Full Version: The Everything Thread
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Fire pixies up!!
QUOTE
Er - how do you have birds with your cat? How is this possible? Because I have a pretty heart-shaped urn on my mantle where my beloved English Budgie found out the hard way that cats and birds should not be housed together; that the squirt bottle and having their own separate rooms in the house does not stop a determined cat.
( sad.gif Poor Peep! )
( sad.gif Poor Peep! )
Oh no. We would never chance that. These are the resident outdoor birds- free entertainment for the kitties- from the safety of the living room window.
And a couple of mALX... um... squirrels, who seem to eat most of the seed. Just put a couple of peanut butter apples out.
Lovely fire, mirocu. Makes me long to build one my own self. But not enough to knock all the ice off the twigs, dig through the wood pile, clean off the hearth... etc. etc.
I shall simply go to Netflix and search for "Yule Log Fireplace," with actual crackling and background music.
QUOTE(treydog @ Feb 17 2015, 03:39 PM) 
QUOTE
Er - how do you have birds with your cat? How is this possible? Because I have a pretty heart-shaped urn on my mantle where my beloved English Budgie found out the hard way that cats and birds should not be housed together; that the squirt bottle and having their own separate rooms in the house does not stop a determined cat.
( sad.gif Poor Peep! )
( sad.gif Poor Peep! )
Oh no. We would never chance that. These are the resident outdoor birds- free entertainment for the kitties- from the safety of the living room window.
And a couple of mALX... um... squirrels, who seem to eat most of the seed. Just put a couple of peanut butter apples out.
Lovely fire, mirocu. Makes me long to build one my own self. But not enough to knock all the ice off the twigs, dig through the wood pile, clean off the hearth... etc. etc.
I shall simply go to Netflix and search for "Yule Log Fireplace," with actual crackling and background music.
Yeah, the cat had run of the house EXCEPT the bird room. Every time I saw him lingering around that door, I'd spray him with the squirt gun and tell him "NO!"
The birds were let out of their cages to fly every day, and had little gym sets they could play on that sat in the window (all the outside cats loved to watch the birdie in the window show every day). As soon as it got dark the birds would fly back to their cages and sleep. I had a breeding pair; sold off the babies after training them to be handled and not use the bathroom anywhere but their papers.
I kept a thick towel wedged under their room door so the birds couldn't escape into the cat area; but the only indoor cat we have would wait till we were asleep and pull the towel out of the gap.
Every morning I found the towel pulled out, no amount of squirting water or telling the cat "NO" changed his behavior. I got bigger towels, used more than one, etc. I even closed the cat up in my son's room while I was sleeping or going to work; but my husband let him loose while I was at work.
My poor beautiful bird, I raced him to the vet, but they couldn't save him. I really miss him.
. After that I called the vet that bought all my baby birds and sold my whole operation to her. If I couldn't protect them, didn't want to go through that again.
Poor little birds
Hope everyone's had a good Pancake Day/Shrove Tuesday.
Today I discovered that people down here in Yorkshire sometimes put gravy on their pancakes. I'm not sure how I feel about that
Today I discovered that people down here in Yorkshire sometimes put gravy on their pancakes. I'm not sure how I feel about that
QUOTE(mirocu @ Feb 17 2015, 05:14 PM)
Poor little birds
I know, I loved Peep, he was very smart and sweet. The remaining birds got a great home though, one with no lurking cats!
QUOTE(hazmick @ Feb 17 2015, 06:24 PM)
Hope everyone's had a good Pancake Day/Shrove Tuesday.
Today I discovered that people down here in Yorkshire sometimes put gravy on their pancakes. I'm not sure how I feel about that
EW! Pancakes and gravy? Urk!
Are you sure it is pancakes? My mother made something bready called "Yorkshire Pudding" that tasted good with gravy.
The good olī town of York! Oh, how I remember the times of yore...
QUOTE(mALX @ Feb 18 2015, 06:37 AM)
Are you sure it is pancakes? My mother made something bready called "Yorkshire Pudding" that tasted good with gravy.
Yep, it was definitely pancakes. This place is very strange.
Yorkshire Puddings are slightly different and super popular all over the UK, mainly as part of the traditional Sunday roast/Sunday lunch/Sunday dinner.
QUOTE(hazmick @ Feb 18 2015, 11:40 AM)
QUOTE(mALX @ Feb 18 2015, 06:37 AM)
Are you sure it is pancakes? My mother made something bready called "Yorkshire Pudding" that tasted good with gravy.
Yep, it was definitely pancakes. This place is very strange.
Yorkshire Puddings are slightly different and super popular all over the UK, mainly as part of the traditional Sunday roast/Sunday lunch/Sunday dinner.
...Pancakes and gravy?...*Shudders*...Noooo...Lemon and sugar for me, ta...Gravy?...
...Oy...Aye, McWife loves her Yorkshires with her Xmas dinner...Not a fan meself...
It's basically - I'm reliably informed - the same batter as is used for pancakes...But pancakes (possibly called crepes in the U.S.) are shallow fried in a frying pan, and Yorkshires are cooked in a special tin in t'oven...
But are essentially mixed the same...You could use the same batch to do pancakes and Yorkshires at the same time...
EDIT!!!...Before someone says it, the Yorkshire Puddings bought at the supermarket tend to be - at least in part - pre-cooked...Hence why you can just shove them on a baking tray to heat up as the shape is already there...
So I'm told...
... 
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QUOTE(McBadgere @ Feb 18 2015, 01:20 PM)
...Pancakes and gravy?...*Shudders*...Noooo...Lemon and sugar for me, ta...The only things to put on pancakes
Edit: Argh, I think my head's going to explode. Trying to find particular ideas in the mess of notes I've had dropped into my head. I know what I'm looking for is in there, but I just can't find it!
All alone again here at chorrol forums.. 
I should get a medal for member-being-here-the-most-even-when-nobody-else-is-around....
I should get a medal for member-being-here-the-most-even-when-nobody-else-is-around....
QUOTE(mirocu @ Feb 18 2015, 02:51 PM)
All alone again here at chorrol forums..
I should get a medal for member-being-here-the-most-even-when-nobody-else-is-around....
Or a deodorant?
That might do the trick!
But then Iīd get no medal!
But then Iīd get no medal!
QUOTE(hazmick @ Feb 18 2015, 06:40 AM)
QUOTE(mALX @ Feb 18 2015, 06:37 AM)
Are you sure it is pancakes? My mother made something bready called "Yorkshire Pudding" that tasted good with gravy.
Yep, it was definitely pancakes. This place is very strange.
Yorkshire Puddings are slightly different and super popular all over the UK, mainly as part of the traditional Sunday roast/Sunday lunch/Sunday dinner.
My Mom made it with a hearty beef roast for Sunday dinners.
QUOTE(McBadgere @ Feb 18 2015, 08:20 AM)
...Pancakes and gravy?...*Shudders*...Noooo...Lemon and sugar for me, ta...Gravy?...
...Oy...Aye, McWife loves her Yorkshires with her Xmas dinner...Not a fan meself...
It's basically - I'm reliably informed - the same batter as is used for pancakes...But pancakes (possibly called crepes in the U.S.) are shallow fried in a frying pan, and Yorkshires are cooked in a special tin in t'oven...
But are essentially mixed the same...You could use the same batch to do pancakes and Yorkshires at the same time...
EDIT!!!...Before someone says it, the Yorkshire Puddings bought at the supermarket tend to be - at least in part - pre-cooked...Hence why you can just shove them on a baking tray to heat up as the shape is already there...
So I'm told...
... ...My Mom made the Yorkshire Pudding in the actual roasting pan the roast was made in, and in the hot meat juices left by the roast. It was AWESOME !!!!!!
QUOTE(mALX @ Feb 18 2015, 04:02 PM)
My Mom made the Yorkshire Pudding in the actual roasting pan the roast was made in, and in the hot meat juices left by the roast. It was AWESOME !!!!!!
When I were a lad, this were the only way you could do it. AND you had to take it to Yorkshire and get it approved before you could call it a Yorkshire pudding!
Kids these days ... Get off my lawn!
When I were a lad in Glassgo, all them lasses brrought poddding up to grrampa and he toss them all ey penny to split!
Sorry!!
Sorry!!
QUOTE(Callidus Thorn @ Feb 18 2015, 09:46 AM)
QUOTE(McBadgere @ Feb 18 2015, 01:20 PM)
...Pancakes and gravy?...*Shudders*...Noooo...Lemon and sugar for me, ta...The only things to put on pancakes
Edit: Argh, I think my head's going to explode. Trying to find particular ideas in the mess of notes I've had dropped into my head. I know what I'm looking for is in there, but I just can't find it!
Some things you just can't force.
QUOTE(mirocu @ Feb 18 2015, 02:51 PM)
All alone again here at chorrol forums..
I should get a medal for member-being-here-the-most-even-when-nobody-else-is-around....
D'aaaaaaw !!!
QUOTE(ghastley @ Feb 18 2015, 04:11 PM)
QUOTE(mALX @ Feb 18 2015, 04:02 PM)
My Mom made the Yorkshire Pudding in the actual roasting pan the roast was made in, and in the hot meat juices left by the roast. It was AWESOME !!!!!!
When I were a lad, this were the only way you could do it. AND you had to take it to Yorkshire and get it approved before you could call it a Yorkshire pudding!
Kids these days ... Get off my lawn!
Bwaaahaaaa !!!
QUOTE(mALX @ Feb 18 2015, 09:24 PM)
QUOTE(Callidus Thorn @ Feb 18 2015, 09:46 AM)
QUOTE(McBadgere @ Feb 18 2015, 01:20 PM)
...Pancakes and gravy?...*Shudders*...Noooo...Lemon and sugar for me, ta...The only things to put on pancakes
Edit: Argh, I think my head's going to explode. Trying to find particular ideas in the mess of notes I've had dropped into my head. I know what I'm looking for is in there, but I just can't find it!
Some things you just can't force.
It is starting to seem that the more I try to bludgeon it out of my head the harder it is to find anything. Maybe I'll leave it a couple of days, see if anything shakes itself loose.
Or...
My head will explode and once everything's on the walls it'll be much easier to find what I'm looking for!
QUOTE(Callidus Thorn @ Feb 18 2015, 04:27 PM)
QUOTE(mALX @ Feb 18 2015, 09:24 PM)
QUOTE(Callidus Thorn @ Feb 18 2015, 09:46 AM)
QUOTE(McBadgere @ Feb 18 2015, 01:20 PM)
...Pancakes and gravy?...*Shudders*...Noooo...Lemon and sugar for me, ta...The only things to put on pancakes
Edit: Argh, I think my head's going to explode. Trying to find particular ideas in the mess of notes I've had dropped into my head. I know what I'm looking for is in there, but I just can't find it!
Some things you just can't force.
It is starting to seem that the more I try to bludgeon it out of my head the harder it is to find anything. Maybe I'll leave it a couple of days, see if anything shakes itself loose.
Or...
My head will explode and once everything's on the walls it'll be much easier to find what I'm looking for!
A lot of times when you are having this hard a struggle to write, what you do get out feels tortured to the reader; you don't want that. Wait till you have an inspiration that you can't deny and can't stop writing it out - that kind of writing grabs readers and they can't stop reading - that is what you want.
Gi mi ma pott o gooold!!
QUOTE(mALX @ Feb 19 2015, 12:47 AM)
A lot of times when you are having this hard a struggle to write, what you do get out feels tortured to the reader; you don't want that. Wait till you have an inspiration that you can't deny and can't stop writing it out - that kind of writing grabs readers and they can't stop reading - that is what you want.
QUOTE(Callidus Thorn @ Feb 19 2015, 08:16 AM)
"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
-Jack London
I've not written anything but notes for nearly two weeks, worldbuilding and so on. A whole mess of stuff rattling around inside my head, but there's a few holes that I need to patch up. The ideas and inspiration are in there somewhere, I just need to find a starting point. Once I get that first sentence, the rest will write themselves.
But that first step's a real doozy...
Write something that you KNOW has to be in there. It may not be the beginning, but it is A beginning. Then figure out how you (and the readers, and the characters) got there.
Words on paper (or screen) are the key when you are stuck. You have notes- write the "connective tissue" that pulls those notes together.
Whatever you do, please do not put yourself into the corner of "this has to be the best opening ever." What do you want the reader to know- what do you want them to wonder about- what has already happened- what is about to happen?
Words on paper (or screen) are the key when you are stuck. You have notes- write the "connective tissue" that pulls those notes together.
Whatever you do, please do not put yourself into the corner of "this has to be the best opening ever." What do you want the reader to know- what do you want them to wonder about- what has already happened- what is about to happen?
QUOTE(Callidus Thorn @ Feb 19 2015, 08:24 AM)
I've not written anything but notes for nearly two weeks, worldbuilding and so on. A whole mess of stuff rattling around inside my head, but there's a few holes that I need to patch up. The ideas and inspiration are in there somewhere, I just need to find a starting point. Once I get that first sentence, the rest will write themselves.
But that first step's a real doozy...
Oh, I know that one...
...In the midst of much the same meself, for no fathomable - from a writing standpoint - reason as it really will be little use to the thing I'm putting it in...But I have to know how it all works...QUOTE(Treydog)
Write something that you KNOW has to be in there. It may not be the beginning, but it is A beginning. Then figure out how you (and the readers, and the characters) got there.
Words on paper (or screen) are the key when you are stuck. You have notes- write the "connective tissue" that pulls those notes together.
Whatever you do, please do not put yourself into the corner of "this has to be the best opening ever." What do you want the reader to know- what do you want them to wonder about- what has already happened- what is about to happen?
Words on paper (or screen) are the key when you are stuck. You have notes- write the "connective tissue" that pulls those notes together.
Whatever you do, please do not put yourself into the corner of "this has to be the best opening ever." What do you want the reader to know- what do you want them to wonder about- what has already happened- what is about to happen?
I know that one too!!...
I had this awesome idea for a Sci-Fi thing, a while back...Massive opening bit, which I might have actually managed to finish...for once...Plotted it out, loads of characters...As is my wont...
...Fantastic it was...Well, at least in my head it was... ...Anyways...Awesome start, plotted to the end of said opening...Massive thing happens™ and then...I realised I didn't actually have a plot to follow it...So yeah...Make sure there's a point to it before you start properly...
...Oh, and I started something...Then added another bit that was started earlier...Then another bit...And then got completely lost...
My ADHD knows no bounds...
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I want waffles 
QUOTE(mirocu @ Feb 19 2015, 02:59 AM)
Gi mi ma pott o gooold!!
You're no leprechaun! No pot of gold for you!
QUOTE(mALX @ Feb 19 2015, 03:52 PM)
QUOTE(mirocu @ Feb 19 2015, 02:59 AM)
Gi mi ma pott o gooold!!
You're no leprechaun! No pot of gold for you!
Aww, shites me bogger!
QUOTE(Callidus Thorn @ Feb 19 2015, 03:24 AM)
QUOTE(mALX @ Feb 19 2015, 12:47 AM)
A lot of times when you are having this hard a struggle to write, what you do get out feels tortured to the reader; you don't want that. Wait till you have an inspiration that you can't deny and can't stop writing it out - that kind of writing grabs readers and they can't stop reading - that is what you want.
QUOTE(Callidus Thorn @ Feb 19 2015, 08:16 AM)
"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
-Jack London
I've not written anything but notes for nearly two weeks, worldbuilding and so on. A whole mess of stuff rattling around inside my head, but there's a few holes that I need to patch up. The ideas and inspiration are in there somewhere, I just need to find a starting point. Once I get that first sentence, the rest will write themselves.
But that first step's a real doozy...
Then you storyboard. Write out the scenes that you can feel; don't bother with the beginning right now. Once you have the inspired scenes written out, then piece them together/move them around so they fit chronologically the way you want them to; then write the connecting scenes to tie them together.
That will give you a better idea of the story you want to tell; and get your flow going. As you do those scenes, they will inspire other thoughts and ideas about how you want to start the story.
The beginning of the story is only the beginning for the reader, it does not have to be written first.
QUOTE(mirocu @ Feb 19 2015, 08:33 AM)
I want waffles
Choose, do you want Angry Bird waffles?
http://www.thejoysofboys.com/wp-content/up...s-waffles-3.jpg
Or my perfect homemade?
https://dressthisnest.files.wordpress.com/2...ade-waffles.jpg
Homer made!!!!
QUOTE(mirocu @ Feb 19 2015, 11:16 AM)
Homer made!!!!
Yeah, I would have been afraid to eat the angry bird one myself; but for you it might be considered cannibalism,
Just to be clear, I did mean waffles made by Homer...
QUOTE(treydog @ Feb 19 2015, 11:56 AM)
Write something that you KNOW has to be in there. It may not be the beginning, but it is A beginning. Then figure out how you (and the readers, and the characters) got there.
Words on paper (or screen) are the key when you are stuck. You have notes- write the "connective tissue" that pulls those notes together.
Whatever you do, please do not put yourself into the corner of "this has to be the best opening ever." What do you want the reader to know- what do you want them to wonder about- what has already happened- what is about to happen?
QUOTE(mALX @ Feb 19 2015, 03:59 PM)
QUOTE(Callidus Thorn @ Feb 19 2015, 03:24 AM)
QUOTE(mALX @ Feb 19 2015, 12:47 AM)
A lot of times when you are having this hard a struggle to write, what you do get out feels tortured to the reader; you don't want that. Wait till you have an inspiration that you can't deny and can't stop writing it out - that kind of writing grabs readers and they can't stop reading - that is what you want.
QUOTE(McBadgere @ Feb 19 2015, 12:56 PM)
QUOTE(Callidus Thorn @ Feb 19 2015, 08:24 AM)
I've not written anything but notes for nearly two weeks, worldbuilding and so on. A whole mess of stuff rattling around inside my head, but there's a few holes that I need to patch up. The ideas and inspiration are in there somewhere, I just need to find a starting point. Once I get that first sentence, the rest will write themselves.
But that first step's a real doozy...
Oh, I know that one...
...In the midst of much the same meself, for no fathomable - from a writing standpoint - reason as it really will be little use to the thing I'm putting it in...But I have to know how it all works...QUOTE(Callidus Thorn @ Feb 19 2015, 08:16 AM)
"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
-Jack London
I've not written anything but notes for nearly two weeks, worldbuilding and so on. A whole mess of stuff rattling around inside my head, but there's a few holes that I need to patch up. The ideas and inspiration are in there somewhere, I just need to find a starting point. Once I get that first sentence, the rest will write themselves.
But that first step's a real doozy...
Then you storyboard. Write out the scenes that you can feel; don't bother with the beginning right now. Once you have the inspired scenes written out, then piece them together/move them around so they fit chronologically the way you want them to; then write the connecting scenes to tie them together.
That will give you a better idea of the story you want to tell; and get your flow going. As you do those scenes, they will inspire other thoughts and ideas about how you want to start the story.
The beginning of the story is only the beginning for the reader, it does not have to be written first.
Just to clarify, I have started it, 7,000 or so words, the prologue and two scenes from the first chapter(2 of 4, but not the first two), so I've plenty of stuff left to write. The problem I'm having is that I can't find a start for any scenes because I keep getting hung up on the gaps in my notes; missing names and the like(I've got something of an obsessive streak), hence the whole head going to explode issue.
Plenty that I can write, but I keep tripping over myself.
QUOTE(Callidus Thorn @ Feb 19 2015, 02:33 PM)
QUOTE(mALX @ Feb 19 2015, 03:59 PM)
QUOTE(Callidus Thorn @ Feb 19 2015, 03:24 AM)
I've not written anything but notes for nearly two weeks, worldbuilding and so on. A whole mess of stuff rattling around inside my head, but there's a few holes that I need to patch up. The ideas and inspiration are in there somewhere, I just need to find a starting point. Once I get that first sentence, the rest will write themselves.
But that first step's a real doozy...
Then you storyboard. Write out the scenes that you can feel; don't bother with the beginning right now. Once you have the inspired scenes written out, then piece them together/move them around so they fit chronologically the way you want them to; then write the connecting scenes to tie them together.
That will give you a better idea of the story you want to tell; and get your flow going. As you do those scenes, they will inspire other thoughts and ideas about how you want to start the story.
The beginning of the story is only the beginning for the reader, it does not have to be written first.
Just to clarify, I have started it, 7,000 or so words, the prologue and two scenes from the first chapter(2 of 4, but not the first two), so I've plenty of stuff left to write. The problem I'm having is that I can't find a start for any scenes because I keep getting hung up on the gaps in my notes; missing names and the like(I've got something of an obsessive streak), hence the whole head going to explode issue.
Plenty that I can write, but I keep tripping over myself.
The beginning is always the hardest, that is why I suggested leaving it till last.
Ha HA!
Breakthrough
Breakthrough
*bump*
Canīt have this thread on fifth place....
Canīt have this thread on fifth place....
QUOTE(mirocu @ Feb 21 2015, 11:29 AM)
*bump*
Canīt have this thread on fifth place....
"HEEEELP!"
Donīt worry, mALX! I shallst save thee! 
Just hang on, will ya..
Just hang on, will ya..
QUOTE(mALX @ Feb 21 2015, 07:19 PM)
"HEEEELP!"
So, spent the afternoon with my sister and her boyfriend at their new place. Very nice place and a damn good fun afternoon/evening
I just love AlChestBreachīs singing when he credits people
[Kobby mode]
Iīm bored
[/Kobby mode]
Iīm bored
[/Kobby mode]
QUOTE(mirocu @ Feb 23 2015, 12:32 PM)
[Kobby mode]
Iīm bored
[/Kobby mode]
I'm more like a kinda squishy meself...Definitely couldn't make a partition out of me, that's for sure...
...
AlChestBreach!
Janet!
Jerry McGhoulBerry!
Mr. Cuddlesworth!
Steve!
Love this bunch!!
Janet!
Jerry McGhoulBerry!
Mr. Cuddlesworth!
Steve!
Love this bunch!!
McB -
QUOTE(mALX @ Feb 24 2015, 01:21 AM)
McB -
Why thank you...
... ...Sadly, right now, McB be like...
...That was the single worst nights' sleep I've had for years!...Worst thing is, I've no idea why...There's nothing going on particularly different to any other time lately...*Shrug*...But no, waking up every hour or so...And any number of strange dreams...Oy...*Fac-e-palm*...
Actually didnīt get McBīs thingie there so I decided to politely ignore it all...
Urgh.
That moment when you want to trade in a couple of games to get a new one, but don't really want to get rid of any of your games...
That moment when you want to trade in a couple of games to get a new one, but don't really want to get rid of any of your games...
Tomorrow...I shall be buying my first PC game for...Some great time...Having - thanks to Treydog - ascertained that my age-ed and slightly wonky PC will actually run it...
Trouble is...I scaaaared... ...This is newness...And my age-ed and slightly wonky brain struggles immensely with newness these days...
Downloading a downloader which will then apparently tell me what to do?...*Starts to hyperventilate*... ...
Still, I have been waiting nearly twenty years for this game to appear...So I shall simply have to Man-Up...As they say... ..
Trouble is...I scaaaared...
...This is newness...And my age-ed and slightly wonky brain struggles immensely with newness these days...Downloading a downloader which will then apparently tell me what to do?...*Starts to hyperventilate*...
...Still, I have been waiting nearly twenty years for this game to appear...So I shall simply have to Man-Up...As they say...
..
QUOTE(McBadgere @ Feb 25 2015, 07:15 PM)
Tomorrow...I shall be buying my first PC game for...Some great time...Having - thanks to Treydog - ascertained that my age-ed and slightly wonky PC will actually run it...
Trouble is...I scaaaared...
...This is newness...And my age-ed and slightly wonky brain struggles immensely with newness these days...Downloading a downloader which will then apparently tell me what to do?...*Starts to hyperventilate*...
...Still, I have been waiting nearly twenty years for this game to appear...So I shall simply have to Man-Up...As they say...
..So, what's the game bringing in such uncertainty and newness?
QUOTE(McBadgere @ Feb 23 2015, 10:23 PM)
QUOTE(mALX @ Feb 24 2015, 01:21 AM)
McB -
Why thank you...
... ...Sadly, right now, McB be like...
...That was the single worst nights' sleep I've had for years!...Worst thing is, I've no idea why...There's nothing going on particularly different to any other time lately...*Shrug*...But no, waking up every hour or so...And any number of strange dreams...Oy...*Fac-e-palm*...
I hate when that happens. For me it usually has to do with something I've eaten causing the bad dreams and restless sleep.
QUOTE(McBadgere @ Feb 25 2015, 02:15 PM)
Tomorrow...I shall be buying my first PC game for...Some great time...Having - thanks to Treydog - ascertained that my age-ed and slightly wonky PC will actually run it...
Trouble is...I scaaaared...
...This is newness...And my age-ed and slightly wonky brain struggles immensely with newness these days...Downloading a downloader which will then apparently tell me what to do?...*Starts to hyperventilate*...
...Still, I have been waiting nearly twenty years for this game to appear...So I shall simply have to Man-Up...As they say...
..GAAAAAH! Don't we get to know the game?
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