I count on these people to blow that sort of money in our mobile games daily.
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Toronto-Age |OT4| Molested by a Burger Priest
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I count on these people to blow that sort of money in our mobile games daily.
capitalCORN
Member
Free chocolate? DARK CHOCOLATE? Yes please!
The kid (he's in his early 20's) threw out over $200 worth of coins (not just dimes and quarters but loonies and toonies also) because he was too lazy to spend them or drop them off at the bank. He even threw out a bunch of TTC tokens.
Last week (3 weeks) or second to last week (2 weeks) of September for meetup? Also place? I'm gonna go through this thread for old posts and see what seems interesting, but I'll take a recommendation right now too.
Edit: Oh shit, hope you're doing well Kraft. Hope you like dark chocolate, I'll set a bit aside for you next meetup you're at.
Edit: Oh shit, hope you're doing well Kraft. Hope you like dark chocolate, I'll set a bit aside for you next meetup you're at.
capitalCORN
Member
BTW, my new job prefers two weeks notice for scheduled time off. I'm not saying anyone has to accommodate me, just saying I'd like to be there for the meetup.
Every Saturday until October. We're going all out.Please no, my liver
Please no my wallet.
N° 2048
Member
Just had Tim Horton's frozen lemonade.
rofl I like the McDonald's one. It's pretty good.
Dang that sound good. I like dark chocolate. Remember some guy made a thread saying dark chocolate is bad.
Cripplegate
Member
I'm good for Kuro's suggestion (23/24). Next couple weeks will be pretty busy for me with work & TIFF.
Also:
Are we actually gonna do this?
I mean I'm not going to Fan Expo (once was enough, forever) but I get off work early tomorrow so I'd be down to grab a drink with some GAFers if people still wanted to do a small unofficial meetup.
Yeah, that'd be good. I'm tempted to just make it Friday, or is that not good for people? 7PM @ wherever (Power Up gaming lounge was mentioned but since I can't find much on it, I'll probably go myself to see).
Can't do the 23rd, I have a party to attend. But of course I don't need to attend every one of these. Likely in for the Saturday, although I'm likely to be feeling pretty rough from the night before.
The 24th would be better for me too.
In other news, I applied for a full time position at work (different division than I work for) back in July. I figured nothing came out of it but they contacted my managers yesterday asking about me. They told them I was awesome, because well, I am.
I'm taking this as a good sign. Fingers crossed that I get a call. Also applied for a different position within my location (still part time) but I'm 100% my managers want me for it. Just have to do the screening with HR before a formal interview I think.
In other news, I applied for a full time position at work (different division than I work for) back in July. I figured nothing came out of it but they contacted my managers yesterday asking about me. They told them I was awesome, because well, I am.
I'm taking this as a good sign. Fingers crossed that I get a call. Also applied for a different position within my location (still part time) but I'm 100% my managers want me for it. Just have to do the screening with HR before a formal interview I think.
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
Coors on shadowkat...!
Cats hate water.
Just had Tim Horton's frozen lemonade.
I've never had brain freeze quite like with those.
It was basically a sugar slush with some food colouring or something. Fuck any sort of lemon taste.
I'm here. Same as last year. Save your money.
Damn. Ice cold. Thanks!
Sun's out but it's not hot except when the light touches your skin.
I probably won't be able to since I'm doing a Destiny raid with friends at 9. If anyone's out late I might be able to come, depending on how long it takes us to finish the raid.
BigJonsson
Member
Finally got around to watching Mr Robot season 1 on Shomi and now I find out that Rogers on Demand only has a couple episodes of season 2
Booooo
Booooo
Fuuuuck TIFF.
Seriously. Last year I was able to get online easily enough, this year the site is constantly booting you while purchasing tickets and barfing your basket up.
So the trick is to go to Ticketmaster.ca and select the 1-3 tickets package option.
Only thing is that I can't figure out how to but more than 1 at a time. So I have to do the process multiple times.
Oh, and because it's TICKETMASTER the jack the price from $25 to random shit. One ticket was $31, the other was $34.
That's right, they're surge-pricing TIFF.
So fuuuuck this.
I'm going to 2 films, down from my usual 10. Disgusted.
Seriously. Last year I was able to get online easily enough, this year the site is constantly booting you while purchasing tickets and barfing your basket up.
So the trick is to go to Ticketmaster.ca and select the 1-3 tickets package option.
Only thing is that I can't figure out how to but more than 1 at a time. So I have to do the process multiple times.
Oh, and because it's TICKETMASTER the jack the price from $25 to random shit. One ticket was $31, the other was $34.
That's right, they're surge-pricing TIFF.
So fuuuuck this.
I'm going to 2 films, down from my usual 10. Disgusted.
Cripplegate
Member
Yeah, this is baffling.
I still have my tiff.net tab open, the one where I'm waiting in line, but unlike previous years it has no other info (e.g. number in line, estimated wait time) and it kinda just feels like I've been tossed into a digital purgatory. Nothing is happening. Their new website is kinda terrible, honestly. It's a pain in the ass just to see what's playing at the Lightbox on a given day.
I'm not even fucking with ticketmaster, what a terrible idea.
I would have gone to the physical box office and waited in line (I've enjoyed doing this in the past) but I have to work today (i.e. right now) so I figured I didn't have time and would just try on the website. Oh well.
I still have my tiff.net tab open, the one where I'm waiting in line, but unlike previous years it has no other info (e.g. number in line, estimated wait time) and it kinda just feels like I've been tossed into a digital purgatory. Nothing is happening. Their new website is kinda terrible, honestly. It's a pain in the ass just to see what's playing at the Lightbox on a given day.
I'm not even fucking with ticketmaster, what a terrible idea.
I would have gone to the physical box office and waited in line (I've enjoyed doing this in the past) but I have to work today (i.e. right now) so I figured I didn't have time and would just try on the website. Oh well.
Yeah, I bought a flex 10 pack and did my TIFF selections last week. The new interface is buggy as hell. In the end I ended up getting my picks but it seemed way less consumer friendly than last year.
Surge pricing? That sounds like a terrible decision. It seems like they are trying to extract the most amount of money as possible. It's already up to near $25 per film as it is.
Surge pricing? That sounds like a terrible decision. It seems like they are trying to extract the most amount of money as possible. It's already up to near $25 per film as it is.
chaobreaker
Member
Does anyone here have the good fortune of being near a Tims that sell the bottled Iced Capps? None of the locations around me have them stocked.
don't they sell those at Metro? i didn't think they sold them in the actual Timmys
chaobreaker
Member
I have seen them in random Tim's menus. Didn't know Metro stocked them.
if you get one, let us know how close to an actual Ice Cap it is. I've been tempted to buy one but can't get over that it's not really "iced"
chaobreaker
Member
Will do. I want to taste the caffeine, sugar, and cream without any of the slushy ice getting in the way.
I was hoping for a playable demo of Watch Dogs 2, they didn't have it. And they had a giant wall ad for it at the Ubisoft area that made it look like it was available to play, but they just had For Honor, Steep, and I forgot what the other game was (if there ever was a third game).
The Ubisoft area seems a lot smaller than before, probably due to the lack of Assassin's Creed.
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
Either way, you can be thankful that the temperature goes down as soon as the sun goes down, unlike other days a few weeks back. I've been able to avoid the heat simply by closing my blinds.
Cripplegate
Member
I forgot the best part: I did actually get in once, and selected a film which appeared to have tickets but only gave me the notice that it had gone off sale when I was on the quantity selection page. There was an option at the bottom that said search for other films, which I clicked, thinking it was going to be bring me back to the root menu, but it actually tossed me back into the blind queue. Like... that's not how I expected that to work. But okay. I did eventually get tickets for five movies, and I'll probably just wing it for the rest.
And here's the problem: It turns out this whole thing is "powered by ticketmaster" now so even going through the TIFF website like in previous years, single ticket purchases are all kinds of fucked. I saw exactly the same thing Dr.Acula saw on ticketmaster proper. I'm pretty sure $25 is the standard price, but some of my choices went up to other random numbers, e.g. $29 for a Midnight Madness ticket. I at least understand that, even if it's bullshit. But the most inexplicable thing I saw was a $32 ticket for The Death of Louis XIV. It just shattered my mind. Surge pricing on an Albert Serra film? IS THIS REAL LIFE?
Get rekt kuro (hell yeah, they both look good.).
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
WHO UNCHAINED YOU?! GET BACK TO WORK ON BG&E2! >=[
Well, it's been an incredibly stressful long weekend. Tons of people got let go and it definitely didn't help with workload or sleep. All I pretty much did today and last night was binge watch Narcos. Fantastic show. Goddamn Colombian woman...! HNNGGHHGG!
Exactly. I was actually surprised I received a notification about the heat warning for today lol