Anyway, I might plan on writing an article called "How the Internet killed a bipolar man", just in case Phil Fish actually does commit suicide. That way I have a day one article.
Anybody else really, really sick of all this hot weather?
Because I am. I'm fucking fed up of it.
I hate when it gets this hot, because it completely drains all the energy out of me. Like, all of it. I'm basically just a lifeless collection of fluid and organs, flumped into a chair and doing NOTHING.
I've got half a dozen things I should be doing. I've got that Let's Play of Drake of the 99 Dragons to finish (hell, I even scripted the damn thing, so that's the hard bit done already). I've got to find new video editing software. I've got video reviews to do, like Earthworm Jim 3D, which I need to reshoot 'cause I'm not happy with the stuff I've already done. I've got that Doctor Who thing to get back to. I've got a bloody novel I keep telling myself I'll get back to writing one of these days and yet never do. I've got books to read. I've got games to play (The Last of Us especially, since someone loaned it to me).
And I can't do fucking ANY OF IT because of this fucking weather.
Hell, I've practically had to FORCE myself to resume my Simon 3D Let's Play, and I keep stopping-starting that because I keep just running out of energy. If not for energy drinks, I'd have done none of it this month.
We had rain yesterday, and even that didn't stop it being so goddamn hot. Fuck this summer. FUCK IT.
I can't help but smile. I looked up the temperatures you guys are getting right now. Aaaand... this is so cute.
I don't think he was just aiming at GAF, but the actual gaming community as a whole. The kind of people who think autism is a disease you get by getting vaccinated. The kind of people who claim graphics don't matter, then bitch about how a game has shitty graphics. The kind who rather wants to have content be changed into DLC just to get a game out faster, yet complain when a game does cut content to be put as DLC just to get the game out faster.
I hate this stuff, too, but it's not just gaming, it's people in general. Look at Pacific Rim. Here we have a genuinely good original action movie, and when I tell my dad he should go see it, the first response I get is, "Wasn't it an enormous flop?"
People hate good things. That's the only thing I can think of. Individually, people are cool and interesting, as a group they just want to swim in a sludge of mediocrity.
Well, I live in Southern California within driving distance of the hottest temperatures ever recorded on the planet.
Sooooo... pretty damn hot.
But it's not so much the temperatures we have today, it's more that we have those temperatures for about eight months out of the year.
Like, I see you guys getting high seventies and eighties... one time I think it got to a hundred or so for a week... and that's a very mild summer in SoCal. True, sweltering heat is when it starts getting significantly over a hundred. I think the hottest I've gotten in my area was somewhere around a hundred and fifteen. And our air conditioner broke. That was when we got a whole house fan as a back-up system because nobody wanted to ever have to go through that again.
Well, it looks like the internet was wrong once again, though I did mention in my above post that I did see a few days of getting to 100, but I was under the impression that that was last week sometime. In any case, 100 is a pretty standard summer temperature in SoCal... even NorCal to an extent, though the difference up there was I didn't have AC, just a dinky little fan. Actually, even in SoCal, we have a roommate meeting to decide whether it's hot enough to merit turning on the AC for a few hours to get back down to a reasonable temperature (usually about 75-80).
I dunno, I see these temperatures you talk about and I'd still be wearing long sleeves and long pants outdoors for that. Maybe switch to sandals and roll up my sleeves, but that's about it.
I had a dream last night that I became friends with a kid in town, and fund out his parents were killed in a train wreck that was actually a murder. I did research on it, and then suspected his new abusive father. I sneaked into his apartment, but his dad caught me, chased me like a dream demon, and proceeded to dunk my head in sewage while making demon noises.
In another dream I was going through town when satellites were falling from the sky. Suddenly, the sky was filled with satellites falling, and they were even crashing around me and a friend of mine. We ran into a store to hide, and as we did, the earth started rotating really fast and the stars became lines, and then the stars started falling away. I realized in horror the world was ending, and then men in black came to take us to an ark as the final survivors. I cried and cried, and woke up smelling like shit. I may have pissed myself.
I... had a really weird dream. I can't remember all of it exactly, but I do know that at some point I was investigating a garden in someone's backyard. I just walked in through the front door and out through the back and they had this little Japanese garden back there with a koi pond in their swimming pool. So I carefully noted all the things they got wrong (I guess I was some sort of garden vigilante) and then realized that this teenage girl was still at home and was on the phone calling the cops.
And then, right then, her dad came home in a giant-ass truck and he was pretty big, too. For some reason, I tried hiding in the truck but forgot to close the door so he came over to close it which meant he was going to see me. So, in a flare of dream acrobatics, I dove out of the truck, ran across a busy street without getting hit, and continued running on this sidewalk with a hedge on the left side until I woke up.
I only have one dream I can remember. i was watching a ton of smurfs as a kid and that night I dreamt I was in the series. I was Gargamel and the smurfs ate me. That was life changing!
I don't really dream, but I remember this one I had when I was a kid.
Basically I got in my Dad's car and drove it around the countryside before taking it back home, safe and sound. No rhyme, no reason, I just did.
...I had very boring dreams.
And as for the heat... I know that comparatively speaking it's not so bad in the UK, but I've never done well in (relatively) high temperatures and this is no exception. I honestly don't remember ever being this drained before. Maybe I have been and just don't remember, I don't know. All I know is that it needs to freakin' stop.
I had a dream last night where I wake up in a hospital bed. The place is dark and messy, and for some reason my head is bleeding. I walk out into the hallway and see no one. I start walking, but the hallways seems to go on and on and it gets darker and darker. I then see a woman in a hospital gown. I go up and I’m about to tap her on the shoulder when she spins around. Her cheeks are completely slashed off, and blood is poring from the gaping holes. One of her eyes looks like red soup, and gown is completely drenched in blood. She grabs a hold of me, and asks me: “Am I beautiful?”
I woke up with a jolt. Worst fucking nightmare I’ve ever had.
One of my best friends just told me he beat every single Sierra adventure game before he was 13. That includes Laura Bow 1 and 2, Codename: Iceman, the Kings Quest games, the Police Quest games, the Leisure Suit Larry games, GOLD RUSH, etc. etc.
Without walkthroughs. He's not exaggerating.
From now on, shut up anyone who says Sierra games are broken or are unfair.
I once had a dream that I put balogna into an ATM. It added $12.00 to my account. I then told my sister that "it's too bad that wasn't British balogna, or else it would have really been worth some money".
From now on, shut up anyone who says Sierra games are broken or are unfair.
Get better at adventure games or get out.
Sierra... Sierra... nope, doesn't ring a bell.
On a serious note: There's nothing wrong with adventure games getting a tad easier these days, and there definitely is something right in eliminating dead ends, fostering the game's responses towards the player's attempt to solve a puzzle, and lowering the frustration level to some degree. Seriously, you love adventure games, but the patience you display towards this particular type of game is not something we see of you in real life much. This is not something that happened to the traditional adventure genre exclusively because its players 'dumb down'. The truth is, it happens to every game genre with the central difference that designers can't just offer a puzzle difficulty slider in the start menu. They're either going the brutal traditional way or they're making it more approachable.
Well, I live in Southern California within driving distance of the hottest temperatures ever recorded on the planet.
Sooooo... pretty damn hot.
But it's not so much the temperatures we have today, it's more that we have those temperatures for about eight months out of the year.
Like, I see you guys getting high seventies and eighties... one time I think it got to a hundred or so for a week... and that's a very mild summer in SoCal. True, sweltering heat is when it starts getting significantly over a hundred. I think the hottest I've gotten in my area was somewhere around a hundred and fifteen. And our air conditioner broke. That was when we got a whole house fan as a back-up system because nobody wanted to ever have to go through that again.
I read a statitsic the other day, that less than 0.5% of British homes have air conditioning. Which is definitely true. I've never been in a home with air con. And maybe only 4 or 5 stores with it. So temperatures may be lower here, but there is no escape when it does get hot. I was in London the other week
when it reached 35 degrees, and it was just horrible on the underground. They were giving out health warnings over the tannoy, and they had people standing in the stations with bottles of water in case anyone felt faint.
I suck with heat. I just sweat buckets, all the time. And I burn incredibly easily. And my eyes are sensitive to the light. But today is good. We've had storms all day. And what looked like a triple rainbow (just about, I couldn't make my mind up.).
yeah, opening a window is the UK version of air conditioning but if there is no wind it is just pointless so instead of cooling the house you just get bugs in your house
Imagine your 60 year old mom calls and tells you, completely out of the blue, that her wedding is Thursday next week, and you're supposed to be there, your job be damned.
The older you get, the less time you want to waste.
So yeah, not so hot today. It was good. Except that, of course, I HAD A FUCKING TOOTHACHE. All day, getting more and more painful as time went on. Towards 18:00, it was getting almost unbearable.
The ironic thing? Right at the end of my work shift, it stopped hurting. Like, completely.
SpongeBob: Please, Mr. Dutchman, we can't take it! Constantly moaning and groaning!
Patrick: Invisible to the world!
SpongeBob: Living without a soul!
Patrick: IT'S MISERABLE!
SpongeBob: HOW COULD ANYONE LIVE LIKE THIS?!
*Squidward drinks tea* Hmm?...
On a serious note: There's nothing wrong with adventure games getting a tad easier these days, and there definitely is something right in eliminating dead ends, fostering the game's responses towards the player's attempt to solve a puzzle, and lowering the frustration level to some degree. Seriously, you love adventure games, but the patience you display towards this particular type of game is not something we see of you in real life much. This is not something that happened to the traditional adventure genre exclusively because its players 'dumb down'. The truth is, it happens to every game genre with the central difference that designers can't just offer a puzzle difficulty slider in the start menu. They're either going the brutal traditional way or they're making it more approachable.
You're right, it is weird. But I tend to be pretty patient IRL. Not online. I get set off online all the time everywhere. The internet is the worst. But IRL it's different. I also have a lot of patience for adventure games. I just do, I don't know why.
SpongeBob: Please, Mr. Dutchman, we can't take it! Constantly moaning and groaning!
Patrick: Invisible to the world!
SpongeBob: Living without a soul!
Patrick: IT'S MISERABLE!
SpongeBob: HOW COULD ANYONE LIVE LIKE THIS?!
*Squidward drinks tea* Hmm?...
I still don’t think the show is as funny as it used to be. However that may be, what you posted was pretty damn funny.
Allow me to return this comment in about six months.
Six months would be about... February, right? Yeah... um... when I was a kid, I thought February was the start of springtime, if that gives any indication of the weather. XD
I read a statitsic the other day, that less than 0.5% of British homes have air conditioning. Which is definitely true. I've never been in a home with air con. And maybe only 4 or 5 stores with it. So temperatures may be lower here, but there is no escape when it does get hot. I was in London the other week
when it reached 35 degrees, and it was just horrible on the underground. They were giving out health warnings over the tannoy, and they had people standing in the stations with bottles of water in case anyone felt faint.
I suck with heat. I just sweat buckets, all the time. And I burn incredibly easily. And my eyes are sensitive to the light. But today is good. We've had storms all day. And what looked like a triple rainbow (just about, I couldn't make my mind up.).
Technically, I have AC now, but I don't use it very often because it's expensive... and when we do use it, it's just to get the temperature down to slightly cooler than outside. When I was in Berkeley, I didn't have AC at all, but we managed to keep our apartment pretty cool by opening multiple windows and getting an air current through during the night and then shutting them during the day (also never leaving a door open for more time than it absolutely takes to enter the dwelling. Most windows around here have screens on them to keep the bugs out, so that's also a bonus.
I've had to reapply for student finance today as it turns out that the previous application I put in has somehow been messed up on their system and hasn't been fully processed. The annoying thing is that I asked them about this back at Easter and they said they'd sort it and now it's nearly August and nothing has been done nor had there been any indication that there was something majorly wrong with my application on the student finance site.
Just hope it can all be sorted before I need to move to London in less than eight weeks. I should at least get the maintenance grant and loan, it's the tuition fee loan that could be problematic. I'm fearing that by the time the new application is processed and judgement is pronounced that I'll have a few weeks to some how find £9,000 to pay for the first year of the course.
I just realized I've been hanging around here for over five years. I was in middle school when I made this account, and now I'm getting ready for college. I feel weird right now...
A demo of Ravenwood comes out today or tomorrow. Prepare for some real shittiness that I spent a month on. I mean, perpare for the most fun you've ever had! Or whatever.
A demo of Ravenwood comes out today or tomorrow. Prepare for some real shittiness that I spent a month on. I mean, perpare for the most fun you've ever had! Or whatever.
I just realized I've been hanging around here for over five years. I was in middle school when I made this account, and now I'm getting ready for college. I feel weird right now...
Me too. Except I wasn't in middle school. Or college. But I am five years older.
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ohh, that is morbid
I can't help but smile. I looked up the temperatures you guys are getting right now. Aaaand... this is so cute.
I hate this stuff, too, but it's not just gaming, it's people in general. Look at Pacific Rim. Here we have a genuinely good original action movie, and when I tell my dad he should go see it, the first response I get is, "Wasn't it an enormous flop?"
People hate good things. That's the only thing I can think of. Individually, people are cool and interesting, as a group they just want to swim in a sludge of mediocrity.
Well we have the hottest weekend of the year over here right now (it's 8pm and gotten kinda bearable again now)
So how hot is it where you are?:cool:
Sooooo... pretty damn hot.
But it's not so much the temperatures we have today, it's more that we have those temperatures for about eight months out of the year.
Like, I see you guys getting high seventies and eighties... one time I think it got to a hundred or so for a week... and that's a very mild summer in SoCal. True, sweltering heat is when it starts getting significantly over a hundred. I think the hottest I've gotten in my area was somewhere around a hundred and fifteen. And our air conditioner broke. That was when we got a whole house fan as a back-up system because nobody wanted to ever have to go through that again.
What is an air conditioner?
I dunno, I see these temperatures you talk about and I'd still be wearing long sleeves and long pants outdoors for that. Maybe switch to sandals and roll up my sleeves, but that's about it.
In another dream I was going through town when satellites were falling from the sky. Suddenly, the sky was filled with satellites falling, and they were even crashing around me and a friend of mine. We ran into a store to hide, and as we did, the earth started rotating really fast and the stars became lines, and then the stars started falling away. I realized in horror the world was ending, and then men in black came to take us to an ark as the final survivors. I cried and cried, and woke up smelling like shit. I may have pissed myself.
And then, right then, her dad came home in a giant-ass truck and he was pretty big, too. For some reason, I tried hiding in the truck but forgot to close the door so he came over to close it which meant he was going to see me. So, in a flare of dream acrobatics, I dove out of the truck, ran across a busy street without getting hit, and continued running on this sidewalk with a hedge on the left side until I woke up.
As dreams go, it was pretty whack.
Basically I got in my Dad's car and drove it around the countryside before taking it back home, safe and sound. No rhyme, no reason, I just did.
...I had very boring dreams.
And as for the heat... I know that comparatively speaking it's not so bad in the UK, but I've never done well in (relatively) high temperatures and this is no exception. I honestly don't remember ever being this drained before. Maybe I have been and just don't remember, I don't know. All I know is that it needs to freakin' stop.
I woke up with a jolt. Worst fucking nightmare I’ve ever had.
Without walkthroughs. He's not exaggerating.
From now on, shut up anyone who says Sierra games are broken or are unfair.
Get better at adventure games or get out.
I’m gonna make a short film based on that nightmare and put it on Youtube sometime in the future.
Strangest dream I ever had, bar none.
lolololo
When are you gonna finish The Last Crusade.
About the same time I finish Half-Life.
Allow me to return this comment in about six months.
Sierra... Sierra... nope, doesn't ring a bell.
On a serious note: There's nothing wrong with adventure games getting a tad easier these days, and there definitely is something right in eliminating dead ends, fostering the game's responses towards the player's attempt to solve a puzzle, and lowering the frustration level to some degree. Seriously, you love adventure games, but the patience you display towards this particular type of game is not something we see of you in real life much.
I read a statitsic the other day, that less than 0.5% of British homes have air conditioning. Which is definitely true. I've never been in a home with air con. And maybe only 4 or 5 stores with it. So temperatures may be lower here, but there is no escape when it does get hot. I was in London the other week
when it reached 35 degrees, and it was just horrible on the underground. They were giving out health warnings over the tannoy, and they had people standing in the stations with bottles of water in case anyone felt faint.
I suck with heat. I just sweat buckets, all the time. And I burn incredibly easily. And my eyes are sensitive to the light. But today is good. We've had storms all day. And what looked like a triple rainbow (just about, I couldn't make my mind up.).
Weird life right now. REALLY weird life. :eek:
So yeah, not so hot today. It was good. Except that, of course, I HAD A FUCKING TOOTHACHE. All day, getting more and more painful as time went on. Towards 18:00, it was getting almost unbearable.
The ironic thing? Right at the end of my work shift, it stopped hurting. Like, completely.
...I hate my body.
Patrick: Invisible to the world!
SpongeBob: Living without a soul!
Patrick: IT'S MISERABLE!
SpongeBob: HOW COULD ANYONE LIVE LIKE THIS?!
*Squidward drinks tea* Hmm?...
You're right, it is weird. But I tend to be pretty patient IRL. Not online. I get set off online all the time everywhere. The internet is the worst. But IRL it's different. I also have a lot of patience for adventure games. I just do, I don't know why.
I still don’t think the show is as funny as it used to be. However that may be, what you posted was pretty damn funny.
Six months would be about... February, right? Yeah... um... when I was a kid, I thought February was the start of springtime, if that gives any indication of the weather. XD
Technically, I have AC now, but I don't use it very often because it's expensive... and when we do use it, it's just to get the temperature down to slightly cooler than outside. When I was in Berkeley, I didn't have AC at all, but we managed to keep our apartment pretty cool by opening multiple windows and getting an air current through during the night and then shutting them during the day (also never leaving a door open for more time than it absolutely takes to enter the dwelling. Most windows around here have screens on them to keep the bugs out, so that's also a bonus.
Just hope it can all be sorted before I need to move to London in less than eight weeks. I should at least get the maintenance grant and loan, it's the tuition fee loan that could be problematic. I'm fearing that by the time the new application is processed and judgement is pronounced that I'll have a few weeks to some how find £9,000 to pay for the first year of the course.
I've had a drink ortwo.
Well, if it comes out today, I'll play it. If it comes out tomorrow I'll have to wait until Wednesday probably because: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wftKf04N5r0
Me too. Except I wasn't in middle school. Or college. But I am five years older.
I like it because it's reminiscent of a time when going to the movies was an event.