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Are you talking about this study: http://sydney.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstoryid=11335 ?
Because my understanding of it (from admittedly a cursory investigation) seems to be that it is talking about situations where there would be people, but there is a level of uncertainty as to whether or not they are looking at you (the article uses the example of sunglasses or low-light conditions when you can't see where they are looking. I may be mistaken, but it seems to be more focused on the eyes and the mind and gaze perception (being able to tell if people who are there are looking at you), and the implicit assumption that if you can't tell with someone's eyes, you get the feeling they're looking at you (which IS something I admit I've occasionally experienced ), and makes no mention of being alone and having the background feeling of "someone is watching me!"

[brainwashing]

Are you seriously going down this road? Do you honestly think you "chose" the religion you believe? Hell no. It was chosen for you (unless you did actually find a religion your parents didn't believe, then kudos to you).

I'm not getting this. I'm pretty sure the number of converts in the world are significant enough that it isn't an abnormality that they chose the religion they believed. And especially considering those who drift towards non-theism or whatever. You went ahead and decided that the faith of your parents wasn't for you. You "chose" to go with something else. I'm sure you don't think of yourself as something special, many other people faced such choices, surely. If you add to that the number who investigated and felt that whatever they were born in sounds correct, it would be even more. Sure, it won't be the majority, and many people would probably continue living in the religion they were born in without question, but that doesn't mean that many didn't. Who is to know how miguel came about to where he is now?

All of these options, except for A leave you with this: what if I'm wrong and go to "hell" and never see my family again!!?

I'm not sure, and everyone's bringing up is different, but as far as me personally, and the people I know well enough to be able to answer for, "what if I am wrong and go to hell and never see my family again!!?" didn't seem to be a huge factor in childhood, and certainly not in adulthood. What would be the corollary of that? "Oh no, my parents are wrong, if I go to heaven, I'll never see them again, I better continue pretending to believe as they do!"?

Your argument hurts my brain that you can honestly believe it's something you chose (in the actual definition of: to choose). What happened to you as a child was a complete definition of: brainwashing (albeit, for the lack of a better word, it can sound a little harsh)

I suppose it could be labelled as that, but then, it'd be there along with political leanings, emphasis on sports/education/art (dependant on physical prowess as well, of course), and even complex moral choices. Heck, you could say that the very act of bringing up a child is "brainwashing" them. Now I've heard many people who say "I won't force my child, I will present all options, etc. etc. etc.", but I'm not sure if that is even possible. At the young, formative age, children seek to emulate their parents, and once they've seeped in all of that, it'll be with them for life, even if it is just in the background, unless they make a conscious decision to rebel against that.

Not to mention the fact that we're hardwired to believe there is something out there watching us - to keep us alert from potential predators that could be stalking us. But in today's predator free world, we're now likely to believe that the "watching" feeling is God, or whomever.

I think you mentioned this earlier (or maybe in another thread?) but I'm really not sure about the validity of this. Perhaps you are a sufferer of paranoia?
I do not usually feel like this. If it was as you say, surely religious belief would have increased after humanity progressed into today's predator free world (instead of staying the same or decreasing). I do not usually go around thinking someone is out there watching me...and while I believe in an omnipresent God, it is only when I really think about it that it enters my mind that "God is watching me!11!"

Again, I don't want it to feel like I'm attacking you or anything, it is just that a couple of your statements and understandings you presented didn't really match with me, personally, at least, and I don't think they're a "standard". I do not know, my family and surroundings weren't particularly religious or pushy in that sense..perhaps it was different for you growing up in such a religious atmosphere.


Oh no what have I done....WHY DID I LET MYSELF GET SUCKED INTO POSTING IN THIS THREAD......TRAPPPED NOW FOREVERRRRRRRRR

I did my part in helping it get greenlit (and also maybe winning something ).
Also, don't you already have a working demo that showcases most of what your game will have? Shouldn't that be enough for GoG? Because I would also prefer to buy it there.

Not sure if this is the right place to mention this, but maybe the combat magic system could do with a little fine-tuning. It all seemed very hectic and haphazard. The rest of the demo was pretty awesome, though!

For making you a real man. You should be thankful to him!

Hahah...thanks, I guess. But there isn't really any tie-breaker here. People who pronounce it with a soft g will continue doing so, people who pronounce it with a hard g will also continue doing so, and even the creator of the word can't tell them otherwise, and at this point, both ways are "correct". I wasn't so much arguing for "my side" as I was addressing a specific point (about pronouncing acronyms based off the phonetics of their original words).

I still pronounce Adobe (the company) as "a-doab", even though it is an american company that pronounces it "a-doe-bee", and telling me I'm wrong isn't going to help.

So yeah, as Adam says, pronounce it GIF, and let the reader decide what you mean by that .

I just read something I thought was funny, and sorta relevant considering "g stands for graphics, not jraphics" line of thought.

It isn't "gay-peg", it sounds more like "j-fag", because the P there stands for "Photographic" .

Despite what gigabytes and gigahertz may have conditioned you to believe, "jigawatts" is a completely valid pronunciation.

And I've never said (in my mind or out aloud) "gip-thread" . If I had to, I'd say X game's thread or games-in-production thread.

Okay, here's another one then.
I've often heard people pronounce GUI as 'gooey', like a sticky oozey substance.
I prefer to just say the letters: gee-you-eye
(or jee-you-eye, as the case may be)

Yesterday, when I was pondering responding to this topic, I was going to use this example as well. I've always said the letters out aloud (and also always said pee-en-gee"), because gooey just seemed weird.
When I first saw the topic title, I said "You pronounce it jif, obviously!", but then after reading gif jif gif jif and saying it to myself, I'm confused as to how I'd actually pronounce it (I may have only ever said it aloud once). I'd probably stick with "jif"- I don't usually think of "graphical interchange format" when I say "gif", and as people have mentioned before, pronunciation of acronyms really doesn't depend at all on how the original word used the letter.

I realised that there are a lot of hard g soft g words that I'm not entirely sure about. They're all slipping my mind now, though . As a kid, I used to read "Reggie" (from Archie comics) as "Regi" as opposed to "Reji", but I guess since it is a shortened form of Reginald, it'd probably have the soft g.

It is interesting how people might read these words regularly that they never need to say out aloud, and how they might never realise they're pronouncing them differently. A friend of mine, who is very well read, but doesn't speak english as a first language surprised me a while back with "ren-dez-vus" (rendezvous) and "jen-er" (genre).

Assuming you're here developing games (although I suppose a sizable portion of you all are simply here to play games), I was wondering why.
I was wondering why about myself too....not sure I could pin it down. Why do you develop games? Why do you start out developing a game? What pulls you through it to the end of the game? What brings you back to develop another?

Is it the enjoyment of the adulation of fans ? The money being showered on you? Do you have some inner mission driving you to tell some specific story? Do you simply invent challenges for yourself and enjoy puzzle solving? Do you have some inner mission involving advancing video gaming as a medium? I've heard people say they enjoy making games they'd like to play. Is it about enjoying exercising your creativity? Why choose video games for that? Perhaps it is a quirk of the sort of adventure games we make here, but while I certainly try my best to make games I wouldn't hate, aside from bug testing or checking something, I have to admit, I don't much care to play through my own games.

I have the jewel case, one of the last things I ever bought off the LucasArts website some years ago.

Apparently there are some issues with getting the game to run properly, but I never really had any problems..

I lost all my awards as well.

The last one he did was a png?
I don't quite mind the soft edges along with the pixelated sprites. It has the potential to be a good style.

I'm trying one more round of game finding, even if it isn't the rhythm or sports-action games....

What I should be on the lookout for now, I guess:

Time Splitters 2
SSX Tricky
Gitaroo Man or Rez or Space Channel 5 2
Metal Gear Solid 3
Sly 2
Tony Hawk 3 (or 4?)
GTA: Liberty City Stories
Viewtiful Joe
Odin Sphere
Final Fantasy X (or XII?)
Kingdom Hearts
Red Dead Revolver
Jak & Daxter 2 or 3
Ratchet & Clank 2 or 3


LimpingFish, I didn't really want to heavy out on any one sort of game. Sorry to try and squeeze up your suggestions , but if you could, which of those do you suggest as a cream of the crop for the survival horrors you suggested and the stealth games you suggested and the japanese action adventures?
Bush_monkey, which of those RPGs is the top?

Don't currently have the patience to load and screenshot the game, so off the web, is:

Touché!

First game of all here that I recognise, and supposedly an easy one. I get the feeling I'll be just as bad at this game as the movie one .

Yes, I got that from filling in my own number (had to go to my profile, then find the number from the link for stats or posts). Almost 3000 in my case now!

It still only tells yours

Who on earth is this young upstart lording it about like an oldie?!

Let me take this opportunity to thank you for the Winter Rose, one of my favouritest AGS games ever.

* Babar clanks his bigbluecup with Baron's monocled receptacle

I actually saw that in a shop, but didn't pick it up. It was the first part in the series that included the more acclaimed Red Dead Redemption (for the PS3), no?
As of now, I have:
God of War I & II
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
Ico
Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Okami
Ratchet & Clank
Shadow of Destiny
Silent Hill 2
Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves
Tekken: TAG Tournament
and We Love Katamari
And I have ordered Shadow of the Colossus online.

Unless I can find Gitaroo Man or Rez or SSX Tricky (to fill in good ones from the missing rhythm games and sports-type games), I think that is it for me now. Or am I still missing something vital, and not having that on the PS2 is blasphemy?

I think you have to post a screenshot of your own for others to guess, now.