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Ah, it's kind of like the helicopters in GTA games, or... G-Police! Once you're brain is used to the controls, it feels effortless.

No, I played a little on PS1 and had a lot of friends that raved about it.

Yeah, that was Knightmare. My only memories of it were: thinking it sounded really cool, then watching one clip of someone dressed as a knight being directed by other kids, then getting eaten by a wall with a giant face on it. At that point, my mother would have screamed something like "TURN IT OFF IT'S DEMONIC!"

Congrats and well done Miffy! :tup:

I'm keen to see that, and think it would probably work a little like meteors. Will probably take some practice to nail movements that get them swinging cleanly* on the ends of the staff, but it seems possible. At the very least, they should be able to trail the staff, but maybe some nice flourishes will be possible too * I'm never sure how to explain this. You know when you get poi just right, and the strings pull tight for an entire move rather than letting the poi flop into dead zones where the string sags, then pulls tight again? That's what I mean.

Sorry. It's a fire staff. When you soak it in paraffin and light it, it does this: 3QlaMbril3Q Triple wicks are going to create quite a bit of flame, but it's moving so fast that if you hit yourself it only generally frazzles a bit of hair. I'm used to fire poi, but a bit worried about twatting myself with the staff for now...

A Graham Annable game? YES YES YES

I generally have too much stuff and want less anyway, so special editions with extra tat are pretty repellent to me. Even a DVD case counts as clutter nowadays.

I'm afraid I'll be away, again Look forward to any stories and videos though.

Happy belated birthdays to Armchair and Sleepdance Thanks guys. I actually had a really quiet weekend, which was what I wanted this year. It involved: riding a bike, walking in the park, and an exceptionally low-key party Also got one of these: Going to have to practice for a while before I feel like lighting it though

Madworld is under 4 quid with delivery for people in the UK: http://www.asda-entertainment.co.uk/games/platforms/nintendo-wii/madworld/10025641.html

I love that Little Dog has a carry handle on its back

Festo also make some amazing robots (youtube channel), including: Robot kite flyer: nhfFnEQM1aU Jellyfish: N-O8-N71Qcw Air ray: UxPzodKQays

So, my girlfriend actually managed to murder a Pokemon, by putting it in the Pokewalker then accidentally putting it through the washing machine. Suppose that's Pokeslaughter rather than murder.

On its way! Big dogs are the perfect way to deliver supplies. Nowhere near as sinister or advanced, but has anyone else seen Hexapod dance contests? The one wearing just a straw hat wins on classiness. msaWXY3OuQQ

*COUGH* Just because it's not to your taste, doesn't mean it can't or shouldn't be done. The Redistricting Game is a great example of something that has goals illustrating a serious point. I'm *kind* of with you both on serious games being a crappy and troubled label, but IMO it's more of a market limitation than an inherent limitation of the form. Many important and useful things are systems based, and can hence be represented using game-like systems. The lines are blurring somewhat between serious/non-serious projects, but the chances of any serious game going through a traditional distribution channel are minuscule.

Oh that is just marvelous, especially the "Can you give us a super hype filled comment?". Fixed. People have mostly stopped @ing funny stuff to it, or posting them here, so it's bound to have slowed down.

This is the really weird issue that all serious games face. They use game-like stuff to make serious points and educate, but because the GAMES INDUSTRY is about profit from entertainment, peoples understanding of what a game is never seems to stack up with it. I've even met academics from the Serious Games Institute in Coventry who've, a little sheepishly, said "Uh, yeah. The entire term is just shot through with holes and we're not sure what to do about it".

This looks quite incredible. Link to developer: http://www.educationalsimulations.com/products.html

Bloody hell Senor, I hope you're all okay.

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Seeing too many such statements is exactly why I left the art world

Sorry to hear that Dan It can be a very productive way to work, from my point of view having email constantly up on one screen while I deal with everything else on another can keep me really focussed and reduce time spent dicking around with the interface. Likewise, running four desktops in Ubuntu used to mean super organised windows and less time pecking around transferring stuff from one to another. Over a whole day, that kind of thing adds up.

True, though typically the path anything follows to the high street will be a long and winding one anyway. It wouldn't surpise me if some of the less outlandish things did make their way down to more widely available fashion, such as the polygonal boobs on one of the tops in my previous link. Consumers aren't really the audience for couture, but other designers and perhaps retailers certainly are. It is extremely common for non-couture designs of famous figures to trickle down through imitation by other designers and end up directly on the high street comparatively cheap (H&M got into legal trouble a few years back for copying a dress too directly). There's also the fringe of hipsters(etc.) experimenting with fashion off the catwalk, not to mention things catching on by accident. Fashion isn't something I've ever been involved with as anything other than observer, but art is, and even within the art world, amongst the incestuous, backscratching bubble of funding rackets and contacts, you do meet some extraordinarily talented and clever people who tend to be getting the fuck on with their work regardless of opinions on it. Unfortunately there are a lot of con artists and shits too, perpetuating that bubble. Someone writing a statement about their self and work in the third person is always a really bad sign You can't stop culture from forming cults and cliques and wrapping itself in politics, unfortunately. You can find the healthy people though

:tup: to that Rodi, with a caveat: It's important to have a cultural fringe where people experiment and try new things, and some way of broadcasting output from it. Many of the people in any such fringe will be absolute tossers, some of them will even invent a new, self-supporting subculture that can become institutionalised in some cases (*cough*art world*cough*). A lot of fashion is about wankers following trends and replacing their wardrobe every year, but couture is entirely different, insane, and inventive, and while Haute Couture is a very exclusive club, there are lots of designers out there trying new things without the name. The fringe is where you'll find interesting things and the directions culture is going to be driven in, but also, a lot of crap to wade through. The centre also has things of value and things that are/were important, but they're sometimes hard to communicate to outsiders and there's a lot of pretension there too. It can become impossible to tell the difference.