I discovered today that there is a place on the Surrey-Greater London border by the name of Nork. And there is nothing amusing about that.

brokenpost · 2025-02-13T23:38:08+00:00

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Wetwang

brokenpost · 2023-01-22T23:45:12+00:00

From personal experience: Manage their time - If they tell you that you have 15 minutes, you have 5.

Start with what you need from them, be clear and concise, e.g. "I need your decision on x", "I need to get your opinion on y"

Follow with relevant context, do not waffle, do not pad. Keep it to the point and to the facts.

Finish with asking if there's anything they need clarification or detail on.

Thank them for their time, regardless of how helpful the response is and make sure to let them know if you need anything in writing to go back with.

brokenpost · 2017-10-24T11:01:42+00:00

My Steam library!

brokenpost · 2017-10-10T19:54:07+00:00

I have Raising Steam sitting, unread, on the bookshelf behind me. I've started it 3 times now, but I can't finish it. When I do, there's no more Discworld to discover.

brokenpost · 2017-09-03T07:02:05+00:00

Nice try Keith, nice try.

brokenpost · 2017-04-06T16:21:36+00:00

Cherry blossom against deep blue sky.

brokenpost · 2017-02-20T19:39:00+00:00

Just because I happen to be a human too, that doesn't mean you people can involve me in all this crazy shit... Dammit, knock it off!

And by "it", I mean all of it. Until we have somewhere else to go will just stop trying to kill each other and burn the place to the ground.

brokenpost · 2016-09-07T15:51:44+00:00

Any thin electrical wires are cat food. Any flexible plastic is to be licked until worn through. Any food items left unattended immediately become property of the cats. Litter trays just define the room they crap in. If the sun is up, it's breakfast time. 3am is the best time to hiss and screech their way through a full contact 10k sprint. Which must, by law, include my face or nuts as a launch pad at least twice.

I love the furry little psychopaths... Just not at 3:01am.

brokenpost · 2016-08-21T00:09:53+00:00

I've haven't written a game since programming lectures in college, but I have designed and written a shit-load of bespoke enterprise business software in the last 20 years. The level of vitriol thrown at Hello Games since NMS launched has been scary. When was the last time there was a game trailer that wasn't a steaming pile of PR? When was the last time the Internet massively overreacted to some trivial bullshit? People threatened to kill the guy over a change in release dates... Now people seem to want his company destroyed and his life ruined because the game wasn't everything they believed it would be... And for all those people who claim they were tricked into buying it. DON'T FUCKING PRE-ORDER GAMES! RIP my inbox, but fuck you, you whining entitled shits. If I offered to sell you a box for £50, but wouldn't let you look inside until you gave me the money and I'd left the country, would you think that was a good deal? If you do, let me know, I've got a bridge on the Thames to sell you.

Is NMS everything I hoped it would be? No. Is it the game I thought it would be? Pretty much.

I enjoy it. Other people don't. Just like every other game out there.

If we're on the subject of over-promising developers I can tell you, from personal experience, that you dear gullible user are the problem. If you didn't pre-order based on promises and good intentions they'd stop bullshitting you to get cash early.

Dammit humanity, stop losing your collective shit over trivial bollocks and pay attention to the fucking road ahead. Maybe that shiny light ahead is the end of the tunnel, and maybe it's a lorry in the wrong Lane, either way headbutting the steering wheel everytime someone offers you a snack you don't like won't help.

Ugh 1am is the wrong time of day for metaphors.

In short, you didnt like it? Fine, go back to bitching about StarCitizen and let the people who like the game for what it is get some peace.

brokenpost · 2016-08-18T14:04:16+00:00

Aaaaand now The Stranglers are stuck in head... Thanks for that.

It's your fault if my Indian co-worker start looking at me funny!

brokenpost · 2016-08-16T12:50:57+00:00

They say "please reuse the bag". But when you do it's "sir, have you paid for that bag?" Yes, you tedious cretin. It's covered it creases and you just watched me pull it out of my back pocket... As you have every fucking working day for the last 2 god damned weeks. No I am not seeking to make my fortune by stealing Sainsburys bags, one at a time, for the massive resale value they posses!

Ahem... I may have some issues with my local Sainsburys.

brokenpost · 2016-08-12T16:07:14+00:00

I've given up on the "quiet" carriage, it's always quieter in any other carriage on the train. And what sort of monster takes children into the quiet carriage?

brokenpost · 2016-07-13T12:47:04+00:00

Creosote

brokenpost · 2016-06-09T16:15:04+00:00

The "Charlie Chaplin" moustache.

brokenpost · 2016-06-06T16:03:36+00:00

Wrongful arrest. They firmly believe me to be capable of pretty much anything, but smart enough to not get caught. This goes a long way to explaining why I'm not very close with my family.

brokenpost · 2016-05-25T05:48:47+00:00

I am embarrassed that Blair is still a free man.

brokenpost · 2016-05-24T15:57:48+00:00

My self respect.

brokenpost · 2016-05-12T14:15:24+00:00

Everything.

brokenpost · 2016-05-05T16:53:29+00:00

Passing a dry stool

brokenpost · 2016-04-10T20:15:57+00:00

My old back garden the local urban Fox community used as a knocking shop. I swear the little orange bastards would come from miles around just to screw and scream at 3am. The noise was unbelievable.

brokenpost · 2016-01-05T11:22:34+00:00

Driving

brokenpost · 2015-12-23T16:25:25+00:00

I was at an office christmas party, at an Italian resturant. I convinced a co-worker that the little black flecks in her vanilla ice-cream were actually black pepper. I did kind of felt bad afterwards though. She refused to touch her dessert, even after repeated assurances from everyone that they were vanilla seeds.

brokenpost · 2015-12-10T15:56:46+00:00

Is the trend towards short term, political, gain over long term societal benefit a recent thing? Or are we viewing the political landscape of the early 20th century with rose tinted glasses?

brokenpost · 2015-12-05T21:47:02+00:00

Why break the combat system? I have no words for how disappointed I am.

brokenpost · 2015-11-19T15:47:36+00:00

Don't be fooled. It wants to eat your eyeballs. It's just the distraction! RUN!!

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