Arthmoor Posted December 20, 2012 Author Share Posted December 20, 2012 Nope. I'd never thought to look that up before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amadaun Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 Ama simply needs to install Vilja after choosing her start, and then Ama will be happy. Ama is happy again. Existential crisis canceled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ysne58 Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 I just found out that 'oscuro' is Italian for 'dark'. Has anyone noticed this before? I hadn't even realized it was a word. I'm pretty sure it's the same or similar in both Portuguese and Spanish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthmoor Posted December 20, 2012 Author Share Posted December 20, 2012 *takes over the front page of the Steam Workshop* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conner Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I just found out that 'oscuro' is Italian for 'dark'. Has anyone noticed this before? I hadn't even realized it was a word. I'm pretty sure it's the same or similar in both Portuguese and Spanish. Funny how that seems to work out so well for most Romance languages (Latin and it's derivatives: Spanish, French, Italian, etc.. English to a lesser extent), isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigurð Stormhand Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 It probably originally meant "hidden" or "obscure" - all modern Romance languages are basically riffing on the theme of drunk Romans in the local whorehouse, really. It rarely works for English - we appropriated words, so they don't mean the same thing half the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amadaun Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I just found out that 'oscuro' is Italian for 'dark'. Has anyone noticed this before? I hadn't even realized it was a word. I'm pretty sure it's the same or similar in both Portuguese and Spanish. Funny how that seems to work out so well for most Romance languages (Latin and it's derivatives: Spanish, French, Italian, etc.. English to a lesser extent), isn't it? Being a great fan of the chiaroscuro style of painting, I'll admit I already knew that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Kaira Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 So, it's the end of the world. I guess we got sucked into a temporal and now exist in some alternate dimension where everything is exactly the same as it was before. Sucks. I wanted meteors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vorians Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 There are plenty of meteors, you just have to go and get them yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Kaira Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 By meteors, I meant I wanted a moon crashing into a clocktower and vaporizing everyone. It was their terrible fate, after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prettyfly Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 Although I'm quite sure its not the case yet for most of this forums users, Merry Christmas everyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ysne58 Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 Happy Holidays to you too prettyfly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigurð Stormhand Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 24 minutes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndalayBay Posted December 25, 2012 Share Posted December 25, 2012 Four and a half hours! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ysne58 Posted December 25, 2012 Share Posted December 25, 2012 5 hours here, give or take a few minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dwip Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 So I've discovered the point of Angry Birds, which is apparently to give you something to do in between board games at Christmas when mom's iPad is the only handy gaming device in the house. Also to distract you from the epic pain caused by the concrete mattress on the spare bed. Seriously, ow. Which is to further say happy belated Christmas and a merry more belated non-apocalypse to one and all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndalayBay Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 I am so addicted to Angry Birds... Also hubby bought me Baldur's Gate EE - for the iPad!! I haven't checked it out yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dwip Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Be curious to see what you think of that. As anyone following me on Twitter is well aware, I am greatly enjoying the PC version. Again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthmoor Posted December 30, 2012 Author Share Posted December 30, 2012 So I did it again and picked up another Steam sale deal. The Galactic Civilizations Complete Pack. More to say on these later, but for now, GalCiv 1 is massive bugware and isn't even up to gaming standards for 2003. Yet by contrast, GalCiv2 seems rock solid stable and looks phenomenal even for 2013. Also the huge jump in planetary detail is astonishing between 1 & 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dwip Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 (edited) GalCiv2 is great. It includes Dread Lords/Twilight of Arnor, I assume. Because that's really the only way to fly. http://dementedrabbits.net/wordpress/2008/09/chitter-chitter-squeak/ Relevent. Also, how in the HELL do I get URL tags to work right? Gah. This editor angers me. Edited December 30, 2012 by Dwip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthmoor Posted December 30, 2012 Author Share Posted December 30, 2012 Heh, I remember that post The first one had the potential for greatness - as long as you didn't need to ever fight a battle. I think we both know how unlikely that was to be the case. The included DLC with that one doesn't even function, nothing but a red screen where the starmap should go. Yes, the package I got includes whatever add-ons and DLC there was, so GalCiv2 should provide some good times. URL tags work just like they always have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dwip Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 (edited) Test Sort of, in the sense of "WYSIWYG mode doesn't want you to use nicely formatted links, and if you switch to the other mode you can't find a readily obvious list of BBCodes so hopefully your memory is good." Edited December 30, 2012 by Dwip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthmoor Posted December 30, 2012 Author Share Posted December 30, 2012 Yes, that would be a thing. I usually type the url tags out by hand anyway since so many forums have so many different symbols to represent it. I suppose we were a bit spoiled on QSFP since it was the only package I'm aware of where you could still access bbcode controls without a fancy wysiwyg editor. 2001 still has some good points Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dwip Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 Well, you CAN type out the url tags in the WYSIWYG editor, but pasting the link auto-formats and destroys your tag, so that's pretty awesome. I'm also digging how the non-WYSIWYG editor is grey text on a slightly darker grey background. Totally gives me the warm fuzzy feeling. Also you're making me want to play GalCiv. But I think my new Twitter followers would be sad if I did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigurð Stormhand Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 WYSIWYG is always much more "WYSIWYMG" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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