Ask me stuff. I answer. It's symbiosis.
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Wow, this question was flagged as inappropriate by Formspring. THAT'S how wrong you are.
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Wishing wells are a good choice, but I think the best bet is figuring out which hive member is most likely to be interested, and targeting them. Sending to contact@ reaches all of us, but we get thirteenty-billion emails to that address a day, most of which are press releases for iOS games.
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Well, I was exaggerating slightly. Work has taken over an awful lot too. It used to be, as a more casual freelancer, that I could watch TV when I felt like it during the day too. I still can, I guess, but I choose to work on RPS as much as I possibly can.
But evenings are where marriage wins. Before, living as a carefree bachelor, I could make dinner and sit down in front of my PC to gobble up TV until I went to bed. Now I'm apparently required to do things like, talk to Laura. Dreadful business. We do watch shows together, but she's not interested in a lot of what I would watch. But we also like to do things like go out, or talk, or have arguments. -
I think it would have to be The Longest Journey's. So long as I could get between Stark and Arcadia.
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I think the nicest things friends have done are a bit too personal to share. But I'd say it takes the form of demonstrating genuinely unconditional care and support. People often ask why I put up with Nick's nonsense - I reply that there is no putting up with when someone is as remarkably generous as he is. I also think more people should be asking Nick why he puts up with my nonsense.
I think a really significant moment in my life when a friend did something special was in around 2003 when Kieron went out of his way to invite me along to gatherings of Future people in Bath on Fridays, and set me up with friendships that have been enormously important. Including pretty significantly knowing the people with whom we set up RPS.
Another great moment, although a much harder one, was when I was about 21, when a group of friends from Guildford (where I grew up) basically organised an intervention for me to tell me I was a pain in the arse to be around. Endlessly ranting, always being negative. They liked me enough to want to keep me despite this, but cared enough to point out that I was a bit of a dick. A crucial moment. -
Yes, I can. I'm pretty decent at it. I do most of the cooking for me and my wife, and when people come over. I'm not a good technical cook, although my knife skills aren't bad. I'm more of an informed improviser, with pretty good results.
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Er, I really don't care where I buy clothes. I hate the process, and just about everywhere is my least favourite.
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I have an irrational fear of crabs, but fortunately they rarely affect my life. Other than when I go to Jim's house. More affecting would be big spiders, where I frustrate myself by the visceral, overpowering fear a preventing my just sucking it up and dealing with them.
A couple of years ago I would have said taxes, but I really seem to have gotten over that. I don't even feel sick when brown envelopes arrive any more. -
Once the evidence is shown to me to demonstrate I'm wrong, yes, very quick.
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I barely watch any TV any more. That's how. Marriage pretty much took over all the time I'd previously had to devour every show. Now most days I don't have time to watch anything.
Fortunately Eurogamer have done most of the organising of Rezzed. And the bit I'm supposed to be organising, er, shush. -
First was the Atari 2600, and no, never. But I'd be interested to.
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Perhaps the time I convinced Leo Tan, PR Man, that Simon Byron (of One Life Left) had slept with his sister. I've told this story elsewhere a bunch of times, but I had just listened to a documentary on Byron, and was talking about it, but Leo hadn't worked out which Byron I was talking about. In not knowing that, I was quite insistent that I was right, until he was convinced.
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Without question.
I'm sure there's actually some bits of unused software out there that are actually worse (although I dread to think how), but certainly there is nothing that's expected to be used by large numbers that's so astonishingly, hatefully useless. Everyone involved in making it should be buried in a volcano. -
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Zookeeper DS. At one point I had the 8th best score in the world for Normal mode.
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It is, although it shouldn't be. It's extremely dangerous, and I do not understand how someone hasn't killed themselves there yet. I think the National Trust probably thinks it's securely closed, because the door at the bottom sure looks like it is. Unless you kick it.
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Mark Radcliffe, circa 1993/4, did the 10-12pm slot Mon-Thurs on Radio 1. But every bank holiday Monday, Simon Mayo did a show that took its place called The Big Holy 1 FM, which was a religion-based show, strange as that is to think of now. So on the Thursday before one of those, Radcliffe would say, "We're not here on Monday because the God-botherers are in." And I loved the term. Botherer is an abbreviation of that, and is generally free as a username in most places.
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The most sensible reason was because RPS was my full-time job, and I was essentially writing for a rival publication.
But I'd been doing it for ten years - pretty much an unprecedented length of time for a column in a computer mag - and wasn't enjoying it much any more. I think you could tell by the writing, too, which is never a good thing. Working as a freelancer for Future had become mostly a miserable experience dealing with their bureaucracy and failure to pay on time, and I really disagreed with the direction the page layout had taken, the word counts, and the shifting tone of the magazine. I wanted a big increase in pay to continue, and they offered me a decent but smaller one, so I said that was that.
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