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Yey, happy Birthday, Dragonrose! Birthdays are cool because for some weird reason everyone gives you a present. Ummm, I will shut up now.

I strooooooooooongly disagree about Pleurghburg puzzles. I finished the game without help, so that means the puzzles are completely logical. And the game is great.
But the greatest AGS game has to be one of the least famous ones - it's called 6 Day Blah Blah Vampire Goold, written by yours truly. Check it out on the hour games forum.
No, wait, that's NOT the best AGS game ever, you see, I was only joking... oh, shut up!

What the heck are AGS shows?
And I thought I was getting a grip on what was going on in this weird community...

I'm still willing to help. Unfortunately, I suck at art, so someone will have to draw the graphics, I can do the programming. My e-mail is in my profile.

I'd invent a computer and earn lots of money  

Yey, I'd also like to help. My own game is going nowhere anyway, and it would be interesting to see how you treat sensitive subjects like religion  

"Trying to pick me up? Allright, you've got three chances to say something I will remember tomorrow."

How about: "Nice shoes. Wanna f**k?"
Great old pickup line.

By the way, Andail, your social life compared to mine makes you a Casanova

Hmmmmm... RATBOY puzzle from Phantasmagoria 2 comes to mind, then... well, I solved MI 1 without walkthrough, but the hardest were some weird inventory puzzles in Innocent Until Caught and Leisure Suit Larry 6

If they make a good album, I will eat my hat. Of course, I won't know anything about their new album since I'm not gonna buy it. Why? Because their albums have a long 13 year sucking tradition. Ride The Lightning rules, and everything they made since 1990 (including the Black Album) is crap.

here's one

http://a-janjic.freewebspace.com/murder.htm

Off the topic: Hey Blake, how's Edge Of Reality going?

Back to the topic: Fortunately I have finished some games without using a walkthrough, but most of them were solved by pure chance. Like in Innocent Until Caught, I accidentally combined two objects to get a crossbow. And in Larry 6, getting the swimsuit was a real pain and I had to solve it using the old "everything-on-everything" system.

And some games even have bugs which prevent them from being solved. Like Lure Of The Temptress (one of my favorites, by the way), one of the objects simply won't appear on the screen. You have to start the whole game again. I got stuck on that part, stopped playing the game, then started again a few weeks ago, and there it was. Yey.

Btw, have you noticed that I'm just talking nonsense here? Probably to keep my baby topic from dying  

Yey!
It's mostly something like this: You start playing without the walkthrough, then get stuck, then decide to look in the walkthrough JUST THIS TIME, HONESTLY, and then "Oh man, how could I have been so stupid, this puzzle was soooooo easy!" and then you end up playing the game with the walkthrough unfolded in your lap. Man I hate that  
They spoke true when they said that half the pleasure of playing an adventure game comes from solving a difficult puzzle. I remember feeling so proud when I solved the RATBOY puzzle in Phantasmagoria 2 at the end of CD 1, that was great.

I am currently playing The Longest Journey. Everything was going well till the seventh damn chapter. There's this stupid puzzle with four damn crystals. I spend almost a week trying to find the way to arrange them and solve the damn puzzle, but no luck. Today I finally got pissed off and I checked the solution. Well, problem solved, but another problem appeared - the guilt. Yeah. Now I feel I'm not gonna enjoy the rest of the game and that I'll simply try to finish it as soon as possible and move to another one. Crap! And that game rules!
Anyway, to make me feel better, I'd like you to tell me about great games that you ruined by not being able to solve yourself. My other examples include Phantasmagoria 2 and Larry 7 (ok, Larry 7 wasn't exactly a GREAT game, but it was interesting enough).

Either I haven't read your posts carefully or you haven't mentioned whether your game contains just nudity or porn. In my opinion nudity is OK and porn sucks (although we can make a looooooooong debate on what porn actually is). Anyway, just put a proper warning and notify me when your game's done so I can play it  

John Carpenter (although his last few movies Suck (yes, it's a capital S))

Richard Kelly (have only seen Donnie Darko, but that's enough)

David Fincher (gotta love his moving camera)

Christopher Nolan (Memento... wow!)

Peter Jackson (LOTR ruled but Braindead is even better)

Ridley Scott

John Woo

Tim Burton

Sam Raimi (only for his early movies)

Steven Soderbergh (ditto)

Paul Thomas Anderson

Barry Levinson

Goran Markovic (the best director in former Yugoslavia)

Here's a small game a made for an hour-game competition with Grundislav and Fuzzpilz. The rules were: Gold has to be mentioned in a game (this came from a Goldmember discussion, naturally :-)), there had to be a baseball bat and the main character had to have some kind of strange superstition. Strange enough, it took me only an hour and a half for this masterpiece. Ha!

www.2dadventure.com/ags/gold.zip

Yeah, this kinda got out of control :-) But then again, for such a sensitive subject, I think this was a pretty nice discussion. If you check evolution vs. creation forums, you'll see what I'm talking about. Good think it happens in cyberspace, otherwise those guys would have killed each other :-)

Okay, here they are, in no particular order...

Mark Knopfler
David Gilmour
Syd Barrett
Mike Oldfield
Dickey Betts - Duane Allman duo
Martin Barre
Michael Karoli
Steve Howe
Eric Clapton
Neil Young
Chris Rea

Ummm, I probably forgot some of them, but what the hell, I'll edit this post later

Hell? Well, I've been there. It's being in a Bosnian bus on a hot summer day with windows closed and folk music coming out of the speakers. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!!!!

Yey, a religious discussion! Cool! I just love them! I hope I will bring some fresh perspective here with my post :-) Let's have a quick review:

did you know, satan was made up in the middle ages to scar the population into the church?

Sorry, this is wrong. Satan appears in the Old Testament, which was written about 3000 years ago.

Yes, they do scare people into religion that way. it's pretty much " believe or go to hell".

Hmmmm... Well, yes and no. I admit, there are MANY so-called Christians who go around and threaten people they will go to Hell, but I assure you that no true Christian will ever do that. True Christians know that it's up to God to decide who goes to Hell and not up to those people. They are doing bad thing for Christianity and I admit I am also pretty much pissed off by that, although I am myself a Christian.

The bible contradicts itself many times because so many people wrote in it.

I don't think Bible contradicts itself MANY times. There are a few errors (like that thing about King Solomon having 4000/40000 stalls) but they are pretty much due to text getting damaged and/or bad translations. In Bible's general message there are absolutely no contradictions.

Christians can be divided up in two: Average Christians, and Fundamentalist Christians. "Fundies" are the ones with the crazy websites. They're pretty easy to offend, but there really aren't that many of them (they're a vocal minority.) Even the average Christian thinks Fundies take their religion too far.

The average Christians, however, aren't worth offending, because they're generally pretty nice and don't practice their religion in a hostile way. You probably know a lot of people who are Christians but don't feel the need to wear it on their sleeves. So if you want to be offensive, please don't confuse the "nice" Christians with the Fundies.

Hey Trap, nice to see you here :-) I believe I find myself in the category of "average Christians", because I do believe in God and think that Bible was God-inspired, but I don't go around and say "Hey everyone, you will go to Hell, I am the best!" and stupid stuff like that (ops, I've just said it! haha). But, don't you think that the thing that offends a Christian fundie will also offend an average Christian? Woodz, if you criticize the "fundie Christians" as Trap described them (a good exaple of this category would probably be Carrie's mother from the book/movie Carrie) by all means you have my support (even though I'm a Christian, too). But if you're going to talk how Christianity and religion in general are stupid, then that's another thing. Sure, if you bring some arguments, that's copletely cool. But you said you were going to "mock" Christianity. Why? When you said that "we are right, you are wrong, blah blah" you described the fundie Christian thing, which (I repeat) has nothing to do with Christianity as it's described in the New Testament. Of course, I'm not trying to tell you what to put in your game or something. Whatever you do, I will definitely play it and I'm looking forward to it.

I have respect for all religions, except for fundies, and pehaps jehovis whitnesses. Just the ones that come round our house all the time trying to make us into a jehovis whitness.

Ummm, coming round your house is far from being the worst thing about Jehovah witnesses :-). Did you know that they forbid blood transfusion? Many kids died because their parents forbid doctors to do the blood transfusion (or an organ transplatation) because that was against their religion (they say it's based on one of the verses in the Old Testament, but this is completely wrong).

Thirdly, you go on about 'love', and yet, and I quote, "Someone who murders deserves to die. stuff like that. How about Bin Laden? think we should just leave him? no, Justice must be served." Isn't murder one of THE UTMOST FORBIDDEN THINGS stated throughout the bible? Surely then there is no way that you could condone the death penalty.

You got him there :-) His post sounded like some crappy Republican Party propaganda. Whenever I heard people like G.W. Bush were calling themselves Christians, my stomach turns around.

Fourthly, you say "If you open your eyes, don't be so narrow-minded, you'll see." Now which is more narrow-minded, believing blindly in a 2000 year old revolutionist, or believing in the top few hundred greatest minds of the past few centuries?

Ummm, none of those two things is narrow minded, and they come completely hand-in-hand. Jesus was indeed a great revolutionist and the single most important figure in history. And greatest minds of past few centuries were mostly religious. I will mention only Newton, Gauss and Pascal but there are many many more of course.

Fifthly, you say there are no contridictions in the bible. Well how's about these for contridictions. The Crusades. The elimination of an entire civilisation in the south of France, because of their homosexuality. I could go on, but my history is not that hot.

I mentioned something about those contradictions earlier in this post, but what do you mean by Crusades? How is that related to Bible which was written like 600 years earlier?

Now, the main point: You people divide Christians into two categories and say "this category is nice, we should leave them alone, but this other category is nasty, so we should do our best to insult them and stuff". This is pretty much a Nazi attitude. Why would you mock or insult people like Christian fundamentalists? OK, you don't like them, that's fine, then just leave them alone. Don't speak to them, ignore them, unless they start something themselves. You are forgetting that we can also divide non-religious people into two categories: average non-religious people and atheist fundamentalists. I am sorry to say, but some of you easily fall into this other category. Why don't we all just live and let other people live? And finally, you are saying you are pissed off by the attitude of Christians, but what should I say about the attitude of non-Christians, like in Hollywood movies? Or for example Stephen King books? (note: I really enjoy King's work, I think he's a great writer) Every time someone religious appears, he/she is immediately shown as a fanatic, lunatic, stupid person etc. etc. I will only mention here two movies that I really really hated (and I think with a good reason) - Dogma and Chocolate. On the other hand, I really seldom see the examples of "Christian fundamentalism". The only pro-religion film I've seen lately was Signs, and even that one was not a bit offensive to people who are not religious.

Ummmmmm, looks like I'm done :-) Peace with you all