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MUD = Multi User Dimension.

Fun RPG type games usually played with telnet software

I've just started a 7 week mid-semester holiday and even though I have plenty of art-related work to do, I wanted to do something even less useful so I've gone back to my old MUD to play around again. I'm just curious about how many other people used to or do use MUDs these days? Where do you go? What would you recommend? My favourite place is Adventures in Stormgate (stormgate.dyndns.org 2345)... nice place!

You never know. Maybe he's actually off doing what we all wanted him to do - making the game! Quite frankly, I'd prefer someone that sat down and just worked on it properly, and didn't rush it, to someone who spent every day posting on forums saying, "Er, I thought up another line of dialogue". The art is very nice and if the game gets made, great. If it's a good game, fantastic! If he doesn't have time to do it properly and decides to abandon it, then that's better than having him rush it and muck it up.

This is a bug that occured in previous versions of the game. The latest version is 1.4 and you can download that one now.

The Greatest Adventure Game of All Time.

Noones ever going to come even close to agreeing because you'd have to define "Greatest" (like, "greatness: the quality or condiction of being great").

Without thinking about it too much, just one comes to mind...

The Secret of Monkey Island   ... (1).
- I just think that it's central to most peoples' understanding of adventure games and it's hard to imagine anyone not having it in their top ten at least. I could speak for pages and pages about why I think this game should at least be among the greatest of all time, but I think most of us get it anyway.

There are other games I probably enjoy playing more, or that I think are more "complete", or technically better, or... whatever. I could never name one as my favourite, they all go in different catagories @_@ Though... if I had to say the greatest adventure game in terms of technical greatness as well gameplay/story/whatnot... Grim Fandango.

...and just because I -need- to back these up, Simon the Sorcerer 2 and QFG1&2 (atmosphere!). Just thinking about the sheer amount of stuff to do in QFG1, and Erasmus' castle... man, I need to play it again!

I first found out about the name and history behind the Philosopher's Stone from a comic I read when I was 12 or so. Had it been called the Sorceror's Stone in the comic I would still be clueless about what the Philosopher's Stone was. I can understand the logic behind changing it, but I can't see why they couldn't keep the original term and educate the readers.

I agree totally. Not everything in a movie/book/whatever has to be immediately understandable to everyone. I would imagine that part of the fun of rwading the Harry Potter books when you're young is to find out about certain words/terms/references you've never heard of, or even to inspire you to seek them out. I know I personally -love- films and books that have all sorts of references I don't know about so I can read about them later and go, "Oh wow, that makes it even better!".

I understand the argument about making things accessable and hence. profitable... but why don't we all just say, "Fuck that."
Part of the reason the general movie going population is stupid is because of the way to movie industry doesn't let people grow. It's what I see when I look at kids' shows like Tellie Tubbies (or that god awful colourful alien one that's I saw the other day... CHRIST! Freaky shit....). They don't encourage kids to grow, just to stay on the same old level as always. Personally, I think they could make, "Harry Potter and the Tax Return that Just Kept On Going" and they'd still get record sales. Why not take advantage of the huge dedicated fanbase it has and give the kids some freaking education? I have to be a teacher one day... I don't want to have to teach them how to put their freaking shoes on. Why can't the media help?

Queensland!

I thought there were more QLDers on this board... where are you guys? NSW is ganging up on us!

I agree with things just being apart of "legend". How many people in the original comic boom era do you think enjoyed these comics because of their realism? Things don't HAVE to be explained, just told... I would have had no problem whatsoever with a kid just inventing the web gadget in his room after becoming Spiderman. Perhaps he became smarter ^_^ Who knows, who cares! This is what makes people love comics - cool stuff just happens for the sake of a fun story. Addressing the realism or lack thereof of such things is what spoofs and satire are for.

I remembering being completely annoyed at the costumes of the new X-men. All black and "cool"... pah. It was supposed to be about cheesy superheroes! I want all the cheesiness that comes with those old stories!

Not everything has to make sense when it's in a fun movie. It just has to be fun. When it's a movie based on something else though, it also has to be somewhat faithful. If you want to change a story, come up with your own, I say. Unless it was a really shitty story to begin with, or... the original author/whatever does the changing. Even then... sometimes it's wrong (Star Warssss).

There's really no point bitching about something you can't change on a forum that nobody important reads.

No point? What are you, insane? I think plenty of people here are important, anyway. Look, people here. LGM is dissing you!

I already said all of this before so I won't go on. Talking about things like this are what people do on forums and in conversations with friends and in any other kinds of free media you like. It is important because if we all shut up about it, things would get even worse. Plus, what on earth would we talk about in this 'general' forum if it wasn't this? How sad we are during puberty? How nice the weather is? What our favourite Lucasarts game is? Well, all these things are just fine and dandy but I just don't want to live in a world where I can't slag off a stupid movie in an 'unimportant' forum. Nosiree.

Kinoko: "Seriously, this stuff is important whether you're a fan of Superman or not."

But this isn't important! On the list of Important Things In The World "Who plays Lois Lane" I think is number... Hmm carry the two... 54 Trillion 8 Million 9 hundred and 7. It just beat out "Who plays Superman."

Ok then, by that reasoning, why are we even here on some little internet forum making little computer games that will never sell? Why the hell aren't we standing out of the street telling people to stop driving their cars so much, or over saving (the cliched) starving children, or planting trees? Because these are the little bits of life that we indulge in when we don't want to think about what's ultra important. In a normal kind of important way, this is important because it's about crap. Yes, crap.

When too much crap gets released in the world, it gets tolerated, and standards get lowered, and those of us who appreciate things being done well lose out, and then people forget what good is and they start giving awards to "average" films/books/etc, and then we find ourselves with the modern day Lucasarts.

It pisses me off everytime another badly done movie based on a comic or a book comes out because people have it in their power to do it well, but they screw it up on purpose to get a particular actor/singer's fanbase to see the movie, or to be "wacky" and "zany" and "change it up a bit", or to make it a "kiddy" movie, or any one of about a million other retarded reasons.

Spiderman didn't turn out to be an awful movie, but there were little stupid, STUPID things they changed that didn't have to be chaged at all. That's quite possibly the most annoying thing. When someone obviously knows what they're doing and how something should be done, but they then change one little basic fact for no good reason.

Yeah, screw that. I'd get the school shut down for that.

Seriously, this stuff is important whether you're a fan of Superman or not. I'm not, I was never a comic person at all but for the love of kittens and puppies, I'd want to murder someone if all these rumours were true. When you buy the rights of someone else's story (particularly one as huge and influencial as Superman!) you owe it to the the universe to make it as faithful as possible a movie. You can go fucking around with Cinderella and stories like that, because they're old enough and open to interpretation. The Superman (and Spiderman and all those other comic book hero stories for that matter) story is not. It's a story everyone knows to a point and they've already possibly screwed up those important points.

Superman is a big, muscley looking alien, and Lois is a dullish white woman. (They've already screwed the story up enough with that god-awful Smallville garbage).

I hope this is just internet crap as usual. I wouldn't even want to see another bloody Superman movie... just leave things be. Hollywood is being so freaking SAFE lately. I'm so sick of sequels and prequels and retold stories. Hire some freaking original writers for a change!

I resent the term "DOTT 2". By rights, it should be "MM 3".

-Exactly- what I was thinking.

Version 1.4 is now available for download. Not that I expect you all to run out and update it, there was only one small tiny change. There was one little bit of code in the MI2 template that was causing the occasional bug. If you've had a problem with this inventory-based bug, then I can tell you with no certainly at all that it is most definitely probably fixed to my knowledge.

What's Novocastrian? o_O

I don't like the golden point rule, i think 10 mins each way extra time, then if still undecided keep having an extra 10 mins until at the end of one of those periods if a team is infront, they win (but that's just for crowd pleasing)

but Really if it's a draw it should just end there and be called a tie

I agree. I remember when the golden point thing was first announced thinking "but... why?". I've never minded a tie, and after the recent Broncos/Knights game at Suncorp, I feel I truly know why. It was an amazing game, and even though the Broncos lost, I can honestly say it was the best game of the year (that'd I'd been to). Both teams had their ups and downs but mostly ups and it was so damn great just to watch two good (don't get me wrong, I freaking hate the Knights) teams just battle it out with all they had and finish up square. It was like it was "meant to be".

Then Golden Point came into play and the game was won with the oh-so-anti-climatic field goal. The crowd just sat kind of confused for a bit, because we weren't sure if the game had been won at all. It was so... -nothing-. I think it's important that a good game be won with a try, or at least a kick coming from a try. To be honest, field goals really tick me off most of the time... they're never very exciting. If I wanted to see fast kicking in play, I'd be watching AFL. I feel ripped when a game finishes without a try and the pressure of a golden point rule as opposed to 10 minutes each way is almost always going to end with a field goal for speed. It's a very disappointing way to end a good high powered game.

"I think I'll be going for Queensland..." and then a pause from everyone around me, wondering why I would say such a thing wearing so much NSW's stuff.

I would have paid to see that ^_^

Anyway, the game was pisspoor... the crowd was dead... and the fanatics group were the quietist bunchs of dicks I have ever seen at a football game.

Of course it was harder to tell from watching on TV but it didn't really seem like the crowd were THAT into it, at least compared to the usual Origin crowd. I remember after the first half ended thinking "Gee, the crowd have been awfully quiet since the first 10 minutes". The fanatics might have been quiet but it was strange seeing what seemed like almost a whole stand full of them @_@ Where do those wigs come from?

A few things we'd need to do would be to deface the Wally Lewis statue, and then annoy the Queenslanders so much, even if it meant getting our asses kicked, since we wouldn't feel it because we'd be totally hammered!

You'd be lucky to make it through the crowd TO the statue, I think. I know if I were heading around to that side of the stadium (it's at the opposite entrance to what we use) I'd be bending it it's feet and praying ^_- Well, I probably wouldn't, but I'm sure you'd end up at the bottom of the river if you did anything to it.

Yeah, all you fellow Aussies knew it had to happen. A thread about the wonderous State of Origin! I can't help myself.

How many people are Blues supporters and how many support the Maroons? I sure hope given the amount of Brisbanites here you all agree with me in supporting QUEENSLAAAAND!

(Freaking golden point... grumble, grumble...)

I can't wait for the second match because I have great seats at Suncorp ^_^ Only my second Origin game at Suncorp ever... hope it's the best one! (Though it'll always be hard to beat your first)

... and just to brag further - who has season tickets? *waves the card around and does the mexican hat dance*

Lately I've rediscovered Def Leppard thanks to a generous friend of mine ^_^ Man... good, good stuff. My playlist is basically 4 of their albums.

Yyyyeeeeessss! Ahh, the sweet smell of victory. How can one silly little puzzle make me feel so darn validated?

That's an interesting puzzle ^_^ It's true, as soon as I thought of the name and looked at the kinds of answers I was getting, it didn't take too long. I'd hate to think of how long that would have taken if I just kept trying difficult equations.

I love talking to old ladies on buses, but whenever I mention I'm doing a Japanese degree, I almost count in my head waiting for how many seconds it will take them to then make a comment like, "Japanese, eh? It's funny, 50 years ago we hated them."

I -could- bite her head off and try to debate her way of bringing a fact up at the mere mention of a completely unrelated Japanese topic, but you just have to let some things slide. It's just something some people say and isn't necessarilly a reflrection of heir true personality or opinions.

Sometimes it -is- but even then it's ok to let it go ^_^ They're old, and they'll die soon.