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Boob Jam already has it's first jam-specific entry*: Sleeping With Boobs. It's pretty simple, but enlightening! Of all the problems I assumed large breasts can cause, I never suspected sleeping would be one of them. I guessed the game exaggerated for comedic effect to make it's point, but a friend of mine assured me that it really can be this much a pain in the ass for bustier ladies to comfortably sleep. *There is another game, Return to Eden, also listed on the Boob Jam page but that was made for this year's Molyjam and honestly feels only tangentially related to boobs.

Important Dark Forces Update: Apparently there's an option in the configuration called "Super Shield" that makes you invincible to blaster fire? Weird. Clearly an option for babies. Turned it off, the game became way more fun.

Job interviews are the worst. It's like a date with the most boring person you've ever met except you are trying to get them to marry you or else you won't have any money.

The release says it'll be available on their site and on Steam.

I remember playing games on Prodigy. I'm still not exactly sure what Prodigy was. I don't remember actually surfing the web with it. It was more of a portal to select parts of the web, right?

Haha, I often wondered why this game wasn't in the Feminist Frequency videos. It's almost impossible to save a damsel without roughing her up a bit, something that always makes me a bit queasy. It's a really great game though, for all the reasons JonCole listed.

I would go with all nine members of Slipknot and also Dracula.

Chris' consistent ignorance and ambivalence towards broader pop culture can be so delightful. As is any time you guys talk about weird Web 1.0 stuff (loved the chat room conversation, as well as the Kill Everyone Project discussion), so this was a pretty great episode for me. Other 90's hand stuff: Woody Harrelson's hand in Kingpin Nick Cage's shaking hand in Leaving Las Vegas Chris Tucker flapping his hand at people in The Fifth Element Buzz's arm coming off in Toy Story Tony Shaloub and Stanley Tucci patting all over the Timpano in Big Night Ed Norton burning his hand with lye in Fight Club

It's a different and inferior movie to the remake, to be sure (haven't read the short story, so I can't comment on that). But it's got really sharp dialogue, the pacing is good, the characters are well-drawn. And the monster and the violence he causes are both strong enough for me that it's a pretty effective threat, even if it's not as interesting or scary as the remake. I really can't say the same for Creature From The Black Lagoon (as much as I love that film and it's beautiful 3D underwater photography). The rest you listed are also really great, but none of them are quite as fun and enjoyable to me as The Thing From Another World. But it was a pretty great decade for the sci-fi film, so there's a lot of great examples to choose from, for people of any taste.

I think the film intentionally tells it's story in an obscure way to put you in the mindset of characters who know SOMETHING has happened, but are lost as to what it is and why & how it happened. It's really not so surprising that people find a purposefully nebulous movie nebulous.

The Thing From Another World is so great. Amazing script, great dialogue, great performances. It's not as scary as The Thing, but as far as 50's sci-fi goes, it's hard to find one more fun.

That's 8 more than I. This is the sort of thing I'd be all over if this wasn't the kind of forum where I knew a lot of people are way cleverer than I. This is just an excuse to end a third straight sentence with the word I.

I am pretty sure

What don't you like about the last 45 seconds?

Is there a way to count the generation you're on without scrolling through that whole wall of portraits? EDIT: Nevermind, just beat the game. 95 children! So maybe I'm great at this game!

On a scale of 1 to snikt, how snikt is The Wolverine?

Possibly, I never read up on the history of it, but that would mean his dreams solely involved him wandering around the kind of empty blocky worlds where you can hardly interact with anything and all textures were nutso PS1 psychedelic nonsense. Which would be a lucky break on his part, since that is way easier to turn into a PS1 game than most dreams that people actually have. So maybe I'm a little skeptical there. But after every level it would give you all these stats about that dream that seemed to have a specious connection to what you actually did in the level. Everything would always play out more or less the same, and any way that dreams progressed or stacked on each other was totally undetectable to me.

Yeah, part of the reason a huge Cuaron fan like myself isn't freaking out about Gravity is because in previous movies I loved how he uses those long takes to specifically explore real sets and environments, whereas that obviously can't be the case here. But on the other hand, it seems like a pretty bold formal gamble regardless, so it's definitely gonna be worth checking out. Also, all early word is that it's incredible.

Every time the owner of the pizzeria I work for comes in he tells me to make the food in a completely different way I was taught, often different from the way he told me to do it the last time he was in. This time he actually started yelling for the second time ever, because I put oregano and parmesan cheese on our spinach pizza. The first time he yelled at me, it was because I wasn't putting oregano and parmesan cheese on the spinach pizza. I got pissed and yelled back about it, and he denied the whole thing and got louder and angrier, so I got to dramatically storm off shouting "That's it! I don't need this anymore! I QUIT!" I have fantasized about doing that exact thing countless times, and it was as amazing as I always imagined it would be. For about five minutes. Then I remembered I was unemployed now.

About how many generations does it typically take to play through this game? I'm currently at the year 2696 or so and I still haven't beaten the fourth boss. I feel like maybe I suck.

I remember making a ton of super short jokey Xanga posts every day for a while in high school. It annoyed all my friends because they'd keep getting update e-mails or something. Then Twitter was invented and the rest of the world caught up to me. LSD: The Dream Simulator is kind of bonkers, but I also found it incredibly arbitrary. Basically it feels like a less focused version of Proteus, except with super PS1-y textures.

The analog manipulation of world items is definitely one of my favorite things. Running towards a room with a candle when you're low on sanity, and rushing to close any open doors once you're inside is way more effective when you can't just push E.

Yeah, I really thought that the setting wouldn't appeal to me at all (I greatly prefer my horror to be contemporary) but that went away pretty quickly. There's something about the simplicity of it that really connects to the 1800's setting, like an old ghost story by M.R. James or something, and the journal entries you find are better written and more evocative than most audiolog stuff you find in games like this. I'm only 45 minutes in, but I haven't gotten to the point where I'm too scared to keep playing.

Yup.