Airship Ballet

I'm a network manager at a hospital. Technically I'm only supposed to keep check on people working network security but they lumped IT support in with us. I'm supposedly the manager but I do as much legwork as anybody else. I get called out as well as having to keep records and accounts. It's infuriating how many people don't know how to use a computer, but will no doubt have claimed they do or have taken a Microsoft Office course in University so they could be called qualified. I get pretty moody when I have to think about how surprisingly elitist medical school graduates can be when talking to IT dorks, and even more irritated by data entry jobbers who act just as entitled. The I.T. Crowd got a lot of things right =P I'm also a part-time QA tester but I'm not allowed to speak about that so I won't because I could be taken away by men in black.

That almost definitely comes from speaking German. It's the same as Swedish in that it's a very blocky language, spoken quite haltingly. French and Finnish do just merge together into sentence-long words. I feel sorry for people who try to learn either through just listening.

More like a life with false friends you tolerate is a life full of misanthropy. Don't worry, you didn't make any mistakes that actually matter, it's just you have the air of a foreign speaker about you. It can't really be removed without living in a country that speaks it. I was only making sure you're not one of the elitist types who gets off on correcting others. I hate it when people do that; it made learning the language that bit more of a struggle. But welcome, anyway! If you're as talented as you say I'm sure people will find you a great help.

I can welcome you as far as my relatively short membership would allow (I'm sure I've made enemies already). You certainly seem capable, but a portfolio is always handy to hand out to people as you need. Again I have no dealings with anything like that, so essentially ignore me. You have plenty of little mistakes in your own post, I'm afraid. I really do take exception to those who pick out grammatical errors when talking in an informal context like this. If it's a professional production such as a book, a game or a mission briefing, it's fine to correct them there because the creator no doubt wants to make a good impression anyway. English isn't everybody's first language, and I'd venture as far as to say it isn't yours either. Some people try very hard to fit in and speak English as fluently as they can, often without teaching, so if you're intentionally going around correcting people making an effort, boo to you. This only applies if you're the type to reply to people with one-word corrections with an asterisk. It's a pet peeve.

Hehe, I was lucky enough to grow up in Finland so the learning wasn't really a conscious process. I'm sure things would be different if I tried to learn it as an outsider. French is actually the easiest of any I learned, very formulaic once you learn the basics, and its etymology is fairly well-behaved compared to some. I did go through my optional language classes in Uni with people who struggled to retain the information but were really charismatic with presentations and the like. I was the opposite... really terrible at public speaking. Still, it's nice to go missed ^^

да, ja, och lite svenska är nog! Auch Dänisch, Norwegisch und Französisch, Finnisch natürlich auch. German is my weakest... =P I wanted to be a linguist when I was young, maybe an interpreter or something. I lost the job ambition but kept the interest in foreign languages through university ^^ @RJ Foreign languages aren't necessary for all walks of life =P

It's mostly backpacking with the few close friends I've kept over the years. It simply means being allowed to go wherever you want in a city without having to get back to a bus or anything like that. That said, we pretty much only went around Germany, France, Scandinavia and Russia. I've never been anywhere else, actually, maybe just because I find them the most interesting in terms of history and culture. That, and they speak languages I learned growing up. It was these kinds of streets I had in mind too. They're built similarly but have lovely dressings, trims and facades and can obviously afford a sorcerer of some sort to conjure awesome weather. Whitby is the Everyman's Meissen, let's say =P

Haha, your excitement is contagious =P I'll go watch that video; I only watched the main one because I'm supposed to be working. The problem with being at the top of a department is the same as working at home or for yourself: there's nobody standing over your shoulder making sure you don't get hype for kickstarters.

This looks awfully ambitious for a £300k project.

You could become one of those crazy guys you see videos of who carries his cat around on his bike.

I do remember it having some down-time recently but I don't think it was the past two days. It's a shame I don't remember the error code.

I went through Meissen when I was backpacking from Berlin to Dresden and back. It was a wonderful place, but a lot more grandiose in places. It's far more interesting than Whitby, but less quaint I found. German architecture usually is really impressive though =P Oh wow, that's awesome! =P It would've been great to take that and then try to rebuild it into its former glory. While that used to be an issue, it doesn't really matter anymore. That's not because personal details don't still give things away, but rather because there are a ton of things people can do without them. With just your IP and email addresses, people can find out where you live, where your family lives, how much rent you pay, who your landlord is, where you went to school, where you work etc etc. Besides, you'll end up putting all that on the internet just networking for a job. It's pretty much inevitable nowadays but it's only ever used for targeted advertising. It's unfortunate, but trivial information unless it's police trying to arrest you, or unless you have a Thief somewhere with a personal vendetta. On another note I'm probably short enough to go piggy-back, but don't quite feel worthy of such an awesome bike...

Well excuuuuuse me! Oh God that poor woman at 2:32...

It would mean getting really good at the swordfighting...

Oh my, I do like a good international market though =P

Oh Second Life... you meant well... @Biker Nothing right now and for the foreseeable future. I'm chronically ill, so much so that I had to re-take perception tests and the like and failed too many. I was technically allowed to keep going but didn't want to risk it. I was just starting to bike on the roads here when I had to re-take them, which is a shame. I've got a Honda CBR sitting in my garage waiting to be sold on should I end up in dire straits. ignore me sitting there it's the only photo I have

Aye, it's always looked like a nice place. When I visit a city it's usually with friends to visit galleries/museums and shop, prioritised in that order. Prettiness factors into whether or not we eat outdoors =P It's bigger on the inside

Do you move with your family, for your work or what? I backpack a lot but I only ever really moved to begin with when I got uprooted from Finland. It would be easy to rationalize as a fever dream, too.

@Helpo I've never lived in a city before, never really wanted to either. Granted your house is your own personal bubble and some can just ignore what's outside but I really dislike uniform architecture, just a pet peeve. @Xarg I expect to be able to draw you a floorplan worthy of M.C. Escher and see how you do... =P

I'm literally mute, so I'm afraid I can't deliver there =P That said I may go play back through them afterwards and just aim to massacre everybody and/or speedrun 'em.

I'm pretty much the same, although I can get by with knowledge of the nature of their interiors, rather than an actual layout. My house had really low ceilings and worn, smooth stone floors with a couple of steps between each room and beams all over the place. Knowing that, I could adapt it to any floor plan and be satisfied by it.

Don't forget to discombobulate each room's flanges. I rented a place in Whitby for a couple of years and can safely say it's a thoroughly enchanting place. As a whole it looks great at night and has a ton of Celtic and Gothic heritage: It's just generally a really, really cosy place to live. The houses are like hobbit holes, sunken into the ground; luckily I'm only 4'10". There's one pub my friends and I went to just about every other night that was sunken into the ground too; it's a trend because the whole town is built on opposing sides of a valley, making everything on an incline of some sort. It was just cosy, it's the only word I can really think of to describe it. Somehow the smooshed architecture and tiny cobblestone roads (no cars at all aside from the center around the seawalls) just makes it feel very homely. I certainly miss half-falling down the too-steep hill into a little bustling, warmly lit bar. I think that's what I appreciate most about the kind of period the Thief series and TDM are set around. Although they're only ever really set in cities, it's the same sort of era that saw quaint towns and fishing villages like Whitby spring up in earnest. Note to self: make an FM set in a similar place once I'm done with this initial (read crumby) one.

I s'pose so, depends on your patience really =P

IMHO it's more fun to watch people's first reactions to the mission. It seems more genuine somehow.

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