Its Friday Motherbitches - what are you playing?

[undercovergeek]

twilight watching shower of bastards - all of you

Blimey, Geek's going nuclear!

lol, its 'im, 'im and his clanking armour and his punnery

[Wolfe1759]

Though I wooden stake my reputation on this I would say it is a fangtastic game, the puzzles are good and don't dragon though you can count on some of them being bloody hard at garlic & thymes ..... OK I'd run out of ideas by that last one  :)

[MetalDog]

I just wandered in here and understand that someone owes me a beer?  Any chances I can get that now?  ;)

Civ IV MP BTS and possibly some CKII in NE Spain.  Anybody know when Warlock 2 comes out?

[Rizik6]

Civ 5 BNW, as always it seems nowadays. Also Flashpoint and PzC on my Fire. I hope Tiller and company adds PBEM to the mobile version and also adds Squad Battles to mobile.

[bob48]

I just wandered in here and understand that someone owes me a beer?  Any chances I can get that now?  ;)

Civ IV MP BTS and possibly some CKII in NE Spain.  Anybody know when Warlock 2 comes out?

As far as I'm aware, its 'early' 2014.

[Huw the Poo]

You'll know when it releases because Bob will boil over and become an incoherent mess.

[Toonces]

I'm an FSX mess.

Did two good flights in the PMDG 737 but f you see kay teh stock ATC that comes with FSX.  I mean complete male cow excrement vectors to land.  Two go-arounds in a row and finally I just said fark it and did what I had to do.  It's frustrating, though, to fly a flight by the numbers and then have the AI barf inside the 10.

No other gaming than that, so far.

[bob48]

You'll know when it releases because Bob will boil over and become an incoherent mess.

Unless MetalDog beats me to it!

Anyway - how will you be able to tell since my natural state of being is an 'incoherent mess'  ;)

[MengJiao]

Oh...I wish to amend my gaming list for the weekend.  I've been getting into a heavily patched and modded CLOD...and it is AMAZING!!!!

  Thanks to this post, I patched from TF 3 to TF 4.  Nice to have the fighter Blenheim as a flyable plane.  I've been sending it on secret missions to shoot down high-ranking Germanic types in Bf-108s over France during the morning rush.

[Tuna]

I'm an FSX mess.

Did two good flights in the PMDG 737 but f you see kay teh stock ATC that comes with FSX.  I mean complete male cow excrement vectors to land.  Two go-arounds in a row and finally I just said fark it and did what I had to do.  It's frustrating, though, to fly a flight by the numbers and then have the AI barf inside the 10.

No other gaming than that, so far.

Friday night attempted a KJFK ot KBOS flight but game crashed :-( ...  Made some settings changes and flew the Cessna 172 and Accusim B-17 around a lil after the changes. Did a KPIT to KBOS flight in the PMDG 737 Yesterday afternoon. Bought and checked out the FlyTampa Logan add on last night.

[bayonetbrant]

Yesterday afternoon I tried to play "The Nap Game".  Unfortunately, I had a pair of add-ons - "Kid Who Keeps Talking" and "Dog With No Sense of Personal Space" that kept interrupting the processor whenever it would try to run "The Nap Game".  After about 3 hours of struggling with it, I finally gave up and closed all of them and put them on 'ignore' and got on with my day.

[Gusington]

A nap? Did you turn 90 without letting us know?

[Greybriar]

It's an XCOM weekend for me. Since Friday I've been playing XCOM: Enemy Unknown. This morning I installed and am playing The Bureau: XCOM Declassified. I will probably alternate between the two for the rest of the day and into the wee hours of the morning.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

I played the "try not to flip my shit on my Chinese land-lady" game for Friday night and most of Saturday.  I got home from work at 8pm of Friday with plans to play Civ V.  Those were squashed when I hears, saw, and smelled water back-feeding up through my kitchen sink from the waste-water drain running down from my land-lady's place upstairs.  Thankfully it was only drainage from the kitchen and not the entire house.  Still pretty gross  I called her down to let her know what was going on and not to run her dishwasher or use the sink.  Then it was a couple hours of draining lines, pulling apart PVC fittings, snaking, and cleaning lines.  (I did find 5 chopsticks in the line.  Who the hell thinks jamming chopsticks down the drain is a good idea?)

I couldn't reach the blockage and it was already late, so I called it a night.  The land-lady agreed to call a plumber for Saturday morning but I knew from past experience that her notion of what constitutes the definition of a plumber is going to be radically different than mine.  Hell, I'm pretty sure she got some relative to plumb the building in the first place as there were a retardedly high number of needless 45 and 90 degree bends and nice, loooooong, horizontal runs where the stank-water could just sit and stagnate.

Anyway, I was right on the money as my land-lady finally showed up at around 10:30 am with a shitty 25 ft snake that she rented from some Home Depot type place.  I told her she was wasting her time as I'd already snaked the line and couldn't reach the blockage.  I also couldn't access the line from outside as she'd gone and built her brick patio over the access hatch.  Not to be deterred, she spent the next 3 hours trying to snake the line, then calling over random family members to take turns gawping, jabbering in Cantonese, and occasionally wiggling the snake ineffectually. I had fired up a game of Civ V during this and would kind of wander in and out between turns to take in the floor show.  I think there were six of them in my kitchen at one point.  While this was going on, I went off and did some searching on the internet and found a couple of plumbers that were local, worked on Saturdays, had good reviews, and offered reasonable rates. 

It's got to be a cultural thing.  At what point to you decide that you've spent enough time and that it's time to call in a professional?  I've spent a lot of time in Asia and have several Chinese friends, co-workers, and ex-girlfriends and it's generally true that they'd rather spend all day fiddling at a job if they think it'll save them a little cash in the end.  My land-lady simply would not give in and call a plumber.  After all, she'd already rented a snake!  She went back to the store and dragged back some hapless college kid in his smock.  He made a game effort of flailing with the snake for a bit and trying a plunger before heading back to the store with the snake in tow at 5pm. 

I called one of the plumbers I found online, told him what was going on, arranged for him to come and then told my land-lady that he was on his way and she could either pay him up front or I'd pay myself and then deduct the cost of the bill from next month's rent.    She said Ok and then said she was going upstairs for dinner and would return when the plumber arrived.

Imagine my surprise when the "plumber" who showed up later wasn't the man I spoke with over the phone but was, as I soon discovered, the boiler operator from the building where my land-lady works and they were from the same town in China, so she  got a deal!  And sure he might not be an actual plumber by trade, but he had his own tool belt and he spoke Cantonese, so what wasn't there to like?  At this point I began looking for hidden cameras to see if I was going to appear on Hong Kong's funniest Gwei-lo home videos.  I called back the plumber only to be informed that my land-lady had called him back to tell him that the problem was fixed so he didn't need to come out.  I grabbed a beer, left them to it and went back to Civ V.   

Obviously the tool-belt wasn't cutting it because sometime around 9 pm, another guy showed up.  No idea who he was as he didn't speak any English at all but he must've been a pro because not only did he have his own tool-belt, he also had a partially frayed extension cord and a 150 watt bulb! 

When he disassembled some shelving and broke out the PVC pipe cutter and started hacking, I did a quick assessment to make sure nothing of value of mine was at floor level, cracked open a beer, and decided to take in the show.  It was actually quite good entertainment.  Who knew a pipe-wrench could double as a jig-saw?  It was amazing to see him skillfully remove some OSB particle board by randomly ripping chunks out with said wrench even though I'd already offered him a selection of saws from my own tools.  I guess they weren't good enough because they were in a box instead of dangling on a belt.  At any rate, once the offending board was demolished, buddy cut a new access point into the pipe and began running the snake into the line.  Now, he did have a pretty decent snake.  It even had a fitting on it so you could thread it onto various sized PVC hubs in order to create a seal and prevent leakage. But why would you want to waste time doing that when you can just jam it in there and wiggle away?  How they failed to see what the outcome was likely to be was beyond me.  I tossed some towels down beside them and nudged the bucket towards him with my foot but he was too intent on working the snake to take heed.  He reached the blockage within a few minutes and was rewarded with a nice, high velocity kitchen waste water bukkake money shot.  Sadly, there wasn't too much left in the line so he was only partially covered in biofilm, old grains of rice, and random detritus. 

I will say that whatever shortcomings these guys had in the plumbing department, they did a hell of a job cleaning up and rebuilding the wall.  Shame that they didn't actually get out of my house until just before midnight.   

I did get quite a few turns in on my Civ V game.  The fascist Assyrian empire now controls 6 of the 10 world capitals.  It's 1967 and we've just developed our first Great War era bomber.  The musket-men of the debauched Danish and Japanese "civilizations" quake in fear.

[bbmike]

Was Wu Zetian in the game?  :P
And before I forget....Motherbitches?