-laughs- Glad to hear you're finally kicking the flu/cold/overall viral shit. Brainfog and not getting to have what you enjoy always sucks.

Can't complain here. Have some stuff to do later, but for the moment I've reinstalled Overture, despite it being very broken in a number of ways. If it had just bored me, I wouldn't care enough to keep going. But instead, it's made me angry, so I'll beat it whether it's broken or not.

I have :) ... way back in the day... that was just ridicilously hard...
I gave up pretty quickly.
Good Morning, Crow! :)

It's starting okay, hope yours is too!
Just finished on Sunday evening the first season of Ash vs Evil Dead... I'm still amazed how the last episode was just so original, funny, yet dark and quite scary :)

Anger as motivation... "I'll show you, fucking game, who the boss around here is!!!!". Sounds familiar from my early gaming days. But I haven't kept that attitude up, at least when it comes to games. When I'm trying to solve a problem in code, that's a different matter... ;-)

Yeah I know that feeling. But the game is hard for two different reason, depending where you come from, and both a solvable:

If you've not played UFO (Defense) before, you simply lack the basics. Solution: play UFO first.
If you've played UFO before, the problem is most likely that you treat TFTD like it, which, from a certain point on simply doesn't work anymore, both on a global scale and in the tactics screen. The rules have changed and you have to adapt.
In the end, yes, it's harder, but also very rewarding.

Of course I can still remember the shock of the first Lobster men, which were seemingly unvincible. And you have to kill at least one and win the battle to be able to research a weapon that helps against them (Vibro blade). I was so scared of them...

And then the next shock, how quickly the Earth governments fall. While in UFO you basically protect/re-take Earth and then go off to Mars pretty much with a comforting feeling that you are winning anyway, TFDT makes you feel you fight for survival. You can't win in the long run, just hold on long enough to get to the big bad. It's an utterly brilliant game...

It's going all right here, thanks.

Very cool. Haven't had a chance to see that one, but I keep hearing good things about it.
It works, especially when the game's ultimately shit and has nothing else going for it in the end. Any good will I had toward any of it got pissed away in the 30+ hours I've been playing it.
Checked the stats for achievements, and it's running at 1 to 1.1 percent of players actually beating the game. With it being so screwed up, I'm not surprised. Most people probably said to hell with it and quit.

-laughs- Frustration is universal, along with the desire to kick the shit out of the cause just to spite it.

Can't complain here. Would totally trade you for the rain, though. Will take that over sunlight any day of the week.

If you just like ramen a lot, then cool. If you're stuck with that at the moment, my sympathies. Would share what I've got if I could in that case.

If the game is shit I quit playing. My limited time is too valuable for that. :-)

But Hotline Miami works off that principle. It kills you over and over and gives you the finger... until you might puke with rage. And then you win. One screen, of course. I can't play it too often with the kids around... So I always start over to get into the thing again. And every time I suck more, strangely. Probably overconfidence - "I've already beat that, it can't be that hard...
F U C K!!". And yes I actually scream "F...". I think it's the only game where I do this. I'll probably never ever finish it, nevertheless I've impulse-bought part 2 from the staff picks. Those HM comics were slowly feeling lonely on my shelf...

-laughing hard- There's something very pleasant about when you manage to get that perfect string of kills in Hotline 1.

Word of caution - if 1 makes you scream? 2 will make you want to punch holes in the wall. The areas are larger, enemies are more spaced out so melee combos are frequently difficult or impossible to do.
Then there are the levels where you have to specifically find ammo boxes in order to beat them, along with the general extra bullshit of enemies who are ready, willing and able to shoot you from off-screen, even if you're holding the shift key to extend your visual range.

Yeah...2 is pretty goddamn cheap, gameplay-wise...

Good evening everybody !! :-)
**Big hugs with champagne**
How are you ?...

Yeah... You did it, it was a perfect moment, almost like sex, and for a split second you just want to jump up and cuddle the developers for giving you that feeling of triumph, but then you remember... they made... that... weird... sick... twisted... game that messes with you and kicks your butt most of the time and seems to be mocking you and you imagine the kind of people WHO WOULD COME UP WITH SOMETHING LIKE THAT?!

End cuddle mood. More killing to do.

But I'd cuddle you any time *big hugs*

How are you and the owlets?

Odd... When I refresh the community page, it says the last post was 22 minutes ago. And I had a run in with Theodore a few minutes ago...

Anyway, good evening, Owl :-)
**Extra-big hug, and taking some champagne**
I'm doing quite well. Just playing a bit of Terraria at the moment. How about you?

Well, crap. Have to run spur of the moment errands. Back in a while.

The community page is never up to date. I've completely ignored it for years...

Hey Tom !!
**Big happy hugs**
I'm fine, thanks ! ... back from 3 days holidays in Netherlands... it was really cool. And I haven't worked today, which is pretty cool too (my boss offered me this day off because I worked at home during my first 3 days of holidays...)
The owlets are fine too, thanks for asking !! :)
How are you ?... and your little family ??
I'm good, thanks :)
Getting ready to play some Technobabylon... do you think we'll finish it today ? :)
**Big hug back**

I dunno... I think we might, but I have no idea how long it is. Can't be more than a few more hours. I'm excited :-) It's quite good so far!
**Big trance hug**

So you're totally stoned? Good for you ;-)

My family is coming back tomorrow. Had the weekend "off" (and was supposed to work, but too sick). They all seem to be fine.

Health is getting better. Can drink beer again :-)

Dreamt of my cat last night. That was really strange. I dreamt that she was cuddling beside me waking me up. And I was thinking "so luckily it was only a dream that she died".

That gave me a bit of trouble today.

Hehe :-D nope... no stoned at all... not this time anyway ^^
Haaa, I'm glad that you're back on your feet again :-) and able to enjoy some beer ^^
Awww :-( ... this is so understandable... it's so recent... it might still take some time before you "accept" the fact your dear little feline friend is gone... and that your brain stops playing tricks to you... that's hard. I understand your trouble... **Big comforting hug**

Well... I'm off for today...
Have a good night (anyone who'll read that) ! See you tomorrow...
**Big good night hugs with fluffy pillows**