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You receive wasp repellent. Later, you regret tossing it in the garbage can.

You recieve a large pile of sand. It gets in your shoes. You're in a bad mood for the rest of the week.

I insert a coin.

You recieve a packet of crisps. You are delighted to discover that they are your favourite flavour. You enjoy the crisps and share them with your friends. Over the following week your friends accelerate to fame and fortune through tremendous inexplicable luck, yet you find yourself unluckier than ev...

You recieve a certificate of achievement, following your heroic efforts in saving a dozen orphans from a burning building. However, you really did your knee in at the time, and that knee is destined to cost you in the long run.

I insert a coin.

You recieve a wheelchair. This is convenient in light of recent events, but it later turns out that the wheelchair is cursed. You spend months fighting off bats inexplicably attracted to the wheelchair that you are unable to rid yourself of, and eventually go insane.

I insert a coin.

You recieve a sharp kick to the rear end. You are paralysed from the waist down and will never walk again.

I insert a coin.

You recieve a rare blood disease, and through its bizarre effects you can now see the entire electromagnetic spectrum. The information is too much and you are essentially blind in daylight and busy cities, so you seek out darkness in rural areas and live out the rest of your life in a cave, hunting ...

You recieve an honours degree in Bovine Accidentology, but this is quickly revoked after you mis-diagnose a local bull's cause of death and cost the car insurance industry millions after claims based on false science. Shamed and depressed, you retire to a highland cottage and die alone and unloved. ...

Vader wrote:And yes, lots of people accept. They get to play computer games for money

But didn't you say overtime with no pay?

Your face fills with glee as the mysterious object tumbles towards the collection point at the bottom of the machine. You reach down and pick it up, revealing a... minature, but perfect replica, of the vending machine.

No refunds, to your abject disappointment.



I insert a coin.

OldSkoolCrazy wrote:Jesus! That's horrible. Don't they have laws against overtime with no extra pay!?

Even if they did, they can probabaly contract themselves out of it. But I doubt they do: EA is notorious for explotation.

Vader wrote:At my work they are asking people to do double shifts with no extra pay - that's 9:30am - 2am. Oh, and naturally they expect you to be in at 9:30am the next day.

Of course, I declined.

Did anyone, anyone at all, accept?

Vader wrote:Recently we did some focus testing of an undisclosable game from an undisclosable company on an undisclosable platform - exciting, no?!

OMG!!!!

Well now I just can't wait for it to come out!

I am starting to understand the purpose of higher education. I'm currently on US government's payroll, writing some software for scientific 3D visualisation. Compared to what I hear from people about jobs at gas stations, convinience stores, fast food places, etc, this is a lot nicer, work is actua...

No, it's not the prettiest of sites, but I think it's less distracting and easier to read than the last and above all it's simple. Gonna use the same template for a similar site on Caesar IV.

Well, now that it's finally up...

http://www.nanacide.com/worms-unlimited - a hypothetical sequel to the 2D worms series! Packed to the gills with ideas (and there's still more waiting to go up there)

I got a summer job at the local gas station (gotta pay for next years uni rent somehow). It's been alright so far, though the paperwork is stupid. I could have gone back to my newsagents job, but after three years working there while in school, it become mind-rottingly boring. The gas station is oh ...

It's the original. Hmmm... I do have "Corkscrew Follies" (in the UK it was called Added Attractions - but i bought it in America)

Maybe i could try that.

So I tried updating it - the patch recognises my version as being Swedish V1.08.168 and then complains I downloaded the wrong patch version (the english one). Yet I installed it as the UK English version. This has happened before. I'm thinking that something broken and it just installs the wrong shi...

I managed to get it to work by setting it to Win98/ME compatibility, and disabling Visual Themes. It works fine. So far I've tried: 1/ Running both setup.exe and rct.exe under compatbility mode for Windows 95 2/ Running both setup.exe and rct.exe under compatbility mode for Windows 98/ME 3/ Running...