ThunderPeel2001

And the answer....?

Wow, congrats!

I've signed up for it in a show of Thumbs solidarity, although I'm not entirely sure what it's doing for me :-/ How were you involved in this, Wrestley?

Yup. Stardust on the A500, Super Stardust on the A1200... and neither of them were in any way based on . No, sir.

I'd totally agree with you there, although I think the content thankfully got a little more mature and subversive as the series went on (or maybe I adjusted my expectations?).

Eh? Not at all. Considering all the praise I've lavished on the series since it first came out, it kind of sucks that my intense dislike for parts of Chapter 4 have overshadowed all the positive things I've said about it. My fear is that the lamer elements of Chapter 4 (Saturday morning cartoon quality "shocks" and "twists") will come to the fore in Chapter 5. My predictions for Chapter 5's ending are: Morgan LeFlay won't really be dead by the end of the series... Elaine and Guybrush end up happily together... The Voodoo Lady isn't really evil... ("it's all true, from a certain point of view") LeChuck IS really evil, but won't be destroyed... Jacques the monkey and Stan will both be in the final "party" shot at the end of the game... Bonus prediction: Guybrush will have his hand magically re-attached... If just four of my predictions are correct, I will be horrendously disappointed that all the promise of doing something interesting with the series (LeChuck = good, and the weird tension and disruption that causes in Guybrush's world. The love triangle between him and Elaine. Morgan LeFlay having zero respect for Guybrush) was for naught. But that's just me... not wanting a story that would entertain and surprise an 8 year old. My rationale is this: LeChuck can't be the baddie of the series forever, and they've done just about everything they can do with him in that role... but, on the other hand, they can't (and shouldn't) kill off such a beloved character. So why not keep him as part of the series in a different way, as a new thorn in Guybrush's side, and introduce lots of new foes, instead? Then next season could be all about Guybrush trying to win Elaine back (while they're all defeating a different common enemy). I think there's just too much unmilked comedy/drama potential in a hapless LeChuck wooing a confused Elaine, and ruining Guybrush's life in a totally differeny way. (Yes, I am secretly Ron Gilbert, and yes, I think Elaine shouldn't ever really be that interested in Guybrush ) Edit:

After the heights set by TOMI, I'm not sure I'm that excited unless they're doing something different/really special.

It's 2000 to 2009. Any other suggestions, reasonable arguments, proof to the contrary, will be met with me sticking my fingers in my ears and going "la la la la la".

That's actually an incredibly awesome way to play a game. By chronicling your character you would get more and more involved with him, until the point where you'd really consider every single move. By making it a blog, you add weight to your decision to play it "real", too. No chance I'm reading it, of course, but I'd love to do it.

This is hilarious. If you've heard all the hype and been left wondering What is Google Wave, Richard Cobbett has the answer:

Cool! That could be rather useful.

But that's what I said here and here. But I was ignored ;____; Edit: Aha! That wasn't actually the solution, as it turns out! Whoops. Yay Marek!

Ooh, no! There's some great games. I remember enjoying River Raid with my ex when we discovered her old one. That was surprisingly good fun.

I've read the website and I'm still confused... What IS it? An OS for emulators? Still, I like the idea of a bunch of people coming together to make a product. That is a cool and deserves one of these:

British humour! (Will it make any sense to anyone elsewhere? I don't know!)

Yeah, I really enjoyed Inglourious Basterds (ignoring Eli Roth). Waltz was really awesome, and there are some really wonderfully tense moments, too (the opening, the bar scene). Good stuff.

You'll get used to it.

I'm fine... thanks for asking!

Well it wasn't an attack on you, it's just something I've seen a lot of recently.

I've seen a lot of people (justifiably) complain about "auto-tuning" lately and I just want to make teeny weeny pedantic point (forgive me): Auto-Tune is actually the name of a piece of software. "Auto-Tuning" something is like saying "Photoshopping" something, it's not the name of a technique like "air-brushing". [/pedantic mode] Sorry, just really wanted to say that

Do they still pixelate his already pixelated ass?

Wow, this is an interesting list! I've no idea what my GotY would be (I'll give it some thought), but the best games I've played this year would include: Ben There, Dan That GTAIV and TOMI (although I have a dreaded suspicion I'm going to detest the final chapter -- we'll see) Cave Story Only TOMI is actually from 2009! :-/ I'm sure I must have played something that was released this year. At some point.

Where's our thumbs?! All I can find is this finger:

Oh how predictable you all are

It's still coming, apparently they submitted it to WiiWare early November, although they're obviously doing a shitty job of letting people know. Here's the official developer's blog: http://www.nicalis.com/blog/ I hope it gets a 360 release, I would totally pick it up again.