Juan Manforce

Red Road

52 minutes ago, cobra_gordo said:

I can hear this picture. Not an awful section as in crap, awful as in my blood pressure is going up just looking at that image and hearing the music in my head. That's not even the worst bit, it's getting to the top of that section and having to double back on yourself over the water. Mis-time a jump and you're back dealing with that shit again.

My kids ask me to get them past that section and it still stresses me out.

 

In this section of the remade Chemical Plant Zone in Sonic Mania, there's a giant ring to go to a special stage hidden right at the bottom of the level. I'd played Sonic Mania so many times that the next time I played Sonic 2 I dropped to the bottom on purpose out of habit.

Water levels in Sonic games can do one in general. Aquatic Ruin and Hydrocity are better because you can tend to avoid a lot of the water, but Labyrinth Zone... *shudders*

Shawn Michaels

Test

Edge

Victoria

Eddie Guerrero

I think I actually made that stable in career mode in Here Comes The Pain.

I've started looking for new work for what feels like the millionth time since I started my current job last May. I work in PPI complaints so there's only around a year of the job even existing, and I've been trying to get ahead of the game by getting out early. The turnover rate in my office is ridiculously high, so clearly other people have the same idea.The job recently completely changed, the bank having spent millions developing a horrible piece of software "to make the job easier" that they're too stubborn to admit is too buggy/flawed in general to be getting used.

Today, for the second time in under two months, I nearly quit. The first time was the day after I'd had an anxiety attack, brought on by the stress of struggling to adapt to the hugely increased workload, I was having an informal meeting with my team leader where I explained the situation, and how I was struggling but still trying my hardest. A senior manager then barged into the room, told me to stop being so negative about the new system, and reminded me that I was "just a contractor". For fear of retaliation I haven't, but I could have filed a complaint about that considering I've disclosed my anxiety issues and threatening my job based on that breaches the Equality Act. Instead I just kept my head down and got on with doing the job. I was good it at before they changed it, and it didn't take long before things clicked again.

Cut to today, and I got pulled into a meeting with my team leader and another senior manager. Over the past week I've had a lot of "QC fails" - people check our work and if we've done something wrong, we get a fail - due to faults with the new software, where files haven't been transferring from my computer to the network drive until after the QCs have checked the work. I appealed these fails, and my team leader assured me they would get overturned because I could prove I had done things I was failed for not doing. So imagine my surprise today when this other manager accuses me of lying about the files being there, asking me point blank if I was trying to "defraud the system" by moving the files manually after getting fails. I fully explained my side of the story, but I had to answer the same question several times before he started to believe me. My team leader, who had all of the evidence to back my claims up, didn't say a word to stick up for me. Eventually it came down to the manager realising this was probably a problem with the software, but only after me asserting that I had proof I was doing the work right. It doesn't seem like this situation is over, and I'm probably likely to undergo scrutiny from more than one manager for something that's entirely not my fault. As soon as I left the meeting I told my team leader to put me down for a half shift today, because I was feeling sick. I missed out the end of the sentence, that being "... and tired of all the fucking bullshit in here." They trust me to train new people and do pre-QC checks (without any extra pay, of course), but they don't trust my word?

I turn 30 in two weeks and I feel like I'm at a complete standstill. I have no career prospects to speak of - I had recently applied for a promotion to QC but it seems that they're the ones who originally accused me of trying to cheat their system, so I think I'll withdraw my application so I'm not stuck with a bunch of cunts who've already tried to cost me my job - and I don't even know what I want to do with my life. I have a degree in filmmaking and screenwriting, but as well as that not being helpful for getting a job in Glasgow, I don't want to deal with that industry any more after getting a closer look at some of the inner workings. I've fallen into finance because it was easy and apparently I'm good at it, but I don't have the right qualifications to do anything more specific within the field, and I don't have the money to fund any further studies. I'm still applying for 'finance assistant' and similar jobs, but I seem to never hear back from 99% of things I apply for. The only thing I've got potentially lined up is a trainee accountancy job, which applications closed for nearly a month ago, but they've sent a couple of e-mail updates that they're still sorting through the high volume of applications. Which doesn't fill me with a lot of hope, because I can't imagine I really stand out.

Rant over. Rut, sadly not.

It's obviously Wispa Gold.

Haven - Scott Levy ditches his iconic character to become a walking advert for a holiday park

Stine - Steve Borden becomes the new writer of Goosebumps

Ren Mysterio - masked luchador starts using gross out tactics and calling his opponents "eeeediots"

Haven't posted on the board in months, in fact my last post here was bemoaning how my self esteem was so low it was stopping me from asking out the girl in the office I liked. I tried to take advice from here and from my friends, which was to just go for it. I went into work the next day, kept my head down, and had the plan in mind to ask her for a drink at the end of the day. Come 5pm we end up leaving the office together, and after asking how her day was, I just froze up. We awkwardly said our goodbyes.

I had a full blown panic later that night and missed the next day of work. My self esteem hit rock bottom because of how much weight I'd put on, and I was convinced someone I was so attracted to would never feel the same about this fat piece of shit. When I got back to work I tried to avoid her, only saying hi in passing and only talking about work stuff. I figured I'd blown my chance by this point and didn't want to trigger another panic attack.

Not long after this I scaled back the dosage of Sertraline I'd been prescribed, because it was making me feel numb and I'd been finding it too easy to lie around and do nothing but eat. I changed my diet quite considerably and started being a bit more active, walking home from work once a week or so and spending less time snacking, spending more time with my friends and trying to rebuild my confidence.

In this time I made friends with another girl in my office, who I started to open up to and get some advice from. I was too embarrassed to ever admit to her who it was that I liked, so it was more general advice than anything. She told me I should go for it and if nothing came from it then I was no worse off than I was before. I still wasn't feeling confident enough to try but I was taking in every piece of advice I could get. Last week my new friend told me she had put in her notice and was leaving the following week. Her leaving night out was on Friday, and I was told if there was anyone I wanted to invite, I should go for it.

Come Thursday morning, I looked at myself in the mirror and noticed I'd dropped quite a lot of weight, most of what I'd put on since starting the job. There had been signs, my shirts were starting to fit better, I'd gone down a notch on my belt, a couple of people said they'd noticed a difference in me, but I hadn't seen the results myself until then. So I decided this was it. At the end of the day I finally found the courage to invite the girl I'd been into for so long on the night out. She said she was working late on Friday but would definitely come and meet us there.

Friday night comes around, and I've had a few drinks so I'm feeling good about myself. I finally tell my friend who the girl I've invited is, and get some last minute advice before she shows up. When she gets there I buy her a drink and admit I'd been wanting to do so for months. We get talking and get to know each other a little bit, and buy each other a couple more drinks. By the end of the night it's only me, her, and one other guy left, so while the opportunity didn't really come up to try anything, there was still the chance to flirt a little. She gave me her number before she got in her taxi home, and I've now got the confidence to fully go for it and ask her out properly now. I'm finally feeling good about myself and how this could go.

On 7/29/2017 at 3:02 AM, Monkee said:

I have no self confidence either and I don't know how to be more confident. I fake it quite easily but I have no self-esteem and I find it hard to talk to guys I like. I've plucked up the courage 3 times in my whole life to tell a guy I liked him and all 3 times it went tits up. I have no idea how to change. I thought losing weight would give me more confidence but it was easier to be overlooked when I was a 24-stone heffer.

The relatability here is too damn high, replace guys with girls and I could've written this almost word for word.

I started a new job a couple of months ago and since day one I've had a serious thing for a girl in my team. We get on really well, I manage to make her laugh, and we seem to share a few interests. The amount of times I've considered asking at the end of the week if she fancies going for a drink over the weekend, thought about it all day but then bottled it when the chance comes up. This past week was the last week she was in our team before moving to a different area of the office, so I'll barely get to see her without going out of my way (which I also don't feel confident in doing in case I come off as a creep). I figured Friday was the last chance I would feasibly have to ask her, and... I just slunk into the toilets to avoid the possibility of a rejection. Trying to convince myself that's for the best, which is how low my self esteem is.

I'd applied for over 200 jobs in the past 2 weeks since coming out of uni, and was a bit demoralised to only get one phone interview out of all of them. I needn't have been, because I just got offered that job. Full time data entry, sure it's only a temp job, but the pay is far above what I was expecting, and it'll look good on the CV. I don't start til the end of the month, which gives me time to sort my head out (I recently started anti-depressants) and get some other things in order. Feels good not to have to worry about things for a while.

16 hours ago, Astro Hollywood said:

The one where Edward Furlong is the Crow, the villains are a Satanic biker gang consisting of Dennis Hopper, Angel from Buffy, Tara Reid, the bad guy from Karate Kid 2, and Tito Ortiz. You decide.

That's Wicked Prayer, not City of Angels. They're both fucking terrible. 

Job hunting fucking sucks. I finished uni this week and have applied for 100+ jobs since then. By law of averages I feel like I should get at least one interview out of that, but I'm starting to wonder what prospects a 28 year old with a degree in filmmaking and a bunch of short-term dead-end job experiences actually has. Trying to rule out call centre work as it's brought me to the brink of panic attacks in the past, wonder how long I'll be able to keep that up sadly.

The Reigns/Strowman angle was amazing. It went full comedy, which they should embrace for the rest of this storyline. Here's my idea.

Next week Strowman shows up to the arena in a comically small car, maybe it was the largest automobile he could afford. While he's struggling to get out of the car, Reigns appears in a tow truck and drags the car off with Braun still trapped inside. Later in the night Reigns arrives at a scrapyard and drops the car into a crusher. We find out that Strowman escaped from the car, but he may have suffered some lasting damage.

The following week Braun is booked in a match with Jack Gallagher. His music plays but out walks Hornswoggle dressed as Braun. The announcers play this seriously, asking if Braun can possibly have recovered from the injuries he received last week. Gallagher starts to dominate the match and locks in a bow and arrow stretch as we cut to break. Come back from break and Gallagher still has the hold in but he looks terrified - zoom out to reveal he's been stretching Braun for so long he's now full sized again.

He's probably too big for it but Jeremy Renner has said he'd be interested in doing a Hawkeye series. Sack off his family from Age of Ultron and do an adaptation of the Matt Fraction run and it'd be great.

I loved season 1 of Daredevil, but Daredevil's been my favourite superhero since I was a kid and I always figured I was a little biased seeing such a good show carrying the Daredevil name. Jessica Jones was good, but it was too long, 8-10 episodes would have worked better. This is a running theme with the Marvel Netflix shows, they don't need to be 13 episodes and they almost all suffer for either dragging out stories and repeating beats, or for changing the dynamic up too much in the second half.

I liked season 2 of Daredevil, but I didn't like the second half nearly as much as the first. I thought the Elektra and Hand stories were poorly executed and I wasn't a big fan of the portrayal of the Punisher apart from in the first four episodes. Luke Cage had a similar problem in that I loved the first half and thought the second half was only OK, but I still really liked it overall. And maybe I just have low standards, but I enjoyed the hell out of Iron Fist. It had a slow start but I thought it built well and dealt with the Hand much better than Daredevil.

Ranking them in preference I'd say:
1. Daredevil Season 1

2. Luke Cage

3, Iron Fist

4. Jessica Jones

5. Daredevil Season 2

Get Out is amazing, I can't say enough good stuff about it, it's suspenseful, hilarious, really clever and note perfect for what it's trying to achieve. Don't want to say too much and spoil it because I didn't know much going in, but it's really good.

This. Went to see it this morning and it's probably my film of the year so far. Regarding the ending...

Lego Batman is fantastic. I'd go see it again on my day off, but I imagine the police would be called pretty quick if a grown man went to a U movie on his own

Went to see it myself last week alone and wasn't the only grown man there by himself, you're probably fine... probably.

Really enjoyed it, the only bit that took me out of the film slightly was near the end...

...which did nothing to hamper my overall enjoyment of the film.

I saw John Wick Chapter 2 today. I love the original and was expecting something special seeing the reviews, but it left me with mixed feelings. The action is amazing and some of the deadpan humour landed, but it lacked the heart of the first one, and most of the laughs I got from it were unintentional. I've seen a lot of reviews describing it as surreal, which is probably the best word for it, but that aspect really didn't work for me. I'll need to watch it again to see how I really feel about it, but 9 times out of 10 a great film shouldn't need a rewatch to appreciate it, so I don't know how much my opinion can change.

Got back on Tinder this week. I'm an average looking guy so I don't expect to get anywhere with it but it's worth trying again.

Anyway, I just saw a profile where all of the girl's photos were from her wedding day, like walking down the aisle and kissing her new husband. Love, you're on Tinder, who are those pictures for? Also amazing the amount of 'Full time mummies' who make a picture of their kid their profile picture. I don't want to date your child, don't put them on a dating site.

Doesn't help that he sounds exactly like him too.

The idea of X-Men comics in a universe where the X-Men exist is seriously off putting to me.

Cheers, I'll give that a look.

I never got the Double Dragon hype, the original arcade game is a pile of shite and I've never played a port or sequel that impressed me. Have I missed out on a version I should be playing?

 

Put a Mega Drive emulator on my DS last night, loaded it up with the Sonic, Golden Axe and Streets of Rage series, with a few other gems such as Altered Beast for good measure. Suddenly it doesn't seem so bad to have 2+ hour commutes a few times a week.

You need to use a flash cart for this, right? Which one did you use?

 

http://www.r4ds-dsi.co.uk/r4i-sdhc-3ds-rts-card-for-nintendo-3ds-v112035dsi-v145_p694.html

Never had any trouble with it for DS roms and now I can turn it into a retro goldmine. It can handle all sorts of emulators, as well as Mega Drive I could use Atari, Commodore, GameBoy, GBA, NES, SNES and Master System emulators as well. The only drawback I could see from this kind of card as opposed to the far more expensive DSTwo was it can't handle MAME, while the DSTwo can. It's not an issue for me as I prefer playing arcade games with my friends so emulate on a PC, but if you want to use MAME on a DS then the DSTwo looks like your best best. Otherwise the one I linked is highly recommended.

Put a Mega Drive emulator on my DS last night, loaded it up with the Sonic, Golden Axe and Streets of Rage series, with a few other gems such as Altered Beast for good measure. Suddenly it doesn't seem so bad to have 2+ hour commutes a few times a week.

Fucking hell Gus, that had me in stitches. I thought at first you'd peaked too early with "excremental fervour" but the (s)hits kept on coming.