[Nuke]

finished the wiring job on the joystick of doom. all current features are wired in. so far its only 4 buttons a hat and 5 axes, but i will add to that as time goes on. right now its sort of usable, i got it propped up on some lego tires pending me finishing the enclosure. i connected everything and tested it (sort of, i haven't actually played any games with it yet, as its still mostly confined to my work bench) and it works well. i still need to find a way to mount the circuit boards, i probably got some standoffs somewhere i can use. i really dont want to be drilling a bunch of holes till i map out how im going to use the available control space, so i might just use zip ties and duct tape. i have connections for 3 more axes and 28 more buttons, and finding room for all of those is going to suck.

[deathfun]

Someone said my voice sounds manly when I do restaurant callouts (such as "behind", "corner", "coming around", "sharp behind", "to your left/right" etc)
Caught me off guard, wasn't expecting someone to tell me something like that

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Ever since I was conscripted into the ranks of the Armed Forces, my colleagues and commanders keep telling me that I have a British accent.

[Hades]

Ever since I was conscripted into the ranks of the Armed Forces, my colleagues and commanders keep telling me that I have a British accent.

Snail? Are you using Androgeos' account?

[FireSpawn]

Just found out that some of the graphic design students in my college lurk around this forum.
Who knows, soon we might get an influx of young impressionable people than can be drafted in to do the tedious work for mods.

[BlueFlames]

Someone said my voice sounds manly when I do restaurant callouts (such as ... "sharp behind" ... etc.)

...

You must say this phrase, while wearing a large purple hat and inspecting the figure of a "nice lady".

[StarSlayer]

Just found out that some of the graphic design students in my college lurk around this forum.
Who knows, soon we might get an influx of young impressionable people than can be drafted in to do the exciting and rewarding experience of developing tedious work for mods.

[Polpolion]

Just found out that some of the graphic design students in my college lurk around this forum.
Who knows, soon we might get an influx of young impressionable people than can be drafted in to do the tedious work for mods.

yes pls

[LordMelvin]

Someone said my voice sounds manly when I do restaurant callouts (such as ... "sharp behind" ... etc.)

...

You must say this phrase, while wearing a large purple hat and inspecting the figure of a "nice lady".

...

That was no lady, that was...

[FireSpawn]

So, a girl that likes me at college wrote her facebook name down on a bit of paper for me today. The problem?

I CAN'T FRAKKING READ HER HANDWRITING! 

[Klaustrophobia]

her "facebook name"............. ??

 

[deathfun]

Someone said my voice sounds manly when I do restaurant callouts (such as ... "sharp behind" ... etc.)

...

You must say this phrase, while wearing a large purple hat and inspecting the figure of a "nice lady".

...

That was no lady, that was...

THAT WAS...

[z64555]

So, a girl that likes me at college wrote her facebook name down on a bit of paper for me today. The problem?

I CAN'T FRAKKING READ HER HANDWRITING! 

Take up cryptography, then you'll be able to read any handwriting and see what they really wrote down. 

[Colonol Dekker]

Did a twelve hour forty five minute day of HARD labour wearing a three piece suit, my patience eroding like the white cliffs of dover.STraight from work to the pub to find out the lesbian I have an infatuation with is really bisexual. Besides that, after four hours of strawberry mohitos and dirty dancing I ended up getting a smelly finger at a bus stop in new crowd. Some onlooker expressed disgust, I'm ashamed to admit I headbutted the biggest one. Got a fizzy cuddle. Bow walking to the night bus stop after leaving my Brazilian friend at the door with her boyfriend.


I deserve to burn in hell lol.

[Mongoose]

You need to write a book, Dekker.  If Tucker Max can gain fame, you sure as hell could.

[Nuke]

finally found enough standoffs to mount the electronics to te joystick of doom. making it a single unit instead of the stick with a mass of wires and circuit boards loosely attached to it. ive got it as far as it will go until i find/buy more parts. i gave it a go in mechwarrior 3 and so far i like the results, but it needs more doohickeys on it.

[Black Wolf]

8 years after I started Uni, I just got my graduation invitation. Not my masters/PhD/whatever. Just my bog standard, BSc graduation.

What?  There's got to be more to this than just procrastination.  Were you a part-time student the whole way through?

Nope. I was full time for 5 of those years - four in a row, then got a job in my field, so started working, whilst simultaneously signing up for classes which I didn't hand in assignments for - Went back and did my fifth full time year during the worst of the GFC, then went back to work after that. So now I will graduate with three years full time experience, and bugger all debt (since I've paid off huge chunks of my HECS with a mining salary). Basically, I've avoided doing any significant academic work for the past five years, and yet I am graduating with no negative consequences.

TopAce: Double degree, Applied Geology and Environmental Biology.

[deathfun]

Pretty sweet deal myte

[Firstdragon34]

2012 is coming ever so closer . . . . I can hear the Jaws Theme playing quietly in the background. . . . .buahahahahahahaha!   

[StarSlayer]

I think I've finally managed to grind my way to an competitive army in Shogun 2, I only began playing it about a month ago so most players are heavily advanced through the Avatar system since they've been playing since release.  That said I started off strong and climbed ranks quickly but around  levels 5 - 7  copper star I was getting shellacked by gold star opponents.  Even when they didn't do anything tactically brilliant their vets went through my troops like a wet paper bag.  So for a couple weeks I got mauled regularly but managed to keep leveling up my guys.  Finally I built up a solid core of Katana Samurai that use clan upgrades to be replenished after every battle, they are augmented by a pool of solid naginata and nodachi troops that I can draw from and finally a corps of cavalry that will at the very least tie up my opponent's cav and at best wreak some havoc on my foe's rear.  At first I started fighting some heavily ranked players and losing closely, and this past week I started managing to pull off victories.  I'm pretty stoked, it will take a bit to repair my win loss ratio from that dry spell but I'm in a much better place then I was.

Another thing, if you ever play the Shogun II check out the actually ground level fighting, they did a lot of motion capture for the units and as a practitioner of Kendo and other melee martial arts it's pretty badass when you can recognize that the troops are using proper technique.