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This looks pretty awesome. Only thing: the castle thing in the background seems a bit like it was missing parts...

I have two completly seperate partitions - one NTFS with WinXP, one ReiserFS with SuSE Linux. I'd like to insall Debian instead of SuSE - I have a copy of it somewhere - but I really don't want to risk having to go through this again.

And I tried the blank password, along with my user account password, the bios password and every other password I could think of, multiple times. I wanted to do that fixboot, but of course, that's not possible without recovery console access.

Oh yeah, the "it never was like that, so why should it now" effect... the same thing happened to me at the end of 6DAS, when you

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have to kill the tall man via interacting him

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Okay, the "safe mode" installation did the trick. I didn't even lose a day!

Just the joke I expected  :

Be nice, esper. I might have forgotten to list you on the team list, but still, you are a team member. 

Chocolate chip cookies and sunshine, remember? 

No, wait, I know a tragic story. So, one year, my friends and me reached the age of 13. And as it's tradition on this age, we started to play Counter-Strike. And we went on our first LANs. One of my friends was especially good, and we told him how good he was. Soon he started playing on-line, too - he was the first one to get DSL, all others were still using ISDN or, in my case, 56K - and soon joined a clan. A fun clan, first.

He played more and more, and his school grades worsened quick. Also, he soon started to miss in school - at the beginning just the last one or two hours, then half the monday or friday, then both of them... and eventually the whole week. You seldomly saw him, once or twice a month. I heard he was playing 16 hours a day at that point.

He was in serious danger to flunk. He, of course, didn't make the year. Nowadays, he drinks alcohol instead of playing, and his grades are now pending around 4 to 5- (D to E-).

So basically, goodbye life.

My tragic story: I don't have one to contribute because my life has been a dream filled with sunshine and chocolate chip cookies  :'(

We are making a game. A Mr Monk game. Don't ask for details, we won't tell you 

(still looking for a character artist...)

Okay, I rebooted and am now installing Linux again. Expect for some partition shattering (30 GB - 10 GB - 15 GB - 5 GB; good thing the 30GB windows partition was left unscratched!) which I was able to fix via the installer it didn't seem to have consequences. I'm reinstalling in some kind of error-proof mode - the only thing I'll install are the basic operating system, a window manager and the boot loader. Wish me luck!

Hm... still no reaction by the setup. Think I'll just try again 

The simple interface

Pro
-> The player has more time to play the game - time that isn't used up by fiddling around with the controls / verb guessing
-> Not having to think about the controls increases the immersion in the game
-> You don't have to think up so many funny responses 

Con
-> All the SCUMM and IF fans will hate, hate, hate, hate, hate you
-> Some people don't like "dumbing it down"

So, yeah. I was running two operation systems on my laptop: Win XP SP2 and SuSE Linux. Then I tried to change something on the Linux partition and accidently killed the boot manager. Booting via the Win XP recovery console didn't work - it requested a password, but obviously not the one I set as that one didn't work. So I tried to re-install SuSE Linux, along with the boot manager. It worked fine...

...until about 30 minute ago. The installation hung. At "updating kernel dependencies", 53%. I'd rather not reboot right now, because I fear the consequences. Any idea what to do now? I wouldn't want to re-install Win XP right now, I fear the data loss. Okay, I have a quite recent backup, but still... blah. Just try SuSE Linux again, proceed to WinXP or just go mad? I could really need some help 

Well, if you really combine Interact and Talk, you could also strike out the seperation between Look and Walk. If the player clicks anywhere where is nothing (no hotspot, object, character...), he walks over there. If he left-clicks on something, it's treated as "Look At", and if he right-clicks, it's "Interact/Talk". Simple³. Okay, this will finally scare away the few left Interactive Fiction fans from the adventure, but I think simple controls are very very important for immersion.

I'm using a quite different strategy. Basically, at the beginning, I build the same number of arrow and cannon towers somewhere in the upper left edge and upgrade them. I save some money, and at level 7 the first flame tower follows. With just building and upgrading three flame towers, you can surivive to level 21. From there on, just build rockets. I don't use water at all, until the last wave. Which is the only leaking one, too.

And where is Monk, hmmmmm?

Come and join the corruption question and answer game!

Q: What do you need to get votes?
A: Public attention.

Q: How do you gather public attention?
A: Promote yourself.

Q: What do you need to promote yourself?
A: Media ads, a team, ...

Q: What do they cost?
A: Money.

Q: Who has money and would be willing to trade it for one or two hundred favors?
A: Rich people, who also have the ability to rip you apart in the media at any time.

So now guess who the politicans really need to please?
A) The people
B) The poor orphan childs who badly need money (and food)
C) The richest people of the country

And with only two political parties, it's no problem for rich people to bribe both of them. Whoever wins, you lose (I don't because I don't live in America. I lose because our politicans try to behave like the american corruptics).

I'm not saying there's no honest politican, but sadly, these don't let themselves get bribed, lack money and therefor public attention. And thus, the votes.

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Sure, America is young. That gives "America" every right to do mistakes. This may sound ridiculious to you, but...

America is not making decisions!

It's politicians are making decisions, not America! And these politicians are just the same as in Europe (corrupt, incompetent, ignoring the public will).

Try having a look at http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/acirc.htm.

That's what happens if you try to infuse occult blahblah into something originally designed as a "ghost story".

Cannot link to them often enough...

http://www.introversion.co.uk/

Uplink! Darwinia! Defcon! Subversion (in development)! These games are quite cheap and their greatness can't be described with words. Especially for Uplink and Defcon.