Basically, the release of Jurassic Park has been pushed back to this Fall. There was quite a big to do on the Jurassic Park threads this morning, which is still sorta going on now. Not to the extent that it was earlier, though.
It's weird reading that thread because I see people in there that I almost never see eleswhere on the forums. It's like a self contained world.
Edit:
There is a totally ridiculous level of nerd rage going on in that forum. Of all things in the world to be pissed about, they pick this? Our ancestors had to worry about blood feuds and daily threats of death. Hell, they still have to in parts of Los Angeles (*wink wink*).
I think people need to travel the globe a bit and get some perspective. While this can rank on the level of annoying, to act like it built to this unstoppable piss off level is... hilarious really.
There is a totally ridiculous level of nerd rage going on in that forum. Of all things in the world to be pissed about, they pick this? Our ancestors had to worry about blood feuds and daily threats of death. Hell, they still have to in parts of Los Angeles (*wink wink*).
I think people need to travel the globe a bit and get some perspective. While this can rank on the level of annoying, to act like it built to this unstoppable piss off level is... hilarious really.
It is pretty funny, isn't it? Mind you, I would probably have reacted similarly if something similar had happened with, say, Portal 2, or something. But acting as a mildly interested observer, I am free to find the humor in the situation.
I think the push back on the game is FANTASTIC. Seriously, Telltale made a wonderful decision on that. Screw the fans. They're always bitching like stupid neanderthals.
Hmmm... considering buying that monkey development software since it looks like I'm going to screw up big time at uni. (I just seem to be lacking in passion for it and letting everything just slip past me.)
Parents would be very pissed at me though. They will probably see all this time there as wasted, ruined opportunity.
I do like business, but I don't like it as much as I used to. (And even then I chose it mainly because I didn't see English (as much as I loved it!) as having any sort of career prospects, and Biology was DAMN HARD!)
I guess I'm not the only one with doubts though, as University seems to be getting worse for everyone.
Goverment is cutting back on funding, the fees are rising, which would be bearable, if not for the fact that the nature of University is being hotly contested at the moment.
I mean, you learn a lot of theory, but its sort of useless if you can't get a job that requires it.
Unemployment is a key issue here, its hitting hard. A competative job market, has become a hyper-competative job market.
I mean not only is a uni student constesting with several other students for a placement, but they likely have to compete with students from the previous years who haven't got a placement, and possibly other unemployed.
Okay, so assuming I ever got a placement, what then?
I have to either commute if its close enough, (And I just LOVE buses!), or I have to move away and rent some place to be able to work there.
The work would likely be me basically being a glorified trolley boy, and theres a good chance I won't enjoy working there.
Then I would have to go back to an arduous final year at uni.
Assuming I get past that, I would then have to do the whole job thing AGAIN!
Competing with other graduates, former graduates, AND unemployed in general.
And people wonder why I'm so depressed!
I still don't think its all doom and gloom, ol' Retro has a plan!
If (more like when...) I mess up this semester, I'm going to try work to get some PRACTICAL skills, (to make me stand out in CVs in the future).
You see the main reason I have been failing to get any further than the first few stages of a placement application, is simply because my CV is bare.
My grades already are not very good, or should I say clearly not good enough.
And well.. grades are pretty much all I have.
Yeah, I have a few years experience working as a "customer assistant" at Tesco, but thats it.
I have no other qualifications (barring A-levels and GCSEs, which at this level of employment are pretty much valueless), or siginificant events detailing any sort of achievement.
What I really want to do, is take some courses and do some extra curricular activites that display some skill development.
Business workshops are a good start, but again, there will be people who have those.
I'm thinking a bit out of the box here.
I want to get back to learning languages. I'm not brilliant at it, but I know that knowing at least one other language competently is going to come in handy, (it makes me more placeable in larger companies).
Still pondering whether I would go with French or Spanish, languages I did in GCSE, or try something completely new like Chinese or Japanese. (Which I can see as being potentially useful too)
However, I think it would also be a good idea to learn something that I can use for myself on the day to day, and I think I need to push myself to learn code.
For years, I have been skating on the edge of various coding languages, just afraid of jumping into it, just in case it takes too much time out of my schoolwork/coursework/university work.
Its probably the main barrier to me actually making things.
If I do learn to code, I reckon it will motivate me to create, but it could also give me the opportunity to brush up on my other very unpolished skills, spriting/artwork, and music.
I can draw.. well... doodle... decently, and I know that to improve my art I need to learn to put things into shapes, and learn to do different pencil/pen strokes for various effects, learn about perspectives and all that, but again, I never seem to have to time to study all those tutorials and learn to do it, and PRACTICE it.
And again, for music, I wished I had paid a bit more attention in music class back in school, and had been introduced to the Guitar earlier (I got my first (current) one as a hand-me-down from a friend a couple of years ago), as that would have given me something to tie the theory too, and I would have learned it much better.
(At the moment I can't seem to digest and use the theories, and I just play whatever I feel like, which is still pretty good, as it indicates I have some natural affinity to it, but I won't be able to develop myself enough to be a "proper" musician)
Its either that, or X-Factor! XD
(ooooorrrr juuust getting a mediocre entry-level job somewhere local, and working my way up)
(Oh boy, the curse of being self-aware....)
EDIT: Heck, I just realised that even if I did get a job after uni, I'd still probably be either living in a flat or with my family for a loooooonnnnnggg time.
Have you seen the house prices here in the UK?
Even in a recession they are still simply too high for most people to afford.
I'm already too capable and not foreign enough to have any sort of housing hand-out, (hmm... maybe I should adopt several children of different ethnic origins....XD).
If I have to go through that, I would at least like to do something I actually enjoy though.
Hey, maybe I could share a place with my best friend, who is unfortunately also doing terrible (we are just too alike for our own good really). At least I'll have someone to boost my morale now and then.
(TLDR metaphor: I am the kind of person who look down a long and hazardous road, thinks for a little bit... then says "screw that!" and goes home.)
If winners don't do drugs, how do you explain Charlie Sheen?
Charlie Sheen is actually the Emporer King of the Unicorns.
His magical sprinkles give joy to all the little girls and goblins of Adventure Island.
He eats Chilli Ostrich eggs to gain power to slay the vicious and evil Tigers that threaten his Kingdom.
The blood of said Tigers grant him the immortality needed for his everlasting rule!
He became a celebrity to promote SELF awareness, and through his manipulation of the media, he will eventually find the secret codes that will unlock the Gates of Babylon, where he will travel back in time to become the Ultimate Ninja!!
Funny how my chest feels a bit sore after having had a cigarette here now... hoping it's nothing serious :eek:
Well, obviously it's more than likely nothing, but if there's one thing I worry about - it's any kind of chronic breathing disorder.
Strange as it sounds, lung cancer never scared me much at all - I realize it's a painful way to die, but you DO die from it, and it doesn't take *that* long.
Which is something I'd much, much prefer to getting something I would actually have to live with for the rest of my life... and who knows how long that would be if the condition wasn't fatal at all.
That's really a worst case scenario for me, getting a chronic disease/disorder.
Strange as it sounds, lung cancer never scared me much at all - I realize it's a painful way to die, but you DO die from it, and it doesn't take *that* long.
Which is something I'd much, much prefer to getting something I would actually have to live with for the rest of my life... and who knows how long that would be if the condition wasn't fatal at all.
That's really a worst case scenario for me, getting a chronic disease/disorder.
My grandmother got emphazima from smoking. It took about forty years for it to become fatal and her quality of life was not all that great during that time. I guess what I'm trying to say is lung cancer is not the worst option in this circumstance.
Yeah exactly, never feared lung cancer much as I pointed out in that post, anything chronic like what your grandmother ended up with is the only real worry I have when it comes to cigarettes.
Funny how my chest feels a bit sore after having had a cigarette here now... hoping it's nothing serious :eek:
Well, obviously it's more than likely nothing, but if there's one thing I worry about - it's any kind of chronic breathing disorder.
Strange as it sounds, lung cancer never scared me much at all - I realize it's a painful way to die, but you DO die from it, and it doesn't take *that* long.
Which is something I'd much, much prefer to getting something I would actually have to live with for the rest of my life... and who knows how long that would be if the condition wasn't fatal at all.
That's really a worst case scenario for me, getting a chronic disease/disorder.
stop smoking. its bad for you. Its not worth dying over
Yeah exactly, never feared lung cancer much as I pointed out in that post, anything chronic like what your grandmother ended up with is the only real worry I have when it comes to cigarettes.
Emphysema (sorry, misspelled the first time) is much more likely if you have a genetic predisposition towards it, I think. But yeah, I would say it's a pretty horrible disease to have. And the only real cure is to get a double lung transplant, which is risky enough as it is.
I wouldn't even want them to attempt any kind of lung transplant... there's no way I'd go through all of that unless I could know for damn sure it would 'work' nearly perfectly and leave me with very little trouble after... which isn't the case at all with these kinds of transplants, from what I understand.
Same with cancer treatment - unless the chance of getting rid of the cancer was quite good, not much smaller than 50% in any case - if the chances of a successful outcome was much smaller than that, I'm pretty sure I would reject any treatment other than pain management.
Complicated surgery, radiation, etc... that stuff seems more scary than dying to me.
Hey, everyone.
1. I just wanted to say I'm surprised and happy to see how calm the JP boards are. There was initial shock, of course, but this has quickly waned with just how cordial Telltale has been about the whole ordeal. It makes me proud to be a moderator of a forum like this one.
2. Remember last month when I made the thread about Japan? (for those of you who don't- I lived there until the earthquake hit and my apartment building evac'd). People asked me if all my friends were ok, and I said 'yes'.
I lied.
My friend Amphy from the Philippines has two brothers in the Filipino Merchant Marine. Their ship was off the coast of Sendai, almost directly over the quake epicenter. The tsunami hit. One brother lashed himself to the ship, and the other jumped overboard with some of his shipmates.
The first brother (and the ship) were flung onto a deserted island into the Pacific. He was found relatively unharmed and rescued almost immediately.
The other brother and his shipmates had been presumed dead. Of course I wasn't going to say anything- we had no way of knowing either way where he was or if he had survived. Days turned to weeks, and well, this was one time when no news was NOT good news.
And yet, three days ago we get a call from a hospital in southern Japan, hundreds of miles from where their ship had been dragged by the waves. He and his crew (all but one) survived in the frigid ocean waters for about three weeks before being rescued and given care. He has staph, and is rather injured. But he's receiving care and he's slowly getting better by the day. We just have to keep an eye on him, but the hospital is now able to keep us informed.
I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner. I had enough crap of my own to deal with at the time, and I didn't need to needlessly worry everyone. It really puts life in perspective, no?
Whoah! Congratulations on the other guy turning up eventually, really cool!
I can't imagine how great it must feel when someone you have completely given up for dead turns out to be alive, I'm very happy for your friends sake that neither of his brothers died.
Too bad the guy lost for weeks is so sick and injured, but it's all fully treatable, right? No permanent damage, I mean?
I wouldn't even want them to attempt any kind of lung transplant... there's no way I'd go through all of that unless I could know for damn sure it would 'work' nearly perfectly and leave me with very little trouble after... which isn't the case at all with these kinds of transplants, from what I understand.
Same with cancer treatment - unless the chance of getting rid of the cancer was quite good, not much smaller than 50% in any case - if the chances of a successful outcome was much smaller than that, I'm pretty sure I would reject any treatment other than pain management.
Complicated surgery, radiation, etc... that stuff seems more scary than dying to me.
Actually, there is a new cancer treatment that will be available in a few years that reduces tumors to a nonlethal size. It also does not reduce the quality of life the way that radiation or chemotherapy does. So, all is not lost!
Provided that you hold off on the cancer until it gets FDA approval.
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Basically, the release of Jurassic Park has been pushed back to this Fall. There was quite a big to do on the Jurassic Park threads this morning, which is still sorta going on now. Not to the extent that it was earlier, though.
Edit:
There is a totally ridiculous level of nerd rage going on in that forum. Of all things in the world to be pissed about, they pick this? Our ancestors had to worry about blood feuds and daily threats of death. Hell, they still have to in parts of Los Angeles (*wink wink*).
I think people need to travel the globe a bit and get some perspective. While this can rank on the level of annoying, to act like it built to this unstoppable piss off level is... hilarious really.
Like a... like a forgotten world, or a lost planet or something.
Like a lost world!
It is pretty funny, isn't it? Mind you, I would probably have reacted similarly if something similar had happened with, say, Portal 2, or something. But acting as a mildly interested observer, I am free to find the humor in the situation.
Parents would be very pissed at me though. They will probably see all this time there as wasted, ruined opportunity.
I do like business, but I don't like it as much as I used to. (And even then I chose it mainly because I didn't see English (as much as I loved it!) as having any sort of career prospects, and Biology was DAMN HARD!)
I guess I'm not the only one with doubts though, as University seems to be getting worse for everyone.
Goverment is cutting back on funding, the fees are rising, which would be bearable, if not for the fact that the nature of University is being hotly contested at the moment.
I mean, you learn a lot of theory, but its sort of useless if you can't get a job that requires it.
Unemployment is a key issue here, its hitting hard. A competative job market, has become a hyper-competative job market.
I mean not only is a uni student constesting with several other students for a placement, but they likely have to compete with students from the previous years who haven't got a placement, and possibly other unemployed.
Okay, so assuming I ever got a placement, what then?
I have to either commute if its close enough, (And I just LOVE buses!), or I have to move away and rent some place to be able to work there.
The work would likely be me basically being a glorified trolley boy, and theres a good chance I won't enjoy working there.
Then I would have to go back to an arduous final year at uni.
Assuming I get past that, I would then have to do the whole job thing AGAIN!
Competing with other graduates, former graduates, AND unemployed in general.
And people wonder why I'm so depressed!
I still don't think its all doom and gloom, ol' Retro has a plan!
If (more like when...) I mess up this semester, I'm going to try work to get some PRACTICAL skills, (to make me stand out in CVs in the future).
You see the main reason I have been failing to get any further than the first few stages of a placement application, is simply because my CV is bare.
My grades already are not very good, or should I say clearly not good enough.
And well.. grades are pretty much all I have.
Yeah, I have a few years experience working as a "customer assistant" at Tesco, but thats it.
I have no other qualifications (barring A-levels and GCSEs, which at this level of employment are pretty much valueless), or siginificant events detailing any sort of achievement.
What I really want to do, is take some courses and do some extra curricular activites that display some skill development.
Business workshops are a good start, but again, there will be people who have those.
I'm thinking a bit out of the box here.
I want to get back to learning languages. I'm not brilliant at it, but I know that knowing at least one other language competently is going to come in handy, (it makes me more placeable in larger companies).
Still pondering whether I would go with French or Spanish, languages I did in GCSE, or try something completely new like Chinese or Japanese. (Which I can see as being potentially useful too)
However, I think it would also be a good idea to learn something that I can use for myself on the day to day, and I think I need to push myself to learn code.
For years, I have been skating on the edge of various coding languages, just afraid of jumping into it, just in case it takes too much time out of my schoolwork/coursework/university work.
Its probably the main barrier to me actually making things.
If I do learn to code, I reckon it will motivate me to create, but it could also give me the opportunity to brush up on my other very unpolished skills, spriting/artwork, and music.
I can draw.. well... doodle... decently, and I know that to improve my art I need to learn to put things into shapes, and learn to do different pencil/pen strokes for various effects, learn about perspectives and all that, but again, I never seem to have to time to study all those tutorials and learn to do it, and PRACTICE it.
And again, for music, I wished I had paid a bit more attention in music class back in school, and had been introduced to the Guitar earlier (I got my first (current) one as a hand-me-down from a friend a couple of years ago), as that would have given me something to tie the theory too, and I would have learned it much better.
(At the moment I can't seem to digest and use the theories, and I just play whatever I feel like, which is still pretty good, as it indicates I have some natural affinity to it, but I won't be able to develop myself enough to be a "proper" musician)
Its either that, or X-Factor! XD
(ooooorrrr juuust getting a mediocre entry-level job somewhere local, and working my way up)
(Oh boy, the curse of being self-aware....)
EDIT: Heck, I just realised that even if I did get a job after uni, I'd still probably be either living in a flat or with my family for a loooooonnnnnggg time.
Have you seen the house prices here in the UK?
Even in a recession they are still simply too high for most people to afford.
I'm already too capable and not foreign enough to have any sort of housing hand-out, (hmm... maybe I should adopt several children of different ethnic origins....XD).
If I have to go through that, I would at least like to do something I actually enjoy though.
Hey, maybe I could share a place with my best friend, who is unfortunately also doing terrible (we are just too alike for our own good really). At least I'll have someone to boost my morale now and then.
(TLDR metaphor: I am the kind of person who look down a long and hazardous road, thinks for a little bit... then says "screw that!" and goes home.)
Charlie Sheen is actually the Emporer King of the Unicorns.
His magical sprinkles give joy to all the little girls and goblins of Adventure Island.
He eats Chilli Ostrich eggs to gain power to slay the vicious and evil Tigers that threaten his Kingdom.
The blood of said Tigers grant him the immortality needed for his everlasting rule!
He became a celebrity to promote SELF awareness, and through his manipulation of the media, he will eventually find the secret codes that will unlock the Gates of Babylon, where he will travel back in time to become the Ultimate Ninja!!
I believe he'd be the definition of an exception that proves the rule.
I always used to pronounce it as Run-Escape and then get weird looks. Fit the game, though, as that's what I spent most of my time doing.
You shouldn't do drugs, M'kay? Drugs are bad, m'kay?
It was a joke.
And I had a pizza for breakfast today.
Seems my eating patterns are turning upside down as well, it used to be my sleeping pattern only
to me king of the hill will always be in the shadow of beavis and butthead
I never use it, but just in case I eve do, Bartarlan. Another one of my random letters usernames.
And the funny thing is...I just read this post backwards!
Funny how my chest feels a bit sore after having had a cigarette here now... hoping it's nothing serious :eek:
Well, obviously it's more than likely nothing, but if there's one thing I worry about - it's any kind of chronic breathing disorder.
Strange as it sounds, lung cancer never scared me much at all - I realize it's a painful way to die, but you DO die from it, and it doesn't take *that* long.
Which is something I'd much, much prefer to getting something I would actually have to live with for the rest of my life... and who knows how long that would be if the condition wasn't fatal at all.
That's really a worst case scenario for me, getting a chronic disease/disorder.
I watch it every night before bed.
My grandmother got emphazima from smoking. It took about forty years for it to become fatal and her quality of life was not all that great during that time. I guess what I'm trying to say is lung cancer is not the worst option in this circumstance.
stop smoking. its bad for you. Its not worth dying over
Emphysema (sorry, misspelled the first time) is much more likely if you have a genetic predisposition towards it, I think. But yeah, I would say it's a pretty horrible disease to have. And the only real cure is to get a double lung transplant, which is risky enough as it is.
Same with cancer treatment - unless the chance of getting rid of the cancer was quite good, not much smaller than 50% in any case - if the chances of a successful outcome was much smaller than that, I'm pretty sure I would reject any treatment other than pain management.
Complicated surgery, radiation, etc... that stuff seems more scary than dying to me.
1. I just wanted to say I'm surprised and happy to see how calm the JP boards are. There was initial shock, of course, but this has quickly waned with just how cordial Telltale has been about the whole ordeal. It makes me proud to be a moderator of a forum like this one.
2. Remember last month when I made the thread about Japan? (for those of you who don't- I lived there until the earthquake hit and my apartment building evac'd). People asked me if all my friends were ok, and I said 'yes'.
I lied.
My friend Amphy from the Philippines has two brothers in the Filipino Merchant Marine. Their ship was off the coast of Sendai, almost directly over the quake epicenter. The tsunami hit. One brother lashed himself to the ship, and the other jumped overboard with some of his shipmates.
The first brother (and the ship) were flung onto a deserted island into the Pacific. He was found relatively unharmed and rescued almost immediately.
The other brother and his shipmates had been presumed dead. Of course I wasn't going to say anything- we had no way of knowing either way where he was or if he had survived. Days turned to weeks, and well, this was one time when no news was NOT good news.
And yet, three days ago we get a call from a hospital in southern Japan, hundreds of miles from where their ship had been dragged by the waves. He and his crew (all but one) survived in the frigid ocean waters for about three weeks before being rescued and given care. He has staph, and is rather injured. But he's receiving care and he's slowly getting better by the day. We just have to keep an eye on him, but the hospital is now able to keep us informed.
I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner. I had enough crap of my own to deal with at the time, and I didn't need to needlessly worry everyone. It really puts life in perspective, no?
I can't imagine how great it must feel when someone you have completely given up for dead turns out to be alive, I'm very happy for your friends sake that neither of his brothers died.
Too bad the guy lost for weeks is so sick and injured, but it's all fully treatable, right? No permanent damage, I mean?
Actually, there is a new cancer treatment that will be available in a few years that reduces tumors to a nonlethal size. It also does not reduce the quality of life the way that radiation or chemotherapy does. So, all is not lost!
Provided that you hold off on the cancer until it gets FDA approval.