Soul Calibur IV by any chance?? Not played SoulCalibur since the first one on Dreamcast, used to love that.
Exactly that. I had 1 & 2 and loved them. I've just got my DC out to have a few games of the classics.
Maybe a woman is what you need fella (reading back through your thread), or am I stating the obvious
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I tried getting a woman once. Not again. Too many people died.
Depression is scarily common when you look into it as you no doubt know. My best friend, who is one of the best, and funniest blokes you'lll ever meet, has basically broken recently. He's had a full on breakdown to use the old vernacular. And it's ultimately been caused by a woman, so maybe my first suggestion isn't the best come to think of it
Yer it took me a long time to realise I even had it. "Nah I can't be depressed. I have nothing to be sad about, and I'm not sad." Its a lot more than just feeling down one day because your Daddy didn't buy you that pony
I'll tell you what you need.
You need Battlefield Bad Company.
There is nothing more satisfying than blowing a whole in the side of a building, running through, blowing another whole, jumping out, rather than going through the door and/or the side alley
I used to put Q3 on, frag limit to 100 and load up some bots on dm6. Its a great way of venting. Mindless killing ftw.
Hey Pete, I've just sat and read this from end to end (I like doing that with the 365's) and this is brilliant. I can see the point where you are teetering about telling us of your depression and I can see the angst it causes you. I can see folks reaction to that too.
Thanks
I've decided that I'm not going to go into depth on some things, and that I'll keep any 3rd parties anonymous because while I might be ok with things I understand that not everyone is.
Some of the most brilliant and artistic and funny people throughout time have suffered from depression. Peter Sellers famously so. Stephen Fry did a brilliant documentary about bipolar disorder last year.
I saw that and its one of the things that made me wake up. I saw the interview with Robbie and I was like "Huh, thats me. But I'm prettier." The way he said he can go on stage and perform in front of thousands and 5 minutes later just want to curl up in bed.
"I was sad that my career went upwards and my self-esteem went downwards," Robbie told the BBC programme.
I realised the same thing earlier this year. This has been my biggest year ever with so many great things and yet I don't truely feel it. But then of course, and like Robbie, the other side to me appears to be an egotisitical cock as I'm sure many people here would agree
Thank you for sharing it with us. I feel truly humbled by some of you!
Thank you for making it seem worthwhile
But maybe that's the problem - all the attention is focused on the city centre. There's all this great effort to market Liverpool as a cultural city and invest money, but all we see is colourful news articles raving about the latest event/festival/concert at the Echo arena/etc.
Well thats true but it would be silly to build the arena in say Childwall. Its a city centre and as such it will attract more things than other places.
I think there's far more culture in the suburbs. Like when you go into a small independent local shop, a newsagent or something, and there's a bit of banter with the shopkeeper, etc - to me, that's the real culture. It's the people on the street, the stuff that was there last year and will be next year.
And there in lies the problem. Is that culture or culture? Thats just life in Liverpool though. The culture year is a celebration of art and music, not specifically the shop keepers in random town. But personally I still disagree with what this guy said. I live 30 mins away from the city centre. I have to travel in nearly every day and I have seen many events that are for the people of Liverpool. There's one tomorrow, two on Saturday and I think another on Sunday. I saw one in Southport last weekend and there was also one in St Helens too. There are events in Garston, Edge Hill train station and all sorts. I think the book we're doing will show that its not just the city centre and that it has been for all people.
Perhaps it's why I see little significance in the whole Capital of Culture thing (aside from the fact that the signs everywhere are misleading, proclaiming Liverpool as the sole Capital of Culture 2008, which as we know is not the case).
Not seen signs that explicitly say that.
CoC just seems so manufactured to me. It's a big marketing exercise. I think that for every culture-related photo opportunity in the town centre, there are a thousand in nameless streets of every day people doing every day things - people and things that perhaps define culture at a grassroots level.
If they would let me know then I would document them but its just a huge thing to do. 6 of us are trying to document Merseyside and we just don't hear about all the little things which is a shame. If we do we will be there to document them.
www.3662008.co.uk.