I wanted to play a short game so I was browsing.  I thought maybe Hynosis, went to the forums, and found out it was at least 6 hours!  I tried Puppetshow Return to Joyville but it was totally jerky and the vooices were echoing and stalling so that wouldn't do.  Surface Pantheon, nope, another long game.  I finally ended up with Hidden Expedition Hope Diamond CE.  If I remember right the game was pretty short and the CE extras can fill up my bits and pieces of spare time for the rest of the week.  I'm liking it alright, but not loving it as much as the demo.  I started playing it on a hard custom setting and it was pretty hard, no cursor changes over the items.  I decided I better back down a bit, it's pretty hard when your cursor doesn't change!  I'm sitting in my closed up game trailer playing, my van doesn't have power run to it, my game does and power goes off in 15 minutes so I'll have to gather all my stuff and head to the van and use my battery power. 

lilyr wrote:

Barre -- There must be a call for Vegemite or I'm sure the store wouldn't stock it.

Stusue -- Sorry about the frequent blood draws. When I need blood tests I go to an off-site lab.  The techs there are VERY good.  It's over before you even feel the needle.

Lily, I have to have go to the vampires every 2-3 weeks, depending on the results.  Last week the level was so high I had to go back this week.    I don't mind going but I have to pay for it every time, and that I don't like.   

I don't think there are any labs here that take blood.  You go to your GP for everything.  You can't even take yourself to Emergency here - although I did twice - as you're supposed to go to your GP who will then send you wherever you need to go.  Emergency is just for people brought in by ambulance.   The two times I went it was really weird as there's no one there - it's just empty corridors. Had I not taken myself there the second time I wouldn't be here now.    Imagine all the games I would have missed out on playing! 
 

oscar66 wrote:

That is the puzzle Stusue.  I was looking thinking yup I see the little shapes on the medallions and on the rings, yup got that and um the instructions just say look for the clues.  I assumed somehow they needed to be lined up next to there corresponding medallion but that was never going to happen.  I get what you mean in your instructions.  Will do.  Big thank you. So far I am very impressed with this game.  That orphanage sure didn't look respectable anymore!  I'm playing on hard level, I imagine the only difference is wait time for hints and skips.

Now I'm off to fill out forms for comp, one of the employees injured himself so now he is laid up and I will be laid up under a mountain of paperwork.  (I'm not being callous, it wasn't serious, hmm and he isn't answering his phone)

Oscar, I'm glad you got past that puzzle and have finished the game.    I really liked it, no matter that it was short.

How dare that employee injure himself and force a mountain of paperwork on you!    And he isn't answering the phone?  Sounds a bit suspicious to me. 
 

sunshinej wrote:

Today's Daily Deal Chronicle of Vida: The Story of the Missing Princess is a game I played and loved it. If you like these type of games it is well worth the 2.99 price tag. I would get stuck since I would not hit the hint button (There are achievements in the game) leave play other games come back to it, checked the forums for help and even asked for help. It was a real journey for me to make it to the end of the game. Vida has a companion named Black who is a talking ferret. He and Vida would banter back and forth. They both had such nice accents that fit in the game really well. The bantering I listen to most of the time since I enjoyed it and was able to easily tune it out when needed.

Speaking of regional foods. Has anybody ever heard of pepperoni balls. I thought they were a nationwide thing, but my daughter said that they were more of a regional food.

Sorry, Sunshine, but I've never heard of peperoni balls (and I wouldn't want to as I hate peperoni ).  One really weird thing about peperoni - the word Peperoni here in Germany isn't a spicy sausage but rather a green chilli!    And the word peperoni isn't even in my English-German dictionary.  I had to google a translation and it took looking at a few online translation sites to even find one that translated it into German!  Really weird. 

As for Chronicles of Vida: The Story of the Missing Princess, it's still on my list of games I can use if I need to fill a punch card but, unlike you, what has always stopped me getting it is the banter between those 2 characters.  It drove me nuts!    Well, okay, nuttier than I am already.    I couldn't stand it, hence I've never purchased the game, although I absolutely adored the graphics.
 

stusue wrote:

sunshinej wrote:

Speaking of regional foods. Has anybody ever heard of pepperoni balls. I thought they were a nationwide thing, but my daughter said that they were more of a regional food.

Sorry, Sunshine, but I've never heard of peperoni balls (and I wouldn't want to as I hate peperoni ).  One really weird thing about peperoni - the word Peperoni here in Germany isn't a spicy sausage but rather a green chilli!    And the word peperoni isn't even in my English-German dictionary.  I had to google a translation and it took looking at a few online translation sites to even find one that translated it into German!  Really weird. 
 

That is odd.  Of course, when you think of pepperoni you think more of Italy than Germany.  Anyways, pepperoni balls are 3-7 slices of pepperoni put into a doughball about the size of a orange and deep fried.  I used to eat 2 with a salad and take the pepperoni  out and stuff the ball with the salad.

stusue...With the bantering back and forth between Vida & Black in Chronicles of Vida,  I looked at it as I wasn't alone on the journey, but had two talkative friends accompanying me. 

Also, have you played Origins yet?  With my 75% off coupon at Gamehouse and their 20% off sale.  I think it would cost me around 4 bucks.