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I don't like it when people say that something is "gay" (for example, if someone were to say that "claiming to know something for a certainty is gay" or some such) even though the characteristic they're describing is very rarely something specific to homosexuals (and I only mean this with regards to when people use the word "gay" to mean "homosexual")

Slightly MORE irritating is when things that are badly made or designed or just plain un-fashionable are rendered "gay" in a similar way.

I remember (back in the old days) being in school, and hearing someone spend basically an entire hour proclaiming that Visual Dbase was "Mega gay!" and "So fucking GAY!" and "Such a gay boy!"

Mind you, I guess VDb IS something of a sexual predator.

I'm puzzled...
I think I've missed the point here...
is this just a suggestion on how CJ should number his releases? Or is it a request for some features? Or both?

Plus: Is there any point having a script-less cut scene system, when it's basically no-longer possible to make an AGS game without learning basic scripting any way?

I hear Tron has made for a good game, and the film was poo! Maybe there's a formula!

While I'm in the mood:

"Music is what makes the world go round... it's no wonder the world feels so segregated and shallow these days"

On the most obvious level, music ISN'T what makes the world go round, but more importantly: The world DOESN'T feel shallow these days. People have just as much depth of character, and nature is still as utterly mind-boggling, and there is still as much to see and learn as there has ever been.

The way people state their personal view of the world as though it was indesputable fact bugs me a lot.

On an un-related note, when people talk about "the machine" it bugs me. It's only THEIR choice to view the world a certain way that produces the machine. If they didn't chose to think of it as one, it wouldn't be one, because it ISN'T one.

ALSO: The suggestion that the world feels segregated "these days" is preposterous. The world is no more segregated now than it's ever been, and in fact, it's pretty safe to say that there's a lot LESS segregation now than in recent history.

BUT ON THE OTHER HAND: It IS irritating how people have to constantly make up new definitions for every single slight defference in bands' "sounds".
I like the way HMV only recognises about 5 different types of music. "Dance", "classical", "Country", "Jazz" and "Rock n' Pop" for everything else. Although I did notice they had a "metal" section last time I was in there, but I got the impression this was only to look like they were hip. They didn't really know what it meant.

you're always correcting people's use of words AND YET:

"unless the outcome of a game of poker is can be determined before it is played..."

is can be determined? what?

Poland! IT'S COOL!

last time I looked, "VPXT2" had only been downloaded 57 times compared to "Lazarus Wants Pants" 1458 times!

hence I'm pretty sure that the numbers don't neccessarily represent a measure of quality.

mind you, my game DID suffer from a total lack of pants... something for number 3 then!

I don't understand the advantage of using 800x600 resolution... what am I missing here?

Hush Puppies. By a VERY long way.

GAAAAH!!!!

Although if you mean "puzzles that make you do amazingly weird things, as though they were perfectly normal"... I guess it'd be Day of the Tenticle, where you change the American flag to be a knitted tenticle... It's just totally brilliant that something so freakish feels so obvious!

Come on then Squinky. There's a base ball ground where I teach the local little-league just outside of town. We won't be bothered there. 2am dressed all in black. Just knives...

I think the atmosphere of a game can do more for it than anything else.

Also, things that looks different to anything else.

Monkeys would put me off these days. Monkeys in adventure games is too derivative now for my tastes.

I really REALLY liked the first tremours film. It was fantastic and amazing and brilliant. But the second one was so shit it made me weep for the memory of the first one.

I've not bothered to see number 3, and I'm not going to see number 4 either. The first one WOULD have been a cult classic had it not been for the appauling sequils.

I think you should just pick your favorates. That way you'll enjoy drawing them more...

There's quite a broad and variable range of opinions over who's most loved, so going with your personal pick of the best is the safest by far!

I'm only resting there. I'm a free spirit, roaming the globe on my piagio ciao... burning dust like knicker springs. YEE HAW!

*peddles frantically, then rides off into the sunset*

I suspect Oranges is american.

I like LURE OF THE TEMPTRESS, and while I'm sure it's not the BEST game ever, it deserves a mention for being better than B.A.S.S

I don't drink! But I recognise the Guiness is the only drink for a REAL man.

Forget pompous Americans! What about pompous Londoners!!!

"Capitol FM"?!?! Just another local radio station as far as I'm concerned. And I'll be spat-up if I'm going to accept some provincial radio broadcaster as a celebrity...

Come on Andail, you know what I'm saying! Yeah! Yeah?

ok. Guess not.

I'm interested to know why:

"its wrong to deny people the right to use a product and label it as a joke"

I think that the fact there's an apostrophe missing in the quoted sentence is "wrong". In English we use apostrophes to point out where we've dropped letters (or to denote posession).
Notive how I've used an apostrophe to point out the absence of " ha" in the phrase "we have"... Indeed, I've used one to point out the hidden presence of " ha" in the phrase "I have" twice now!

This is my justification for suggesting (in a friendly way, naturally) that you work out your punctuation because it's wrong.

I'd apreciate if we were given a similarly backed up explanation of why it's "wrong" to deny people the right to use "a product" (is AGS a "product"?)