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Oh yes, I R come out, but tirededly.

accentmonkey, i need to find a nice girl like you who will happily watch me play video games

getting worked up by morons

okay okay, leave the fucking mushrooms out :P

accentmonkey, i need to find a nice girl like you who will happily watch me play video games

-- darraghmac, Thursday, 4 October 2007 14:41 (Thursday, 4 October 2007 14:41)

OTM. Must be able to make popcorn and mop sweaty brow as well.

and to extend the love in, the best explanation for ilx name as well. niiiiice.

So hard to catch up here. I love all your posts but when I'm busy in the morning there's no way I can read them all. And when I finally get the time, you'll all be at the pub. :(

d. I watch my guy play grand theft auto and help him navigate.

The S.O. refuses to play games as I get to shouty and backseat driver-y. That makes me sad.

I need a GTA navigator. I'm hopeless at finding my way around - some dude says "get over to Some Place and kill Some Fucker" and I've got to look at the map *every* time.

I just leave Neil to his gaming. He tries to make me interested, but it's never going to happen.

Yeah I look at the map for him and tell him where to go. Cooperation, you know. I enjoy that part. I don't enjoy playing it myself so much.

i'm only allowed play soul blade/caliber with SO, because it's completely random and she can win 50% of the time.

The problem is that my braincogs are whirring at a speed BEYOND slow and I'm not sure if I can take the strain of Scrabulous! I am listening to my limited work mp3 collection (which is way more than I should have really - but heck once I had hundreds, then didn't have any for ages, but now I judge a collection to become more necessary so...)

Oh man Darragh Soul Calibur is AWESOME! I hearts vid games tho. Ooh new Zelda for DS, I'd hit that.

i don't think that's something you say about video games, tbh.

except for chun li, obv, but i was 14.

BEYOND slow and I'm not sure if I can take the strain of Scrabulous!

Similar situation. I've been so work-busy that on the rare occasion I can check in on scrabble, I can't spend enough time/concentration to make any decent moves. I am boosting the stats of all of my players.

Ooh new Zelda for DS, I'd hit that.

I can't get near a DS, the kids are obsessed with gathering Pokemons :(

except for chun li, obv, but i was 14.

Darraghmac, you are a treat!

Onimo is jealous of pokemon gathering because he wants them too. I would love a DS but I don't take enough buses and SO would kill me if I came back with another toy. I'm already addicted to tetris on my mobile. It has SPEED GAMES PEOPLE!!!

Onimo is jealous

True. I may end up buying my own DS instead of commandeering one from the boys.

Mrs o would frown upon having 3 DSs in the house but it's a risk worth taking.

actually, SO wants either PSP or DS for Christmas. that could work out nicely in terms of my burgeoning Pro Evo habit.

I can just imagine them stealing your pokemons, her having to step in and confiscate all the DSs if only to stop your snivelling.

That is how I would be at least if I was beaten by youngies. Another reason to avoid xbox live! (xpost)

Your SO wants a PSP for GTA fun.

Oh you can say "hit that" for anything, I was saying last night that i would hit those nordic buns (obvious joke here).

My sister spent all three hours of the third LOTR film (Return of the Shite or whatever the hell it was called) going "I'd tap that" whenever the bumchin King appeared. "Hit that" would have been infinitely better!

I can just imagine them stealing your pokemons, her having to step in and confiscate all the DSs if only to stop your snivelling.

We've had to ban video games a couple of times while David was learning how to lose. He'd kick your arse 5 times at Tekken or something then you'd win one and he'd throw a major wobbly.

He didn't actually learn to lose, as such, he just switched to single player/co-op games to avoid further bannings.

I think if I stole his Pokemons he'd never speak to me.

Being bad losers runs in my family.

bumchin king character- another pointless peter jackson creation to 'liven up' the books, no doubt.

ok, i gotta go do some work.
jol out.

"Hit that" phrasing also has the bonus that if you want to specify that you would really actually hit someone you can get nicely graphic about it ie "I would hit that idiot right in the face with a sledgehammer until his bloodied scab-faced phizzog was in tatters all across the Old Kent Road and that bird from Crimestoppers woz after me with the ROZZERS, you know, something like that.

I'm a bad loser, but I'm an only child so I'm supposedta.

I'm a bad loser and terrible winner. Thankfully I don't mind being in the middle...

God, this is so me. I can't play computer games, or any games, with Mister M, because I just get so pissed off and arsey when I lose. Note use of WHEN.

I kind of don't mind if it's a quick game of something and you lose suddenly, or even if you're playing a fairly long game and you were doing okay but now you're not, but I absolutely hate sitting at a table with people playing cards for hours on end and ending up with 1476 points in gin rummy or something while everyone else has 12. MAKES HULK SMASH!

The S.O. refuses to play games as I get to shouty and backseat driver-y. That makes me sad.

Oh yes, this also happens. "Just try to pick it up, pick it up, why didn't you pick up that gun? You could have shot him!"

"Jesus, really? You think so? Because I thought I'd just fuck off over here and bump into the walls a few thousand fucking times instead OF COURSE I WAS TRYING TO PICK IT UP!!!!"

"Well, there's no need for that."

Maybe there's certain days when you just shouldn't go near the console. You know, when you're a lady and all.

Mrs o and I don't play video games together very often since The Bust-A-Move 2 Altercation.

That sounds very familiar. I was very bad during katamari. I mean how the fuck does one watch Katamari Damacy and get angry?!? I must have been having a bad day. I wish SO would go back to computer games so I could thrash them we could bond... (xxpost)

Countdown to dodgy joke about thrashing each other begins... now.

Neil plays such stupid long pointless games, I just really can't get into it at all. Also, I have a weirdy mental thing where getting immersed in a false reality makes me upset - people pulling my leg with elaborate stories that turn out to be a wind-up, any theme park ride when you have to pretend to be part of a storyline, that sort of thing. Adopting the persona of a character to fight things and having to sustain it when I struggle to sustain myself some days would have me greeting like a bairn.

Yeah, I hate all those cutaway bits and plots and storylines. I've paid a lot of money for this game, goddammit, and you're stuffing it full of shite that Fighting Fantasy writers would have been ashamed of? Piss off and give me some coloredy balls to shoot at, or a futuristic race around Valparaiso and some techno, thanks.

Hey, the cut scenes in GTA San Andreas were class!

Also I have put a bid in. I find out tomorrow if I have the apartment. A nervous wreck is me.

ah kev, we're tryin to be supportive but FFS give it up already.

(j/k good luck)

Break a leg, kv nol.

Cheers all. Everyone please cross fingers, thanks.

ok. typing is really hard with crossed fingers. I have crossed my toes instead. Will that do?

We shall see!

Bastard blue sky is try to drag me out of work again.

gl kv lol!

Never mind, will soon be tomorrow and bastard blue sky can drag us to a pub :-) It is very nice outside, but I really can't be arsed doing anything that involves moving.

Have just arrived home from pub. Met Emsk and the Russian and Kev-lol and the Vicar and Rener and YMOF and Weasel Diesel. Delivered cake to Kev-lol, received DVD of Master and Commander in return. All is right with the world.

Did the Vicar respond to any questions with "No! Fuck you!"?

Um, yes. Yes he did.

Dear Ms Monkey,

On behalf of myself and SO, with whom I plan on eating cake later, many thanks for lovely cake!

Yours in OM NOM NOM NOM

Kv

PS. I am very onimoed. We didn't leave until closing. I am a broken man!

I just feel a bit sick. We've had ridiculously rich food two days in a row, including desserts and so forth, and I'm just not used to it anymore. Bleuuch.

I hear you. It's such a strain on the digestive system. I used to work for a guy who went to L'Ecrivain at least twice a week, sometimes 3 or 4. He was the most horrific shade of puce!

How is xbox? Did you both see sun up?

No, I went to bed straight away. Mister M stayed up a little bit, but I am going into town tomorrow to go to the theatre and have had to find a date to go with me, because he's going to stay at home and commune with Gears of War or whatever it's called.

Sorry accentmonkey I feel for you but I totally see where he is coming from:

Theatre = teh_lame, Gears of War = OMG SCARY ALIENS ROFL WTF ;_;