CarrionCrow: Okay, talk with you later. =)
We've secretly replaced Colleen's cocoa with Captain Twitchspaz's secret blend of hybrid coffee beans and ground up caffeine pills...
Let's see if she notices! ;)

genkicolleen: *watches husband drink coffee and wonder when it's going to kick in* Good thing I don't like coffee! XD Muwahaha~

CarrionCrow: It's getting back at you for making it work hard to backup your library.

Fingers crossed that you don't lose power all together or some other equally fun shit.

j0ekerr: Quite. I saw it too, but I am more passive in that respect, and allow myself to be manipulated, who knows, if I go along with a game's silly bullshit I might even end up having a good time.

As for Evangelion. I've remained a fan throughout the years Metron knows why. I even have the DVD collection staring right at me.

The thing is that Evangelion presents extremely compelling and interesting story concepts. However those concepts are never explored because they had absolutely no idea what to do do with them and were added just to "look cool". Instead choosing to focus on the human characters which are almost as retarded as your typical twilight one.

What are the angels, where do they come from, how do the Evas fit in, what is Nerv's and Seelee's ultimate purpose? Those are never explained because they never bothered to come up with explanations for them. They were tacked on, instead of basing the story around them. Probably because they were aware that no matter what they came up with, it'd be ultimately disappointing. So instead they dangled the "here's an emotionally traumatised teenager with abandonment issues NOT dealing with it while piloting a giant, god-murdering robot" bit in front of the audience to keep them from realising it too soon.

The Rebuild movies, were promising, until the 3rd one royally fucked things up again.

j0ekerr: Heh, so you also felt the pain of the quantum word barrage?
To Ken Levine it obviously means: "It's magic, I don't hafta explain shit!"

genkicolleen: *watches husband drink coffee and wonder when it's going to kick in* Good thing I don't like coffee! XD Muwahaha~

genkicolleen: Hey, madth3 just alerted me to an awesome game on GameGiveawayoftheDay, which you can read about here: Brink of Consciousness: Lonely Hearts Murders, which is number 2 in the series. You don't have to have played #1 to understand this one, since the only tie in is during the bonus chapter (this is the SE, so the bonus chapter is not included.)

The Brink of Consciousness games are personal favorites of mine, as far as IHOG's go~ Definitely recommend picking this up whilst it's free~!

CarrionCrow: Good evening. =)

Sounds like a good idea, just relaxing and enjoying yourself during some downtime.

How often do you head out to cover stuff? Is it primarily on the weekends, or are there also weekdays that you're able to make some coin?
(Apologies if this is a painfully dumb question, I have zero experience with such things.)

adaliabooks: Hey Crow, back from dinner.

At the moment we're out 2 days a week every week plus extra stuff when we have events. It's a Saturday and Monday night right now for the regular pitches, but the Saturday is moving to a Thursday after next week. Tomorrow is the first night for the Monday, but we've traded there on an afternoon at a Farmer's Market and done well so we're pretty hopeful.
Most of the big events (Shows, dog shows, festivals) tend to be on weekends, but you don't get too many of those. And most of them aren't worth doing (anywhere between £800 - £3000 for your pitch and then you work like a dog for the weekend just to break even) so we're moving more towards regular evening pitches in local villages, and if they continue to be as good as the Saturday one we've done the last three weeks things will turn around for us pretty quickly.

Stilton: After dropping Windows (which I feel is only a temporary state of affairs) I'm finding Windows gaming on Linux to be best described as 'interesting...'

Fortunately GOG has an easily installable selection of titles which require minimal involvement from the likes of myself (about as adventurous in computer terms as a field mouse), so I'm currently not hindered by having to use the 'Terminal' and needing to know what the hell a 'Tar Ball' has got to do with either my computer or the piece of gaming goodness I want to install on it.

Linux has got to be geek's revenge for all the years of grief their skinny bespectacled zitty selves took at school from the loud mouthed physical types. Not that I was one of those - I sort of hovered on the fringe of things, not wanting to be there at all and doing my best to get through it with my mind and self respect intact, which wasn't easy when most of the 'pupils' considered the pinnacle of refinement to be a head butt and/or knee in the groin.

I'm dreading wanting to play things which require me to learn the intricacies of this highly contrived and utterly alien new language...

CarrionCrow: Hmm. Interesting. Hopefully you'll be able to complete the shift of venues, since paying a fistful of cash every time and not even knowing if you'll break even sounds like high stress garbage.
And of course, continued hope that you'll keep on making better money. You can continue succeeding, I can save money for a year, then get a plane ticket for some pizza. -laughs-

GhostwriterDoF: Wait another year, and we might be able to 3D print those pizzas. :D

CarrionCrow: Hmm. Interesting. Hopefully you'll be able to complete the shift of venues, since paying a fistful of cash every time and not even knowing if you'll break even sounds like high stress garbage.
And of course, continued hope that you'll keep on making better money. You can continue succeeding, I can save money for a year, then get a plane ticket for some pizza. -laughs-

CarrionCrow: I always figured that Linux to have a learning curve like a brick wall, and your commentary isn't exactly making me rethink my position.
But to be rid of Windows...that would be great.

Did your Windows crap out somehow, or did you just get sick of dealing with it in general?

GhostwriterDoF: Wait another year, and we might be able to 3D print those pizzas. :D

CarrionCrow: Hmm. Interesting. Hopefully you'll be able to complete the shift of venues, since paying a fistful of cash every time and not even knowing if you'll break even sounds like high stress garbage.
And of course, continued hope that you'll keep on making better money. You can continue succeeding, I can save money for a year, then get a plane ticket for some pizza. -laughs-
CarrionCrow: I always figured that Linux to have a learning curve like a brick wall, and your commentary isn't exactly making me rethink my position.
But to be rid of Windows...that would be great.

Did your Windows crap out somehow, or did you just get sick of dealing with it in general?

adaliabooks: You don't have to wait.. it's possible now.
No guarantee they'd be very nice though, certainly not as nice as ours, which (without sounding too big headed) are absolutely bloody delicious.

CarrionCrow: That would certainly cut down on travel costs.
Unfortunately, figuring it's going to be a long time before Star Trek-style teleportation is a real thing.

adaliabooks: The smaller festivals and events can be quite lucrative, and a lot of fun, but we're looking for something a bit more regular and predictable so we can make plans... hard to save or pay rent when you have no idea what your income is. For example in November and December last year we had about a dozen separate events but half of them turned out rubbish so we did loads of work but made no money, and the money we made from the good events just ended up covering the money spent on the bad ones...
So I'm very pleased we've been doing so well at these local evenings, because it's completely in our control, really cheap to do and making us decent money.

I'll look forward to it ;)