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Lovely trophies. I like Babar's pearl lady, is she barefoot?

My picture was drawn with a pencil and felt pens, then edited on computer.

Thank you, yes, she is barefoot! All the better to go padding around the house in .
Your croquet girl is awesome too, you took one sort of painterly style, and converted into another sort of painterly style.
And yeah, cool trophies, Blondbraid! Although I can't tell, are they also based off classial paintings?

I remember this! Congrats on getting it released!

And actually, many of Dylan's songs first became hits, or are more famous, in other singers' interpretations. ("Blowin' in the Wind" was first a hit for Peter, Paul & Mary, "Mr. Tambourine Man" for The Byrds, and "All Along the Watchtower" is best known in Jimi Hendrix's version, for example.) Dylan is someone you can make a strong case for as a songwriter first and foremost, rather than a musician or performer.

I was going to make this point as well .
As a singer, I find Bob Dylan's nasally voice infuriating, and feel his insistence on using a harmonica everywhere really annoying. As you mentioned, I find a lot of the best versions of his songs are covers, so much so that I end up looking for covers of songs of his I almost like .

Thanks, Blondbraid! Yes, you are right in your guess. I avoided posting what it was to figure out if people could guess, but then I saw you had mentioned a link in your rules, so I've added one now.

I am not sure I can work on this any more...my knowledge of pixelling cloth folds has reached its limits. So, in EGAish (14 of the available 64) colours:
[imgzoom]https://i.imgur.com/NaJ2KMJ.gif[/imgzoom]
Hopefully recognisable!

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It is The Girl with the Pearl Earring

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Far from my favourite genre, but the following games fit your requirement very well, and are all very good:
Not played it, but it certainly gives off that vibe: McCarthy Chronicles
The Trilby Series/Chzo Mythos (the way you listed it made it seem you possibly thought they were non-free?)
Pleurghburg: Dark Ages
Camp 1
The 1213 games
The Vacuum

I learnt a new and horrifying thing today, something I feel all of the internet should know!
Check it out here

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What did I learn? That the internet is absolutely insane. What is that article, even?

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Good stuff!
The main AGS download page mentions 3.4.0, but all the download links actually lead to 3.3.5-7 still!

Simply have a vanishing line (the horizon, essentially) instead of 2 discrete points. Stuff in the middle would be relative to that.
It might look slightly odd if you are in one extreme corner, but as long as it looks correct (even if it isn't perspectively correct), people don't notice.

The problem with this idea of "one software that you can do everything with" is that a software made with 500 different little parts is never going to be as good as a software made specifically for that task. For example, no matter how many features you keep adding to a supposed room creator or sprite creator, it'll never be good as paint programs specifically created to make that sort of art. The same with video editing and sound editing and so on.

1st: jwalt
2nd: Grok
3rd: DBoyWheeler

Also, linux-y GUI in general... I even cannot always rationally explain it, but it feels so awkward and just really irritates me.

It's the GUIs in most FOSS stuff in general. Most of the time it gets me writhed up in a frothing rage at how horrible it is: stuff like GIMP, Blender3D, LMMS and so on.

I usually just figure that it is because unlike windows or MacOS (who have specific experienced people paid to design the UI, regardless of how good they are at their job), most of the contributors to FOSS stuff are coders and such whose mentality is "Oooh, this is a cool feature, let me add this! Ooh, another cool feature, let me code this in" and so on, with little mind to how the UI would work, and rarely having a well-tested or established UI vision.

I used linux primarily for years until I recently got a new laptop. The new laptop had higher and more complicated specs than my old system, and so surprisingly, while my old system ran all the games (that could run on it) fine, the new one, although it should theoretically be able to run more, cannot. I gave it one or two attempts to configure the graphics drivers and such, but they were unsuccessful, and I got frustrated, so I abandoned it.
Now it's still there as a dual boot, but I don't very often use it

Also, I use xubuntu, because I too got very annoyed with the way Gnome Unity was going. Xfce has worked great for me so far.

Concept: SinSin
Playability: CaesarCub (with SinSin a close second)
Artistic Execution: CaesarCub.

Great entries all around! I guess piracy brings out the inner adventurer in us all

After so long hunting for Columbus's map to the Lost Treasure of Atlantis, finding a copy on an old deerskin in a collection by cartographer Piri Reis was a bit of an anticlimax. The spot marked X was nothing more than farmland tended to by the simple villagers who lived in constant terror of the newly established nearby pirate outpost. Still, something about the markings on the map make you suspicious. It is time to investigate this series of islands and hope you can find something that will lead you to the treasure!
Now, where to go next?
[imgzoom]https://i.imgur.com/1o1237x.png[/imgzoom]

Spent way too long trying to figure out a background to the map's foreground, and it always ended up looking mismatched. Finally decided on a somewhat cheesy gradient, but at least it is less distracting!

I'd love to have Shodan on Steam! I'm also pretty sure I exist in true life

It wouldn't be on steam, though, only on gog. I know it is a hassle of having yet another account, but in terms of gog, I'd say it is well worth it, especially because they have such a large focus on the classic games so many of us here developed our love of adventure through.

You still want it on gog, ex-human?

Again not a Steam key, and you can currently get it for free if you are willing to get a gog account and download and install the GOG Galaxy client, but if someone wants System Shock 2, mention it here, and if you're a real life AGSer, I'll link it to you!

Just played it myself recently, and as an avid "meh"-er of pre-2003 3D games (especially "Doom games" ), I still strongly recommend this one- although I admit I used texture mods and such. I haven't looked forward to playing a game when I'm not playing it in many years, and haven't had it be so easy to complete a game (in terms of desire and motivation, not in terms of difficulty) in a long time.

Truly a legend, in and out of the ring.

Been a long time coming, but still quite a sad thing. Probably my own personal experiences with people with Parkinsons, but I remember getting quite weepy when he lit the torch in 1996...

I redeemed Viscera Cleanup Detail, thanks!

In that case, the horizon should be much


...higher? Wuh?
Eyeballing it and "feeling" it it seemed the horizon should be much lower, but perspective says it should be higher.