Recent content by Palpatin93

Here! Here! I played the first one (I think), all the way to the end. Awesome game. Ended up using drills most of the time X)

Ah, right, misremembered. The emulator was hard to set up anyway. At some point I had to just bear the occasional sound glitch because it wasn't going to get any better.

How long has it been since I saw someone mentioning my all-time favourite GBA game? I must have sunk something around 500+ hours into this. I think the only turn-based tactics game I had known before this was Advance Wars. Seeing my characters grow, get stronger and get cool new stuff and...

Woah. Almost forgot I had an account here. ...what did I want to say again? Oh, yeah: YESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYES!!!!!!!!11 I admit it, I had already given up hope, even after Netflix brought up the possibility of taking up season 3. It just had been so long after...

You should be able to always choose them, but how much they succeed should hinge upon the direction of your major choices in the past, like: ("Paragon dialogue choice") "Don't worry, you can trust us. We'll help you through this situation." "That's a nice thing to say, but... trusting you...

That mission took me a while... but the one I stopped playing was some mission on a beach, where you have to use smoke rounds shot out of your tank to somehow get past the enemy machine guns. I absolutely couldn't figure out the right timing or placement of the smoke cloud, and I only had two or...

I want to just say that I really like the art style, maybe even more than the regular one, but that I understand the people who are put off by it, especially the nose and its red tint. It's something that can be very irritating if you're not used to it, I had that exact same feeling before.

Ooooh, I forgot to mention one: Shootaround. Awesome webcomic, very nice mix of humor, seriousness and feels. In a typical Zombie Apocalypse, but stay with me: one, this setting only serves as a background for the varied and awesome cast, and two, many of the usual clich?s are either parodied...

I love my daily/bi-weekly/weekly webcomics. They're a huge part of my routine, and sometimes the only reason to get motivated to get out of bed... The ones I check absolutely regularly are Questionable Content, Dumbing of Age, SMBC, XKCD, Menage ? trois, Gunnerkrigg Court, Go Get A Roomie! and...

While globalization and multiculturalism are becoming more and more prevalent, most works are still grounded in some kind of cultural context. For example, they will, without explanation, refer to things/themes/events that belong to the collective memory of a specific country, or (sometimes...

I had a lot of glorious moments with Black and White 2. (I will forever mourn the impossibility of a third game) The greatest moment by far: I was on the first map with the Asians. Had already assimilated the first few villages, and was trying to raise my creature, the wolf, to do some...

I love Farfalle... but Fusilli are my all-time favourites. The most easy to eat, and the shape just feels good in the mouth.

Well, I wouldn't call "Wie geht es ihnen?" the direct equivalent to the usage of "How are you?" that is being referred to here. And yeah, even "Wie geht es dir?" (not "Wie gehst du?", but no biggie^^) usually sounds a lot like a sincere question. But already the abbreviated "Wie geht's?" seems...

If it really is an American thing, then it's already leaking into other cultures. As a German, I encounter the rethorical "How are you" very frequently. It puts me in a weird spot, because I never exactly know what they want to hear as an answer... And because I really don't like that...

Germany here. And yeah, my guess for the lack of North-Americans would have been time zones, too, but... the thread was created on the 28th. Maybe it just wasn't on the top for long enough for people to notice.