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Great day for Brazilian Portuguese speakers.
Once again, GOG, thanks. :)
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vicklemos: Great day for Brazilian Portuguese speakers.
Once again, GOG, thanks. :)
Reminds me of a traditional Jewish story, which I love, so I copy it below:
[Reprinted with permission from "How the Children Became Stars" by Aaron Zerah, published by Sorin Books.]

A poor man lived with his wife and six children in a very small one-room house. They were always getting in each other's way and there was so little space they could hardly breathe!

Finally the man could stand it no more. He talked to his wife and asked her what to do. "Go see the rabbi," she told him, and after arguing a while, he went.

The rabbi greeted him and said, "I see something is troubling you. Whatever it is, you can tell me."

And so the poor man told the rabbi how miserable things were at home with him, his wife, and the six children all eating and living and sleeping in one room. The poor man told the rabbi, "We're even starting to yell and fight with each other. Life couldn't be worse."

The rabbi thought very deeply about the poor man's problem. Then he said, "Do exactly as I tell you and things will get better. Do you promise?"

"I promise," the poor man said.

The rabbi then asked the poor man a strange question. "Do you own any animals?"

"Yes," he said. "I have one cow, one goat, and some chickens."

"Good," the rabbi said. "When you get home, take all the animals into your house to live with you."

The poor man was astonished to hear this advice from the rabbi, but he had promised to do exactly what the rabbi said. So he went home and took all the farm animals into the tiny one-room house.

The next day the poor man ran back to see the rabbi. "What have you done to me, Rabbi?" he cried. "It's awful. I did what you told me and the animals are all over the house! Rabbi, help me!"

The rabbi listened and said calmly, "Now go home and take the chickens back outside."

The poor man did as the rabbi said, but hurried back again the next day. "The chickens are gone, but Rabbi, the goat!" he moaned. "The goat is smashing up all the furniture and eating everything in sight!"

The good rabbi said, "Go home and remove the goat and may God bless you."

So the poor man went home and took the goat outside. But he ran back again to see the rabbi, crying and wailing. "What a nightmare you have brought to my house, Rabbi! With the cow it's like living in a stable! Can human beings live with an animal like this?"

The rabbi said sweetly, "My friend, you are right. May God bless you. Go home now and take the cow out of your house." And the poor man went quickly home and took the cow out of the house.

The next day he came running back to the rabbi again. "O Rabbi," he said with a big smile on his face, "we have such a good life now. The animals are all out of the house. The house is so quiet and we've got room to spare! What a joy!"
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vicklemos: Great day for Brazilian Portuguese speakers.
Once again, GOG, thanks. :)
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mrkgnao: wow
That's why I love these forums.
Amazing, mrkgnao. I've just read it. What a tale to tell :)
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mrkgnao: wow
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vicklemos: That's why I love these forums.
Amazing, mrkgnao. I've just read it. What a tale to tell :)
Thanks. I'm a great fan of folktales, Jewish or otherwise.
This specific one has even given rise to a modern Hebrew idiom: "remove the goat".
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vicklemos: That's why I love these forums.
Amazing, mrkgnao. I've just read it. What a tale to tell :)
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mrkgnao: Thanks. I'm a great fan of folktales, Jewish or otherwise.
This specific one has even given rise to a modern Hebrew idiom: "remove the goat".
Nowadays I guess people will link this folktale to something else... :D
Note that the pic makes total justice to the tale :P
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mrkgnao: - The product_bonuses have regained their normal names. The files themselves didn't change.
All this product_bonus silliness that re-emerged (but thankfully died down quickly), led me to make a quick sweep of my account to notice whether any games still contain product_bonuses (or boni?). The results are:

Duke Nukem 1+2 (all extras)
Incoming+Incoming Forces (all extras)
King's Bounty: Warriors of the North Complete Edition (Complete Edition avatars)
Wing Commander 3 (Playguide [German])

The previous time I contacted support, the games that I told them about were:

Grim Fandango Remastered
King's Bounty - Warriors of the North Complete Edition
Lords of Xulima (Deluxe Edition?)
Lumino City
Rocket Ranger (Emulated Amiga Edition)
Tex Murphy - Under a Killing Moon

Excluding Warriors of the North which is still unfixed, has any of those games had its extras' description fixed? What other games are currently suffering from it?
Post edited April 24, 2015 by Grargar
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mrkgnao: - The product_bonuses have regained their normal names. The files themselves didn't change.
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Grargar: All this product_bonus silliness that re-emerged (but thankfully died down quickly), led me to make a quick sweep of my account to notice whether any games still contain product_bonuses (or boni?). The results are:
Additional games that still have them (from my lib):
- Broken Sword: Director's Cut (1 extra: Linux tarball)
- Broken Sword 2: Remastered (1 extra: Linux tarball)
- Dracula 4+5 (all Dracula 4 extras in both games)
- Lumino City (all extras = 1 extra: making-of photos)
- Rocket Ranger (all extras = 1 extra: manual)
- Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon (2 extras: ebook + novella)
- Tomb Raider 1+2+3 (all extras in all three games)
- Zork Anthology, The (all 13 extras in all 6 games)

Don't have Fandango or Xulima.
Post edited April 24, 2015 by mrkgnao
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mrkgnao: Additional games that still have them (from my lib):
- Broken Sword: Director's Cut (1 extra: Linux tarball)
- Broken Sword 2: Remastered (1 extra: Linux tarball)
- Dracula 4+5 (all Dracula 4 extras in both games)
- Lumino City (all extras = 1 extra: making-of photos)
- Rocket Ranger (all extras = 1 extra: manual)
- Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon (2 extras: ebook + novella)
- Tomb Raider 1+2+3 (all extras in all three games)
- Zork Anthology, The (all 13 extras in all 6 games)

Don't have Fandango or Xulima.
Thanks for the list. I think I'll send another another ticket to support.
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Grargar: Thanks for the list. I think I'll send another another ticket to support.
Perhaps they have an option of buying a "Support Ticket Pass".
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mrkgnao: Reminds me of a traditional Jewish story
Great story!

I love your rep as it now but it will change anyway. +1.
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mrkgnao: Additional games that still have them (from my lib):
- Broken Sword: Director's Cut (1 extra: Linux tarball)
- Broken Sword 2: Remastered (1 extra: Linux tarball)
- Dracula 4+5 (all Dracula 4 extras in both games)
- Lumino City (all extras = 1 extra: making-of photos)
- Rocket Ranger (all extras = 1 extra: manual)
- Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon (2 extras: ebook + novella)
- Tomb Raider 1+2+3 (all extras in all three games)
- Zork Anthology, The (all 13 extras in all 6 games)

Don't have Fandango or Xulima.
The mislabelled Dracula 4+5 extras are 5 on my game list.

Don't have Grim Fandango Remastered or Lords of Xulima either.
Grim Fandango seems to be fixed.
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mrkgnao: - Dracula 4+5 (all Dracula 4 extras in both games)
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HypersomniacLive: The mislabelled Dracula 4+5 extras are 5 on my game list.
Yes. My note was ambiguous.

There are 5 product_bonus extras in both games (total of 10, but actually two sets of 5 duplicated), but all the 5 extras are "Dracula 4" extras (even though 5 of them are under "Dracula 5"). The "Dracula 5" extras (only present in Dracula 5) do not suffer from this bug.

Gotta love this unbundling.
The Book of Unbundled Tales, Chapter 99:

The name of the second sub-game of Blitzkrieg Anthology changed from BLITZKRIEG: BURNING HORIZON - ROLLING THUNDER to BLITZKRIEG: BURNING HORIZON - ROLLING THUNDER - IRON DIVISION.
From MaGog's logs for 24 April:

NOTE! CHANGED Bird Story, A, languages: Text only: Chinese, German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian-Portuguese, Russian ***TO*** Text only: Chinese, German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Brazilian-Portuguese, Russian





NOTE! CHANGED Divinity: Dragon Commander, languages: Audio and text: German, English, French. Text only: Russian ***TO*** Audio and text: German, English, French. Text only: Polish, Russian

NOTE! CHANGED Divinity: Dragon Commander, file_size: 9.6 GB ***TO*** 9.8 GB





NOTE! CHANGED Kromaia, file_size: 95 MB ***TO*** 96 MB





NOTE! CHANGED Mount & Blade: Warband - Viking Conquest [DLC], file_size: 528 MB ***TO*** 544 MB





NOTE! CHANGED Outlast, file_size: 2.8 GB ***TO*** 2.9 GB