RomeroGoon

I'm (literally) only half as awesome as you, having finally broke my 13.1 duck two weeks ago.

It has been on my back for nearly two years - competed in a few 10mile events, tried to push on to half-mara distance on training runs etc - but always fell short.

I hit my target at something daft like 3am in -2degree temperatures on a training run. The last tenth of a mile after the every-half-mile pace update at 13mi was pretty special, but after that... nothing.

No sudden burst of joy, no sudden moment of clarity when life suddenly made sense, no drive to better myself, no realisation that years of gradually increasing my distance by babysteps has culminated in this.

As such, I didn't do any training for a fortnight - I didn't see the point in doing it. Instead, I was away on a course, ate shite, and put on 5kg. It's only because I fear slipping back into what I once was that I jumped on the static cycle for 20k yesterday and did a bleep test today to jumpstart some sort of maintenence programme.

Well done on your runs though. I suppose it's true what they say - it's about the journey, not the destination.

Backer here, super stoked for the game.

1. What's the plans for the soundtrack? Any plans to licence some Type O-Negative and recreate some of the awesome industrial techno from the first two games?

2. Any news on Guide-Bot?

3. Will the X1 edition be hitting Game Preview?

Cheers guys and girls, good luck!

I've worked within various UK local and national authority departments. I do a lot of travel, and have learned the expenses system inside and out. It's quite restrictive, but also very fair - one of the core principles is that civil servants shouldn't be out of pocket for working away from home, but woe betide you if you try and profit from it. Fair enough in my opinion.

Evenings meals used to be pretty chill. There was no predefined limit, basically so long as it was "reasonable". It's a real woolly term, and most managers or authorisers would ask themselves "are they taking the piss?" as the test when auditing a claim.

There were nights when i'd really fancy something nice, and enjoy a 33 pound steak dinner. The following night, i'd might enjoy a simple 6 quid veg lasagne. The night after that, maybe a 12 quid fish and chips. I'd choose whatever I fancied, again so long as I didn't take the piss.

A few years back, one of the departments introduced a hard ceiling of 21 quid for an evening meal - the only deviations allowed being if you're in a stupidly expensive area (Central London is a classic) or if you're in the middle of buttfuck nowhere and the hotel restaurant prices reflect the fact that you've got fuck all choice elsewhere. This new limit is enforced pretty harshly - even "common sense" requests for exceptions for bills coming to 21 pounds and two measly pence would be bounced back.

Thing is, it went from "we'll have what we fancy as long as we're not pulling the job's plonker" to "fuck this, we're getting our 21 quid's worth" overnight. A week of evening meals that might sum to 65 quid normally suddenly turned into over 100 notes. If you were part of a team, there was often the 21 Pound Challenge, where anyone who had "achieved" a reciept for 21.00 on-the-dot bought a round for everyone, just as a two fingers to the organisation.

It was lunacy. A limit designed to save money ended up costing the department more money, purely because the HR dept didn't trust their staff, and in return the staff kicked the arse out of the rules to within pennies of the limits and proved the opposite effect.

Across the public sector, staff generally don't rinse the expenses, play the game as they should, and are chuffed to bits when the arseholes that do rinse them finally get themselves getting a rocket for overclaiming or fraudulently claiming. The wankpuffins ruined it for everyone.

Cheers all. Best of luck to you with the Kickstarter.

You'll love this, well worth your half hour.