Recent content by IShouldBeWorking

Sort of - I moved into a shared house that the previous inhabitants left stuffed with foam swords, staffs, helmets and the like (they even named the different rooms stuff like 'forest of Baragfar;the bits of paper were still up-poor derivative sods). Things got a little out of hand. When I get...

Meh, so a nob-end got put in charge- happens in every company now and then. This sounds like the kind of bloke that comes into an office, makes learning everyones name his first priority before adding irritating nmemonics like 'Dan the Can' to your name, or for the ethnic minorities out there...

Right, I'm going to guess this chap doesn't have a real job, but is one of those parasites that waffles on aboout 'his vision' while some poor anonymous sod does all the work. I say this, because if he had a real job, where he did real things that actualy make a difference to the world outside...

Rookie mistake-the "I'm one of you" fib invariably backfires. Either you end up getting asked questions you're not equipped to answer, leaving you with the choice of squirming horribly, or coming clean and telling them to bugger off (which you could have just gone for in the first place), or...

This time round, take some of their leaflets, nod and smile for ten minutes. Take it on the chin, the pay off's coming, you just need to nab that copy of Watchtower... ...next time a door to door salesman shows up, or timeshare chap, do the same thing. Keep the religious and sales pamphlets...

I'd say a serious gamer is someone who; Has a broad understanding of the established genres and typical modes of address/narrative employed in games. Broad knowledge of the history of games both culturaly and technologicaly. Has played a large catalogue of games spanning a variety of...

If you go way back there's Chaos Engine,which was a bit steampunky