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*Anomaly bundle avoided..phew..need to control impulse spending on stuff i wont ever play ahahhaah*...
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agylardi: Day 8, and "Risen" still haven't appear again in flash deals. I missed all previous Risen flash sales. I guess I'll just wait for Spring sale. Hopefully it will be there.
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donsanderson: Hang in there, good chance it'll show again in this sale. ;)
You're right. It is just showed again :D
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Niggles: *Anomaly bundle avoided..phew..need to control impulse spending on stuff i wont ever play ahahhaah*...
There is still time... :-)
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agylardi: Day 8, and "Risen" still haven't appear again in flash deals. I missed all previous Risen flash sales. I guess I'll just wait for Spring sale. Hopefully it will be there.
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Grargar: Risen will be available in 40 minutes. I have also sent you a PM, just in case.
Yup. Thanks for noticing me :D

Edit: Sorry, replied to wrong person. I thought I was replying to Grargar, it turned out I was replying again to donsanderson.
Post edited December 12, 2014 by agylardi
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j0ekerr: Just to clarify, only the quotes attributed to that particular poet, are in french. And it only happens in one page. But it struck me as a giant "2 deep 4 u" gesture from the author towards its readership. Also I know what the quotes meant, since the book has become one of those compulsory reading through high-school (even when it's not part of the curriculum). As such and being considered a "work of art" it's difficult to find an edition without annotations by some expert on literature.

The book is "Platero y yo" (Platero and me), by Juan Ramón Jiménez. And it's about a man, and his donkey.
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Treasure: Interesting! Well, according to wikipedia (http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platero_y_yo), this book wasn't supposed to be for children in the first place, but rather for adults, and it was the simple tone of the text that misguided people to think of it as a children's book. Considering this, then the book isn't really hipster, but rather the audience Jiménez had in mind was an adult audience most probably well versed in French, and that's why he probably didn't feel like translating the poem from French (plus, translating poesy is very hard). Just found a link for the book in Gutenberg project btw (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9980) and will try to find later the french poem to read it myself (I don't really know Spanish and used Google translate and my knowledge in french-which has some similiarities with Spanish- to read the wikipedia article I quoted). At any rate, thanks for giving me some new knowledge today! :-)
I couldn't find the french part... too bad :-|
One hour to new bundle time! Let's see if GOG can relieve me of some of my money today! I'm eyeballin' that King's Bounty: The Legend, but I'll hang on to near the end of that - see what the bundles are.

For me, this is pretty much the only excitement of this sale - that last hour before the bundle update.
Post edited December 12, 2014 by hummer010
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Treasure: Interesting! Well, according to wikipedia (http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platero_y_yo), this book wasn't supposed to be for children in the first place, but rather for adults, and it was the simple tone of the text that misguided people to think of it as a children's book. Considering this, then the book isn't really hipster, but rather the audience Jiménez had in mind was an adult audience most probably well versed in French, and that's why he probably didn't feel like translating the poem from French (plus, translating poesy is very hard). Just found a link for the book in Gutenberg project btw (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9980) and will try to find later the french poem to read it myself (I don't really know Spanish and used Google translate and my knowledge in french-which has some similiarities with Spanish- to read the wikipedia article I quoted). At any rate, thanks for giving me some new knowledge today! :-)
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LaPtiteBete: I couldn't find the french part... too bad :-|
Well, this might be my fault too-turns out there are 2 different books with that title in Gutenberg and the one I cited was really an exercise book for children learning Spanish. Here's the link for the other one: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39209 -the pages look exactly the same, don't they? Weird! Anyways, I scanned this new link with my eyes and haven't found anything either-will now use search on the HTML page. At any rate, this is an interesting "Spot the french quote" exercise... :-)
Ah wait! I found something! Chapter XLVI "El Loro". There is mention of a "médico francés" who says "Ce n'est rien" - but that's hardly a poem...
Post edited December 12, 2014 by Treasure
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hummer010: For me, this is pretty much the only excitement of this sale - that last hour before the bundle update.
So true.....
I'm also fighting... about buying one of the (or maybe both) King's Bounty, or not...
Ho, look...
An update for UnEpic...
AGAIN !?! Õ__Õ GRRR...
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Treasure: Ah wait! I found something! Chapter XLVI "El Loro". There is mention of a "médico francés" who says "Ce n'est rien" - but that's hardly a poem...
What... That's ALL ? :-D
Post edited December 12, 2014 by LaPtiteBete
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hummer010: For me, this is pretty much the only excitement of this sale - that last hour before the bundle update.
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LaPtiteBete: So true.....
I'm also fighting... about buying one of the (or maybe both) King's Bounty, or not...
Ho, look...
An update for UnEpic...
AGAIN !?! Õ__Õ GRRR...
Unepic just wants the same attention as Geralt always receives even with its unepic name ;-)
Good morning folks! Hope everyone is psyched for the new bundles.
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moonshineshadow: Unepic just wants the same attention as Geralt always receives even with its unepic name ;-)
Nah, it's Ghorpm's fault that Unepic caught the "Geralt" flu.
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IAmSinistar: Good morning folks! Hope everyone is psyched for the new bundles.
Good afternoon. Ready for repeats?
Post edited December 12, 2014 by Grargar
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LaPtiteBete: So true.....
I'm also fighting... about buying one of the (or maybe both) King's Bounty, or not...
Ho, look...
An update for UnEpic...
AGAIN !?! Õ__Õ GRRR...
What... That's ALL ? :-D
Wouldn't it be nice if GOG put both King's Bounty: The Legend and King's Bounty: Crossworlds in the flash sales at the same time?
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LaPtiteBete: What... That's ALL ? :-D
Oh wait! Again! My eyes betrayed me! o_O And the search betrayed me too! o_O again! Just found the french part-it's actually Chapter IX Ronsard-I quote it in full as it's pretty small:

LIBRE ya Platero del cabestro, y paciendo entre las castas margaritas del pradecillo, me he echado yo bajo un pino, he sacado de la alforja moruna un breve libro y, abriéndolo por una señal, me he puesto á leer en alta voz:

Comme on voit sur la branche au mois de mai la rose
En sa belle jeunesse, en sa première fleur,
Rendre le ciel jaloux de...

Arriba, por las ramas últimas, salta y pía un leve pajarillo, que el sol hace, cual toda la verde cima suspirante, de oro. Entre vuelo y gorjeo, se oye el partirse de las semillas que el pájaro se está almorzando.

...jaloux de sa vive couleur...

Una cosa enorme y tibia avanza, de pronto, como una proa viva, sobre mi hombro... Es Platero, que, sugestionado, sin duda, por la lira de Orfeo, viene á leer conmigo. Leernos:

...vive couleur,
Quand l'aube de ses pleurs
au point du jour l'a...

Pero el pajarillo, que debe digerir aprisa, tapa la palabra con una nota falsa.
Ronsard se debe haber reído en el infierno...

I think I've seen this poem before, but *I think* it's a 16th century poem not an 18th one...

Edit-yup it's this poem http://www.florilege.free.fr/florilege/ronsard/commeonv.htm written by Pierre de Ronsard.
Post edited December 12, 2014 by Treasure
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IAmSinistar: Good morning folks! Hope everyone is psyched for the new bundles.
Good morning :-)
And no I am not psyched :D I am keeping it down since than I can't be disappointed by repeats or awesome bundles I can't buy because of my Secret Santa wishlist :D
GOG needs to work on the Linux updates. To get the update for Unepic, I just have to redownload the whole game. For Unepic, that isn't too bad (306MB), but my internet connection is limited to 70GB a month. I wind up right near the limit every month, so I hate wasting it.