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Seriously? If you want to contribute to a forum, step one should be getting a sense of what is normal/par for the course in a given forum so that you can approach it on its own terms instead of trying to dictate how you think that forum should behave.

Thanks! I will have to keep an eye out for that when I give it another go tonight. Still weird that the icons don't have a mouseover (err...whatever the equivalent term would be for console controlled pointer thingy) label on the map.

No, silly, keep track: fallout 3 is oblivion with guns. TOTALLY DIFFERENT.

Picked it up for ps3 today. Some impressions: 1) So I am apparently awful at sneaking up on guys and knifing them. Things started going smoother when I got me a pistol with a suppressor. 2) I can't for the life of me distinguish the animal icons on the map. Is that a goat? a tapir? a rabid dog? Never mind things that are actually similar looking like pigs versus boars. 3) They really are not kidding around with the crafting system. You can only carry 1 gun and barely carry any ammo around when you start out. 6 *whole* shotgun shells? (I still have not found the pigs, I think, I need for the first ammo capacity upgrade although I did snag an extra holster). 4) muscle memory from borderlands 2 keeps making me use the d pad to switch weapons and pulling out the camera when being savaged by wildlife is no fun.

So I just came across this ancient gem: source (via Old Man Murray)

tell us how you really feel.

It's been out since Oct 22. Not done with it, but I like it a lot. Thank god for the built in hint system though because

oh forgot another few: Mat Young - Invicia Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - Nobody's Baby

I agree with Mington in that I find stalking to be generally less bad than escort. I think the problem with escort is it feels like the outcome is taken out of your hands; you always end up thinking to yourself "if I were in control of that NPC I'm supposed to be protecting I would sure as heck make sure I kept the PC in between myself and any threat." but, yeah, that's not what they do. ever.

oh shit apparently this just happened yesterday: http://phys.org/news/2012-11-russian-sci-fi-author-boris-strugatsky.html

I read this over a decade ago in the midst of my Tarkovsky binge. To be honest, I don't remember much about it other than it was not much like the film at all though it didn't compare poorly against it. I am kind of a big fan of the film, so I guess that speaks vaguely in the book's favour.

my super high rotation stuff lately: Nostalgia77 - Cheney Lane The Budos Band - Aynotchesh Yererfu One Self - Bluebird edit: oh forgot, one more: Radio Citizen - The Hop

Also I know I shouldn't judge a film I haven't seen, but it is disconcerting to me when people I know say they like it. These are people who haven't read the book, mind you, but it still bothers me in a, I think, not entirely rational way.

I've read that Luisa's name is a reference to The Bridge of San Luis Rey which I've been meaning to read but haven't got round to.

*cough*

Man, what do they mean no one read the article alongside the magazine ad? I totally read the heck out of that. (true, however, that I didn't fact check any of it and just assumed the non Goldblum details were made up)

this one has TIEM TRAVEL. also, possibly a frankenstein motif.

It begins:

I give that a 7/10.

"smooth opening" had me giggling like a lunatic at work. thanks for that.

Badly? I'm not saying a good movie based on Cloud Atlas absolutely couldn't be done ("never say never" and all...e.g. Naked Lunch which ought to have been unfilmable but succeeds on some level IMO because it is nothing like the book), but from what's out there about the Wachowski version, they don't sound like the ones to do it.

here are some award winners: http://www.ifcomp.org/comp11/ http://ifwiki.org/in...ZZY_Awards_2011 In addition to the aforementioned Emily Short, Andrew Plotkin, & Aaron A. Reed, I'd have a look at: Adam Cadre and Victor Gijsber It kills me to do it because it's kind of a spoiler, but I feel the only responsible thing to do is offer a trigger warning for the following Gisjber title: edit: oh, also check out Deirdra Kiai, who you may know of from some non-IF indie stuff.

I hate to be "that guy", but I think "resonance" is more appropriate than "assonance" in this context (if you need a "-ance" word). Assonance has to do with particular sonic qualities of vowels which isn't so directly applicable (even metaphorically) to games. Unless you want to explain the difference between ludonarrative assonance and ludonarrative consonance. sorry. ignore me.

huh. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lootdrop/an-old-school-rpg-by-brenda-brathwaite-and-tom-hal/posts/332306

Choicescript aside, Is it really as contentious as all that? Emily Short has done stuff with Varytale and Andrew Plotkin has done a thing with Undum and the stuff that Aaron A. Reed has done, although they don't leverage the newer library things, is pretty much CYOA.