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Ok sorry, but is driving me insane. The difference between "a" and "an" If the following word starts with a consonant, you use "a". The N in "an" is only added because of phonetical reasons when the next word starts with a vowel or, very rarely, a silent H. So it is "a pokemon" not "an pokemon" It is "a beta" but "an early beta" and in turn "a very early beta". When unsure, you have to speak the words out loud. Is the first sound following the article "a" a consonant? Then there is no N. Is the first sound a vowel? Then you add the N. So to sum up, its only "an" if the following word starts with an A,E,U,I,O and on very few occasions an H. But usually the H at the start of words actually does have a sound and therefor usually it is "a" without the N for words starting with H. For example "When she was young, Jessie wanted to become a nurse at a hospital for pokemon" Sorry, I had to get that out of my system and you did say we should comment on these things

From what I hear you pretty much played half-way through the single player camapign

Since we are talking about management games. Have any of you played Fate of the World? That is a good game. Depressing, but good.

Use the TorBrowser to go to the Steam website - Steam will not be able to tell your region and allow you to buy anything you want. Once you own it, the Steam Client wont care where you are. That's what I did last time I wanted something that was region locked.

You can feel like a terrible person now, I never do that I feel rather detached from the who's who in that game. And if I see them as anything I label them with the leader's name.

Spend about 7 hours doing the third stage of the Eden event in Anno 2070 and realized that while I could probably build a fleet to wipe out the npc factions, there is not enough copper on the map to let me finish the main objective even if I do start a war to get at the copper on other islands.

Was going to play an hour of Anno 2070 before bed. Lost track of time now its 6:30am...

If you fund Danny boring, I don't dare ask your opinion on Sansa

You moved homes or moved off the couch? ....just another quiet day here. The later is a prerequisite for the former I moved out of the chair in front of the computer in a tiny corner in a way-too-sunny-to-see-the-screen backroom in a little house in Cyprus and celebrate my geekness by moving into the quintessential batcave called Mum's Basement - which for me is lockated in Greece - as I send out CVs during the job hunt. The whole thing will be made a bit easer by my parents moving back to Cyprus again after the holliday

Playing the Eden event in Anno 2070. Love the Deep Ocean expansion as it added more career levels to the factions and gave me awesome things to work for: unlocking the Eden Initiative top ability that makes my colonies immune to disease and saves me from building hospitals

I moved

Happy birthday!

I am stuck on level 3-8 at the moment.Which means I jus don't want to finish another level with over 50 deaths as I did the Temple of Doom level

As a quick break from work (last day is getting hectic) I'd just like to add a small commet on your last post (and if I find time I'll PM you a bigger post ). Your wife is a teacher? Perhaps a different insight might help your parents then. My mother is a teacher, my father is a professor and everyone they know is one or the other. What my experience is from growing up in this whole education environment is that people get used to their role and have trouble to switch it off outside work. They don't even realize that they are still in teacher mode or are entering teacher mode. It's taken me a long time to smile through some family or friends of family moments without getting seriously annoyed. If your wife teaches 8 year olds for example (or whatever class she teaches, it hardly makes a difference), she spends hours every day being the one who by default has to explain things, has to know things better and has to have the experience. She is daily in an environment where she is expected to know everything and admitting ignorance on a subject may not really be an option. For us non-educators, that attitude can be quite a challenge in a social context. But it helps realizing that it's part of how the job shapes people and it doesn't mean they are arogant or do not value others. Then again you are a teacher too, if I remember correctly? Then I am just typing stuff you probably know But it may help your family get over the resentment.

I always counted the Ishar series as part of that genre as well

That's the good thing about blogs, you can always write more

That just means that you don't know what really is for you A) Heretic, calling Alpha Centauri a novelty game B) Most of the Daedalic stuff has been getting rather good reviews. At least the Whispered World and Edna I have seen praised quite a bit.

In what kind of situation? I too thought getting refunds from steam would be near impossible. I got a refund for Darkspore one day before launch. The reason I gave them for wanting a refund was "I only just realized this is being published by EA." Fastest refund I ever got I also got a refund for some Gotham City Impostors dlc that Steam was selling, but the Live Marketplace had region locked and was in fact only available in the US. Interestingly enough, this took a few days for the refund to be approved, with me sending them screenshots to prove that the item really is region locked.

You had one job! I love Deponia. I'm seriously considering it my game of the year. Got it now. mBought the Daedalic pack as I only had Whispered World so far and it was cheaper to buy the whole pack than not to buy the game I already own

Apparently GoG just updated Alpha Centauri with the Alien Crossfire expansion (for free). Downloading the new installer. If this is true, Christmas came early for me.

Well if you get Dungeon Defender as a bundle during sales it costs far far less than 50 and is a real steal. Though I need friends to really play it. Still lvl 71 on my aprentice and far from even that on my other characters. Looking forward to the new christmas DLC.

So, are you guys ready to give some more advise? I am pondering how to best handle things. I usually played campaigns where I'd let players do whatever they want after an initial session, making things up on the spot based on their actions. This time round I actually know what I basically want them to do (even though I don't particularly care how they reach the goal) and that is a bit terra nova for me. The basic outline is this: A series of murders has been happening. Bodies of victims have been dumped all over the city, seemingly at random. What they have in common is that all have been killed with a single blow from a sharp object, all victims are completly unknown and they mostly wear pretty outlandish clothing. The players inadvertently stumble upon and interrupt the killer as he is about to stab his latest victim. The killer, suprised, flees the scene. Obviously he isn't happy and after he rallies himself, he is going to be after both his original victim and the people who interrupted him. The victim is completly disoriented and has no idea where they are and what is going on. This could just be shock, or the killer truly does magicaly teleport his victims to the city before killing them. Either way, the players should soon find themselves in the middle of things, as various factions are trying for their own reasons to find out what is going on. Eventually the players should need to flee the city and embark on a quest that will send the person they saved back home and at least put an end to the killings, even if they probably won't be able to get on good terms with every faction. So far my thoughts are these: the kingdom only recently came out of a long war (the 6 year war over Oz, which saw the emerald city razed and turned into a penal colony with prisoners doing hard labour in the emerald mines). With there still being fear of enemy agents, spies, terrorists, a curfew would make sense. Because of the incident with the serial killer, the players are caught outside after curfew and the city guards have been rather trigger happy with all the talk about a serial killer stalking victims in the fog. This should make sure that players are on the run from the guard and can't just go to the next watch-house. If over the first few sessions I introduce a few factions until I have 3-4 factions plus the guard involved, it should make the city hot enough for players to take the road. Once on the road I guess it should be fairly easy to come up with interesting things that happen along the way. I guess the real problem is: how do I keep the serial killer a constant threat without there being a real combat situation with him, so I don't need to find reasons why the players can't kill him?

GoG just went crazy. End of the World Sale for the next 23 hours 50 minutes

Riot Games is issueing "pro-active" refunds. Kinda wierd comming home and getting a surprise-refund for something you never remotely considered requiring one for.

Your workplace sounds a bit schizophrenic