresh the page.
i sure hope you're not implying this isn't a great offer

I like how the 'offer ends in' timer starts from 10:00 every time you refresh the page.

Oh bugger. I thought I was signing up for lots of different truly great offers. :(

Oh bugger. I thought I was signing up for lots of different truly great offers. :(

You may already be a winrar.

You may already be a winrar.Do I get a set of books?

Yes! Belt and buckle not included though.

On a completely unrelated note, this is rather awesome; http://binsybaby.livejournal.com/597341.html

Anyone up for attempting something like this? That was made by just two people, but I'm sure any number of participants will do fine. Comics and games are of certain popularity here, and many variations have been tried.. but I don't think this particular combination has been tried yet?

Yes! Belt and buckle not included though.

On a completely unrelated note, this is rather awesome; http://binsybaby.livejournal.com/597341.html

Anyone up for attempting something like this? That was made by just two people, but I'm sure any number of participants will do fine. Comics and games are of certain popularity here, and many variations have been tried.. but I don't think this particular combination has been tried yet?
Something like this?
http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=34127

Something like this?
http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=34127
I like the first one better. :P
http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18011
It continued from other thread but I'm yet to find it. :p

edit: Ah, it started here: http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17910

Fun days. :p

Wow days when we actually had an attention span. :p

Unlike now when we're happily killing this thread: http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=38289

Edit: Oh gawd my contributions to those threads were terrible. I hate seeing my past self. :p

I think that first battle royale was pretty much the highest high point this forum ever had. Even if it did get out of hand towards the end...

mocoworm was such a dude. *sigh*

Speaking of comics, I highly recommend this to anyone that has read Watchmen: http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/42433.html

Something like this?
http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=34127

Yeah kinda, but not with sigworms. Just like the classic "write a paragraph of the story and send it on" game but with a comic. Perhaps 2-6 people so it doesn't take ages to get your turn again.

We'd need to some kind of standard for how to draw because everybody's style is so different. That or we let the comic change appearance completely every panel :p

I've realized that I'm in a sticky situation and I need some outside perspective, I think. I don't usually come to you guys for help, but I need someone who isn't biased and you guys also have a good track record for telling me if I'm being an idiot.

anyway, let's get this wall of text on the road.

I'm trying to figure out what I want in life, I think. As you all should know by this point, I'm married. I've been married for 2 years now and mostly without any hiccups. Unfortunately, I've grown bored. I've grown bored in general, honestly. I'm awaiting college later on in the year to help aid with this boredom because I've realized that I'm bored due to a complete lack of challenges in my life. The problem, though, is that I'm also feeling the same lack of challenge from my wife. We have a number of things in common but I'm starting to think it's all the peripheral things rather than the core things. Who I am is fairly well summed up in my main interests. I enjoy participating in sarcastic/witty conversation to challenge my thinking speed. I enjoy video games to test my coordination and regular thought processes. I enjoy art to challenge my creativity and I enjoy karate to challenge my body physically....my wife, however, enjoys none of these things.

we get along just fine. we make great friends and room mates if absolutely nothing else, my concern is that we aren't quite cut out to be married and that our relationship thus far has been more riding on how great we are as room mates.

however, there's a hitch in my thinking. I've got another friend who I've been best friends with since nearly as long as I've been with my wife. We get along great and she's rather attractive. She also possesses a flair for witty conversation, a love of video games and the culture surrounding such, and a skill in art. We've both had a mutual attraction going for....a good long while now. it's mostly been irrelevant (we accepted that we liked each other and just basically let it sit there, preferring to be good friends), but as things progress I realize more and more the missing qualities in my wife that I see in my friend. Things that are by no means exclusive to just this friend, but things that I'm finding it harder and harder to imagine being happy if my wife doesn't possess them.

I'm not sure how much of this confusion is caused simply by my attraction for this friend and how much of it is actual concern. I'm worried that my brain is harping on "SHINY! NEW! FUN!" rather than intelligent decision making leading to my ultimate happiness. either way, this leaves me with a number of bad choices to make. I still love my wife and have the utmost respect for her. my concern is simply that we aren't cut out for each other. Now, if I still feel for her, is it right to let her go because I'm not sure she's what I want? I'm sure I could be content staying how I am, but I'm not sure if I'd be actually happy. I'm worried that if I throw what I have to the side that I'll later look back and regret having done so because it's the best I can get and I'm just too young to realize it. However, by the same coin, I'm worried that if I DON'T leave I'll be stuck in mediocrity for the rest of my life, feeling bored and unchallenged. On top of everything is the constant nagging doubt that I'm even actually worried about making this decision rather than just worried about "getting some" from my attractive friend. I don't want to be that kind of guy, but don't trust myself completely enough to forego the idea completely. How much of this decision-making process is me and how much is me forcing my own desires onto myself so that I can still wear some arbitrary tag of righteousness? for that matter, how much of this is me and how much is my desire for something new?

I'm lost here and need a pointing in the right direction. I can elaborate further on anything that needs to be, and given my frazzled mind right now I fully expect I left a number of confusing points, so please forgive those.

what do you guys think I should do? even giving me something to consider in my trek for a final decision will be greatly appreciated, no matter how minor it seems.

In 10 years' time, which decision do you think you would regret making most?

Sounds like you need a bit of spice in your life. I think I read somewhere that 2 years is the point where the 'original spark' tends to wear off. I feel like an agony aunt in a women's magazine but maybe both of you should try a bit harder at having a relationship - go out to meals, do the things you used to do (including 'bedroom duties').

The stupid thing to do would be to make the decision too early, or too late. You need to take your time and decide. Either way, I think being closer to your wife by doing more things together might help that.

Or be a polygamist... you should at least bark up the threesome tree first.

I should feel bad suggesting that... but it's only a joke.

At first you should make sure that your wife doesn't read that post.
Otherwise you might not need to make a decision at all. :p

But anyway, you should try to switch away from your perspective.
What are her interests that don't interest you? You might want to do something with her.
I doubt that she doesn't have any interests at all.

Also, think back what you did when you met her. I don't think you were playing computer, drawing paintings and exchanging karate chops.

You could also do like I did and have unprotected sex and get a baby.
Will get you a lot of things in common and you'll have a common enemy that you can blame everything on. ;)

You could also do like I did and have unprotected sex and get a baby.
Very subtle way of saying it bonz :p

Very subtle way of saying it bonz :p
I've read an article that couples who get a child earlier in their relationship have less problems than couples who have been together for quite some time and approach things more slowly.

Maybe if you stop wearing that ridiculous viking helmet...

In all seriousness, you should do as bonz says and try to spend more time with your wife, find more things you have in common. You should look back and remember why you married her in the first place. Unless you were drunk in las vegas...
And as bonz says, you should explore the possibility of having a kid. At the very least it will keep you distracted for 20 or so years. :P

however, there's a hitch in my thinking. I've got another friend who I've been best friends with since nearly as long as I've been with my wife. We get along great and she's rather attractive. She also possesses a flair for witty conversation, a love of video games and the culture surrounding such, and a skill in art. We've both had a mutual attraction going for....a good long while now. it's mostly been irrelevant (we accepted that we liked each other and just basically let it sit there, preferring to be good friends), but as things progress I realize more and more the missing qualities in my wife that I see in my friend. Things that are by no means exclusive to just this friend, but things that I'm finding it harder and harder to imagine being happy if my wife doesn't possess them.

i can almost guarantee that this is a situation where the grass seems greener on the other side. instead of pursuing something rash, i think you need to have some serious frank conversations with your wife about the state of your marriage and see if she is feeling the same way. if so, some sort of counseling may be in order


You could also do like I did and have unprotected sex and get a baby.
Will get you a lot of things in common and you'll have a common enemy that you can blame everything on. ;)

did you wind up getting married?

In 10 years' time, which decision do you think you would regret making most?that's a question I've been asking myself and I can't think of an answer to, honestly.

The stupid thing to do would be to make the decision too early, or too late. You need to take your time and decide. Either way, I think being closer to your wife by doing more things together might help that.yeah, my plan thus far has been to try out going to college where I CAN feel challenged and my life will be interesting again and then see if I'm still bored with just her or if it was just the rest of everything being bored. my issue with this plan, though, is it doesn't feel quite fair. seems kinda wrong to drag her along with me, taking her away from everything and everyone just to later decide that it wasn't going to happen anyway.

Or be a polygamist... you should at least bark up the threesome tree first.

I should feel bad suggesting that... but it's only a joke.actually, my wife has said before that she's up for that sort of thing. I've also got free rein with the friend I've been talking about as well. my wife understands that we are rather young and my body's still screaming at me to go out and screw anything with boobs :p said friend is also up for the idea. the way things have been going I've got a fair chance of sleeping with her within the next week or two, and I've been making myself wait until after that as well to see if that helps out with any of my boredom.

But anyway, you should try to switch away from your perspective.
What are her interests that don't interest you? You might want to do something with her.
I doubt that she doesn't have any interests at all.actually been thinking of that as well. what she's interested in is her social life, really. she likes her family her friends and her pets. this is one reason I feel so worried about all this mess. if I stay with her I'll be taking her away from all of these things. I doubt her cats will be able to follow us off to college, and neither of us have any idea what we can do with them. she goes to her family for practically everything and again, they won't be able to follow us. she hates new places where she knows no one, so this is one reason why I'm trying to figure all this mess in my head out before going. I don't want to take her away from everything just to have her come back later on. doesn't seem fair. the only other real serious interest of hers is reading. which is something I do, but something we can't really share any form of interest in.

Also, think back what you did when you met her. I don't think you were playing computer, drawing paintings and exchanging karate chops.we met in high school, so we were just being friends there, and as I mentioned, we make great friends. all we used to do alone is watch movies. we still do that from time to time, but it kinda gets overly repetative over time. that's one of my issues here. I'd like to find something more for us to do given how our situation has changed, but she's not interested in any of the things I do with my friends.

You could also do like I did and have unprotected sex and get a baby.
Will get you a lot of things in common and you'll have a common enemy that you can blame everything on. ;)

I've read an article that couples who get a child earlier in their relationship have less problems than couples who have been together for quite some time and approach things more slowly.I'd rather like to wait until I have some vague chance of being able to afford a kid, thanks. college is gunna be hectic enough WITHOUT a kid.

and thanks in general for the wide array of opinions here. I'll definitely take everything you've said into consideration.

Maybe if you stop wearing that ridiculous viking helmet...

In all seriousness, you should do as bonz says and try to spend more time with your wife, find more things you have in common. You should look back and remember why you married her in the first place. Unless you were drunk in las vegas...
And as bonz says, you should explore the possibility of having a kid. At the very least it will keep you distracted for 20 or so years. :PMtl, after a night spent thinking, you've hit the nail on the head here.

I spent the night thinking back to what made our relationship work in the first place...and I realized...it was school. our relationship is entirely based on how we were in school (hanging out with friends, seeing each other alone once in a while an watching a movie or two together then being apart again until the next day). after we graduated we spent our time in very similar circumstances up until the point where we moved in together and later got married. after that point and up until the present we've been basically just living like room mates. We've never bothered to stop and really work out what to do together, we just kinda ran with it. we spend enough time together to be happy and then leave each other to do what they will.

now that I've realized that I've talked to her about the matter and we realize that we don't have a damn common interest between us, really. the circumstances of our relationship are just so strange that it's actually never come up. now that we realize this, we're going to put forth an effort to find something we both enjoy doing. hopefully we find something, but if not then we'll have to see how things go at that point.

this is going to be interesting, lol.

I feel immeasurably stupid for never realizing any of this, btw, so you don't have to mock me for it, I promise. I don't understand, myself, how we got this far without running into this issue.

our relationship is entirely based on how we were in school
Well, wouldn't going to college be a solution of some sort then?
Assuming that you both go to college, you would both have no one that you know, so you could take it as new start.

Honda makes really awesome TV ads (remember that Crazy Machine-esque ad with all the parts of a Honda car):
http://vimeo.com/4281939
I really like how they "hijacked" the Vimeo page (similar like Nintendo did with that Wario Shake It ad on YouTube).

Making of:
http://vimeo.com/4295148

I know you've already made your decision, but I still think I should point this out:

actually, my wife has said before that she's up for that sort of thing. I've also got free rein with the friend I've been talking about as well. my wife understands that we are rather young and my body's still screaming at me to go out and screw anything with boobs :p said friend is also up for the idea. the way things have been going I've got a fair chance of sleeping with her within the next week or two, and I've been making myself wait until after that as well to see if that helps out with any of my boredom.Don't.

It's good that you're open about this, but no matter how much both sides are in agreement and how much you're screaming for boobs, just don't. It won't fix anything, at most it'll just kill your curiosity. Plus if you really love each other, you will eventually regret what you did, no matter how open you all were about the whole thing.

I know a couple that went through the same, they were getting bored with each other and thought the solution was to bone other people. Nothing serious, they'd still love each other and stay together, but get to bone other people too. Guess what? It hasn't changed a thing. They're still bored with each other and their relationship is still on thin ice.

Nothing wrong with polygamy, mind. It is possible, but definitely not out of boredom.

NONSENSE!

While I agree that getting it on with different people, each person separately, could hardly help a marriage, I think a threesome is a very different scenario and can actually spice things up a bit. Just don't go crazy with them.

actually, my wife has said before that she's up for that sort of thing.

That's a once in a lifetime opportunity. Do that (as many times as you can) and then get a kitten with your wife. The rest will happen naturally, whatever the outcome.

Problem solved.

Heh, one of my friends first time was a threesome. Way to begin.

Was the forum turned into a sitcom while it was down? :p

http://www.blogpirate.org/2009/05/10/pirate-bay-founder-crafts-distributed-denial-of-dollars-attack/
This just seems dumb. He will probably just end up getting convicted for promoting economic terrorism.

I know you've already made your decision, but I still think I should point this out:

Don't.

It's good that you're open about this, but no matter how much both sides are in agreement and how much you're screaming for boobs, just don't. It won't fix anything, at most it'll just kill your curiosity. Plus if you really love each other, you will eventually regret what you did, no matter how open you all were about the whole thing.

I know a couple that went through the same, they were getting bored with each other and thought the solution was to bone other people. Nothing serious, they'd still love each other and stay together, but get to bone other people too. Guess what? It hasn't changed a thing. They're still bored with each other and their relationship is still on thin ice.

Nothing wrong with polygamy, mind. It is possible, but definitely not out of boredom.no, no, no. you've mistaken the whole concept. my wife is up for the idea of a threesome and for me sleeping with someone else if I ever decide that's something I want to try. this was decided between us a long time ago and is entirely unrelated to the current situation. if me and my friend DO decide to sleep with each other it will only be a solution to one extremely minor aspect of my boredom, I promise. it will most likely not effect this current problem in the slightest. after contemplating mtl's comment I can say with assurance that said friend is in no way responsible for the situation, despite my earlier concerns (and trust me, among everything I thought about, that was in the forefront).

as for the rest of the goings on, we've been talking about this whole thing and we really don't know anything that we're both interested in aside from the odd activity and such. we're re-evaluating our relationship and trying to decide one way or another about the whole mess now that we've realized what's happening. not sure if we just need to figure out something to do as a couple or if we just need to realize we've grown out of each other and that we've been nothing but room mates this whole time, but either way we're well on the road to figuring out where we think we should go.

again, thanks for the help, guys. good to know I have another outside source for help in these sorts of things. I'll keep you all updated once we finally come to a decision on what it is we feel is best for the both of us.

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

Do not let the fact that this video is in german deter you from watching it all the way to the end.

Stanley knife + German's brain = comedy gold.

And it just gets better from there on in.

Awesome video. Klaus was a tit.

Hahahahaha (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/10/barack-obama-correspondents-dinner-jokes)

Hahahahaha (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/10/barack-obama-correspondents-dinner-jokes)

Uh oh, you all know what happened last time (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai9apqDUDB8) a world leader started telling jokes.

Edit:
http://www.leapsecond.com/great2005/tour/
Yay, somebody finally tested this! (it's important to save in on every nanosecond you can! :p)
I've always wanted someone to do this experiment, though I wanted to take a bunch of clocks to the north pole and compare it to clocks at the equator. No idea how you'd pull it off though without messing up the data. You would probably have to keep the clocks there for so long that the transportation time of the clocks barely means anything.

Aku in a Google Chrome commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgsYv6FPP_8

The rest of them are pretty cool too.

XD haha! nice!

Edit:
http://www.leapsecond.com/great2005/tour/
Yay, somebody finally tested this! (it's important to save in on every nanosecond you can! :p)
I've always wanted someone to do this experiment, though I wanted to take a bunch of clocks to the north pole and compare it to clocks at the equator. No idea how you'd pull it off though without messing up the data. You would probably have to keep the clocks there for so long that the transportation time of the clocks barely means anything.

The kids have seen Super-Size Me so we don't stop at McDonald's anymore.

*facepalm*

*facepalm*woooooooow.....that's a special kind of stupid...

And yet he was wise enough to set up triple redundancy on his atomic clock's power source...

The mind boggles.

The latest ThinkGeek item upon which I saw fit to splurge is the Smart Mass (http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/cubegoodies/5ac8/), in the Atmosphere color. It doesn't disappoint. :cool:

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

Do not let the fact that this video is in german deter you from watching it all the way to the end.
Yeah, Staplerfahrer Klaus has been a comedy classic since its release in 2000.
Here's a version with English subtitles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr3QwofYfHs

Fun thing is, that the DVD comes with 120 minutes of specials, making-ofs and other short films, as opposed to the 9 minute "feature movie".

BTW, you should buy the DVD.
http://www.staplerfahrerklaus.de/mittelframeset_engl.html
The making-of alone is worth it. :)

Good lord.

(it's important to save in on every nanosecond you can! :p)

By going to an environment with less oxygen and a car idling for two days. They might've saved more nanoseconds of their lives with the McDonalds thing. :p

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*letters through door*
UKIP flyer - fcuk that
BNP flyer - double fcuk that

Right, that's it. We need A Plan to stop the UKIP and BNP at these coming European elections. Not sure whether to vote Labour or Lib Dem in them though (although I guess the sane thing to do would be to actually look and see who the candidates are and what the policies are...)

EDIT: Well the Lib Dems haven't chosen their Welsh candidates yet so. The Welsh Labour ones look like a decent bunch (then again, Welsh Labour is a bit different from Labour. It still has a soul :p)

I now own a pair of glasses for wearing at the PC.

They feel weird and so far I'm not sure they're helping. I guess prolonged use will settle that one, though.

We need A Plan to stop the UKIP and BNP at these coming European elections.Perhaps you should just let the voters decide. That's how it works.

*letters through door*
UKIP flyer - fcuk that
BNP flyer - double fcuk that

Right, that's it. We need A Plan to stop the UKIP and BNP at these coming European elections. Not sure whether to vote Labour or Lib Dem in them though (although I guess the sane thing to do would be to actually look and see who the candidates are and what the policies are...)

EDIT: Well the Lib Dems haven't chosen their Welsh candidates yet so. The Welsh Labour ones look like a decent bunch (then again, Welsh Labour is a bit different from Labour. It still has a soul :p)

Labour won't have much luck at the elections. Let's see: Financial ruin of Britain, MPs' expenses, Gurkhas not being allowed in, and to top it all off the petition with the highest number of signatures on number10.gov.uk is asking Brown to resign.

Go figure. I sure as hell am not voting Labour.