Walsingham

A pig in your living room is more startling than a cobra in the forest. Doesn't make it more serious a threat.

To be brutally honest _I_ don't think you're serious. And if I don't neither Obsidian nor Bethesda are going to. If they want to do MP then they can and will pay for a proven talent to do it. If you really are serious you should go to a smaller indie developer and prove your chops there. If you're not serious then stop spamming the board. Some folks genuinely do come here to get noticed, and you're making life harder for them.

Funnily enough all I smell is a man who hasn't mastered the arcane art of getting people to do things because they are fun and challenging. It's perfectly possible. _You_ simply can't do it. Which begs the question why you're so proud of that fact. Although it does explain why you are so hostile to the suggestion that it's easy.

Unfortunately for you, my dried husk of a human, I am a former sports coach and teacher. I _know_ I could do that and have them scrambling up and down trees or chasing squirrels in short order. Probably not immediately, but it's certainly feasible. I any case, my hitlerjugend forming capabilities aside, the format works right now. People do commit time and energy to challenges. They do exhibit pride in them. in Red Orchestra my clan took enormous satisfaction in being able to prove they had shot x tank commanders from their cupolas. Others felt similarly about kills with the PTRD, and so on.

I'd be very careful about agreeing with WoD. He'd cheerfully let a man get hit by lightning, even if he lived in the same tree. It's fascinating to me but so far as I can establish he simply refuses to accept the existence of second order effects. I've given up worrying about him. ~~~ However, Bel Canto, I accept your point about perhaps seeing our way through a lot of pain as something we could do with open eyes. My objection to this is, as I am musing over my newspapers, is that the choice need not be binary: crash or burn money. A crash over an extended duration is a braking manoeuvre. Maybe we should be looking to let Greece collapse, but in a mediated fashion. Do this slowly enough, and maybe we can all survive.

I saw it in a dusty cellar, in house from the French colonial area - in downtown Pondicherry, which really helped set the mood. But it really is a remarkable movie. So no, you're not a snob. To me Pondicherry always sounds like a small town in Wales.

Ugh. Everything is so interconnected, I wonder if failure cascades aren't inevitable. Trouble is I don't see how you'd stop it from happening.

Excellent. 'Aircan' it is. I had thought of 'Skyweasel', but yours is better.

Seriously. Airbus is a terrible name. No bloke in a thousand dollar suit wants to buy buses. Buses are for poor people, and travelling mass murderers.

Here. ere eh

Well, it's cool to have him on the team at all.

That sucks. You must need to wee all the time.

I must have one of those brainslug wool hats.

What puzzles me, as a novice to Euro politics, is how Merkel is driving this whole Deutschland Unter Alles approach. The Russians and Chinese have (so I'm told) taken the view that they can simply let Greece and Italy go to wall then buy all the bits at knockdown rates. Lower risk on the final product. I also find it interest how the polemic swirls around the issue like smoke round a burning house. I overheard some people in the pub revealing that Greek state railway employees were on an AVERAGE salary of 60k. This sort of thing ha the inevitable consequence of making me regard the whole sorry lot as a bad job, and a crash as the ineluctible consequence.

Borderlands, baby. A lot more fun than I was expecting.

Maybe there are indeed things in the Universe that are best left untouched. Maybe native Aussies and Kiwis just have some kind of genetic disposition towards the game. I look at the screen and see nothing, yet they (the natives) will go Ooh!, Yay! and Ahh! simultaneously, like some kind of secret handshake or message passing between them Just treat it like opera. You don't need to understand the words to enjoy the experience.

As awkward as it is financially, I have to applaud the decision by Greece to have a referendum. This way the people who want it both ways will have to make a ****ing choice, and the government can get on with going one way or another. Plus there's this thing I heard about called 'democracy'. Apparently the Greeks invented it, but the EU doesn't want them using it.

Tell her not to. ~ Gorth. Speaking as an English gentleman I must urge you not to try and understand cricket. That is what umpires and commentators are for. Cricket is to be enjoyed, not understood. ~~ I don't know if it's something to do with having three different jobs of work on, but I'm ravenously hungry all the bloody time.

Too knackered. I had resolved to give any visiting parents of children martinis. No one showed.

We could always start, and if Blank comes back let him take over? What if we kicked off with something really simple, like a house full of spiders?

I ought really to have chosen a less contentious subject by way of illustration. Like the council planning department or somesuch. So, we have an element of: - payment - exchange of products or services - a reciprocal exchange of duties in the processing of the relationship (cal's example) I may be dragging things off beam, but I suggest that as well as paying for the items exchanged one always pays for the way in which the exchange occurs. We like to exchnage in a pleasant environment, to be taken seriously, to receive subservience (not including deviants). Cal's example is one of people attempting to get more from their exchange with MacD's than they have paid for. They want to dawdle and luxuriate in their freedom of choice. To make the order clerk jump back and forth. In fact I don't know why it's never occurred to me before, but I wonder how much of the public's fascination with big fast food is a quasi S&M desire to find someone who can be ordered around?

It's funny isn't it. Rejection must be one of the few things which doesn't get better with practice! ~ Up betimes and to work as normal. A variety of thinsg on my plate, all pretty interesting. Still paniciking about the general economy, or at least its deletrious effect on the midddle management of this moronic country. There's a couple of million middle aged men and women who could use having Malcador's motivational message branded on their arms with hot irons. ~ Nep, Raithe, for God's sake move on. Enough said.

I have to say that trailer left me grinning. I would probably go see it.

Well the commonest view, which I think is a misconception, is that one pays for something. But that's balls, surely? Example: a soldier goes to his pay clerk and takes ten shillings. He walks out the door and the next day he attacks a fort with bullets and all whatnot flying about. Now, has the clerk become his customer? Is his colonel his customer? He is the bugger ordering him about. Simply exchanging money with someone does not make one person a customer and the other a vendor.

I swear to you I never met the donkey before...