Check out some of the other series by the same people - some good stuff for a zero budget company - and a lot of friends of mine involved.

Away Team is a personal favourite.

I've returned home briefly as I was in dire need of feeling the love of those who care for me(as well as to exchange my faulty new phone), after (quite obviously) losing the plot once again. My sincere apologies for coming out with the shit I did here publicly, and I hope that apology equates to the best form of it; to learn from experience and to not exhibit behaviour like that again. I am doubtful that I won't feel like that again but shall endeavour not to express it publicly, as quite frankly it makes me look like a complete idiot. I'd rather express my less idiotic side publicly, and save the shit for those who have taken the time to get to know me and have seen that it is one aspect of me, and not all of me.

I wanted to run and cut off all communications from people and my better half, who has more wisdom in her little toe than I do in entirety at times, said to me "You are a social being and just feeling low. You need to interact with people with who you are. Don't make any rash decisions, you'll change your mind and regret it if you cut yourself off." After being greeted with love by Thea and our animals, and having a wonderful sleep cuddled up to Coca in my own bed, I feel a lot more balanced.

I hope you put your 5 new games to better use than I do with my own collection, and you are welcome :)

This community is my main social interaction that goes beyond simple greetings and brief conversations with strangers. I do fine staying on the fringe, and thoroughly enjoy the majority of human interaction I engage in. The "deeper" aspects of communication generally only occur with my partner, a few close friends and this community. I think I'd find cutting myself off from here more difficult than quitting smoking, which has taken a back-burner until I can find a new home for us. And I'm not giving in.

I realise that some of what I have written of late will have a few people thinking poorly of me, and that is understandable, I do not think too highly of myself for my expression. It was a culmination of allowing stress to build up within to the point where I snapped and had a bit of a psychotic break-down. The underlying feelings are still there, however they are a bit more balanced now, as is my perspective.

Thank you once again to those who took the time to write calmly and insightfully to me as those words really do make a difference to me. I am used to people completely distancing themselves from me after I "let out the beast" as I call it. I don't have the page up for this quote, but these words by you skeletonbow really helped. Ironically I logged into GOG to turn off email notifications, as well as turned off email notifications on my phone, and yet still awoke to messages from yourself and others(thanks toxicTom!) that helped me to realise that I do indeed enjoy the majority of my interaction with humans, especially this community.

I've been listening to Sacred - One Love (Onderwish Remix) a bit of late, and the following quote has been reverberating within my mind a lot:

Rocky Balboa: Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place, and I don’t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you. You’re better than that!

I was once quite adept at avoiding and taking hits when I trained mixed martial arts and enjoyed full contact sparring. I need to remember to do the same for metaphorical sparring. Not once in all of my sparring did I lash out in anger. We trained safely; with love and respect. Time to do the same with my communications <3

Happy to see you're feeling better about things and able to return with a fresh perspective/outlook, and glad my words/thoughts were of assistance. I like the inspirational Rocky quote too, it reminds me of similar things I've heard and learned over time myself from great public speakers such as Marshall Rosenberg, Wayne Dyer, Tony Robbins, Stuart Wilde, and others. It's good to seek out things like that in challenging times to find inspiration to get back on track I find.

Anyhow, welcome back. :)

Ohhh... Been playing games I bought, didn't have time to come to the forums much. How's everyone doing?

It's the other way round for everybody else ;-)

Thank god i did it right ;).

It's a known proof of geekiness when you spend more time chatting about your hobby then actually excercising it. Therefore I grant you all the title of 'Honorable full-fleshed Geek'. You may be called 'Sirs' from now on!

I thank you for this great honour!

HOLD ON! we can play the games we paid for? GOG isn't just forums to read when I am at work?

I've heard rumors that there are actual people out there who in fact play those games. Sounds incredible, I know. I could use one specimen of those for my secret lab, but so far the head hunters had no luck finding one. Maybe I should send them to investigate this pengchi87 person...

I'm scared to look at my list of almost 500 games and see how many I've actually played so far. 30? But I'm ready for a rainy day!

I've played a few - the challenge for me currently is playing most of them through to the end.

Thank you! I'll be patient, it's not as if I'm short of games to play. :-D
Thank you for the vote of confidence in Populous. That's good enough for me, I'll order them both. :-)


Thank you, toxicTom, for your very helpful advice. I normally don't play with sound at all, but if I do, I'll remember that.
I will play the first one first, I'm very OCD that way. That's why I find it hard to buy just one game of a series, it doesn't feel right and playing them out of order would cause me huge stress! ;-)

GOG make a May the 4th sale please I want more Star Wars :)