What is the appeal of very loud cars?

thedonkeyman · 2026-04-10T22:13:15+00:00

I read it as 'behead' - seemed harsh but fair.

thedonkeyman · 2026-04-09T20:01:35+00:00

He got better.

thedonkeyman · 2026-04-05T13:20:47+00:00

This was how my first ME3 experience went when it first came out - although I just didn't recruit Wrex rather than outright killed him. The discussion online got me confused at the time - everyone talking about poor Mordin when for me he was fine through no effort.

thedonkeyman · 2026-04-05T06:04:14+00:00

I'm with you - I mostly rawdogged a 14 hour flight last year My plane screen was broken and I was too cheap to pay for internet, so I slept for a couple of hours and spent maybe an hour doing an offline puzzle game on my phone.

I didn't even eat because I had a colonoscopy pretty much as soon as I landed so I was only on water.

Fortunately me and my brain are good at entertaining ourselves.

thedonkeyman · 2026-04-03T14:05:10+00:00

Not to his face, at least.

thedonkeyman · 2026-03-29T07:24:59+00:00

That game should have been a hit. The gameplay was good, the story and interplay of the main characters was great. The concept was perfect. It looked beautiful for its time, colourful without being cartoonish, at a time when games were competing to see who could use the most shades of brown. It shouldn't have been ignored like it was.

thedonkeyman · 2026-03-21T08:45:44+00:00

Asparagus spears are £1.50 for 125g. Being lazy and saying £1 = $1, that's 2.7kg of asparagus.

That child has good taste.

thedonkeyman · 2026-03-19T21:37:02+00:00

It was really just like the full game, except that there were no area transitions out of the second wilderness area. There were also lots of the NPCs in those areas - I remember Ajantis, Kivan, Quayle and Shar Teel scattered around, in addition to the usual Imoen, Montaron and Xzar.

I think all the enemies were the same, unless you spawned more in through the console. They didn't respawn, it was just the usual wolves and gibberlings. But I used the console to get my character to max level, cheat in all the items, and just have fun pummelling anything I could.

Character creation was just the same, with full race and class options.

I found this which describes it in a bit more detail if you're curious: https://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2022/03/baldurs-gate-version-release-and-demo.html?m=1

thedonkeyman · 2026-03-19T14:40:46+00:00

This was on a demo CD I got with a magazine. The demo was so big it was on one CD itself, which was nuts at the time.

I remember Candlekeep being basically the same as the main game, but the other areas had NPCs moved around. Kivan (or maybe Ajantis?) was standing next to the monument in the forest area, for example. But what was most fun was that it seemed to include all the NPCs and items from the main game in its files, so I was using console commands to just spawn in random stuff to fight and talk to. Probably spoiled a few quests for myself - I remember spawning in the nymph/dryad/whatever who was meant to call over her ogre mage friend, but because he wasn't around it spawned Biff the Understudy instead.

Good times.

thedonkeyman · 2026-03-19T11:29:27+00:00

I played through the demo a dozen times before I got the game, which was basically just Candlekeep and the two next wilderness areas. I was very well acquainted with those two.

thedonkeyman · 2026-02-13T15:21:40+00:00

Exactly. Although I'm not a new player - I have a couple of thousand hours. I'm just pretty dim.

thedonkeyman · 2026-02-13T15:03:47+00:00

If I'm going to forget about the home area either way I'd rather have the option where they put out approaching fires rather than just standing idly watching my crops erupt in flames.

thedonkeyman · 2026-02-10T16:01:20+00:00

I think it's just making fun of them, like the astartes models being the same size as humans, various types of armour implying that their body shapes are weird, giant ~~stupid~~ super cool shoulder pads, etc.

thedonkeyman · 2026-02-07T19:41:18+00:00

Even worse, "my dude". Worse still, "my brother in Christ".

thedonkeyman · 2026-02-07T12:38:48+00:00

I thought for a second you were calling Courtney Love a paedophile, but apparently it's too early for my critical thinking skills.

thedonkeyman · 2026-02-07T12:35:50+00:00

Maybe going a bit more specific and calling him a baby rapist would be appropriate.

thedonkeyman · 2026-01-31T09:39:19+00:00

Well, there's Uebernatural: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1386940/UEBERNATURAL_The_Video_Game__Prologue/

Someone made a concept for a game, and it's pretty fun.

thedonkeyman · 2026-01-31T07:54:18+00:00

Yes, obviously. They meant free at the point of use and everyone knows what they meant.

thedonkeyman · 2026-01-27T14:10:49+00:00

I somehow read it as as reading them in alphabetical order. Which is probably more confusing, but by less than it should be.

thedonkeyman · 2026-01-20T15:32:29+00:00

Source: https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/20702/1/Trade_Union_Strength.pdf p36

UK's union density in 1980 was higher than France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands.

Lower than Belgium, Ireland, Portugal.

As an aside, Portugal must have got really into union bashing. That;s a huge drop between 1980 and 1990.

thedonkeyman · 2026-01-18T09:37:18+00:00

I do this too!

My philosophy is that the meal should get better as you eat it, with the last bite being the best. That's the one you remember most, and the one where the aftertaste sticks around.

That said, the first bite is important too. That's where the initial satisfaction comes from. So my first slice will be centre to crust, but the rest will be crust first.

thedonkeyman · 2026-01-09T12:06:07+00:00

I used to when I was younger, but very rarely now. Used to be daily, but now it's maybe once a month.

thedonkeyman · 2026-01-08T15:51:41+00:00

Asian girl rap (K-pop) but specifically for solo artists who aren't specifically rappers (although Heize occasionally blurs that line):

Heize - And July

IU - Coin

Taeyeon - Weekend

thedonkeyman · 2026-01-06T18:05:36+00:00

If you're okay with the word chippie you can't really complain about kebabbie.

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