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What's wrong with Gen-Gen? 

Here's an idea.

How about a 'Recrut a Team' button somewhere in the main site... even if it just links to the Forum Thread of the same name.  It might encourage new users to ask for help rather than thinking hey have to tackle such a project on their own.  And also it would cut down on people posting all over gen-gen and other boards asking for help because they havent seen the 'RaT' thread.

Yeh, bravo Google. You can't say fairer than that.

What's the plan? 

Yay, I can't wait to hear all about it!

Your wish is their command DazJ,
http://www.lucasarts.com/company/vip/catalog/lec_backcatalog_2009.pdf

• Armed and Dangerousâ,,¢
• Indiana Jones® and the Fate of Atlantis
• Indiana Jones® and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure
• LEGO® Indiana Jones: The Original Adventure
• LOOMâ,,¢
• Star Wars Battlefront® II
• Star Wars Republic Commando®
• Star Wars Starfighterâ,,¢
• The Dig®
• Thrillville®: Off the Railsâ,,¢

(not exactly new titles, but still...)

Ahh, cheers guys. I'll take that all on board.

My current download has had a sudden spurt of pace and is now nearly finished.  It has taken nearly 16hrs to download 1.36GB :-(

My mate can download whole movies in seconds... not quite sure how he does it, but he's the kind of guy who has the toppest-end computer and then forks out £3000 worth of updates for it to make it even more topper-end.

I guess I just wasn't destined to join the 21st Century quite yet :-(

Trihan: You always use a comma before "which".

I don't know(,) which plonker told you that.  Perhaps he needs some new books with(,) which to learn English.

Damn, I somehow missed yor post Flibble.  Wish I'd seen that earlier.

I am indeed behind a router.  How does one go about forwarding ports?

It's ridiculous, my download has been going for  14hrs so far and I'm only 3/4 of the way through :-(
The number of seeders has fluctuated a bit, but remains roughly the same.

This looks pretty interesting. I'll be keeping an eye on this.

In this case, you actually were on your way to the shops,

If what you're saying is true then surely you mean:

"In this case, you actually was on your way to the shops"

because it's a true statement.  But that sounds wrong to me.

Equally, you wouldn't say "you was late for the party", even if the subject was late.

Surely, it all depends on the pronoun... 'I/he/she was late' and 'you/they/we' were late.

Maybe the system you describe was used once upon a time, but equally nobody says 'thee, thine, thou' or 'thither, hither, whither' any more in real conversation.

It seems to have picked up speed.  It's on 3.5% now with an ETA of about 17 hrs... number of seeders is about the same, so it must have just been having a slow start.  Still think it should be fater though...

How long should it take to download, say, 1GB worth of torrents?
I'm guessing it depends on the number of seeders and whatnot.  But how long would most of you expet to wait for a file that big... my ETA is looking like 6days... and theres roughly 15 seeders. Is that normal, or have I just got a really slow connection?

Are there any tricks to getting things faster?

[, and rocks.]

I've always written lists like this...

         

• I need: Milk, flour, eggs, sugar, and rocks. (For a rock cake )

But recently I was told there should be no comma before the and. Ever. Is this right? And would it be grammatically correct to write it like this, without an and?

         

• I need: Milk, flour, eggs, sugar, rocks.
  
  Thanks. I like the thread title change by the way.
  

I think the use of the colon means that you can leave 'and' out.  You have decided to write your list horizontally, but if you were to write it veritacally it would look like this:

I need:
*milk
*flour
*eggs
*sugar
*rocks

(you wouldn't use 'and' in this list, so I suppose you wouldn't use it in the horizontal list either - although the vertical list also means you don't need commas or full-stops)

However, if you were to write the list without the colon, especially in a piece of written prose, then you should always use 'and'.

e. g. "I went to the shop and bought milk, flour, eggs, sugar and rocks."
(note there is no comma after 'sugar').[/list]

Ahh fair play.  After a bit of looking about I think I'll have to put my hands up and make a u-turn.  It seems that 'didn't use to' is accepted.  But it also seems we're not the first ones to discuss this and it is a source of much confusion. And that is because 'didn't use(d) to', with or without a 'd' is slightly anachronistic and just horrible to say and there are plenty more elgent ways to make the same point.

Congrats on the 9/10!
That's brilliant news.

I still haven't finished the game, but I'm really enjoying it and the puzzles are very clever and very funny.  It's well worth the money, which is a token gesture really... you could've got away with charging several times more than that, to be fair.

According to OED:

21. With to and inf.: To be accustomed or wont to do something.
  In very frequent use from c 1400, but now only in pa. tense used to, [...], and colloq. in did (not) use (or used) to: see also USEN'T, USETER; used to could: see CAN v.1 A. 7.

So, these days there is always a 'd', even when it's negative.

I like usen't ('used not').

"I used to date your mum, but I usen't to brag about it."

Shit! That's not good publicity... JustAdventure think you are trying to scam their members!
Just PM them with a link to this thread.
Why not set up a Blogspot page for the event too.  That way people can get constant RSS updates if they want.

[never]

There are two contexts where you never say "use to" - you  only use "used to":

1. (as we have been discussing) If you used to do or be something.
e.g. "I used to work on a farm", "I used to be good at swimming".

2. If you are accustomed to something or it happens often.
e.g. "I am used to being called a moron", "I am used to finding blood in my stools"

But, as for example 1... if you make that a negative it is just better form to say "I've never worked on a farm" or "I was never any good at swimming", rather than "didn't used to..."

Normally you should think "I didn't use to" was the right way to put it.

Yup, that's the correct way. "Didn't used to" is wrong.

"didn't use to" is not correct at all... in this context you always use "used".  There is always a 'd' at the end, even it doesn't sound like it's there when you say it aloud.

However, in the original sentence you should omit the second used of "used to" altogether:

"I used to date your mum, but I didn't brag about it." is much better form.

Using "used to" with something you didn't do always sounds a bit wrong (especially if you've already used it to describe something you did do, in the same sentence).

It's probably better to say "I never bragged about it" and "I wasn't captain of the foozeball team" rather than "I didn't used to..."