This is a weekly segment where we share what games we are currently playing for our readers to get to know us a bit better. Said games can range from retro to current and from casual to FPS games. If we’re playing it, we’ll share it. Please feel free to comment with what you’re playing or your opinions on the games that we’re involved with.
William: Finished Mass Effect 2. Played more League of Legends. Now that ME is out of the way, I’m going to get back in to Beyond Good and Evil. I’m also looking in to starting Legend of Dragoon, but Beyond Good and Evil -should- be enough to fill my console time. Also considering getting Gotham City Impostors. Played it at E3 and it was a blast. Apparently it’s out now. Should be fuuuuun.
Greg: I started Mass Effect 2 again on Thursday. Meant only to check my saves and I started a new character. Should be able to beat it by next Tuesday, just did the collector ship mission.
Jen: Played a little bit of Catherine, Bejeweled 3 and SWTOR. The majority of my free time has been with Halo: Combat Evolved. I bought the game last year but I haven’t had a chance to beat it until now. I want to try to finish it before Mass Effect 3 comes out.
John: I’ve been replaying Mass Effect 2 and lovin it. Apart from that taking over all of my free time, I’ve been playing some Mass Effect 2, a little bit of Mass Effect 2, and when I can find the time, I stripmine planets in Mass Effect 2.
Almost everyone and their mom is playing ME2 in preparation for ME3. Are you ready?
Chris: All of the NBA All-Star festivities had me take a few sessions of NBA 2K12. One item of note, the Bobcats are currently as bad in that game as their current record shows (Byombo is not Mutombo…yet). Also, took a few rounds of King of Fighters XIII, that game is the modern standard of fighting games in my opinion, and I still have yet to get tired of it. On the go for my 3DS I’ve been playing Tekken 3D: Prime Edition, a perfect tool for re-familiarizing myself with the Tekken characters, since Street Fighter X Tekken is just around the corner. Really liking Steve & Asuka so far and may try to incorporate them into some of my choices of upcoming tag-teams for the new fighter.
Luis: I beat Dead Island back sometime around it’s launch when it still had the bugs/glitches. Like the game not saving, the online connectivity problems, and the multiply weapons glitch. I recently started playing it and I’m having a better time now that the bugs were fixed. The game is a blast. Online I’ve currently been devoting my time to Battlefield 3. I’m trying to get a platinum trophy for it (one left!) all I need to do is reach level 45 online now. I’ve also gone back to playing Call of Duty: Black Ops. I never bought Modern Warfare 3 because I had a feeling my friends wouldn’t be playing it for long (I was right) we’ve all been playing Black Ops now.
Ben: This last week has been dominated by the demo for the new SSX, which looks to be fantastic and exactly what I want it to be. Other than that, I finished up all the post game content in Ni No Kuni and have continued playing Dues Ex: HR. And unlike everyone else, I won’t be playing through Mass Effect 2 before 3. I did read through an extensive plot summary to get ready though.
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I truly like a guy at operate because September. We would flirt at operate (work in absolutely diverse departments so i do not see him, only at lunch) and we would hang out outdoors of work with the other young people from function (we’re both 26). Then in February, we went out for my birthday and he questioned me to sleep with him (didn’t kiss me, or anything, just questioned me) and I said no. And after that he vowed to show me he respects me, but typically refers to that night time as the rejection of his life. Anyways, we now go hiking, perform jeu together, have lunch every day (he pays most of the time), he takes me to his mother and father residence and for dinners there when every 2 weeks…..basically I feel like we’re platonically dating. He sleeps more than at times much too but he has in no way produced a bodily shift on me….should I move on? He Is extremely attractive, smart and athletic and has informed me he turns to ‘dust’ when he truly genuinely likes a woman and that he turns into shy. If that girl were me, would he tell me that? We go on weekend walk-dates and he normally requires me out for ice cream and crepes. I feel like I Am not dating other men due to the fact I like him so much. Really Should I just shift on? We have been hanging out ALOT because conclude of March especially. His father tells me that he is a puppy about me and that he’s actually shy. What do I do? Other men are asking me out and he’ll usually consult why I don’t date these guys that inquire me out, and I say that I Am just not that into them. And he’ll say, you should date them….even following I inform him I will not like them. What do I do? (I’m operating abroad indefinitely in France, he is French and I Am American).
Please do not use Google Translate, since it is very unreliable. Hey everyone, my drama club created a script. We would like to do a Spanish show, since we live in a heavily populated Mexican area. We need the script translated in Latin American Spanish. The script is very unusual, and it is greatly appreciated to anyone who can translate it. Again, Please do not use Google Translate, since it is very unreliable. Thanks! Here is the script:
Dan: Hello! Today is February 26, 2012. My name is Danny and I am your iTeleDiario anchorman.
Stiff: Hey, my name is Patrick and I am your iTeleDiario weather forecaster.
Andrew: And my name is Ernest Ronaldo. I am a professional ping-pong player.
Dan: On April 4th, a charity will be held to save local worms. If you would like to donate, go to iliketosaveworms.com. Also, on April14 the local sewage treatment plant will hold a fundraiser. They will be selling their famous sewage burgers! Go to the Stewage Treatment Plant Event and get yourself a sewage burger! In international news, a Mexican prison riot killed 44 people in February. Gangs were blamed for the incident. In other news, a Canadian company was suspected of smuggling a Qaddafi into Mexico. The company name has not been released and investigation is still in session. And now to Stiffler for the weather!
Weather Forecast:
Hello friends! I am Patrick Stiffler, and in Stewartstown it is chilly! The temperature for Thursday is a chilly 47 degrees. Temperatures will stay the same throughout the week. In Southern California, it is warm, as you can see. In Miami Florida, you can see temperatures in the 70s, as with in Texas. In Central America, it is very hot! In southern parts of Mexico, temperatures are in the 90s. Mostly all of Mexico has temperatures between 70 degrees and 80 degrees! Yowza! Well, that’s all for the Weather Forecast. My name is Patrick Eugene Stiffler, and this is iTeleDiario news.
Interview:
Dan: Hello, Danny here. Today, Patrick and I are interviewing the historic ping-pong player Ernest Ronaldo. How are you today Ernest?
Andrew: Fine.
Stiff: So Ernest, what are your favorite pastimes?
Andrew: I like to ride my bike.
Dan: Do you like to ride your bike with family?
Andrew: No.
Stiff: Aye!
Dan: So how often do you ride your bike?
Andrew: I don’t ride my bike. I play pong.
Dan: Oh. So how often do you play ping-pong?
Andrew: A lot.
Stiff: Okay, so what are your favorite movies?
Andrew: I like Brokeback Mountain and Borat.
Dan: And where are you from?
Andrew: Mexico City.
Stiff: Do you live in Mexico City currently?
Andrew: Yes.
Dan: You are not very talkative Mr. Ronaldo.
Andrew: No.
Stiff: Anyways, how old are you?
Andrew: 167.
Stiffler and Danny: 167!
Andrew: Yes.
Stiff: Well Mr.Ronaldo, good luck in your next ping-pong tournament on Wednesday.
Andrew: Thank you.
At the Studio
Dan: A crazy day Mr.Stiffler!
Stiff: It sure was Mr.Brewer!
Dan: Well that is the end of our broadcast for today! Catch our next broadcast never!
Stiff: Good bye!
Dan: Bye! See you seen!
Andrew: Bye.
She’s a 38 year old single mom.
Her daughter will be entering middle school this August. I’m 26.
I was her coworker for three years up to last November.
I last saw her this past February and she instantly hugged me this past February.
When I was her coworker, she would call on me a lot to help her even though I worked a different position than her (I worked with her at a big grocery store).
She never once helped me with anything work-wise.
She’s lazy and complains about work (she’s a cashier).
She would often chit chat with customers while I would be helping her bag a customer’s order.
I’d go out of my way to carry her groceries out to her at times even when my shifts ended the same times as her.
She liked knowing that she was one of my favorite coworkers.
I’d tease her at times and flirt with her.
She had no problems with me playing with her hair, letting me put my hands on her hips and touching her lower back.
Sometimes, she would playfully hit me and pinch me.
One time, she looked like she wanted me to kiss her one night when we were by her car.
I didn’t want things to be awkward so I playfully poked her stomach.
I’ve given her valentines two years in a row.
I got her birthday presents and Christmas presents last year.
I gave her and some of my other coworkers that I got along with Halloween candy last Halloween.
She thanked me twice for the candy because she told me she did not have time to take her daughter trick-or-treating.
Since the last time I saw her, I’ve kept in touch with her through text messaging- I usually just send her jokes and flirty messages.
I got her daughter birthday presents despite meeting her daughter only once.
When she had the flu this past March, I told her that I hope she would feel better soon.
Since the last time, I saw her I thought why don’t I just ask her out.
It seemed like she wanted me to make a move when she told me, “I hope you have a girlfriend because the lines you use on me are nice. I was just wondering.”
I asked her out to see a singer who I know she likes and only had her in mind when I got concert tickets.
It’s rare for me to even ask a girl out as I am not the type of guy that approaches random women for their number and to go on a date.
She ended up lying to me that she would get off close to 10 pm the night of the concert.
I told her the concert would start at 8 pm.
She never got off past 8 pm the whole time I worked with her.
She never apologized for not seeing the concert with me nor did she ask me if I went with another woman or if the concert was good.
I ended up not going to the concert and sold the tickets.
I didn’t tell her that I knew she was lying to me. I never got mad at her; I stayed nice to her.
Since asking her out, she was fine with me flirting with her for a while but now she’s blown off answering some of my text messages.
She’s blown off answering some of my text messages but hours later, she’ll go on face book and twitter.
I congratulated her on her daughter graduating from elementary school 2 months ago and she told me, “Thanks.”
I have a feeling that if she threw her daughter a graduation party, she didn’t care to invite me.
I would not have gone as I am not into parties, it is just the thought of being invited.
I sent her two funny text messages 3 weeks ago and in the second to last message, I told her, “happy belated birthday.”
I remembered that her birthday is in June.
She didn’t care to get back to me.
I cared about her but in the end, she didn’t really care about me.
In the times she has replied back to me, she’s never asked me how I am or what I am up to.
She’s never once apologized for blowing off some of my texts.
She never liked it if I ignored her when I worked with her.
I’ve never called her up because she told me she preferred text messaging and would check her cell a lot for text messages when I was her coworker.
She might be single even longer because I know she gets hit on by guys and she thinks her “dream” man is at a gym (shallow huh?).
I’m done messaging her and don’t care to even keep her cell # to use as a personal reference (I deleted her cell number from my cell phone).
I found out from talking to another former coworker at that same job yesterday on the phone that this former coworker of mine talks badly about coworkers online.
She’s a 38 year old single mom. I’m 26.
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I worked with her for 3 years.
I last saw her this past February and she instantly hugged me.
When I was her coworker, she would call on me a lot to help her even though I worked a different position than her (I worked with her at a big grocery store).
She never once helped me with anything work-wise.
She’s lazy and complains about work (she’s a cashier).
She would often chit chat with customers while I would be helping her bag a customer’s order.
I’d go out of my way to carry her groceries out to her at times.
She liked knowing that she was one of my favorite coworkers.
I’d flirt with her, tease her and give her funny nicknames.
She had no problems with me playing with her hair, letting me put my hands on her hips and touching her lower back.
Sometimes, she would playfully hit me and pinch me.
Last November, she looked like she wanted me to kiss her one night when we were by her car.
I didn’t want things to be awkward so I playfully poked her stomach.
I’ve given her valentines two years in a row.
I got her birthday presents and Christmas presents last year.
I gave her and some of my other coworkers that I got along with Halloween candy last Halloween.
She thanked me twice for the candy because she told me she did not have time to take her daughter trick-or-treating.
Since the last time I saw her, I’ve kept in touch with her through text messaging- I usually just send her jokes and flirty messages.
I got her daughter birthday presents despite meeting her daughter only once.
When she had the flu this past March, I told her that I hope she would feel better soon.
I ended up asking her out.
It seemed like she wanted me to finally make a move when she told me, “LOL, I hope you have a girlfriend because the lines you use on me are nice. I was just wondering. I’ve been single a longtime
I asked her out to see a singer who I know she likes and only had her in mind when I got concert tickets.
She ended up lying to me that she would get off close to 10 pm the night of the concert.
I told her the concert would start at 8 pm.
She never got off past 8 pm the whole time I worked with her.
She never apologized for not seeing the concert with me nor did she ask me if I went with another woman or if the concert was good.
I ended up not going to the concert and sold the tickets.
I took a risk asking her out because I know she gets hit on by guys but she’s picky and thinks her “dream” man is at a gym.
It made sense to ask her out at least once since we continued flirting even though I don’t work with her anymore.
I didn’t tell her that I knew she was lying to me. I never got mad at her; I stayed nice to her.
Since asking her out, she was fine with me flirting with her for a while but now she’s blown off answering some of my text messages.
She’s blown off answering some of my text messages but hours later, she’ll go on face book and twitter.
I congratulated her on her daughter graduating from elementary school 2 months ago and she told me, “Thanks.”
I have a feeling that if she threw her daughter a graduation party, she didn’t care to invite me.
I would not have gone as I am not into parties, it is just the thought of being invited.
I sent her two funny text messages 4 weeks ago and in the second to last message, I told her, “happy belated birthday.”
I remembered that her birthday is in June.
She never got back to me.
In the times she has replied back to me, she’s never asked me how I am or what I am up to.
She’s talked about herself in some of her replies to me.
She’s never once apologized for blowing off some of my texts.
She never liked it if I ignored her when I worked with her and would ask me, “Why are you ignoring me for?”
I’ve never called her up because she told me she preferred text messaging and would check her cell a lot for text messages when I worked with her.
I learned from talking to another former female coworker from that same job 2 weeks ago on the phone that this former coworker who I did a lot for, it turns out she talks badly about coworkers online.
I have a feeling she’ll probably act fake to me if I ever visit that job again I worked at with her.
I’m done messaging her and don’t care to even keep her cell # to use as a personal reference (I deleted her cell number from my cell phone).
I really like a guy at work since September. We would flirt at work (work in totally different departments so i don’t see him, only at lunch) and we would hang out outside of work with the other young people from work (we’re both 26). Then in February, we went out for my birthday and he asked me to sleep with him (didn’t kiss me, or anything, just asked me) and I said no. And after that he vowed to show me he respects me, but often refers to that night as the rejection of his life. Anyways, we now go hiking, play sports together, have lunch daily (he pays most of the time), he takes me to his parents house and for dinners there once every 2 weeks…..basically I feel like we’re platonically dating. He sleeps over sometimes too but he has never made a physical move on me….should I move on? He’s very attractive, smart and athletic and has told me he turns to ‘dust’ when he really really likes a girl and that he becomes shy. If that girl were me, would he tell me that? We go on weekend walk-dates and he takes me out for ice cream and crepes. I feel like I’m not dating other guys because I like him so much. Should I just move on? We have been hanging out ALOT since end of March especially. His dad tells me that he’s a puppy around me and that he’s really shy. What do I do? Other guys are asking me out and he’ll always ask why I don’t date these guys that ask me out, and I say that I’m just not that into them. And he’ll say, you should date them….even after I tell him I don’t like them. What do I do? (I’m working abroad indefinitely in France, he’s French and I’m American).
I use to have a friend who I met in 7th grade and became friends with him during 8th grade. Well at near the end of my freshman year, we had a school musical called “Lil Abner”. He said he wanted me to come, I had already told him I was going to spend that night watching the NFL Draft and I told him that I was going to come to the Sunday night show. He said he was playing the lead so I checked the cast list and he wasn’t playing the lead. Make a long story short I watches the NFL Draft, came to the show Sunday and hated it and he got pissed at me. That summer I noticed a change in his behavior where he would always want to do what he called debating about like sports subjects, no matter what I said it was always wrong. He got pissed at me for a comment I made about the NBA Lockout and we did not speak for another 4 weeks. Once school started he invited me over for the Iowa State and Nebraska game because both games started at the same time. Well let’s just say I was treated like shit the whole night, him calling me negative after changing it to the Nebraska game because I Iowa State was down 35-3 at halftime and he said that I shouldn’t of changed it. After that he ignored me the rest of the night. I went home early because I just couldn’t take it anymore. In November I received 2 text messages saying that he was kicking me out of our fantasy football league (he’s the commissioner). 3 weeks later I played him and I beat him fair and square and he I guess in his study hall he changed the score and took 100 of MY points and he cheated to win. He won the league while I didn’t even make the playoffs. In February he forced me into his car so that we could make ammends. In March he sent me very rude text messages. He sent 87 texts in one whole day and 26 over night, I eventually blocked his number, told my dean at school and he has also texted on his brothers phone. He keeps telling me to change my whole personality which is a control freak. What should I do?
Here’s the story so far:
My name’s McKenzie and I’m an 8th grade girl. Sometime around the beginning of November, after getting over a long-time crush on a boy I had liked since 3rd grade, I fell in love again. I don’t know if it matters, but his name was Payton, and even though I barely knew him, I wanted more than anything for him to like me.
I had seen him around once or twice, once at a summer pool party for my youth group, and he went trick-or-treating with me and my group of friends on Halloween, and at one point I was friends with his cousin Taylor, but other than that, we never really associated. He was in my 1st, 2nd, and 5th period classes, so occasionally, to hint him in on the fact that I liked him, I would look over at him and hold his gaze for a few seconds before looking away. Whenever he passed by, I would look up at him, and sometimes I would smile and say hi. But that was really it.
So one night, I got his phone number and we started texting. We talked about everything–school, family issues, our problems, friends, what we liked to do–even love a couple of times. But after I found out he was dating one of my friends, I decided to give up on my “chance” with him.
But the end of December came around, and they broke up. We talked a lot more often, and we both became more important to each other. We sometimes sat at the same lunch table, or talked about our homework–but mainly, our friendship only existed through cell phones and Facebook. He told me that he would give me a chance once wrestling season was over because he didn’t want a girlfriend to effect his performance in the competition, so I held on to that promise through January and February, hoping that one day he would wake up and see me as something more precious than just a friend.
On my birthday, February 26th, my friend Tessa convinced him to hug me, and he did. That was the day we started dating. The next time we talked was on the Tuesday following my birthday–March 2nd–and he called me and told me he wanted to be my boyfriend and that he really loved me. And I believed him. For the next week, we sat right next to each other at lunch; talked to each other and smiled at each other in every class; and he hugged me every day after school.
On Monday, March 8th, we went to the movies with each other and a group of friends as well as his little brother. He put his arm around me the entire time and I put my head on his shoulder. He said he wanted to kiss me, but not with everyone there, and he asked me out again–he said he wanted to take me to a grove near his house on the following Monday, and I accepted. He hugged me goodbye and we texted the rest of that night.
For the next two days, he seemed sort of distant and preoccupied, like he started to lose affection for me, but he assured me that it was nothing. But on Wednesday the 10th, I didn’t see him at lunch. I looked around the entire time, too nervous to eat, but he wasn’t there. I got the sudden feeling that something was wrong, or something was about to change, and I reached for my phone. I found his text at about 12:00 that read “this has been fun, i have had good times, but i am going to have to let you go. maybe someday i’ll come back for you…but until then stay strong…” and I knew he wasn’t going to come back.
Turns out, in his group of friends, there was one boy named Ryan who had a really close friend named Tristan (a girl) who liked Payton, and Ryan told him so. To not hurt her feelings, and not to cheat on me, he dumped me instead. I cried during school, and so many people tried to bring us back together, but he snapped, screaming to anyone who tried to talk about us “Stop talking about it, go away, I never liked her, I just played her for a week because I didn’t want to hurt her feelings, leave me alone!”
I thought he loved me: he texted me every night that he loved me and always smiled when he was around me. But he’s moved on, and I’m still stuck on him. (Did I forget to mention that he was my first boyfriend?)
He said wrestling season ends in April, and he said he wanted to ask me out the day it ended–the day he dumped me, I asked him if he would ever consider asking me out again, and he said “Maybe. You never know. Well, bye.” and stopped talking to me.
If there’s anyone that can
a) help me get over him/through this,
b) figure out what these signs mean,
c) tell me if he meant anything he said, or
d) give me advice about this,
I really need your help.
I’m sad, and confused, and heartbroken. Please comment if you can. Thanks for reading.
We moved about 8 weeks ago and it was to a different state and we couldn’t exactly afford it at the time and now we are in a really bad spot financially. I’m due with our second in February. And right now, I’m not doing very well with our 19 month old and I feel like the worst parent I could be. Maybe you could help… cuz I don’t know anyone who can.
1. I have my own car, but there is no way for us to get it back to me from texas without me driving alone with my toddler for 8-9 hours straight (with stops of course) and I suck with navigation. My husband has tried several times to have a vehicle brought to me by a co worker, tried to get a ride back to the state, etc etc and his truck is too small to tow it and a plane ticket costs too much. Without my car we rely on my mom, who really hates to have to help us.
2. Our finances are screwed since the move. We’ve had to get 2 cash advances, neither of which we’re able to pay back, we go into overdraft with our back almost 500 every paycheck… and this is just paying what *has* to be paid, gas and food. He is working over time a lot and still works 8 hours away every other week, for example we will be getting nearly 100 hours on this paycheck, which will barely keep our necks above water and I’m so stressed about it.
3. My stress takes a huge toll on my emotions which in turn effects how I raise, handle and treat my daughter. I feel so bad because sometimes I just snap. Not like a crazy overboard psycho that needs to have their kid taken away but to where I lose my patience entirely and I’m not calm about anything or I have a breakdown infront of her and it really takes its toll on the both of us. We’re house bidden most of the time and outside she gets into so much trouble, plus it’s really cold right now and has been rainy so she can’t go out much. No I have no friends or really any other family that can take us anywhere. She never seems happy with me or around me. I don’t know what to do to change any of this. When I try to do anything different with her like a craft or something she only wants what she cant have. She eats crayons, marker tips and colored pencils… mostly we just watch cartoons and play with her toys. I know she watches way too much tv but there is nothing else to do
4. I was okay until about 4-5 weeks ago when we had to wean and she had an immediate milk allergy and the first diaper rash outbreak literally just broke me in half because she was in so much pain and we’ve been battling it trying to find the right milk and something is still wrong and we can’t figure out what. She is definitely sensitive and possibly allergic to cow, goat, and soy and almond milk I think is giving her a light rash or maybe its just her diaper and we need to potty train. Either way for the past 5ish weeks I’ve been under constant stress that just keeps getting worse and worse and I don’t see a light at the end of the tunnel. Plus I’ve been sick for the past 2 weeks and I’m just at my wits end. Husband doesn’t get home for another 6 days and I am relying on my mom for everything… once again.
I feel like I need a job but I would need my car. And then on top of that, who would hire a 26 week pregnant lady? And then Lilly would have to go into daycare and… that is something I would die if I had to do especially since we only have 3 months left alone together. I never expected any of this to happen. I just need a car and more money or some dam antidepressants but I can’t even afford those! And we make way too much to qualify for any government help at all, even just temporary. I need counseling or something and I think Lilly does too even though she is young but once again we can’t afford it. I just really need some help or something I have no idea how to handle any of this…
I really like a guy at work since September. We would flirt at work (work in totally different departments so i don’t see him, only at lunch) and we would hang out outside of work with the other young people from work (we’re both 26). Then in February, we went out for my birthday and he asked me to sleep with him (didn’t kiss me, or anything, just asked me) and I said no. And after that he vowed to show me he respects me, but often refers to that night as the rejection of his life. Anyways, we now go hiking, play sports together, have lunch daily (he pays most of the time), he takes me to his parents house and for dinners there once every 2 weeks…..basically I feel like we’re platonically dating. He sleeps over sometimes too but he has never made a physical move on me….should I move on? He’s very attractive, smart and athletic and has told me he turns to ‘dust’ when he really really likes a girl and that he becomes shy. If that girl were me, would he tell me that? We go on weekend walk-dates and he takes me out for ice cream and crepes. I feel like I’m not dating other guys because I like him so much. Should I just move on? We have been hanging out ALOT since end of March especially. His dad tells me that he’s a puppy around me and that he’s really shy. What do I do? Other guys are asking me out and he’ll always ask why I don’t date these guys that ask me out, and I say that I’m just not that into them. And he’ll say, you should date them….even after I tell him I don’t like them. What do I do? (I’m working abroad indefinitely in France, he’s French and I’m American).