State of the Game

Why not some Jaffa Cake-flavoured gin?

That reminds me, I still have that Yogscast paintjob for the Cobra MkIII, a ship I don't use or even own anymore...
 
nah, I'm usually trying to get projects done during the weekend, so less time around the forum.

I've been enlightening and improving bottom hat's incorrect perceptions of the game for over 2573 pages. a brief time out for a few doesn't really register

interrupting your fireplace convo is no problem. I'm happy to disrupt a vestigial waste of wall space that ruins furniture placement and TV position options.

also current state of game weather report:

still oddly optimistic but it is expected that the coming week will bring in a new front of Doom to coincide with time off school and such.

it's a common issue with the forum game. so many things serving no purpose trying to justify their own existence thru false bacon comments and a belief in invisible undetectable players.

luckily the infinite blackness of deep space provides the truth to all things. and no amount of pretend deities or misguided forum players can refute that.

Feel free to take the time to shut up and sod off, I doubt many will mind.
 
interrupting your fireplace convo is no problem. I'm happy to disrupt a vestigial waste of wall space that ruins furniture placement and TV position options.

also current state of game weather report:

still oddly optimistic but it is expected that the coming week will bring in a new front of Doom to coincide with time off school and such.
we don't have a tv set - why would we?- there is internet and every movie available on demand, documentaries en masse and I'm not fond of most of the shows presented on tv anyway. So we don't have to place a tv set - those living rooms and parlors are just for relaxation and eventually having guests around. Most of the time I'm in my study and my PCs are where I'm watching videos, movies or news from around the world, youtube, documentaries and what not. A TV set cannot offer me what a PC and internet have to offer, and tv is passive - I want to be active doing these things - not to talk about the many ads in tv, which are stealing your time, whereas on PC I can be free of ads.
 
it's a common issue with the forum game. so many things serving no purpose trying to justify their own existence thru false bacon comments and a belief in invisible undetectable players.

luckily the infinite blackness of deep space provides the truth to all things. and no amount of pretend deities or misguided forum players can refute that.
deep space isn't black though - that is just due to your limited perception, that it appears to you to be black. Just think of the background radiation, regardless in which direction in space you look, there is this radiation and it isn't black.
 
Choosing the least among us to lead us is hardly unique.
That's sort of like developing computer games isn't it. Lowest common denominator and all that?

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A "modern" victorian style living room looks more like this - it doesn't have lots of furniture on walls - walls are for art or other decorative items - the center piece is the couch set and if there is a lovely fireplace as well, it is all what you need in that room - to put more into it or even a tv set would just ruin the look and feel of that room.
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well, I say living room, the official term is parlor - in larger homes there is a parlor for the family and a formal parlor for when you have guests around. It is often the largest room in the house, we put our snooker table into the former formal parlor, because it is the only room in that house, where the room still looks comfortably spacey with this "monster" table in it.
 
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we don't have a tv set - why would we?- there is internet and every movie available on demand, documentaries en masse and I'm not fond of most of the shows presented on tv anyway. So we don't have to place a tv set - those living rooms and parlors are just for relaxation and eventually having guests around. Most of the time I'm in my study and my PCs are where I'm watching videos, movies or news from around the world, youtube, documentaries and what not. A TV set cannot offer me what a PC and internet have to offer, and tv is passive - I want to be active doing these things - not to talk about the many ads in tv, which are stealing your time, whereas on PC I can be free of ads.
Ender is American, how would he know what to do without ads? He'd just wake up and sit staring at the space on his wall where the TV used to be until he starved to death, or social services came to collect him.
 
it's weird you think a TV is different from a large computer monitor that displays the videos streamed from the internet if that's how you want to do it. not sure why you would limit your idea of a TV to something circa y2k
 
it's weird you think a TV is different from a large computer monitor that displays the videos streamed from the internet if that's how you want to do it. not sure why you would limit your idea of a TV to something circa y2k
A tv set does not belong into a victorian parlor - that was what I wanted to get through to you - a parlor is as well not cluttered with all kind of unnecessary furniture on walls - a parlor is for conversation and having tea and biscuits, not to stare into a tv set - that is why it is called a parlor.
 
A tv set does not belong into a victorian parlor - that was what I wanted to get through to you - a parlor is as well not cluttered with all kind of unnecessary furniture on walls - a parlor is for conversation and having tea and biscuits, not to stare into a tv set - that is why it is called a parlor.

that's an odd way to waste space in a house. but you do you
 
I don't wanna surf the net on my television for the same reason I don't want to urinate into my dishwasher

i wouldn't really care to hook a keyboard up to a huge monitor feet away from me either. but that's why they have purpose built interfaces to such screens to facilitate the display of video and audio media... from all types of sources.
 
The purpose of a parlor is that people living in that house meet and have a chat with each other or even a serious conversation - if there is a tv set, they are likely to use it and the whole purpose of having a room, where one can have this chat and interact with each other would be lost. That nothing distracting is in the room leads to people talking with each other - and that is important, people tend to not talk with each other enough and that lets so many relationships get sour over time. Having a time and place to do that, like tea time in the parlor, is beneficial for a relationship - a tv set in that room would be counter-productive.
 
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