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Jedeye Sniv

Banned
Don't tell me what to do, goddamnit.

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wrong gif yo

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edit yes i know, tmblr but if i have top spend more than ten seconds looking i lose the game
 

Symphonia

Banned
But you've been known to post tumblr gifs so that counters that point.
As does Ninja. You can find some good GIFs on Tumblr if you look deep enough. I'm already right down the rabbit hole so I know where to go. And Jedeye, man, my mind skipped to LOST for a fleeting moment but then Tangled.
 

Son Of D

Member
Good afternoon you beautiful bastards. Woke up at 9 after falling asleep at 4. If I keep that up I should be able to get a good sleeping pattern back... until I lose it after staying up too late talking to a friend in America or something.

I know I'm on the tail end of this Son of D, but I'll offer some advice.

One thing I've learned which helps me a lot is to stay one step ahead of your mind, to recognize common but problematic thought patterns and deal with them before they start to control your perception and interaction with the world. One of the issues with the human brain is that once a thought pattern like depression, paranoia etc becomes commonplace, your brain will follow those patterns subconsciously and it becomes really difficult to change your mindset.

This has all become a bit pseudosciency. When you can, try to step back and see what causes those kinds of feelings, how that affects you and what makes you feel better. Tackle those individually as opposed to all at once so they are manageable. Then you can mull them over, apply some reason and rationality and figure out how to stop thoughts you don't want before you get them.

I can sympathise with the new mates thing though. Last bit of advice, I'm not sure if it applies to you or not though. Say you're in a situation where some friends (but ones you're not fully relaxed and comfortable with) ask if you want to do something on a weekend, go somewhere, and you're uncomfortable/anxious because you think it might be awkward or you won't enjoy yourself: do it. Summoning some determination to do something you're not confident about and then having a good time is a wonderful feeling. Even if it doesn't go that well, you'll know you tried and won't be sat thinking "what if?" many nights later.

/unusually serious post

Late advice is better than no advice in this case. Thanks for that :).

I suspect everyone in BritGAF has a Vita by now after how much Dave goes on about it.

Mine broke last year. That annoyed me quite a bit. Thankfully I was able to get a used one for about £80.

Also got a 3DS XL. Was my most used platform last year, but when I got it in 2012 I barely used the thing. Fire Emblem, Luigi's Mansion, Mario and Luigi, Pokémon Y, Kid Icarus (I got it late I know) and Zelda: LBW made up most of my 2013 gaming.

In case some haven't seen it, this is the Vita bargain currently being posted around GAF:
http://www.play.com/stores/ShopTo/listing/927711844

No idea if the games included are any good. They're just PSP games though right?

LittleBigPlanet and Wipeout are the best ones there. Although I can't say that I've played Little Deviants and Motorstorm RC. No idea why the Ratchet art on the front is from Q-Force when the PSP game is in the pack.
 

Vashetti

Banned
LittleBigPlanet and Wipeout are the best ones there. Although I can't say that I've played Little Deviants and Motorstorm RC. No idea why the Ratchet art on the front is from Q-Force when the PSP game is in the pack.

Because they want the packaging to look nice.

That PSP version of Ratchet hasn't been seen for years.
 

MrGlass

Member
Please tell me i'm not the only one that finds Mrs Brown's Boys terrible. I just don't understand how it's entertaining.

I'm sure this has been discussed before but this is something that came up in conversation the other day and just wanted to make sure i wasn't crazy.
 

Mikeside

Member
Please tell me i'm not the only one that finds Mrs Brown's Boys terrible. I just don't understand how it's entertaining.

I'm sure this has been discussed before but this is something that came up in conversation the other day and just wanted to make sure i wasn't crazy.

It's fucking awful.
The only reason it exists is so that Miranda doesn't have to be the worst show on TV ever.
 

NinjaBoiX

Member
It's fucking awful.
The only reason it exists is so that Miranda doesn't have to be the worst show on TV ever.
Miranda is top tier comedy man. I like the episode where she falls over and winks at the camera a lot.

Mrs Brown's Boys is equally turd, it's feels like it should be on at 3:30pm on CITV.

Slapstick comedy is hard to get right, but I guess you could say they tried.
 
It's fecking awful.
The only reason it exists is so that Miranda doesn't have to be the worst show on TV ever.

FTFY

But in my opinion Miranda is worse.

The one thing I do like about Mrs Brown's Boys is he way the cast will occasionally fuck up their lines or someone goes ad lib and they don't edit it out.
 

Screaming Meat

Unconfirmed Member
Dear Lord... Miranda and Mrs Brown's Boys are equally pointless throwbacks to an era of comedy that may have been good at the time, but has no right existing in a post-Chris Morris world.

The one thing I do like about Mrs Brown's Boys is he way the cast will occasionally fuck up their lines or someone goes ad lib and they don't edit it out.

They can't even do their jobs right.

extra challenge - everyone try to use different artists from your first mix. At least 50%

How do we go about making said mixes; what are the protocols?

I'm a bit like beetlejuice, people like to say my name but they don't actually want me about.

Heeeey, I like your off-beat brand of... uh... of... of whatever it is you do.
 

Mikeside

Member
FTFY

But in my opinion Miranda is worse.

The one thing I do like about Mrs Brown's Boys is he way the cast will occasionally fuck up their lines or someone goes ad lib and they don't edit it out.

Sounds like something I'd sort-of appreciate in a show that didn't make me want to peel my skin off and feed it to spiders.
 

BGBW

Maturity, bitches.
A few year's back I was spending Christmas with some distant relatives and they loved Mrs Brown's Boys. Had to sit through the whole Christmas special.
 

Jedeye Sniv

Banned
Please tell me i'm not the only one that finds Mrs Brown's Boys terrible. I just don't understand how it's entertaining.

I'm sure this has been discussed before but this is something that came up in conversation the other day and just wanted to make sure i wasn't crazy.

You're not crazy man, it might be the worst thing that's ever appeared on a television screen.

But I... errrrr, kinda tolerate Miranda. By virtue of it being on after Eastenders it's usually on it the background on a friday. At first I hated it, but then slapstick is pretty much always funny. And so I watched a bit and I chuckled. Not a full on laugh, but a smile played across my lips. It's very throwbacky but she has enough charisma to pull herself through the old-style setup of the show.

And she was on Richard Herring's podcast and was hilarious, which automatically gave her +10 points for me.

How do we go about making said mixes; what are the protocols?

Everyone has different ideas about it. Personally, I think you should get the MP3s and make new copies of them. re-Import them into your prog of choice (I use iTunes) and change the album name to your mix title and re-number them in the appropriate order. Mark it as a compilation as well. That way, when folks import it into their library it'll be a bona fide album ready for playing.

People that didn't do this last time made it less likely for me to indulge their tastes, so ANGRY was I already. I'm looking at you, Tashbrooke!

Then when it's all done upload it to your dropbox and pass links around. I think last time there was some kinda master document but it was patchy.
 

Mikeside

Member
I'll let you take charge on this if you like the idea, Jed (we all know how disorganised I am anyway), but maybe we should just all get involved in that Shared Music folder we have on dropbox? Can we trust everyone here not to load horrific pornography into it?
 

Jedeye Sniv

Banned
I'll let you take charge on this if you like the idea, Jed (we all know how disorganised I am anyway), but maybe we should just all get involved in that Shared Music folder we have on dropbox? Can we trust everyone here not to load horrific pornography into it?

Oh yeah that sounds like a good idea to me. How's it going to work? Teach me, Obi Wan.
 

Reknoc

Member
I'll let you take charge on this if you like the idea, Jed (we all know how disorganised I am anyway), but maybe we should just all get involved in that Shared Music folder we have on dropbox? Can we trust everyone here not to load horrific pornography into it?

no
 

NinjaBoiX

Member
Is this going to be like when you guys were using ThisIsMyJam? It was funny when certain members threw a hissy fit and flat out refused to listen to YouTube links because "you're not doing it right" or whatever.

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Recommending music, serious business.
 

Lirlond

Member
The Mrs Brown stage show is much better. Saw it a few years ago and thought it was really good. Watched the show at christmas and was shocked at how bad it was.
 

Jedeye Sniv

Banned
Is this going to be like when you guys were using ThisIsMyJam? It was funny when certain members threw a hissy fit and flat out refused to listen to YouTube links because "you're not doing it right" or whatever.

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Recommending music, serious business.

Fuck this is my jam mane. This is a zip file fulla mp3s passed around the playground. A fuckin mixtape!

Jimbor did it wrong with a youtube playlist last time, but got a free pass because it was really really good.
 

Mikeside

Member
Yeah, MP3s I can upload to Google Play or put on my phone, ifyouplease.


I didn't even listen to Jimbor's last time due to his youtube monstrosity. AND I FUCKIN' LOVE JIMBOR.
 

Screaming Meat

Unconfirmed Member
Everyone has different ideas about it. Personally, I think you should get the MP3s and make new copies of them. re-Import them into your prog of choice (I use iTunes) and change the album name to your mix title and re-number them in the appropriate order. Mark it as a compilation as well. That way, when folks import it into their library it'll be a bona fide album ready for playing.

People that didn't do this last time made it less likely for me to indulge their tastes, so ANGRY was I already. I'm looking at you, Tashbrooke!

Then when it's all done upload it to your dropbox and pass links around. I think last time there was some kinda master document but it was patchy.

Thanks. I uh don't have a dropbox. Is it free? Cos I like free stuff. Especially when it's free. Most notably: air.
 

NinjaBoiX

Member
I'll be honest, I'm a complete luddite with this stuff. I've never used Dropbox, I have spotify but never use it, I just use YT and occasionally grooveshark if it's something really obscure. Plus, I don't have a PC (Pats has a laptop), so I may need some guidance on how to build a playlist.

I just read Jed's post about how to do it, but I got confused. I thought iTunes was really picky about exporting music? "Copy the files and drop them into a new playlist"? I don't get it. :/

God, it's embarrassing how much I'm out of the loop with this stuff. Being back cassettes mane.

That said:

"You can't stop us!
We are anonymous,
You can't stop us!
We are anonymous,"


Such a tune. :D More like that pls Jedward.
 

Mikeside

Member
you'd need to download the mp3s, then change the tags - I just change the album to my playlist name, put myself as the album artist then change the track numbers.

Once that's done, have them all in a folder and copy them into Dropbox (we'll have a shared folder in there)


but if you don't have a PC that may be more difficult.


tell you what ninj, m'boy - if you wanna make a playlist on youtube or whatever then just ping it over to me and I'll take care of the nitty gritty.



you still have to do the cover art, though.


We doing that mixtape thing again? I'm sooooo using Spotify this time round.

oh no you fucking don't!!!
 

8bit

Knows the Score
I'll be honest, I'm a complete luddite with this stuff. I've never used Dropbox, I have spotify but never use it, I just use YT and occasionally grooveshark if it's something really obscure. Plus, I don't have a PC (Pats has a laptop), so I may need some guidance on how to build a playlist.

I just read Jed's post about how to do it, but I got confused. I thought iTunes was really picky about exporting music? "Copy the files and drop them into a new playlist"? I don't get it. :/

You could just bundle together whatever mp3s you want as a rough playlist, put them in a zip file and upload this to dropbox along with a text file with your suggested running order. Don't worry so much about the playlist thing.
 

NinjaBoiX

Member
You could just bundle together whatever mp3s you want as a rough playlist, put them in a zip file and upload this to dropbox along with a text file with your suggested running order. Don't worry so much about the playlist thing.
Ah cool, this sounds easy enough!

Nice one fella.
 

Pookmunki

Member
Vic and Bob's House of Fools is Mrs Brown's Boys / Miranda done right.

I only think of " When the whistle blows" when those 2 are on.
 

Marc

Member
The Shins are fine, but they're almost offensively inoffensive. They're like the musical equivalent of a plain cheese sandwich.

Mild cheddar, no butter.

;)



I had a vita and a 3DS but I just never played them. Got rid of them both a few months back. They're both a great bit of kit though!

Can't stand them, they are at elevator levels of banality.


Got an pled vita but was seriously considering a white LCD one as it looks delicious. Sony killed that dream though.


Love the idea of mixtapes, enjoy your youtube links anyway ninja. Although any legal issues in this, not up to speed on that.
 

Rubbish King

The gift that keeps on giving
You're not crazy man, it might be the worst thing that's ever appeared on a television screen.

But I... errrrr, kinda tolerate Miranda. By virtue of it being on after Eastenders it's usually on it the background on a friday. At first I hated it, but then slapstick is pretty much always funny. And so I watched a bit and I chuckled. Not a full on laugh, but a smile played across my lips. It's very throwbacky but she has enough charisma to pull herself through the old-style setup of the show.

And she was on Richard Herring's podcast and was hilarious, which automatically gave her +10 points for me.



Everyone has different ideas about it. Personally, I think you should get the MP3s and make new copies of them. re-Import them into your prog of choice (I use iTunes) and change the album name to your mix title and re-number them in the appropriate order. Mark it as a compilation as well. That way, when folks import it into their library it'll be a bona fide album ready for playing.

People that didn't do this last time made it less likely for me to indulge their tastes, so ANGRY was I already. I'm looking at you, Tashbrooke!

Then when it's all done upload it to your dropbox and pass links around. I think last time there was some kinda master document but it was patchy.

heyheyheyheyowoahwoahwoah



I'm not good with comupter




srsly though i really fucking struggled with this, I was actually thinking about suggesting a mixtape exchange again, LET'S FUCKING DO THIS
 

BGBW

Maturity, bitches.
The problem with This Is My Man is they didn't have a playlist based on your tastes. It would show you individual tracks, but you couldn't just not play and listen to them all.

That and while I took the time to find/make album art and a nice background most just plastered any old pic on their page. Interesting concept flawed execution.
 

afoni

Banned
eh wasn't that something like having a woman treat you like shit and humilate you?

The Freudian implications are interesting I guess.

Nah, that wasn't it. That was just my way of saying that I'd be up for anything kinky as long as it wasn't legitimately weird.
 

Mikeside

Member
The problem with This Is My Man is they didn't have a playlist based on your tastes. It would show you individual tracks, but you couldn't just not play and listen to them all.

That and while I took the time to find/make album art and a nice background most just plastered any old pic on their page. Interesting concept flawed execution.

We could get JohnathanEx to make us our own version, he's pretty savvy. Though here upsettingly rarely
 
Just played a bit of CoD Ghosts

Jesus Christ the game is bad. It's like they forgot anything they ever learned about map design or spawn points from the previous games. The interface, the class system, the perks, all that stuff, it's just a clusterfuck. They tried to do what Treyarch did with the Pick 10 thing but just made a mess of it. And its the only game I have played on PS4 with such terrible latency.

Anyone want it?

I'm either going to give it to a friend in need or sell it to the plebs in CEX
 

Symphonia

Banned
If you look at Ghosts as 'Generic First-Person Shooter WITH ADDED DOGS' then it's an okay game. Not good, not great, but okay. At best it's tolerable. The framerate is bad, yes, but it's not entirely unplayable. I only play it for online. I like to piss people off with my amazing sniper skills.
 
If you look at Ghosts as 'Generic First-Person Shooter WITH ADDED DOGS' then it's an okay game. Not good, not great, but okay. At best it's tolerable. The framerate is bad, yes, but it's not entirely unplayable. I only play it for online. I like to piss people off with my amazing sniper skills.

I always found something to like about individual CoD games but I don't see how people tolerate this one. It's got the same gameplay as the others but everything is worse. It's got the sliding, contextual lean, player callouts ("tango in ___!" for example) and female soldiers. That castle map is pretty cool. But that's it. The overall package just seems worse.

Thank fuck I didn't pay for it, I just exchanged it for a spare copy of Killzone.
 

Symphonia

Banned
Lord have mercy, I have a date on Saturday with a girl from OKCupid. It's been a while since I've been on a proper date date and ugh, yeah, I just need to play it cool. Which reminds me, I never updated you on the situation with my ex. Yeah, we're not going to happen anytime soon. Or at all for that matter. Ah, well, she's an ex for a reason.
 
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