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If I felt I did know more about the leaders' true motivations, then I would vote without a doubt.  And I will try to brush up between now and May 6th.  But come that day, I'm not going anywhere near a polling station unless I think I know what I'm talking about.  Voting isn't a duty, it's a right.  Surely my duty is to make the best decision I can with the knowlegde I've got, and I beleive people who are not well-informed should stay the hell away from the ballot box.

So many people see to have some kind of Lib Dem Fever at the moment.  Fair play, some, like Calin, have made that decision because he's read up on the policies and decided that is the best option for what he believes in and what he wants.  Others, and a large proportion of them, have done so for no other reason because he "pwnd" in the televised debate, and because the tabloids seem to like him.

If I choose not to vote, it won't be because I'm lazy "morally lazy" or "just plain stupid".  I won't even be wasting my vote in the same way as the people who can't be arsed to go to the polling booth. Hell, if they had an extra box on the ballot paper marked 'Sorry, I'm too ill-read to make an informed allegeance', then I would make the trip to the polls for it, if only to add my number to the turn-out figures, which are always very low in this country.

Choosing not to vote is political decision favouring the groups who hold sway over the media, the economy and our political system.

In what way?

Watching the TV debates at least will only take a few hours of your life...

Yeah, I watched the first one, and will probably catch the others out of curiosity, but it's not enough to base a political allegeance on.  They all say some stuff I agree with and some stuff I don't so much.  I don't really conform to a particular '-ism' or wing, so short of sifting through the manifestos and making lists of pros and cons (which I dont have time for at the moment) theres not a lot a can do right now but waive my right to vote and trust that at least some of those who do vote know what they're talking about.

Unless I can brush up on my politics between now and then, I'm probably not going to vote... truth is, I don't really feel that strongly about any particular party and I don't really follow politics enough to make an informed opinion.  People always say 'everyone should vote', but mine would be an ignorant vote, and I think that could do more harm than good... most people who go to the polls do so with opinions based on the poster campaigns and tabloid headlines... I'd rather not be one of those people.

ahhhh... "completed games"... I see what you did there

Great News Grim.  All the best :-)
(Maybe just call him Guy, which is quite normal, and then Brush could be his middle name )

There was this fun-sounding game on the C64:
http://www.mobygames.com/game/c64/evil-dead/screenshots

As well as a couple of PS2 games.

I like the overall simplicity of the system Telltale uses in their Sam & Max and Strong Bad games.

I haven't played these titles yet, but I've played Tales of Monkey Island, and I must say I don't much like the system they've got going there.  To walk, you have to hold the left mouse button down and drag the cursor in the direction you want Guybrush to go (or just use the arrow keys, which is ten times easier and I can't imagine anyone doing it the other way).

To open the inventory you have to click on the right hand side of the screen and wait for the inevntory scroll to appear with a rather repetetive and time-consuming animation.  And to make things worse, this game is guilty of what I mentioned in an above post.  Unselecting things every time you use it.  So if you want to try an item of several things, you have to keep re-selecting it, which means opening up the clunky inventory scroll again (and of course closing it aswell, which is equally as time-consuming).

This is all very petty of course.  I'm enjoying ToMI and will get round to finishing the series, but there is one feature of the interface which really gets on my nerves, and then I'll stop moaning:

Combining items!  I'm assuming many of you have played this game.  What did you think?  If one thing is almost universal in adventure games, it is the method of combining items... you select one item, and with it selected you click on another item, right?... Wrong...  in ToMI, you have you select one item, drag it to a special 'combine' window, then select the second item, and drag that to the second 'combine' window, and then finally, if you ave any energy left, click on a special 'combine' button.  Which is hella annoying if you're a bit stuck and want to try combining several items to see if anything happens.

So yeh, moral of the story... don't copy Tales o' Monkey Island :-P

I'm in the 'Finish a GIP' camp.  And also reckon it should be an annual event.  Would be cool to really plug it aswell,  Mags doesn't get many entries, but this should be seen annually as THE Mags to enter if you're going to enter at all.

If we can wait until summer, I'm in.  Bit bogged down with Uni work at the mo.

I've nothing against Carrey.  His chosen some good roles, and ended up with some right duffers.  He probably could pull off a decent Ash, but it would be little more than an impersonation, an homage, to Bruce's Ash.

I would like to see another Evil Dead, though.  I love those films.

"1985"

Essentially the concept would be to either create a game that could exist on the hardware available before 1990, and/or make a game with a time setting during any point in the 80s.

For a minute there I thought you were planning to design a sequel to Orwell's 1984.

My mind is indeed corrupted and I probably need help...

One of the good things about Tunguska is the 'search scene' icon.  I've come across it in a few games but I wish more games would implement it.  When you click on the icon, the location of every clickable item in the scene is highlighted with a little magnifying glass.  This eliminates pixel-hunting and saves having to sweep your cursor all over the place looking for something to click on.  Very handy.

Also done.  Great story.  One of those ones you wish you could have come up with.

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typing in those phone numbers over and oer again was starting to get on my tits, but I perservered beause I just wanted to see it the story through.

One question...Why couldn't I just make a copy of Emelia's build, and use the copy of her to kill the Reaper, while keeping the original Emelia safe and sound and ready for lovin'?

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I like it.  Getting quite involved.. but everyone's stopped talking to me... not sure what to do now.
Good though.

I have to confess I'll rarely play a game if it's only got one cup.  If I ever have, none are springing to mind at the moment.  I might have a little on-cup session at some point.

Yeh, I too prefer the items to be on the screen, so they are within reach and you don't need to open up a load of menus to get to them.  And as Jasmine says, it's better when there's not so many items that you have to keep scrolling back and forth.

One thing that annoys me, is when you have to keep selecting the same item over and over again in order to try it on several things.  This is bad form.  Once you select an item, it should remain selected until to tell it otherwise.

@SSH - D'oh! Damn, it's so obvious now you've said it.

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@OneDollar

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do the two pile's have to make use of all the coins, or could you just take two of the coins and put them into 2 piles of 1, as long as one is a head and one is a tail?

[EDIT] Infact... that's my answer.. there are only two coins, and if you've already been told that their are an equal number of heads and tails then you know you just need to put them into two piles of one...

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@tzachs - I wont answer this because I found it when I was trying to find the answer to the first riddle.

Most of my favorite riddles have silly solutions similar to the one's I posted.  I'm sure this one has a more mathematically logical answer, but I can't work it out, So I'm going the silly route.  I can't get your answer to make sense either, Crim.

Either:

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He saw his reflection in a shop window...

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Or:

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He doesn't know the colour of the hat he has been made to wear for this exercise, but is simply stating a fact about a hat which he does happen to own...

"My hat is white (but its at home on the hatstand)"

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or

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The guy behind him passed him a piece of paper saying "your hat is white".

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