00:37 <Pinkbeast> Argh I am using Sarah's Windows 10 machine and every time I open the Start menu it's got a thingy marked News with Theresa May's face looking at me

01:52 <Iskierka> install classic start menu

02:03 <Pinkbeast> I'm not really authorised to tamper with it beyond what is absolutely necessary. I'll try to persuade her not looking at May is absolutely necessary, especially since it might be Twitler next time

02:46 <UmbralRaptor> A brief comment on football being boring: https://twitter.com/WillBrinson/status/929896816182743043

02:46 <kmath> <WillBrinson> Brock Osweiler just assassinated a man with a football. https://t.co/7KQlnoFtIn

11:42 <Iskierka> https://i.imgur.com/YiWsV0Z.jpg

18:53 <Pinkbeast> Nooo, "free" WiFi, you don't want my cellphone number to text me a confirmation code. You want it to spam me from here to Kingdom Come. Do I look stupid? # if you are familiar with my fizzog IRL don't answer that

20:58 <Pinkbeast> Truly we have reached mainstream, there is a lass in the pub proclaiming how someone she knows is into "weird nerdy shit", where she just plays D&D

21:02 <UmbralRaptor> As long as he's playing something like GURPS or WoD, and not FATAL…

21:02 <Pinkbeast> Ha!

21:03 <Pinkbeast> No-one _plays_ FATAL, we just read it and vomit up our skulls. It's actually a piece of subtle commentary on gaming like Violence

21:04 <Pinkbeast> ... but haven't you played Violence, David? Errr yes

21:04 <Pinkbeast> If you have never played a roleplaying game before.\n Brother, this is not the place to start

21:06 <UmbralRaptor> Violence was that one written by Greg Costykan circa 2002, right?

21:06 <Pinkbeast> Designer X, yes

21:07 <Pinkbeast> One of Hogshead's New Style games, all of which were brilliant - I particularly recommend Munchausen, which has been back in print a few times

21:07 <Pinkbeast> And all of which were calculated to perplex people who worry over whether Game X is properly a roleplaying game

21:08 <Pinkbeast> I was sorry that Hogshead ended before Wallis got out Cop Show / Get Your Trousers On, You're Nicked

21:12 <Pinkbeast> The mechanic was working in as many cliches as you could, like driving through a pile of boxes or "I know he's been here, love, I can smell his aftershave"