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No one communicates with me!

The second screenshot looks like the apocathery in Simon the Sorcerer.

These men obviously need more practice.

I guess you just can't tell the genre of a game by it's title!  Oh no!

Yeah, imagine my joy when as a child, I looked up my name in a baby name book, only to discover that far from 'courageous' or 'mighty lion' or 'intrepid beauty', my name means 'a knotted cord'.

It means rather a lot of things, actually   We share the same name (though I shorten it), and I've seen it mean "bound", "little girl", "daughter of God", "one who serves" and all sorts.  The meaning of the name changes from interpretation to interpretation   So don't feel down about it!

Let me elaborate by what I meant by "convenience's sake"

It's a common "assumption" (although perhaps an outdated one) that when married the woman will take her husband's surname.  I think that people will continue to take their husbands surname because it's traditional, and the "default" stance.  People tend to think of married couples as "Mr + Mrs *name*", so in that way it would be convenient.

But then again, I don't care

Speaking as an actual woman: Meh, whatever.   I mean, it's just your last name.  Just think about whichever you'd prefer to put on legal documents and stuff and then stick with it.

Personally I feel no attatchment to my own surname, and if I was to get married I'd probably take my husband's surname just for the sake of it.  It doesn't mean that you are owned and are property of your husband unless you actually believe that rubbish, it's done for convenience's sake anyway.

Aye, sign Adam and I up - on the condition that it is after June 29th and before the end of August


(Edit: Don't know when my own exams are ._.)

I am Becky.

I like the name Kimberly Dangerfield.

For the last couple weeks, my girlfriend had been showing signs of moodiness, fatigue, and extreme cravings.  She was also 2 weeks late.

You guys might want to have a double check on that.  As far as I'm aware, symptoms of pregnancy are not generally noticable until later on.

Good luck with whatever you decide to do.

I will come and visit, and then promptly drag you back inland to Buckinghamshire and show you trees, hills, sheep, geese and the Hell-Fire Club caves!

For an idea of how to vary the size/brightness/whatever of the stars, have a look at this tutorial by Greg Martin. http://gallery.artofgregmartin.com/tuts_arts/making_a_star_field.html

I tend to think his starfields are  too OTT, but it'll give you an example of how you can vary it

CGI is supposed to enhance the suspension of your disbelief, not damage it.  Where it does damage it, criticism is justified, especially when we have seen the superb quality of CGI like Gollum in LOTR. 

What gets me is that giant monkey and lion should be "easier" to create in CGI than fictional creatures, yet  the quality of fictional creatures in films in general seems to be higher.

From the trailers, King Kong looks like a big CGI monkey.  Big and CGI, and I cannot suspend my disbelief.  My main problem with CGI is that it tries to be something it isn't, and a lot of the time gets it wrong.

I refuse to see Narnia on the basis that computer generated real animals do NOT resemble their live counterparts.  I constantly am reminded of this by the over-shiny fur, the unrealistic muzzle movements for talking, the ever-so-fluid animation.  I cannot suspend my disbelief enough to watch a whole film worth of it.

Also, all kingly lions should sound like Mufasa from The Lion King.  Aslan does not sound kingly enough. 

It's a bird.

Mr Blobby, for those who don't know.

I've just realised how bloody scary looking he is.

Mary's breasts look a little too pert for old-lady breasts.  How they were before was fine.

You do realise that their feet are at 90 degree angles to their bodies?

”The first step. There you are, even though you're not entirely bad. But a smile I do not see on your loins , nor on your lips. Perhaps someone could touch your lips, I am not interested in it,  you surely are no fairyqueen, nor are you a canine.”
   â€Me?”
   â€No, it's not you who I'm talking to, I would never talk to a canine, do you know why? Because while speaking a canine won't bark, and when a canine won't bark, it can bite. Yes, maybe if I bit it first. But then how could I speak?”

The use of canine here (and throughout the rest of the piece) is very persistant...and rather out of place.  Dog or some other variant would work better.  (Although I guess this may be a result of you trying to translate poetically.)

I can see why you got 50 out of 99.  Trying to outsmart teachers doesn't gain you the marks you think it would.  The emphasis on making it so "poetic" (if my poetic you mean vague with pretty words and phrases)  has meant that it has lost a lot of meaning, dancing around the point occasionally is fine, but this easily loses the reader's train of thought.  So it does not make immediate sense.

I wonder how much of the confusion arises from translation.

But I'm a big girl I can work it out on my own