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XKCD is awesome! This comic is awesome! (Better navigation would be nice though, but I guess it's part of the experience.) ! (Hobo Lobo is cool.)

Sorry for the 'back-from-the-dead' - didn't want to open a new thread and just in case you didn't blablabla... The recent XKCD-comic is very incredible in a mind-blowing way: http://xkcd.com/1110/

Transition? Neutered? I don't understand. Is there some horrible radio-version?

I was (?) like this as well. Save, look the one way, load, look the other way, load again, first way was better, should have saved that try. And keeping all the shit, later somebody might need 5 pieces of broken furniture. Now I learned/force myself to roll with my decisions - and look up stuff like 'do I need those 20 trinkets that clutter up my inventory in a later quest?' while playing.

Okay, backed. It's rising damn fast. Exiting. Now I have to prevent myself from giving them more money for the next 32 days. (I'm happy that this is probably the last Kickstarter I basically have to support [the Anachronox 2 Kickstarter will never happen].) I hope they'll go crazy with the setting. Yeah, too early to tell, but the map they show and the rest of the makeup all look rather like Lord of the Rings than Planescape. Wishful thinking whispers that the mundaneness (and seriousness – too much even) of the pitch is to preserve attention from the widest possible audience.

Azealia Banks - "212" (ft. Lazy Jay) The video alone is brilliant. Her mouth, the way she dances, those guys.

FYI: The game's on Steam now and a bit cheaper for the moment. Those who bought it already directly from the developers can get a Steam key - you just have to write them. (Info) It has a truly wonderful, smartly constructed story and one of the most moving ones I ever played. Still comes to mind after half a year from time to time. Go play it, all you people! Also this:

While looking up what 'skeuomorphism' means, I stumbled upon an comment discussing divergent design philosophies at Apple. Here is a quote. hihi, wet feverish dogs

Mh, I'm still a bit sceptical. As said, maybe it's just me being too fond of the original to see it tampered with, and my scepticism is a lot bigger than my knowledge about this 'Enhanced Edition', so get off my lawn!Who are the people who worked on the original that work on it now? What was their position back then? I read in some places that Overhaul is made up of former Bioware-employees, but I couldn't find specifics. Regarding the new content, as I read it on their site, it seems just some stuff is completely separate (The Black Pits), other stuff seems integrated (the other characters and their areas and related quests) - but here it might be bad wording on their part or bad understanding on mine. This, and "Add [Neera the Wild Mage] to your Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition experience and ignite your wild side [with] an engaging romantic adventure" - shudder! Regardless of the quality of the content I think there is a discussion to had about the merit of adding new content to a standing experience. Yeah, there are (or were) expansions, there is DLC but this happens when the 'experience' is still in the making. This feels like re-releasing StarWars with tacked-on new stuff - nobody would do that (yeah, I know). Games are a strange medium. But actually I don't mind the Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition much, it's probably good that the game finds a new audience and life (even with some added questionable content) but I do mind the Black Isle thing and I guess that is where my reluctance comes from - even though they are not in relation nowadays they share a history, and a rather sad one. My 'God this is stupid'-comment was rather aimed in that direction, the resurrection of 'Black Isle'. I followed their work back in the day and was sad to see Fallout 3 and Baldur's Gate 3 cancelled and the studio shut down - now Interplay wants to use the name, tada, Black Isle is back. Stupid stuff! Them doing BG3 just seems like a fitting very-stupid-thing to happen, like a cruel joke of video-game-history.

I laughed (and my laughter doesn't come cheap).While a nice and easy Baldur's Gate Tutu (what, 10 CDs for both games, patches, the mod itself) substitute is a good thing, I'm not too eager about them adding new characters, areas and quests to the game. Baldur's Gate is a classic and now, after 15 years, other people than the original creators tack on content that is not easy to make well in the first place and probably even less easy to fit well into a game without sticking out. Maybe I'm just old and grumpy, them kids should leave my BG1 alone. And the notion that if this does well enough commercially they will consider a Baldur's Gate 3, mh, I fear it lands in the hands of Black Isle. Yeah, the new Black Isle, you know, the "Our goal has always been to make the world's best RPGs"-Black Isle. God this is stupid!

Oh, I totally did roll with it. Me getting that lap dance (and not breaking out with laughter) felt a bit like going to church and praying loudly without believing a word, but still, fun. As for the confusion, it still was massive amounts of ridiculous and surreal. Yeah, him picking me, the Straight Guy at the Gay Party (not the only one, but still) and then I sit there and think, boy, this is wasted on me, and the hundreds of people watching, are part of that confusion. But regardless of his dickhaving and my preferences in the composition of my partners, just me being me getting a lap dance, WTF? I guess it is supposed to be show for all the other people and not really a turn-on for the person involved (I don't know), but boy this is not up my ally, regarding intimacy, undressing someone, licking something off of someone or seeing genitals. Mh, complicated, but you guys seem to tackle it pretty well, being open about it, talking about it. That's important. If it's her wish to experiment like this, I'd say it would be unhealthy for your relationship to block it.But I don't know (your situation or you well enough to give anything remotely advice-like), but considering your forum-pressence you seem like the right person to handle stuff like this well. Hope it works out!

Some of your guys and gals stories, mh, you seem to have real problems - reading this stuff I feel like I just have soapbubble-problems in a soapbubble-world. Hope it all works out for you! Okay, so I just got my first lap dance tonight. By pure chance. 10 Minutes. It involved, among other stuff, whipped cream, a lollipop and a banana. Some twohundred people were watching. It was at a CSD (Gay pride)-party. I'm a guy and pretty much only attracted to women. I saw a dick. People said I did well. ... One of the stranger experiences in my life, I'm a bit confused as to whether this really did happen. It did, but I'm still confused.

Bought!... No, seriously, I just ordered it, thanks for the tip, I looks wonderful.

Fantastic! Thank you a lot, Orv! And Stealing Sheep's "Shut Eye" is great as well, but I already knew that.

Ah, I see. Thank you.I think I neither did get meaning one nor two.

Looks great! Though I miss the old-new archive-page with the stars that was very pretty (or it wasn't the archive-page and/or I just can't find it anymore). The names on the Founders Wall are cut off, at least for me, on the right side at a certain width.

Ducks are great!I like insects a lot. This is probably my favourite picture: Boy did I annoy that mantis!

Thanks for the recommendation of Buttercup Festival, Twig, great stuff! I really like "The Arrival" by Shaun Tan. The story it tells is not new, but the way it's presented, the style of the drawings, their visual language are fantastic.

You know, I have friends who can come back from a great vacation and then when they tell about it they just bitch and moan for half an hour about the traffic jam on the way to that place or the particularly unfriendly waitress in the restaurant and then they sum up all the other things that were fantastic - like everything else - in three sentences. It kills me. Just saying.

I will most probably never own a Vita - the game though makes me look wistfully in Vita's direction - it looks ace, and the trailer is great. As is the music. It's Stealing Sheep with "Shut Eye" (If you're interested.)

Good to know that I'm not the only one hearing them voices (coming from different positions). And good work on the mixing, it sounds, as said, great and only in a very subtle way stereo - I guess like most people who were pro trying-stereo back in the day imagined/hoped it would sound. Btw, was there an IN-YOUR-FACE-rubbing onto the faces of all the 'STEREO??!? This is the dumbest idea ever. WAAAAAAAH!'-people I missed or are we to classy for this here?

Äh, maybe I missed something somewhere, I don't know, but the episodes are in stereo now, no? Not sure about the last one, but at 65 I thought 'Oh, stereo, it sounds good, that's how I imagined it to sound, Jack+e is to the right, Chris in the middle, Sean left - nice, clear, subtle. I hope it is stereo, or I sound like an ass when I say that I like it.' ...oh, okay, now I wanted to check whether it's 'Shean' or 'Sean' via the main site - 'IN STEREO.' - so I guess it is in stereo. I'm still a bit confused. To sum up all my questions on the matter: Stereo?

This might be quite popular in some places, at least in my parts it is, I think. Anyway, I like it. Asaf Avidan - One day / Reckoning Song (Wankelmut Remix) Usually I'm not much into remixes, but here I like it more than the original. Bonus: OH MY! - Dirty Dancer (Featuring Scrufizzer) http://youtu.be/UEd6VjOlM2g

Yeah, Meat Circus... Aaaaaaanyway, Psychonauts. My favourite general parts of the game are probably when you returned to the camp and had to look for all the kids to see what they were up to. That's why I found it to be especially sad when they disappeared one after another and the camp died out. And I really like the memory-vaults. The often tragic stories told in the vaults - those counterpoints to the rather light-hearted nature of the rest of the game - were emotionally very effecting and introduced a certain level of profoundness to the characters. Damn, now I wish my proper PC wasn't dead so I could play it again for a bit.

I played the Meat Circus before I knew about The Meat Circus and I didn't have any memorable problems with it. Wussies. Pff, "the best game ever made", are you-- Mmmmh, Psychonauts is probably my favourite game. Or it is at least it is in my alternating top-two, together with Planescape: Torment, so I guess you have a point there. At the time I didn't realise it, but looking back, it still stands out above all other games. I played it twice or thrice, and got annoyed with the same things again and again - the controls can be bothersome, my figment-OCD tends to make it anti-fun after some time (I'm with Tanu here, because of the hard-to-find-figments I like Waterloo the least) - but still just being in that world, exploring all the stories, minds, characters, relationships, it's such a funny, fulfilling, strange, special, different game. I probably like it as much for not being like most other games as I like it for what it is (if that makes any sense).