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The Daily Show on Ted Stevens' explantation of the internet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DClkE64nFDY

I second that

I just played through Samorost 1 and chapter one of Samorost 2. Delightful stuff.

The marvellous gilbert-thumb-art pops up when one searches for "Ron Gilbert" with the google-image-thing. On the first page. And hey, the internet is, like, free and stuff that is free belongs to nobody, you know. And for the petty there is the generosity of Image credit.

0. porn . . . 21. celebrity

Shadow Grounds is really a nice little game. It's kind of short, kind of simple and a lot of fun. Definitely worth the 20 bucks.

I'm currently reading this book. Strange thing. Got it as a present and didn't know a thing about it. As well as the one who bought it. And odd that it gets mentioned here. Not that it's that famous (I think). And curious that you had to spell it out that it's the name of the author befor I got it.

This man surely knows his 'jack squat'.

(now it's in my head...and it won't go away)

Three-headed-monkeys. Lots of them. Finally the surviving adventure-gamers get their hands on chainsaws, but there is no fuel to be found. Classic plight.

It gets better and better. I love it, it makes me happy inside. Now it isn't a cheesy but real gameshow made by strange (like, super strange) kids, no, it's a cleverly constructed internet-alluring product by a morbid couple who are nothing but puppet-masters. The hosts are only marionettes whose love for games gets exploited. Strings everywhere, even in this very forum. The drama, the comedy, the blood. Some horrible deaths added and it's Shakespeare. So, what's next?

Wasn't there once a game that had some kind of chainsaw-lookalike controller (an evil-dead game, I think) as gimmick. A chainsaw without chain and saw but lots of buttons. Now with a Wii-powered sword-controller it would be not just a ridiculously looking piece of plastic but be really cool. Kill-Bill-like swordfights with a real Wii-Katana. Awesome. Or a Wii-lightsaber (no light, but real built in speaker-sound). Or Wii-whatever.

Old graphics I don't mind, but the pre-mouse-look controles nearly scared me off. Then I got the first message from Shodan and was hooked. The situation you guys describe (trying to get into a classic and just don't...uh...fell the magic, or enough of it to keep going) I had with quite some games, but man am I happy that it worked out with this one. Great great game. I am surprised at how much it still has this Gothic-Look to it. The animations, the characters, the whatnot. It's like Gothic I v3.0. And that's a good thing.

Some months ago I played System Shock I for the first time and loved it. So I'm waiting and hoping for Bioshock. When the final game is as good as Irrational Games' Creative Director Ken Levi makes it sound in this really interesting interview with IGN I'm a happy little monkey.

Did you know that Tucker Carlson thinks the Colbert performance wasn't funny? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in3ZMJZPpEM&feature=Discussed&page=1&t=t&f=b) Being from one of those silly not-the-USA-countries and therefore not having access to USA-TV I thought 'who is this Tucker Carlson that he is on YouTube and why doesn't he like Mr Colbert?' The famous internet helped. Jon Stewart vs. Tucker Carlson: http://throwawayyourtv.com/2006/04/jon-stewart-crossfire-appearence.html Internet says it's old and known, but maybe some of you haven't seen it. It's funny.

When you say it's cool, it's cool. Cool. Oh, and I once reached into my soul, but all I got was a lousy t-shirt that said something like: I reached deep into my soul, but all I got was herpes.

It features Gabe Newell and Spiderman, it has a guy in the john and the girl handles the cooking and talks dirty - I love it. seriously: It's not that bad. Far from professional, rather cheesy but quite watchable. They seem to be passionate about gaming, the Spiderman performance was good (his acting), they talk like they are prepared (and handicapped, but with that in mind it's even more impressing), they even have puns. Their scores are strange as are the moderators but they pulled it off so respect from my side.

I voted. But after doing so some (morally troubling) questions arose. Is your map really the best map? I blindly followed your call without owning FEAR or knowing a thing about 'maps'. What if little Timmy made the world's best map but doesn't have the internet-pull? It was his dream to one day win something (and he deserved it, after the thing with his mother) and now I crushed his spirit. It's my dilemma, not yours, but you're the one who can solve it.

VG-Cats on the same subject A very brief history of Pacman

"Hah, that's 20 questions, you guys lose." "So what was it?" "Anachronox, man you guys are dumb." "But...you said it started with a 'U'." "Yeah, I know." so hilarious... "Have a beautifil life, Sly. I'll love you always. Yours truly, Fatima." ...so sad

I thought it was a robot. The name, the 'human' spelling, the claim to have found this side searching for Duke Nukem. The purpose of its existence is what I don't get. Maybe it tries to trick people for research-value. Or to advertise for the upcoming Duke Nukem Forever. If you, Mr RemoteAccess, are just a robot-impersonator I'm sorry for the 'it'-calling and stuff.

I thought about the same Riddick-DC-talk reading this thread, but didn't got up to write it down (and now I think, man he made a good point there...crap...it should have been my point). The mocap-actor. Creepy. But he kind of showed that the thing didn't went through to much target-group-filtering (Just guessing. Nonetheless they had to cut some stuff they said...wonder what?). Good way to let the working people talk, but questionable, whether some EA thinks it's worth the money? I think it's a feature that most buyers never used or cared about. Okay, same goes for the good coder-guy interview, but I liked it a lot and so I'm totally for it (Riddick-style and interview).

@miffy...maybe the compatibility mode will help...might be useless and/or already tried but it just came to mind Bought the English version years ago (I feared the German synchronization) but had some problems with one of the CDs (one has a scratch on it). Got it installed and running until it started stuttering in some early location. Should have send it back, but it was a bargain and the internet-shop I bought it from was far away and I wasn’t that enthusiastic about the game, so I felt that it wasn’t worth the effort. With the upcoming sequel and all the talk about how good the first one is I feel the strong urge to finally play it. I figured that two files together worth 25MB from CD 1 are unreadable. If it isn’t too illegal, could someone help me out with those files? I already tried some CD-recovery stuff from the Internet but the program just said it’s unreadable in a more polite manner than windows.

I knew it. This place was just too far beyond belief with it’s friendliness and lack of aggressive forum-infesting wiseacres and common morons to be a real internet-message board. It’s all just a setup for tricking people into buying a DS. Quiet clever with the whole some-threads-not-DS-related-stuff going on, but when I, who is, like one of the other victims, 99% PC, felt the urge to buy this hideous (but still lovely and shiny and even portable) device suddenly it all became clear. I’m so not falling for it (but now my DS-less future seems dull and dark)

Thanks. Looks good. Hope the shipping costs aren't over the top.