Be Excellent To Each Other

Ah - ok. In that case, how come anyone can play on Live with anyone else? Most people must be completely unware of NATs.

Normally you don't notice it, because matchmaking never connects two people together who have restrictive NAT. It's only when you're trying to play with your friends and both of you have it.

Which can hardly be rare, though?

The venn diagram of that setup usually encompasses at least one party who has a scooby, though.

I bet it doesn't. You're assuming way too much of the average person. Especially given that I'm way above average.

Tell you what, change your settings and see if it works, then tell us how common it must be.

Most people can search for 'xbox live cannot connect to friend' and follow simple instructions, I find.

I'm not sure how that's related to the issue.

Craster said that if you've not put your 360 into the DMZ or set up port forwarding, you're pretty much guaranteed not to have open NAT. If I, a semi-technology literate person, wasn't aware of this as a problem, I'm not sure how many other people (in which we're including a sizeable number of 12 year olds) would have taken this positive step to get themselves an open NAT. So there must be loads of people floating around on live with restrictive nats unable to play minecraft with their mates. I can't be the only person on the internet who doesn't know about this.

You're all cunts.

We gave you the answer! It's not our fault if you don't like it

Actually, I believe you will find it's Crasters fault.

She didn't seem to hate it, but claimed it was paper instead. Luckily, Stinkpants had bought her an anniversary journal to write what we did each year in, presumably to stave off dementia.

So, my NAT was already as wide open as Cras's mum's legs, and we got Minecraft MP working this evening. So it was naff all to do with that, and a lot more to do with someone else being useless other than me. So I sorted it out no thanks to you lot, so ner ner ner ner ner.

mumble mumble mumble Mrs Me says she was actually going to text Cras at work today to ask him how to sort it out as she thought he'd be more likely to know than me but didn't see that as a valid problem ticket to raise with the Senior VP of Playing with iPhones*. mumble mumble mumble

*I may be editorialising here rather than directly quoting.

What if they have plugged their iphone in to charge? Or they are in the Midfle of microwaving a Marks & Spencer's spaghetti carbonara, and accidentally put it on for 44 minutes instead of four minutes? What if they are the only person trained in using a defibrillator nearby and someone's heart had stopped?!?! Grim... I don't think you have thought this ad-hoc rule through thoroughly!

I used to live near the jubbly line, too

And near the northern line.

It's given to them when I'm happy that it can't connect to the WiFi and they're outside the door.

London Bridge or Waterloo?

I don't know what that means, unless you're asking if I'm a hooker.

I never got on the Nortgern line, but it went to Brent Cross Shooping a Centre. Land of hopes and dreams. And John Lewis. And Paperchase. And M&S. Boots, Fenwicks, Dotty P, River Island, H&M. Thorntons...

Seems ISIS have killed the other hostage.

Utterly vile.

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-29038217

He had it coming to him by being out there.

It shouldn't have... But this made me snigger a little. What's wrong with me?

Do you want a list?

I'd rather have a spreadsheet.

Which one did you live near?

Reductio ad absurdum.

Would have been North of Euston, so both.

I sometimes wonder what my doppelgaenger in London you saw once in the City is doing. Sometimes, I worry it was me, spying on you. It might be, I could be a sleeper agent or something, acitivated wth a code word and then my memory goes blank.

I just got sent this by a colleague, freaked me out a little

HP is celebrating 75 years this year. I got a free cup and a pen...

I didn't, and I don't want their tat.

Are you peeking at my cup

HP Sauce must be older than 75.

Yep, 1895. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Sauce

Impressive HTML5 game: HelloRun

For anyone with a functioning sense of humour, I've just noticed that tickets go on sale today for Dylan Moran's upcoming tour (he of Black Books fame). I noticed it when gearing up to grab Royal Blood tickets so this could be an expensive, though awesome, couple of hours on the TicketMaster site if I get everything.

Related to your interests: Jim Davidson and Mrs Brown's Boys. I'm being trolled by an algorithm.

Thank you. I saw him at the opening of Just the Tonic's Nottingham club a couple of years back. Tiny venue - was excellent.

I've never seen him live but love his stand up DVDs. There's now a discussion as to whether we're getting tickets for the Glasgow date or pushing the boat out for That London. Assuming we even get tickets, I tried to buy them for Royal Blood this morning and, for the first time in years, completely failed.

Have I ever mentioned how he used to live next door to me? I doubt I have.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latest ... good-omens

Radio dramatization of Good Omens by Pterry and Neil Gaimen

Jay Rayner was on TV last night, and I noticed that when he laughed he laughed like Craster in the way that their jaws moved. Then I started to wonder if there weren't also just a few facial characteristics between the two that are somewhat similar. And they have similar voices, and like cooking.

Craster, is this your (much older) brother?

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