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Sorry, I didn't mean anything against you, personally. You didn't write the article. At least, I don't think you did. Anyway, reading that, I guess I agree the sarcasm was beyond the 'cute' threshold...

I realise you're not the rough-and-tumble bunch I'm used to. I'll try to think harder about how what I'm saying might affect people...

Keep in mind, though, I'm not some kind of loser-asshole who wastes his time pissing people off over the internet to fill the void of despair in his miserable dead-end life.
I'm really just kidding around. It's how I bond with people...

I would *love* to see a game that had completely, 100% accurate lockpicking or B&E for once...I even thought about making one as a huge tutorial for B&E techniques, where the player gets to learn exactly what the burglar is doing as he goes through the game.  But I know that without previous knowledge of the techniques, most players would be completely stuck until after they saw how each one was done.

You could have little hints and instructions lying around.\

I think that would be a refreshingly interesting idea for a game - a master locksmith gets tired of his lazy apprentice, so he decides to lock him into a maze and release a starving wolf into it or something, so the apprentice needs to hastily get better at lockpicking if he wants to survive...

Wow, that art is awesome. Reminds me of Grim Fandango.

Hey, hold on, today's saturday. I thought there's still two more days for people to sign up...

Actually... No. Even though Sherlock regularly helps Lestrade or Gregson, he doesn't work for Scotland Yard as a detective. He's not even a police officer. In fact, he's a consultant. Everything's clear about that in the first novel -"A study in scarlet"- when Watson asks Holmes about his activities.

Oh. To be honest, I only ever watched the black & white films - never did the novels. I always wondered why he'd tell Inspector Lestrade to arrest people, but I figured he was just lazy...

You can also check some TV shows like Monk or Psych (personally never saw one single episode but hey... thank you imdb !)... Or contact the Metropolitan Police directly.

Monk was a cop - a living legend - but when his wife was murdered his OCD resulted in a suspension from the force. Though he was kept on as a consultant, because he's a genius savant.

Shawn (from psych) is just some random guy who pretends to be psychic.

Maybe if it was five years later and I had completely forgotten about it.

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Hell, I'd probably replay it every single time someone complimented it, just to bask in my own brilliance. I do that with everything else...

sherlock holmes lived in england and he investigates in crimes, helping the police officers (right it's a romance but..)

Actually, Sherlock Holmes was a detective in Scotland Yard. He was a police officer.
Although Dr. Watson is not, so... I dunno.


I'd agree with Limpy up there. Police are reaaal picky about who they let investigate cases, especially in Britain. You can't just walk in and start interviewing witnesses and talking to coroners. They don't even let most police officers do that - the peons just end up guarding the scene of the crime, or canvassing the neighborhood. Boring stuff.
Even moreso when it's a serious crime.


Just to be sure, I'd make him some sort of consultant (like, some kind of genius with three PhDs who is of obvious use to a police investigation, instead of 'some guy'. They don't pass out case files like pizza slices you know...)

I don't know about other people, but there's nothing more annoying in films when some random guy just traipses onto a crime scene and starts poking the corpse and the cops are just like "Hey, do you wanna do our job for us?"

Don't you have citizen's arrest in the UK, and so forth?

Meh, in theory, yes. In practice, it's not likely. You're allowed to detain someone who you have witnessed commit a serious crime (one deserving of 5 years or more in prison - though I'm not sure how you determine that...) but chances are it's easier said than done. You're better off just stay out of it and call the cops. Y'know, if you like being alive...

Gosh, mister. I never knew there was so much I never knew about locks...

I dunno, maybe my house is kind of old-fashioned, but every single door has a corresponding key which locks or unlocks it. If someone has the key, and locks it from the outside, there's no real release. Which also struck me as odd... but if I'm ever in the situation where I have to lock a psycho killer into a room, I'll be laughing...


I always wanted to try lockpicking, but I'm just not patient enough, really...

Also, it seems like it would be illegal. Or at least get you on some sort of watch list...

Locked room scenes always struck me as funny...I mean, tied up, yes, that would work.  But I know from my locksmith days that there are almost no doors in regular buildings, home or commercial, that aren't always designed to be opened from the inside.

What exactly do you mean by that? You mean they're easier to kick down from the inside?

Oh my God, a differing opinion! DIE TROLL!

Has there ever been a game on this forum that has had as many pages in its thread as FE does?

I agree with Mandarb. Scientology rocks!

Hehe, you're welcome. Nice to see you don't always take yourself so seriously...

Did you actually read what I said? In the cult of scientology, you'll have to pay for enlightenment or information.

Costs a shitload of money to go to a private Catholic school to become 'enlightened'.

Hell, it costs 200 bucks an hour to go to a psychiatrist and become 'enlightened'.

Scientology is a self-help club that calls itself a religion. Where's the evil in that? They're just a little bit ahead of themselves.

I bet you could make up all sorts of shit about what modern medicine has done to people. And I'm sure it would be technically true. But that doesn't mean medicine doesn't help people, too.

I, personally, always enjoy a good trapped-in-a-room-with-a-locked-door puzzle...
Maybe it's because I'm lazy, and hate having to explore large areas multiple times just to find some little easy-to-miss item.

At least when you're trapped in a room, you know the answer's in sight, and not off somewhere it'll take you 15 minutes to get to (potentially).

Emerald. Really what use is your post?

Nikolas. Suck my balls.

inform people about it as you'll have to pay plenty before the church actually does..

I'm pretty sure membership is free. It just costs money if you wanna learn humanity's terrible secret

Spoiler

we're all an alien experiment

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or become, like, a 'science-bishop'...

There's lots of scientology clubs around, in every country. Are you honestly telling me that they're all devil-worshiping baby-eaters?

I don't mind closing the piece out...

You're not going to do something like "they all died in the end" or "it was all a dream..." are you?

That would be funny...

My primary response would be a giant [size=20]DUH[/size]

That article is the basics of the basics...
Think about your character. Wow, what an ingenious literary technique.

But the thing is about Scientology is that it is their religion that gets people killed. They don't believe in medications, and many people with mental illnesses end up committing suicide because they can't handle life without their medications.

Jehovah's Witnesses don't believe in blood transfusions - lots of them die because of this. I don't see anyone wailing about that all over the internet (much)...

To be honest, I don't see the big deal. Have any of you ever read Dianetics? It's just a self-help book. And it's not bad, either (he basically just steals from Jungian psychology)

Sure, the leader's an asshole, but beyond that I wouldn't believe all the internet fear-mongering.