Jaero

Ditto. I still have boxes of old legos under my bed. GI-Joes were always asking for it. I made a habit of ripping them in half, unless they looked really cool - but anyone with a big stupid green gun was doomed. LEGOs still pwn me.

That's worse than watching, or even admitting to watching Oprah.

"We're all living in Amerika. Amerika. Amerika... ...Coca-cola, Wonder-bra!"

Well, I can't let a game go to waste.. Hmm. I love that I can call playing something like this "research".

I just saw a commercial for a weapon that turns stuff into sheep. Way to rip off Blizzard... not that they're very original either. What Bc9b said.

Heh. Ernest has a ton of articles. I often think I've read them all too. It would be cool to have a good Dogma 2001 game though. Wonder if it's possible to make one, and still have it be a hit.

I think it had something to do with my arrival. I come and be all trenchant, and IdleThumbs is like...

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Bastard, I couldn't care less about things like world peace. I just find it odd that we've grown so accustomed to our own self-created conveniences that you take the average person and put them in the wilderness, and they would die in less than a few days. Puhleeze... that's the pathetic thing.

I believe I actually found the articles you reference in the original post, Erkki. I was up late, again, reading articles at Gamasutra - and since I'm of the mind that games with story = more favorable, to me, the articles by Randy Littlejohn found me. The first one is Adapting the Tools of Drama to Interactive Storytelling, where he goes into describing drama itself, and how it could be harnessed in a game. The second discusses his vision of the "Drama Engine", Agitating for Dramatic Change. Both are 3 pages long, and worth the read. There are those, however, who are stupid. And sadly, some of those people are in fact members of the game industry. There are some very interesting Letters to the Editor on the latter article, including one or two that accuse Littlejohn of forcing his 'flamboyantly unrealistic visions' on others, and another equating it with homosexuality. I am Jack's raging bile duct. You can scroll down the page to [10.30.2003], which is where the comments start, and from there go up. There are some interesting ones from Ernest Adams and Jessica Mulligan (of Turbine Entertainment). Interestingly enough, Ernest Adams' latest 'Designer's Notebook' column (posted today) is on the subject of drama - Dramatic Novelty in Games and Stories.

Nah, I'm going independent - it's another site I'm workin on.

Occasionally, and I don't know 'cause I've only lived in this world, people do have brains which harbor a great aptitude for things like this, and in their hearts may lie passion... and sometimes porn. The point of this has nothing to do with Dave Perry, but about things that can help better oneself as a Designer. You're missin' the point, chief.

I just read about this on slashdot. Can't say I'm surprised. I played CoH for a while - and as a player, I found it rather annoying to see Cyclops and Wolverine clones - but even worse, f***ing Captain America!

I was using it until I tried to go to my own webpage, and instead of actually loading it, it tried to freaking save it. Piece of crap. Back to IE.

The world would embrace the natural world, instead of trying to defeat and overcome it as if it's our enemy.

I don't think for a second that the media and consequently the entire country has rolled over on its back and declared Bush the winner without an in-depth look at every vote - which is what's supposed to happen in an election - however, there's a possible smoking gun. We were so scared of having another fiasco like Florida that we've gone and prematurely ejaculated Fundamental Christian spooge all over our faces. Click Here. I'm not being a sore loser, but the Abominable Bush bluffed, and instead of calling it, we fell for it, and lost our handle on the next four years. I'm leaving the country if people who would stand up for what's right just roll over and admit defeat because they want the struggle to be over. Not this cantankerous bastard. Not yet.

Interesting, no? Before you claim that this is bullshit and a conspiracy, think for yourself. Click that link and take some time to educate yourself. Maybe you're right, but maybe not.

You just made every orifice in my face ejaculate all over me. Please don't do that again.

The kid who plays Charlie is apparently one of the kids from Depp's upcoming Finding Neverland. Back when the rumors of this one first crept up (like last year), Burton originally wanted Manson for Johnny Depp's part.

Your avatar really helps drive your point into its moist, warm home.

I tried to be clever in my first post, but I'm sick and very delusional. My favorite is similar: "So, you're a girl huh?"

*man next to Jaero rubs up against 'Singles box' and says...* "Hey baby, what's your sign?" *'Singles box' opens itself, extracts its jewel case, and with two hands uses it to flatten the head of the man with the bad pick-up line." *Jaero shuffles over one stool and turns to 'Singles box'* "So... you're Single, huh?"

Manny, where you build a lightsaber - that's Dantooine, no? You have a long way to go! The game becomes less linear after you leave that planet (you have choices as to where you go next, and the order you do things). Don't worry, I was thorough as well - for me a story driven game like KOTOR is much better when you take it in slowly rather than trying to rush through to the end.

I adore the game industry more than anything. It has great aim, an expert marksman you might say. As long as what it's aiming at is its own foot.

Zero, there's a difference between a conclusion you've drawn through your own contemplations - but that great heap of diatribe is no different from the useless tripe spewn by the "biased media". Though I perused your post twice, I can't find ONE phrase - not ONE that I haven't heard one of those biased "journalists" try to hammer into my head on the television. You don't think for yourself sir, because from your way of speaking it's clear that you can not fathom the possibility that you are wrong. You are what is called an apologist - a pathetic excuse for an "individual" who would sweep the atrocities this administration is guilty of and instead color over them with subjective good deeds. I have considered with great introspection and fairly weighed each candidate, but you think your stance is infallible. I'm sorry you've opted to make this post your first here, because it's one hell of a first impression. Sure, you may be trying to balance our seething hatred for Bush and his ilk by posting your excuse for an opinion, but I'm glad you have done that, because it reinforces the notion that people like you have no regard for a situation such as this, nor a fraction of a hint at what "tact" might actually be. Sir, the situation I speak of is that for the moment, because people without a shred of honor (like yourself) have neglected to fairly count every ballot, and thus 'our' candidate has lost. But you can't wait more than two days to pour a canister of salt in that fucking wound, can you? I'm glad you have an opinion, whether it's your own, or whether you were simply assimilated by the "Borg for Bush", but your candidate has won. Even with our 'needless' propaganda from Michael Moore, Rock the Vote, Vote or Die, and all the liberal biased media - you fucking won. So shut up and go get yourself some ass from the likes of Ann Coulter, or some equally pestilent human being. You won, so let us be angry, be sad, and wish the outcome was different. Go the hell away. You're not trying to help, and that's a pathetic excuse. You don't represent the "middle states", because although it would make sense, Republicans don't belong to a hive mind. Here, I'll type this one with one hand to make it a fair flame: Thanks for bettering the mood here. You've done us all a world of good. Now go and suck Fox News' dick.