>>25265
I have a couple of those Knightmare books somewhere.
Never actually read the Novel part, just played the CYOA.

Which Halo games are actually worth playing? I don't hear good things about 4 or 5, but I imagine they're essential for understanding Infinite.

It just occurred to me that actually living on a ringworld would be a pain in the arse if only due to the fact that it'll never really get dark; no matter what you'll have the other side of the ring reflecting a huge amount of light from the sun. It will be significantly more reflective than the moon is for us and permanent.

>>25269
I don't want to bias you for or against anything too greatly, but 1, 2, 3, ODST and Reach are all very good in my opinion. Halo 4 has a lot of weird missteps and is almost a totally different story to those earlier games and in some ways you'd be better off not knowing about the earlier game's events anyway. As for 5 I never played it because I don't have an Xbox One. I'd probably recommend picking up the MCC when it's on sale and playing through the games as they were released. Reach is technically a prequel, but more than that it's Bungie saying goodbye to the franchise, so don't expect any universe expanding plot reveals or uncovered thruths. If you want to play them on console I don't really know what the backwards compatability is like from generation to generation but I'm sure they can be had for pennies secondhand.

>>25270
It definitely goes dark on the Halo arrays, but you'd have to ask the Forerunners how it works. I think if you angled the ring right it would be fine, I think. Actually don't ask the Forerunners, they're all dead and that's the last I'll hear of it.

>>25271
I am not convinced the "halo arrays" as portrayed in the game are an accurate representation of the light/physics involved. It's a huge portion of the sky; not just moon rock but white clouds and water. No darkness, just twilight 12 hours a day.

>>69855

And? None of my partners have wanted a baby. If they wanted to get pregnant they could have just asked me. The trouble is, like in a lot of cases, that men think with their dick and go sticking it where they should really know better than to stick it.

You know when a girl is trouble, your instincts tell you loud and clear. But you ignore them and listen to your balls instead. It is the single most exploitable weakness any man has, and if you conquer it, no woman will ever again hold power over you.

Learn that one simple lesson and probably 90% of life's troubles vanish overnight.

>>69837
For an update I bought condoms from the train station and got a meal deal with it. Cost me £17 and didn't have sex. The End.

>>69858
>You know when a girl is trouble, your instincts tell you loud and clear. But you ignore them and listen to your balls instead.

I'm not sure that's entirely fair. A friend of mine stayed in an on-off relationship for years, both unstable to varying degrees, for what seems primarily due to abandoment issues. The friend did say he'd never wear a condom; she apparently took fertility drugs without his knowledge, and they've predictably ended up seperated with a child.

Yeah there are clearly elements of character to be overcome, but they're surely deeper than your balls.

>>69859
Sex isn't usually included in the meal deal, at least not on your mum's day off.

>>69860
>>69860

On the other hand, if you're willing to take risks on the kind of problems that can ensue, you will get some of the best sex you've ever imagined with a mental lass. Something about not being right in the head makes them incredible shags. I'm not sure you can say the same about a mentally unstable lad.

I dated a lass once who was on a whole cocktail of prescription downers, antipsychotics and mood stabilisers. It kept her docile for most of the day, but weirdly it also gave her a very strong sex drive. She would say that being in bed with a lad were the only moments where she felt alive and not like a zombie from all the medication she was taking. So there were days when I honestly had to take a day or two off from shagging because my knob was glowing red with soreness. I felt increasingly bad because it was like I was abusing a mentally disabled person. Which I wasn't, she was legally sane and even able to go out and work part time in a supermarket in her state. But still.

I did make sure she was taking her birth control pills faithfully, but it didn't really seem like she needed help with it. She even said, "It's enough that there's one crazy person like me in the world".

>>447052
I am sure your neighbours were loving you squeal grandma in a falsetto of a Sunday evening.

>>447050

Isn't it Angelina Jolie?

>>447054

Shannon Elizabeth even.

>>446942
>>446943
It went alright I guess, jumping into karaoke on a first date is a terrible idea but we did it. She's living with her parents in her 30s, has never been in a relationship and doesn't kiss on the first date so I guess rather than having a tremendous amount of bottle she's just a bit spergy.

Still, I said to myself that I'd try and make a relationship work so there we go.

I have to pretend to enjoy a moussaka later.

I ruined Kitkats for myself by over-analysing them. I no longer experience them as Kitkats but as wafer coated thinly with chocolate. It's really nothing like as good.

>>447253
You want the Eastern European wafer chocolate.

>>447254

LOOKS LIKE A BLUE RIBAND WITH IDEAS ABOVE ITS STATION.

>>447255
They taste a lot nicer than Blue Riband.

>>447252
>My favourite chocolate bar was Boost
The Monster energy drink of chocolate bars. Do you have any teeth?

If you really want to waste your time surrounding yourself with dull, mentally ill charisma vacuums, hit up a BSDM sex dungeon. It's even more like hell than they like to pretend it is.

>>31170
I went to a "cyberpunk" night at a club shortly before COVID hit and it was something like that. Some bloke I'm positive I recognise from the chanology days dressed in a duct-tape costume made to look like he had tits, full body covered save for his knob out. Everyone else either overweight, underweight and ill-looking waxy skin. In their defence I was on shrooms so everyone looked a bit weird to me.

>>31170
I went to one nearly a decade ago, everyone had to wear all black, I got a lift there from some army dude. We entered, and first thing I saw was a fat lass with cat ears on in a cage, on top of the cage was a buffet. I didn't do any sex stuff I spent most of the night chain smoking in the back garden, but army man spanked a girl who was in stocks, and the girl's boyfriend was getting mad at army man for not slapping properly. At the end, army man drove me home, and told me was going to punch the spank girl's boyfriend for treating him like an idiot. Needless to say, I didn't go back.

Well, she actually showed up. We had a great evening, much of the discussion relating to Cristiano Ronaldo somehow. Had a few drinks, she sat on my lap while my girl watched awkwardly, she complimented her boobs and we left it at that. All agreed to meeting again soon.

>>31162
Yeah you weren't fucking wrong. Every profile had 'no terfs or swerfs' , whatever the fuck a swerf is.

>>31173
A SWERF is a fisherperson, supposedly, who is opposed to sex work.

>>447261
It's literally in one of the articles that's been linked. I'm not doing your homework for you.

>>447262
I've read them, and it isn't.

>>447263
No you haven't.

>>447264
More lies.

Playing the spoilsport: it's in the LA times article:
>A source close to the union said Local 44 does not know what projectile was in the gun and clarified that “live” is an industry term that refers to a gun loaded with some material such as a blank ready for filming.

>>24072
Wasn't it cocaine?
>(No, it was definitely Richard Bacon)
You know what I mean.

Anyway, I went looking for this news story, and:
https://www.starsandstyle.co.uk/celeb-news/former-cbbc-presenter-pleads-guilty-to-possessing-extreme-animal-porn/
>Former CBBC presenter pleads responsible to possessing excessive animal porn
How much is "excessive"? Is it okay to fuck a dog, but only once? Or is any animal bigger than a guinea pig deemed "excessive", so kittens are out but you can do the mouse-bumming thing and that's fine?

>>24075

Who the fuck wrote that article? It sounds like a report done by aliens, or maybe just translated a couple of times.

>>24072
With bestiality porn I always wonder which way round they have it. Is it a horse fucking a woman? Or is it a man fucking a labrador? Which is more immoral - penetrating an animal, or being penetrated by an animal?

>>24076
It provides a link to the "original article" at the bottom, which makes me think the website (which I've certainly never heard of before) has a bot which just copy-pastes articles from other news sites. That would explain why it refers to a picture that isn't there, for example.

>>24077
It would be curious to see how far they'd take it. Are any lubes based on animal products? Is it immoral to be penetrated by a frankfurter? To eat or suck on unprocessed animal genitals while masturbating? There's always the lazy "if it's clear you're getting off on it sexually then that's what makes it porn" angle but it's not unheard of for people to describe food as being so good eating it turns them on. The imagery of this makes me feel slightly ill but it seems as though that's where the legislation's coming from, there's no actual harm prevention there.

>>447235
Posho.

>>447240
Dipstick.

>>447241
Twatcloth.

Dune is a bloody big book so it's fair that they'd split it in half. I'm surprised they wouldn't go for a trilogy though, make it the Lord of the Rings IN SPAAAACE that the Star Wars sequels utterly failed to be.

Having said that though, no matter how you go about it, it's always going to be boring. The main reason for that is because Dune is fucking boring. You can't fix the fact the source material is a bloated, drawn out mess from somebody who, much like Tolkein, was a shite writer, but a fantastic world-builder.

Dune is important as an influential setting, not because it's actually any good as a story. When you combine that with the type of director Denis Villeneuve is (a boring one, who "critics" adore because they can't tell the difference between boring and clever. Arrival was tedious predictable shite, fight me.) you're going to get a hell of a boring movie.

Still want to go see it though for some reason.

>>447243

You could easily lose all the Bene Gesserit bollocks from Dune, it'd be a shorter book and nothing of value would be lost.

>>94917

I don't think the issue is being challenged, but rather being challenged with what? "Do your own research" could be the answer to almost any question that's ever asked, but there's loads of contexts where asking for advice is far more beneficial. I'd say jobhunting and emigrating are firmly in that category. It was a combination of guidance, one or two acts of kindness, and a load of hard work that paid off for me.

Fair play if you're trying to say that it'll take a lot of effort and personal research -- but then so does, say, earning a degree, and we still have professors/lecturers on hand to curate and structure the information to guide students on things like where to start, how to approach a problem, and where find the best information, right?

>>94917
I've always found it queer when people buy flatpack furniture and only want to read instructions that tell them how to make a bed or an armchair, rather than opening a boxing glove on a spring and a sad-trombone noise.

>>94919
Top analogizing m8

>>94917

Yeah but you do sound like a right prick, in all honesty.

>>94921
Look where you are. That goes without saying.

>>14108

I applied a few years back. There was an aptitude test where you had to quickly parse and I think sort various addresses and so on, I think there were memory tests in there too.

Anyway, I failed them. I was quite put out by that, particularly because at the time my job involved using a fairly identical set of skills.

>>14109
>>14108

I had a chat with a postie earlier this year, he said not to sign up directly but with a particular company they outsource to. You'll have to figure out what that company is yourself as I can't remember.

>>14110
Angard?

>>14111
Have at ye!

>>14111

I think it was somewhere slightly less obviously Royal Mail related but I'm really just guessing now, sorry.

4od was such a superior name to All-Four, but 4od was barely usuable crap so I guess it's an improvement overall.

There are too many kinds of beans. It’s little wonder few in the UK cook regularly with anything other than the baked kind.

Fucking UPS. Why do they even bother giving you an estimated delivery time when it's a) 6 hours wide and b) they never fucking make it regardless?

Bastard kids having bastard threadworms.

Is this genetic? I have always lived around people with it, but never got it in my life.

>>447132

That's exactly the point I was making.

>The man accused of murdering Sir David Amess in a daft militant wog attack allegedly began plotting to kill an MP two years ago, a court has heard.

>Ali Harbi Ali, 25, was charged on Thursday with stabbing to death the Southend West MP during a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex last Friday. Mr Ali, from north London appeared in the dock at Westminster Magistrates' Court accused of murder and also preparing acts of militant daft woggery between May 1 2019 and September this year.

>It is understood the plot was inspired by Shamanismic State and it is alleged he previously focused on two other politicians. He is said to have carried out reconnaissance at one of their homes, the surgery of another and the Houses of Parliament.

>Prosecutor James Cable told the court Mr Ali had made a midday appointment to see Sir David at his surgery at Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea. During the meeting with the MP he was seen using his mobile phone and then allegedly stood up and stabbed Sir David with a large knife.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/10/21/ali-harbi-ali-charged-sir-david-amess-murder/

Two years seems like a long time to come up with the plan of "go to his surgery and stab him."

>>447203
How come MI5 never picked this up? Two years is a long time.

I don't understand how a 23 year old would start planning to murder an MP. I was trying to find a better job, chasing women and drinking too much at that age.

>>447203
To be fair a lot of us made plans in 2019 that we never got to carry out.

>>447203
>During the meeting with the MP he was seen using his mobile phone

Someone at the telegraph knows what really happened. DJ Harbi-between-two-Alis was brainwashed by the illuminate who sent a subliminal messages to his phone to have him murder a politician who was going to expose the conspiracy.

Remember to check back on this post in 10-20 years when the truth comes out.

>>35671
There's every chance you'd have been fine either way.

>>35672
I feel much the same way about seatbelts.

>>35669
>CV
I like to hear new abbreviations, but it must confuse some people. I had a guy email my work a few months ago talking about "the C19 situation". He meant COVID-19, AKA coronavirus disease 2019, but I work in a datacentre and a lot of things are plugged in using C19 plugs, so I was baffled. Personally, I just say "coronavirus" every single time, and I get mildly annoyed at "COVID" because that is neither a word nor the official name unless you add the "-19" to the end, but that seems to be a fight I am losing.

>>35674
I find it odd when people pronounce it cov-id rather than co-vid.

>>35674
I get why you're annoyed about people not pronouncing the 19, but I care about it as much as I do people calling the United States 'America'.

It's the only disease with that in its name, so until another one comes along, it's not necessary to differentiate.

And it's the same with Covid.

>>14742
>>14743
I feel like there's some false advertising going on here.

>>14745
I've reviewed them both earlier in the thread, >>13421 and >>13875, which is why I expected better for their chicken pieces. I am quite partial to Little Willies but I'll only get them if they're on offer, especially at Co-op because I can get 10% off there. At the minute if I'm buying sausages it'll be Cauldron's Lincolnshire ones.

This is my favourite veggie mince at the moment. You can get 500g for £2.88 on Amazon.

>>14748
Nothing like a bit of TVP DARK TEXTURED SOYA PROTEIN MINCE to warm the soul on a winters eve.

>>14749

I get the point but it's hardly any less comforting than ground, extruded bovine corpses, is it?

>>42419

Because smellovision never caught on.

>>42417

Only if they don't wash (or wash their bras) often enough.

>>42235

I really like Freya from Bake Off. She has a lovely accent.

>>42093
I reckon the one on the left looks like a German version of Holly Willoughby.

>>446494

Define “a bit”? You mean you are actually cross dressing or is it just emo eyeliner etc?

>>446495
According to the missus I've started dressing like teenage girl. Skinny jeans, plaid shirts etc. Probably having a midlife moment.

>>446497

>Skinny jeans, plaid shirts etc.

That's just how every mid twenties bearded man dressed five years ago, I think you'll be fine.

>>446497

I'm 30 and that's pretty much all my wardrobe is. My fashion sense hasn't really moved past 1994.

>>447176
Given you were a toddler in 1994, do you also still have the standard issue bowl cut or curtains hairstyle of children at the time?

>>5928
I've been on it for nearly a year. I know it differs from person to person, but for me the only ill effects are sweating and tremors. I've been on probably 15 psychiatric medications, and it (and lithium) are the most effective drugs I've been on.

>>5929
Oh interesting. It's been a struggle to find any Brit on it at all. How did you manage to get a prescription? The psych I spoke to briefly said it would be difficult to get.

>>5930
I've been in the mental health system for a decade, so I've run pretty much the whole gamut of GP to talking therapies to community mental health team to specialist depression team. The CMHT put me on lithium, after a couple of years of various SSRIs, and then the specialist depression team put me on the buproprion because they were well versed in the less conventional depression treatments. It took about 8 years to get the treatment that worked for me, but I knew nothing at the beginning so maybe that could have been sped up had I been knowledgeable about potential treatments. My recommendation would be to try get referred to a CMHT, as they know their onions better than a GP, and are more likely to prescribe stuff beyond SSRIs.

>>5931
Well thanks for your input and I'm glad to hear it's working for you. If you don't mind a more personal question, how has this drug impacted your sex life? SSRis seem to mess that area of my life up big time. What I've done is booked a consultation with a psychiatrist via psychiatry-uk.com. I can't stand waiting. The GP told me I was set to be waiting years otherwise.

>>5932
SSRIs were a double edged sword with regards to sex life. It took literally hours to cum. The ladies appreciated the stamina, but if I wanted to wank it might take 4 hours to reach climax. My current cocktail (fluoxetine, olanzapine, buproprion, lithium) has my sex life back to relatively normal. I know there's variation between people, but for me I haven't got the sexual numbness I had with drugs like sertraline/citalopram, and I can easily get it up which I couldn't on the other SSRIs.

>>447147
There are different levels of caring. It is right and just to care about the environment in the same way that we care about starving Africans, or rape victims, or even your own personal mental wellbeing. Obviously I won't get anything out of it and I don't need to give a shit about you at all, but what kind of society would it be if we were all like that?

Regarding fake booby lady: the important thing is that she herself is happy. I was never going to get my hands on dem titties anyway, so my preference is less important than her self-esteem. As long as she doesn't become a role model and make other women get grim plastic tits too, she can live her life however she wants. Nobody is complaining about that tennis player who got breast reduction surgery so she'd be better at tennis, even though that really was a crime against bosmos.

>>447166
>Nobody is complaining about that tennis player who got breast reduction surgery so she'd be better at tennis, even though that really was a crime against bosmos.

We certainly did, lad. I'd look through the tennis threads on /spo/ but that would mean looking at Laura Robson's potentially underage cameltoe and scrolling through the cunt-off of whether it's acceptable to use ape-like fists when talking about the Williams sisters.

>>447161
This thread is quite interesting
https://mobile.twitter.com/chappersmk/status/1450744288812404737
Someone in the civil service seems to have understood the problem with air traffic but the govt paper on it was unpublished after being up for a while.

>>447166
>There are different levels of caring. It is right and just to care about the environment in the same way that we care about starving Africans, or rape victims, or even your own personal mental wellbeing. Obviously I won't get anything out of it and I don't need to give a shit about you at all, but what kind of society would it be if we were all like that?

At this point, there is reason to care about climate change even from a purely selfish point of view. It can be hard to model exactly how individual lives will be affected and over what timespan, but the factors I mention in >>447153 will surely touch upon most if not all those living in the UK -- and it will be in a very real material way, nothing to do with feelings of guilt or whatever else.

>>447168

Here's an article about it so "no twitter threads!" lad can read about it without having an aneurysm:
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/airports-aviation-government-deletes-document-b1941877.html

"Never a true word"

>>32402
>lakh and crore

I sometimes have to sit-in on vendor meetings with my Mumbai office. I guess it's not that much different from us using "grand" or "kay" when we mean a thousand, but still - these two words drive me round the bend.

2am in the morning.

>>32479
As opposed to 2am in the evening?

>>32480
Don't quite grasp this thread, eh.

>>42429
Well, for a start don't throw the entire doll into an open bin while still wearing knickers and a wig.

It's not rocket surgery but the steps I used were, roughly, to strip the TPE from the skeleton using a box cutter with a fresh blade (a sharp blade really helps, so I changed it as needed) and a set of solid kitchen scissors. It needs cutting into small-ish chunks anyway so I wasn't too careful about preserving the shape of anything. On the contrary, for instantly recognisable parts like hands, feet, face, and breasts I made sure to cut them into even smaller bits. The material doesn't look anything like flesh if there's no shape to fool your brain into thinking otherwise. I then bagged it into 10-20lbs portions to avoid breaking the bin bags or my back as I carried it to the bins.

The skeleton, once free of TPE, can fold in itself until it's small enough to fit in a wheely bin. This took some doing as the some joints like hips, back and neck are quite stiff. The end result looked a bit odd but unmistakeably mechanical, so there was no need to further disguise it.

It took me about an hour all told and I think that was time well worth investing to avoid scaring people.

>>42199
Don't say it...

>>42460
You really should have put the skeleton on gumtree in a university town.

>>42461
It's not at all anatomically correct, so maybe a vocational school about welding but why a university?

>>42462
Art students would love it.

>>42463
I posted in a local freecycle group. Let's see if I get any takers.