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Oh yeah, Hero Theorem, if only for the GUI stuff in action.

I'd try the Amiga version but the disk swapping is so frustrating.

two words, Chrille: HD INSTALL

Progz: why are you reffering to the Horrorsoft classics as Accolade games? If Accolade was publishing, that's like saying U.S. Gold made Flashback, whereas Delphine did. Respect for the developers!

I'd also like to add 'Hound of the Shadows' and 'Daughter of the Serpent' to the list of good horror games. Lovecraft terror, those two. The first only text, but god, it works. It works.

None of these are LEC/Sierra lookalikes, besides FoY which makes a point out of staying true to style of one of the greatest games ever made, in my opinion. And it's that they can pull it off so well that erases any questions of motive I might have.

I'm looking forward to Donna, Time Out, Oswyn, Drugbust, Heartland, Square John Boy, of course FoY fervently and enduringly, new Ben Jordan.

Waxworks is kind of a classic but also requires that special sort of patience,

Just as long as you map a bit, Waxworks is extremely enjoyable and awesome. Also a 10-4 on System Shock 1.

Yes, I suggest you look at folds in screencaps and other things you use as reference and trying to copy them.

The face: you're copying essential aspects of the girl's face like where the eyes and mouth is more or less and it holds up because it's based on a screencap, meaning, the geometry of the face is mostly there. But your inidividual rendering of those parts needs a lot of be desired. As I said, controlling forms, and clean lineart.

Hello. Nice art.

I'd suggest cleaning up your linework and controlling your shapes more. Extra attention to limbs, hands, wrists and fingers in particular. Folds on last series need a lot of work too.

Again with the curse of unplayability!!

there are so many other genre's of games that provide exactly what you're looking for.

Which are these other genres where innovation and new gameplay approaches are the staple of good design? I'd really like to know.

I am with 2ma2, scotch and eric of course. If I want wonderful writing, I'll read a good book. If I want strong atmosphere, I'll watch a good movie. Which isn't to say these things have no place in a good adventure game, they do, totally, but it's not enough for me. The 'dressing' of a game is very important to lure you in and make you care for the characters and what you're supposed to be doing, but once you're there, if all you do in this wondefully drawn game with the awesome sound and writing is fetch quests, I am not going to play it. What makes or breaks a game is for me: GAMEPLAY. And just because adventure games have suffered on this end mostly during their 'classic' period doesn't mean they still have to keep on doing that in AGS games. Gameplay innovation is key.

Those that need a nostalgia fix, which is completely understandable, why don't you go back and play the games from your childhood? No AGS game will reach that production value that LEC and most prime Sierra games had anyway, they're usually derivative. Why not play AGS games for what they are: quirky, different, designed by amateurs. These things aren't faults, they're assets! They're products of distinct visions, made from love without any obligation to you as the player to be the same old stuff you paid money 10-20 years ago to play. AGS for me means Larry Vales and Aaron's Epic Journey and Anna and Automation much, much more than it means Apprentice, King's Quest and whatever else looks, smells, feels but isn't exactly LEC/Sierra. Even Yahtzee is trying new things in his recent designs, regardless of overal execution and that's awesome.

I'd have to say yes. I don't find movie kisses arousing most of the time, whereas when you see something that looks like pretty real passion and all that, it's much more potent.

I fuck goats.

"What do I do when his balls bump against my balls"

Yeah, we're old friends, right?

Maybe you ought to give a same-sex relationship a try, then.

But I relate to members of the same sex all the time in my day-to-day life!

Wow, you must really fuck around.

Yes, I see what you are saying. The topic of sexuality is inexhaustable, just as long as you give it five minutes to recuperate after every time you post. It's not a machine.

Sorry my friend but I would expect other members in the forum to be mor ereasilty available for advice (the parents). I somehow feel that someone with no experience to be giving ill advice, no matter how sane it may sound.

I don't understand why that is. He posts here and anyone that feels they have something interesting, helpful or funny to say, they do so. This isn't your 'ONLY PEOPLE WITH CHILDREN ALLOWED TO COMMENT ON A POTENTIAL MISTAKE I'M MAKING, THANKS' thread. You have children, Vince has children, SSH has children. Get over it.

11 months is not a little time, either.

Are you serious? To make a family on? I've been best buddies/best lovers with people for some months and now we hate each other's guts. I'm not the only one. 11 months are an EXTREMELY SHORT TIME to start a family on.

And anyway I doubt that Terran came here asking for advice, even if his post was a bit like that. It sounds to me that he was "reporting" something, or giving us the good news, than anything else.

This isn't the TERRAN RICH MIND-CONTROL AND GIRLFRIEND ANNOUNCEMENT BOARD. It's a discussion board. People discuss.

but on the other hand what are you trying to do, exactly? Making him feel bad?

I am giving him a different perspective, Nikolas. One that will be useful to him because if he can't own up to it and stand it, he's better off not being a dad. Can you understand how much more useful this is than telling him 'oh, it's going to be tough, but you'll get through it!' and patting him on the back is? HE HASN'T HAD THE BABY YET. HE ISN'T MARRIED YET. He's discussing possibilities. And these are open still.

And btw, who are you exactly to say to someone, even over the internet, that they are inresponsible, and that they're not ready to be fathers? Do you know that he's not ready to be a father? Do I knwo that he is ready to be a father? (I don't know that, but I'm not making comments on that either, you are!)

Who are you to tell him he is ready to be a father over the internet, you silly, silly person?

Look what I am going to do now. I am going to quote everybody.

ugly penises to look at.

The penis isn't any uglier a piece of equipment than a vagina, and to me, when you're sexually active, neither is ugly at all. If some male is upset about the male reproductive organ in a sexual situation he's probably kneejerking over the homosexual undertone of enjoying looking at said organ, not all freaked out because it's ugly.

Unless it really is strange and and odd-looking and shit, then okay, it's ugly.

Eh? I don't even understand why people want to watch a man and a woman having sex.

'Cause not all people walk around with a huge boner and an overactive imagination all day and therefore require sexual aids to get in the mood. Is that a strange concept to understand, Matt?

I don't think that lesbians are any hotter than hot girls are. It doesn't add anything for me.

Me neither, personally. The concept of sex is arousing. Women naked and willing is arousing, but homosexual women don't do much more for me. In fact, I'd say, they do less because if I'm turned on and then it's made plain to me I am obsolete and won't be participating in any way then, shit, man. Bisexuality is a different situation, I'll get to it later on.

The kissing part maybe has to do with a hidden will (in everybody, not talking about me), to be the other sex.

Think the kissing is arousing because it's kissing. Reminds us of sexuality in far less definite terms than lesbian sex or swordfighting, therefore nobody feels strongly excluded. I'd say if you saw two handsome guys making out and you weren't extremely too much of a prude, you wouldn't deny yourself some turn-onage over that either.

Arousal for human beings is psychosomatic. The somatic component is caressing, usually. You can get an erection just by mechanically stroking your penis (if age and other variables allow, as they do usually).

Viewing something erotic (more for males, but not so much as people are led to think) leads to a psychological state which is the other half of the situation. You can get an erection watching other people getting it on as well. Of course it's not the only way to get psychologically aroused. For example when a woman I once wanted first told me that she wanted me too (middle of the street, not in the process of any intimacy) I popped a boner I could beat up a truck with, so on. Viewing sexual situations remains one of the easiest ways for most males to achieve erections and carry them to their happy conclusions. This isn't anything new. Women kissing, men kissing, women and men kissing, it all leads to thoughts of sex. It might also lead to thoughts of societally and biological memory-derived disgust and fear, that's a different sort of issue, and they can likely -but not always- lead to the dampening or compartmentalizing of the sexual impulse.

For common porn, well, I know people who don't want to watch intercourse because they despise the manly side of it. Yet some might find the viewintriguing in a kinky way.

I don't do either. I'm not terribly disgusted by the guy's penis, but nor do I focus on his ass while he fucks or anything. He's just not there much, for my interests. The best porn I've seen though had enthusiastic people, both male and female involved, so I guess demeanor counts, whoever the male is.

You know some sick people

That's a common reaction. Ease with homosexuality, and identifying the sexual part, regardless of the homo part doesn't make you a homosexual. Not that being a homosexual is the result of a specific pathology (it can be the result of a lot of them, though) but the court's out on what causes this tendency to make human beings into evolutionary deadwood (no pun intended. If you don't mate, you're evolutionarily useless) and that's not what this thread is about, is it? It's about hot lesbians.

Yes, but hot lesbians are. It should be noted that lesbians are only hot when not looking like those man-looking women.

I don't think lesbians are what you have in mind then. What you have in mind is paid sexual performers who will have sex on camera with whomever if the money is good. Most actual lesbians I've known or seen (not idiotic teenaged girls that kiss their girlfriends to make men horny at a keg party) one of them, or both, do assume the male persona in the relationship, and usually act and dress the part to a degree. That's part of the fantasy they're fulfulling after all.

I think the whole thing with lesbians is one is able to view intimacy between two parties without having to constantly deny that one is not sexually aroused by the sight of another male as most societies seem to condemn homosexuality, especially among youths.

I dunno, I haven't considered that to a great extent. I personally don't find homosexuality a big tabboo anymore so I guess I can't examine my own feelings about indulging in the forbidden in that way.

"Boobies are lovely. Two pairs of boobies are even better. You'd love to play with another girls boobies."

Your boyfriend's mind-control tendencies notwithstanding, it's not a matter of 'flesh is sexy, more flesh is still sexy'. We all agree to that degree. It's 'females accomodating themselves is sexy-er' that is the subject, and to that question that's no answer.

Well I should tell you how we experiment when we go to army

Are you sure you want to do that as well? Your stories of your... skeletal agility were quite uncalled for the last time.

Men are visual based.

Yes they are, and so are women. It's important to remember that a lot of scientific wisdom is first presented to people and is then taken out of proportion. Visual quality is important for women too, maybe to a somewhat smaller degree. Women are usually aroused in different ways and -sad but true- different levels of arousal are required for a woman to be ready to have sex than with men. After all, bottom line - not talking about the sexual experience of a lifetime! here- one does the fucking, one is getting fucked. This is an extremely important fact that paints sexual identities for people in many foundational ways.

It has to do with the fascination with otherness. The opposite sex is inherently less familiar to you than your own, and as a result, sometimes the draw to be intimate with the opposite sex can manifest itself as a desire to experience being the other sex. After all, what situation could be more intimate than actually being something? Very little.

Again, I don't know I haven't considered this as I never felt the need to 'be the woman' so to speak in a sexual relationship. I simply lack that curiosity, but I think most people that do have it (not only homosexuals, obviously) are more about exploring the different sexual identity than the different sexual gender. That is to say, they yearn penetration because they'd be the ones to be dominated, controlled, pinned down and fucked, not because they really are interested in feeling how it would be to have a vagina. I think the kink is in the identity switch, not the gender switch.

Heterosexual pornography, made and marketed for the average Joe Sixpack, gives us the fantasy of "Lesbianism" as an act rather than a lifestyle. Sure, these girls will engage in various sexual acts together but they'll also invite any wandering Joe who happens past to join them.

Extremely correct, and most of these people in porn are neither homosexual nor bisexual. They're simply getting paid. There *are* performers that only do girl-girl, who obviously are not interested in men, and there's a whole industry of male-on-male where the vast majority of the performers aren't in it just as a stepping stone to regular porn, regardless of how the urban legend goes.

So it's female bi-sexuality that's the ultimate male fantasy. She'll make it with her girlfriend, and when they're finished, Joe can step in and have them both.

I think this then, is more of the 'harem' fantasy than anything to do with homosexual acts. It's having women and making them do what you want them to do, en masse. Think about it, you have 16 wives, how much time would you spend making one have sex with the other while you jerk off? Obviously, quite a lot, but still that sort of thing would lose its' appeal. Would it ever lose its' appeal to have 5 or 6 of them attending to your sexual needs at the time while you relax and roll with it? NEVER.

I think butch women are cute.

Maybe you ought to give a same-sex relationship a try, then.

If the penis is so ugly, why hasn't it evolved to be as attractive as breasts?

The penis isn't ugly. Women, when psychologically aroused swoon at the look, smell and warmth of it just like animals are given to. If some straight woman denies this either has some sort of assorted trauma or just doesn't have a very active sex drive. A lot of women don't, and they still enjoy a degree of sexual attention (and sexual gratification) because as I said, it doesn't take as much for a woman as it does for a man to have sex. That doesn't make the penis ugly, though.

From a non-sexual standpoint, if one were to theoretically strip all biochemical interference from the brain for a minute and in that minute a man or a woman considered the process of sex, it would seem extremely odd behaviour from start to finish, with outlandish anatomy and probably humourous process. The face a man makes when he ejaculates is in that [the non-sexual one, not the ejaculation one] state of mind, frightening, as if he's in pain. The way women strain and spasm and the sounds they make and how some get all white when they climax is EXTREMELY SE... I mean, is in that state of mind probably alarming or hilarious too. Everything is ugly in that state of mind, tits, asses, penises and ballsacks. But that's not the state of mind we should be judging our dicks in, is it?

I find the two women kissing hot as long as it is possible to join as the 3rd one.

I'd just like to point out that group sex, especially threesomes aren't usually what people think they'd be. Usually someone is left out. There's actually times when the left out one gets up and leaves. The original 'pornlike' impulse to have a threesome with a girl and her girlfriend doesn't mean that when it's actually happening and you're fucking one the other will want to suck on your balls. Life isn't a porn film. Sex is fragile and even if you're very certain and safe in your sexual identity, it doesn't mean others you have intercourse with will be. People are weirded out, offended, embarassed all the time in sexual situations, and their expectations of how things go down, as biased and marred as they are from our oversexualised culture and porn-viewing, are crushed very easily. When you realize that sheltered identities and egos are at stake when a penis goes in a vagina, you realize you have to be careful if you don't want to hurt people. 'Hey let's have a threesome' isn't being very careful. There's damage. Everybody is damaged. We're brought up and our psyches are constantly chipped away at. Sexual relationships are so loaded in modern times, most people are ashamed of their very basic insecurity, when they should be up-front about it and allevate it through companionship and acceptance. Group sex does none of that.

It's interesting to me, how -I bet- a lot of people talking about lesbians and threesomes in this thread haven't even had sex yet, maybe even haven't kissed a girl (I'd say /boy but both girls partaking in this thread have had boyfriends). Quite a fantastical concept you're pondering on, guys. It reminds me of broken-sexualities of 30 year old virgins who can no longer be aroused by anything than X-TREME pore-level closeups of triple penetrations.

Extending on what Ytuzers boyfriend said: If you are aroused by one (naked) person of your preferred sex, then two (naked) persons of your preferred sex would be twice as arousing. It makes perfect sense.

This odd american concept of LOL DOUBLE YOUR PLEASURE, DOUBLE YOUR FUN is insulting. As Erenan DAMN IT. ERENAN. NOT ENERAN. says later boobs = pleasure, more boobs = more pleasure is just silly.
Maybe if you see 35 naked women at once your heart explodes from all the arousal, I don't know. Doesn't work for me.

I think guys also like the idea of two women wanting them at the same time. Naturally, it makes them feel incredibly sexy.

Yes as I said, harem mentality. Has nothing to do with actual homosexuality.

Attractive people + sex = hot

That's a pretty base concept for me. Attractive people that seem to be wholeheartedly involved in having sex is sexy for me, from a voyeuristic point of view. Just attractive people robotically fucking in front of a camera doesn't do much, although it does enough to warrant an erection but what the hell, I can bump my pelvis on a door by mistake and get an erection that way too.

DOORS ARE HOTT

What the hell defines an attractive person?

It's not all preference. There's standards that are met for most human machines. There's deviations too, and they're fuelled by a lot of cultivated preference, and a lot of DAMAGE, but that's another thing. It's not all preference. Almost nobody sane ejaculates looking at images of old ladies ridden with disease and dying, do they?

Degenerates! The whole lot of you.

Please help me shove this door up my ass, Earlwood. Thanks.

yes gladly I'm not here to always say the easiest thing to someone on a forum just because it doesn't really concern me.

Big news, folks. Long story short, I've been with my current girlfriend for over 11 months and we plan to spend the rest of our lives together. We are not yet married, but we were planning on getting married very soon. Our love is beyond words, and therefore transcends anything I can possibly explain.

Your love is beyond words, but it has been tested for just 11 months. This isn't very sane. Live together for a year or two, I'd advise you. Why would I advise you? Because you're posting about your life on the internet.

She took three home tests and just today went to the doctor, who confirmed it. I'm gonna be a father.

How am I feeling right now? LMFAO. Words can't describe that. It's like, one part of me is exhilarated beyond belief. I'm gonna be a damn father after all!

You don't seem very happy about this later on in this very same post.

On the other hand, my parents are more or less traditional Portuguese parents, which means they cling on to old fashioned beliefs like marriage before children and being absolutely ready before even considering having kids. They let us move back in with them (they are generous), but forbade us from sharing a bedroom (old fashioned).

That's not 'old-fashioned'. That's 'making-sense'. Sorry.

EDIT: I didn't see I also quoted the 'not sharing a bedroom' thing. I don't think that's making sense, and that's quite strangely strict yes. But the rest about marriage before children and being ready financially and emotionally before having children? Yes. Sense.

but I'm starting to think that tradition shouldn't necessarily be a requirement to live life.

Making responsible decisions however, is.

Can somebody explain why I'm going through the stages of grief Jeez, it's not a funeral or anything. But I digress.

Because you're not ready to be a father?

I'm gonna be a father!

But you're not ready to be a father.

Shittens & Fuckittens already taken.