Moosferatu

Wow, it's been a while. Have you used Crossover Office before? Is it configured to look at the correct cd/dvd drive? Something else you could try is ripping an image of the cd to your hard drive and mounting it, though I wouldn't really expect the results to be different than reading the cd.

Jake's puffin voice reminded me of Jollo from King's Quest 6. Man, it's been so long since I've played that game.

I didn't enjoy Watchmen. I think a large part of it was due to the fucking assholes in the row in front of me who were laughing at and loving the most perverted scenes. They laughed at the rap scene. The laughed when The Comedian shot the pregnant woman. They couldn't get enough of him killing random people on the street. But, then again, I couldn't help but leave that unrelentingly violent movie feeling like it may have been targeted at the assholes in front of me. What the hell was up with that soft-porn scene set to Hallelujah? I saw Synecdoche, New York last week as well. Now there's a movie worth watching.

I've bounced between a number of different distros over the past few years, each of them falling out of favor in turn. I'm currently running Arch linux, and I have to say that I'm both enjoying it the most and have encountered the least number of irritating issues. It also has an exceptionally small footprint, which would be great for your case. The one downside (depending on how you look at it), is that it takes a fair bit of configuring to get your system initially set-up. It doesn't even come with X installed. But, its not that difficult to get everything you'll need installed, it's much easier to configure than, say, Ubuntu, and there's plenty of great documentation on the internet.

Oh man, I love those old KQ videos. So much nostalgia.

Why isn't Idle Thumbs home of the infamous Shenmue prank calls?

Kingz!

wow, thanks! I'm impressed. You were right about Dak'kon. I just hadn't made him translate for me. Whoops. As for the Morte issue, I'm not sure what was up. I hadn't been mazed. I just tried loading an old save and re-creating it, but it didn't happen again. Yep, I'm using the most recent Tweak and Fixpack versions. I can give you at least a couple specific instances that it happened, if it helps. As far as I can remember, it happened almost exclusively between the time Annah joined and shortly after going to the Lower Ward. I had trouble talking to Annah before entering the Tenement of Thugs as well as on the screen she found my body on in the Alley of Lingering Sighs. I also had trouble talking to Dak'kon after showing my arm to Fell. I feel like there were at least a couple other instances, but I can't remember what they were any longer. You've done fantastic work, by the way. :tup:

Well, the problems I've encountered might be a result of me running it with Wine, but I hesitate to jump to that conclusion because it seems to run so smoothly with the unfortunate exception of cutscenes. Let's see, the most irritating bug I've encountered involves Dak'kon failing to get a key dialog option after Fell takes the tattoos off my old arm. Without it I can't do a quest in the mortuary that'd give me +1 Dex. Actually, I haven't gotten any new dialog options for Dak'kon since I finished the Circle of Zerthimon, and I can't remember if I'm missing anything else. Another irritating bug is that periodically I'm unable to talk to certain characters. However, I can usually get around this by quiting and starting again, so it's likely Wine's fault. Oh, another I just thought of. When I did the quest to get Morte back for some reason the game put Morte back in my party before I finished the quest, but without making him visible on the screen, so when I finished the quest for real I still couldn't use him. Fortunately, when I reloaded a save shortly after starting the quest (still with Morte improperly in my party) he suddenly reappeared. Another, the Puzzled Skeleton in the Drowned Nations refused to talk to me. I don't know maybe one of the fix-packs added a new condition that I didn't know about. Not a huge deal.

I'm about half-way through it using the mods mentioned here. There are some great additions. Most of the quest stuff isn't major, but there are some great restored dialogs, especially with Morte. Also, the banter accelerator produces a lot more bickering between Morte and Annah, which is always enjoyable. However, the game is still far from being bug free.

How well did it play on the Wii, Miffy?

Does anyone have a link to the Spheroid game? I can't seem to find it. [edit]Found it.

Let the Right one In was top notch. :tup:

Screw that. The Cylon War painting is where it's at.

Chris's songs are way better.

...Civilization IV: Warlords, Sid Meier's Railroads!... I like Sid Meier's games and all, but when was the last time he made an actual original game?

Yeah, Snuff Box is great. I hadn't realized that they'd finally released it on DVD. Good to know.

http://www.lively.com Anyone tried it?

Wow, that was incredibly distasteful.

Am I the only one who thought Iron Man sucked ass? IMDb's rating blows my mind.

Yeah, I also thought that this episode was shot quite well. I especially liked the shot of Starbuck standing on the grating. The scores have definitely seemed heavy handed, though I noticed it more in the previous episodes than this one. Am I remembering the first two seasons through rose colored glasses? Has the music always been so cheesy?

I got through the first few levels, and have no desire to go back to it. It's an incredibly frustrating game. For a game that's supposed to showcase the unique things you can do with the wii-mote, it really is astounding just how poorly the controls are tuned. It's fucking impossible. I don't think I've ever been so furious with the Wii as I was while I was attempting to fish in Zak and Wiki. After at least a half hour of pure frustration, I finally discovered that my problem was that I was following the game's instructions. All I had to do was not move the wii-mote like the moron wanking at the top of the screen supposedly showing me how it's done. Which, as it happens, is another incredibly irritating thing about the game. You're forced to watch that stupid man every time you use the wii-mote, and it's even made worse because he's not only intrusively annoying but he doesn't even tell you how to play the game correctly. Also, you die a lot and reloading the levels after death takes way too long.

Hogfather was a pretty good production, but they didn't seem to capture Terry Pratchett's humor, at least I rarely found myself laughing. Hopefully The Colour of Magic won't fall flat as well.

I haven't yet, so I can't compare. I just watched Network for the first time. Maybe I've just been oblivious to it until recently, but I don't understand why it doesn't have more notoriety. It's an incredibly profound and prophetic movie that's well worth a watch.