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Ha ha, you know me so well!

Retweeted and considered!

How large could the hi-res files stand to be printed at? (Sorry if this is a noob question.)

Here's the scene: Bearing in mind that it is of course removed from the context of the movie. He is being a super-creep here, but I disagree with your interpretation of Weaver's performance as "spooked as fuck" and I think you're exaggerating with your description of the scene in places (e.g. she doesn't ask him not to go in the bedroom, and when she says "no no no" it's because she's guessed what he's going to say). Also, that 300cc line,surely can be interpreted as comic exaggeration on Venkman's part to convey how amped Dana was? I think the film presents him as a creep here but tempers it with Weaver's unshaken performance and dialogue (she describes him as odd and like a talk-show host). Of course, he's presented as an arsehole throughout the film to various degrees: conning a student into a date with him, blagging along on university funding, pushing his friend into a second mortgage, purposefully antagonising a government official which causes a lot of issues. He's one of a band of misfits, along with the manchild nerd and the socially-retarded nerd. I can understand that affecting people's enjoyment of the film. Probably the main mis-step the film makes is to have him get the girl at the end when he and Dana kiss as the credits start to roll. (Although they do have other scenes together, I don't remember them having much actual interaction to justify it - there's the scene with the cellist or whatever he is...)

I'm going to start calling this Melania-Trumping.

I hadn't seen that. It is a little better, it generally makes it look a bit cooler, but all the jokes fall flat for me and there's still some Scooby-Doo 2 Monsters Unleashed level shit in there. Also I guess which I wasn't aware of before. The original is an absolute classic. Hilarious, and manages to have a loose improv feel while having a load of great effects sequences and some genuinely scary moments. I'm with brkl on the Venkman thing. Intrigued about Stranger Things, will try that out at some point.

Just a reminder of where this thread ended up previously: EVERYONE BE CALM AND POLITE IF THIS THREAD IS GOING TO START UP AGAIN PLEASE

I'll be really happy if I enjoy Bustin', but after that trailer I just don't see it happening. I just binged the Preacher series on Amazon - it's really good. The considered pacing sometimes threatens to tip over to slow, and some of the accents wobble occasionally, but it's generally really fun, atmospheric stuff. It reminded me of Utopia or the first season Breaking Bad. Really hope we get some more.

Either there's some satire going over my head here or it's not working... EDIT: okay, it's working for me now

Yes, that is the one. Well, I finally dragged myself through the miniseries and it is utterly atrocious throughout. Muddled mythology-plot that attempts to cram a good season's worth at least into a couple of episodes and then ends on a cliffhanger with a load of plot-threads dangling, and no good MOTWs to back it up.

Whom. WHOM, GODDAMMIT.

Man, I can't believe we never got to 200 posts in this thread. Megafail.

I was going to complain about Jake acronymising GUI by pronouncing it 'gooey', but then I realised that fits nicely with wad and scumm, so I approve.

Well done, everyone! Gritfish, that trailer is great! Interesting that you seem to have created a load of media for it that isn't in the game (judging by the glance I took at a playthrough) - it's like your equivalent of a live action trailer! The game also looks lovely, though, very nice aesthetic choices. EDIT: it got an RPS mention! https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/07/10/killing-time-at-lightspeeds-enhanced-edition 051, was very cool to see the Steam version get streamed by the Thumbs - it's come a long way since the jam version! Okay, now onto pimping my jam game just in case no one's checking that board any more. It's an in-browser branching web-comic, basically, and a single playthrough probably takes 2-3 minutes: https://timegentleman.itch.io/memeify

Great to see you got this out, CEJ! I watched it on the stream and it was lovely!

RELEASE: https://timegentleman.itch.io/memeify ORIGINAL POST: "There are no rules" Yesterday, Jake, Chris and Nick streamed most of this Jam's games, promising to finish up the rest (and maybe play some form the previous jams) in a couple of weeks' time. I jokily asked in Slack whether it was too late for me to make an entry so it could get played on the next stream. To my surprise, the answer was yes! So I'm going to make another Cwine game over the next two weeks, based on the three main 'cast titles released since the Jam 'deadline'. I've got a few ideas already, but I thought it would be fun to implement the crowd diversifier. So please, everyone, let me know what ideas for stories, characters, events, jokes etc these titles bring to your mind and I'll fit them in somehow! You could even do concept art or photographs if you like and I'll adapt them into the game's art style.

I just watched the Thumbs stream this, and was happy to get a good few laughs out of them. I really hope they play it again in their own time at some point and try to quit the chill hell. I also hope everyone else here gives it a few play-throughs - it would be a shame if it got missed because it came a while after the jam deadline. So, I was much happier with this than my previous one - I overcame a few more tech issues and the story concept and structure was better. I also enjoyed crowd-sourcing; I originally was planning to have The Internet workplace essentially be the wild west, as both a metaphor and to fit with the cowboy-sounding McCree name, and to have the Hell be a literal afterlife, but the suggestions in this thread led me to a the more interesting bro-infested Google/Pixar-type start-up work-place setting. I think I could definitely have turned that into an adventure game, especially once I started adding the conspiracy, different rooms, and world-building details like the emoji-based room signs. I also crowd-sourced the list of fictional cereals to reference (which the Thumbs didn't notice, along with the extended Don Copal's office scene riff which I was very surprised they missed!). Someone originally suggested on Slack that I 'stone soup' the game by secretly completely building it from crowd-sourced ideas, but thankfully I didn't need to do that! The things I'm not so happy with: my art skills aren't great, so there are a few ugly panels in there; I didn't have much time to work on it, so the story isn't quite as extensive as I would have liked. Once I move my desktop out of the living room and into the (very small) second bedroom/office/crap storage, I'm planning to tidy up my previous Cwine game and insert this into it, so it becomes an even branchier game where you have more chances of tripping into a completely different story!

Yay, thanks! I'll do a little post-mortem post at some point...

This is now an itchio! https://timegentleman.itch.io/memeify I'd like to try and change the clickables' highlight colour before the Thumbs get to it in a couple of days, but I'm not sure if I'll have time.

And an additional note about KnP - here's an article about a KnP (or its successor Multimedia Fusion at any rate) game that someone developed for THIRTEEN YEARS. And a documentary about it: Here's part 1 of an (insanely long) Let's Play:

Re. the Nintendogate thing, it's not by any means the consensus that it was baseless outrage or whatever that letter said. The arguments against it being two separate innocent jokes - a Watergate allusion and a fungi pun/callback - are, as I understand it: the jokes aren't that far apart gg were calling it a reference to themselves until Quinn saw it and agreed, at which point they changed their minds it being a Watergate reference makes less sense in context than a gg ref I think this has been discussed at length elsewhere on the forums, anyway. Re. Klik N Play, Dan Marshall and I used to make games in that (and Games Factory and Klik N Create). Here's a Size Five forum thread that links to and discusses one of the more primitive efforts. Clyde also posts in the gaming board about KnP games. I think they're KnP anyway - they come from the glorioustrainwrecks community (a search for "glorioustrainwrecks/"glorious trainwrecks" on here would probably turn up more threads too). I've actually put together a fun video of gameplay clips from most of them and Dan will hopefully release it at some point when he wants a little PR bump!

I'm just catching up with the 'casts, and I've been assured by the Slack Thumbs that the pronunciation of .wad has not been discussed here. Chris wasn't sure whether to pronounce it to rhyme with "rad" or with "pod". I'm pretty sure I read an anecdote about Romero coming up with this extension name: he asked Carmack what you would call something that contained a bunch of (map) lumps, to which the answer was "a wad". So it should be pronounced as the word is, i.e. to rhyme with "pod". Apparently the Doom Bible says that it stands for "Where's All the Data?", but I think this is probably a backronym (and even if it's not, I still think it should be pronounced as the word, as this fits nicely with the Lucasarts habit of naming things after bodily fluids - SCUMM etc).

I haven't read these yet, I wanted to wait for the final versions, but I took a quick look to see if anyone went with the idea I would have used if my late wizjam entry weren't sucking up all my creative time - the itinerary of the new Lord Of Space - and was glad to see Phill had a similar idea! Looking forward to reading all these.

I haven't, but [brag] I did a couple weeks work on Deathly Hallows' 2nd unit so I got to walk around a lot of the sets and see all the workshops and stuff.

That page didn't work for me. Just in case, here's a different link: http://io9.gizmodo.com/that-black-and-white-version-of-mad-max-fury-road-is-f-1782915891 Strangely, either the official description or the Empire article refers to it as the "surreal black and white film version". Perhaps this is a translation hiccup from the German, or b&w films are considered so weird by Hollywood these days they're actually surreal to them, or perhaps Miller has inter-cut a load of melting clocks and ants spewing out of hands and such for this version.