h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

...in Diablo II, that is. I finally bumped into ol' Diablo himself, and just before I managed to land my first blow, he killed me. In fact, he literally killed me in less than one second.

I don't know what to say about this. Back to the drawing board, I guess.

Looks like you're pretty obsessed with this Diablo game. I have dragged myself away from The Sims (the only sort of game I really get into - not that I've really spent a lot of time in rpg) as it was absorbing my entire being. Its fun to become involved in a different sort of 'reality' but I'm not sure how good it is for the soul/imagination/social life.

Did you read the review of The Sims on SomethingAwful (http://www.somethingawful.com/articles/weekinsims/index.htm )? It's the funniest review I've ever read. Several people in my office went out to buy it after reading that review.

Read it yesterday. Very funny. not quite my style of game play though - I try and keep my Sims all sweetness and light- get them decent jobs, friends, sofas inside the house. That sort of thing.

Having left it alone for a month or so (what with work commitments and the like) I started playing it again since I read that review - oops, another 8 hours wasted.

Then I'm assuming people don't behave strangely in the game quite as often as the review seems to imply. The "wife getting up at 5:00 in the morning to cook hamburgers on the BBQ" was very funny. I mean, that _is_ a trifle bizarre, don't you think?

Anything odd like that happen to you in the game yet?

Oh yeah - the 5am barbecue is actually pretty common - I think it depends where you put the bbq - if its closer to the bedroom than the kitchen is, if a hungry Sim wakes in the middle of the night for a snack they head for the nearest food (? sounds logical to me) - not quite sure about that. They certainly have bbq for breakfast quite frequently.

I'm still trying to get my sims drunk but the booze doesn't appear to affect them - maybe they just haven't drunk enough. I should try booze for breakfast and see how long it takes them to lose their jobs.

Just stock their fridge with nothing but booze.

Maybe you should put the BBQ in the kitchen, or put the stove out on the lawn. The possibilites are endless, it seems. Sounds like fun.

Unfortunately, you do not have that degree of control - however, one of my families does have a rather sumptuous bar in the lounge and I got everyone drinking for breakfast, and then they missed work, had a party and one of them proposed to the bloke next door (who said no), Quite a fun day really - and no sign of a hangover

You're kidding me, right?

Er... no.

That's pretty funny. Perhaps there's a lot more to that game than I originally thought.

Actually, there is very little to the game - a lot of it is repetitive, or infuriating as they don't do what you want, but it does get under my skin and can't tear myself away. But it's a very slow-paced game, little action, I can't fathom what is so compelling about it!

Kind of like Mahir Cagri's home page.