The Letting Off Steam Thread

[Lean]

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So Lean, you change your mind in accepting that escort service job being offered to you?

I need some "meat extenders" first.

[Jackal]

There's a large market for guys with miniscule penis'.

You'd be surprised how much people are willing to pay to watch you jerk off with a set of tweezers for them. It pays for some people's lawschool fees.

[Lean]

Hmm, come to think of it...

[Oznogrd]

netflix sent me kickass yesterday. Tried to watch it this morning and the fucker wont play on my xbox 360 or my about 1 year old magnavox vcr/dvd recorder combo. However the 9 year old piece of shit downstairs that cant play most new things? it starts right up. What the fuck?

[Andrew]

Good luck to you, Dare. Hope both Lean and you find a decent job.

Just tried it in Firefox and indeed it does. Nevertheless, I'd recommend bookmarking forums.nba-live.com.

For some reason, I feel just comfy using http://www.nbaliveforums.com as I been pretty much typing it everytime I got here. I am just glad that it's back on, well... at least for awhile, I guess. Screw Maddenmania.

You ultimately end up at forums.nba-live.com anyway but fair enough. Just keep in mind that it's only being used for convenience and that if it stops working again, use forums.nba-live.com (and update any bookmarks as necessary) because that's what we're using these days.

It still redirects to maddenmania.com for me, at least in Chrome.

[JaoSming]

Been playing Deadliest Warrior online and the rage quitting finally got to me....got the same mother fucker 3 matches in a row, and he somehow had enough time between me shooting him in the face and the win screen to quit. He put his name and city/state in his profile.....resisting urges....

On top of that, on the 2k community website I had 3 videos featured on the main page and you get these random idiots who upload shitty direct upload crap that they think is amazing (usually basic alleyoops) and no editing, but they rate the front page videos 1/10 to try and get theirs on there......


Haters gunna hate....

[Andrew]

He put his name and city/state in his profile.....resisting urges....

That's odd, it goes against the GIFT which relies on the anonymity the Internet can provide.

[Fresh8]

I was 2 marks away from a higher grade in 2 of my law subjects. I don't know whether to be disappointed as I was religiously following the Lakers end of season and entire playoffs and really did not make uni my priority. Too hard to find time these days with work, friends, uni... looks like I have to push the Lakers back a few notches next year. Living in Australia sucks cause the games are in the middle of the day... fuck you time zones!

And what makes me a bit pissed off at myself is that if I was 1 mark away from the threshold, I probably have a shot to ask for my grade to be pushed up but I don't have any grounds to do so now.

[The X]

Arrrghhh!!! Pissed off!!! Due to a restructure at her work & client base being cut in half, my wife (& another woman on maternity leave) got a termination letter without notice (& no payout) in the mail this past Tuesday whilst 3 months into her unpaid maternity leave (since Australia doesn't have any form of paid maternity leave at this stage).

She worked at the place for over 4 years & they didn't even have the decency to even let her know in person or by phone. Cold bastards!!! And whilst a woman is on maternity leave!!!

There might be grounds for notice period being paid out but getting redundancies paid out might be a little harder due to the crappy Work Choices Lite laws (as I call them since Labor's Fair Work thing is a joke) having an exception for small businesses with staff fewer than 15 staff so they don't have to pay out redundancies

We'll still go for it, but this is not the end of it though. Some people are just so low

[shadowgrin]

Sorry to hear that X.



Minor rant.
2K10 online quick game. Hornets (me) vs. Mavs. Took him a long time to pick the Mavs, probably waiting to see what team I would pick.
Built a nice lead, D working, long and mid-range shots sinking for me, plays connecting.
Disconnected in nearing the end of the first quarter, maybe its the fault of the 2K servers, maybe. Invited to play with the same person again. Still picked Hornets, he picked Lakers, which is a damn sign. Cheeser built up a 10 point lead using Kobe and forcing it to the baseline, every damn time.
Start of the 3rd, still down by 9. Started setting defensive pressure and matchups. Mixing up 2-3 zone and press to stop him from cheesing the baseline. Plan working, made him miss 3 consecutive shots and I made 2 baskets from it. Disconnected, again. I think it's really intentional. I don't understand, he had the lead, just because he missed 3 shots and his cheesing has been neutralized he'll just quit.

Now I remember why I stopped playing online matches.

[Lean]

Well the guy you're facing could be way younger than you. Game "frustrations" like that drive them to quit (well based on seeing kids play that famous WarCraft III map...)

[Axel The Great]

Exactly why I hate playing online, too many cheesers quitting whenever they're losing, fuckin' cunts. I said this in another thread but, if you're man enough to go into a game, you should be man enough to lose it.

[JaoSming]

shadow, that stuff on steam earlier was leading into a 2k10 challenge but you signed off

[Andrew]

That sucks, X. I don't think it would be much better under the Coalition (their Work Choices certainly didn't help me when I was made redundant during Howard's last term) but that's just low.

[The X]

That sucks, X. I don't think it would be much better under the Coalition (their Work Choices certainly didn't help me when I was made redundant during Howard's last term) but that's just low.

I'd agree about the conditions, obviously worse for many employees under Work Choices.

Ahh well, I'm getting over it & moving on.

[koberulz]

That sucks, X. I don't think it would be much better under the Coalition (their Work Choices certainly didn't help me when I was made redundant during Howard's last term) but that's just low.

I'd agree about the conditions, obviously worse for many employees under Work Choices.

But WorkChoices was a great policy, and one of the best things to happen to this country!

I begin to think my mother and I aren't actually biologically related.

[hova-]

Wow, X, tough to hear that ... really unclassy move but I see those things to come more often in the future. It's just like employers don't give anything about their employees.

Oh and Shadow, I feel with ya, baseline cheesing sucks, let's hope they developer's insight lives up to its promise. I put 2k10 on Ebay today, hoping to get around 20 bucks for it which I will use for 2k11. Two month without 2k will really save me some time because I was playing lately and noticed that I was just playing around without real fun. Like playing Hawks vs Lakers the 1st quarter and stopping because getting bored of the players. Then playing Mavs vs Hornets same procedure etc etc. Really looking forward to 2k11 though.

We had our first soccer match of the new season and lost a derby-like match 1-3. Pretty pissed because they "bought" like 18 new players making their roster a mercenerary troop and still they did not play better. I hit the post with one shot and had a terribly hard header which the keeper simply could not NOT save as I hit his right foot with it. He never would have gotten that if I could place it next to the post but it was just a too hard cross. I hate loosing and will always be a bad looser. Ref also made me sick blowing the whistle on every contact as if nuns played each other.

[shadowgrin]

Doing some roster editing with 2K10 and the game hangs. I was half-way done but forgot to save. sonuva...

[JaoSming]

....beeeetch

no you're messin with a son of a bitch



does anyone else get blue screens when they're in 2k10 and power settings try to turn the screen off after 10 minutes of inactivity? for some reason the gamepad doesnt let the computer know I'm "active" while doing stuff in the menus/reel maker but when I'm in-game there are no problems

[shadowgrin]

I sometimes get blue screens before or after playing 2K10. Usually when I unplug or plug the 360 controller. I use the default drivers, not Xbcd. No problem with the screen going off even when active, it even turns back on after inactivity when I move the analog sticks (after uploading a reel).

[Dee.]

Grandfather just passed away while being in hospital.
Fucking doctors there said it's nothing serious and i have nothing to worry about.
Even worse he said he always wanted to die in his own home.
I'm angry as fuck.

[Axel The Great]

Sorry to hear that TheDee.

[NovU]

Grandfather just passed away while being in hospital.
Fucking doctors there said it's nothing serious and i have nothing to worry about.
Even worse he said he always wanted to die in his own home.
I'm angry as fuck.

Sorry for your loss. The doctors are cold mofos. They are more about $$$ these days.

[rise]

Sorry about your loss TheDee.

[Andrew]

Sorry to hear that TheDee, my condolences.