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Yeah, but you're basically famous.

I don't know about it being reinterpreted in King's Quest, but it's definitely a puzzle from Gabriel Knight 3. Idlethumbs didn't really make it famous. It was instead an older site called Old Man Murray using it as a prime example of why adventure games are dead/dying. Truthfully, it's a pretty extreme example (although I'm sure there's other really bad adventures from the late 90s with worse that I haven't played), especially because it's in a major adventure game with a lot of lengthy and wacky puzzles already. Certainly when weird puzzles like that are done right without requiring that much suspension of disbelief, it's not as annoying.

I don't think more than 15% of Idlethumbs likes or has played adventure games at this point.

Ah them Gregory Brothers (and the Gregory sister). I fucking love them.

My goodness! That article wasn't anything like I was expecting it to be!

Yeah it sort of has that 70/80s Saturday Morning cartoon feel on the characters, but I think the backgrounds and voices do a lot to help it not veer into that territory. It definitely could be better, but there has been way worse in adventure land (not that that is an excuse).

Haha, oh wow, I drove from Houston once to Kalamazoo in a matter of 22 hours with three friends for an animation competition thingy. I bet you could do it in two days. You could probably also load up on a bunch of speed, get a radar detector and do it in 16 hours maybe. (kidding) I live in Austin on the weekends until I find a job in the city, but I kind of have been dragging my butt in Houston around my regular job here/there. Austin has a great bus system though if you don't want to waste gas driving your car around. I have a friend who regularly uses the buses there if you need tips on the most economical bus pass or something. He uses Google transit to find the routes regularly. I don't know if that's what you were looking for as far as tips.

Oh wow, for some reason I always pictured Warcraft Adventures as being in 3D, the style with the prerendered backgrounds. It's a shame this didn't come out. I'm really liking that rat in the video. That rat is a good reason to buy this game.

Yeah, I just hope it stays free, I don't want to start paying. That was one of the perks of buying games for PS3 instead. Personally, I don't use my PS3 for a hub for much of anything besides playing games and currently watching Blu-ray, but I'll probably get a dedicated all region player for that at some point. I also don't buy digital copies of movies, that are already completely overpriced in the PSN store anyway. I guess I'm with Miffy, I don't understand the exact value of this besides the perks of discounts and free games, but even then, if you're very selective about what you buy, why is this worth it? I got the press release and couldn't really see anything major being said, just sort of future promises. Are most gamers not that selective then?

I remember this game but I was completely put off by the art style. I guess I'm a total graphic whore, so I couldn't look past the over the top anime character design (I like the much more conservative stuff of the 80s or weird Japanese/European mix design) and the glossiness of everything. I'm big on strong art direction in adventure games since that is where it seems to have been the most prominent in games, but I have been known to play poor looking ones and still enjoy myself.

I got the big box and I was impressed. I went and bought the rest of the playing cards just because I think they'd be cool, even though I usually don't do so. Jake said he just made suggestions for the contents but I don't know if he did the cover. I really don't like the one under the Purcell slipcase, but personally I love the slip case. The cut out stuff on the back is a little odd, but oh well.

Yeah I guess it's legit enough because it has legitmate extras, it's somewhat barebones but it does have the full commentary and the picture quality is sharp. http://www.amazon.com/The-Maxx-Complete-Series/dp/B002WJHDJI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1278272475&sr=8-1 And it appears the complete series of The Head came out this way as well, cool! http://www.amazon.com/The-Head-Complete-Series/dp/B002WJHDIO/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1278272475&sr=8-3

It might be more fun to become a nun without the sex change, just crossdressing. Think of all the secretive sexual escapades you could get up to.

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I heard Citizen Kane was a great band.

Good that he changed those images. On second thought, this is sort of amazing to me, because people with his sort of stature very rarely seem to admit that they are wrong in my experience.

I beat the first Noitu Love in preparation of getting Noitu Love 2 on WiiWare. It's a very basic game, but there was a lot of love put into it. I like the music, graphics, and brevity of it all. Maybe the weakest part of the character design is the main character, which is odd. I'm guessing the guy was created first and the rest of the game comes in. I have to beat it on the hardest modes still in terms of completion, but it's a good way to spend an hour and a half. I e-mailed the creator about it, looking for tips to get better at the game, but he seemed rather embarrassed by the whole game and it's design, which I found strange. He's also a good artist among other things.

I guess between overloading on too many Beany and Cecil cartoons, I got The Maxx cartoon on DVD recently from Amazon.com's special DVD-R program. Well worth the money. Besides being almost amazingly true to the comic, which is rare for an American TV cartoon show based on something, it also manages to wrap up the story short as the comic went on well after the cartoon was done (although not that well). Some of the animation is choppy or weirdly off model in some places, and not in the intentional offmodel way that Sam Kieth employs in all his comics, but the way where someone maybe inexperienced or unfamiliar with the characters was given a scene to quickly finish. This all probably stems from the outsourcing done. Other than that, I love the character performances and almost all of the animation tended to be top notch for something moving around gritty pen and ink characters. The tone and atmosphere in this show is still amazing from when I had last seen it over a decade ago. I'm sad not much has come out this experimental in terms of animation TV shows then. It's suprising how the animation makes the comic story much easier to follow. Also I like how since it's so close to the comic, it also does well on detailing Sam Kieth's start on a offbeat superhero comic for the then up and coming Image but devolving into something completely different from the Image line, with the whole 70s underground comics life stories and Vaughn Bode style weirdness mixed in. This probably completely led to the comics end and Sam Kieth's weird method of disappearing or delivering his work extremely late, to the point that everyone forgot he had something to deliver, but I always have time for the guy. The comics meant a lot as a younger teenager. Anyway, there's my plug or whatever. I don't have much to critique, I love it. I guess next up is listening to the full series commentary on the DVD.

How would you feel lost? Just skim the thread. I guess all these extra things can be implemented (I'm in favor of the tumbleweeds), but it doesn't really replace just reading what's on the screen, basically. Part of the biggest problem is a lot of newer members have no clue how long these forums have been around and they feel confused a lot, I think. The front page and podcast hardly make any indication of such.

These almost always make me happy, but they are very old at this point, in internet years and all, but here's the newest one: jbc2NaLuv1A

I've still got this nasty taste in my mouth either way. I actually had no idea the guy had a poll going on video games vs. Huck Finn. Glad the farce is over at least.

Oh yeah, I saw that too last Saturday evening. I haven't had that enjoyable of a time in a theatre for a while. It was very inventive. I loved all the silent comedy bits as well, nice to see that kind of throwback. The only thing was I found the movie very hard to follow in terms of just understanding all the intricacies of everything going on, just because everything constantly kept happening so fast. I was at a movie tavern, so literally a blink or a quick look away at my food was causing me to miss stuff. That's fine though, it just means it's a moving begging for repeat viewings.

Today toblix is little baby Jesus.

Ah, no, I haven't Armchair. Great idea, though, I'll check that tonight. It would make sense the BIOS settings override the Gigabyte application. I don't know why I didn't mess with that earlier.

Awesome, thank you! I'm going to share this with a Rayman forum. So now I do wonder if it will be the same team for both games. Checking mobygames, it seems like a lot of the same Ubisoft employees have followed him from Rayman 1 and 2 to Beyond Good and Evil to King Kong, almost uniformly. EDIT: Someone on the Rayman forum I go to translated a recent video interview with Ancel and besides informing us that Christophe Héral is doing both the music for Rayman Origins and BG&E2, he seems to be saying the Rayman Origins and BG&E2 teams are separate. http://raymanpc.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=6199&p=490171#p490159