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A double-featurey happy birthday to Ascovel and Mandle*.

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* Is it still tradition to plant a tree on your birthday? Cuz in Germany that would then be a Mandle-Baum

The internets are stirring already!

http://ghostglimpse.blogspot.de/2014/05/ags-bake-sale-2-its-life.html

Ah, I *thought* I smelled cupcakes!

Glad to see another Sale; best of luck and many a moneys. The games do look sweet

Awesome art! Need to play it but just looking at it makes me happy!

> Tell Lancelot that no party of men are allowed to enter the throne room with their arms.
> Rest;

+1

(But if you want to be more jealous, I paid 50 cents for it. )

See that big, green, sulking thing in the corner? That's one jealous ghost.

rathergeek sells them but for ridiculous amounts of money...

I shall continue to drink my coffee out of my Kee mug.

Ack, I have so many to choose from! But this one's a classic:

Where the hell do you get these! I want one!

I've checked out Zombie Attack, but I don't think it can be considered a roguelike

Depends on the strictness- it surely has the same elements that make people consider games like BoI a roguelike. But yes, an actual turnbased, ASCII roguelike has not been done. So go for it!

In case you want to get rid of the ascii-art,

But... but ASCII is the POINT!!!

[> "Yes, I know this man, he came here recently. I can help you find him, but those are some serious accusations you make. Do you have any proof?"]

> "Yes, I know this man, he came here recently. I can help you find him, but those are some serious accusations you make. Do you have any proof?"

+1. It won't harm our reputation if we play it save here, and I think we do outrank Ulric.

I am SO keeping tabs on this!

Nope, sorry. The %s just allows you to insert a substring. No checks are made if that string is a filename, and should be played instead.

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It WOULD be a pretty awesome feature, though!

Old, but still cool

Yeah I noticed the date but... but... EL POLLO DIABLO!!!!

Some guy sat down and made a recreation of Monkey Island 2's memorable locations using the friggin CryEngine. It's beautiful and made me smile so here it is.

http://youtu.be/3bInZ7_y4Lw

The video also has voodoo bananas. And EL POLLO DIABLO.
Weaponized, of course.

This is starting to bring tears to my eyes. So beautiful. Will need to dig through some boxes in order to contribute. Well done Gribbler. Serious nerdy retro tears from a Ghost. You DID IT.

Here in england muff is a term used for a woman's pubic hair.

In Germany, a muff is a hollow tube of felt or wool you put your hands in when it's cold...
All of a sudden, this sounds extremely wrong.

I only said that because I thought the viewpoint you were offering was something like "Shut up, you are annoying", like "Stop this useless conversation", and also like "Look, civilization has awesome things, like games! Stop saying everything is wrong because you are making me feel bad about it".

That's what you thought I said? Have some trust into your own topic man.

Hum, okay, thanks! But what viewpoint you're disagreeing with? I didn't understood that.

You didn't get my viewpoint and then preferred to interpret something? That often goes wrong.

If I read you correctly, things are wrong. And that's bad and should be changed, which is frankly impossible, which means we shouldn't stop trying, but really can never make it, and that is sad. So all of us now, feel bad!

Here, that one. That is what I assumed you said, and what I disagreed with.

A text-only discussion is often hard, especially with a time delay. So allow me to make things clear, if only to tie up the lose threads.
Here's my post:

Yeah well, but the more the discussion moves away from gaming (or what's wrong with games) to what's wrong with humanity, the less I feel a) at home here and b) able to agree with you.

I disagree with you. And wonder a bit where the "and gaming part" comes in. The latter is, admittedly, a bit tongue in cheek.

I think I get your point. It's a complex point and I had to read through all three threads until I (hopefully) got it right. But I really can't share it and I'd like to offer my perspective. It's one shaped by job and life and being me, so- very subjective.

If I read you correctly, things are wrong. And that's bad and should be changed, which is frankly impossible, which means we shouldn't stop trying, but really can never make it, and that is sad. So all of us now, feel bad!

I find your point of view hard to understand and try summing it up as a base for the rest of the post. I mostly do this to make sure you have a chance to correct me, because I am aware of me probably misreading you. That's a basic conversation technique used to avoid getting something all wrong and making a lot of fuss about things that have not been said.

But as I see it, almost all of what we call civilisation/culture is a made-up thing. We're governed and ruled by concepts that don't exist in nature, like equality, non-discremination, justice, fairness. All of that are man-made concepts and really are "what makes us human". My neighbour has a much nicer computer than me and that I don't steal it is ensured by me abiding made-up laws. His door lock is a joke, yet I consider theft a crime and don't want to see myself as a criminal. That's what happened: My upbringing planted the idea in my head that there is such a thing as being a good guy and being a bad guy, and I want to be a good guy, even if that means my neighbour has a cooler PC. For all intent and purpose I am living really BIG LIES.

So if we already made up all these patterns, and we have to agree that we're not really perfect, why wonder that the patterns aren't perfect? And why does a small good deed seem so irrelevant? We are the only species on the entire planet asking themselves what they did wrong, yet we only do what every other species in our position would do: Whatever we want. And that includes good and bad things.

I start spreading out my (different) perspective, focussing on the fact that most of what we discuss is made-up.

It seems as if your line of thought aims for the largest and most noble goal, to solve the problems of ALL of mankind (apparently by making less games ). That's noble. The men you quote are studied and wise and have all the numbers, but to me it all comes over as a huge litany of "we must change, but we can't, so stop having fun guys, be miserable, we cant be helped anyways."

I reach the core of my disagreement: that you seem to aim for the highest possible goal and not valuing smaller goals. Which is almost opposite to what I believe: That small changes lead to large changes and are, in my mind, easier to accomplish. Since this is a direct throwback to the first part of my post I assume it's safe to insert a "seem to" as a small reminder I am still aware of the fact I might be getting you wrong.

And to that I say fukken nope, gentlemen, that's downright stupid. If all you do it showing how bad things are and how they can't be changed because reasons, then no way.
When you want to do something other than writing a book then do something. Really do something. These books are grand and great but they are statistics. Because the guys who wrote them are not butchers or clowns or caretakers or nurses or bakers or freelancing good-doers, they are fact collectors and that's all they do.

Humanity sucks? Yeah. As long as we say so.

I get a bit carried away.

I'm one guy and I can't change the way of the world but I can be me as hard as I can, and I chose to be a decent man and that's all there is to say. If I give a bum my spare change I don't feel bad that all the other bums didn't get my spare change. Hell if I have no spare change I offer him a cigarette and then I don't feel bad about me actually damagin' 'is 'ealth. If there's a night shift to be pulled I'll take it and I don't feel bad about being paid for it. I do my job and then I come home and then I make adventure games and release them for free, fool that I am, and maybe someone writes me an email and says, hey, your game was fun, I smiled.

I made a guy smile. How is that not awesome?

I finished by using my own approach to life as an example how small things can make small changes and aren't worthless. As I type it I become aware of the fact that I write emotional but see it as proof that I care about what I say, and leave it at that.

Hope that makes everything clear; I don't like leaving loose threads hanging.

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Did you notice how you felt the need to defend yourself? Like I was attacking you personally, like I was saying you are not a good person.

I was using myself as an example for the idea of doing your best. You know, for the " Changing ALL of the world is hard, being decent is easier". Funny how you misread that. But no:
* I was not feeling attacked by you, I just disagree with your point of view. As I said.
* I was not defending myself. I used myself and my actions as an example, because I usually agree with my actions and know their motivations. Talk about what you know.
So there.

I've played Chance Of The Dead and it made me smile. Great game!

Appreciated, thanks!

Now, if you don't want to discuss this subject, just don't do it. I'm not forcing anyone to discuss, am I?

Huh. Now that's downright blunt (especially with me stating that I was OFFERING A VIEWPOINT). Offering. To the discussion YOU started. You DO know how discussions go, yeah?
Well, still good suggestion.

And copy protection sheet was, literally, copy protected as there were no color photocopy machines back then.

Yeah I remember that. I think Zak's copy protection codes were similar, with gray swirly patters under the letters to make a copy so hard to read you'd rather go and not bother.
Didn't stop us from spending whole math classes writing down the stuff

Yeah well, but the more the discussion moves away from gaming (or what's wrong with games) to what's wrong with humanity, the less I feel a) at home here and b) able to agree with you.

I think I get your point. It's a complex point and I had to read through all three threads until I (hopefully) got it right. But I really can't share it and I'd like to offer my perspective. It's one shaped by job and life and being me, so- very subjective.

If I read you correctly, things are wrong. And that's bad and should be changed, which is frankly impossible, which means we shouldn't stop trying, but really can never make it, and that is sad. So all of us now, feel bad!

But as I see it, almost all of what we call civilisation/culture is a made-up thing. We're governed and ruled by concepts that don't exist in nature, like equality, non-discremination, justice, fairness. All of that are man-made concepts and really are "what makes us human". My neighbour has a much nicer computer than me and that I don't steal it is ensured by me abiding made-up laws. His door lock is a joke, yet I consider theft a crime and don't want to see myself as a criminal. That's what happened: My upbringing planted the idea in my head that there is such a thing as being a good guy and being a bad guy, and I want to be a good guy, even if that means my neighbour has a cooler PC. For all intent and purpose I am living really BIG LIES.

So if we already made up all these patterns, and we have to agree that we're not really perfect, why wonder that the patterns aren't perfect? And why does a small good deed seem so irrelevant? We are the only species on the entire planet asking themselves what they did wrong, yet we only do what every other species in our position would do: Whatever we want. And that includes good and bad things.

It seems as if your line of thought aims for the largest and most noble goal, to solve the problems of ALL of mankind (apparently by making less games ). That's noble. The men you quote are studied and wise and have all the numbers, but to me it all comes over as a huge litany of "we must change, but we can't, so stop having fun guys, be miserable, we cant be helped anyways."

And to that I say fukken nope, gentlemen, that's downright stupid. If all you do it showing how bad things are and how they can't be changed because reasons, then no way.
When you want to do something other than writing a book then do something. Really do something. These books are grand and great but they are statistics. Because the guys who wrote them are not butchers or clowns or caretakers or nurses or bakers or freelancing good-doers, they are fact collectors and that's all they do.

Humanity sucks? Yeah. As long as we say so.

I'm one guy and I can't change the way of the world but I can be me as hard as I can, and I chose to be a decent man and that's all there is to say. If I give a bum my spare change I don't feel bad that all the other bums didn't get my spare change. Hell if I have no spare change I offer him a cigarette and then I don't feel bad about me actually damagin' 'is 'ealth. If there's a night shift to be pulled I'll take it and I don't feel bad about being paid for it. I do my job and then I come home and then I make adventure games and release them for free, fool that I am, and maybe someone writes me an email and says, hey, your game was fun, I smiled.

I made a guy smile. How is that not awesome?

All in a day's work. Just not very sophisticated and quotable.

*shakes tiny fist*

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And I admit I lost track of where the gaming came into all of that.

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Long story short: Don't quote! ACT! \o/

Unfortunately, my mug has a huge cock on it.

At least your cock stands mostly erect. And nice plumage on it too!