The Temple of the Mighty Bague

I’ve just taken a cold call at work. It went:

“Good afternoon, is it you that looks after the ‘phone systems in your organisation?”

“Yes,” I say, “that would be me.”

“Ah excellent. My name is XXXXXX and I’m calling from Primus. Do you know anything about voice over IP?”

“Yes. Yes, I do,” quoth I.

“Fantastic! We’re just in the process of rolling out a great new product and were wondering if you would be interested in atten GGZZZZZZZSSSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSSCRACKLECRACKLCRACKL <boo-bee-boop The other person has cleared> clunk”.

I have to say, I’m seriously on the hook. Any telephone company which can provide a service which blares high frequency static down the line at customers and then cuts them off definitely wins my money!

moar funny pictures

Well, my lovely wife not only managed to raise a fair bit of sponsorship for the local school, but she also managed to complete the 5 kilometer race in quite a respectable time! She had originally planned to dander round at her own pace but then realised that a lot of the others were quite competitive so upped the pace a bit. Here she is, getting her official time noted. Very proud of her we are too, particularly as she gave the lycra-wearing ‘taking it all too seriously’ brigade a good run for their money wearing walking shoes and jeans

Well, I’ve had a longer go now and can safely say this is ACEBEST. It’s kinda like a cross between football manager and sim city, but very much simpler than both. Basically, you build a city, hire and train adventurers and send them out to do random stuff. I’m only a short way into it, but so far it’s proving to be one of those incredibly annoying “Just another day” type games.

Stupid name, though - hence the shortened version in the title of this post.

I’ve not played this long enough to give any kind of gameplay description - just sufficient to spot a gotcha which may be helpful to others, and to say that it’s very cutesy.

The gotcha - if the game seems to hang on the “Create Save Game” screen and not respond to keypresses, check if you have a GameCube controller attached. Cos if the game finds one, it will ignore all other inputs and expect you to use that. Took me ages to work that out