ZenWan: Hi Crow, good to see you. I am indeed holding fire on Galaxy, as it's still in its infancy. I have so little time for game-playing anyway. But I do prefer to have a privacy option.
Imagine if I spent all day every day playing - say - a game involving pigeons - how would I ever dare show my face here again?
laughing!
Yes, the summers here are scarily hot, although at least not humid. Most vegetation is Mediterranean, olives, carobs etc, so is not affected by the heat and dryness, but I most certainly am. Sometimes there is a cool breeze from the Atlantic, other times the hot winds blow in from Africa, or overland from Spain, and that's not pleasant. I'm seriously considering that icewater option of superstande's.
Glad you're keeping your cats, I'm sure you're greatly attached to them by now. ;-)
Editing to say - '
your dead cats' as I think that superstande didn't realise that you had some extra special mascots on your game journey.
Wouldn't worry about it, since I'm pretty sure I've clenched the title of "person senseless enough to play something no matter how horrible".
I have the game you mentioned, and more than a few that are also awful, and they all get a playthrough.
Hooray.
The privacy stuff will get built in, I'm sure. I accept friend requests only from people I know, so that helps.
The other thing that comes to mind is public wishlists, but mine's been public for quite a while now, so that's not a big thing.
What's going to happen, someone's going to see my list and say, "Wow, that person has a problem!"
My response would be, "No shit, genius. If you think that's bad, you should see the order history that chronicles the compulsion."
Yes, ice water sounds like a good idea. Maybe a wading pool in your house near the air conditioner, with an extra fan plugged in on the side.
penumbren: You've basically echoed a lot of my thoughts. So.... that. ^^ :D
It's been fun playing the "don't get into fights with every headache-inducing thread you see" game.
One of those times where I'm kind of amazed I don't drink more often.
Also, this game is idiotic.
I have to find literal tears of suffering.
I'm surrounded by slaves toiling in misery.
My party is absurdly well armed and amoral on the side of extreme sadism.
So where the hell is my punch random person in the face until they cry option? It probably wouldn't take more than one shot, assuming I didn't kill the person outright.
Not to mention, this introduces a level of hair splitting the game designers didn't account for.
I have to find a specific person, because apparently their suffering is worse than everyone else's.
But what if I set a random worker on fire, put them out with a spell that freezes them to the point of frostbite, then start chewing off their now rotting extremities while shoving a dead cat in their face and telling them they only get healed if the cat meows, and every time the person says the cat is dead, I stick a dagger in their eyeball?
I imagine they'd fit the criteria of suffering pretty godsdamned quickly.
