>>15281

That is me. I have returned after all my ops and my life being turned upside down. Long road back though. Is purple still about? We had some good beers a few times and I would love a catch up with him.

>>15282
> my life being turned upside down

>>15282
Wow, I remember your posts. How are things for you now?

>>15284 still got a fair bit of pain, but instead of giving into it I got angry at it and studied very hard. Pulled things together and now I’m living in Scotland working for a software development company. Things are going much much better than they were. Still have some rough days but on the whole I can see it’s going to get better again a day or so later.

I’m sorry my posts left such an impression on you.

>>15285
>I’m sorry my posts left such an impression on you.

Just put it down to me having no life and too much free time. I'm glad things are better.

What did you lads think of Resi 6? I hated it when it came out but went back to it and had quite a bit of fun. It's trash (but so are most of the games) but it was pretty solid and the campaigns all felt very distinct. Story was the worst in the series which is an achievement, but the gunplay was pretty good and I admire how ridiculous it got. I think they'd struggle to up the ante in a sequel and people were turning against the action focus, so I see why they went back to a more grounded story in 7, but part of me wants to see another action packed Resi.

>>23402
>Resi 6
It felt to me like the Japanese developers who made that game were pretty ambivalent about this third-person-shooter dross for Americans that Capcom were making them shit out. There was evidence of a huge budget, but the action felt derivative and dull. I should give it another go, just to see if that still rings true.

>>23402
it's an incredible, content packed, OTT action shooter with a million context based mellee attacks you might only ever see once but they went and animated them anyway. It's FUN, but it's so far from the early days of RE that it sent people a bit off.

>>23402
Why did they put this guy's picture up three times? Leon is unsure.

>>23416
Lots of people have pictures of them up in multiple places, it just happens that in this case they're closer together.

>>7069
Dirk Gently seems an obvious choice. Pratchett too.

>>7070
Yeah. A week today and he's a teenager.

>>7071
I'm not actually sure if I've got any Dirk Gently books, I've certainly got other ones by Adams but I have a feeling they're others in the Hitchhiker's series. He's got around 15 Discworld books plus a few others by Pratchett, such as Dodger and the Nome Trilogy; I'm looking to get more but you see surprisingly few Pratchett books in second-hand and charity shops considering his volume of output.

>>7071

Seconding Pratchett here. I read his truckers/diggers/wings trilogy in primary and loved it and started into discworld at 15 although I'd say an intelligent kid could definitely get it much younger than that.

>>7071

Dirk Gently always felt a bit more adult, even if I did read them as a Young Adult. Likewise I first read HHGTTG at 14-16 and probably didn't really appreciate them properly.

Sigh because my lad's just hit four and while he loves story time he has the attention span of a goldfish and I suppose I'll be here in a couple of years asking what you can read to an ADHD 6 year old.

I mean I would sit and listen to whole chapters of the Alice, Narnia, and Wind in the Willows when I was 3, I knew I never should have spaffed in his mum. Sage.

Did anyone actually watch all of His Dark Materials? It's been a couple of months and I'm still struggling to find the motivation to get around to the second episode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl2r3Fwxz_o

Welp.

>>2797

I suspect the Wickes stuff has been compressed in some way that they can label the quantity in the bag as 50l.

>>2798
Is it going to swell up when it gets wet? There are lots of tiny holes in the bag so I'd assume not.

Shop brands are packed in super tight, the more you can fit on a single pallet the lower your shipping/storage/shopfloor costs are going to be.

Water is a real problem with this type of compost, because if it gets wet while it's compacted it'll stay compacted. You really need to give it a good fluffing up while it's still dry before you can use it. (A lot of people make this mistake with growbags, you need to break up all the compost inside before you even cut them open)

>>89255
I'm unsure of this claim. The roots of English in Germanic and Romance follow gendered language with the masculine plural as dominant e.g. Ragazzi means both group of male children and children generally in Italian.

While English developed gender neutrality, with limited exception, 'they' needlessly loses specificity (or brings confusion) which must be made up in context. This goes against the point of good communication in conveying information in as concise a way as possible.* Therefore these common folk in the 14-18th century were wrong. This is not to say that you should never use 'they' if not doing so would be rude of course.

*The whole sentence is awful:
>They sound like the kind of person who has made doing things out of spite because they are hurt into a lifestyle choice.
>She sounds like the kind of person who has made doing things out of spite a lifestyle choice.

>>89259
I believe Shakespeare himself used singular they in a couple of his plays. Chaucer certainly used it. If it's good enough for them, it's good enough for me.

>>89262

Was it contextually appropriate, like the character not knowing the gender of the person to which they were referring at the time?

>>89206
'Salted' is not 'Plain'.

>>89264
Yes it is.

>>6333
>What works for revision is going to the library and physically moving to a new location, but with this, all my files are on my main PC and so I have to stay in my room.

Sounds like a bit of an excuse there, m8. Use cloud storage or bring a portable disk like My Passport. A 1TB model is less than £30.

You know what works, so do what works.

>>6334
I don't have a functional laptop (or, presently, the cash to acquire one) and the library PCs don't have the software. I'm developing in Visual Studio for Windows.

For an update after all this time, I dropped out. It took a number of years to admit to this to myself but the university itself offered little in terms of support or even outline what I was really supposed to be aiming for. This felt like being setup to fail and there was a good deal of frustration as a result but I can hardly turn back time. Eventually I dusted myself off and got into a professional career where I'm doing really well which feels good after fucking up my life.

Still, the failure annoys me and I'm of the mind to look into part-time research somewhere else just because I have unfinished business. I need to plan though, the first thing will be convincing an academic institution that I will stick it out which starts with putting together a strong proposal. That flows into my next item which would be in doing as much as possible beforehand because I'm not going through all that bullshit again.

Any of you lads have advice on getting back into academia, part-time learning and operating on pure rage?

>>6412

Are you still a god botherer then?

>>6413
Don't be daft.

>>13230

What was your function onboard?

>>13370
physical correspondence technician

>>13371
You mean you were a postboy?

>>13372
No, those are the employees without a degree in Communications.

>>13372

He jests but there are postmen on some cruise ships that wear a special uniform and everything.

Maybe he's the head postman.

Not quite the same but I've been spending too much time and money in B&Q lately; it feels like being a kid in Toys R Us.

>>22723
>>22724
>>22726

For me it's Darknet drugs and prostitutes that get delivered in Ubers. Now this is a future I can get behind IYKWIM .

Bumping this thread because as an original Xbox owner (albeit in storage >>22651) I have just discovered this important urgent news: remove the clock capacitor to stop your console from being destroyed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/originalxbox/comments/4c60th/reminder_if_you_own_an_original_xbox_remove_the/

>>23386
Somehow mine survived that cap leaking, so it's not fatal in 100% of cases. But yeah, definitely worth doing.

>>23386

Electrolytic capacitors and RTC batteries are a hazard on any old hardware, but particularly anything manufactured between 1999 and 2007. If you're a collector or enthusiast, pre-emptive replacement of these parts is a smart move.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague

> got half way up the lamp post and fell off
u wot m8.

>>21512

He got half way up the lamp post, then he fell off. It's not hard mate.

>>23377
I don't know where I got the name from, it's wrong. They're Relius' Astral finishing moves. Taken from Central Fiction, apparently present in earlier titles too though.

>>23376
To be fair (and to add a bit of context to >>23374) a common refrain from people who draw for a living is that the easiest way to actually make money on commissions is by finding a niche interest and draw lewd material for it, even if they have no particular interest in the material themselves. It's like a blacksmith banging out yet another gate to keep cashflow going at that point.

>>23379
Ah that makes sense. Never played as or against Relius much, and Astral Finishes don't get pulled off very often, so I've just never seen that content.

>>23380
Oh, not judging them, or anyone else who wants to draw porn for a living. It doesn't hurt anyone else, I don't see how it's any of my concern.

I note that Skullgirls got into some controversy going the other direction, editing sprites to take out some of the panty shots. It seems like an odd choice to me, given the game had been out for years by the time they elected to do this. By that point anyone who'd be offended by that stuff must have already made up their mind. There were some mutterings about this being an attempt to make it esports-friendly, but I find it hard to believe the developers had any such pretensions, not least because they left plenty of equally racy content in there anyway.

>>23384
Not my captioning. For better or worse, I suspect I will manage to forget.

>>21443

I saw something on TV a while ago about a Young Earth Creationist who has devoted his life to offering guided tours through the Grand Canyon where he attempts to convince visitors that evolution and the idea that the Earth is anything more than 8,000 years old are complete bollocks, and that the Grand Canyon itself is proof.

I think his position wasn't so much that astronomy and geology are a hoax, but he incessantly went on about things like, the only reason you find fossils of marine species at the top of mountains is that they are remnants of the biblical Great Flood. And that it was simply impossible that mountains could have formed from seafloor sediment, because the vertical distance of in some cases several miles could not have been overcome in the 8,000 years that the Earth was really actually old. So it was kind of a mish mash by a homeschooled born-again git throwing together scientific fact that he understood nothing about and audacious Bible claims that were drummed into him in the worst kind of way, but he was so adamant that the Grand Canyon's rock formations proved the Young Earth idea, it was kind of just really sad to see.

Gravity warps space, right?
What if, outside of the affect of gravity, space could be thought of as 'flat'? What kind of process would require mapping of reality in such a way? Doesn't gravity affect time, as well?

>>21440

After watching the behind the curve documentary I went and did a bit of research into various things output by various parties in the film.


The motive seems to largely be believing they are smarter than everyone else.

That at some point people believed based on current data (in Renaissance) that the world was round,but as modern technology came along it proved that theory incorrect, specifically that people reached the edge in Antartica. Now they are either too embarrassed to admit they were wrong as it will make science look stupid, or think it would cause mass chaos as people react to the news.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnOzOZ2KW4s


Part of this is based on what until relatively recently wha modern flat eart was. A tool for a theoretical exercise to promte critical thinking and challenge commonly held beliefs, that was co-opted by people who started to believe the arguments being put forward.

>>21450

>A tool for a theoretical exercise to promte critical thinking and challenge commonly held beliefs, that was co-opted by people who started to believe the arguments being put forward.


I guess it then sort of falls into epistemology, which is for the most part just academic self pleasure, but has some interesting approaches to the challenging of beliefs that are held to be entirely true facts.

It's like that whole argument of whether you exist, and how you know you exist. On the one hand, it can be a brilliant philosophical question that requires all the sharpness of your mind. But then some gits start telling you that they think we live in the Matrix.

>>21503

I'd argue epistemology is the most important topic there is. It does result in self torture though as you just constantly spot the bad arguments that people prefer and pick over the truth, mostly when they agree with what they thought anyway.

>>29449
A normal part of the healing process. Happens to most of us.

>Over the past year things have gradually shifted. Now I feel like a worm.

Elaborate? Doesn't sound like a healthy dynamic to me.

What happened?

>When we met, I felt I was more attractive, and had the power.

Oh so that's alright then. As long as the relationship dynamic was tilted in your favour everything was hunky-dory.

Incredibly vague OP, but I'm gonna make a philosophical soliloquy based on what I think you're hinting at anyway.

In most relationships I believe you have a dominant and a submissive half, and as long as the individuals involved are both in the position that feels natural to them everything will go smoothly. It's not inherently better or worse for the man to be in charge or not, the important part is if that lines up with the individual's personality. When those roles start to slip out of alignment that's when friction occurs.

I don't think it's necessarily healthy to expect the individual in question to somehow adjust themselves; it can work but I think it's usually more likely to result in conflict and suppression of healthy self esteem. People change over time and usually a shift in this dynamic represents a drift apart, outgrowing that partnership, if you will. We are taught that couples should exist for love and love alone, but in truth a person's financial status, direction in life, their ambitions and long term trajectory are very important. We shouldn't be ashamed to admit it if we are no longer a perfect fit. Sometimes life can take us down converging paths.

(There's also neutral relationships that share power and responsibilities equally, but I think they are much less common, and most people who think they are in one probably aren't. This is very broad stroke stuff. It's also not impossible for the other partner to change or adapt so that the partnership is complimentary again later down the line. But again rare.)

A lot of people don't say how they feel and over time end up in a state of appeasement. After the honeymoon period problems start happening and the trouble is that women often like to talk more than men. I had, and other males I know have, a tendency to just let the sadness build and go with the other person which leads to feeling terrible. Read 'No More Mr.Nice Guy".

You do have people that have been together for a while that cannot say the simplest of things to each other, or have a discussion about anything but the weather.

Does this mean cosplayers are actually much harder than boxers?

>>8890
U WOT M8?

>>8885

Not the busted eardrum, then?

Also, what's the etiquette for spoiler tags for events like this? I closed this tab earlier at work today because I recorded the fight to watch tonight.

I mean, I don't mind not coming here for a few days, but I would have been somewhat upset if there'd been a CAN'T BELIEVE X WON post in /sfw/.

>>8889
Since when have casually racist caricatures been acceptable around here?

>>8893

Well are purps got dumped by a darkie some time around the referendum so ever since then we've gone from Guardian reading wankers to Mail reading wankers. It's the same amount of wank but with a different flavour. Look, I can say wog now. Wog. Wog wog wog.

Is there something the matter with his mouth?

>>65011
Yes, he's a politician.

>>65011
The more I look at it the weirder it looks. I think he just doesn't have much experience with smiling.

>>65014
His face looks like it has been glued onto another persons head.

>>65011

He's from Wigan, they all look a bit wonky up there.

>>65006

Do you mean in a technical legal sense or in a societal sense? Because if you mean the legal sense it doesn't really matter since rape is a jury trial, since laws exist to serve society, or should at least, it's the societal definition that matters, so you're wrong, womanlad.

Are Mubarak did similar and now he's dead.

>>65010
He fucked a disgusting old man in a weatherspoons bog?

>>65007

jIMMY saville LIED TO YOU IN SCHOOL

>>65003

I'VE HEARD THAT WINONA RYDER HAD A ROLE FOR SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE. GWYNETH PALTROW WAS HER FRIEND AT THE TIME. SHE READ THE SCRIPT AND FANCIED THE ROLE FOR HERSELF. PALTROW WENT QUID PRO QUO WITH A BIT OF KNOB POLISHING WITH WEINSTEIN AND WINONA WAS DUMPED. THEIR FREINDSHIP ENDED ON THE BACK OF THIS. ONCE THE WEINSTEIN ACCUSERS CAME OUT, PALTROW JOINED IN AND ACCUSED HIM OF SEXUAL ASSAULT.

>>6149
They have other things going on besides being overweight. Like you have things outside of being a sneering web-weirdo to keep you alive. You do have other stuff going, yeah... ?

>>6153
Calm down, fatty.

>>6153

Are you alright mate? Do you want a nice pie? Come on mate, we'll get you a lovely pie from the chippy, that'll get you right.

>>6154>>6155
Huh?

>>6156
It would seem they're mocking you for having the gall to defend yourself/fat people.

>>21393
I have the feeling he'll re-emerge once the attention dies down.

Someone I went to school with got quite deep into the Herbalife pyramid scheme. It makes me wonder what he's up to these days.

Nobody beats the market in the long run.

He'll be broke in a few years' time. The same trading strategies that have made him a sizeable fortune are the ones that rid people of their fortune again.

Unless you have millions in capital to start with, £200K can only be earned by taking massive risks. Which can just the same blow up in your face anytime without warning.

>>21399
I think you've missed the point that's he's probably not beating the market by all that much now.

>>21400
It was on Twitter that his company accounts were for about a tenth of what he's saying and the MOT history for the cars he's claiming to own are also bollocks.

>>21401

There are plenty of otherlads making a killing in the market, I am sure.

>>7812
I knew my quality posts would pay off in the end.

Rejoice, lads. The Vanguard SIPP is finally here.

https://www.vanguardinvestor.co.uk/what-we-offer/personal-pension/personal-pension-account

>>7833

Finally!

I am moving my pensions from a managed fund with Royal London that had 5% in UK Gilts and had underperformed the benchmark for 5 years (with a 1% expense ratio) into a Vanguard all-world equities index fund (0.37% expense ratio).

>>7833
Might my local government pension be better than this?

>>7834
I've had a quick look but I think I might be better keeping with Aviva for the time being.

>>7835
Yes.