Someone who plays with themself.
Are we over-reacting - would you buy this house?
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Someone who plays with themself.
Why proudly? You may have missed out. Do you watch movies?
I have had about 10 mins having a go at racing, grand something .
It never appealed to me.
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rogerzilla
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If it was Grand Theft Auto, it's more about drugs, hookers and violent crime than racing
If it was Grand Theft Auto, it's more about drugs, hookers and violent crime than racing
I vaguely remember playing " Leisure Suit Larry " on my Spectrum...
Regular.Cyclist
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Holy thread drift!
Anyway, continuing along the computer games path.
I must have been the only kid is history to tell my parents to switch off my computer and leave me to get to sleep as I have school in the morning! They were addicted to a game called ‘Jumping Jack’ on the Spectrum and the computer was in my bedroom.
Anyway, continuing along the computer games path.
I must have been the only kid is history to tell my parents to switch off my computer and leave me to get to sleep as I have school in the morning! They were addicted to a game called ‘Jumping Jack’ on the Spectrum and the computer was in my bedroom.
Back when I was a TV repairman, I visited a house where this lad around 18 yrs old, playing on a computer game, completely ignored our presence whilst we fixed the main TV. He was a big lad.
About a year later we had another call out to same property. When we got inside, he was still on the game, but he had literally doubled in size, to an enormous fat fooker. Surmising he looked like he never got off that chair for a whole year, whilst his mother shoveled food down his gullet
About a year later we had another call out to same property. When we got inside, he was still on the game, but he had literally doubled in size, to an enormous fat fooker. Surmising he looked like he never got off that chair for a whole year, whilst his mother shoveled food down his gullet
There is a beautiful bit of satire in Grand Theft Auto 5 where Michael (semi-retired armed robber) berates his obese son for just sitting there playing computer games and shouting at people he doesn't know. He forces him to come out for some fresh air and go on a bike ride. The mission then becomes a drive down to the pier where you have to get on bicycles and race along the waterfront. The irony being that of course - you are playing this on a computer game...
GTA isn't everyone's cup of tea. I think the future is more in games like Red Dead Redemption and The Last of Us. These are effectively immersive movies where you control and live the life of the main protagonist and where your choices make a difference to the outcome of the game or how you feel about it. For example in the Last of Us 2 you are confronted with all of the people you have killed to preserve your own life and asked to question your own actions.
The two things are not mutually exclusive. I have it on good authority that many people read books and watch TV shows or movies as well as getting out of the house.
Speaking from my own experience, I was a shy youth who found it very difficult to understand why my peers did things, or behaved in the way they behaved. They were often like aliens to me. They could understand social nuances that I could not. They could run up to a ball and kick it and it would go the way they wanted it to go. When I tried that I would miss it, or it would go somewhere else and I would be made to feel useless and small. My escape was books. I was a voracious reader of science fiction and fantasy. These worlds I could imagine and understand. I loved the idea of going into space, or going on a quest. My TV viewing was similar - I loved the shows that were magical or technological - Knight Rider, Battlestar Galactica - and where the good guys usually won.
Eventually my dad bought me a BBC B and I learned about programming and started playing games like Elite where you could explore 8 different galaxies engaging in trade and combat. At the same time, I also started to learn that quite often other people were afraid of things that didn't bother me at all. I could speak in front of people and I enjoyed taking on a character and performing it. I became involved in Amdram, went to University and studied music and drama, then a post-grad in classical acting. I loved the idea of being on stage because I could be someone who wasn't me. I also had friends who were into live role playing - again a chance to be someone or something else. To change character and explore new worlds in a different way.
People tend to be very negative toward video games, and to be sure, there are both positives and negatives. This is actually one of the themes that Grand Theft Auto explores a lot. It's a horrible violent world in many ways and a couple of scenes (particularly the controversial torture scene) are very difficult indeed to participate in, but it's also extremely clever and often laugh out loud funny - whether it's taking swipes at conservative America or rednecks, or just waking up as Trevor and wondering why he is now wearing ladies underwear and surrounded by some very dead looking people (Trevor's character is a sociopathic psychopath who can fly planes).
Personally I prefer Red Dead and the Last of Us to GTA. Both of them are not about killing people. They are about survival, hope and learning to make the most of your environment. They engage your emotions just like any good movie or good book will do. That doesn't mean that I don't enjoy my family, holidays, going on bike rides, driving single seater race cars or any of the other things I do. Oh - and I still read a lot of books.
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And of they get fed up with that they can post a fantasy CV online.
wiggydiggy
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This is my earliest Computer Game memory, Chuckie Egg on the Amstrad CPC 464. I know now the Amstrad was considered the 3rd placed machine behind the Spectrum 48k and Commodore C64 but it was my first computer, bought for me in around 1986. I used it right up until the 1990s, when I bought a succesion of Commodore Amiga machines. I've still got one of each today.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH9iKr3pe7o
The view that someone that enjoys technology and playing games is somehow inferior to someone that dislikes those things is a disapointment.
Happy International Mens Day.
Please enjoy the OST to FEUD, a classic game:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-sH0l29pfY
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH9iKr3pe7o
The view that someone that enjoys technology and playing games is somehow inferior to someone that dislikes those things is a disapointment.
Happy International Mens Day.
Please enjoy the OST to FEUD, a classic game:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-sH0l29pfY
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rogerzilla
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Sounds like the inspiration for Craig in People Just Do Nothing.
Time Waster
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We put in a cheaper offer (cheeky because prices were a little low at the time for the area anyway and demand in the area was really high). They turned it down so we put in the asking price with the proviso they took it off the market as in all details taken offline straight away with no further marketing.
They agreed and the house was no longer showing as on the market at all. No viewers possible. Bear in mind the details had not even gone on rightmove I reckon we were almost the only person to view the house and the details.
IF we had not moved that fast we would have lost out. Houses like what we were looking for in this village sold before the details went live a lot of the time. We arranged a viewing for a house next door to where we now live about 2 minutes after it appeared on rightmove. Well made the booking. The viewing was in two days. We turned up and nobody else did. After speaking to the estate agent they told us it had sold on the same day. They apologised about the mess up in not telling us. It worked in our favour later though. That estate agency was selling our house and after that mess up in the comms they told us about this house and sent through the details before it went live. They held it off rightmove until we could see the house. Then they put it on after our viewing and the next day took it off about 10am after our deal was made. We actually got a better house for slightly less in the end so it was pretty good. The people who ended up buying the house we never got the chance to see ended up having to deal with damp. We got a house with solar panels, well set up and the only house in the row with a newish roof. Good for longer than we will be here.
I hope the OP gets sorted with a good alternative house without the issues of the original house they were interested in. Wherever youi move to it is the best place for you and the restricted place was never going to be right for you. In other words move on and no longer think about the restricted house once you are sorted in the new house.
Time Waster
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My parents sold my grans house and accepted an offer for a woman buying from a nearby town. She kept having problems but they had to stick as the house was off the market with no sign up or marketing. Turns out it all fell through with the buyer kind of going AWOL. It went back on the market and the estate agent then told my parents that this woman had done this many times with many other vendors and properties. She wanted to tell them but could not because of privacy or other legal reason. Apparently my parents found out that it had happened to friends they knew with the same woman. Other cases too as it was not just this woman who did this. There are people out there who put offers in and get houses off the market just to string the vendors along or some other twisted reason. It happens more than most people think apparently.
I think the vendor should perhaps not go through with the viewing but you can understand their POV. They do not know their buyer is genuine. If they had a backup offer they could at least honour the first but if it fell through there is someone to contact on the offchance they are still interested. I do not agree with that personally but with idiots playing vendors like happened with my parents selling my Gran's property I would not condemn them for honouring a viewing made if it was before the offer was accepted.
I think the vendor should perhaps not go through with the viewing but you can understand their POV. They do not know their buyer is genuine. If they had a backup offer they could at least honour the first but if it fell through there is someone to contact on the offchance they are still interested. I do not agree with that personally but with idiots playing vendors like happened with my parents selling my Gran's property I would not condemn them for honouring a viewing made if it was before the offer was accepted.
