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I agree with Mills -- gotta balance the two out.

Consume information and produce creative ventures in equal amounts.

Who did you think I based Max Dekker on?

Pure beauty, danny!  8)

I did a search too and can't even find the actual act.

Nor can I find anything relating to Code 7.

They're full of shit!

Squinky,

I did a search for "Internet Protector Incorperated" and came up with nothing.

However, I did a search for "Internet Protector" and lo and behold it came up with software that prevents kids from accessing pornography.

My guess is that the company (Note the 'Incorperated' -- I doubt this a commercial enterprise would also be a a government regulartory body), sends spam to parents and the parents get worried and buy their software.

In other words, you're safe.

In fact, this person is also making false claims for commerical purposes and acting as a ficticious regulatory body, which is against the law too.

This person is cooking up a heap of trouble for themselves.

I'd report this e-mail to an ACTUAL regulatory body -- maybe they can trace the person down.

Now, time to go get me some pics of women with six boobs playing with goats!!!!

I've mentioned him many times before, but I'll talk about Hal Ashby:

My favourite film of his is The Last Detail with Jack Nicholson -- here's the IMDB summery:

"Two Navy men are assigned to guard a young prisoner in transit to serve out his sentence. Along the way, they get to know each other and the young man, who begins the journey resigned to his fate, gets a taste of the world and why he might not want to spend his youth behind bars."

And it's very cool -- they buy the kid beer even though he's underaged, they teach him to fight, they get him laid by a hooker, they take him ice skating, and they take him on a picnic in the snow before taking him to the brig.

However, Ashby had a huge run of critical and commercial hits in the 70s, such as:

The Landlord - 1970 - haven't seen but the critics loved it

Harold and Maude - 1971 - cult classic film

THe Last Detail - 1973 - Mentioned above

Shampoo - 1975 - Warren Beatty movie where he plays a hairdresser that pretends to be gay in order to sleep with all the rich dudes' women.

Bound for Glory - 1976 - A biopic about folk legend Woody Guthrie

Coming Home - 1978 - An 'at home' Vietnam war movie about a woman who falls in love with a paralysed veteran while her husband is off fighting in the war. (Ashby was nominated for a directing Oscar for this film)

Being There - 1979 - Peter Sellers plays a simple-minded gardener working for this old man. When the old man dies, Chance goes out into the world with nothing but his knowledge of gardening and things he's seen on TV. Through a turn of events, he becomes a political advisor for a prominent businessman. Very funny satire!

Also, Ashby used to be an editor for films, mainly for the work of Norman Jewison.

Ashby even won an Oscar for editing 'In the Heat of the Night' with Sidney Poitier and Rob Steiger.

So, that my love of Hal Ashby.

As for other famous old films, well, Jesus there are far too many to mention, but here's a short list:

60s and 70s:
The Godfather
Midnight Cowboy
Easy Rider
Five Easy Pieces
One Flew Over THe Cuckoo's Nest
Apocalypse Now
American Graffiti
The Last Picture Show
The French Connection
Annie Hall
2001: A Space Odyseey
A Clockwork Orange
Taxi Driver

Older:
Harvey
It's A Wonderful Life (MEERRRRYYY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!!!!!)
The Searchers
The Grapes of Wrath
Rebel Without a Cause
To Kill a Mockingbird
Moby Dick
Casablanca
Rear Window
Angels With Dirty Faces
Citizen Kane
Public Enemy
White Heat
Yankee Doodle Dandy
And any Chaplin, Buster Keaton, or Harold Lloyd

Foreign:
Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Rashomon, Ran (or anything Kurosawa for that matter)
Jules and Jim
Zorba the Greek
Week End (Godard is a very aquired taste)
La Strada
The Grand Illusion

And for animated films, I'd select most of everything from Chuck Jones, especially the masterpiece 'What's Opera, Doc?' -- it's heartbreaking as well as funny!

AND MANY MORE!

You do NOT put fish in doorlocks to open a door. Thats just a stupid puzzle

What about unlocking the door by balancing three biscuits on your head and a flute up your nose singing "Them Bones, Them Bones"?

Granted a lot of phantoms have been shot. But his costume is really like a banner, standing out to symbolise justice and truth. People feel envigorated when they see a purple blur rush past and kill someone, because they know that it was the phantom! A symbol of truth and justice, and all other sorts of good things.

You're thinking of Captain America.  



Edit: And it's La-La, dammit!  

Shiver me timbers!!

Do you have a backup?

But the use of the DADA teacher changes from book to book -- in fact, it's probably the only big change through the whole series.

Squinky:
First Dark Hero, then whatever I feel like (which could include Smilietown).

Also, I want Smilietown to be a similar game graphically to Stickman.


SSH:



Also, I couldn't help myself:

only macho men have the balls to wear purple.

The hulk wears purple pants and I'm sure he could whoop me in an arm wrestle

And that is sooooooo predictable of typical guys -- always doing things for the sake of machoism or trying to be "big man on campus".

It may be macho to wear purple in the jungle to fight poachers (in some warped way), but it's not always smart for camouflage -- I'm not surprised that so many Phantoms have died in the past and it's a good thing they all had sons before getting bludgeoned to death by some ape who happened to catch them walking in full purple view!

(Okay, that didn't actually happen, but there have been previous Phantoms after revenge for the death of their fathers -- I'm used to be a big reader of the Phantom, despite my criticism of his fashion sense -- somewhere hidden in my room is a stack of old 600-800 era Australian issues, only problem is I don't know where I put them!)

Anyway, if purple really is macho, then let's also take our he-man inspiration from Barney and Tinky-Winky too -- let's not exclude our purple brethren!  

agswannabe,

Do not start more than one thread on the same topic.

You've already posted asking for help on your detective game -- don't post another.

I have merged the two threads together, but I will delete any other 'dectective game ideas' threads I see from now on.

Then try and add something that you wouldn't expect in your stories or a PB game.

For example, make all your characters fish and set it underwater.

I'm also planning a detective game, but using nothing but smilies as characters (Hence the title: Smilietown)

This is demonstrated also in movies: look at the Big Lebowski -- it's an old-fashioned detective movie but with a hippie in the detective role (and his sidekick is a Vietname Vet )

Just think of the best way to spin the straw into a different kind of gold.

Why do you want us to make the story up for you? At least, thats the way I see it. Oh well, here goes:

Lazy games creator is killed in a spontainious flaming in the AGS forums. Who could have done such a thing? On inspecting the charred remains of the games creator, our main charactor (Khan T. Beybotered) is lead into a whirlwind of conspiracies behind the sudden death of the lazy one, the hidden cult of Doetfuroos threatens him at every turn. Hey, this sounds like Pleurghburg. *shrug*

There is a moral to this story. People will give you silly stories if you ask them to make a storyline for you.
USE BRAIN.
USE OILCAN WITH BRAIN
USE BRAIN TO THINK UP GOOD STORY.
((Ripped from Bud Tucker))

I prefer Sasha's reply.

MD, please be a little more tactful in your replies.

Purple is a real man's colour?  

Batman dresses in black and mainly comes out at night = PERFECT CAMOUFLAGE

Phantom dresses in purple and wears his underpants on the outside = STUPID CAMOUFLAGE

Aye, and Caddyshack too!

I could see myself ending up like Carl Spackler one day.

Purple is a stupid colour.

Who hides in the jungle in purple?

I don't care if you based your costume on a jungle god -- think practical, dude!

No wonder he got shot at so often!

Just in case there was any doubt, and IMDB search reveals William Goldman wrote the book and wrote the film based on the book.

There was no mention of S. Morgenstern.

Although the book claims to be based on another, there are several elements and characters that are very "Goldman-esque" -- if you know much about about his previous work, you'll know what I'm talking about.

Not only that, how come I can't find the original 'S. Morgenstern' book for sale?

Also, how come most of S. Morgenstern's work was either adapted by Goldman or written with Goldman? (according to an amazon search)

S. Morgenstern seems like a pseudonym that Goldman uses -- it even sounds like the sort of name he'd use.


Although I like Goldman's work, I find the man to be a raving egomaniac most of the times.

I especially detested his article last year that practically damned Martin Scorsese and Gangs of New York -- basically, it said "Don't give Scorsese an Oscar for Gangs because it is a badly directed film!"

I found that so damn hypocritical, especially after Dreamcatcher was released -- that was a piece of shit and I thought Goldman could write so much better than that (like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid or All The President's Men for example).

He's a self-righteous hypocrite is but he has written some great films.