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False friends are the best. ex: worst in dutch means sausage. So I giggle whenever Twig says someone's the worst.

I'm going to be unreliable due to kids & time zone so I can't really promise much but I'm on most evenings (eu time) atm. I'd be very happy to tag along with whatever people are doing.

You can blame the Dutch royal house for that one (also for carrots being orange)

As an English speaker you have no leg to stand on re: spelling vs. pronunciation I'm afraid.

My wife's loving the new Phoenix Wright!

I'ts not precisely that I'm worried about the current level, just that it's disheartening for every single engram / drop to be level 240. It's nice to know where to get at least the change of an upgrade. Looks like mainly PoE then for what's feasible with my current gear.

So I'm back on this horse again. Here's my character: http://destinytracker.com/destiny/overview/ps/osmotich I'm having some trouble increasing my light level, what's the best thing to do now? (no pvp please) Maybe do some stuff as a group? I'm EU time, mostly evenings.

I really didn't get the point of Remains of the Day (unlike Sense of an Ending which I liked better) -- maybe because I read the Barnes book first and thus had my fill of wistful English guys going "what if".

The thing is because it's Gladwell I believe none of it

This was one of the top games at our LAN parties in days of yore. Very cool to see this come up.

Same

I had pizza with sriracha for lunch. Pretty good!

Are you doing one of your "things" again Ben

I really got into Clash Royale for a bit but it was too bad for my blood pressure. Something about it made me rage like no other game ever has, and I've played LoMas.

According to the recipe I followed (http://www.maangchi.com/recipe/tongbaechu-kimchi) 36 hours is enough for the first fermentation to have done some work. It definitely was in my case. I can imagine letting it sit out of the fridge to ferment longer but this was already pretty bubbly and sour. There's apparently a buttload of versions of kimchi, which I aim to explore. I'm definitely very happy with this one so far.

Inspired by a friend I'm making kimchi for the first time. It tasted great fresh at least! It's not super red because I went a bit easy on the chili flakes in the faint hope my wife might enjoy it also.

Lovely stuff guys. Somehow this one pleases me:

This looks like it could be really up my alley. Going to keep a close eye on things! I don't like participating early access at all so I with you best of luck with that

It seems to me that the target audience for the Wii U is exactly you: unwilling to buy it new at full price. This has driven up the price of secondhand units. Kind of amusing if you ask me.

The only 'playstyle' a new player cannot do by your definition (if I understand you correctly) is the 'experiment wildly with a vast collection' one. To which I'd say, well, yeah, because it's a collectible game. You can like or dislike that, but unhealthy is not a term I'd use given previous and continuing success of this model. If you're talking about aggro vs. midrange vs. control there's budget versions of all those playstyles available, though control tends to be somewhat more expensive.

If I understand correctly you're saying that Hearthstone is not providing sufficient handles for you to start learning it? I think that's probably a fair criticism (and one that applies to most of this kind of card/deck/combat games). The RNG aspect I don't know what to say, because as someone who's played this kind of games since 1997 I'm kind of inured to it. It's especially interesting to me to have badfinger involved in this discussion because if I recall correctly he started out pretty recently and also was suffering from this learner's cliff.

You're going to lose at least 50% of your games, more when you're starting out. If you can't derive fun from those matches you won't like the game. Personally I don't mind losing in Hearthstone and similar games because in almost every case there's something to be learned from the match. When I do get upset I know it's time to go play something else because I'm too tired to be in learning mode.

Agreed 100% badfinger.

Your eye for composition, pattern and texture is just so good, architecture.

Oh! I can't believe I forgot about Robin Hunicke! Fascinating stuff: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-08-10-robin-hunickes-extraordinary-journey