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Post by Felice Landry on Aug 11, 2019 15:05:33 GMT
I did enjoy seeing shows by Shappi Khorsandi and Sara Pascoe
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Post by tenthenemy on Aug 11, 2019 15:53:53 GMT
Hullo. I, too, have been Dragon Questing and Building. I'm still waaayyy behind Conchord, but maybe if he's distracted by DQ Monsters I can get ahead again? I did buy Pillars of Eternity (thanks, Danky, for pointing out the price reduction at release), although of course I haven't touched it. The truth is that I got stuck for a while in DQB2, so I'm still in Khrumbul Dun. This happened after I acquired the flute in the quest to find gold. You are told to start looking for gold in the tunnel southwest of the old lift. No problem; the map shows that tunnel clearly to the southwest of that point. When you play your flute at the old lift it leads you to a nearby seam of gold, but when you play the flute in the tunnel the echo is "far away", and digging just leads you to a wall of hard rock. At the end of the southwest tunnel is a warp point. What's it labelled as? South east tunnel, of course. So I was running up and down that tunnel again and again, fighting respawning irritating little monsters, thinking that there might be another tunnel further West. Then I had a look for online help but couldn't find anything more precise; I found the third gold seam very easily, but what information I could find on the southwest tunnel gold was fairly vague regarding the location. Then I came across a website with a screenshot of the map and an "x marks the spot" marker. Only that it was at the end of a tunnel that didn't exist. After a lot of frustration I found a Reddit post finally pointing out that the Southeast tunnel warp point is confusingly labelled and that one just had to dig into a wall straight ahead. Which I did and finally finished that quest. If it hadn't been for the Reddit poster I might have given up. The localisation of this game has been top notch so far, so how did this stupid naming mistake creep in? And why did hardly anyone else have a problem with it? Anyway, now back on track and I've even built the scenic shower with the glass panels as walls that Serge wanted. He also told me that if I thought that this was ideal for perving on a bunch of beefcake miners in the shower that this was my own dirty imagination. He's right, you know. |
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Post by Shenguin on Aug 11, 2019 16:04:23 GMT
Dear Blog Hive Mind,
An eleven year-old who is relatively intelligent and mature, but frankly not very emotionally resilient, wants me to give him permission to play Destiny 2. I have it, but I've never played it.
What should I tell him? Please bear in mind that I don't mind fucking his emotional and social development a little bit in order to get him to like me more.
Obviously I know the answer should be no, it's 16 rated, ffs. I don't mind a bit of blood, but I don't want to have a conversation about drugs or sex, and I don't want him to have to deal with verbal or written abuse from American teenagers.
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Post by Shenguin on Aug 11, 2019 16:13:29 GMT
I did enjoy seeing shows by Shappi Khorsandi and Sara Pascoe Pervert |
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Post by Faceless on Aug 11, 2019 16:44:43 GMT
For some reason I'd always assumed sheep was older than eleven.
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Post by Sheep2 on Aug 11, 2019 16:44:59 GMT
Get him to play Destiny 2 solo.
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Post by Sheep2 on Aug 11, 2019 16:46:59 GMT
There is a storyline and everything to Destiny 2.
Assuming he completes that you'll have a good idea of whether he wants to/ is ready to play online.
If he is teaming up with friends it should be ok.
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Post by Faceless on Aug 11, 2019 16:49:02 GMT
Shenguin if the kid is in high school then let him play Destiny. If he's not, then don't.
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Post by Shenguin on Aug 11, 2019 16:49:25 GMT
For some reason I'd always assumed sheep was older than eleven. That definitely wasn't the level of maturity he displays, so I'm at a loss as to why you would have assumed that. |
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Post by Faceless on Aug 11, 2019 16:51:40 GMT
I'd also strongly advise against taking parenting advice from me.
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Post by Sheep2 on Aug 11, 2019 16:53:07 GMT
For some reason I'd always assumed sheep was older than eleven. I am 11 four times over. Plus add a bit. I do not play Destiny 2 online despite owning the game. It requires too much effort and commitment. And i'd not be that good at it anyway. I don't think the Destiny community is too bad. There's a lot of co-op play so players don't tend to be that abusive. The 11 year old really needs to try Call Of Duty. There's plenty of racist and homophobic people on there to toughen him up. |
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Post by Sheep2 on Aug 11, 2019 17:01:51 GMT
For proper emotional toughening I suggest taking 11 year old to Blues away games at Stoke and Millwall.
If we win at Millwall insist on him using the main exit, not Cowards' Way to get back to the station*. It's a night game as well. Which makes it more atmospheric.
* you should probably use Cowards' Way.
Ideally you would take him to 1980s local derby. Though this may prove logistically tricky.
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Post by Faceless on Aug 11, 2019 17:20:13 GMT
Fat Frank's Chelsea career is off to a hilarious start
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Post by Felice Landry on Aug 11, 2019 17:20:54 GMT
I did enjoy seeing shows by Shappi Khorsandi and Sara Pascoe Pervert You weren't No 1 to make that comment but certainly top 3 |
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Post by Destry on Aug 11, 2019 20:46:40 GMT
Hello
Over the past weekend I have binge watched two series of I'm Alan Partridge. It was fun.
I'm now watching Romesh Ranganathan in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Not so much fun. *
* The programme itself, fine; the history it's documenting much less so.
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Post by Destry on Aug 11, 2019 20:50:48 GMT
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Post by Destry on Aug 11, 2019 21:24:33 GMT
As the bishop said to the mother superior.......
"I'm just shooting into the abbess."
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Post by Destry on Aug 11, 2019 21:32:35 GMT
Where's Tuffers when you need him?
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Post by Chumbles on Aug 11, 2019 21:55:55 GMT
Getting pissed at some dubious hostelry. Doubtless he will be in later to share the chaotic fruits of his inebriated meditation - meanwhile I am going to snooze. Nursey was in a hurry today which led to a degree of painful exsanguination, so I am somewhat weary after the rigors of treatment
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Post by tenthenemy on Aug 11, 2019 21:57:21 GMT
Hah! I've just only finished the Mongolia episode. I'm still surprised that no comment was made about the fact that the exit to the viewing platform of the giant Genghis Khan statue was in the great man's crotch area...
Maybe they felt that the phallic joke quota had been filled.
Dinner tonight was salmon, potatoes, asparagus and watercress sauce accompanied by an agreeable Chardonnay.
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Post by tenthenemy on Aug 11, 2019 22:01:59 GMT
Imagine how the political climate in the US could have been improved if only they had made better choices when it came to Lee statues. |
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Post by tenthenemy on Aug 11, 2019 22:11:14 GMT
I don't understand why Sheep and Shenguin are hogging the Destiny 2 copies without playing them when there are deserving eleven year olds who have to go without one.
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Post by Shenguin on Aug 11, 2019 22:26:48 GMT
I don't even know why I have a copy. I guess it was a PS+ free game.
I'm also not sure that any 11y-o in the entire history of 11y-o's has actually been deserving.
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Post by Chumbles on Aug 11, 2019 23:38:34 GMT
I don't even know why I have a copy. I guess it was a PS+ free game. I'm also not sure that any 11y-o in the entire history of 11y-o's has actually been deserving. As an 11 year old I was oversized, and always ravenous because I grew so quickly... I started my 11th year height 5' 1" and ended at 6' 1"... my clothes were bought at jumble sales or second hand and in this fashion started secondary education at a secondary modern. I was unbelievably clumsy and mum thought I broke things simply by looking at them. I was reminded of this as last week she would have become a centenarian. You can probably guess that I was the butt of many a merry jest. It would have been so much more bearable if they hadn't been repeated so often or if they were amusing. Worse still was that every bully in every year felt duty bound to pick on me. I was taller than most of the blokes in the 6th form, let alone the first year. The bullying stopped in the second year when I discovered that the Irish bit of me is an insensate black rage. I've only truly lost my temper twice in my long life. And only when I have seen someone bullying someone else. I hated my school days. |
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