Both true and false: I installed Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire which I'd bought from GOG a hundred years ago, and which is one of my favourite games of all time. However, it's aged in some not-so-great ways.
It doesn't run too smoothly on Windows 10 (at least on my system). Holy eye-strain Batman. It always was a little hard on the eyes, but with my monitor set up (and, probably, my age) I was starting to feel sick after ten minutes. Also: you can't scroll in and out with the mouse wheel, like you can in modern games. And the way other civs spawn and build right next to your cities is horribly obnoxious. I'm not a fan of any of the Civ games after SMAC, but there are some things I think they got right and the notion of borders is one of them, if only to keep them from building a city two squares from your capital. Sooo.... not enjoying it as much as I'd hoped.
The next poster is also a fan of Civilization games.
450 hours in Civ6 and counting (however I am not a fan of it as much as Civ5 & 3
1385 hours in Civ5 (and the first game I ever bought on Steam - actually I bought it in the store and was annoyed that it just came with an steam activation code and not a physical disc)
66 hours in BE (would be more if Win10 didn't break it)
41 hours in Civ4:BtS.
I also owned and played to death civ2 - 4 prior to Steam being a store, and I still have my Civ3 discs kicking around somewhere.
The next poster does not a have a game on steam with over 1000 hours played.
True. I've only started to use Steam maybe two months ago, because all the extra stuff for NWN:EE is much more comfortable to install via the workshop vs downloading everything manually from the Neverwinter Vault. Saw no advantage before that.
False. Although I'm not sure if you're referring to "no pants" as in "wears shorts" or "wears skirts" instead, or as in "runs around in underwear". False in any of those cases. I wear pants (i.e. jeans) as soon as it's under 20°C/68°F, sometimes even until 25°C. I get cold easily. Shorts when it's warmer.
Ultra false. Never understood the american (and other countries?) weird fashion of wearing shoes in doors and wearing them in bed would be atrocious. Why on Earth would anyone? Shoes are uncomfortable. I wear as little as possible in bed and rather stack up on cozy blankets, comforters and pillows to create my nest. (then I hoard all the shinies in there.. )
The next person sleeps on their stomach and not their side or back.
I have 2 open on my phone ATM. This one and a spare one I use to quickly look things up. The most I usually ever have open is about 20, and that’s if I am doing research. After a certain amount it’s too much of a cluster to keep track of.
The next poster wants to try animal free ice cream.
I do in the Baldur's Gate games. Assassin was the first class I ever played BG2 with, and blackguards have long been one of my favourite classes. Fortunately, I never poison others in real life.
The next poster is also a fan of poison in the BG games.
Totally false. The very fact that BG has no alchemy and thus no poison brewing out of ingredients is one of its greatest flaws in my book. Creating magical toxins out of thin air is booooooorriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing.
The next poster likes to get their own hands dirty.
partially true, im not really a fan of getting dirty hands, but it doesnt bother me to do so, since IF i actually go to work that is going to be the result at the end of the day regardless
No chance. I'm sharing a room with my son right now. And there's a storm. I only sleep that late after night shifts, though I'm really not a morning person by nature.
The next poster wouldn't let a pet animal sleep in their bed.
Trueish. Depends on the pet, but I'd say pets are pets and not babies and/or accessories and should be treated as such. If it's a really cute one who loves to cuddle though... i'd probably make an exception.
Unfortunately that is true. I always wanted a dog as a child. And I guess our goats didn't count as pets. Although I used to talk to them a lot. Now my daughter has two rabbits, at least.
Oh. It's past 1 a.m. Good night.
The next poster is still far away from sleeping hours.
Perhaps true. Depends how you define giant. Since hamburgers are inhabitants of Hamburg, where I have friends, I guess I could win a wrestling match with one of them.
If it means eating a giant hamburger, I guess not.
(Hey @semiticgod, that's really cool! What kind of books? Do you need beta readers?)
The next poster is not semiticgod, because tagging the next poster and then guessing something is cheating. ?
Hard to say, i remember when this forum first came out, they actually did have a dislike option, and i was having them come in, especially on the one post i made where khalid is actually one of the best melee warriors in BG 1 as long as he has the gauntlets of ogre power, and there was so much dislike yeesh haha
plus we have around the same amount of posts, although for a while i've done more lurking than commenting
The next poster is insane and actually likes pineapple on pizza
I have to jump in on this one despite being the post immediately preceding only because I see pineapple on pizza as being the dessert to a pizza lunch! I love the salty-sweet dichotomy...
The next poster thinks tacos aren't really 'Mexican' food.
Edit: Insane? Ask the posters in the Politics thread for their input...
Depends on the taco. I don't generally like Mexican food, so I love Taco Bell.
@Arvia: I've got two books that are early in development, and I'd love some beta readers. The first is a visually gorgeous mystery about a lab-grown mutant on an island of amnesiac clones who finds a disturbing warning letter from her last reincarnation and has to figure out the secret about the island that her past self uncovered.
The second book is a horror espionage novel about a transgender girl who has to escape a 10-year Groundhog's Day loop with the help of a pair of teenage witches by banishing the murderous doppelgangers possessing her parents.
If the next poster gained the power to shapeshift, they'd mostly just use it to make themselves hotter.
False. I have no experience trying to be hot, I'd totally mess it up. I'd rather shapeshift into something strong and confident, like a panther. Or a seal, because I love swimming.
( @semiticgod , and I'm hereby volunteering as a beta reader! Edit: Especially for the mutant thing. I don't know how "horror" the other one is. I get nightmares easily)
The next poster would choose vampirism over shapeshifting.
False. I have no experience trying to be hot, I'd totally mess it up. I'd rather shapeshift into something strong and confident, like a panther. Or a seal, because I love swimming.
( @semiticgod , and I'm hereby volunteering as a beta reader! Edit: Especially for the mutant thing. I don't know how "horror" the other one is. I get nightmares easily)
The next poster would choose vampirism over shapeshifting.
Technically a vampire is a shapeshifter (gaseous cloud, rat, bat) but I think a larger catalogue of forms is worth the price of immortality (who really wants to be immortal anyway if you think about it) so I'd choose shapeshifter.
The next poster would choose vampirism over regular mortality...
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The next poster has recently installed a very old game and is having a blast.
It doesn't run too smoothly on Windows 10 (at least on my system). Holy eye-strain Batman. It always was a little hard on the eyes, but with my monitor set up (and, probably, my age) I was starting to feel sick after ten minutes. Also: you can't scroll in and out with the mouse wheel, like you can in modern games. And the way other civs spawn and build right next to your cities is horribly obnoxious. I'm not a fan of any of the Civ games after SMAC, but there are some things I think they got right and the notion of borders is one of them, if only to keep them from building a city two squares from your capital. Sooo.... not enjoying it as much as I'd hoped.
The next poster is also a fan of Civilization games.
450 hours in Civ6 and counting (however I am not a fan of it as much as Civ5 & 3
1385 hours in Civ5 (and the first game I ever bought on Steam - actually I bought it in the store and was annoyed that it just came with an steam activation code and not a physical disc)
66 hours in BE (would be more if Win10 didn't break it)
41 hours in Civ4:BtS.
I also owned and played to death civ2 - 4 prior to Steam being a store, and I still have my Civ3 discs kicking around somewhere.
The next poster does not a have a game on steam with over 1000 hours played.
The next poster had, or still has, a Game Boy.
The next poster refuses to wear pants, even in the winter
The next poster wears shoes in the house.
The next poster wears shoes in bed.
The next person sleeps on their stomach and not their side or back.
The next poster has more than 100 tabs open.
I have 2 open on my phone ATM. This one and a spare one I use to quickly look things up. The most I usually ever have open is about 20, and that’s if I am doing research. After a certain amount it’s too much of a cluster to keep track of.
The next poster wants to try animal free ice cream.
The next poster got hooked on the taste of alcoholic cocktail ice cream.
The next poster prefers poisoning others.
The next poster is also a fan of poison in the BG games.
The next poster likes to get their own hands dirty.
The next poster woke up pass 12:30 pm
The next poster wouldn't let a pet animal sleep in their bed.
The next person has never owned a pet.
Oh. It's past 1 a.m. Good night.
The next poster is still far away from sleeping hours.
The next poster is eating something at the moment
The next poster thinks there's always a place for a bit of Schadenfreude.
The next poster wants to write a book.
The next poster could win a wrestling match with a giant hamburger.
If it means eating a giant hamburger, I guess not.
(Hey @semiticgod, that's really cool! What kind of books? Do you need beta readers?)
The next poster is not semiticgod, because tagging the next poster and then guessing something is cheating. ?
The next poster would have more 'dislikes' than I would...
plus we have around the same amount of posts, although for a while i've done more lurking than commenting
The next poster is insane and actually likes pineapple on pizza
The next poster thinks tacos aren't really 'Mexican' food.
Edit: Insane? Ask the posters in the Politics thread for their input...
@Arvia: I've got two books that are early in development, and I'd love some beta readers. The first is a visually gorgeous mystery about a lab-grown mutant on an island of amnesiac clones who finds a disturbing warning letter from her last reincarnation and has to figure out the secret about the island that her past self uncovered.
The second book is a horror espionage novel about a transgender girl who has to escape a 10-year Groundhog's Day loop with the help of a pair of teenage witches by banishing the murderous doppelgangers possessing her parents.
If the next poster gained the power to shapeshift, they'd mostly just use it to make themselves hotter.
( @semiticgod , and I'm hereby volunteering as a beta reader! Edit: Especially for the mutant thing. I don't know how "horror" the other one is. I get nightmares easily)
The next poster would choose vampirism over shapeshifting.
Technically a vampire is a shapeshifter (gaseous cloud, rat, bat) but I think a larger catalogue of forms is worth the price of immortality (who really wants to be immortal anyway if you think about it) so I'd choose shapeshifter.
The next poster would choose vampirism over regular mortality...