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I remember that show, I still have the Hitler/Napoleon parody episode on VHS. Rad stuff.



You can imagine the spectacle when they found out he was only 50% crow.

In case someone hasn't read it, here's the official explanation from Jyllandsposten's editor:

http://www.jp.dk/udland/artikel:aid=3566642:fid=11328/

I think it's worth the read, it brings up alot of valid points.

We have a tradition of satire when dealing with the royal family and
other public figures, and that was reflected in the cartoons. The
cartoonists treated Islam the same way they treat Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and other religions. And by treating Muslims in Denmark as equals they made a point: We are integrating you into the Danish tradition of satire because you are part of our society, not strangers. The cartoons are including, rather than excluding, Muslims.

One cartoon -- depicting the prophet with a bomb in his turban -- has drawn the harshest criticism. Angry voices claim the cartoon is saying that the prophet is a terrorist or that every Muslim is a terrorist. I read it differently: Some individuals have taken the religion of Islam hostage by committing terrorist acts in the name of the prophet. They are the ones who have given the religion a bad name. The cartoon also plays into the fairy tale about Aladdin and the orange that fell into his turban and made his fortune. This suggests that the bomb comes from the outside world and is not an inherent characteristic of the prophet.

On occasion, Jyllands-Posten has refused to print satirical cartoons of Jesus, but not because it applies a double standard. In fact, the same cartoonist who drew the image of Muhammed with a bomb in his turban drew a cartoon with Jesus on the cross having dollar notes in his eyes and another with the star of David attached to a bomb fuse. There were, however, no embassy burnings or death threats when we published those.

Has Jyllands-Posten insulted and disrespected Islam? It certainly didn't intend to. But what does respect mean? When I visit a mosque, I show my respect by taking off my shoes. I follow the customs, just as I do in a church, synagogue or other holy place. But if a believer demands that I, as a nonbeliever, observe his taboos in the public domain, he is not asking for my respect, but for my submission. And that is incompatible with a secular democracy.

Man I thought this was about Roberto Calderoli's new shirt.

Anyway, nice shirt, but way too pricey. Plus most people wouldn't get the joke.

Dont get all worked up now. I wasnt being too serious  

Neither was I.

And you cant die in secret of monkey island Havent played any of those others tho.

Uh, yeah, you can. Try staying underwater for more than 10 minutes.

My point is that dying in an adventure game is really unnesseary. Seen as in most adventure games, the main character has a mind of his own, and why would he walk off a cliff if he can decide to not put his hand in a fireplace?

Your role as an adventurer(atleast in this game), is to GUIDE the main character. If you're a bad guide, your character will die. I'm using this to prevent people from running the "use-everything-with-everything-and-everyone-no-matter-if-it-makes-sense-or-not" strategy too much. The cliff was just an example. If you've ever played Broken Sword 1 & 2, that's the direction I'm going for. It's not smart to just walk in to a room with alot of potential dangerous and armed people, for example. But I'm still giving you the option, even if it'll kill you.

No that's the cannibalism cursor.

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Should've checked in earlier, huh?

(Note to self: LEARN TO F***ING SPELL)

That's not very clean! 

It's like the raping of my inner child.

game for 2006 (?)

Dear god I sure hope so.

Is Leisure Suit Larry Doom 4? Or Secret of Monkey Island? Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade? Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis? Maniac Mansion? IS ANY OF THOSE GAMES DOOM 4 VICT0R?? 

Anyway, it won't be stupid deaths, like some games have. You won't, for example, pick up an apple and discover it's a bomb, that'll kill you right away. You will, however, get killed if you walk off a cliff. It's all simple logic. Plus, it makes the game a little more exciting.

Great news. Not very pumped up about the dying, though.

You won't die if you're not STUPID.

You're not STUPID, are you ildu?

I punish the stupid.

Just posted to say that the game is still very alive. And just not to waste forum space, I'll list some awesome new features:

1. You can die on several occations!
2. Fully animated video cutscenes!

Okay, fine, it's just two for now. But still, making progress! I guess the release date to be end of March, hopefully.

Why can't people be nice on their own, without needing laws as an excuse to be nice?

Because being "nice" is relative, and people have different opinions around different subjects. If someone videotaped a whole day of my life, I'm sure at atleast one point would do something that offended someone. I'm still not going to regret living that day.

About the freedom of speech thing- well, I see it like this. Like I said, if someone has something to criticise, they can criticise it. If you have a problem with this or that religion/political group/person/whatever, say it. Explain it. I don't however, find it the slightest bit productive to (for example) call them an asshole. I'd hope that common sense would generally prevail. Even if I had the absolute Freedom of Speech to insult someone, why should I do it? Forgive me if I am wrong in thinking that peace with my fellow man is more important than the freedom to insult them.

I agree with what you're saying here, but we cannot limit the Freedom of Speech in any way. Who's to decide what can or can't be said?

If we for example made it illegal to draw Mohammed, or insult Islam, it would not improve the situation. Sure, it's not a very nice thing to do, but where would it end? Soon other religions would demand the same. Then we'd have to remove all the Jesus jokes from Family Guy. You'd be punished for making fun of Scientology. There's just too many beliefs out there to respect them all. And what of the atheists, like myself? I don't believe in any God, should I be insulted by the one dollar bill("In God we trust")?

The world is getting smaller and smaller. And the best thing any muslim who feels insulted by this could  do, is deal with it. People will piss you off and insult you, in one way or the other. I don't think this has too much to do with freedom of speech, but more with not having to accede to another religion's taboos and beliefs in today's multicultural society. Just because a religion is really big, don't mean we have to agree with it.

I think we're heading for quite the cultural clash, and it should be interesting to see how this evolves during our lifetime.

As a side note, 1500 muslims demonstrated in Oslo today, and not a single rock was thrown! They did, however, write a letter to our goverment to bring back the Blasphemy Paragraph. If that ever happens, I'm moving to Sweden.

Life my AGS real is.

I thought you could do pretty much whatever you like aslong as you ask for forgiveness later. You know, since we can't help to be sinners, no matter what.

But this is probably already covered somewhere in the thread.

See if you can find it here, or buy the whole CD:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007XT7TK/002-0921812-6284033?v=glance&n=5174

Especially cartoonists.

I don't really think it's the cartoonists that's the problem here.

A cartoonist's point of view.

http://drawmohammed.com/

I kinda expected this.

Unless someone other but them criticises it. Westerners don't want religious discriminations in their schools, provided that christian symbols are omnipresent, of course. They may laugh with homemade cartoons of their local clergy, but they don't tolerate other nations drawing tehm.  I can't see any difference with the current muslim cause.
This is why I believe it is just...politics.

I think you're thinking of the United States, which is pretty bible humping, yes. But I was thinking more in the direction of Scandinavia. From my experience, we're pretty low on the whole respect thing.

Note that I am criticising just the angry mob. I am not attacking the 99.9% of the "normal" muslims in the world.

That 0.01% of "crazy ass" Muslims did a nice job burning down the Norwegian and Danish embassy, start a riot in København, boycotting Scandinavian food products, burn our national flags, threatening Scandinavians down at Gaza who's only there to help out and other rather rude acts against people who happen to be from the same country as some cartoonists.

Y'know, I really try to be tolerant of other people's religion, but this makes it rather hard for me.

It seems like alot of muslims place their religion over everything, but they need to understand that alot of western people don't take religion seriously(or look at it in another way), and will do things that might be looked upon as insulting. That's what got Theo Van Gogh killed.

I don't defend these cartoons, but I defend every right to publish them.

EDIT: Sweet crap, just look at this:







http://www.vg.no/video/videoplayer/player.hbs?id=2472

So I guess this is kind of true:

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
-- Blaise Pascal