Posted March 10, 2015

ddickinson
Battle Sister
Registered: Feb 2014
From United Kingdom

AgentBirdnest
Ja'crispy
Registered: Jan 2011
From United States
Posted March 10, 2015
Good day Tom, Stilty, Blob!
Stilton: There you go, complaining that I change my avatar too often and then wanting me to change it back! I got bored with the first one because he looked like an idiot, the second one looked annoyed to have those two huge things growing out of his head, and now I find one I like and you'd prefer me to change it back.... I mean, what is a Viking to do? Maybe I should keep changing it every few days until everyone's happy.... Would you have kept the first one if the snow still worked? I miss that snow :-(
AgentBirdnest: I'm actually a bit surprised that there aren't any places open in the middle of the night where I live. A college town, with 10,000 stoned kids... Seems like night pizza would make great money... They usually close at 9pm though :-\
adaliabooks: Well that is odd, we do really well on an evening and I would have thought a pizza place would stay open till at least 10 or 11pm... Maybe it is to discourage the stoned and drunk college kids from driving? I dunno... It is a pretty quiet town; almost everything closes at 9pm.




moonshineshadow
Ghost
Registered: Sep 2011
From Switzerland
Posted March 10, 2015



ddickinson
Battle Sister
Registered: Feb 2014
From United Kingdom

moonshineshadow
Ghost
Registered: Sep 2011
From Switzerland

ddickinson
Battle Sister
Registered: Feb 2014
From United Kingdom

toxicTom
Big Daddy
Registered: Feb 2009
From Germany

Stilton
Darling I'm home
Registered: Mar 2012
From United Kingdom
Posted March 10, 2015


Is that a compromise?
(I'm playing Devil's advocate here, by the way...)

toxicTom
Big Daddy
Registered: Feb 2009
From Germany
Posted March 10, 2015
I have played Toonstruck back in the day, and if you're remotely into p&c adventures and wacky humor and don't mind SVGA resolution - just get it - you won't regret it. I was literally laughing to tears in some scenes.

ddickinson
Battle Sister
Registered: Feb 2014
From United Kingdom
Posted March 10, 2015
So, just a randomly innocent questions *turns and smiles at Moon*. But what would your top 5 games be on your GOG wishlish? Which games would you really like to play that you don't already own?

moonshineshadow
Ghost
Registered: Sep 2011
From Switzerland
Posted March 10, 2015


Is that a compromise?
(I'm playing Devil's advocate here, by the way...)

toxicTom
Big Daddy
Registered: Feb 2009
From Germany

moonshineshadow
Ghost
Registered: Sep 2011
From Switzerland
Posted March 10, 2015

"List is up to date as well as reasons why games are there. But nothing has high priority since I have enough games to play already in my backlog"

adaliabooks
"Vell, Zaphod's just zis guy, you know?"
Registered: Jun 2013
From United Kingdom
Posted March 10, 2015

Sadly, temporary contracts are becoming the norm around here. Especially in areas like health care, education and social stuff the only people I know that have unlimited contracts are those of "old stock", with contracts dating from 10 years back. A friend of mine works in the social area - mainly helping under-educated lower class kids finding apprenticeship after school. He has to move every two years because after two years it's either calling it quits or translating the contract into unlimited (by German law). And finding a new job just in the same city is pretty hard. He very good with what he does and has lot of experience under his belt, that's why he always manages to find something new.
It's been like than for almost 10 years now. Of course he has no family of his own and doesn't accumulate a lot of baggage... I don't know how long someone can endure this mercenary life, but I see it's slowly getting to him.
It's a bit better in my area, especially for one with my expertise and experience. Here it's mostly the other way round unlimited contracts with long cancellation periods - for knowledge and "being in the project" are invaluable - so I'm rather fortunate.
Problem is I can't really see it getting much better anywhere... if people become so used to temporary contracts that they are the norm there's no real reason for big employers not to continue using them and stop having to take people on properly.
I worked in a Citizens Advice Bureau (not sure if you have anything similar over there, basically just help people with benefits, debt, employment and legal issues etc.) for about four years and I've seen some pretty horrendous treatment of people by their employers, and more often than not there is so little you can actually do about it because the law is on the employers side...

ddickinson
Battle Sister
Registered: Feb 2014
From United Kingdom
Posted March 10, 2015