Fellow newsgroup person, ugvm magazine contributor and Citizen of Norwich A Fine City(TM) whom what I know through t’t’tinternet and a mutual friend (but separately until I realised it was the same person – the internet is the smallest place in the world) Jim Taylor is famous! Sort of! There’s a gallery in Castle Mall displaying photos of Norwich, taken by people who are on Flickr. And Jim is one of them. Today, I was in Castle Mall, so went …
Well, there’s no ending as such, but you get a message saying you’ve built a castle and now all that remains is to customise your kingdom. Since customising it doesn’t achieve anything, and I’ve now got all the single-player (and one of the multiplayer) achievements, I can call this “done”. Seven and a half hours of stress-free, dangerless gaming. Yay!
I played a demo of this a couple of weeks ago, and quite enjoyed it. I didn’t bother buying it though, as Fallout 3 was the only game in existence at the time. Today, I stumped up the points for it and spend about 4 or 5 hours on it. It’s lovely! It’s a bit like Settlers, and a bit like Doshin the Giant. Sort of. You (or in this case, me – it uses the 360’s Miis) order villagers …
I’ve been having a play with the sleep options on my new iMac over the last few days. Since it’s replacing an always-on PC, I could keep this always-on too, but I thought I may as well make it sleep overnight and save the planet from global warming. As an aside, I don’t believe in global warming. But anyway. Things weren’t working right, as far as sleeping was concerned, and I asked about in uk.comp.sys.mac for some help. An interesting …
Which may come as a bit of a shock to some of my readers, as I’ve been vocal in the past about how much I don’t wish to be a part of Facebook, MySpace, Bebo et al. It wasn’t as much of a shock as it was to me, though – I didn’t have a say in it! I got an email today saying I’d been added as a friend by someone I know who works for the LEA (Local …
This is me using gparted to clone and expand the partitions on my old work machine boot drive to my new one. I also upgraded by data drive too, and kept the old drives as backups. So now, I have a staggering 1.5 terabytes of storage on that PC. I remember just ten short years ago when I bought a “cavernous” 4.3 GB hard drive, ad thought that would last me forever.
Managed to unlock a few more things to cook, taking my total up to (I think) 62. Apparently, there are 76 in total, and I’m almost certain I’ve done all of them at least twice and taken every available “branch” to open up more options. I can only assume I need “all silvers” or “all golds” or something to get the rest. Oh, and cutting up meat is hard. Bah.
Having exhausted all of the recipes available to me, I set about finding others. You see, sometimes when cooking you get to open up other recipes along the way, like turning beef curry into beef stew instead. Found a few more, and now have about 55 or so available.
More cooking today. Recipes this evening (cooked whilst watching Celebrity Masterchef, bizarrely enough) included curried pork and rice, chilli prawns, hand-rolled sushi, and some strange macaroni dish. ACES!
I completed a few more dishes today, ranging from some quite complex stews to eggs sunny side up, and instant ramen. I really like this game, as although it doesn’t show you exactly how to create the food you cook, it does tell you pretty much the steps you need to take. I’ve unlocked a load more recipies too, so I have about 35 open in all now. Even managed two gold medals today!
Yes indeed. A cooking game for the DS. You’d not get one of them anywhere else. After a slow start (it’s actually quite hard to begin with), I’d soon managed boiled rice, stir fry, steak, and all sorts of stuff. It’s ace!
HAHAHAHA! Take that, end of game opponent! Managed to beat Sparky and Whoosh 2, quite easily as well. I was 500 points ahead on the last round, which was a comfortable lead. Unfortunately, he then got a Frog-in-One, and picked up a couple of hundred points en route too, putting me about 1200 points behind. You get 1500 for a Frog-in-One, and I’d have got 900 points (or less) if I didn’t. But I managed a Frog-in-One too, and whipped …
It started off well. I raced through my opponents, defeating all of them bar one first go and by miles. I did lose to Princess Fish-on-Head once, but only because she got the bonus points and it took her score to 5210 – when mine was 5206. Grr. And then, on the last opponent (Or at least, I assume Sparky and Whoosh 2 are my last opponents, since they have the item I need and I’ve played everyone else), I …
Made a largish dent into the “Second Mission” this evening. Is it me, or have the opponents become really retarded now? On one level, Sir Waddlelot tried the same shot seven times, each time going out of bounds, and each time losing 50 points. He failed to finish that round at all, and ended up with fewer points than he started the round with. The panda did a similar thing on another level too, allowing me to storm ahead and …
Stupid. STUPID STUPID. I beat the final opponent. He was actually pretty hard, since he knew all the “paths” to getting huge bonuses and racking up his multiplier. And he never made any mistakes either. Luckily, I knew a few paths too, and thrashed him in the final round. Hurrah! Then the end of game sequence kicks in, but I had to answer the door. When I got back, it was just finishing. And then the game autosaved. And now …