Patrick R

With Twine games (or any games where you navigate onscreen text), what metric do you think a writer should use to determine the amount of text per screen? Do you think in general it's better to keep individual screens brief and keep the player engaged by clicking through, or is it better only to leave clicking for when the player is making a decision?

I actually simultaneously asked this in the Idle Thumbs IRC and was helped out. http://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/5061 http://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/5475 http://twinery.org/wiki/resources

I need help with Twine. Specifically I want to know if I can have a sound file play and/or loop upon someone entering a page.

Lords Management

If I recall, he thought the graphics were ugly.

Lords Management

The Foxy Merkins has a pretty lame title but is actually one of the funniest movies I've seen in years. It's about two lesbian prostitutes who are friends in NYC and the best way I can describe it is if someone made a lesbian version of Midnight Cowboy, but with the casual surrealism of an episode of Louie. Except it's funnier than any episode of Louie I've ever seen. And it's on Netflix Instant! Well worth seeing.

I've put 180 hours into the game and still have never been to hell. #BabyGamer

Is Secret Asian Man the only forum member who still does the daily challenge?

I'm going to listen to this. Just remember to do this podcast right: have every person record locally and then edit the sound files together. It takes a little longer to edit (at most a couple hours, if there's a sync problem) but it sounds 500% better than if you have one person record all the Skype audio. Also, don't use Skype at all, use G-Chat. It doesn't automatically mute other people when you talk, which makes having natural sounding conversations way easier.

My friend is trying to get their film funded on Kickstarter. It's called Most Likely and it's a quirky comedy about a wedding. They're less than a thousand dollars away from their goal with only 44 hours to go, so I thought I'd put this here. I already put this incentive out to my podcast listeners so I'll put it here as well: in addition to the perks listed on the Kickstarter, I am offering additional stuff to anyone who donates. If you donate 10 dollars* I will watch and write a review of the film of your choice (barring porn and really repugnant exploitation stuff). If you donate 50 dollars I will record a bonus episode of my podcast on the film topic of your choice. Podcast episodes will be at least 45 minutes long, but likely even longer than that. I dunno if this will interest any of you but with 44 hours left, I figure it's worth a shot. *This can be done multiple times too, so 40 dollars will get you 4 reviews.

Whenever I play an RPG with robust character customization I just try to make Cheryl Miller. I know that video games often have to inform players of game-play through character design, but in reality the best athletes aren't the always the most physically imposing.

Dude writes an iTunes review for my podcast about how he can't listen anymore because I'm too insufferable. Which is fine, that's his right. Then, 20 days later, he writes us a longer e-mail saying the same thing. Why? What happened between March 10th and tonight? Why?

Apologies if there's already a thread for this, I couldn't find one. Is this game the hardest? Or the least user friendly? Or am I a video game baby? I started with the Alien campaign, which is the first listed (and thus, I thought, the recommended starting point) and after an hour and a half I can't beat the first level. I keep dying in the same spot (automated turrets) and can't figure out where to go. I keep playing because I LOVE moving around the first-person space as an Alien. I love climbing walls, spiraling around corridors, speeding right through someone with my tail. But I can't figure out this first level. Is another race a better starting point for this game? Or is this just bad level design? I feel like I'm constantly lost.

I think this is yet another game I will have to put on hold until I can get the USB ports on my laptop fixed. I can't use a mouse until then, and my trackpad cannot handle the precision required to take out Aliens swarming towards me.

I write about every movie I see on Letterboxd, but I usually keep it to a paragraph or two. I wrote a longer (spoiler-free!) review about It Follows because it was a movie I was really excited about.

There is a very complicated "How much did I dislike this movie?" VS "How much do I support more movies like this, politically?" equation that goes on in my head whenever someone mentions A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night. I was not really a fan at all but I am very happy for it's success. I hope Amirpour goes onto better things.

I've figured out that you get behind the turrets using vents but there are so many vents and crawling through them is so insanely disorienting I always forget how to actually get there. I would save after taking one of the turrets out but they limit how many saves you can use per level and I don't know how long this level is. I already saved twice just getting there. Think I'm gonna restart and do Marines.

I looked the Murder She Wrote board game up on Amazon while listening and now all of my targeted Facebook ads are about Murder She Wrote. It rotates (wrotetates) between this and DVD box sets. Thanks Idle Thumbs!

Oof. No need to be cruel.

Dating can be like applying for jobs, where you can have a string of bad luck and can put in a ton of effort into a bunch of first and second dates without really getting much out of it but then all of a sudden you find the one that clicks and it's awesome. And then you get fired or quit down the road but let's be honest, did you really want to work there FOREVER?

The Woman is good (I'm a big fan of Lucky McKee) but I haven't seen The Mooring. I'll have to check it out. But if you really want to see a film with a similar style, you should check out It Follows director David Robert Mitchell's first film Myth of the American Sleepover. It's not a horror film, but it has that same languid slightly dreamy approach to adolescent sexual tension. It's really really good. Just think a slower younger version of Dazed and Confused. It's funny, after I first saw that I said that he should direct an adaptation of Charles Burns' Black Hole which is a surreal horror-tinged graphic novel about an STD going through a high school and mutating all those infected. And lo and behold his next movie was a surreal horror film about an STD (or, I supposed, a sexually transmitted curse) working it's way through a group of high school friends.

Dead Pixels - Got exactly what I wanted out of this. This is basically a slightly more robust flash game, and I enjoyed in the same mindless way I enjoy most mechanically simple flash games with RPG elements. A good game to play while listening to a podcast.

It Follows is so amazing. Best directed horror film I've seen in years and years.