INN OF LOST SOULS: general chit-chat thread

Adamo · Post by **Adamo** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 10:50 pm

good job Paul !!

now, in contrary, spend 2 weaks completing your dungeon

hehe, only joking

it`s a scandal, but I don`t have a time now to complete mine now, and I did a lot!!!

Adamo · Post by **Adamo** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 10:58 pm

I just realized we`ve got over 800 users here (but I`m afraid four last of them are a spammers!)

Post by **Gambit37** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 12:43 am

I think at least 100 are fakers...

Post by **cowsmanaut** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 12:44 am

I keep deleting them.. but more take their place the next day

Post by **Ameena** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 12:48 am

Yeah I've noticed that - there seems to be at least a couple of fake members every day.

TyGuy6 · Post by **TyGuy6** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 2:01 am

Oh. I was wondering how 805 users had gone down to 798 in one day. Now I know.

Trantor · Post by **Trantor** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 10:56 am

Very nice Paul! I hope you two will stay together for a long time. Good luck!

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 11:15 pm

Yeah, i just killed another five

And nice one Paul! Pity she lives in newcastle though - is it much of a commute? (I forget the distnces of england, it's all crazy down here)

zoom · Post by **zoom** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 11:52 pm

That is just a silly idea::arrow:
maybe we should add Fake Users killed to the avatar of
moderators. Works the same like the post count..

It would give those spams some "sense" and hopefully put them off

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 11:58 pm

That's the sort of control panel I want

Delete user account?
Delete user?
Hide body?
Generate alibi?

Post by **Gambit37** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 8:36 pm

Right, I'm packing my computer up as I'm moving house at the weekend. I don't yet know when I'll be back online so it may be a couple of weeks before I'm back as I'm on holiday too so can't cheekily use the work connection.

Hope you all have fun. Keep it all clean and tidy for my return.

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 8:39 pm

awww, good luck moving! Have fun until we see you again *holds back tears*

Post by **PaulH** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 1:20 am

Yep, good luck Gambit!

Post by **Lunever** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 1:42 pm

Gambit: Yep, good luck with everthing. Say, are you moving within your city, or are you moving away?

Post by **Gambit37** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 1:59 pm

Just to the other side of town, very close to another old flat I used to live in!

I've been renting a room off my sister for the last 18 months which has ended up a bloody awful experience. She is the control-freak nag from hell. Notwithstanding our own issues, she met a guy last Christmas and although I wanted to move out anyway, she told me a few months ago that she wanted him to move in and asked me to leave.

It's been a really stressful few months because I originally wanted to do a house share to save money but after being let down by several potential flat-mates at the last instance and running out of time, I ended up taking a smallish one-bed flat for just me. It's too expensive, I can't afford it long term (unless I get a better paid job -- something I'll start looking into again), but I think it's better for me at the moment to be on my own while I work out the next stage of my life.

I need my own space to clear my head!

zoom · Post by **zoom** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:14 pm

good luck

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 7:16 pm

A friend has just managed to get out of hosue sharing hell, but is now in 'can't afford anything right now but evil place redecorating' hell ... housing issues are never fun!

Hope you get a chance to clear the cobwebs away and get to keep your current place or find somehting nicer but suitably priced

Adamo · Post by **Adamo** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:24 pm

just curious.. how much do you pay for renting a typical flat in nothern UK (Scotland, Nothern Ireland) in big city centers and in the suburbs ? I`m asking because a lot of my friends are goimg to work in UK/Irealnd.

The costs of life in UK are very, very high - I heard legends about the alcohol and cigarette prizes, but I still don`t know stakes of renting the flats.

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:52 pm

In Aberdeen you can rent a room for about £150 - 200, but I'm going by 'when I was a student' prices and not including buills like council tax, which is stupidy high

Des · Post by **Des** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:57 pm

House prices and rentals are very high in the UK - check out http://www.rentright.co.uk/rrpi.aspx for details.

Booze, fags, and petrol are all heavily taxed but there is at least some justification for this as alcohol and cigarettes are bad for you and fuel emissions cause pollution and global warming.

There is also a huge variation in pay available to immigrant workers. If you are a qualified plumber or electrician you'll earn loads of wonga (about 40K), but if your skills are in catering you're looking at minimum wage (11K).

Post by **PaulH** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 12:45 am

I rented a flat in York for 420 per month (210 each with housemate) plus bills. I earned practically minimum wage, but i loved my job, loved my flat, loved my city. Thats all that mattered really, being happy.

Post by **Gambit37** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 5:31 pm

Hello all -- I'm back! Didyamissme?

I totally love my new flat -- it's small but perfectly formed. In a nice area, some good local pubs, a 20 minute walk from work and near to everything I need, and just round the corner from our lovely old-school fabulous cinema, the Duke of York's to which I shall be getting a membership...

After so many months of being utterly depressed living with my sister, this really is a breath of fresh air. I feel like my old self again -- and I mean the really old self from about 12 years ago before all the depression and other shit kicked off. I haven't felt this good for years.

Now that I'm more on top of things, I'm going to be doing a bit of life laundry over the next few months, which mainly involves selling all my crap (ebay here we come) and working out what I'm going to do with the rest of my life and how I'm going to get there.

Oh, the joy of being able to do what I want when I want! And to have over who I want when I want. And to not be nagged at for not having cleaned the bathroom floor!

Yay me!

Post by **cowsmanaut** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 9:14 pm

"Oh, the joy of being able to do what I want when I want! And to have over who I want when I want. And to not be nagged at for not having cleaned the bathroom floor! "

So you don't plan to get married any time soon then. Though with a wife there are at least some erm.. benefits that you don't get.. and well probably don't want from a sister :S

Anyway, glad you are in a chipper mood. I was just thinking, now that I've called mr wuuf there. I could call you... I have this 1000 hours of free overseas long distance per month I do nothing with. So I can call anyone

I love digital phone.. woot.

so erm.. yeah

waves!!

I also have been barely here myself. I pop in for a split second when I remembered... Trying to carve some free time into my schedule.

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 1:16 pm

Hey Gambit, glad your flat moving experience has been such a positive one! Keep up the positive attitue and let us now how it's going!

Post by **Gambit37** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 1:28 pm

Gosh, Fuzz face and the cow have actually spoken for, like, real? With your own real voices? How novel!

I'll have to investigate all this new digital phone malarkey -- I decided not to take a landline in this flat to save a bit of money -- because I do everything through my mobile anyway.

Although, having to spend ages on hold to utility companies certainly is a lot more expensive on a mobile -- good job I can use the phones at work for free....

So how's everyone here anyway?

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 1:33 pm

Yes, you wouldn't beleive it, but he's foreign sounding! Like, an eskimo or summat....

zoom · Post by **zoom** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 6:22 pm

Concerning me, I am fine.
Started state art school on september 13th and I get along with pupils and teachers quite well. ( I am 26 and some are 16!!)
Next to maths, english and german we learn some drawing techniques and some interesting stuff about art in general, e.g. optical illusions and how eye movement is involved.. It's just been a week but I am happy. As internship(11th grade is one half internship one half tuition) I am at a communications designer.
I start working there and at a restaurator's next week, so I cannot tell much about it yet.
To say the least there was a huge change in my daily life from sitting in front of the pc all day long when I did not eat or sleep, hardly going out, to now getting up early(6 o'clock) , driving and taking the train to munich and meeting persons in real. I started some sports as well, and have to say I feel quite good at the moment.
In half a year or so, I finally want to move to munich...
The last and dearly needed step into full responsibility for one's life. Reading about how you cope with it Gambit, makes the decision easier to go for "total' freedom.

Post by **Gambit37** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 7:26 pm

Hey, zooom, that's great! You have made some really positive changes in your life and it sounds like you are already getting good benefits from it -- the art school sounds great and in fact I'm quite envious. You said that you took up some sports and feel good -- what sports are you doing? I am very unfit and that is my next course of action, so it's good to see other people sorting out this area of their lives.... keep it up.

George Gilbert · Post by **George Gilbert** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 8:33 pm

Gambit, you should try cycling - there's a long and historic link with DM that needs to be continued...

...plus there are several clubs near you that do lots of "fun" events (as opposed to that nasty serious stuff!).

Post by **Gambit37** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 8:46 pm

Yes, I used to cycle a lot years ago and loved it -- off road stuff mainly. I fell out of the habit when I started getting bouts of depression and never really went back to it with any great conviction. Now that I'm feeling much more up to things, the issue is the darkening winter months: I confess I am fair weather only!