Good evening. =)

Doing all right here, can't complain.

Already have everything from the staff picks but two items, and only one is a lower-priority item on my list, so it can wait.

How's your day been going?

Well it's not like the public like the strike - not at all...and the government is preparing a new strike law but this might be unconstitutional...
But in this cas e the union has a point because of severe existing salary inequalities...

And thank you i hope so too - but my sister is the one i'm worried about as she can be volatile....

I don't think it's useless, it's just not something I'd advertise to people as being an enormous revamp of the game.

I don't mind having purchased it since the company making it still cares about the older Infinity Engine games, and they're getting Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale more attention from people who didn't know it existed. The more that kind of RPG can get positive exposure, the better the chance is that more companies will make them, and I'm all for that.

Also, from what I've read, the multiplayer is the biggest improvement by far. Trying to get that to run with the originals can be a total nightmare, but I've been able to set up EE games with other people, which I could never manage to get working with the original titles.

I will take your word for it, I have never been to one of these nerd conventions. They do look like a lot of fun, especially when you get to dress up in a nice costume, but I think I will stay here where I am free of nerd drool. :-)

Are you, or have you ever been, one of the nerds at a convention?

Glad to hear you are doing okay. When I am not so tired I am going to try to make sure everyone says great, or at least good. All these okays and all rights are getting too common here. :-)

I have two of the games, the two Stronghold games, but the rest do not really appeal to me.

I am good, thank you. Tired and exhausted, and a little emotionally drained after yesterday, but I am good. I was hoping this week would be my last long week, but so far the weather has had other plans. I was hoping to work extra hard this week to get things finished, but I need good weather for some of the tasks.

Oh jeez... good point, but that would likely take days ;-)
*can't think of a clever hug... so this is just a normal friendly hug* :-)

That's one thing you have over us, we do not have a constitution, we have never needed one. There were talks by the EU about making us have one, something about us being one of the only major nations not to have one, but we have no need for it. Things such as the Magna Carta and other laws we passed a long time ago have always ensured people have basic rights and freedoms. Plus constitutions are pretty much worthless, just look at how often the US amends theirs to suit the needs of the current government or some big business (no offence intended to the lovely Americans here). It's not hard these days to get them amended, which defeats the very concept of having one.

There is always waxing, that can be quite effective. Or maybe if your legs are not too hairy you can try thick stocking, they might help cover those hairy legs up. :-)

*big return hug*

Well than it's more of nice to have but necessary for someone who owns the old ones but can be attractive for people who didn't own the originals...
True but the situation in germany has always been a bit different than in Great Britain. Before the unification 1871 there has never been an equivalent like the magna carta which was valid in all german states.

Just waiting for the summer sale, so I can take another large chunk out of my list.
Patience isn't exactly my strong suit, though, so the wait is getting annoying.

Hopefully the weather will be improving so you can finally get that break.

Have to admit that I'm not so much into freeware games any more (I mainly played freeware games from 2003-2011), so I don't have a complete overview any longer.

But if you tell me which genres you are interested in, I might have some recommendations from back then.

I would agree there. It's not a must-have, but it provides enough options that a player can get a somewhat fresh experience out of it.

This statistic (strike days per 100 employees from 2004-2012) shows that this isn't true. Germany is pretty low in that list (even the UK is higher).

I think that is what causes so much trouble for the UK and the EU. The EU tried to push laws on us that we don't need as we already have similar laws in place, and more often than no the EU laws are terrible.

What are the train drivers striking for?

Ah yes, the summer sale. Perhaps I can get my wishlist emptied, but at the moment none of the games are that high priority for me, so I will probably just stick to gifting other people and leaving my list for another day. That reminds me, we need to get Moon to share her list, it would be nice to help her reduce her wishlist during the sale. :-)

We have had some sun today, but it has been raining almost constantly. I guess it will be another week before I am done with the long days, but at least after then I can go back to my regular hours. I can't wait for that to happen, I love my work, but I want my time back so I can spend it with my partner and not always be so worn out when I get home.

Interesting. But I do seem to hear more about Germans going on strike than I do the UK, but I won't argue with statistics. I know the UK has a lot of smaller groups go on strike, so perhaps that is why the number is higher.

No, there weren't any of those real nerdy conventions in the vicinity...

I once visited a Star Trek marathon in Dresden in the student's cinema, and some people came dressed up (pretty cool Klingons and some *hot* female (TOS) Starfleet officers...). I guess that was as close as it gets.
I also visited the Wave-Gothic-Convention in Leipzig several times in the 90's - a different kind of nerddom if you will. But I never went "full armor", black clothing sufficed for me. I still go there every year with the family just to watch the impressive outfits, and the scene has broadened a lot - Anime/manga cosplay, steampunk outfits... we didn't have those back in the day.

Well and I of course went to the Games Convention (R.I.P.), but about the only "nerdy" looking people were the booth girls... Ok, some drooling from the average male teenage visitors was to be observed there... ;-)

I guess it's because we hardly had a strike in the industrial sector (auto-mobile, chemestry, metal, mining) for years. These strikes are often much more massive, but people still don't talk about it as much, because most of them are not directly affected. The strikes we have at the moment are strikes in the public sector (trains, airplanes, kindergartens), so more people are directly affected and because of that they feel like a big problem even if they are in fact are just minor strikes.