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Wait, I thought you were just "Video Games." That SUV clearly says "Vidgmes Sheriff." Are you trying to tell us that you are actually the Video Games Sheriff? If you're going to go making claims like that, I think we'll need you to present us with a badge before going any further.

No, it was Cyan. I don't know who would have the rights to it now, as it was either their last or close-to-last game before going out of business. Who's been publishing all the Myst rereleases? EDIT: Also, for the record, I love Starship Troopers the book, but I LOVE Starship Troopers the movie. It's not one of Heinlein's strongest in my opinion (those honours go to things more like Stranger in a Strange Land and Job: A Comedy of Justice), and the way Verhoeven (Verhooven?) turned it into a balls-out action movie that also successfully lampooned the military culture that Heinlein was celebrating in the book was fantastic. I need to watch that again. DVD is going to the top of the "next week, once my homework is done, I'll do these things" pile. Also, big ups to Michael "Sam Fisher" Ironside for his work in the movie.

Yeah, I can't find Deadly Premonition anywhere in Calgary, so that Endurance Run is definitely a godsend. Really makes me want to try the real thing, but oh well.

Ancient Zamboni Battalion Mr. Basketball Detective Hindu Amish: 1942 That is all.

Just had a look through the Wii Friend codes thread, as I wanted to take a break from homework and decided I'd try to figure out how sending games in Warioware works. Turns out you do just use the standard friend code (that is, the one that lets you swap Miis) so I browsed through looking for your number, Gerbil. No luck. PM me with your number if you don't want to put it in the thread (understandable given the crazy amount of spam and bullshit that thread attracted) or do so soon and I'll send you along the two games I created. There's the projector one described earlier and that in-joke thing that a friend and I had a good laugh over. It's a pretty dumb joke, but whatever.

I will play it Monday and be very happy. Can't wait. Seems like not too long ago MI was ending and this was just a teaser. I love having this steady drip-feed of awesome adventure games.

I think DIY has its own code, which I'd need to look up as well. Don't know if I'll be playing my Wii before Monday or so anyway (last week of my bachelor's degree. Waaaaay too much stuff to do to actually play any games. I'll still talk about them though, damn it.) so don't worry about timeliness.

Yeah, you can play the things I've made if we swap friend codes and I send them to you, I think. I know there's definitely a way to trade, anyway. I have Showcase myself, so even if you can't do my DS to your Wii, we can still do a Wii to Wii trade.

Seconded. EA's PR department has gotten really pithy over the last little while. Love it so much.

Yeah, it's tap only. This isn't that bad though. As said, you can put buttons on the touch screen and trigger them however you like, tying them to any object you wish. It's really not that limiting at all. As an example, take the following anecdote about my most recently created game. When at work Friday night, I was challenged to put together a game about work by the girl who was working concession with me (my theater is small enough that we only have two people on at a time, one manager/projectionist, and one concession/box office) so we spent about an hour of the shift putting it together. It was about a brain wrap, which is when the film gets stuck to itself going through the "brain" in the film platter, tangles up going through the complex series of rollers, and gets stuck in front of the xenon bulb. This causes the film to melt and the movie to abruptly stop working. Y'know at the end of Fight Club when the movie pretends to melt? That's how an audience sees a brain wrap. The game "Brain Wrap" consisted of putting out three randomly placed fires on the projector and tapping on the tangled film on the platter 3 times to pull out different bits of film out of the brain. This meant 4 images of different states of tangled for the platter, as well as teaching myself how to make fires appear in random places on the projector, but not random places all over the screen (the game was split-screen, with the left half a top down view of the film platter and the right half a side view of the projector). There were also two frames of animation for the fire and four of dissipating smoke for after you put out the fire. It looks and plays great. In practice, it's pretty frantic. You need to rapidly tap the film 3 times to unravel it, then hunt and peck for the three fires in the time limit. The win will only trigger once all 6 actions have been performed. As you can see, only having the ability to tap on the screen may sound limiting, but it is possible to make fairly complex things. There's much more complicated than that possible as well (I've seen full driving games on youtube, with randomized obstacles), so I wouldn't worry too much about being limited by the interface.

Once again, homework. On the plus side, my final draft thesis has to be submitted Friday, so I should be a go for next week.

Huh. Weird coincidence. I'm just starting on that for the first time as well. My girlfriend ordered the series off Amazon, and since I've never seen it we're watching it together. 3 episodes in right now. Really good stuff. It's nice to see a pre-saturation Seth Rogen too. I started out liking him, but around ********* Express got pretty sick of him. Seeing him younger now is reminding me why I liked him in the first place. I should go back and watch some recent movies with him in them now to see if they really got steadily worse or if I just needed a break from him. Breaking Bad was also in the order (she has a thing for Brian Cranston. Don't know why, but whatever) and I've heard really good about that too. I think once Freaks and Geeks is done we'll be watching that. Excited for it.

On Giant Bomb, S Rank just means that you have all 1000 achievement points/all the trophies/all the steam achievements. Which leads me to ask Korax, 11!? I don't think I've ever cared enough about achievements to S Rank 1 game. Only thing I've gotten close in was Guitar Hero 2, where I got all but two of them. What the hell, man?

Oh shit, the Stampede is coming. I don't have time to get the fuck out of town before then. Thanks for reminding me...

Joyeux fete, mon forum-ami!

Red Dead Revolver never made the jump, so there's no precedent for the series. Also, after the reception that GTAIVPC got, I wouldn't count on it.

Sorry Thunderpeel, but to me that just looks like all those fan-altered screenshots of Diablo 3 where they try to make it darker to be more "Diablo-y." Not that the SE2 art is fantastic, but I don't see it as anywhere near that bad. I think the main thing that gets me about the new thing is that I always thought that the lettering on the Mojo sign looked like it was burned out of the wood, but now it just looks like it's painted on there. Oh well.

I'm 22 and I can barely remember it...

Damn it, Thunderpeel. It thought you meant there would be a PC version for a minute there. Maybe you'd heard something I hadn't? I dunno. Then I realized that Bill also has the 360 going for him (man, if you thought the PC publicity shots were sexy...) and my hopes of PC Red Dead Redemption were dashed. Bastard. Building me up like that.

I believe the thing about his name comes from Episode 1 of the Idle Thumbs UK podcast where he introduces himself as such: As in, he forgot to say his last name and corrected himself very quickly. Then the Idle Thumbs US podcast thought this was funny and milked it a bit (Jake, maybe?) and the rest is history.

Really? My ipod touch scrolls like shit and is really unresponsive in the UI. I think Apple's stuff more noticeably deteriorates than others. It may be because it starts off so damn smooth, but after two years of using a touch, I dread having to scroll through anything on it. It's kind of the worst.

Only two? Dang. I also have the WiiWare DIY Showcase, which I think allows people to send games from Wii to Wii. The tutorial is a pain for anyone who knows any logic at all. All I have ever done programming-wise was to set up routines for completely basic Turing machines in a Logic II class, but I found myself wishing throughout the thing that it would just give me an option to show the game I know what I'm doing. "Make the ladybug run away." Ok then, give me the tools and then let me ask for help if I find I need it. "No, do it this way. First click this thing agonizingly slowly. Then this. Now this. See the highlighted thing? Poke that." etc. Damn, I'm really glad I never need to do that again. Apropos of nothing, I went onto the gamefaqs forum looking for advice on what button the game wanted me to press in order to put a sprite I had created into a game (for all the tutorial does with its irritatingly slow manner, it doesn't label the freaking "place sprite" button) and have never been sadder with the internet. No advice. No "what's the most efficient technique to do x?" threads. Just page upon page of retro-game ripoffs ("CHECK OUT MAH MEGAMANZ LEVEL!") and amateur porn games ("My very first Ecchi game! ^_^"). Goddamn it, Internet. Just... goddamn it.

Hey, you're free to like them. A lot of people do. I just don't get it myself, and I doubt anyone will be able to explain the appeal to me.

Will likely be 360, but don't know if I'll have the cash for it right away. May need to wait for a bit.

Meh, after I posted that I went back and re-did the missions I'd had to undo. I'd also 100%-ed an area though, so it pissed me off that I didn't get that back. Also, I thought I was so badass for stumbling upon the Mile High Club. Like, holy shit, they actually put this in? That's a fantastic easter egg! Then the next mission I did sent me right back up there and I realized I'd just hit a scripted location early. Less cool.