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I started Ullyses once, because my English teacher said it would be 'up my street'...
I think I made it less than a fifth of the way through.

Back on topic  :

Well, it's looking more and more likely that she'll be able to serve her sentence in the UK... that's MORE than fair.  If this is true then she's a VERY lucky girl... I still have no sympathy, and if she ends up walking free I'LL be writing letters.  But I really don't think this news has anything to do with any Facebook groups.

I'm a secret fan of Frank the Farmhand.  Not for any reason than I just really enjoyed playing it.

I think stealth sequences are a good way of bringing a kind of pseudo-action element to an adventure game.  I mean, it's still a puzzle really... but feels a bit more Hollywood.

I know the general concensus here is that laens flare is bad... but...
try this neat little trick on facebook:

up up down down left right left right B A then press enter (classic cheat code)

You've got the Trilby's colours down, but that bed is WAY too bright.

Hillbilly. That Joyce quote is genius!
But nobody I've shared it with has seemed to appreciate it as much as I did.
I was cracking up more and more hysterically at every line the first time I read it... in the library of all places.

Brilliant.  Makes me want to go to New York.
I never realised quite how tiny the Statue of Liberty actually is.

@Layabout - I don't think condensing news and updating our useless and boring lives are the only thing Twitter is used for.  When Meowster said it was 'useful as a source of news and information' she didn't mean that she reads the 140 word long synopses and doesn't bother with the rest.  I should imagine the people she follows provide links with their "tweets" which lead to articles, blog posts and websites that Meowster might never have otherwise found... what's so bad about that?

I think it all depends on who you follow.  It's not just about feeding our narcasism.  It's just another new way of communicating.  Grumpy people said similar things when the telephone was invented, as well as the internet and mobile phones... (what's wrong with good old pen, paper and a  courier on horseback?).  You're sounding like an old fart who feels like he's being left behind be modern technology.

Ahh I'm never gonna finish with the reduced deadline... Oh well.  Its not even as good as it seemed in my head anyway.

They would not start charging for it now.
I am a bit surprised by the lack of advertising though.  That might change, but I'm sure they'd never start charging the users.

I have stopped following a few people who although I like them in real life, on Twitter they seem to think that everyone wants to know every mundane details of their lives.

Yeh, I'm going to quit following Jonathan Ross for the same reason.  I'm a fan of his, but he reports everything.

Who here has a Twitter account?
Do you use it?  Do you find it useful, or just another bandwagon that'll soon disappear up the lane?
I've recently made an account, and I find it interesting to follow certain people, but I don't personally have much to offer, myself.

If anyone wants to follow me, I'm StuartForbes

I'm already following a handful of AGSers and some other adventure game related folks  it's quite fun at the moment, but I can't help feeling the novelty will wear off soon.

Use this thread either to share your username so we can follow you, or just to discuss pros and cons of Twitter.

Do you have any idea of when in 2010 this would be?

May I refer you to Post #1 of this very here thread.

The event would take place in January 2010, and if it works out, every January from then on.

I'm sure it would be possible to script it so that the larger drops (closer to the camera) fall more quickly and the smaller ones (further away) fall more slowly, giving a greater sense of depth.  I wonder how easy this would be?

I'd rather have swine flu for a week than no income.

I'll be free from uni-related responsibilities within the next month so I'll be in the market to give anyone a hand.

If there are any folks who feel that their English is not brilliant, then I'd be happy to check over your writing and correct any grammatical/spelling mistakes.

Just PM me and let me know how I can help.

Another one bites the dust. Unlucky Zabnat.
Anyone else find it convenient that while this swine flu "pandemic" has been sweeping across the globe we have heard very little about the recession?
Or am I just being conspiranoid again

You could say theres a whole host of possibilities. 

The game I'm planning involves a host family. Does this count?

Even I've got Audacity somewhere on this computer... so it must be good.