One of the reason's I get pissed that sales aren't more frequent is the carnival feel of things. Everyone's happier and having a good time. Its a real lift (not that things are bad normally, they're far from that), but its great to have a party together and involve games and just have fun. I could handle a more frequent 5 day/less sale items situation if it kept everyone smiling.

And I didn't mean you were destitute - the 'well, I can think of..' bit just sort of came along afterwards. The rest of it I meant, though :P

It'd be nice to have that spread out more. Things tend to run down a bit energy-wise around a week in, if not a little sooner. Then people just start getting impatient at things being repeated constantly.

-laughs- Thankfully I'm not that bad. Right now, I've got GOG, I can think of a whopping one title I have any interest in renting, and that's it.

Game books, on the other hand...holy frigging crap, do I have a bunch of those to catch up on.

What's the whopping rental?
Are the books all Humble stuff?

The one rental is Magic The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012. Fun game.

The books all come from a site called Bundle of Holding. They do Humble-type charity bundles, only the contents are pen and paper roleplaying games.
Also, they have a higher minimum price. The base for a few items usually ranges between 5 and 8 dollars, then there's the second price tier that goes up as people pay over the base cost. Even with that, the buyer saves a fistful of money over retail every time.

My local supermarket had cases of water (24 bottles per case) on sale two for $5! I'm not sure if getting excited by a deal on water counts as lame, but if it is...oh well. I know the stigma against drinking bottled water, but where I'm at now location wise, bottled water is definitely a preferable alternative to tap water.

Oh, I tried Hotline Miami a little while ago. The controls are kinda iffy for me (using keyboard/mouse) but it seems like a ton of fun.

How is everybody else here?

Bundle of Holding look good. I like the idea of pen and paper gaming. You can't take minimalism much further than that unless its Sansukumi-ken. I like when complexity is reduced to a kind of gamers' shorthand, and as long as the players know the rules, you can keep the thing in your pocket and play it anywhere.

Can't remember where I found it... nope it's not me :)
But I was a bit crazy some 10 years ago and that sort of place in the morning could have been quite possible...
Things got out of hand sometimes which was not smart... but mostly it was harmless fun (I think)

Anyone who thinks that's lame hasn't ever had to deal with an environment that has no good water.

That's different. The ridiculous sparkling water/Evian/Pelegrino bullshit deserves to be mocked. Someone who just wants a drink that doesn't taste like ass mixed with chemical runoff does not.

If you're not frustration-prone, Hotline Miami 1 can be great fun. It's brutal without seeming unfair.

Good evening. =) Can't complain too much here, how's your night going?

Hi :-)

I'm tired. I've a got a download to finish and then its bed for me. 6 AM is more than late enough to bed :-)

The water sounds good - buy as much as you can get in a car without wrecking the suspension :-)

The complexity depends on the game, and the company making it. Some companies develop complex rules because they're trying to cover for every possibility. That leads to more books, more transport hassle, more of a steep learning curve. Annoying, but understandable.
The ones you have to look out for are the assholes who do with books what game companies do with DLC - parsing out and chopping up information, then spreading it to multiple points and charging the customer for every tidbit.

Indeed on all accounts regarding the water. Oddly enough, the worst tasting/smelling water I've ever encountered was the water in one particular dorm at a university I attended some years back. However that might've been due to the dorm being built in the 60s.

I like that it's one hit and you're done, but I can see that getting frustrating in later levels if the game gets stingy with its checkpoints.

So far so good here, more moving heavy boxes around a storage unit to be done later today (always fun...yay...) but hopefully that'll be the very last of it, then it's back on the road in a few weeks.

Yep 6 AM is late enough haha, any later and you'd have to do an all night/day shift.

I really should go back and get some more. Oh, "fun" story from the supermarket earlier. As I was paying for my stuff, somebody spilled some kind of blue drink like Powerade or Gatorade...of course it managed to flow all around my shoes.

I want to continue this conversation after I've slept.

For now, I've got to hit the hay before I hit the floor :-) Have a good evening/night, and I'll see you tomorrow :-)

Not a problem. You know where to find me.

Yeah, don't do that. Go for the bed instead. Have a good night, sleep well. =)

Blue footprints! That would've been good for Halloween :-)

Have a good evening :-)

Sheesh, that's pretty bad. You'd think someone would care enough to at least try to make the water better. Figuring living in a dorm isn't cheap.

The game is presented in zones. Start at the bottom floor of a building, then work your way up, things like that. You get a checkpoint at the beginning of each new zone, after you've killed everyone in the current zone.
It's not too bad, but you can and will get killed on the last guy sometimes, which causes you to start the area all over.

Oh yeah, that's always a frigging thrill. Last time I did anything moving-related, it was horrifying enough to make "hell no" my default answer to requests, unless it's someone I'm close to.