Tale

Then tell me about Austrian preferences. I want to learn!

All three! Why not? What's your preference in each? Being an uncivilized brute that is an American, I must confess to ignorance of the distinction.

I am a Texan and I have never heard or seen this beer before.

I would like to engage in a cultural exchange topic on something that is probably near and dear to the livers of a few people around here. Beer. I'm not a regular drinker of it, myself, but I do pick up a 12 pack of bottles every few months. I'm a fan of Shiner, especially their Hefeweizen. I recently broke from this to pick up a pack of Newcastle Brown Ale. I did some brief researching, found that it is the US's most popular imported beer. But I'd really like to know what is England's most popular beer for the English. Among the draught and bottled, especially. Looking to see what I can get a hold of that the English prefer.

Old thread Knock knock jokes are still hip with the kids these days, right?

New thread time!

I'd been looking at the game for a while. Kind of tired of strategy RPGs. The genre seems to be bigger than actual RPGs at this point, though not as popular. Anyway, I had a moment of weakness... $4.50? How can it go wrong?

Generally it's a small development team not financed by a publisher. Though it's kind of taken on a pseudo-genre appearance. If Activision made a short $5 game with 8-bit graphics, I'm sure people would call it indie as well, even when it's not.

I think I will play some Drakensang: River of Time. But I'm going to do something special and play it with a British accent.

Wanted to post a recommendation of Spacechem. Intellectually challenging to a significant degree. Part of this is due to a bad tutorial, but a lot of it is due to it being a very complicated puzzle game. It's great if you want hard puzzles.

Let's just get back to discussing Dungeon Siege 3. No need to discuss each other.

I didn't see those events, either. That sounds like it would explain the pacing issue I sensed around there. The swamp seemed to be rather short compared to the other zones. Doubly so with all the content at Raven's Rill, the zone prior.

That makes me think it was some error in the installation process. Not a problem with the game files, but a problem with something that gets installed elsewhere. Just uneducated speculation on my part.

GoG version of Divine Divinity is borked due to a blunder from Larian. From one of their status updates: :'( But... but... that's the version I have!

Pidesco asked similarly about a week ago. http://forums.obsidian.net/index.php?showtopic=58127 No word in that thread about any separate official release. Not a criticism of the thread, just saying you're not alone. Sadly, I'm usually not very sensitive to music except in rare situations, so I missed the hubub. I'll have to pay more attention next playthrough.

Is CoP? That's often considered the best of the three.

Spared the Archon. Then the rest of the Archons. Spared Jeyne. Y'know, I think it'd be easiest to just say I spared everyone. I'm a goody goody. I may have burned some soldiers that were asking for it, though. So, that last minute decision with Marten. If you take him with you he dies, right? I wasn't falling for that old trick, again!

Muffins vs. bread. Tough call.

Origin does release date checks and counts concurrent installs. It is indeed DRM. It just isn't always online DRM, since you can run (at least some) games without it active.

Thanks for reminding me I have Divine Divinity. I was thinking about jumping into Divinity 2 this weekend, but recently decided to beat 1 first. Dag nabbit, I think I need to get my spreadsheet out again.

I've never agreed with this idea. It always seems to be confusing academic grading systems with reviews. Your usage of "graded" seems to imply the same. And that you can seek a formula and milk it for 10s. It's a far more subjective matter than that. Individual elements can't be specifically quantified and properly attributed.

I really like what 4E has. This may largely have to do with it being the only system I have books for. I'd be playing it now if my groups didn't fall apart for unrelated reasons. I may be the reason for one of those, but the other two are not my fault!

I received Calculus of Victory on 360 when I beat it. hmm Are you updated? Are you beating it in any weird way? Quitting the game too early after beating?

No. You can max out about 5, as I recall. Will, without question. Pump will, drop Geometry, watch everything fall dead.

Entropy Reinhart destroyed this fight. Dropping a Geometry on a pod would kill everything that came out of it, the pod itself, then the pod next to it.