When I was in Japan a couple of years ago with the World Choir a couple of us went down to this huge public pool for a swim. I took a leak in the pool, as you do, and the water around me turned bright blue. The lifeguards ran over shouting something at me in japanese (I assume something along the lines of "get out of the pool you filthy Aussie bastard!!") pretty bloody embarassing. That shit definitely exists. Ever tried swimming away from your own piss while you leave a huge blue trail in your wake?
CrippleJ is LOADED with ads (hey, they might be their own ads, but they're still ads) The news service is the most politically biased bullshit i've ever heard on air (which is understandable, they are funded by the govt. so they change their view like the breeze depending on who is in power and how much funding they gave them, as well as straight-out pushing their propaganda), and they dont play a thing that hasn't already been established on the alternative charts. It is just mainstream radio for poseurs who think they are superior. The sad thing is, 5-8 years ago and before, TripleJ was one of (if not THE) best radio stations in Australia. Now, they are just MTV with govt funding. Uncensored? Have you ever tried communicating with them? They screen every call, every comment on their website and their guests to only push certain views on current events/politics (As it affects the're funding directly). Their talkback show is basically a loadmouth presenter spouting uninformed garbage with no basis in reality, which wouldn't be a problem if they didn't aim it all at high school students. Mate,i'm sorry but TripleJ, since you went to the UK, is now the vampire of the Australian music scene. They used to be great, now they are just whores.
When will people understand that Nintendo has "Mature" content AS WELL? Yeah, they have family games, but they also have a few adult titles out and a lot more to be released. It's not a matter of Sony and Microsoft having the mature games, they all do. The new Mortal Kombat, Mafia, BMXXX, True Crime: Streets of LA are all gamecube titles. Nothing family about them, and I'm sure there's plenty more of 'em. I'd say they have the best of both worlds while Sony and X-Box lose out on the HUGE family market.
Yeah, okay. They are not available in Australia until March or something. At all. Where are you? you seem to be in the only place in the world that has 'em.;)
Ahh, but even though Nintendo itself may not have an online strategy as yet, that is not to say it's developers won't. Nintendo themselves have said that the reason they don't want to have to muck around making all their new titles net playable is because they are "a game company, not an ISP". In fact Nintendo actively encourage developers to include online content for their games, with the proviso that the developer is responsible for hosting, etc. This is the big difference with XBL. Microsoft control the infrastructure for everybody, while Nintendo will leave it to the developer to do what they wish, but then they must support it. In this way there is almost no risk for any MS game developer to include online capabilities to their software, whereas a Nintendo developer will need to have the money and infrastructure to support their own titles, no matter how few or how many copies they sell.
Another point I read recently is that without the broadband/56k adaptors readily available for the gamecube as yet, nobody has had the tools and such to easily incorporate online capabilities into GCN games. Apparently some company has written a netcode kit for the GCN and sold it back to Nintendo, who now release it with their developers kits. hopefully we'll see some online games soon, then.
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Fuck that, Mirwais has written most of her hits in the last couple of years.
I did it on my own. After seeing one too many friends drop and not come back, I started to think about stopping. To make it harder for myself to continue using, I moved back into my parents place (I hadn't lived at home for 6 years) and threw myself into trying to get better. My oldies knew I was home for a reason, but I just couldn't tell them exactly why, I didn't want to scare/upset them. It was fucking hard, but I did it. I just wouldn't let myself leave the house or have ANY contact with people that used smack with me. I smoked a bit of pot to take the edges of the cravings, but not much. It took about a month for the worst cravings to subside, but even to this day if I smell a injection swab it all comes rushing back. It took a long time to get back to my old self, and to this day I am scared to have contact with the drug because I don't trust myself totally, yet. I just didn't want to end up like the people I was using with, dead or damaged. I'm just glad I stuck with it, I knew people that had been on every treatment, methadone program, locked up, and overdosed but they could still not give it up. I know this sounds crappy and disney, but you gotta have faith in yourself or it will never happen. You have to be 100% conscious about everything you do, who you talk to, how you behave. A lot of people can't do it without help.
Hey man, i'm with you. It's a nice feeling to think I may have helped. You are dead right about The fact that it is so much fun is particularly crucial to the addiction. This is a facet of addiction I think the drug education groups are going to have to face instead of only looking at the long-term effects. People take drugs for a reason, but they keep coming back because of the drug itself. If shooting smack was like stepping on one of your nuts, nobody would do it.
Thanks a lot, friend. I just wish more people could understand addiction without the nightmare of going through it yourself. It's not as simple as being weak-willed, or lazy, as people claim. (Strangely though, only the people with no expertise on the subject make this claim.) I'm just glad I got off my $300 a day habit before I killed myself or seriously hurt somebody I care about.
That's right, they replace one crutch with another, and take the onus of responsibilty off the addict. "With God's Help..." fuck that, it's up to you, buddy. God's just moral support. He ain't gonna stop you going to a bar on the way home. That's why when I kicked my $300 a day smack habit i did it by myself. At least that way I knew I had beaten it myself.
Damn straight. I know this is OT, but I wanted to give you a little insight into the problem. I had a heroin addiction for three and a half years, and finally kicked all chems from my life about 18 months ago. Friends often asked my why people would use heroin enough to develop an addiction, and all I could say was "don't knock it until you've tried it" because, as you say, it is impossible to know without being there yourself. Heroin feels great. I won't go into a long a detailed description of how and why it feels so good, but this is the main problem trying to explain usage problems to other people. You want to use it because it feels unreal. You don't wake up going "oh no, I'll have to score today to feed my beastly horrible addiction", you wake up and say "i'm gonna get some smack today and have it because it feels so fucking good, and I can't wait". It's hard to explain to somebody who has never used just how good it feels. And that's the problem of the addiction, you certainly aren't suffering while you're on the nod. You like it, and use it more and more until you physically need it. People seem to have this false idea that users are almost "tricked" into habits, but believe me, it's all self-inflicted. Once the heroin takes over though, you are a slave to it, and not the other way around. It affects your thinking, your emotions, your logic, your judgment, everything. Your life suddenly focuses on heroin and not the things that are actually important in life. This is much like gaming addiction, in that the more you play and play, the bigger a part of your life it becomes, and due to the nature of time, other facets of your life must suffer to make room for the addiction. Unlike heroin however, gaming does not have a real-world reward (at least on smack you are high). Also, heroin addiction, like smoking, revolves around routine. Just like how the ex-smoker gets hooked on the physicality of smoking, (rolling a smoke/ using the lighter/ ashing the cigarette/ hand-mouth movements) the junkie gets hooked on the routine also, or as others have called it, "the feel of the steel" ie: mixing up in the spoon, preparing the drug, injecting the drug. Gaming also has similar routines, getting a mountain dew, getting smokes, snacks, whatever ready for a nights solid gaming, sitting in front of the computer, etc. It seems to me all addictions have these routines in common, almost like a ceremony before or during the act. Breaking those routines is as (and for some people, moreso)important as kicking the addiction itself.
I think you can go one further with this. I reckon the reason Q3 and the like don't have the same problem is because the games by nature are short and sweet. Yes, many hours are needed practising to be good, but nothing like the amount of time you must invest in some of the MMORPG's out there. I though I threw a lot of hours at Urban Terror, playing about 2-3 hrs per night after work, but when I tried to get into Everquest, I just wasn't prepared to spend so much time just to keep my character ticking over. I think by the ongoing nature of these games, players are obliged to spend as much time in the game world as possible by proxy, and there are only so many hours in a day.
They were, I have a PC magazine at home where they interview the project manager about the tech, and he mentions linux workstations for the artists a few times. I'll try and find a link for ya.
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Yep. Robert Heinlein. Time Enough For Love, in fact.
Wouldn't that mean his mother has eight pussies? I didn't know he had seven brothers...
Same. I'm on vodafone and my girlfriend's on virgin, no problems here either.
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awww... look at 'im.
When I was in Japan a couple of years ago with the World Choir a couple of us went down to this huge public pool for a swim. I took a leak in the pool, as you do, and the water around me turned bright blue. The lifeguards ran over shouting something at me in japanese (I assume something along the lines of "get out of the pool you filthy Aussie bastard!!") pretty bloody embarassing. That shit definitely exists. Ever tried swimming away from your own piss while you leave a huge blue trail in your wake?
Yeah, I use the winder to keep my watch going too ;)
Same in Australia, friend. Pity the police here are too lame to enforce it ( or anything really that involves leaving the car)
It's a novelty award given to pointless studies and stupid ideas, I think. Go on, use google. I dare ya.
CrippleJ is LOADED with ads (hey, they might be their own ads, but they're still ads) The news service is the most politically biased bullshit i've ever heard on air (which is understandable, they are funded by the govt. so they change their view like the breeze depending on who is in power and how much funding they gave them, as well as straight-out pushing their propaganda), and they dont play a thing that hasn't already been established on the alternative charts. It is just mainstream radio for poseurs who think they are superior. The sad thing is, 5-8 years ago and before, TripleJ was one of (if not THE) best radio stations in Australia. Now, they are just MTV with govt funding. Uncensored? Have you ever tried communicating with them? They screen every call, every comment on their website and their guests to only push certain views on current events/politics (As it affects the're funding directly). Their talkback show is basically a loadmouth presenter spouting uninformed garbage with no basis in reality, which wouldn't be a problem if they didn't aim it all at high school students. Mate,i'm sorry but TripleJ, since you went to the UK, is now the vampire of the Australian music scene. They used to be great, now they are just whores.
Beautiful. Maybe you and I should get romantically entangled? (Is that the one with the donkey and the chambermaid?)
When will people understand that Nintendo has "Mature" content AS WELL? Yeah, they have family games, but they also have a few adult titles out and a lot more to be released. It's not a matter of Sony and Microsoft having the mature games, they all do. The new Mortal Kombat, Mafia, BMXXX, True Crime: Streets of LA are all gamecube titles. Nothing family about them, and I'm sure there's plenty more of 'em. I'd say they have the best of both worlds while Sony and X-Box lose out on the HUGE family market.
ahhh, yeah. I'd like to make a collect call?
Yeah, okay. They are not available in Australia until March or something. At all. Where are you? you seem to be in the only place in the world that has 'em. ;)
Another point I read recently is that without the broadband/56k adaptors readily available for the gamecube as yet, nobody has had the tools and such to easily incorporate online capabilities into GCN games. Apparently some company has written a netcode kit for the GCN and sold it back to Nintendo, who now release it with their developers kits. hopefully we'll see some online games soon, then.
Fuck that, Mirwais has written most of her hits in the last couple of years.
I did it on my own. After seeing one too many friends drop and not come back, I started to think about stopping. To make it harder for myself to continue using, I moved back into my parents place (I hadn't lived at home for 6 years) and threw myself into trying to get better. My oldies knew I was home for a reason, but I just couldn't tell them exactly why, I didn't want to scare/upset them. It was fucking hard, but I did it. I just wouldn't let myself leave the house or have ANY contact with people that used smack with me. I smoked a bit of pot to take the edges of the cravings, but not much. It took about a month for the worst cravings to subside, but even to this day if I smell a injection swab it all comes rushing back. It took a long time to get back to my old self, and to this day I am scared to have contact with the drug because I don't trust myself totally, yet. I just didn't want to end up like the people I was using with, dead or damaged. I'm just glad I stuck with it, I knew people that had been on every treatment, methadone program, locked up, and overdosed but they could still not give it up. I know this sounds crappy and disney, but you gotta have faith in yourself or it will never happen. You have to be 100% conscious about everything you do, who you talk to, how you behave. A lot of people can't do it without help.
Hey man, i'm with you. It's a nice feeling to think I may have helped. You are dead right about The fact that it is so much fun is particularly crucial to the addiction. This is a facet of addiction I think the drug education groups are going to have to face instead of only looking at the long-term effects. People take drugs for a reason, but they keep coming back because of the drug itself. If shooting smack was like stepping on one of your nuts, nobody would do it.
Thanks a lot, friend. I just wish more people could understand addiction without the nightmare of going through it yourself. It's not as simple as being weak-willed, or lazy, as people claim. (Strangely though, only the people with no expertise on the subject make this claim.) I'm just glad I got off my $300 a day habit before I killed myself or seriously hurt somebody I care about.
That's right, they replace one crutch with another, and take the onus of responsibilty off the addict. "With God's Help..." fuck that, it's up to you, buddy. God's just moral support. He ain't gonna stop you going to a bar on the way home. That's why when I kicked my $300 a day smack habit i did it by myself. At least that way I knew I had beaten it myself.
Damn straight. I know this is OT, but I wanted to give you a little insight into the problem. I had a heroin addiction for three and a half years, and finally kicked all chems from my life about 18 months ago. Friends often asked my why people would use heroin enough to develop an addiction, and all I could say was "don't knock it until you've tried it" because, as you say, it is impossible to know without being there yourself. Heroin feels great. I won't go into a long a detailed description of how and why it feels so good, but this is the main problem trying to explain usage problems to other people. You want to use it because it feels unreal. You don't wake up going "oh no, I'll have to score today to feed my beastly horrible addiction", you wake up and say "i'm gonna get some smack today and have it because it feels so fucking good, and I can't wait". It's hard to explain to somebody who has never used just how good it feels. And that's the problem of the addiction, you certainly aren't suffering while you're on the nod. You like it, and use it more and more until you physically need it. People seem to have this false idea that users are almost "tricked" into habits, but believe me, it's all self-inflicted. Once the heroin takes over though, you are a slave to it, and not the other way around. It affects your thinking, your emotions, your logic, your judgment, everything. Your life suddenly focuses on heroin and not the things that are actually important in life. This is much like gaming addiction, in that the more you play and play, the bigger a part of your life it becomes, and due to the nature of time, other facets of your life must suffer to make room for the addiction. Unlike heroin however, gaming does not have a real-world reward (at least on smack you are high). Also, heroin addiction, like smoking, revolves around routine. Just like how the ex-smoker gets hooked on the physicality of smoking, (rolling a smoke/ using the lighter/ ashing the cigarette/ hand-mouth movements) the junkie gets hooked on the routine also, or as others have called it, "the feel of the steel" ie: mixing up in the spoon, preparing the drug, injecting the drug. Gaming also has similar routines, getting a mountain dew, getting smokes, snacks, whatever ready for a nights solid gaming, sitting in front of the computer, etc. It seems to me all addictions have these routines in common, almost like a ceremony before or during the act. Breaking those routines is as (and for some people, moreso)important as kicking the addiction itself.
I think you can go one further with this. I reckon the reason Q3 and the like don't have the same problem is because the games by nature are short and sweet. Yes, many hours are needed practising to be good, but nothing like the amount of time you must invest in some of the MMORPG's out there. I though I threw a lot of hours at Urban Terror, playing about 2-3 hrs per night after work, but when I tried to get into Everquest, I just wasn't prepared to spend so much time just to keep my character ticking over. I think by the ongoing nature of these games, players are obliged to spend as much time in the game world as possible by proxy, and there are only so many hours in a day.
Elizabeth Berkley, yunno, Zac's girlfriend from Saved By The Bell.
They were, I have a PC magazine at home where they interview the project manager about the tech, and he mentions linux workstations for the artists a few times. I'll try and find a link for ya.
I hope your last sentence and your sig aren't an accusation ;)
Yeah, who would believe it... Ocean-going pirates! They should change their names to the ARRRR.I.A.A (Sorry, it was too easy)