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Tourism has been hit quite hard this summer. With capital control people are a bit worried about comming to Greece it seems. The UK going out an saying that they have emergency rescue plans to evacuate their citizens should they find themselves without access to money didn't help. Though honestly, how sick is that? At the same time as the massacre in Tunisia, they talk about financial evacuation plans? *sigh* Mostly it means though that the last minute bookings for July/August were lost and September is extremly slow going compared to last year. People who planned their holliday months ahead kept their plans mostly it seems. But with capital controls it also means that restaurants etc can't pay their suppliers, so especially on islands they need to reduce their opening time to stretch supplies. We'll see how that will affect people's impression. But with other mediteranean destinations either dangerous or being Turkey (with their bombing of the kurds), Greece will recover despite being run by Greeks And no I don't think you have shared that story.

Got an email from a french lady inquiring about a room. Does it have air conditioning. What are the windows like (I wonder what dungeons people have ended up staying in for them to worry about windows). But most importantly she had heard the neighbourhood was loud. I replied to her that especially on Fridays the area is really loud. That Saturdays and Sundays can be very lively as well. But that as the architect I did everything I could to mitigate the noise, and that from what I have been told so far, people have been sleeping very well. Got a reply back that she'd like to confirm the booking because she likes the photos and because she appreciates the honest reply. Score one for honesty

Mod includes the alternate music mod? IUf there is no option to use the mod without it I'll pass. I don't like other people deciding for me on these little things.

I remember Dragon Age had a nude mod that really improved the skin textures of characters while they were dressed. When Return to Ostagar came out and you found the naked remains of the prince, that made for an interesting scene for anyone who had completly forgotten what a nude mod does

Best of luck. Alcoholism in the family is tough for everyone.

So they showed up and they like the place. But of course nothing can be simple. They were at a different Hotel when they called me. Their luggage hadn't arrived on their flight from Crete. The hotel had a name that promised a certain view. The name suggested they'd be lounging at the beach. The Hotel wasn't in view of the promised view. The area around the hotel had nothing to do. So they were sitting in a hotel that didn't provide them what had been promised, without their luggage or anything to do, only to find out that the wifi was spotty as well. Which explains why they called me after 1AM But yesterday their luggage had still not arrived. So they felt bad about leaving the Hotel when their luggage would be delivered there. They ended up comming to me today, for 4 nights instead of the 5. Their luggage is still missing

I would say because both are terms that describe a broad field. Sport is well, sport. It isn't a plural of disciplines. You have football and track. Both are a discipline or kind of sport, but you don't have two sports, you have two disciplines. Maths is just short for mathematics. Mathematics includes many different fields such as algebra and trigonometry, but you don't have one mathematic and another mathematic equals two mathematics.

Finally open for business and I hit right the beginning of capital control in Greece. All bookings I had got cancelled. So invited a couple of friends over today for pizza and board gaming. We were playing Sentinels Tactics and my raptor bot was chewing up Baron Blade when the phone started ringing in the basement (at 01:10AM). I ran into the house, into the basement and reached the phone just as it forwarded the call to my mobile - which obviously was still lying in the garden next to my raptor bot. So I ran back up, stared at the number and called them back. A lady explained to me that her booking wasn't going through and she'd like to confirm that her party of 9 would have a place to stay the next day. Five nights. Hope they show up. Guess I'll know in eight hours or so.

I had a lot of fun healing in PvP in SWTOR the first few months. And I had a lot of fun healing in Champions Online. Talk about bad players. Party in the instance split up and rushed two different rooms. Had to run from one room to the other and back trying frantically to get enough heals in to keep them alive. Guess who I did not team with again

I never could understand how dpsing works. Or tanking. Healing on the other hand is easy. Look at health bars and make sure they don't go down. Ok, in PvP you should add looking at what is happening to anticipate damage spikes to the todo list. But overall I find healing the easiest. You can ignore most of the bothersome stuff going on and just concentrate on your job. In the end I guess different people have different perception or way to focus and that makes different types of info easier for them to filter.

I don't know. Last time I was around more than a handfull of people was just fine without any issues. But to be honest I hadn't played in ages and haven't kept up with what they claim to have fixed and what not.

With the difficulty scaling and the weapon scaling changes they did move a bit in that direction. But balancing never was their strong point. Not I think anythign ever was Trion's strong point.

Had a good chuckle out of the Defiance writing. Wish the tv show had the game's writers (and some of the characters). I'd say spoiler alert, but chances that anyone will play this are low and it is last year's content Two npcs and yourself are inside a crashed space ship. An AI has its crazy cultists prepping the engine for launch. Which, seeing how that engine is meant to transport the ship from solar system A to solar system O, is not exactly something you want to do while the engine is buried in the ground. (It will rip the area apart apparently) You have reached the systems you need to turn off and are stopped by the high priest. Who you shoot in the face (the player character does the shooting in face thing quite liberally during cut scenes). The AI simply uses nanobots or something to regen the guy. And while the PC thinks "Oh, crap", Karl, one of the npcs turns to the other and says "Quick, follow me!" They run. You run after them. Karl seals the bulkhead before you can make it through. Cass, the other npc, is rather irritated. Karl says she should trust him. You do the boss fight, kill the regenerating enemy and abort the launch. Bulkhead opens, the other two walk out and Karl goes "See? I told you I had a a plan." He is my favourite npc ever. Never before have I met a NPC with such flawless logic: I turned the PC into an elite killing machine and have them on my payroll - something goes bad, I'll just get out of the way and let them handle it. Thanks, Karl, it is what makes working for you such a pleasure.

Caught up witht he episodic content in Defiance. Hadn't even finished the season 2 missions (which were kinda meh). Sat down yesterday to do the Season 3 stuff only to find out there wasn't really any story, just instance runs. Meh. Tried a run. Got in with some random player who was absolutely useless, sitting back leeching, then trying to shoot hellbugs with a sniper rifle.

That moment when you catch yourself about to say "Look love, when I first started roaming the internet you weren't even born yet." to a person twice your age, and then think "And in digital age that's even true."

I was a big fan of the original Die Gilde. The sequel had a problem with fonts on my PC so never played it.

Mind you, there are some extremly hard working, helpful and all-around amazing people in the Greek public sector. The problem here is that part of becomming good at one's job (for example architecture) is learning who these people are - which shouldn't take all that long - while none of the governments have ever tried to do just that. And of course neither has the "troika". A blanket verdict of cut whatever does not address the problem. City planning office in Athens maybe they should have fired 3 in 4 for not doing their job. But that 4th one, who always worked for 4 anyway, that person should not get their salary cut. Hell, give them a raise, Double their salary. You'd still be spending 50% less

Direct quote when I was trying to get electricity for my construction site: "Look, since you are young and don't get it: I'd love to sign your permit, but nobody will believe I did it without getting paid off. So since they are going to say it ayway, I might as well take the money, right?" Geez, is it really that bad ? Did this happen to you personally or is this an exaggeration to enforce a point ? I no longer need to exaggerate As I said direct quote from personal experience. Working as an architect and trying to start a business has thrown me into almost every kafkaesque situation people can image. And then some.

Direct quote when I was trying to get electricity for my construction site: "Look, since you are young and don't get it: I'd love to sign your permit, but nobody will believe I did it without getting paid off. So since they are going to say it ayway, I might as well take the money, right?"

Thanks for letting us know! I have it already for quite some time but a few of my friends have it on their wishlist, need to tell them. Humble bundle is cool. Just let them know it's the Weekly Bundle, not the normal Humble https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly

And now Lords of Xulima is in the humble bundle

Holy Emperor on Terra! Shadow of the Horned Rat Chaos Gate Final Liberation finally made it onto GOG.

I want to see that analogy used to describe the season pass

Would have been much more 1337 if it had also been 1337 of this thread

I heard Satellite Reign was buggy as hell when they hit Early Access. Did it improve since then? I didn't really follow. I didn't have time to play then. It still has some bugs. For me the problem mostly is the pathfinding mesing up every now and then. But they are churning out small patches like there is no tomorrow, with a nightly test build for anyone interested. I'm quite confident that they will have a great product for their release date. It is really enjoyable already.