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By the way, maybe you want to check Long Live the Queen. I think that you'll like the mechanic, even if is not a dating game. And I find the writing very entertaining (you can download a free demo)

Oh, I got the full one some time since. It is very funny, although it´s kind of grim the sheer number of ways in which Elodie can die- and how easy it is to do. That´s kind of my only complaint about the game- it's punishing, and it has a very clearly dominant strategy, with way less variety in options than it seems.

THey recently released "A Little Lily Princess", with a more polished mechanic, and look and based in Frances Hodgson Burnett´s "A Little Princess", which would be popularised later on by the Shirley Temple film. I like what I´ve seen, but I´m a bit uncomfortable with the pricing. Not because of the money- videogames are my only expensive vice, so I can afford them- but because I´m not sure I´m all that comfortable validating with my wallter that this game is on a par with other independents like "Dust: An Elysian Tail", "Braid" or "Bastion", all of which released for less than this one did.

But that´s just my professional conscience there, the game does look fun.

And what about the other people here? What kind of videogames do you like? Shooters or RPG? PC, consoles, handheld consoles...?

Jeez, I'm an irredeemable gamer... 437 games in my Steam library alone... so I like pretty much everything (i.e. I've played quite a few of the games you've been discussing here... and really enjoyed killing Elodie in a wide variety set of originally devised manners... although I couldn't help but feel a little bit bad for her since I know a girl around here who's name is also Elodie! XD Oh! And Sunless Sea, which I loved and remembered while you discussed about Fallen London)

But if I had to take sides, I'd say I'm really down for Strategy games. The tough, puristic, complex wargames in particular. For example those you can find in matrix games (and yes, lot's of tabletop wargames as well such as DBx, HOTT and FoG XD) 

In addition, since some years ago I really like indie games, particularly those that are more a piece of art or literature in addition to just games such as to the moon and others. In this regards, I LOVE the mix between strategy, scifi and "something-more-than-just-a-game" like Kerbal Space Program (yeah, space is also kind of my thing I guess...)

Tried MMOs as well and was really addicted to one of them for quite a long time (UWO), but in the end realized they are little more than a grinding, repetitive activity without much purpose once you've reached certain levels, and then move away from the genre. 

Finally, as Faris also pointed out, I never say no to a chance to release steam by blowing up some good old fashion mutant heads in fallout, borderlands or similar RPG-shooters :)

So... yeah, pretty much everything XDDD

BTW, really open to befriend in Steam if you guys are up to, and to play some games there as well! Let me know and will send you my nick ^^

Oh, I like RPG a lot ^^ My favorite game is Final Fantasy *.* I have been waiting for the new Final for years and years, and I am looking forward to playing >.< XDXDXD

I played most of the oldest FF games, but none after the VII. I'm curious about them, though, and I want to play them sometime.

Ah, but I have played recently Lego Star Wars, Lego Lord of the Rings, Lego Jurassic World...

I suppose that you liked them, since you played three of them. My brother-in-law has it, and I can play it, but I still haven't.

I'm surprised two of you have played Long Live the Queen. I thought that it was a less known game. From Hanako Games, I have played Long Live the Queen and The Royal Trap. The Royal Trap is a Visual Novel type of game. As with Long Live the Queen, I liked that different routes not only give different results, but a better understanding of the story. If you only follow one route, you think that you know what is happening, but a different route (even a wrong one) will change your perspective of the characters and the story. But people have told to me that that is not uncommon in Visual Novels (I haven't played a lot of them)

Anyway, I liked both, and I think that they took some bold decisions with the story, but yes, for me, the price is a bit high for some of their games.

I love video games but I have slow reaction times. I think I have lazy reflexes or something like that. So I don't play shooter games, for example.

So the kind of videogames I play are "slow"... RPG (FF, Kingdom hearts...), Graphic adventures (Monkey Island, Broken Sword...), Life simulation (Sims, Tomodachi...), Music game (Sing it, Just dance...)

I know the Monkey Island is very old but I still play :D

Hi all.

Coming back from my annual leave just now, so this week I´m going to start to participate in the activities.

See you!

Hi everybody!!!

I returned last week (on Thursday), but, it's too hard bring to update all my delayed meetings, partys to be in game.

I promise reading all new post from this waypoint.

See you online.

Saecel! Look! Look!

I... Hate... You... All... So... Much... Right... Now...

Did someone say terrifying guitar?
 

And "Hard Rock" for me... OK, it could´ve been worse. But, it´s the exact same title I got on the same exercise in the Spanish writing workshop. I mean... What are the odds? (1 in 400 but that´s not the point)

Actually, you´ll need to account for the probability of getting "hard" and "rock" in this task plus the probability of also getting "hard" and "rock" on the other task, which could make the final probabilty vary a lot depending on the method. If you had the exact same as here, that'd make it 1 in 160,000. If you were just given those two words in the other task, you´ll have to account for their separate probabilities against the entire pool of spanish words. Studies say the average adult knows around 20,000 words (and has around another 40,000 stored in short or long term memory), which meas that the probability of the tasker of giving you precisely "hard" and "rock" on the other task is around 1 in 400,000,000, and the composite probability of getting "hard" and "rock" from the spanish task plus getting those two from here would be around 1 in 64,000,000,000,000.

Yes, I´m easily amused. Sue me.

Hi!
I was added here long time ago, but I was enjoying my holidays! so, allow me to introduce myself now, although it's too late.
I only have B1 english level, but i want to prepare B2 exam and i think this... (What is this?Is it an activity?... i don't know english name...) It will help me to improve my english :)

I promise (to me) that i will work and do a lot of activities

Hey, saecel, about your story, obviously, it was

XD

Yeah, him. Brings a lot of memories from my youth :D

Also inspired for the story by all the guerrilleros/bandoleros in general :) It should actually had have taken place a little later than 1808 I believe, probably after Napoleon's intervention and the formation of the proper Guerrillas like those from Espoz y Mina, but by then the British forces had been in the Peninsula quite longer and the story from a British perspective didn't match that well I think.

I'm glad you liked it ^^

Really enjoyed the Enola Gay story too. Is it true? Was it named after someone's mother?

Really enjoyed the Enola Gay story too. Is it true? Was it named after someone's mother?

Yes. I was trying to think about something a bit different because I thought that "Beautiful girl" as a concept was a bit boring. I thought about a twist where the girl was a monster or a robot in the end, but I thought that that was cheap and sort of overdone. A humorous description where a boy had falled head over heels over a girl was a giant robot, but the kind of thing I was thinking about would be better as a poem, and I am garbage at that. And then I thought about nose art in planes, how planes and ships are talked about as if they are women and that kind of thing. And after a bit of investigation, I wrote about Enola Gay. It was an interesting lecture :)

So, yes, it was the name of his mother, the soldier that painted the name was called Allan L. Karl and Paul Tibbets was the pilot and chose the plane still in the assembly line

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enola_Gay

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Tibbets

And I discovered some interesting examples of plane's Nose Art during WWII (NSFW) while I was reading about Enola Gay

http://www.airplanenoseart.com/world-war-ii-airpla...

If you are interested, until his death, Paul Tibbets considered that what he did was what needed to be done, he didn't like that an  exhibition of Enola Gay "focused too much in the Japanese casualties" and wanted his remains cremated so his tomb wouldn't become place to protest the nuclear bomb. So, the thoughts of the character in the story were sort of (very, very loosely) based on what the real Paul Tibbets thought.

Tibbets was interviewed extensively by Mike Harden of the Columbus Dispatch, and profiles appeared in the newspaper on anniversaries of the first dropping of an atomic bomb. In a 1975 interview he said: "I'm proud that I was able to start with nothing, plan it and have it work as perfectly as it did ... I sleep clearly every night."[54][55] "I knew when I got the assignment," he told a reporter in 2005, "it was going to be an emotional thing. We had feelings, but we had to put them in the background. We knew it was going to kill people right and left. But my one driving interest was to do the best job I could so that we could end the killing as quickly as possible."[56]

Hi. I also wanted to apologise for not participating as much as I would have liked to. Holidays, exams, work...it's been a pretty busy time around here. But...I'll try to catch up this week and participate in the latest task (It's a shame having missed task two. That one I really liked)

I´ve decided to extend the current task end date until September 25th. One reason is that I posted the task on September 1st, but managed to mess up with the options and no one was able to see the post until a week later :( And the main reason is that there are some really cool stories being posted and another week seems a good idea to give time for everyone to write theirs and also for the feedback.

Ah, if everyone has an idea for a task please post it here or MP it and we can consider/prepare it.

Ah, if everyone has an idea for a task please post it here or MP it and we can consider/prepare it.

since Halloween iscoming next month, I suggest a theme/topic task focused on horror stories... that way, we can do the same approach for christmas (christmas/santa stories), valentines day (love/romance), and so on and so forth, removing some burden from you guys on thinking about new topics every month. What do you think?

Cita:

I thought "This time I'll write my task in present simple, so I don't have verb mistakes"

Jajajaja

Thanks for the corrections, Tingwe :)

Cita:

Saecel, you have had a very good idea. I agree. And when we don't have a special date, I suggest we try make a recipe or some kind of instruction (assemble an Ikea armchair, use a thermomix, build your own "Aniquilator Machine" XD...)

I think that those are great ideas.

What about making a story in sequence? Everybody could write a maximum of 250 words, and they had to continue the story of the last person who published something.

Edit: Thinking about it, there are some topics that are very common in language classes, from basic to advanced levels. That could be useful to people who want to get a certification. I think that maybe things like:

-Weather

-Health and medicine: illnesses and injuries, alternative medicine, medicine vocabulary...

-Crime and law

-Travel and vacation time

-Economy and employment: vocabulary about banks, employment, micro and macroeconomy, expressions with job/work, types of bussiness

-Clothes: patterns, styles, parts of the clothes, types of clothes. Al advanced level I had to learn the name of things for what I didn't know the name in Spanish. Do you know how many types of necklines there is? A lot.

-Animals: species, insects, parts of the animals, habitat

-Idioms...So. Many. Idioms. (We could do a task with a story where the title were a idiom)

Thanks for your feedback, Tingwe. You are right, the story was quite simple, I couldn't think of anything better ^^U 

I love the ideas that you have proposed, Saecel, Melpo and Faris! If I new idea comes to my mind, I'll tell you ^^

Simple is not bad! I liked your story!

But I think that we shouldn't worry too much about the quality of our stories, now or in the future. We are  here to practice English with a fun activity to keep us motivated. And we have an important barrier to write good stories: we are not native speakers and our fluency is limited.

So, we should write whatever we can, even if our stories or tasks are stupid or bad, and not think about things like "is my story good enough?". Just let's have fun and keep practicing and improving.