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o1s1n

'Film buff' and 'foodie' also make me want to remove my ears with a cheese grater.

Steve X2

o1s1n wrote: »

'Film buff' and 'foodie' also make me want to remove my ears with a cheese grater.

Yep, that one gets me.

In fairness, I'm a foodie. I eat at least 2-3 times a day and not all the same type of food.

Nerdkiller1991

o1s1n wrote: »

'Film buff' and 'foodie' also make me want to remove my ears with a cheese grater.

Film buff...that used to be a thing...then Letterboxd and Netflix happened...

DinoRex

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A21wxZKiao8

Sparks43

Oh crud.

Think I may be going a bit mad.

After 21 years since I refused a college place in the sciences I'm now going for it as a mature student.

White coat here I come

johnny_ultimate

There was this great piece on Vice Gaming a while back, which is just the perfect, definitive demolishing of GG's grotesque hypocrisies and idiocy.

http://www.vice.com/read/milo-yiannopoulos-twitter-ban-highlights-gamergates-ongoing-struggle-for-direction-451

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

o1s1n wrote: »

'Film buff' and 'foodie' also make me want to remove my ears with a cheese grater.

I don't mind those. TBF, don't know anyone who calls themselves a foodie and the only person I call a movie buff is my dad, but I can totally understand them annoying you or any other terms. Pass the grater this way when people use girl gamer or otaku.
It reminds me of if you ever say you like to draw "oh you're an artist? Draw me a picture". Ah sure, each to their own.

DinoRex wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A21wxZKiao8

I'm in tears from laughing, thanks so much for that!

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

Sparks43 wrote: »

Oh crud.
Think I may be going a bit mad.
After 21 years since I refused a college place in the sciences I'm now going for it as a mature student.
White coat here I come

No way! That's great news! I often meet people in work that say it's too late so I'll be saying that to them, maybe they might get inspired .
I hope it all goes well for you, keep me updated.

CiDeRmAn

Well, I've described myself as a gamer for decades now.
It's certainly better than some of the more derogatory terms I've been called, working in a place where most of the staff were into sports and drink, back when I was more interested in Sega and Nintendo.
Film buff, when did that become a bad thing?
A person who enjoys film and knows a lot about it...
Foodie, a food buff, same thing.
It's not an attempt to pigeon hole or stereotype anybody, it's just a way, for me at least, to be describe what one of my primary interests is and how important it is to me.
I paint, but I find it difficult to call myself a painter or, heaven forbid, an artist. If asked, I say I like to paint, but I do love it as a past time and it plays an important part in who I am now. I think my reluctance to call myself either is from my lack of training and the frankly amateur nature of my work, so in that regard I am more comfortable just saying "I paint".
I won't do similar with games, saying "I play videogames", rather it means more than just that, I collect, I've an interest in the history, the interesting (to me at least) tales of travelling to pick something up and so on.

CiDeRmAn

Sparks43 wrote: »

Oh crud.

Think I may be going a bit mad.

Not to worry
I can get you tablets for that...
Some of them you can even swallow....

A little Haloperidol 5mg and some Chlorpromazine 25mg bd to get you started...

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I paint, but I find it difficult to call myself a painter or, heaven forbid, an artist. If asked, I say I like to paint, but I do love it as a past time and it plays an important part in who I am now. I think my reluctance to call myself either is from my lack of training and the frankly amateur nature of my work, so in that regard I am more comfortable just saying "I paint".

I'm surprised to read that, wouldn't say your pieces are amateur at all. I don't think you need any training, even with it there's always a learning curve as you're making things. I'd hope to be half as good as you some day (and I probably would of I kept at it, I got disheartened a few times over the years).
To me someone that expresses themselves through art is enough to say you're an artist. Although I wouldn't be jumping to call myself one either even though I feel it's such a part of myself but wouldn't refuse it if I was called one.
Once I'm not called too early in the morning I don't mind what I'm called tbf jkjk.

DinoRex

You're not real gamer unless you dress like a gamer.

Atavan-Halen

That jumper is so cheesy, I love it!

Sparks43

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy wrote: »

No way! That's great news! I often meet people in work that say it's too late so I'll be saying that to them, maybe they might get inspired .
I hope it all goes well for you, keep me updated.

Its all ready to go just need to run and get a form signed early in the morning

Im excited and anyone who is willing can do this or any other course that they are passionate about

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Not to worry
I can get you tablets for that...
Some of them you can even swallow....

A little Haloperidol 5mg and some Chlorpromazine 25mg bd to get you started...

Give it time i might just take you up on that

Or just make my own lol

SparkingBad the new series from AMC :P

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

Sparks43 wrote: »

Its all ready to go just need to run and get a form signed early in the morning
Im excited and anyone who is willing can do this or any other course that they are passionate about

Great stuff, I'll try get you something for your study, like a nice pen or something if I see it, my bestie is just starting a course too, looking for something nice for them.
I'm starting a short course in October myself and doing SAFE talk on Wednesday. (It's free if anyone was thinking about it, it's 1 day, about 4 hours)
If it ever gets a bit much and you need a pep talk lemme know, I wish someone had done it for me instead of the "just get on with it" attitude.

eddhorse

Best of luck Sparks !! Onwards and Upwards

Sparks43

Induction at 12 :eek:

Feck that can still taste the toothpaste

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

I know you're all fans of Big :pac:

Corholio

Although I'm not overly amazed at Sonic Mania so far, the Collector's Edition for North America looks pretty cool.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

Corholio wrote: »

Although I'm not overly amazed at Sonic Mania so far, the Collector's Edition for North America looks pretty cool.

I had it up on the Sonic Mania thread, raging it's not coming the EU. sniper_samurai said there was a discount with prime I think. I'm far too lazy to find it though but it's in Gaming General.

Nerdkiller1991

Ehhh, for me, if it doesn't have a physical copy, it ain't worth it.

Atavan-Halen

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy wrote: »

I had it up on the Sonic Mania thread, raging it's not coming the EU. sniper_samurai said there was a discount with prime I think. I'm far too lazy to find it though but it's in Gaming General.

It's $90 (Canadian dollars) on Amazon.ca if anyone wants me to ship over a copy. Postage from Canada is slow and expensive though.

Doge

Atavan-Halen wrote: »

It's $90 (Canadian dollars) on Amazon.ca if anyone wants me to ship over a copy. Postage from Canada is slow and expensive though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FEW5mh7iAI

o1s1n

I was trying to order a takeaway the other night and my credit card was declined. Thought this was odd, so tried to buy something on ebay, declined again.

Freaking out at this stage (and really bloody hungry!) I rang the bank to ask wtf was going on and it turns out my card was frozen due to apparent 'fraudulent activity'

So we went through every transaction and got to the fraudulent one, for the almighty sum of a dollar.

Humble Bundle.

I had to confirm that I was going to take responsibility for this $1 transaction and that they wouldn't be held responsible if it did actually turn out to be fraud.

So yep folks, be careful when ordering Humble Bundle offers, especially if you're hungry and about to order a takeaway

Steve X2

o1s1n wrote: »

I was trying to order a takeaway the other night and my credit card was declined. Thought this was odd, so tried to buy something on ebay, declined again.

Freaking out at this stage (and really bloody hungry!) I rang the bank to ask wtf was going on and it turns out my card was frozen due to apparent 'fraudulent activity'

So we went through every transaction and got to the fraudulent one, for the almighty sum of a dollar.

Humble Bundle.

I had to confirm that I was going to take responsibility for this $1 transaction and that they wouldn't be held responsible if it did actually turn out to be fraud.

So yep folks, be careful when ordering Humble Bundle offers, especially if you're hungry and about to order a takeaway

I bought a Surface Pro 4 using my card the other week, no probs. Bought a 10 euro thing on eBay, card locked and had to ring to get it sorted :0/

Doge

o1s1n wrote: »

I was trying to order a takeaway the other night and my credit card was declined. Thought this was odd, so tried to buy something on ebay, declined again.

Freaking out at this stage (and really bloody hungry!) I rang the bank to ask wtf was going on and it turns out my card was frozen due to apparent 'fraudulent activity'

So we went through every transaction and got to the fraudulent one, for the almighty sum of a dollar.

Humble Bundle.

I had to confirm that I was going to take responsibility for this $1 transaction and that they wouldn't be held responsible if it did actually turn out to be fraud.

So yep folks, be careful when ordering Humble Bundle offers, especially if you're hungry and about to order a takeaway

Had to do the exact same thing a week or 2 ago.

One thing it may have been though is my old card expired recently, i wonder of it was the same for you guys?

Please send me all your credit card details so I can confirm! :pac:

The Last Bandit

Common enough, $1 transaction was/is often used to test the viability of stolen cards so banks are slowly wising up to this...

CiDeRmAn

Let's hope it never happens after I buy Cho Aniki, Gal*gun and Senran Kagura in a damp sweaty eBay splurge some night....
"Can you describe your purchases sir?"
".... Em...well....em...."

Steve X2

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Let's hope it never happens after I buy Cho Aniki, Gal*gun and Senran Kagura in a damp sweaty eBay splurge some night....
"Can you describe your purchases sir?"
".... Em...well....em...."

And a funsize bag of fleshlights

CiDeRmAn

Steve X2 wrote: »

And a funsize bag of fleshlights

F*ck you Steve... funsize....