SpursRiot2012

2 hours ago, Tommy! said:

What's the difference with Pro? 

I'm thinking of getting a ps4 in the next few months but am well out of the loop these days. 

It's more powerful. Though unless you had a 4KR HDR type TV, it probably isn't worth it. Main reason I haven't got an Xbox One X is because in the living room with have a four year old, 52 inch TV that is great, but isn't 4K, and a smaller, standard HD TV mounted in the study/gaming room. I just can't justify spending a huge amount on a 4K TV *and* paying for the XB1X. Talking probably a grand or more right there.

My recall may be off, but I understand the XB1X is more powerful than the PS4 Pro, if that sways you at all. PlayStation has generally the better exclusives but I don't think I could switch to PlayStation now. I've got hundreds of games on my Xbox account, and the number of games that are playable on both my PC and my Xbox with a single purchase means I have to stick. There are rumours the PS5 will be announced at least next year, so perhaps then I'll switch and start building a library.

6 hours ago, Brewster McCloud said:

I'd never heard of pork/pig being associated with Ireland before. Potatoes, leprechauns, shamrocks, sectarianism, yes, but eating pork? It's not like the Scotch and haggis or the Welsh and leeks, is it? Or has this trope totally and mysteriously passed me by thus far?

It's the most eaten meat in the country and you get those breakfast rolls in cornershops.

Having said that, on an Irish breakfast isn't all that different to an English breakfast - both have sausages, although having both white and black pudding on the same may be more of an Irish thing. In fact, I think the only time I've had white pudding has been in Ireland.

And Maestro, you should pursue something against that guy. He physically threatens you in the workplace and your employer does basically nothing about it? I'm sure you could make some money here...

Haven't watched a WWE TV show in a year or more but recently got Sky Sports with my Virgin Media package so added the obligatory series link. They piled up for a few weeks until the other day I decided to watch the most recent Smackdown I had recorded. It opens with an authority figure in the ring, talking. Things sure have changed...

Also, from what I saw, Paige is terrible in that role.

16 hours ago, Egg Shen said:

It is

I don't particularly have much interest in women's wrestling, either, but to claim they don't have any talented women on the roster, or that there aren't a ton of them outside the WWE is pretty plain wrong. Even me, a guy who doesn't like women's wrestling, fucking loved Askua, for example.

8 hours ago, PowerButchi said:

You're crap at being Irish if you don't mate. I could go on the foreign births register and choose not to as I dont feel Irish, but even I know the Pig Ireland connection.

 

I'll throw you a bone. What meat is eaten a shit load of in Ireland since forever and is a massive part of a jumbo breakfast roll?

Oh, this I knew. I thought he was making a reference to me taking a pig as my lover or something.

My family in Ireland mainly farmed cattle and sometimes sheep. I'm not sure about pigs - I think another family down the way did though.

Just now, Keith Houchen said:

Don't act like you don't love it.

It's a trivial thing that annoys me.

Pig? What is the relevance of the pig?

Also, I'm putting you on ignore - once I understand the pig reference.

I do the hope you're well or had a nice weekend (on a Monday) or hope you have a good weekend (on a Friday) but that's for emails to external people - clients, prospects, suppliers etc. Mainly because it seems rude for me to just go, "Hello, I need you to do X..." But I only do it for the first email I'm sending that week, subsequent emails are just hello and on with whatever I need from them.

On 10/3/2018 at 6:28 PM, Juan Manforce said:

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.

I don't know what the job market is like for business development roles in Glasgow but by the sounds of your background, you'd probably be decent at it and the pay, especially with commission, can be very good indeed. With your experience, you could probably skip the Business Development Executive roles and go straight into a Business Development Manager role which, in London at least, would have you on 30k+ plus commission your first day in.

1 hour ago, PunkStep said:

That's the point of it though, it's an MORPG, much like Elder Scrolls Online.

I just think, much like textonly above, a lot of Fallout fans who are buying the game sight unseen, not having read any previews because they want to stay spoiler free, are going to be quite disappointed by 76. I worry for Onyx.

Hm, I'm not sure about FO76 at all. From what I've read, it's little more than a multiplayer survival game. No NPCs to engage with, pretty much a key part of any RPG. I think if I was a massive fan of the Fallout world, aesthetic and mechanics, then I'd be right up for it as those things would make up for the lack of content, but RDR2 is going to be taking up a lot of my time (hopefully, by the time I'm done with Red Dead, Cyberpunk 2077 will be out or near to it) anyways so this is probably a skip from me.

1 hour ago, Keith Houchen said:

Shame, you could've been the Irish version of the Subway guy.

Quiznos.

I'm sure Pepsi would tell me if drinking 3-5 litres of Pepsi Max Cherry every day was bad for me, right?

11 minutes ago, Carbomb said:

See, Riot - he's not just checking you! And that's at someone who said OCS were crap, so you'll probably have to wait a while.

Well, are we going to let some non-Londoner (probable racist) hold this shit over us West Green/Tottenham grizzled vets for the rest of our forum lives or are we going to stab* him?

* No stabbing is legitimately being threatened here, please don't any law enforcement agencies wake me up early - they always come early.

5 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

I told you, until Ocean Colour Scene top the charts. If you want to be popular on a place online, running jokes, snide, and Taylor Swift gifs seem to do the trick.  

I'm drinking shitloads of pepsi max lately, I'm coming up to 11 months sober and was told that fizzy drinks will probably replace the booze.  How right they were.  But I do think you could write something about it, like an ongoing diary about how it makes you grumpy like a morning Rockwell.  "Pepsi and Surly" has a ring to it.

Pepsi Max Cherry doesn't make me grumpy. What makes me grumpy is not having any Pepsi Max Cherry.

Also, I was trying to think of a word in my earlier post to describe how your jokes about me come across to.me but couldn't. Then you posted it for me! Snide. But it's a thing you're doing, I understand why. I just want you to be happy. So carry on.

12 minutes ago, PunkStep said:

Put it this way: you know how long ago Steve confessed to his toilet crimes...?

Five litres of Pepsi. Man, that's really not good for you. The amount of sweeteners alone can't be good for you.

True but there is always ample opportunity to relive Steve's toilet wrongness given this wrestling forum's sheer volume of toilet and bodily functions discussions. I'm just happening across references to myself in threads I wouldn't normally go into or post in. It's all fair fucks if I'm involved in the thread, but otherwise it seems somewhat unkind.

No, I'm sure it's utterly horrible for me but Ed (my therapist who I recently fired) reckons I've replaced previous vices (street drugs, booze) for other, somewhat less dangerous but still bad vices (prescription drugs and sugar). Yeah, I'm quite the mess

Oh, shit, maybe I should do a Super Size Me-style documentary where I eliminate water completely from my diet and the only liquid I take in is Pepsi Max Cherry. I could document it on Twitter, and then people will presumably send me money since that's a thing now.

On balance, what is worse: a steady diet of white cider and cocaine or a steady diet of Pepsi Max Cherry and Haribo Balla Stixx? I feel somewhat happier overall now that I wake up in the mornings and know what happened the day before, but I am getting fatter and older...

Anyways, this is all off topic and not Top Twitter at all and it certainly isn't going to make me any money so I'm going to go and work on that.

6 minutes ago, Devon Malcolm said:

Just how much Cherry Coke can one person drink.

Today, so far, I have drank five litres.

I am not joking and I need help.

Additionally, my Haribo Balla Stixx habit has increased to two packets a day, so there's another demon I'm fighting.

Also, this is the second time you've referred to my drinking "Cherry Coke" and I just want to make it absolutley clear that I drink Pepsi Max Cherry. They do not taste the same and anybody who says they do is a mad person.

My main takeaway from that video is that the latest edition of the WWE video game looks basically exactly the same as the last WWE video game release I bought, in 2016. Have the games had any significant changes either graphically or gameplay wise in years or what?

16 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

Even if they were asking you to fund their Irish citizenship application?

Can I get a timeframe on how long you're going to run with the two (current) running jokes about me? I know you're chasing down those 3,000 rep points but I went into two threads I've never went into before, let alone posted in, and am faced with this relentless ribbing and I'm starting to get concerned that your next move is to shit in my bag.

Having said that, the Irish citizenship process does cost money and all contributions are welcome. Please PM me for my account details.

Just briefly going back to the Linehan tweet above, I notice the tweeter (Sinead) asks for...well, just outright asks for money once the tweet blows up. I've noticed this to be a thing on Twitter. Not GoFundMes for some particular project or goal, just literally give me cash because the person wants cash.

I have two questions regarding this.

Firstly, what's the deal with this? I don't want to generalise (as it's well known I never generalise) but it seems to be particularly prevalent on transTwitter, but maybe it's something lots of people are doing regardless of their gender. If the latter is the case...

Do you think it's possible to make much money doing this? Because I'd be up for trying to get some tweets to blow up and then ask people to PayPal me cash.

3 minutes ago, Mr_Danger said:

Digital download is about 110gb

That makes a lot more sense. Cheers.

Has it been announced anywhere how much space the game is going to take up? Somebody at work said it might take up near 1TB, and my Xbox is only 500gb.

4 minutes ago, PunkStep said:

They've changed their stance on crossplay recently haven't they? Might be too soon for RDR2 upon release, but I'd imagine a patch will sort that out down the line.

That would be good. I'm too entrenched in Xbox to justify adding a PS4 just for the benefit of playing where most of my friends play. Recently, most of the games we've been playing have been Windows/Xbox crossplay so it's been good. Would be good to have Sony come around for RDR2.

What platform are people getting it on, since Sony still don't want to be cool about crossplay? Since a PC release isn't on the cards any time soon, it'll be the first Xbox One game I've bought on release since The Division.