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I'm already medicated for a disorder, so the depression is kept at bay, even though I should be really depressed right now.

Ah yeah the Conroy Bumpus song is great. I guess I meant the themes in Sam and Max Hit the Road seem less catchy than Day of the Tentacle or Monkey Island and more forgettable. A lot of the music seems more like individual songs instead of really being related to eachother. There's not that amazing instant mesh like MI2, Full Throttle, and Grim Fandango. The Indy games are kind of easy since we all know and love that theme anyway. Man, reading all of this just makes me realize how iffy of an adventure game Sam and Max is in terms of design. I think what originally attached me to the game was just the love of the characters and the swearing. It's kind of weird but my whole internet forum usage and a real life friend is based around Sam and Max. Sometime during 5th grade, after seeing the the collected Sam and Max book on sale in some Adventurer issue, I realized Sam and Max was a comic first and really wanted to experience it, since I liked the stuff in the manual (didn't know it was recycled). I saved up $25 to buy the hardcover version and then got out the yellow pages and called every comic store in all of Houston until I found one store (and only one) that had it. The reason I had to do this is my parents refused to mail order it for me because of worry of credit card theft or something. So convinced my mom to drive me the 10 miles and went home happy. Joined a crappy Sam and Max forum which went through a bunch of iterations before it became a part of Lucasforums which then eventually led me to Idlethumbs. Also I lent this book to a crappy friend in the 7th grade and he never returned it. He kept making excuses about how he lost it, but I couldn't tell if he stole it or truly lost it, since some people were saying he was bragging about tricking me. I guess I didn't want to cause a big stink other than bugging him about it, and I think that year I was at near suspension for my fights in school quota, so I didn't really do anything drastic. Later on, I fittingly went to some run down minigolf place with my mom and sister and he was there with his family. I told my mom that's the kid that stole my book and she went over and told the dad. Suprisingly, the dad was a stand up guy and gave me $25 on the spot for the book. I can't believe that actually worked since that could have been a strange hostile situation with arguing parents. At that point the book was way out of print and calling every comic shop in Houston that time had no results. Oh yeah so someone gave out Steve Purcell's Hotmail address on those forums, and I did the obnoxious thing every kid does and send him pestering questions about his characters every couple of months. He was always super nice about it and replied every time. I told him I couldn't find a new Sam and Max book and he told me about this wonderful site called Amazon that had it for a decent price. But same problem, parents were also scared of credit card theft on the internet, they still are. So I told him that and he agreed to send me one of his copies of the book if I sent him the money. A month or so later, I get a box in the mail with a drawing Max's head in felt tip. Upon opening it, I realize the book inside had a really neat inked and colored drawing of Max on the inside flap personalized to me. I still think this is one of the coolest things ever to this day. A year later I drew a 3 page Sam and Max fan comic, scanned it, and sent it to his e-mail. It was pretty lame from what I remember, but I think he was very gracious about it. I sometimes wonder if he remembers any of this. I still have my old version of the Surfin' the Highway book because of this, even though the one Jake Rodkin arranged is actually complete with everything and a much nicer version overall. Ramble done. The Telltale Sam and Max games are much more well designed.

I always kind of wanted an adventure game based on The Maxx. Seems like the surrealism and pacing would fit well.

I always felt like the song in Trixie's Trailer was somewhat out of place, but I just listened to it now. It feels all 50s Sam and Max Hit the Road has maybe one of the less memorable LucasArts soundtracks outside of the intro, but I've always loved the final song that played during the credits. The version that is on the audio side of the CD is especially good. THIS IS SPOILER AUDIO ZEUS DON'T CLICK IT. THE SONG WILL BE SPOILED. Not that the CD version even plays in game or anything.

Gosh I don't even remember everything I've beaten since my last post. More Ratchet and Clank (Size Matters and Tools of Destruction), a ton of Rabbids games (1, 2, TV Party, Go Home, and all of their DS counterparts), Journey, Flower, flOw, Double Dragon Neon (still need to do the final trophies, waiting for a friend), 'Splosion Man, Machinarium, Gray Matter, Heavenly Sword, and Dr. Mario and Puzzle League GBA, Walking Dead and DLC. I actually don't remember what I totally posted last time, so there may be overlap or missing games. It's mostly backlog clearing. Besides the ones I've probably posted in length about, I don't have much to say about the other games other than they were regular video game fun. Really loved the novel Rabbids Go Home, now that I finally got around to it. May bump the thread to say a few random things. I should really stop finishing so many video games and do something else with my life though. Still, I think my backlog is something like 150+ games. I'm afraid to count.

You're going to make me cry.

Man, I just feel the Hit the Road frustration for you at this point Zeus. Winning a broken flash light from a minigame? That's a pretty stupid "puzzle." Forgot about that. Nothing I hate more in adventure games than getting some random object from some completely unrelated place. Played Machinarium recently and there was a magnifying lens hidden inside a venus flytrap type plant. Dumb.

Retro had a rare opening at the studio. It's for a concept artist. I probably don't have the chops, but I applied in high hopes that I'd be drawing Durnkey Kurng.

Can you purchase new Wiiware games from the WiiU to use in Wii mode?

HEY YOU KNOW IT it's your birthday.

Gotta throw all of those uncompressed textures and audio somewhere. I really don't think it'll be alleviated until formats in both audio and images become more efficient in how they are compressed. If anything I'm somewhat amazed on these days on the relatively small file size of crisp images and audio, but the HD era requires tons of assets. I also speak this as someone who never purchases digital downloads and has their 160 GB PS3 with only 15 GB left. A lot of that is downloadable only games, but I'm also scared of deleting some of the installs of disc games because a lot of times DLC I paid for and downloaded just lumps itself in to their install. I'm one of those people who get paranoid that digital downloads of things will get removed sooner or later and I hate not having it archived. I'd rather not get locked out of content because a service goes offline, a la original Xbox downloads.

Guys stop bumming me out!

Haha, why do you want to run up our electricity bill?

Bee and Puppycat appeared on the 3DS video app and I fell in love pretty quickly. I am going to give to that Kickstarter for sure now, even though I have no money. I really hope they make it even though they have $100,000. I'm pretty sick of bad American cartoons at this point.

I think I'd love it there, but I can't convince my fiancee because she hates how cold it gets. Then on the other hand I hate the weather in Texas 3/4ths of the year. Except I liked Houston much more because of the amount of rain. Fuck central Texas and it's constant dry heat.

The biggest problem is it locks you out of access to some good games plus everything Virtual Console. Not sure why they did that. Although, one thing I don't know is if the WiiU Virtual Console carries over all of the same titles or not? Also does the WiiU store carry all of the same WiiWare titles?

Well, that seals it, I'm never having a kid. Also I guess if I get cancer or some other major illness, it seems much cheaper to just die.

I thought they were at Broken Sword 6 or 7 now.

Why don't they make the Wii Mini with online and Gamecube support? Then I might even double dip. Bunch of joiks.

Ah so they dabbled in the art style of the Zelda CD-i games too? Great! Such range!

Zanthiaaaaaaaa! I've got no other adventures going outside of my blabbering about Gray Matter in that thread. It was after game blabbering though.

Wait, I thought it was normal movie going behavior to see everything by a director they like. I make sure to see everything by everyone who created something I seriously liked. The strangest thing I've come across doing this is some godawful terrible shitty rock climbing after school special type movie directed by Sam Kieth of The Maxx fame. The most I can figure out in the auteur sense is that it's something he's deeply ashamed of, but the guy's only a comic book artist/writer otherwise.

Nah the forum just has angry tomatoes for sad faces. I often go with the winking sad face it seems to work better.

I remember despising this series yet sometimes playing out of boredom. I can't believe anyone wants to Kickstart this badness. It was never good. I don't even think it's a problem with FMV games, it's just the type of slogging adventure where you move from one tired individual puzzle sequence to the next. Then you fill in the gaps with terrible long winded dialogue and bad actors. We don't need this shit anymore now that we have Professor Layton. Also I don't know if you guys are seriously making fun of Tex Murphy, but Tesla Effect seems to be shaping up to be some awesome B-movie fun.

But you can still write sultriest of things.