Hi guys, i just bought YS VIII, since i waited a long time for it to get fixed i just got it, people tell me i just need to download the ofline installer and not the updates since the installer already gets updated every time a new patch comes out and the updates are just for people that have older version ot the game.

i just want to know if that is true or do i need to download the updates to?

sorry i am new to GOG.

thanks, for the quick response and sorry about the guys thing.

You're welcome.

Awww I was going to help but dtgreene beat me to it.
damn it.

"Hey guys" is gender neutral... people say that coming home to their mom and two sisters.

As the OP has been answered, I'll just go and ask it since I'm genuinely curious: once, a (masculine) guy from Texas told me that 'guys' is a gender-neutral vocative, or at least it's now used as such. As in, I could say "hey, guys" to a group of only females and they would see it as OK. Isn't that so?


EDIT: I see toxicTom agrees with that acquaintance of mine. :P

I was thinking about posting something like that, but refrained from doing it at first. Of course, I'm no native speaker, so it would seem a bit off for me to tell an American about colloquial speech in the US, but my impression from movies, TV shows and interactions with other US citizens is just that (at least for groups that include both males and females). It may vary from region to region, and you don't have to like this use of the word, but I'm pretty sure that people using it as a greeting don't mean to exclude women, so to me it also feels off to correct them about this ...

Duuuuuuuuuuuuude...

Unless you want to go with the (very Southern/country-sounding) you all/y'all (or regionally variants like youse, most of which are also widely thought of as "uneducated"), there really is no existing substitute for gender-nonspecific guys that isn't needlessly wordy or stilted-sounding. (Personally, I often address mixed groups as folks, but that would probably be considered too rural or...well, folksy for most people.)

When addressing a group consisting solely of females, gals, ladies and girls are all options, though each has its own issues. Ladies is probably the least objectionable of these, though some will still take manage to take offense. (At the museum at which I work, I once overheard a member of a party of women that I had addressed as "ladies" remark to one of her companions, "At least he didn't call us 'guys'." I would've loved to ask what term she would have preferred over either of those, but I figured it would be more prudent to glide past that topic.)


On a tangentially related note: In conversation, I once had a female co-worker exclaim at me, "Suck my dick!" (said in the same mock-offended tone that one would tell an acquaintance, "Screw you!"). That gave me pause. :D Not sure what it says about me that at first, my brain parsed the name of the first respondent to the pictured post as a misspelling of "analrimmer" =|

Repressed urges? Troubled childhood?

Qutie often, there is a very easy solution: Just eliminate the word "guys" from the sentence and don't replace it with anything else.

In the case of the original post of this topic for example, one could just eliminate the first two words, and it wouldn't affect the message at all, but would remove the gendered term.

Edit: "buit" -> "but"

How about just saying "motherfuckers"?

Hey motherfuckers, how do I use the installer?

I'm sure there would be something wrong with the word "mother". Just a hunch ;-)