El Pibe

Jah Lush Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yeah, even born and bred locals who should know > better. I'm looking at you Otta. I dunno, all these johnnie-come-latelies, popping in for the first time since 1846 now there's a sniff of success in the air. Bloody glory hunters!!!

oh, i just finished the game. that was unexpected..oops!

I suspect it's randomly generated. I had to turn it off, felt like punching the wall after uncovering some really useful Ps and then dying in a fight really stupidly...and i lost my bayonet *sobs* fwiw

you just ned to find the coal mine to get enough coal to build the steel works, then you're laughing. You have found the iron mine i take it. I've now a nice assortment of rifles, steel & iron swords in stores. maxed out in terms of wagons, casks and armour. Can still be a bitch in the outer reaches though. It's wonderfully balanced play, and i like there's no tutorials, you just get these slow reveals as you advance. ANd loved it when it went from a simple resources type game to rogue!!

Get yourself some steel armour, make sure you've got all the power ups, wagon etc. and fooood food fooood

i'm now definitely not getting enough work done!!!

it's just nice not to be bombarded by in-app purchases on this sort of thing for once.

I always assumed I'd be evaporated as we had Chicksands early warning station a mere stonesthrow, i could see it out of my window in history lessons at school. But it's not down as a target on that map. I guess once its done its detection and everythings been launched it continued existence is kind of irrelevant....along with just about everything else.... We jest, but it's actually pretty frightening isn't it when you cast your mind back.

and here you go, 70s gov't analysis on what the soviets were thinking of doing. http://static.guim.co.uk/ni/1401981345665/UK_USSR_Targets_WEB_060614.pdf?guni=Article:in%20body%20link http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/05/uk-government-top-secret-list-probable-nuclear-targets-1970s "the Soviet Union could launch an initial nuclear strike against Britain with 150 land-based missiles, plus an unknown number of submarine-launched missiles. "They are unlikely to be inhibited by the question of overkill," it warned" analysts in nuclear-war-would-be-bad shocker!!!

I'm pretty safe where i am, even a ludicrously large 50mt device on the nearest airbase in Wales is going to do little more than give us a weirdly warm breeze. Prevailing winds should even have sent the radiation off towards birmingham and on to Norway!!

For weirdos like me this is class! Drop your google marker somewhere of interest, choose kiloton yield and height of burst, then count the casualties. Surprisingly East Dulwich relatively unaffected by a hiroshima bomb on the queen!! Trident, and you're all goners i tell ya!! http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

Just watched The Tunnel, the anglo-french remake of The Bridge. It was very enjoyable, but I do like Stephen Dillane a lot (when he's not being boring old Stannis) and Poesy was excellent (not to mention pretty) as the socially awkward asbergic detective.

not pubs but angels and gypsies always lovely and Johanssons just down from the crooked well also a nice little spot.

x post. nailed it there bob.

"It's called getting your round in" True, and I've oft been a sufferer of this. Of course the high price of a night out when you get your round in is usually down to the bludgers who don't....grrr!!!!!!

The Americans does seem to have slipped under the radar, i too thought it was excellent.

They still use ye as second person plural here. I think it's rather nice

and on the subject of racism, like nazi and fascist its a hideously over and misused word. Most of the accusations are probably better expressed as xenophobia, distatste and/or distrust or fear of the other rather than thinking one's inately better. A cultural thing, nothing to do with colour. It's driven by behaviour and language. I guess why the young often get villified more thaqn anyone else!!

It wasn't eu per se, it's the ugly dialogue that seems to be more prevalent than ever before. And whilst it's often the older mob who do it you see a lot of it from less polisisiced (geddit) types of all ages. UKIP has become a rallying point for everything people don't like about their country which seems to be, from what I've read on all sorts of fora, gays, foreigners, bludgers, liberals and climate change (bizarrely enough) and it's genuinely ugly. That's not to say you don't get PC fanatics on the other side, and we all know what political dogma can wreak, but I don't think we see that anywhere except the fringes. This emboldened hatred of 'them' however is worryingly prevalent, but does seem to be very much a part of a feeling of being politically disenfranchised, so I kind of get it on many level. Problem being that the apathetic have garnered just enough effort for a protest vote, but they won't shape the direction should they ever achieve power, it'll the vocal, and we've seen far too many among their ranks whole they're a small party, so heaven help etc. But you're right, maybe it's just a response to bad times and generational, I wish I could be so confident. Maybe it's also a tiny vocal minority, I hope so. You know I'm a fan of eu as a supranational forum for agreement, as a concept it's great, and whilst it's prone to the abuses and failings of power and bureaucracy, I think it's remarkable how well it does function and adapt. I don't twist arguments to make it whiter than white, but I strongly believe we're miles better off as a part of it than not. I think you know I'm very much a realist rather than an idealist on that count though. Aha anyway the point I was making was really not meant to be about racism at all, and certainly nowt to do with the EU, it's about the sense that somehow we have a utopia sometime way back when where Brits knew who and where they were and that this place is something to aim for, but that homogeneity also came with deep social conservatism that has some pretty horrific ways of manifesting itself. It's these 'traditional values' which really seem to be the desire of this urge, and it's this that I think will be much missed. You're right that society has become more open and tolerant, but it's not some natural thing, it takes effort and campaigning and legislation. And if legislation moves in the other direction it will move society in that direction. UKIP want to get rid of gay marriage, not such a leap to be like their admired Putin and ban 'propaganda' then public acknowledgement and finally private behaviour. It's not like enlightenment is an inevitability is it. Especially when many people deem it abominable, the undesirable policies forced on us by those awful bleeding hearts...

I was reading this much shared tale a couple of days ago http://www.irishcentral.com/opinion/cahirodoherty/Mass-grave-of-up-to-800-dead-babies-exposed-in-County-Galway-.html And it struck me that this is the world that bleeeding hearts have eroded. The UK was almost as bad as Ireland except we only had judgementalism, conservatism and hatred of differnce to blame, we can't even pretend it was the church; you only have to look at how single mums are still villified as welfare bludgers, just doing it to skip the housing queue, like those immigrants... And the calls to roll back these gains, the attitudes of live and let live, multiculturalism, acceptance of gays; this clamour is getting louder as more and more jump on to it realising there's safety in numbers, everyone's doing it, aaah that Clarkson just saying what we all did at school, that's fine. I fear for the country I really do, woebetide if the polls are true and people really do follow up the euro votes in the general election....

I thought about doing something similar years ago, and i've seen gaming pubs comne and go over the years. they nevver last, too niche to drum up business, to off putting to (and i hesitate to use the term) normal people. But maybe vintage gaming is an ironic thing for people who have only ever known a world with mobile phones and HD gaming.

new owners at the EDD wont tolerate poor queueing ettiquette

this sounds a genuinely interesting and original prospect http://www.theverge.com/2014/6/6/5785232/the-magic-circle-fake-remake-of-old-text-adventure

Having failed to negotiate a [un]living wage, talks with Picturehouse management took a decidedly robust turn at the negotiating dinner table.

obviously it got attention, not because of class per se, but because its a situation that resonates with so many. Hence the protest-too-much hysterical condemnation by many, rather than be honest with yourself and go 'there but for the grace of god...' Pretty and blonde just added to rag editors' frothing at the bunghole. Stories about little poor kids running away because of parental abuse might occassionally make the papers and let us feel warm and fuzzily superior, but they're not big sellers really lets face it...unless you can say how they went on the game and print an inappropriately tittilating stock photo of an underage prostitute with her face fuzzed out. That'll get em all frothing, oooh yeahh......