Ben X

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  1. What does your view look like?

    Watching LOTR on a big telly?
  2. Women Studies

    You said she fell back into the "overly sexualised female character made with the intentions of providing eye candy" stereotype here: Personally, I think it makes all the difference if the player is actually able to experience something as to whether it can be integrated into an interpretation of a game, especially if you're using terms like "eye-candy". From what Tycho says, though, maybe I just wasn't paying enough attention in this case. Anyway, here's the devs' explanation for it, and some earlier redesigns.
  3. Women Studies

    You mean because they made her look a little less strung out she's now an overly-sexualised female, despite the fact that the player can barely see her face at any point?
  4. https://www.idlethumbs.net/forums/topic/8658-omni/#entry237199
  5. The Big LucasArts Playthrough

    Hmmm, the sprites are a little different: http://www.night-of-the-meteor.de/index.php
  6. Tone Control is a Podcast!

    Looking forward to getting a chance to listen to this. One question, though: is the fact you don't know who you interviewed on Jan 1st 2013 due to amnesia or time-travel or both?
  7. The Big LucasArts Playthrough

    This is from that fan MM remake, right? The German one?
  8. Sports

    They are boring.
  9. I talked to Terry about this at @cb2indies yesterday. He had heard about it (a LOT) and said it was cool, but they'd got some visual details wrong. I guessed it was possibly to avoid any legal issues...
  10. The Big LucasArts Playthrough

    If you compliment him on them, he says "thanks, I paid a lot for them". Plus, if you look at the glass, you get:
  11. The Big LucasArts Playthrough

    What was in that third? I can't find anything about it. (Synth, I assume you're joking!)
  12. The Big LucasArts Playthrough

    I know there was a peyote hallucination sequence that got cut. Was there a lot more than that?
  13. Movie/TV recommendations

    It's like babysitting James McAvoy.
  14. So that annoying trollface picture will de-popularise after being on ADHD, you mean?
  15. http://youtu.be/Tzd1z3NHNt4
  16. Movie/TV recommendations

    Saw Filth. McAvoy's great but the film doesn't have much drive or depth, it's just "here's a completely fucked up guy, let's watch him for two hours".
  17. Feminism

    I've enjoyed the Thumbs forums a LOT more once I decided to start using the Ignore Button. I've only used it about four or five times. It does mean I miss out on some hilarious trolling, but overall it makes for a much more pleasant experience.
  18. Or at least get rid of the confusing Walking Dead/Mark Of The Ninja bit at the start...
  19. Old games are hard

    There were unwinnable states in Gilbert's Maniac Mansion and Last Crusade, weren't there? Plus in Zak McKracken (don't know about Labyrinth). It was only around Loom/Monkey Island that they decided to avoid them.
  20. Discworld

    Yesterday I identified a stranger's book from a few metres away with only the back showing as being The Light Fantastic, purely from the distinctive Discworld cover layout and the sky blue of the painting. I was silently proud of my own nerdiness.
  21. Sounds interesting. I'm guessing they'll want to see some environmental design ideas too - presumably the reason they've asked for "a Garden Of Eden" is because they want to see you design an idyllic beautiful space. So perhaps you could incorporate that into your game design and show a few ideas for it.
  22. General Video Game Deals Thread

    Online 2D platform deathmatch.
  23. General Video Game Deals Thread

    Gun Monkeys free weekend has just started, plus it's 50% off if you decide to buy. http://t.co/VxAxrdf2Ia
  24. Feminism

    Count yourself lucky, we got fucking Mansfield Park.
  25. Feminism

    nowadays joining a twitter campaign to have women represented on banknotes better just gets jane austen on your tenners