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another chapter in embarrassing questions: wtf is techtv? some kind of telestation? i have no idea what are you writing about.

i'll definitely buy psychonauts for pc, because of better graphics and my averseness to xbox controllers (force myself for getting used to this controlling***** in kotor was enough ), but what really amazes me is that no german webpage of a games magazine wrote about the potential hit psychonauts but about doom3!doom3!doom3! instead. at least i made europes (?) monthly best selling magazine gamestar write a news entry about it. psychonauts deserves more attention!

seriously: all i know about ron's new game is that it won't be an adventure game.

nice interpretation. but unfortunately you missed the point. the hidden message is here. in the garage.

i think that there's an connection between the drop of double fine and the leaving of ed fries. something like that may happened: bill gates: oh! ugly ed is missing. finally! hahahaha! we need to cut down on money because we only have 93457889572597267 billions of dollars! and i want to fill all bath tubes in my living room with money! any idea, walt? walt disney: hmmm...double fine. we're pumping money into them, but all they do is writting insane news posts and postbone this game called psychonauts! we should get rid of double fine! bill gates: but psychonauts is awesome! walt disney: look, bill, i made my first movie in a garage. and i didn't need 4 years for it. and it became a huge success. i know what i'm talking about, because i'm undead. bill gates: but ed said... walt disney: ed, ed, ed? where's your ed now? hmmm? where's ed when you need him? did ed invent mickey mouse? hmmm? come on! trust me! i'm good! bill gates: but e... walt disney: forget about ed. again: what did ed do for you? hmmmm? did he gave you this rare original painting of mickey mouse when he was a little child and tried to put knitting needles into sockets for becoming black? hmmmm? bill gates: but tim... walt disney: tim? tim is evil. he's a thief and they tried to kill mickey mouse! bill gates: really? walt disney: yeah! they renamed poor mickey to dylan and made fun of him! bill gates: you're lying! ed warned me about you! walt disney: but do you remember this df news sidebar of 2002? this mouse was mickey! bill gates: no. you must be lying. this can't be true. tim is not evil. tim is awesome. tim made grim fandango! walt disney: hahaha! do you really think that your tim made grim fandango??? i'd have to dissapoint you because i made grim fandango. in my garage. years ago. i wanted to release it right after finishing the cartoon where mickey mouse commits suicide but tim stole it before. bill gates: i can't believe what you say! walt disney: don't you see the signs? if you replace some letters in tim's name you'll see what i mean. replace the "t" with "d" like donald duck. then replace the "i" with an "e" like evil. and the "m" with "v" like voodoo doll. and the "s" with "i" like the "i" that has been replaced with an "e" like evil. and the "c" with an "l" like looping. and delete all the other characters. and what will you get???? hmmm??? devil!!! bill gates: oh my god! i didn't know that! you're right! we should sell psychonauts! of course walt disney isn't walt disney here. he's a worker for sierra in disguise. conspiracy! okay. i doubt that you got the hidden message in this post.

ei wil klin ap sis kauntri, pikaus ei äm gavanar phatt of manki eiländ II!!! muahahahahaha!

add him: no one has more significance than my little friend.

wtf are you talking about??? pirate day? wtf? a whole day with treasure hunting, parrots and eye patches? that's dumb. but plundering is cool. really cool. yes.

when i was young(er) and rich(er) i used to buy more games than today. i usually play the demos of newer games and if i'd have time and if i'd be interested i'd buy it. soooooo...i bought all this bioware-stuff like baldur's gate 1+2, neverwinter nights or la-adventures like grim fandango, monkey3,4,etc... unless i'm not one of these guys, who get the games from illegal sources i understand a few motives of people, who don't BUY games: for instance the manuals get thinner and thinner and extras (like the map of britannia in ultima 9) are kind of non-existent while the prizes are still high (because of THIS people...dumb vicious circle...) and german versions are sometimes bader "equipped" (the manual of baldur's gate 2 is for instance printed on fewer pages by using a smaller font) for higher prices. these are of course not excuses, but also publisher can do something for preventing pirate copies (pointing at ea and microsoft ).

people with oftenk's avatar can't be that bad. and because...well...hmmm...did i mention your fantastic avatar???

i think that you have to equip senor lucas with the technologies of around 1979 to make a good movie out of episode 3 and avoid phony "from-computer animated-background #374925-to-computer animated-background #3489, please!"-scenes. because of the fact that it's impossible to put more computer-crap into episode 3 than in the prequel it can't become worse than episode 2. impossible.

oh. no. tim's birthday. and i forgot. great. but he got mail from me. two days later. with a lot of lying. but the problem is: i'm not good at lying and so i mixed a few lines together, called it the "tim schafer birthday rap" and sent them too. brrrrr. i wish i'd never sent this stuff. i'm too impulsive. hmmm.

i know how to play chess, but i don't know how to play it good. it sometimes happens that i beat my opponents, but then it's mostly...well...luck. my brain is just unable to think strategically and so i generally suck in all this thinking-by-planning-disciplines. all this confuse-the-others-games like activity are much cooler.

at least it can't be worse than episode 2.

Sie wurden in einem stürmischen Jahrhundert als feinste Hühnerställe wiederbelebt; Falls Ihnen Bristolkartons bekannt seien und Sie durch die Wege der Trolle gen deren Heimatstadt getrottet sind, werdet ihr eine mentale Botschaft niederkritzeln können. is this something irish? just because it's so insane and inscrutable... and don't even dare to say something against this "translation". it's brilliant for what i understood. and now translate this: Waun ich auf d'Nocht beim Wein sitz Mich systematisch einspritz Daun is des zwoar ned gsund Doch ich hob meinen Grund Mei Frau is schirch zum Fiachtn I pocks ned bei da Liachtn Doch kumm i augstraht zhaus Mocht mir des goanix aus this is the first verse of "fett wie ein radierer" (in english: drunken as an etcher) sang by the austrian heroes wolfgang ambros and rainhard fendrich.

doom 3 keyboard that's insane.

that reminds me to something else: does anybody know the video sequences in battle isle 3? they're very funny, because these are the worst sequences i've ever seen...

wohooo...irish who try to write in german. that's at least as disgusting as austrians who try to write in english. soooo if you understand german, here's something for you, mr irish: Ihr irren Iren irrt verirrt irisch durch die irrsinnig irische Kuhdarmfabrik! sooo...translate it! come on! prove that you don't speak german! ohh...and i could be bachelor of computer science in about one year. but i don't want to. hahahahahaha! annother question: are all irish forced to learn german?

pfffft...if you have some time left you could have a look into the production history of u9: http://members.aon.at/hacki-ultima/english/articles_orig.htm or if you have a lot of time left you could also have a look into the original story of ultima 9 from 1998: http://members.aon.at/hacki-ultima/english/articles_orig_plot.htm oh, btw, ultima 9 is a great example for bad project development...

yeah, but nevertheless i'm always having this ultima 9-nightmare in my mind, although it is hard to compare with the situation of psychonauts, but ea gave the designers and programmers of ultima 9 too less time to complete it, so that for instance they had to cut down the plot and put rendersequences together (because they had to put them into the game somehow, because they're expensive...) and release it with around a million of bugs in the us, blablabla. and when i read (around a year after i finished ultima 9) about the story and design that was planned for the game and what ea indirectly did to it i was pretty shocked. ultima 9 is a great game, but it could have been one of the best games ever made. since then i don't trust into ea any longer.

ea is a competent publisher, but they're very profit oriented, so that they sometimes sacrifice innovative ideas or development time for fast money. so is there for example a difference between the three(?) harry potter games? huh?

to clear this up: i don't hate people, who learn much for reaching their goals, but i hate the characteristics my brother has here: trying to avoid problems by telling people what they want to hear for being their "darling". but this still isn't the problem for me. in fact i don't care about that. but when he's telling you how great he is (and he is not), telling you that you're lazy (which is correct) because he thinks that his marks are much better than mine (they are not) then...wahh...i hate that! and i'm not insulting my brothers i tell them that with irony. sometimes i'm even supporting them (for example i explained my brother a few things in maths). but i must be mean to my brothers, because...well...because...i'm older. yes. of course i could write millions of more pros and contras but i'm too lazy for that. again.

ea will publish psychonauts? okay, they have the money, but hopefully they'll give psychonauts enough time for being as perfect as possible. since they raped ultima 9 and origin i really really hate ea games.

day of the tentacle has the best intro sequence. all this tentacle-ruling-the-world-stuff is really insane-insane-insane, which is really coolcoolcool. i think i loved the intro to lands of lore 2 too. but i don't know exactly, because that was a long time ago. but all the ea sports-games i know have pretty bad intros. and the intro to baldur's gate 2 is pretty average too, but then...uhhhmmm [edit] because i'm reading "the monkeys are listening" right now. cmi-intro: awesome! i still remember, when i played the monkeys are listening-sound around five minutes long during programming. that was cool. yes.

great news! but i'll repeat what i did before the release of grim: i try to get as less news about psychonauts (mainly story+characters) as possible to keep up the surprise. i did the same with grim and...uhhh...it was awesome!