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streamofthesky posted...

Yeah. The two I went to were in concert/theater halls, and the audience was respectful and quiet during performances, applauding and such at the end of each song.

i guess it depends on what kind of music it is.
Had a chance to see Within Temptation one time, but it was a Wednesday night 2 hours away, and in some sort of mosh pit standing room only type venue w/ some death metal band as the lead-in, and I just said, "nope...not for me." It's a shame, I really do like WT's music. But I could tell I'd have a horrible time at such a concert.

Not even always that. WT are fairly strong on the production values where their concerts are concerned, & I have to say that every gig of theirs I've been to was as you describe for seating arrangements at least - though not with death metal for support acts, they do tend to lean more towards their own subgenre when picking support! Delain were their support act the last time I saw them with one, I think, and I managed to get a ticket for their joint concert with Evanescence in Leeds in April, so there's that. Anyway, I know acoustically that's a very different venue than the last one where I saw them, but even at the standing-room-only venues their sound is pretty damn good, to be frank. Their gigs aren't the sort where the sound is so distorted you can't tell what the lyrics are - in fact, they're very careful to make sure that's *not* the case. I've found Lacuna Coil are much the same way on tour - I've seen them in spaces with a capacity of 200, where I was just ten feet from Cristina on stage, and in spaces with capacity ten times that size, and their sound was amazing in both kinds of space. I've heard & seen festival recordings, too, and they aren't any less talented at managing the sound in that kind of space than in enclosed halls.

Honestly, I think it depends far more on the bands/artists, their sound crews, and the venue acoustics, than it ever does on the genre of their music. I've heard people play beautifully in twenty-person rooms who could barely be heard in 500-capacity spaces, and bands tear up a 2000-capacity space with over-miking who've taken my breath away in dark little low-ceilinged clubs. That's why I don't ever generalise about this stuff.

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I guess for anything above about 25-30, I'd turn it in to my nearest police station if I didn't catch the person who dropped it, or if it was in a wallet or such without a name in. Always the chance it might be some person's entire welfare/benefit payment for the week, if they'd just cashed a giro or something like that.

I do, however, admit that the fancier the wallet, the more likely I'd be to consider keeping it whatever the amount - but I'd never even think of keeping 100 or more, and posh wallets also tend to have address details more often, because of business cards etc.

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SirPikachu posted...

I briefly went in to a skillet concert once. It was at a theme park and my sister wanted to see them, but I did not so I took a friend, my sister stayed at the concert and me and my friend rode rides in the near empty park

That made me realize that I would not care for concerts even if it was somebody I liked. I just don't personally see the appeal of listening to a song where the acoustics are not good, and the song is drowned out by annoying screaming. Orchestras on the other hand are really cool

Sounds to me as though you need to try different venues before you write off non-classical concerts in general forever. They really aren't all like that.

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But of course. I love a lot of different Square IPs, but if I had to pick one for the rest of, well, *ever*, it'd have to be FF. Even without the nostalgia value.

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trodi_911 posted...

Harry never thought of it because he's human. Humans can make mistakes or not think of things especially if things are heat of the moment type things.

Ha. No, it's Rowling who probably didn't think of it. Not sure she's human, esp with latest developments, but she's sure in the not-checking-the-details-of-one's-own-series-writing club...

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Concerts, yes. Hard to define "major" though.

Artists who might be called major within their genres or outside them...well, try these:

Suzanne Vega, Indigo Girls, Metric, Massive Attack, Opeth, Lacuna Coil, Epica, Evanescence, Sir John Tavener, Idina Menzel, Capercaillie, Within Temptation, Dar Williams, Eluveitie, Lamb, Hayley Kiyoko, Simply Red, Katie Melua, Tegan & Sara, Natalie Merchant, the Philip Glass Ensemble... I've seen a few, and more than this list, but they're the ones people here might have heard of. In their various genres.

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FatalAccident posted...

Doesnt seem correct...

Meh, it's another British English vs American English "correction" again. Though why that word was ever altered to begin with I do not know; it seems fairly ridiculous, all things considered.

But then... well. I needn't say more.

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KeeperBvK posted...

So...what do you answer when you've played the GBA version? I don't see any answer in that poll reflecting my experience with the game.

I played the PS1 version before I got my GBA cart of it, so I just said PS...

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Riptor posted...

Depends on if you're referring to intelligence or knowledge. The statement after the poll indicates the OP is referring to knowledge, which actually has little to do with intelligence.

Indeed.

I have an IQ of 137, but if it's a comparative query that's different, because I know plenty of people who are more intelligent than I am.

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Gaawa_chan posted...

You misunderstand my point. If you think that a kid should be tried as an adult, why then also demand that the parents of the kid face charges? If the kid can be held legally responsible as an adult, then the parents are irrelevant.

I guess that makes more sense. Still, I long for a world where people have to take parenting classes before they start being parents. As a very perceptive SF author once said, it's ridiculous to expect brand new adults to be teaching small children how to grow up.

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darcandkharg31 posted...

Donate them to charity

Don't I wish I could!

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Aside from this topic, a couple of favourite re-reads - Ashes of Honor by Seanan McGuire, from the October Daye series (no, it isn't an Honor Harrington book, despite the title - McGuire is a far better writer than Weber!) on Audible, and The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers, the first book of her Wayfarers series (yes, the one that won the Hugo for Best Series in August, though the Toby Daye books were nominated alongside it), in print.

Two of many books I love to re-read, every so often. I've been re-listening to the Toby Daye books in preparation for being able to finally get hold of the latest in the series, The Unkindest Tide, after the audiobook of that was delayed (the Kindle editions take years to come out for my region, & nowadays so do the paperback editions of this series, which annoys me because I can't read it in hardback). Also, you should see the state of my copy of TLWTASAP! Thoroughly dog-eared and well-loved.

Anyway, I tend to listen to Audible editions while grinding at games, or doing something else that's fairly monotonous & doesn't need much attention, so I can comfortably have my attention directed at one thing while my hands are occupied by another.

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Gaawa_chan posted...

The comments on Yahoo are hilarious. "Why did you only increase patrols AFTER the crime and not before?!" Uh, because people aren't clairvoyant. Ha, there are people demanding not only that the kid be tried as an adult, but that the kid's parents also be charged for "bad parenting."

13 is past the age of legal responsibility in NY, as best I recall. Isn't it ten, there? Even if he's prosecuted as a juvenile, that'd likely mean the rest of his teen years in some kind of secure unit.

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DirtBasedSoap posted...

and u had giant boobs

Carry on as usual, since that's how I wake up every day!

(To qualify that statement, in US sizing I'd be a 38I (i, that is), G in the UK.)

Makes for rotten backache a lot of the time though, whether bras are involved or not. It's a lot of weight for chest & back & shoulder muscles to bear, and not comfortable. And let's not even get started on other matters...

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captpackrat posted...

I also called 911 when I came home from a business trip and found my spouse dead on the floor. I have seen enough crime/medical shows to know he was gone with no hope of revival (algor mortis, rigor mortis and livor mortis had occurred, as had the beginning of putrefaction) but I had absolutely no clue who I was supposed to call.

I'm so sorry to hear that. It's never an easy thing to come home to or be present at the death of a loved one &/or a relative. I was at my father's deathbed last month, and things happened... far faster than I'd expected.

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Hmm. I'm not a big shoe person, for someone perceived as female! I think I have maybe half a dozen pairs of footwear...? Let's see...

- a pair of blue-black floral flipflops
- a pair of fluffy burgundy Hogwarts slippers
- a pair of black ankle boots
- a pair of knee-high black boots (but I can't wear them, they have holes at each toe that need repairing)
- a pair of pink & purple floral wellies
- a pair of white satin ballet flats
- a pair of silver/rainbow-holographic low kitten heels.

And... that's it! No high heels for me, they're not my thing at all. An inch or an inch and a half is about as high as I get.

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GreenKnight127 posted...

Oh shit, Trialia....

I'm sorry to hear all of that. Fuck.

Well, thanks, but for my part it's nothing to worry about, honestly!

I have dozens of joint dislocations every day - it's the nature of the beast, as it were, living with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, and the blackouts are down to dysautonomia - and if I went to hospital every time I'm that injured I'd literally have to live there as I'd never get home! You get used to reducing dislocations yourself after a while when it's so frequent, though there are a handful of joints I still need help to relocate once in a while. I get a lot of abuse for being a young adult wheelchair user who looks younger than my age & whose impairments are all invisible to the layman, but I'm a lot less well than I look, and after a while it becomes something you just get used to dealing with.

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GreenKnight127 posted...

Does it count if you didn't orgasm?

Also, if someone hasn't had sex within the year....do you think they are a loser?

Are sexually inactive people looked down upon by society?

If someone isn't having sex, do you think they are an incel? Because surely everyone wants/needs to fuck at all times, right? So if they aren't....it's because they are ugly, have bad social skills, or just hate the opposite gender?

*smh*

For the record? I'm asexual. Not a virgin, but haven't had sex in more than a decade. However, being ace, I don't miss it, and it hasn't affected my view of any particular group of people in a positive or negative way. Simple enough.

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999 here. Yes, quite a few times actually. I think I had to call for one of my father's heart attacks (he had four) when I was still living with him, and another time I called them when an older woman fainted in the street in front of me (I was in my wheelchair so I couldn't help get her up).

It's fairly often that I've had it done for me, for whatever reason. I've had a lot of serious injuries etc... Aged 19 I had to be removed from my home on a stretcher as I couldn't get from sitting to standing or vice versa without sobbing in pain - that was 3 days after a nasty fall. Internal bruising across my lower back, and permanent nerve damage. 2012 I had severe cholecystitis & gallstones, had to be rushed to hospital screaming & put in the emergency surgical ward to get rid of my gall bladder ASAP, it was such a mess. I was in-patient 3 weeks that time.

I have a community alarm now - the kind of thing you keep round your neck & press if you fall & can't get up or you need medical help? - and I've had to use that just once for real, so far, when I had a bout of flu so bad I couldn't stay conscious for more than a couple minutes at a time. The CA team called 999 on my behalf that time (I wound up in hospital on a drip for 2 days).

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Moonjay posted...

LeetCheet posted...

I got a diagnosis for Aspergers a couple of years ago after suffering from depression for the majority of my life.

I'm simply horrible at making friends and maintaining friendships and being social in general.

For some reason my social skills have gotten even worse and now I barely speak with other people such as at work.
And to make matters worse, my memory and quickthinking skills has become shit.

I used to have a great memory and could remember most things fairly quickly.
But now I struggle everyday to remember certain things such as names of people and what things are called.

Example; When I chat with a friend about movies and I tend to struggle with actors names. Even those really big names that I should know.

Ugh so much sympathy. I had memory problems that I thought were severe when I was just depressed, but multiple sclerosis taught me real problems. Good old "brain fog" makes me feel like an absolute idiot sometimes.

Oh yeah. Brain fog is the worst, with the possible exception of chronic pain. (I have secondary fibromyalgia among my other issues.)
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I have both...

Adolescent-onset rapid-cycling bipolar NOS (type not otherwise specified), if specificity matters; I knew by the time I was 14 that my mood swings were far worse than those of most other people I knew of my age, but I wasn't diagnosed properly until I had a nervous breakdown when I was 19.

As for Asperger's, though it's begun to be called simply a variant of "autism spectrum disorder" since Asperger was a Nazi and many of us would rather not, I've been told by numerous professionals that I clearly do have it, but somehow it's never ended up on my formal records. If you're adult and not male and/or non-verbal, getting a formal diagnosis on paper is a nightmare. Unfortunately, it would be rather helpful to have it written down. As things stand, the formal (MH) list is bipolar disorder, PTSD, OCD. All of which are common comorbidities... Oddly enough, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome seems to be, too, or at least I know an inordinate number of people with EDS who are also autistic to some degree. It would be interesting to see what a study would show.
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Ha, and I forgot to include Morgan and Mark Sheppard, David Tennant, Eve Myles, Gareth David-Lloyd, Billie Piper and Anjli Mohindra on my list. Because of course I did. I really ought to just get out my autograph book and write it up, or something, but even that would be incomplete.
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Quite a few! I used to be a convention regular, and I do stage door at concerts & the theatre more often than not... I still go to cons, but less than I used to, not being so physically capable of handling them nowadays. But whom have I met? Let's see... Also, there's no way this list will be complete as I have a terrible memory. (And I keep adding to it!)

Sharon den Adel
Chris Barrie
Stephen Baxter
Elizabeth Bear
Marco Biazzi (ex-Lacuna Coil)
Stephen Briggs
Luciana Carro
Becky Chambers
Craig Charles
Marco Coti-Zelati
Gabrielle de Cuir
Kate Elliott
Andrea Ferro
Nathan Fillion (great hugger)
Joe Flanigan
Adam Garcia
Ron Glass
Philip Glenister (another great hugger)
Anthony Stewart Head
Torri Higginson
Michael Hogan
Alessandro Juliani
Alex Kingston
Hayley Kiyoko
Mary Robinette Kowal
Liv Kristine
Naomi Kritzer
Scott Lynch
Mary McDonnell
Seanan McGuire
Neve McIntosh
Cristiano Migliore (ex-Lacuna Coil)
Cristiano Mozzati (ex-Lacuna Coil)
Marieke Nijkamp
Edward James Olmos
Terry Pratchett (GNU <3)
Katee Sackhoff
Cristina Scabbia
Matt Smith (11th Doctor)
Catrin Stewart
Charles Stross
Alan Tudyk
Catherynne M. Valente
Suzanne Vega
Lalla Ward

Also all of Delain & Alcest, most of Within Temptation, all past & present members of Lacuna Coil since 2000, numerous less famous Whovian & Stargate cast members, Discworld fandom associates, fantasy & SF authors & editors ... see what I mean when I say I can't keep up? Also, conventions in the UK and Europe tend to be much smaller than those in the States so you get more time with people. Even the Worldcons here are smaller, generally. So many nice people though.
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Just adopted my late father's German Shepherd dog; her name is Pixie, but we often call her Pix or Pixel :)
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Solid Sonic posted...

...are you spending too much time on it?

I doubt it. I learned to touch-type on a typewriter, then a computer keyboard, a physical phone keyboard and then a touchscreen and every time, I learned more quickly, so it hasn't as much to do with frequency of use so much as speed of learning, at least for me, and probably for a few others I know.
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Many, many years overdue. He should've been banned when he was first de-modded, IMNSHO.

Oh well. At least it frees up a spot on my perpetually-full ignore list. At least until his next alt comes along, anyway.
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dancer62 posted...

Hmm... I'm having beef stew for lunch, dipping hunks of crusty French bread in the gravy.

French Dip is also a favorite, as are Hot Beef Sandwiches. Bacon Cheeseburgers. Submarine Sandwiches. Philly Cheesesteak. Tuna salad on toast. Ham salad on a bun. Biscuits and sausage gravy. Reuben sandwich. Gyros.

And I want meat on my pizza, either pepperoni, sausage, Canadian bacon, ham, or BBQ beef.

Let's not forget trenchers, which predated plates. Meat and bread together are traditional.

So, no, I won't give up a thing.

Drat you for making me hungry when I haven't any meat in the house..
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I've never really been a huge fan of bread, though I do like tiger bread. (I don't consider pastry as the same thing, FWIW.) But I've often been known to eat a burger and leave the bun if given one. I much prefer meat.
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Judgmenl posted...

Trialia posted...

Aged 33, with fellow-gamer siblings of 31 and 26, I have to laugh at where you draw this line.

Where do you want to draw the line? I guess it has a lot to do when you started playing games.
Games post 2007 are not the same as games post 1997 and definitely aren't the same as games post 1985. There are very distinct jumps in game direction in different eras. The era you were introduced to games at really speaks volumes to the kind of gamer you'll become.

I assume that you and your brothers all started off with either the NES generation or the SNES generation. If you're from Europe, you probably started off with a PC. There's differences in gaming based on if you started off with games on console, PC or mobile, especially with PC vs console in the 90s and early 2000s.

"Brothers"... lol.

I am non-binary (biologically XX). I have a sister and a non-binary (XY) stepsibling. Why, exactly, did you think I used the gender-neutral term "siblings"? If they'd been brothers, I'd have said that. =P

Also, I'm British, and I actually started gaming on an Atari - I think 2800 - and a NES soon after, but neither of them were new. I never owned a brand new console till the PS2 came out when I was 14.
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Judgmenl posted...

pedro45 posted...

It's a shift.
Games have changed a bit. There's still games being made that would fit in with older generations but new gamers don't want that. They started to play games now for a reason.

Start playing games you missed and it's like a new game. I miss games being really arcade like, but also being a full game as well. Like, fighters with a ton of unlockable characters.
You still see these things, just not as much.

This is a great example of the mixing between the "30 year old boomer" and "ok boomer" meme. It's getting really obvious that there's a generational divide going on with people over 30 and under 30 right now, and a lot of it has to do with how the media have been manipulating us slowly since the mid 2000s. Lots of people are not content with media influencers and social media, and the people who are laregely against it are being labeled as boomers and the like. The same can be said for video games. You can tell a lot about a player based on their favorite Final Fantasy game for example. You can replace Final Fantasy with whatever you want, but this is largely applicable to every major long running IP, not even restricted to games.

Google still doesn't recognize influencer as a word. In 2019. The gaslighting is absurd.
They also don't recognized gaslighting as a term either (but they do gaslight).

This is just another nauseating iteration of George Orwell's 1984, but for the current generation.

Aged 33, with fellow-gamer siblings of 31 and 26, I have to laugh at where you draw this line.
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yutterh posted...

Wow. I wonder why I'm blocked lol

Apparently you're not, because I can see this post but I still can't see your previous one. That's weird. And I still see nothing between my #88 & #91.
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I do so wish this site wouldn't give notifications saying a thread has been updated when it's by someone on one's ignore or block list. It gets frustrating. No new posts since my own that I can see!
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Krazy_Kirby posted...

god is unveridical

Well, I believe that's true for the anthropomorphisation, at least. I have never felt anything like deity in organised religion. I guess you'd call me more of a Gaia theorist, since that's where I feel it.
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wolfy42 posted...

When falling off a bridge, I don't care what color the cord is.

In case you're not joking, budgie, as in budgerigar, not bungee =P
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dedbus posted...

Have dignity and value as a human being in a capitalistic society.

That, and better home care support, and a decent PA (not quite the same thing in disability as in business) when I need the help.

I could eat properly - there's a private company that does a local meals-on-wheels arrangement, only I can't afford to use them. That, and replace my busted fridge-freezer (I've been using a picnic cooler for the fridge part for 2 years now). Also my washing machine - having to trek to the laundrette every time I need to do laundry is exhausting.

If it were unlimited money, I'd put some of it into medical research, since there's so little being done into my primary chronic condition, and probably go for private treatment (the local NHS hydrotherapy pool is under renovation). I'd probably hire some help to finish decorating my apartment, and get a few more bookshelves. Find my sister a better flat, visit my stepmother more often. Maybe fund an actually accessible hotel near my dad. And pitch in on public transport and building accessibility in the UK in general. Then find some interesting and important projects relevant to the future of the human race, and help them out.
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I won a Thomas Cranmer Award certificate of merit for memorising and reciting collects and psalms when I was ten, and yes, I've read the whole thing, though I'm not actually a Christian (pagan UU). I think if I could say I had any "favourite" part of that book, it's probably the Song of Solomon.

I'm not exactly fond of most of the rest. Though the Gnostic gospels are an interesting read, and investigating all the books that used to be a part of the Judeo-Christian holy text but were later removed...
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xjayguyx posted...

25%

6 hours of sleep a day.

I wish I could get away with that! I'm lucky when I can function on 14 hours of sleep!
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Higher end. I went for 70-80%, but bear in mind that I *am* disabled & the longer I spend in a flat or reclining position, the longer I can stay conscious. As for actual sleep, it depends whether you count the fact that I wake up every few hours during the night no matter what I do, or if it's just the sleep total any given day that matters.
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Frankly, this sort of crap is one of the major reasons I haven't travelled to the States since 2005, and have no plans to visit again anytime soon. I am no criminal, but I value my privacy and the TSA already broke my earbuds on my first trip (which had been both my first flight and first trip outside the UK). Not to mention their believing I was a junkie and a drug mule purely because I was 19 & struggling with hypoglycaemia, so I was a bit shaky.

For one thing, I dread what the TSA might do to my electric wheelchair, and with its being four grand of essential equipment without which I can't do any more than stumble across a hotel room, and knowing how many chairs the airlines alone destroy or damage past use, I'd really rather not risk it. I'd love to see Miami again, and DC, but I'm not going anywhere near unless and until their treatment of non-citizen travellers and disabled people improves. Drastically. It means missing the 2021 Worldcon, but that can't be helped.
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I'm not allergic; from what I've researched these seem fairly common side effects of this one. I'm just curious about which ones other people have had, because I seem to have a lot less of them than most of the people I've seen complain about it.

Thanks, though!
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I have the most horrible metallic taste in my mouth right now, and it won't go away no matter what I eat or drink. It's making me nauseous all by itself. And the antibiotic seems to be dealing rather slowly with the acute bronchitis it's meant to be treating. My mouth is also as dry as a bone.

That said, though, from what I've seen online it looks as if I've been unusually lucky in having so few and comparatively mild side-effects. Can it really spike someone's heart rate as high as 190bpm? What have the rest of you felt like when taking it?
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Arseen posted...

I subscribe to one service but it has additional paid options (accessible separately as well but with higher price).

I order to their mid level starter pack, pay for two extra full side options (so basically for three different services) that give access to seven additional normally paid services for free.

So I order one, pay for basically three and get access to ten.

To quote Gimli, "That still only counts as one!" - it's a single service provider, after all.

I just have Netflix and Prime Video. I don't have even terrestrial TV at home anymore, haven't in years. I have *a* TV, but I only really use it for my consoles.

I currently have my PS2, PS3 and 360S plugged into it, the VCR (yes, you read that right) and my Chromecast device; I can stream to the PS3, 360 or Chromecast from my phone or laptop, and both of those consoles also have native apps to play APV & Netflix (along with some of the free local ones that I rarely use); the PS3 has one for Spotify that I sometimes use, too, and of course either console can stream in HD, both play DVDs, and the PS3 my small collection of Blu-Ray discs. I don't really need to bother with much else.

(Edited to fix brackets & an autocorrect issue, mostly.)
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I saw it on TV a couple times when I was a kid. Long time back. I don't think I've seen it even mentioned anywhere in 20 years.
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Nope, in the UK we tend to wear school uniforms. I like Metallica though.
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I'm a graphic designer, so I make my own! http://unfaithful-mirror.net/images/walls/ ;) Though the few game wallpapers there are from a long, LONG time ago, while I was still learning, so please don't judge me by those =P
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hypnox posted...

90% of the time, if Amazon uses their own delivery service my package is always lost. The last time I got an alert saying my package was one stop away and then BOOM "your package has been lost". I asked Amazon repeatedly not to send my packages in house, but they still do and they still get lost.

The problem is that they subcontract to companies like Yodel, who are useless. Last time I had a package that they ended up with, they gave it to a driver they knew full well was going off shift for 3 days, despite my having requested next-day delivery. *smh* So this guy has my package at home the whole time & Yodel are insisting they've tried to deliver already when they haven't. Tbh I prefer it when Amazon actually use their own drivers without the subcontracted chain, they tend to be more reliable.
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MICHALECOLE posted...

Trialia posted...

MICHALECOLE posted...

Isnt the wheel on the left side in England?

No.

What about after brexit?

Still no, because cars in the UK never have had the steering wheel on the same side as it is on the Continent.
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funkyfritter posted...

I do think it's important that a game is engaging, but that doesn't necessarily have to come from fun. Horror games and story-driven titles with mature subject matter are often unpleasant on a surface level, but the good ones are still compelling.

Yeah, but I'd consider it fun if I enjoyed playing it whatever the subject matter. Isn't that kind of what fun *is*?
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MICHALECOLE posted...

Isnt the wheel on the left side in England?

No.
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AllstarSniper32 posted...

I haven't heard any of these so I'll just not pick anything.

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