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[flamingkillamajig]

I'm alright. I think i'm going to meet up with rook later today. If you never see me again he'll probably be ass-raping me in his basement or scattering my body parts across the desert.

Got to see berserk a few days ago as well as make a khaijit rogue type character in skyrim on my friend's xbox 360 version of the game. I invested every skill point into sneak so far and i gotta tell you my character is a pretty badass sneak for lower than level 10. I even managed to slit a guy's throat in the game. I also love the unseen critical damage you can do. If somebody doesn't see you and you invest enough skill points into it you can do a lot of damage for being unseen.

[Dave, Master of Muppets]

Nice I havn't rimmed the sky in too long I need to buy a copy of Skyrim for 360!!! I BLAME MATT WARD!!!!!

[flamingkillamajig]

The 360 version seemed to have a poor frame rate or at least on my friend's 360. I'm sure getting it for the PC is better.

Earlier i said RT had no imagination and he basically had to write like 7 sentences telling me off. I suppose i don't do much other than talk about my day and be a comedian but from what i can tell i feel i have a bigger imagination or a crazier one than him. Not as wacky as ymmot but it's interesting. I could probably throw a book together. Problem is most of the crap is fan fiction on sites like the IGMB and really making a story out of already well developed fiction rather than making my own story about whatever i want is not something i'm good at.

So yeah if everything works out i'm going to do something with a friend today and maybe meet up with rook at a game store somewhere. Considering it'll be 6:30 pm when my friend can do something i'm guessing the store won't be open too late. Anyway we'll have to see how it goes.

@dave: Is it really sad it took me hours to figure out what you did there? I thought it was something about skyrim but the rimming part confused me. Haha now i feel so dumb. Ugh. What you gonna do?

[Dave, Master of Muppets]

I've never had an Issue with RT really..... We get along pretty well.... But I'm rather fond of you aswell... So I'm staying out of it Yeah, the 'Rimming the Sky' thing is a joke that me and a few irl friends have going. In all fairness, I'm such a loser i'm still running around cyrodil closing oblivion gates, even though I've completed Oblivion itself, all the guilds, the shivering Isles and the knights of the nine.... But yeah... I've just signed on for Job seekers allowance, so i get payed to go look for a job. I didnt want to but my parents pressured me into it :/ But I should be able to get Skyrim from it.

[flamingkillamajig]

There's nothing wrong with getting a job man. I'm 24 and have no job or car. Trust me you don't want to end up like me. Not getting either are some of the biggest regrets of my life. I have heard michigan has like a 50% unemployment rate from a friend but i'm not sure if that's right. I know it's the worst in the country but that's a bit steep.

I played more skyrim today at the friend's house and i'm surprised i kept getting found so easily. It actually started pissing me off quite a bit. I did manage to slit somebody throat but i reloaded the game afterwards. I got my ass kicked anyway. Turns out daggers suck balls after you make the first hidden strike with them and you become found. Not to mention after slitting the dude's throat i somehow got instant killed after a few hits because the guy ran me through. That honestly surprised the hell out of me. I need a way to become hidden again or something. I'm still a pretty good sneak for level 11 or so. I'm about 47-48 levels in sneaking. I could definitely use better armor and better enchantments with some good alchemy to make everything really awesome. Unfortunately this will take quite a while to accomplish and i don't have the time here in arizona to get it all done. Skyrim is still highly addictive though.

Yesterday we also went to the game store 'empire games' and i was surprised how big it was. I've been to 2 GW's and it was easily bigger than both combined. They must've had at least 8 big tables, board games of different kinds and card games (settlers of catan), all 3 of the main GW games, 3 or so other big tabletop games (like warmachine, hordes and a couple others), a lot of terrain and to top it off they kept most of their army books safely in plastic wrap for safe keeping and so nobody reads them. They even had a tv in the center of the store where the store keepers can watch all 4 cameras simultaneously to check that nothing was being stolen around the shop and such. Needless to say i was very impressed. Something about that place just seemed really nice in comparison to all the other stores i've been to and the employees seemed very nice as well.

At that store my friend looked at a bunch of warhammer fantasy army books and was taking a liking to bretonnia once again because they have knights and love honor and junk and he's a fan of good guys. The employee mentioned that it was a 4th-5th edition book and i was a bit surprised because we're in 8th edition now. It was a bit colorful and nice but it looks like it could really use an update. As an aside i may be wrong but i think they were lacking some army books or codexes but maybe they weren't on the shelves where i was looking and they didn't have the space for them on the shelves. I was only looking for a short while and everything they had seemed to be in stock. They had plenty of paints as well but they weren't GW paints from the ones i saw . In fact i think they were warmachine paints.

[Dave, Master of Muppets]

I want a job...... But can't seem to find one :/ Its harsh in all fairness bro :/

[flamingkillamajig]

Yeah but it looks so much better to be young and jobless than my age and jobless for most of said workable years. They may think me bad to be hired. I really can't do much about that honestly. I never really needed the work before and never knew i'd need to work so much.

Anyway if i don't get said job my tax return money is going to getting more skaven or some dark eldar or something. For some reason dark eldar are looking really sexy. Then again i did buy that new army book for vampire counts so maybe i should combine my roommate's army and add some of my own stuff to it like crypt horrors. The crypt horrors toughness of 5 with 3 wounds and a +5 regeneration is pretty beefy. I have seen however that wood elves have something nastier but they can't resurrect their undead .

[Long John Silver]

These days you have to be willing to work for peanuts.
The only new businesses I see opening are Tesco's and more chain stores, or else pound shops and book makers.
Actually there has been a lot on the news about how High Streets across the country are full of bookies and betting shops. When times are hard people gamble it all away..

[flamingkillamajig]

Well i managed to get the job. Not sure if you guys heard. Transportation and possible disability income cuts may be a problem though. I'll see how it goes.

[flamingkillamajig]

I'm doing ok. I played some starcraft 2 with envoy. We lost every time lol. He needs a lot of work but then so do i. He's pretty nooby though. Anyway i played a bunch of games and lost almost all of them since a guy left during my placement match for the season so i ended up in gold league and i have no business in that league. Played a lost almost every single time in it except once and got close another time. Then i played a 2vs2 with somebody and the first of two games we played i basically held off both terran players by myself. We were protoss (me) and zerg (him) and we fought two terran players. All i can say is i had a good economy going and had plenty of psi storms from high templar taking down marines and stalkers at first but then zealots later when i had way too much in minerals. Hell with all the money i had if i tried i probably could've beaten them sooner. I probably should proxied a pylon and then warped guys to where i needed them on the map. I need work but i enjoyed watching all those marines brains getting blown out of their ears from the mass psi storms. In fact it's entertaining since marine spam is pretty lame as is much of their stuff. Odd thing is my ally beat me in our 1vs1 but in that game i did most of the work esp. after early on. He may have been the zerg player with digging roaches. I can't remember.

[Long John Silver]

Go easy on Envoy. It's hard playing a game unless you're used to it.

e.g. Years ago I used to play Cossacks : Back to war online.
It was really tough playing with 1 hour of peace time.. until I found out that the trick was mining tons of stone, then reverse trading it for gold, coal, or whatever you need. That and upgrading your goldmines to have 95 peasants in each.

[flamingkillamajig]

Sounds good chem. To be honest starcraft is one of those more insane games that's super competitive. Even i suck at the game in comparison to all these other people. Don't worry though envoy needs a lot of work but i'm willing to give him a training montage to help. My cousin helped me play starcraft 2 and i can help envoy. In fact i may get my cousin to help him some time. I'd play more skyrim or starcraft 2 but i'm going to my half sister's house in an hour and a half and staying the night there. I also wish i could play more warhammer fantasy or something but that's unlikely. Anyway i won't be able to do much at my half sister's house but i'm going to be there to make things easier on her for bringing me into work tomorrow. I'm kind of a bit nervous about this job but we'll see how it goes.

[Long John Silver]

So how's work going?

Today painting on The Scud shall begin.

[flamingkillamajig]

Tiring. Surprisingly my second day was easier than my first and i got a bit more done in slightly less time. Can't wait for tomorrow to come by so my last day of work can come and then i get a 4 day break period and you know i'm gonna spend it relaxing and having fun. Also today at work the supervisor had an argument with one of the workers and 2 of them somewhat sided against him (as he yelled at the other one earlier) but esp. the original one and then the boss comes in to straighten shit out which i was kind of happy about surprisingly even though he got pissed. The whole damn thing was turning into a bunch of bullshit. A company should be working together instead of fighting and losing productivity. As far as the fight goes i won't take any sides but i probably would've listened to the supervisor regardless of whether he is or isn't being a dick. It was mostly about them not doing something or not doing something right. I suppose it'll be my turn at some point though. Supposedly the first fight was about somebody stripping too much or not fast enough. He looked stressed out later after lunch and i almost asked him what was wrong when he put his hands over his face and looked pretty distressed. The 2nd guy was told to work on a machine for longer and he said he couldn't because his hands were hurting too much. For all i know i'll be yelled at soon for not being fast enough. Yesterday i stripped 76 cartridges and today did another 78 so i'm slowly speeding up. The average is 100-150 according to the boss so i have a ways to go but he has confidence i'll get up there. Sheesh you argue at home and then you argue at work. Man that sucks. I'm just gonna keep to myself often and stay quiet.

I still have yet to add the crew to my warp lightning cannon. Btw i'm thinking of sending my skaven suggestions to GW. If nothing else i'll humor them, get no credit if it's released or it'll be thrown away but it'll be send and i figure my two cents is worth it. I mean think about how awesome suicide bomb skaven or suicide rats, jetpack skaven and tesla coil weapons teams would be. Suck it armies of the surface world and esp. the dwarves! A 13th steam tank as a new skaven stolen steam tank would be awesome though. I think envoy had the idea or emptyhat. They're the people i usually talk to about my ideas and they contribute a bit to them too. Envoy imagined the 'pinky and the brain' idea for skaven and i admit it's awesome but i feel like i had that idea boiling around in my brain too. Still props for thinking it and getting it in the open first. Speaking of that i wish we had a skaven comic but to my knowledge almost nobody here has experience with such types of art. It's too bad really.

[Long John Silver]

Skaven comic? There's only one person mad enough to do that...

Work generally sucks, but at least you're getting along. Just think about the money you get when you get paid and what you'll end up doing with it.