I like Codsworth the most so far.

He's really good at putting the horrifying murder on pretty much anything. Dogmeat just presents himself as food to the enemy.

And gets me hit by stray rockets

@MarkHulkalo They just want a hug.

They hugged my corpse afterwards

cvrie is best companion 2k15

Crap. I am so upset right now.

This morning I had an absolutely brilliant idea for a terrible website, that would be immensely popular and probably worth a ton of money. Now I have to build it, even though I will hate it.

well, I guess, they always say you should have passion for your work. Noone ever said that passion shouldn't be hate.

@AviD So, essentially embracing your inner hipster?

@TerryChia yeah, but worse :-(

since I dont really have one, I'd probably need to find an expert hipster though, after I finish speccing it out

@TerryChia actually arent hipsters crazy in love with their own terrible ideas?

@AviD Where do you think you get the terrible idea from?

hmm?

@AviD You got it from your inner hipster.

@TerryChia actually, no, this idea came straight from my inner neckbeard.

dammit. I was hoping that as I flesh out the specc some more it would be obviously unfeasible, or less popular, or at least less terrible. It's the opposite.

that feeling when you get one of your lifetime-level great ideas, and its horrible.

That face when the taxi driver rips you off and you call him out on his be, and he continues driving you around a city you already know.... And he keeps shrugging... Then butches at me for not tipping him

On his bs*

Crazy bastard nearly ran over someone. They were screaming at him

Mornin' all

hey there hipster boy

@AviD I'm sure that hate is the wrong passion to be having during a creative process

not that I have any experience with these things

...

@kalina yeah, I know...

unless the process you're trying to be creative about is revenge....?

even then

revenge is best served cold, afterall

looks like my rep train has ended

based on me not rep capping before waking up

heh. Wait till after coffee, at least.

now if only I could spread all of the overcapped rep over the next week or two

bed is so comfy but it's time to be productive

or at least, it's time to be in a position where I could potentially be productive

sigh

I really need an automatic delay on everything I post so I can have time to rethink it.

uhuh

I just sneezed and now I can taste blood

well it wouldn't be the start to the morning, unless @AviD had had to delete one of his messages :op

he was discussing the most productive positions in bed

obviously when I'm in bed any position is productive

so the discussion was pointless

that's the line you should use when you turn up at his for coffee... "I'm here to follow on the discussion of productive bed positions I was having with @AviD"

Hello I am here from the Internet to discuss the most productive bed positions with Avi

sounds like a plan... just remember the camera crew to capture his missus' reaction :)

He requested a hands on demonstration

I'm sorry ma'am, I am just a sales representative for UBS Soon

"UBS Soon"?

you be single, soon

ahhh

lol

@RоryMcCune inorite

@kalina hahaha "I am here from the Internet!"

"You can't be, you're not real!"

@kalina pffft

Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind.

see, I told you she is Taylor Swift.

;-)

I often wonder how you'd react if you knew for sure

it's more fun speculating than knowing :)

perhaps, but the moment of discovery is even better yet.

people whining about Microsoft's advertiser ID as if they're not already being tracked on the internet

but its okay if its Google / Facebook / Apple / NSA / Walmart. As long as its not Microsoft.

a local tour guy here is setting up an awesome 5-day tour of Scotland. Even some musuems and such in between the whisky places. Looks amazing.

too bad its darn pricey.

I would have thought you could afford something like that, as a highly knowledgeable consultant in a field full of gullible fools

I dont work with the gullible ones.

And if they believe that, they're the gullible ones, right? ;-)

kidding.

besides, I have a huge mortgage, a pile of kids, and better things to do with anything left over.

@AviD Don't throw your kids into a pile, that would solve one of your problems already.

nah, s'fun!

not "throw", but "climb"

@AviD you should have spent more time practising than failing

@kalina ?

you know, practising?

all the fun, none of the stretchmarks?

ahh. nevermind....

wait why is kids "failing"?

I think kids pile is winning!

that's a list, I can't give you a single answer

we don't do lists on SE

nevermind then....

Hi

Oh right. I Shai-Hulud sleep. Night

...shpuld*

Fuck it

@MarkHulkalo Impressive how everything is fine, except for one word.

@kalina I have this theory that the prevalance of kids is the result of massive cognitive dissonance "hey I've made this 20+ year committment which will really cut into what I enjoy doing, hmmm there must be some reason I did that or I'd be nuts..... hmm it must be 'cause kids are the best thing ever otherwise I'd be nuts"

Shai-Hulud Ph'nglui mglw'nafh C'thulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

@MarkHulkalo you'll get on well with @DavidFreitag you both have sleep cycle issues

@RоryMcCune heh

nah, I wouldnt say best thing ever, they are not without tradeoffs and challenges

nor would I expect kids are good for everybody

in fact, I think most parents I know should really have been forbidden from reproducing.

@RоryMcCune I don't have issues, I just prefer being awake at night. So in the weekend I mostly stay up until 5-6AM, and get out of bed somewhere in the afternoon.

@AviD s/everybody/anybody/ (rationally). they cost $x,000 chew a huge amount of free time and cause a load of worry... In ye olden times they were necessary 'cause there were no pensions and you needed someone to live with when you couldn't work any more, that no longer applies (in the western world anyway)

pfft

so the only possible reason is the "emphereal" "they're so great" bit, which rationally doesn't hold up :)

okay, how about: they're fun?

@AviD more fun that $200k ?

besides I never claimed this as an obviously rational philosophy that everyone should adopt....

@AviD indeed, I was just speculating on why otherwise rational people do something which appears so irrational :)

pfft

let's see, changing diapers or more practising

school runs or more practising

homework or more practising

pfffffffft

dealing with bullies or more practising

hehe "practising" :-)

randomly being awoken by crying or more practising

okay not all of those are because of kids

ungrateful drain on finances or more practising

@kalina please, voting for government doesnt take a lot of time.

being frowned upon for correct discipline or being frowned upon for completely inappropriate public practising

@kalina or for incorrect discipline.

lol

yknow, at some point you should stop practising and try it for real.

hmm. no, that would have been better pointed at like @Simon.

thats really not the type of mocking I want to point at you. It won't end well.

you know I say practising but I mean "doing the first part without the repercussions" right?

as in "I don't want kids but I enjoy practising"

whereas with simon it would be simulating

I am very curious what you mean by "first part", but am afraid you might answer me.

well the first part is the hugging, kissing, foreplay, oral, sex, cuddling, and kissing

and the second part is swelling, back pain, mineral deficiencies, stretch marks, etc

isnt that all the parts?

wut

and the third part of labor and lack of support and hating everybody and giving birth

@kalina are you talking about yoga now? ;-)

and the fourth part is being alone looking after a crying pooping minime

ahhhh "x part" of childmaking. Gotcha.

Glad I didnt ask.

well, self inflicted

I guess from your perspective it's just "stick it in and spray stuff around her insides"

so everything is part 1

umm.... Can we talk about turkey day now?

well, dribble

yes, I love dribbling gravy all over that turkey.

I don't celebrate the Americans conning the native residents of their country out of land

@AviD #Euphamism

and maybe some cranberries for sweetness.

@RоryMcCune no, not at all. Big bird is on its way here now... about 7-8 kg. :D

@kalina its not about the conning, its about the "not dying".

and finding turkeys.

@AviD nope

@kalina TURKEY

I also don't celebrate the Christianity fiction

or the subsequent commercialization

it is totally not a religious holiday

the clue is in the name

it's not called holidaymas

I will post periodic pics of the turkey roasting, just to make your mouth water.

I'm vegan...

@kalina ahh that one

@kalina oh really?

+a

99% of the time yes

then I'll post pics of the sweet potatoes and cranberries.

sigh

sorrrrry, "yams".

sigh

and I don't know who St Valentine is but he'd probably be upset with the number of people who fuck in his memory

and don't get me started on easter

I am not going to believe in the resurrection of an individual as described by a bunch of people who would have hung you if you told them the earth wasn't FLAT

@kalina that part is an urban myth.

you can't pick and choose which parts are nonsense and which parts aren't

the world being round was known loooong ago. Like ancient Greeks.

@AviD along with christ looking like a blue-eyed blond-haired westerner

@RоryMcCune heh. also true, but irrelevant.

and all of the subsequent re-writes of the bible to lower the importance of women in society

@kalina oh and don't even get me started on THAT.

I just did

bring it and do your worst

nuh uh. I'se gots work to do.

like everything you do in life

yeah that's right, run away scared

@kalina besides, it would just be preaching to the choir here, its not like we would disagree about that.

well, at least until @Simon gets here.

@kalina and, WHAT?

@AviD you read it

your trash talk is weak, old man.

no wait, you're gonna turn around the old man part on me, I bet.

mo'nin mo'nin mo'nin

@AviD I'm sorry, I think you're mistaking my weak trash talk as even remotely serious

ha! someone heard "old man"

@kalina I assumed it wasnt

I can't give you my serious trash talk because it would rock the foundations of your existence

crack your perception of reality

and make me cry in the corner like a little girl.

LITERALLY INCREASE THE TEMPERATURE OF THE AIR IN YOUR VICINITY

though doubtful. I dont have much perception of reality.

@kalina lolwut

well you'd be on fire

ahhhh that was subtle

@kalina Trent Reznor did well on hate

indirect, anyway

apparently if it's not obvious, @AviD doesn't get it

@RoryAlsop every time I write hateful music I get something that's outside of my core genres

hey cmon, I'm not used to you anymore. Just happy you're harassing me again :-)

filthy industrial sounding techno is not my thing

neither is gabber

when you get to the point where you can have the thought of "fuck it, everything needs to be harder and more distorted" I usually just take a break

watch some my little pony for a bit to recharge my love for the world

watch some silly vine videos for a bit

and then write something more appropriate

@kalina - you missed the "not being able to practice because little minimes have good ears"... ahem...

Isn't Christmas a fertility festival anyway? That's the way I celebrate it

not Mr Coca Cola fest

@RoryAlsop I think that was halloween.

@kalina true. Most of my best stuff is either based on sadness or happiness. I don't really write using other feelings

@RoryAlsop like every week is a fertility festival

(spoiler - they all were fertility festivals)

@RoryAlsop I prefer journeys

oh - ninja'd

@kalina yeah - like from sadness to happiness

or from happiness to more happiness :-)

like from "waking up" to "arrival" to "3am" to "hometime"

usually over the course of an album

so you get the first couple of tracks as ambient chillout and then it gets progressively faster and more main floor

@kalina I THINK AN ALBUM SHOULD BE ALL RISING

@RoryAlsop I write about lots of things, even when there are no words

@kalina yeah - I'm less good with words in songs

but excitement and wonder

I prefer to invoke feelings directly - like euphoria

In the words of the great Vim Fuego, "I let my guitar speak for me"

achievable by very wide very dynamic strings sections

anyone remember that?

@kalina ... not just the G (#dadjoke)

don't blame me, I'm only just up and need food. Oh, and clothes

(being ill sucks - did I say)

why are you "only just up"

are you off work?

why are you off work?

who said you could be off work?

@kalina aye - been off for a week

can't stand it

@kalina I'm starting to think I might want to hear your music, sometime

what are you doing not drinking coffee?

why haven't you drunk coffee?

@kalina I have had no coffee for a week

@AviD ahahahaha

@RoryAlsop what?

@kalina he has labrythnitis (sp)

I don't actually like it

@RoryAlsop WHAT?

@RоryMcCune ooh

we must have had that conversation. I love caffeine, but I hate the taste of coffee

I probably purged it for having a crazy opinion

@kalina sucks to be me this week

I mean really, who doesn't like coffee

@kalina lol

@kalina right?

@AviD - you and @kalina are agreeing on something!

my world is turned upside-down

labyrinthitis is like that

I have worked out I have no permanent tinnitus and the tinnitus I have is caused by PC whine

@kalina thank god for that - that's fixable by quieter PC

tinnitus can be permanent

Heh, its genetic for me.

specifically, the room my non-music pc is in is also the same room as the pc that returns cctv

I'm a bit scared that the outcomes of labyrinthitis can be deafness, permanent tinnitus or messed up frequency response

Which is wierd, since I take good care of my ears

and the fans in that machine are loud because I don't look after it

but not loud enough to be heard over gaming

@JourneymanGeek Musician's Union pays for free annual ear checks

so if I spend any real amount in that room, my ears ring

and I get all my earplugs for free

specifically right side due to positioning