melkathi

For a good curry go to Bradford or Birmingham - places with a large asian "minority" If it is your first time in London, the "obvious" places aren't a bad choice. How long are you staying? When you say architecture, can you be more specific?

I was watching Cry Freedom the other day. Quite happy that a journalist fled the country to stand up to his government then.

Yeah, I have heard from people that its a great game, but those are the same people who call certain other games great... so... Also, I'm not into the hole eastern setting.

Well, Jade Empire Special Edition just appeared when I went to GoG. I may actually get around to playing it now

I read that at least the german translations are great compared to the english one?

Melk remember you aren't allowed to play DA3, I'm sure you recall the discussion we had a while ago where you said you never would play another DA game again I was wondering whether you'd remember Don't worry. I won't play it

Don't believe any game will ever be "the ultimate" whatever the genre. that said, I have more faith in the CD Project bettering themselves than I have in bioware breaking out of the rut they have been in.

It was worth it for me for Jaime actually. I like how he is evolving. And then there is the scene with Slynt And my favourid quote:

*cough*guantanamo*cough* https://www.change.org/petitions/president-obama-close-detention-facility-at-guantanamo-bay-2

Nothing much. Finished Expeditions: Conquistador the other day. Now that I finished it the patch was released Trying to play Remember Me. Always nd up playign soemthing else though. Guess that says a lot about the game... So I finished Go Home Dinosaurs! On my second playthrough of SR3. Trying out Evoland and Reus.

Honestly? the private person has about the same right to do that as some government twerp on the other side of the globe ina country, on a continent I never visited, has to snoop through my private life

There is not much "epic" about the Illiad? ... If you are going to use a bastardisation of the word "epic" as used, for example, by the online gaming culture, then please do put in the disclaimer. Αμόρφωτοι άνθρωποι... θα μας πούνε και τι είναι έπος και τί δεν είναι. Άι σιχτίρ

Well, we all are hoping that Feast is the low point. But Dance isn't that much better.

With a Feast for Crows you have to make a decission. Are you still intereste in reading the following books? Then force yourself through it. Are you happy saying "It was a fun right up until here but thats it" then stop. A Dance with Dragons has Daenarys and Tyrion, but both go into a waiting loop while GRRM messes about with characters noone cares about.

I'd be interested in hearing them

This is without a doubt the worst thing I've ever seen parading around as a protip. Then I envy you

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Now all we have to look forward to is Dany lying on the bed of a hotel, ventilator keeping the heat out, its sound reminiscant of dragons soaring over battlefields and her pondering: "Mereen... ****; I'm still only in Mereen... Every time I think I'm gonna wake up back in the Dothraki Sea. When I was home after my first conquest, it was worse. [grabs at flying insect] I'd wake up and there'd be nothing. I hardly said a word to my brother, until I said "yes" to his execution by coronation. When I was here, I wanted to be there; when I was there, all I could think of was getting back to the Seven Kingdoms. I'm here a week now... waiting for a dragon... getting softer. Every minute I stay in this room, I get weaker, and every minute the Lannisters squat on the Iron Throne, they get stronger. Each time I looked around the walls moved in a little tighter."

I have been hunting this bee. Since yesterday. It somehow keeps comming inside the house, even though I checked and there doesn't seem to be a hole in the insect screens in the windows or I even close the windows. I am an architect, so it's not as if I had no clue about windows and couldn't think of a thousand points where an insect could crawl into a house. Yesterday I kicked out this bee four times. Today when I woke up and opened the curtains, it was sitting on the outside of the window pane, between window and insect screen. When I went out for a coffee with a friend, as I returned and made to unlock the door, the bee came aflying and landed on my shoe expectantly. It just came back in and pretty casually let me throw it out again. I write this as I wait for the bee to return.

I've decided to just go and re-read Ash: A Secret History. I'll get my dirty, bloody, medival violence there.

Someone posted this on another forum

Congrtulations on the new job, Bokishi!

I paid attention and found the bulk of it uninteresting. The story was initially interesting but then the whole initial hook gets sidelined by mountains of irrelevant side quests and the story veers so far off course from the original setup that finishing the game was more of a chore than anything else. Yeah, I can see that. I felt the story started well and there were interesting things going in the first part with the house of Ballads and the summer court, the widdow and the maid. The last part in the lands of the Winter Court started tying back into that, but by that time you had waded through so much of stuff inbetween that the coherence was lost. Add to that, that there weren't really any interesting npcs in the main story.

Played a bit more of Remember Me, but don't see myself finishing it as fast as Raithe. The gameplay is just not good enough for me to be able to stomach it without looong breaks. The art is great. The world design and story could be great if the game wasn't so extremly linear that it prevents you from beginning to enjoy the world. The combat I found terrible. It's more like a series of QTEs dressed up as action combat: "time your attacks right for the combo" and true QTEs in at least one boss fight so far. Setting up the combos is rather disappointing as well. A three hit combo has to be three punches. The punch you intitialize it with and two of your special punch attacks. By putting a punch into one of the 3 hit combo slots, it can't be used in any other slot of any combo. The 5 hit combo (which is kick-punch-kick-punch-kick) will not be able to use either of those punches but also non of the attacks used in it will be useable for the 3 or 8 hit combos. The altering of memories, as Raithe already mentioned, is rather disappointing. They made it sound like a major part of the game, but it only is very specific situations. Game had a lot of potential, didn't really come close to reaching it. I'd say 6/10

Meh, couldn't find the scene from Coupling about picturing people naked at job interviews.