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None of my posts are likeable? Help! Help! I need an adult! Never mind. I fixed it, you guys and gals can must now like me forever.

Weird. Who broke the forums?

People said I was crazy for thinking a 'super secret' government group that had everyone's info was a bad idea due to hackers being able to gain that info. They are wrong. No. Dynamic IPs, and ISP-level NAT means chances are you just have the IP of a server.

After the first time it does that in a night, leave the door ajar. Or don't let it in at all, you'll get used to its noise either way. Stayed with my friend with a month, by the end of it I didn't hear meows any more. The second option will prevent the second part. Which, if is creating such an uncomfortable situation for you, then you should talk to them about it. They're not my girlfriend's parents, so they should treat you like an adult provided you treat them the same way. Maybe compromise? They come in and get in once in the morning, and then shut the door and not let the cat in.

Wow Maddy, making up for lost time I see.

Finally up to the last ep of BrBa season 5. Well it's sure as hell dropped down the goldfarming trade down by 90%, which was a major problem for them, and as I understand it other games have done similar things in an attempt to reduce it as well. Plus, in my eyes, the upside now is people with not much real life money are now able to buy mems, and runecoins (used in a store to buy cosmetic things, like weapon reskins and skill/tele animations). There's a gif of a horse being beaten to death that would fit here. Jagex is not afraid to brutally maim their only success. Their man 'success' was as a F2P MMO, they seemed to be doing so well in that field. Now, as I'm told, they treat F2P players like second-class citizens.

So on Friday I finally got my iMpulse controller. It's basically a bluetooth controller that's small enough to go on your keychain. I've spent the whole weekend playing Pokemon on my phone. Even now, I've got my phone sitting up on my desk, controller in hand. Mind you, the thing feels like they didn't even bother smoothing it over after removing the outer casing from the mould. Might see if I have some sandpaper to smoothen it over.

We have some amazing budget telcos here, most of them just piggyback the two major's networks by wholesale purchasing. This is great as it means you can get the same quality network at low prices. I like being able to walk into a store and have my issues solved on the spot, along with good quality customer service, so I pay the 'premium' that is one of the major telcos.

Bushfires are so bad right now. Only a mountain separates the fires from my house. Here the only difference between contract and no contract is that contracts come with a phone at either a subsidised cost, or no cost at all. It's for 12 months in that case. I think that anyone on a contract here is an idiot. I know that if I move or anything happens and I'm unable to get reception, I can just cancel on the spot and only for the rest of the month.

That'd cost $60 for me here. On top of that I'd get 2GB data.

For that you want the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman. Nothing gets them to say "Ok, we'll do what we said we would when you signed up." like the TIO. Grab out your contract first and look through it thoroughly.

Oh man it's so hot here. Even without the smoke from bushfires blanketing the whole sky near me. Several minors have been charged over the lighting of bushfires, including one that took out quite a number of homes. I'm hoping they all get the book thrown at them as arson is extremely dangerous out here. Also, one of our states finally passed same-sex marriage here. They've had to use loopholes in federal law to do it, have made amendments to protect it from a high-court appeal (one is in the works already), and the current government (the conservative one) are stating they're going to appeal it (they're the ones with the appeal in the works). Really hoping that other states successfully follow suit, Tasmania has already tried and failed, as there is seemly a large support behind it. That's my home connection, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. 2 weeks to get it changed is actually fairly fast. My friend still has another 2 weeks to go before he'll get connected. He's been playing his 360 offline since he moved. If you're on one of the newerish Optus plans, your limit gets bumped up 1GB for the month at the cost of $10 if you go over. This works up to 20GB which would be a total of $200.

I know I'm late to the party, but here's my net. Sunday arvo so the ping is 1/5 what it normally is, and the speeds are twice what they normally are.

In the long term you'll make more money. Which is the reason for doing a lot of things. Short term inconvenience for long term benefit.

Anyone got tips for getting into a regular sleeping pattern that won't throw you horribly out of whack if you go to sleep early or stay up late one night? It's seriously getting to be too much. There's nothing wrong with W8 per-say, they just need to tone down drug use while designing UX changes.

Because, here at least, the cost difference isn't much for similar hardware. You also get a nicer build quality and support, in the retail market at least. There was a huge debate on the radio yesterday about that (specifically in GTA4) and how that kind of thing is corrupting the youth of today, with only minor mention of how it's rated M and should only be sold to adults an absolutely no mention of violence in movies (like Saw) or TV (like Criminal Minds). I saw it as just one more example of how people raised in the 60's are horribly out of touch with today's society. The real problem is that the only person not responsible for the violent actions your kid does seems to be your kid. Oh, and you, because there is no way you could ever be bad at parenting. If it's not your kid, it's entirely their fault. Both of which are not always correct, when it's been found in at least one case a brain tumour caused a man to become a paedophile. Who knows what else has been committed by someone influenced by tumours and other growths in the brain.

Went to the doctor the other day because I was getting concerned with breathing troubles and constant, sometimes violent, coughing. Found out I can have my medical records stored online now, and allow doctors and hospitals to access it (they require my consent to though). Might do it next time I have to go. Which won't be for a while. $110 is too much for an appointment. As far as laptops go I'd pick a Mac over the current consumer competition, but would not run OSX on it. It and Windows are too restrictive. Dell laptops are more stable. Your anecdotal evidence is not valid. The support with games is growing rather rapidly, especially with Gaben now pushing for Linux as the gaming platform in the future. This coupled with privacy fears in the wake of PRISM being known, more and more people will be trying, and hopefully sticking with, Linux. Me, personally, I got sick of how unstable Windows is and now use Xubuntu exclusively. Discout for your friends if you get it? 8-)

Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a really amazing game, and Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs just came out. I can't tell you anything about it, since I forgot to pre-order it and I'm now low on cash, but if it's half as good as TDD then it's going to be a masterpiece. My favourite video for TDD would have to be this one. [spoiler=warning, moderate amount of swearing]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSauLkwvLDg

So many Liberal candidates and supporters are so butt-hurt right now. Liberal Democratic Party got a seat in the senate, and they say it's because they 'stole' Liberals name. Which is laughable given that a right-wing party has the most left-wing name possible. Annoyed that 2 majorly fringe groups are getting seats (AMEP, and that sport one.) The guy who is getting the seat for the AMEP is a unfit to serve as an elected member for the senate. [spoiler=Warning a bit of NSFW language in this pic.]

What benefits does full/part-time offer? I don't get sick, I don't go on holidays. Which means the higher base pay is something I can use.

My mum has this same problem, but with an overseas company using a local number so it looks like they're local. It's now under DO NOT ANSWER on the home phone. Go to another Mechanic and never return to that one. You car shouldn't be breaking down while getting back home. Hahaha, that's not it, it's a difficult issue to figure out, however I've spoken with a friend with the same car and so now I know exactly what causes it to occur. When driving at 80km/h with 91 octane fuel it will start misfiring, with 95 octane it occurs at 100km/h. It explains why it always happens to me, since the roads near me are all 80-100km/hr, and why the mechanic couldn't find the problem, since the roads are 50-60km/h near them. I really hope it can be fixed, only can get a car if I borrow money, which I'd have to ask my parents for as I'm only casual.

Weeeee. My car has been breaking down lately whenever I drive for a while. Had to take it into the mechanic after it broke down right as I got home from a 5 minute drive into town. Picked it up yesterday and it broke down before I got home. So it's back in today and I told them to take it for a drive to see what I mean. My mum has this same problem, but with an overseas company using a local number so it looks like they're local. It's now under DO NOT ANSWER on the home phone.

I was listening to Olivia Newton John on cassette recently.

Oh good. Now every time I have to fix a friend's computer problems I can complain to you for the issue not being fixed. Really though, congrats man.

Just went into town for lunch with ^ this ^ handsome devil. As I'm typing this I remembered I told him I'd pay for his lunch. Oops, guess I'll make up for it next time. I feel pretty bad because I got a free headset from him, too.