I'm stuffed full of food

[andrewducker]

We're just back from dinner at Chop Chop, where we had their unlimited banquet. It was fantastic, and we ended up having everything twice. Right now my stomach is sore from eating so much, but it was so amazing that I was having real problems not having one more dumpling, or a little more crispy northern chicken.

The conversation was also very good, ranging from how to fix cairmen's whipper (don't ask), to the predictions of farming in Diablo III. All in all a good evening out. Many thanks to werejud for organising it.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to lie down and groan a lot.

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[andrewducker]

Update, so it looks like I'm actually going dancing. I suspect this will take a large amount of diet coke to keep me upright, but we'll see!

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

"Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to lie down and groan a lot."

TMI!

[undeadbydawn.livejournal.com]

this is where Yee's Hung Ga usually have their Chinese New Year meal - and yes, it is quite terrific.

my Steam client is randomly working again, so I'm hoping it holds out long enough to try Diablo III. And hoping Blizzard drop the bloody daft online requirement.

[poisonduk.livejournal.com]

Which Chop Chop and how was the service? We've had two crap experiences at the one in Leith so now stick to the original but have found they attempt to be deliberately evasive when you order the a quiet. We were here on Tuesday and it took three reminders before the Nortern Beef finally materialised and The Pork Dumplings weren't as quick comng either, I'm not convinced its as good value wth more than three people as they add an extra dish or two per person but still bring out the same dishes. So Roy and I on our own can do two full reorders ple 2-3 'thirds' but when there were five of us ths week I don't think we managed a full reorder of everything as a couple of the dishes none of us liked.

[andrewducker]

They seemed to keep on top of things ok, and we got a full re-order on everything, and were then so completely stuffed we couldn't eat any more. I don't think there was anything other than the prawn dumplings that didn't go down very well with someone.

[poisonduk.livejournal.com]

I think our problem is we don't ask for a full re-order. As we have to change the shellfish out of our initial order because of my allergy, which once when we did a full reorder caused chaos as they brought prawn to us. So now we only reorder the stuff we enjoy - the aubergines and the cucumber salad don't really get consumed soa full re order wild be wasteful. Whilst Kirsty can eat three plates of the pork dumplings on her own!

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[poisonduk.livejournal.com]

I think our problem is we don't ask for a full re-order. As we have to change the shellfish out of our initial order because of my allergy, which once when we did a full reorder caused chaos as they brought prawn to us. So now we only reorder the stuff we enjoy - the aubergines and the cucumber salad don't really get consumed soa full re order wild be wasteful. Whilst Kirsty can eat three plates of the pork dumplings on her own!

[andrewducker]

Yeah, that would be frustrating. They weren't originally going to bring us a full re-order, they wanted to know what we wanted. But rather than try and work it out we just got more of everything. We had swapped the northern beef for northern chicken, and they managed to remember that for the second time around. Possibly we just had more competent people on than you had?

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Were you discussing the RPS thing about the Diablo 3 auction house not having real-money for in-game item functionality in South Korea and the effect that will have on the game?

[andrewducker]

Oooh, no, I forgot about that. I'm more curious as to how much people will be willing to pay for stuff they can only use in single player. And how, in other offline games, a person can just hack the game to give themselves cool stuff, but now Blizzard are going to charge for the same effect.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

People paid for horse armour DLC in Oblivion, even on PC when it was one of the most modded games that there is.

Mass Effect 2 had a several DLC costume packs and that's single player only.

[andrewducker]

Oh yes, people will definitely do it. The question is how much!

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[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Amounts that seem small in people's heads, regardless of whether they really are or not :-D

I'm pretty sure that people would happily buy 10 DLC packs that cost 99p each over a few months than they would buy one single mega-DLC pack costing £9.99.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Actually, I paid for a costume pack DLC in City of Heroes to get extra outfit options. While this was an MMO, I didn't really have much interest in what other people thought of my character and was making outfits that I thought looked good, so that probably counts too.