@Jez You could convert it. Otherwise I don't get where your 200 watt comes from—at least mine if much less, rather around 400 or so, I think. Let me check.
I have been meaning to play it for years, but only now got around to it. And I have actually bought Civ 4 now, which I had been meaning to do as well.
@Jez That is a rather different genre.
Also fun.
I think I have played I or II.
Oh, and Disciples was great. Much like Heroes, but somehow more fun for me.
You didn't have huge numbers of each unit, as in Heroes, but just one in each slot; but each unit would upgrade after a certain amount of experience, gaining huge new powers. Most units had wildly differing upgrade paths.
Are there any jokes that involve the play on the homophone words ribbiting and riveting?
Most probably in the context of something like:
Direct (one's eyes or attention) intently
- all eyes were riveted on him
V with its new hex tiles and no unit stacking is really nice when I play on my computer that's got a tv for a monitor (lower resolution). I don't relish the idea of playing IV on there. Hard to see.
@Cerberus I got it right when it came out, I think. Through Steam. You can preload games just before their release date, too, so they're waiting for you the day they are released.
@aedia Is that SC2? I haven't tried it. I can imagine: I like turn-based.
@aedia Ah, actually that does sound familiar. I remember some English frogs (or someone like Kermit) making that sounds. In Dutch, we say kwaken (quack).
Ducks and frogs speak the same language here, apparently.
@Cerberus Yeah, SC2. Oh man. Also, the hotkeys! Auugh. For the three different races you can play as, they are so different, even for units you would think are the same, like the barracks-y-thing. Drives me batty.
I don't know how anyone gets good at it. Too fast for me.
@Cerberus I think you can remap them but I got fed up. I needed the mouseover text to help me learn the hotkeys, and then if that doesn't match, I start building buildings that I can't put back, and it's a disaster, and the enemy is in my base before I've got my first army properly amassed.
And those Dutch sounds aren't entirely unambiguous. Some are conventional representations of the sounds, others are only one of several possibilities, and others again seem to be the names for the sounds.
@JSBangs Right, typo. I had no idea either—just that it sounds far more familiar then ribbiting.
(Aedia's chart says ribbiting is American, so perhaps croaking is both.)
I recall a QI item about frog sounds that said different species of frogs have different cries. The "ribbit" we're used to hearing on films and TV is the Californian Tree Frog, or something like that.
@Cerberus i learnt romanian while i lived in romania, which is where i also met my wife. so i didn't really learn it from her, as i already spoke pretty well when we met
@Cerberus silly dutchmen. there are lots of small animals in a lake which do not quack. there are even lots of small birds in a lake which do not quack
the lakes around here have pelicans, cormorants, killdeer, herons, egrets...
The Great Northern Loon, Great Northern Diver, or Common Loon (Gavia immer), is a large member of the loon, or diver, family of birds. The species is known as the Common Loon in North America and the Great Northern Diver in Eurasia; its current name is a compromise proposed by the International Ornithological Committee.
Taxonomy
The Great Northern Loon is one of the five loon species that make up the genus Gavia, the only genus of the family Gavidae and order Gaviiformes. Its closest relative is the other large black-headed species, the Yellow-billed Loon or White-billed Diver, Gavia ada...
The Buck's Fizz is an alcoholic drink made with orange juice and champagne. Some older recipes list grenadine as an additional ingredient, although the International Bartenders Association recipe does not include it.
Overview
The drink is named after London's Buck's Club where it was invented as an excuse to begin drinking early, and first served, by one of its barmen, McGarry, in 1921. The Mimosa cocktail, invented four years later in Paris, also contains sparkling wine and orange juice albeit in equal measures to each other.
Buck's Fizz is popularly served at weddings as a less al...
the elk around Rocky Mountain National Park are pretty well acclimated to humans, so when they come down into the valleys to mate, people just gather along the side of the road to watch them, listen to them bugle, and (if they're lucky) see them fight
@aedia There's not a really many in the northern area, as far as I know. I've heard they've been reintroduced in PA, but I don't think there's a strong program for upstate NY.
It's not just that article. Here's a book which has it:
Bread and ale, both packed with calories and nutrients, lay at the heart of all diets, and ale barm was so vital that it was sometimes known as godisgoode 'bicause it cometh of the grete grace of God'.
Searching for the last quote, I ...
I just got my update from the guy who wrote the article, in case you're interested.
@Jez, don't know about you, but it's tipping it down here! Hope you're getting yours.
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Hello @matt, I just changed my mobile because the old one was spoilt. It's actually an even older one that was not used and given out years ago. I like primitive phones with no camera, no internet, etc.
@JasperLoy Well I couldn't find my charger for that one the night I went, so I used another old phone we had laying around that used to be one of my b/f's phones. So I still have this one at least.
I use my cellphone very rarely, so it tends to go dead often. I need to charge it up when I plan on using it.