The "whatever's on your mind" thread

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    My procrastinating tendencies have come to bite me in the ass. I've got three language tests next week and started prepping for them yesterday.
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    How many games is Telltale going to bundle Puzzle Agent with in a pre-order deal? I don't need 3 free copies of Puzzle Agent on top of the one I actually purchased.
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    Chyron8472 wrote: »
    How many games is Telltale going to bundle Puzzle Agent with in a pre-order deal? I don't need 3 free copies of Puzzle Agent on top of the one I actually purchased.

    I know, right? If I decide to dish out the money for 'Hector...', then I'll have an extra two. Wouldn't it be a better move to bundle one of the 'Bone' episodes in every now and then?
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    BBC Persian's gonna start showing Doctor Who this Friday!
    Wooohhooo! Finally I'll be able to watch it ... Unfortunately, It's dubbed in Persian ... I say unfortunatley because I always prefer to watch English shows and/or movies in English
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    Hayden wrote: »
    Wouldn't it be a better move to bundle one of the 'Bone' episodes in every now and then?

    My thought exactly.
  • edited April 2011
    Hey guys- just wanted to give everyone here a heads up that sometime this summer before I move to California, I'm going to be having some eye surgery that will temporarily blind me- two or three weeks. Got any audiobooks to reccomend? I have His Dark MateriaLs and The Guide- I've read it all already but I like the British actor who reads it. I also have all of Sheep in the Big City, which is almost like a radio play.
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    the UK version of Harry Potter. Stephen Fry is the best, hands down.
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    Chyron8472 wrote: »
    Ricky Gervais is the best, hands down.

    Fixed that for you, bud.
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    Morgan Freeman is the best.
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    4/20 was yesterday, coolsome. Not today. We need to discuss Ricky Gervais here.
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    Morgan Freeman reads audiobooks?

    btw, anyone who takes the time to remember/observe 4/20 is a dork. I'm just saying.
    Having a day of the year on which one celebrates the smoking of pot is stupid.
  • edited April 2011
    Hey guys- just wanted to give everyone here a heads up that sometime this summer before I move to California, I'm going to be having some eye surgery that will temporarily blind me- two or three weeks. Got any audiobooks to reccomend? I have His Dark MateriaLs and The Guide- I've read it all already but I like the British actor who reads it. I also have all of Sheep in the Big City, which is almost like a radio play.

    Any Terry Pratchett book. Can't go wrong with that.

    I'd suggest Good Omens or Going Postal for starters. Maybe Reaper Man.
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    Am I really that bad, or boring? What's my problem? Any takers? People avoid conversations with me and people don't seem to like me. They are nice to me, polite, but they are uncomfortable with me and don't know how to handle me, and I just feel awkward and like I don't fit in...

    Oh well...
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    Any Terry Pratchett book. Can't go wrong with that.

    I'd suggest Good Omens or Going Postal for starters. Maybe Reaper Man.

    I haven't read every Discworld book yet, from what I have read, I think Reaper Man might be my favorite. Maybe Small Gods.
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    Scnew wrote: »
    I haven't read every Discworld book yet, from what I have read, I think Reaper Man might be my favorite. Maybe Small Gods.

    I say Going Postal because that's the first Discworld book I read. I loved it, and subsequently bought every book in the series. And Good Omens may be pretty much my favorite book ever. It's hard to pick and choose, though, since everything Terry Pratchett has written is pretty much golden to me.
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    Chyron8472 wrote: »
    the UK version of Harry Potter. Stephen Fry is the best, hands down.

    Seriously.

    Here is Jim Dale reading the US version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeAzVwGdhNw&t=6m50s

    Here is Stephen Fry reading the UK version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mIjBuu5L58&t=4m03s


    Stephen Fry is one of the best audiobook performers (or w/e you call them) I've ever heard. Especially, by comparison Jim Dale sounds really bad.
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    Hey guys- just wanted to give everyone here a heads up that sometime this summer before I move to California, I'm going to be having some eye surgery that will temporarily blind me- two or three weeks. Got any audiobooks to reccomend? I have His Dark MateriaLs and The Guide- I've read it all already but I like the British actor who reads it. I also have all of Sheep in the Big City, which is almost like a radio play.

    Judging by your recent posts in the doctor who thread, I recommend the Big Finish audio dramas of Classic Doctor Who wholeheartedly.
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    I say Going Postal because that's the first Discworld book I read. I loved it, and subsequently bought every book in the series. And Good Omens may be pretty much my favorite book ever. It's hard to pick and choose, though, since everything Terry Pratchett has written is pretty much golden to me.

    I love the book and movie adaptartion.
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    coolsome wrote: »
    I love the book and movie adaptartion.

    So do I. They did a really good job with that one. Especially with casting Moist.
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    Nothing worthwhile, interesting, is on my mind right now. I'm caged , trapped, and starved, deprived of any food for thought, I'm likely to starve to the death of my mind, if it goes on.
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    Hey guys- just wanted to give everyone here a heads up that sometime this summer before I move to California, I'm going to be having some eye surgery that will temporarily blind me- two or three weeks. Got any audiobooks to reccomend? I have His Dark MateriaLs and The Guide- I've read it all already but I like the British actor who reads it. I also have all of Sheep in the Big City, which is almost like a radio play.

    Discworld audiobooks are good, the chap who reads them; Tony Robinson, has a great voice.

    Someone mentioned Ricky Gervais, pick up the free podcast he done, it's floating about the net somewhere. gervais is alright, the real cream is Karl Pilkington, who's an idiot and a damned genius all in one
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    I can always recommend the radio series of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. There is a fair bit to it though, there being 5 series which called 'phases' for the CD releases (Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, Quandary & Quintessential) and the first 3 phases take up 3 CDs each with the latter two just using 2 discs. So that is 13 discs for the whole lot covering 13 hours and 50 minutes, according to Winamp. And of course I'm not sure of the availability in the US. Even if you could only get the first two series then that covers the original 70s stuff but I still like the newer series.
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    You can get all the way up to 3 at least. I know this because I have it. Unfortunately it doesn't have my favorite "Your robot hums just like Pink Floyd" gag.
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    Oh why do I have to be so blind?

    Sometimes I think about getting contacts, but putting them in and taking them out is pretty off-putting.

    I could do with a new pair of glasses.
    Something a little more intricate in design methinks.

    Definately not round ones though. Rectangular lenses work well.

    Metallic sides would be nice. Chunky plastic ain't working for me at the moment.
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    WAHGHGHAHGHGHHAG! Get ouy of my head!
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    doodo! wrote: »
    WAHGHGHAHGHGHHAG! Get ouy of my head!

    Do you ever just listen to yourself talk?
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    No, but it makes me want to make a re re re re remix or what I sayyyyy, a re re re re remix! A re re re re RE REEEE MIX MIX mix mix mix
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    I hate picking glasses. Takes me ages, and I usually need a 2nd or 3rd opinion before I make a decision. But I'm pretty happy with the last few that I've bought, the pair I got before to the ones I use now were pretty expensive but a lot of that price was the lenses as I got those reactive type ones just so I didn't have to bother with a separate pair of sunglasses.

    This last time however I decided to go for the separate pair of sunglasses option so saved a bit on lenses and got a 2nd pair discount too. As for style, I've long been a fan of rectangular frames, and I prefer a half rim frame as well though the sunglasses I got were different to what I usually wear as in they have fairly big lenses (compared to my normal pair) in a full rim frame. Also, with my normal pair it's the first time I've used chunky plastic arms and I have to say I like it. Nice to have some weight about my glasses as my last few sets have been very light weight from just a light metal frame to a pair of those flexy, bendy glasses (which are useful when going camping, say). Doubt any of this will help anyone but I just fancied talking about it.
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    I think she was practicing to talk like GLaDOS
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    Jon NA wrote: »
    I think she was practicing to talk like GLaDOS

    Thank me later.
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    I haven't played Portal 2 yet, is it spoilerish?
  • edited April 2011
    Jon NA wrote: »
    I haven't played Portal 2 yet, is it spoilerish?

    Nope.
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    That's awesome. Got one for Portal 2, also? (It's Portal 1 only)
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    That's awesome. Got one for Portal 2, also? (It's Portal 1 only)

    Nope, but you've given me a quest!
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    That's awesome. Got one for Portal 2, also? (It's Portal 1 only)

    A Portal 2 one would probably be extremely large. GLaDOS says a lot more.
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    I just got Mark Twain's autobiography. Fun times!
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    I just got Mark Twain's autobiography. Fun times!

    That sounds like it could be extremely entertaining. And I'm suddenly reminded of my half-finished copy of his Joan of Arc book...gotta get back to reading that.
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    That sounds like it could be extremely entertaining. And I'm suddenly reminded of my half-finished copy of his Joan of Arc book...gotta get back to reading that.

    DO.

    lT.

    NOW.
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    Damn, It's filtered.
    And Toonel.net's speed is extremely low ... I know what it is thought ... the speed was enough to load the page's title ...
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    DO.

    lT.

    NOW.

    Already on it. It's a great book, but of course it would be, given its author.

    Finding this book in the first place took me by surprise, since for some reason, I always had this image of him only writing about the South. It was sort of weird to be transported all of a sudden to France, of all places.
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