Last night we were going to cook up barbequeued skewers with pork, onions, green peppers and cherry tomatoes, but we ended up just putting all of the pieces on aluminum foil cooking trays and then piling them on a platter and eating them like that. Da-yum.
One of the things I got my lovely wife for her birthday was a computer game called Tradewinds Legends. In the basic Tradewinds, which she already had, you sail a ship around the Carribbean, buying and selling things and evading pirates. In Legends, it's the same idea, but set in a mystical middle east (very Arabian Nights) which features magic objects and flying ships. Very cool.
They also sent along a CD set with samples of all their other games. One of those was a game she'd been playing online (they have free demos of most of these), in which you manage fishtanks and breed fish. By its very nature, it's the sort of game that takes time to get into. The online one will work until you run out of time, or until you close the application; so if you can avoid rebooting for a while, you can get a good amount of time out of it.
The demo version from the CD just flat times out, and it doesn't let you play very long at all. This seems pretty silly, as there's no way you can even get into that kind of a game before it boots you. I can't see why they wouldn't ship a crippled version that you could play as much as you want, and then have a for-sale version with more tanks, more fish, etc. But then again, maybe that's why I'm not in marketing.
One reason, anyway.
As I was writing this, my mouse cursor was sitting over the title I had entered for this post, and it made 'Big Fish Games' look like 'Big Fish Gaffes'. Appropriate.
Tradewinds (both of them) are pretty cool games, though.
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