Makes sense! Interesting!
I just started playing the game again for the 3rd time and am trying to get used to the new interface… should I drag the Eye icon over anything, or click it first?
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It breaks the escalation…
first , the mother calls him “that scoundrel”
then in the next line, I need an insult that’s slighly worse than scoundrel, but slightly less vulgar that “son of a bitch”. (In italian, “son of a good woman” hints at son of a bitch without saying that)
You want to play in graphic mode? Consider you can only do half the game in that mode.
Anyway, the eye is now just a hotspot revealer. Clicking or dragging it does nothing. “look” is now completely automatic. There’s no look icon.
It just started that way?
Your current user has privileges to play in graphic mode.
If you logout and register as new user, it will start in text mode and you’ll be able to finish the game (when I’ve finished translating, in 5 days or so)
Ok - then I’ll play for a few more days with the graphic mode first
Ok. When you’ve finished the first half, I’ll switch your savegame to text mode so you don’t have to start over to play the 2nd half 
“My foot” is an idiom apparently… https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/My+foot!
so I think I’ll use that.
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that’ll be the day
come on now
could’ve fooled me
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“come on! It’s me!”. That could work.
(I don’t see how the other two can work though)
I see the hotspots highlighting has stopped working in graphics mode… I’ll fix it in a few minutes…
Fixed. Now , if you refresh the page with f5, you’ll see the hotspots if you hover the eye icon. Sorry about that 
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@Sushi another fix made … on mouseover, you were seeing objects with article and short names. (e.g. “the window” instead of “window on the second floor”). please reload page
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Hey guys, what if I change the “son of a bitch” in the beginning to “son of a tart”, or even “son of a trollop”? I need something milder than “bitch”. Not necessarily a real idiom, because after you read "son of a " you immediately know the meaning anyway. It just needs to sound funny. @Frenzie @Sushi @tasse-tee
Let me remind you the context:
“But mom, can’t daddy do it [chop the wood]?”
“No, darling. Your father’s gone. I forgot to tell you.”
“What? He’s gone? But how? When?”
“Well, what can you do, what can you do! That’s how life goes!”
“What are you talking about, mom? Where’s daddy gone?”
“How should I know? He must be in some bar, that scoundrel!”
“Oh! That’s all? Thank goodness! But then, he can chop the wood when he comes back!”
““No! You never know when he’ll be back from the bar, that son of a XXX!””
Son of a gun? (That one’s a real milder alternative to bitch.)
“Son of a dog” might be funny and self-explanatory. A bitch is a dog after all.
I had read about it, but for some reason I don’t like it… I know that gun doesn’t mean firearm in that case, but do people know that?
Son of a dog is interesting. You don’t like tart? It has this double meaning.
It’s not so much the word tart itself as the phrase “son of a tart” that I don’t think sounds as good as it could.
I see…
There’s always the Ransome variant: son of a beep!
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