Be Excellent To Each Other

No, no, I know you were joking, I don’t think that’s untowards in any way, but so close to what happened to me that I kind of felt internally it would be weird (to me) not to mention it. I think I’ve actually mentioned it before.

I despise that man for so many reasons, but this is something that has consequences right through to today and really affects me still.

What an absolute prick. I'm sorry to hear this Mimi.

The terrible thing is that he probably thought nothing of it and was unaware of how it could affect a young mind.

Oh, no, I don’t believe that at all. My grandmother Was very much family oriented, blood thicker than water under the bridge stuff that I do not go for at all, so I was unfortunate enough to have had to see him throughout my years growing up and, frankly, until she died. I know and have observed enough in him to know with some certainty it was calculated to hurt. He made such a big play of trying to get me to say I was enjoying my food that day. He wanted me to say I was enjoying eating my own pet, for his sick amusement, and so he could tell people.

I put up with him for the sake of my grandmother, and I decided that when she died I’d never let him near me ever again. It’s the real reason I didn’t go to her funeral (though I said something else), as the only person in the world I’d put myself in a room with him for was her, and she no longer would know, so I found myself saying goodbye to her alone, because I can’t bear that man.

Gosh, sorry, I’ve got myself quite upset now. It really was something that will affect me all my days

You've every right to be upset, that's a horrendous thing to do.

Evil bastard.

What an absolute bastard.

Get another duck. When he dies, feed him to your duck.

I often think when we are older and Darwin grown up I may have another duck or two if we lived in the right kind of place. Maybe in retirement.

1989 by Taylor Swift is an absolute brilliant record.

Taylor Swift is Malicool?

Poor Taylor Swift.

New desk day at work again. Now got people sitting on my left and right. May have to be slightly more subtle about forum time, hmm...

Same floor still, or have you moved upstairs?

In London on Monday, arriving at KGX, then going Holborne and back to KGX. Suspect you'll all be in work, but this is ADVANCE WARNING

I mean I am in work but also I work at KGX so...

I mean I am in work but also I work five minutes from KGX so...

TO THE CLUB

Same floor still. Upstairs after the refurb I think whenever that is. How goes it with your new place?

CLUB IT IS

Although i have to be back at 7pm as I have a charity meeting s, thats the half four train i think.

CLUB IS CANCELLED

NOBODY GO TO THE CLUB

Instructions unclear. Have clubbed Malia

Manic and quite bizarre, but way better resourced and so much closer to home.

The customer facing IT systems seemed pretty good at first glance but had a load of hidden surprises. The internal IT systems were almost non existent but that’s being sorted very rapidly. I’ve got 7 people to delegate stuff to and they all know their stuff, and we can lower the tone quite effectively. “Your mum’s one of those things” and similar phrases have turned into a nice running joke.

There’s been at least five new starters every week so far, and a second office opening in Birmingham soon. Don’t think it will be a long term job, but I’ve been told I’m “Smashing it out of the park” which I’m taking as a good sign.

Unless the ‘it’ you are smashing out of the park is a Labrador puppy, you absolute monster!

It’s not, but there was an office chicken that I’ve not seen for a week or so.....

Had a customer meeting today, and was waiting to see my contact, and a youngish guy in a BIG BLACK CLOAK walks in with an older guy. The younger guy also had a BIG BLACK HAT. Who was he? Gareth Gates! Exciting.

I saw him at a club once.

HERE ENDS THE COOL STORY

Is he a Chaotic Evil or just Evil Mage?

Advice please.

Say I save up some money to treat myself. What would represent the best value:

A) An HTC Vive/Occulus Rift for my existing PC (£600 ish)

B) PS4 Pro and PSVR (£350 + £450 ish = fuck me, £900, really??)

Well shit, that seems to answer my own question.

1.5x Rover 25

Yeah the PC thing all day long, if your PC is up to it.

If the goal is only "get VR". But the PSVR plan also gets him a PS4 Pro, which is worth considering.

Can your existing PC do VR (there is a thing on steam to benchmark this)?

Further considerations:
Psvr may have more "proper" games. I don't know
Vive does require a few things to get the best out of it - the audio strap is a good improvement. I don't know if they still come with the rubbish cable, or the new one. There's also a wireless unit which I'm waiting to hear a report for from a friend. (he got it a few days ago) which I think is Vive only and would represent a large benefit.

B, because they you get access to BEZZIE FUN TIMES.

350 + 450 is 800, so you've just saved £100 to treat yourself to something else.

I ran the Steam VR assessment tool after I got my new(ish) GFX card from Myp.

Off the top of my head it's an i5 3470 @3.2, 8GB RAM, GTX970.

I mean, it's going to be a while before I've saved up enough for either, but £900 seems like a reach for an 'inferior' setup.

The PS4 option would be better for the kids too, though. Hmmm

Get the PS4 for now and then the PSVR stuff the day after.

Yeah good point. Also you don't actually have to get a PS4 Pro, I've got the standard one and the PSVR stuff seems great. Also I paid £300 for my PSVR so that's about £530 which is a lot less than £900.

VR seems fine with my non-Pro PS4 too, and I'm not desperate to upgrade, although buying the non-Pro new today is arguably a false economy. They say it's a bit better.

I suspect he's factoring the price of a couple of Technodicks in his £450 quote, which is sensible. You probably want those.

Indeed.

If you buy a new non-pro PS4 today then you’re only one step away from smashing flints together to cook dinner.

I mean, obviously what I'm going to do is save up for a few months and decide then, but I'm still leaning towards PSVR in spite of the price.

It's still 800 not 900 though

Why is there an owl hooting at 230 in the afternoon?

I'm an idiot


230db?

Could be a collared dove.

he wants to find a lady owl to make eggs with, but as it is the afternoon, he's clearly lacking the wit to woo.

This will only serve to confuse matters but: a Rift wouldn't be "about £600", the bundle of Rift + touch controllers has had a permanent price drop to £400 which is significantly less...

Is that right? Hmm...

Damn, that's a complete system as well.

Yeah, it's a genuinely sweet deal if you've got a capable PC. Note that the min spec for the Rift is lower than the Vive due to some techie magic they work at a hardware level so even if your machine was going to struggle with the Vive it would (allegedly) work better with the Rift.

I thought an i5 would struggle with VR wouldn’t it? You need an i7 upwards init?

*runs away*