Whats making you happy right now

#10241 Silencer

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Posted 28 August 2013 - 12:57 PM

Actually, I've been meaning to post about SRIV in one of the games' threads for a while now. I've just been too busy to do so. It is epic good fun - I don't think there are many games which manage to pull off making you feel like an awesome earth-bound deity, while not making the entire game pointless in the process.
It will probably dull a little in time, but it's pretty good right now in terms of pure FUN. Which is really why you buy a Saints Row game anyway.

(And don't throw the word "rip off" around so lightly; SRIV is excruciatingly aware of the other games and movies from which it derives features; amongst all the other pop-culture references it throws at you, it makes more than enough to its inspirations to make it more of an...homage. XD Besides, it amps everything up to 11 anyway, so it's not like it takes itself seriously. Unless doing so allows for more hilarity, of course.

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Shinrei said:

<Vote Silencer> For not garnering any heat or any love for that matter. And I'm being serious here, it's like a mental block that is there, and you just keep forgetting it.

#10242 tiam

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Posted 28 August 2013 - 05:09 PM

Its a homage in that in some of the trailers it looks like theyve 'stolen' the guy from DE:HR skin along with his coat. Its quite another to initiate super powers and have a glide mode that looks identical to prototype along with mini boss enemies that look very similar to the hunter from prototype.

#10243 Gothos

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Posted 29 August 2013 - 11:28 AM

http://www.theguardi...ks-album-stream
this.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

#10244 HoosierDaddy

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Posted 29 August 2013 - 05:17 PM

#Chirp Chirp! Go BSU!!!!!!

Trouble arrives when the opponents to such a system institute its extreme opposite, where individualism becomes godlike and sacrosanct, and no greater service to any other ideal (including community) is possible. In such a system rapacious greed thrives behind the guise of freedom, and the worst aspects of human nature come to the fore....

#10245 pathos

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Posted 29 August 2013 - 06:25 PM

Played Flux for the first time today... its a great game!

Board game thursdays during lunch at work are the best!

so far have played Quarriers, smash up, small world, munchkin and settlers of catan.

all amazing... thank you table top

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#10246 rhulad

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Posted 29 August 2013 - 06:50 PM

I'm going to be a Father.

HOLY SHIT.

#10247 Mezla PigDog

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Posted 29 August 2013 - 07:54 PM

First intentional use of alcohol as a temporary stress reliever in a couple of years. If only it didn't work so well!

Burn rubber =/= warp speed

#10248 Slow Ben

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Posted 30 August 2013 - 01:20 AM

My daughter smiled for the first time today. Nothing quite like it.

I've always been crazy but its kept me from going insane.

#10249 Gwynn ap Nudd

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Posted 30 August 2013 - 04:08 AM

I remembered why I used to listen to jazz. Been spending the evening alternating between Thelonious Monk, Myles Davis and some mellow Diana Krall tunes. Stress gone, super relaxed and I love it.

#10250 Solidsnape

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Posted 30 August 2013 - 07:11 AM

rhulad, on 29 August 2013 - 06:50 PM, said:

I'm going to be a Father.

HOLY SHIT.

Congratulations man. Well done!!

"If you seek the crumpled bones of the T'lan Imass,
gather into one hand the sands of Raraku"
The Holy Desert
- Anonymous.

#10251 Satan

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Posted 30 August 2013 - 08:45 AM

Solidsnape, on 30 August 2013 - 07:11 AM, said:

rhulad, on 29 August 2013 - 06:50 PM, said:

I'm going to be a Father.

HOLY SHIT.

Congratulations man. Well done!!

I don't get this. Why would you congratulate the parents upon the news of impregnation? He basically just had sex. For all we know it wasn't very well done either. Giving birth to a child, that's hard. Raising a child into something that resembles a human being, that's hard. Impregnating a woman essentially just requires you to stick a penis in her vagine until semen spurts out. Most people even consider this seanse quite enjoyable.

Legalise drugs! And murder!

#10252 Illuyankas

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Posted 30 August 2013 - 11:54 AM

It's shorthand for 'Congratulations that the lives of you and your partner are in a good enough position that you can reasonably raise a child without utterly fucking yourself', you pedantic pillock.

Hello, soldiers, look at your mage, now back to me, now back at your mage, now back to me. Sadly, he isn’t me, but if he stopped being an unascended mortal and switched to Sole Spice, he could smell like he’s me. Look down, back up, where are you? You’re in a warren with the High Mage your cadre mage could smell like. What’s in your hand, back at me. I have it, it’s an acorn with two gates to that realm you love. Look again, the acorn is now otataral. Anything is possible when your mage smells like Sole Spice and not a Bole brother. I’m on a quorl.

#10253 rhulad

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Posted 30 August 2013 - 01:49 PM

Solidsnape, on 30 August 2013 - 07:11 AM, said:

rhulad, on 29 August 2013 - 06:50 PM, said:

I'm going to be a Father.

HOLY SHIT.

Congratulations man. Well done!!

Thanks, it is really unreal that I am going to be a dad. But luckily I have some time to get used to the idea.

#10254 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 31 August 2013 - 05:38 PM

Gwynn ap Nudd, on 30 August 2013 - 04:08 AM, said:

I remembered why I used to listen to jazz. Been spending the evening alternating between Thelonious Monk, Myles Davis and some mellow Diana Krall tunes. Stress gone, super relaxed and I love it.

Get some Ornette Coleman (The Shape of Jazz to Come), Charles Mingus (The Black Saint &the Sinner Lady) & Count Basie (The Atomic Mr Basie) down you!!

A Haunting Poem
I Scream
You Scream
We all Scream
For I Scream.

#10255 tiam

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Posted 01 September 2013 - 08:13 AM

rhulad, on 30 August 2013 - 01:49 PM, said:

Solidsnape, on 30 August 2013 - 07:11 AM, said:

rhulad, on 29 August 2013 - 06:50 PM, said:

I'm going to be a Father.

HOLY SHIT.

Congratulations man. Well done!!

Thanks, it is really unreal that I am going to be a dad. But luckily I have some time to get used to the idea.

Congrats on the new bambino.

In other non grown up news Im still undisputed pub golf champion. Only 9 holes this time but still a win.

#10256 Grimjust Bearegular

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Also, braaaaiiiinnnnzzzzzzzz!

Posted 02 September 2013 - 07:48 AM

My interview with one of the producers from Bioware got great response from the bigwigs at Gamereactor

Also, I managed to get to and fro London without any major incidents...yay!

Things and stuffs...and other important objects.

#10257 Slow Ben

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Posted 02 September 2013 - 01:18 PM

Labor day! It's Monday morning and I'm sitting on the couch drinking coffee watching Mike and Mike instead of working. Now as long as the poop factory stays asleep....

I've always been crazy but its kept me from going insane.

#10258 Lucifer's Heaven

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Posted 02 September 2013 - 05:05 PM

The weekend went really well. I feel like Shiara and I are both awesome hosts and awesome friends.
Three of our friends all had really shit/stressful weeks all for completely different reasons and none of them were in a great mood come Friday. We had all 3 of them around for the night, we got through 8 bottles of wine, some spirits and liquers. There was much chatting and being silly, and mostly there was relaxing and not worrying.
They all had the good night they really needed and they all seemed much better for it.

I am really happy it went so well, glad it seemed to help and proud of our hosting and friend skills

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"Averted the rapture by drowning the baby Jesus in his own tears"

#10259 Raymond Luxury Yacht

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Posted 05 September 2013 - 06:00 AM

Going to Denver later this Month to visit soem ofm my best friends and go to their baby shower. While there I am going to see Further at Redrocks, which is one of the best concert venues ever.

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#10260 Mezla PigDog

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Posted 05 September 2013 - 12:21 PM

My boss said yesterday that my employers have put me under an unacceptable level of stress and that I don't need to go back to work until Monday. I took this Monday and Tuesday off out of spite anyway. I am currently sat under the apple tree in my garden being sung at by the resident robin (he's also trying to steal my toast but I forgive him). Steak on the BBQ later for dinner and the only serious thing I have to do between now and then is revise for a preliminary phone interview for a job I applied for a couple of weeks back. Ahhhh, in your face responsibilities!

Burn rubber =/= warp speed