Diggis

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Although it could be entirely possible I'm on her ignore list! *LOL*

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Nah, she just plays 'hard to get'. You know, women thing.

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A restraining order is a big commitment

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But it really shows you care.

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I can say it's provided a place for some really good people to interact and I intend to carry on this tradition!

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It has? Where are these good people? I thought it was just us here.

Welcome to the boards.

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The whistletalk was for "Great, the f***ing things stuck again*

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As seen on QI (clip).

It's actually "Oh sod it - the bloody thing's stuck again"... which is a step down from the F-word so I'm not too worried about posting the link!

I have a cuddly Major clanger who says this when you squeeze him.

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Especially as it wasn't censored.

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Mother, they CANT come outright and spell out directly what's going ion until the redudancy process is complete. If they do they are opening themselves up for an almighty employment claim. Not least because the process is legislative.

Even letting Avateas take over is an almighty risk because if you make someone redundant, you are not allowed to fil that post for 3 months.

I'm very well versed in UK HR law but not in USA or international so maybe there is a loophole there somewhere.

But I think GR and others may well have a possible constructive dismissal claim simpl;y n the basis that someone is taking over their roles. As I say, I'm not 100% sure because of the UK / USA thing. But NC sure as heck wont want to predudice themselves any further.

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Not really... They're moving the jobs to the USA. As far as we know, GR and others were offered equivalent positions in the USA, or voluntary redundancy, so NC's backs are pretty much covered really. There's no claim there.

The "not allowed to replace for 3 months" thing doesn't apply either, as there IS no position in the UK anymore. That there is in the US is not relevant to British legislation.

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Added to the fact I doubt GR's whole job was modding the forums. I'm sure I read somewhere he has another role there and this was his side role.

Aye, the only problem I have with WW is it's speed, but given what it's doing it's pretty good.

I need a reason to roll a defiant toon... this looks like one to me.

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I just looked at the page about NC Soft values and so I'm now certain that they'll talk to us as soon as possible.

BTW - I thought it's been mentioned that there were some US positions affected - did anyone find a linky about staff losses over there?

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I really don't understand why they'd offer jobs in America to the people in Brighton if they were going to cut jobs in America as well. It's morally dubious imo, unless they really didn't think anyone from Brighton would realistically choose to have a job in America.

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Possibly because the jobs they were offering Stateside are at a different area to where the jobs are being cut, and the people being cut in Austin (I think it was) are being offered the same deal to another US office.

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Surely if the media doomsaying caused some people to alter their spending habits it could have lead to or exacerbated the recession.

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This.

The media caused the credit crunch, which caused the recession.

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lol, if that's not the definition of naive I don't know what is. I admit the media didn't help matters but to blame them entirely is just narrow-minded.

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It's certainly an oversimplificion, but I'n my job it's something I have to do a lot.

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Oversimplification? You mean you took out all the other people responsible and just blamed the media.

It's like saying the problems in Brighton are the fault of the people starting the server merge threads.

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It's a good analogy. The people calling for server mergers didn't cause the problem, but they certainly made it worse/happen sooner (as we predicted at the time).

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Now you are back tracking... you said the media caused the credit crunch, not made it happen sooner/worse.

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Oversimplification? You mean you took out all the other people responsible and just blamed the media.

It's like saying the problems in Brighton are the fault of the people starting the server merge threads.

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Who actually didnt deserve the hard time they got.

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Depends on how you look at it. Sure, the first few were probably fair enough, but when there are 4 in one day...

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aha! now we get to the bottom of it. is this inside information?

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I am inside, if thats what you mean... I could go outside, but it's cold.

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Surely if the media doomsaying caused some people to alter their spending habits it could have lead to or exacerbated the recession.

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This.

The media caused the credit crunch, which caused the recession.

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lol, if that's not the definition of naive I don't know what is. I admit the media didn't help matters but to blame them entirely is just narrow-minded.

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It's certainly an oversimplificion, but I'n my job it's something I have to do a lot.

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Oversimplification? You mean you took out all the other people responsible and just blamed the media.

It's like saying the problems in Brighton are the fault of the people starting the server merge threads.

That sounds like what usually happens when they shut down for Maintenance.

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Added to the people who have had to stop playing due to the recession. Some people seem to see saving the world as a luxury

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Compared to many leasure activited (e.g. gym membership) MMOs are cheep. the recession could gain as many as it looses (explains returning players?).

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Personally, I would give this up before my gym membership, due to needing the gym to keep fit, but not needing this, but thats just me.

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Yowza, 17k one month then 13k the next, normally doesn't an Issue release bring with it a massive increase in subscriber activity?

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That's quarter, not month. Still bad though. One would have expected the December 08 result to be significantly higher than Septembers with the i13 release, but it clearly isn't... Looks to me like the PvP changes and people leaving over that countered the increased number of people playing for the other new content.

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Added to the people who have had to stop playing due to the recession. Some people seem to see saving the world as a luxury.

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Not really, his team are being beaten by the Kiwis, and we suck at cricket.

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They have levelled the series against NZ and we have no answer to accurate bowling. The Aussies may be less than they were but we're a lot worse than we can be

I cannot see England winning the Ashes this summer, sadly.

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Yeah, just checked cos I wasn't sure when the 4th was... hard to follow over here without sky.

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I cannot see England winning anything, ever, sadly.

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Minor correction. Grammatical mostly.

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Gold!

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[Insert tumbleweed & ambient cricket noise sfx here]

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please don't mention cricket. The 2nd Test starts tomorrow

Still at least GR will have something to smile about this summer

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Not really, his team are being beaten by the Kiwis, and we suck at cricket.

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Thanks for the well wishes, everyone.

My position is 'potentially redundant' within the Brighton office, and at the current time I intend to accept voluntary redundancy. I'm not interested in living in the US.

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Best of luck with what ever you end up doing.

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Spades a Spade.

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Unless you are playing 500 when it can be a club...

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Or, I'd guess, on the US forums (where we may soon be) where I wouldn't be surprised if Spade is censored.

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I blame it all on Diggis. It was him, with the candlestick, in the lounge, I'm sure of it!

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Actually I used a spade... or was it a club.

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Spades a Spade.

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Unless you are playing 500 when it can be a club...

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I use Space-bar to jump, do I qualify for Elitism?

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I suspect we all do.

If you think you're not Elitist you are, necessarily, regarding yourself as being better than all those horrid Elitists out there. And that's Elitist thinking in itself.

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Damn, I'm not that elitist... does that make me more or less elitist?

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I currently can't connect to the patcher.

However if you make a shortcut direct to the CityOfHeroes.exe and add '-project eucoh' to the end, you can bypass the patcher and go straight to the game.

Explained further at http://www.nooblet.org/blog/2007/cit...-skip-updater/

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Ta.

Ahh, so it's not just me then...

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we dont need no education ... foolish laddie

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Aye, but we didn't type that line....

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grammer

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K, you can add spelling to that list too then.

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What kind of person needs to be told to eat their meat?!

Veges yes, but meat is so darn good.... Mmmmm Minted Lamb.

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You, yes you behind the bike sheds... Stand still laddie!

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At the risk of being branded elitist...

Quite obviously you do need an education, or you wouldn't be using a double negative

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K, my grammer etc isn't great (I nearly wrote ain't that great ) but I am failing to see any double negatives in the quotes.