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#361
hey, this sounds pretty nifty. I got some webspace to spare for hosting stuff, and can hook you up with your own site.

PM me


edit: 1000th post! w00t!
#362
I think the besdt example of retarded instant deaths goes to willy bleemish (which was sorta made by seirra right?)

in the beginning of the game, you can die doing just about everything. The worst is when you are pushing your little sister on the swings. she wants to go higher, but if you do....she flys up 100 feet in the air, breaks her arms and legs, you go to boot camp, and die. Wtf???

Most of the deaths in seirra games makes sence I think. you try to walk off a cliff in king's quest, yeah, you die. You show up in downtown nottinham dressed as the wanted outlaw robin hood, yeah, you're going to get shot. it makes sence. its when they are simply retarded like in WB that it gets annoying, and you wish prehaps there was another puzzle
#363
dragonrose, yeah, we do that too. I've actually played a game of soccer in the columbus crew staduim, (the best soccer-only stadium in the US...yeah, even better then that new one in LA), and football and baseballs games at the local minor league baseball park. its quite a thrill.

#364
this is one of the reasons I loved seirra's Robin Hood, Conquests of the longbow. (guys...play this game).

in the game, the ulitmate object is raise enough ransom dough to save king richard. You have a couple of chances in the game to score some big bucks, but if you screw one of them up, the next one is really hard.

Example: A huge treasure train of stolen money is going thru sherwood forest. You are given several choices on what the best way to capture the money. Should you screw up, a lot of your men die. Lets say you do that, you dont get as much dough, and you are shorthanded...

Now, later in the game, Marrian gets kiddnaped and is going to be burned at the stake. Now, if you didnt screw up before, you have a ton of men, you can storm the castle, longbows blazing, and its really easy. some of your men died? I guess yo uhave to go in yourself! this method of solving the puzzle is timed, and much harder.

the game, as far as adventure games go, isnt too linear. there are several endings, and lots of ways to solve the puzzles, depending of what you did before

--edited for glaring typos
#365
Critics' Lounge / Re:Revised Walk Cycle
Sat 23/08/2003 19:28:55
the second one is much better. I think you got the speed just about right there...you got rid of that unsighly pause you had in the first one
#366
yeah pumaman, their own stadiums. our school is pretty small, and our little stadium seats about a 1000...maybe. but some of the schools in texas, or northen ohio have 30000 seat stadiums, with turf and indoor practice buildings, full time ushers, etc. its nuts

We have staduims for most sports. I've played in soccer stadiums about that big for high school, although my home field doesnt have any seats...so my family has to bring their own lawn chairs

I coach a middle school soccer team, and while I want them to win, I'm not crazy, and I dont swear at officals or kids. I think its b/c many american parents think their kids can go pro, and any mis-play is costing them a chance to play professionally. I suppose the rest of the world isnt so disallusioned

plus, they dont allow booze at kids games I bet
#367

Yesterday was a very important day in small, rural town America. High School Football started. a reason for just about everybody in town to get out of their house, and mosey on down to the local high school football shrine to pay respects to kids they dont even know, hurl foul words at officals and kids from the other school (now, for a few hours, mortal foes, locked in a deathmatch) and drink beer.

In some schools, this really is life. Schools where there isnt enough money to buy textbooks plung down 6 hundred thousand buck football stadiums to fit 30000+ people.

I normally wouldnt go to these barbaric gladitoral battles, (not because I dont like football, and it is nice to see my pals from school, but the disgusting behavior of the adults who live thru their kids...or kids they dont even know is such a turn off I dont want to be there. That, and the odd racist remark I get hurled at me in the more rural communities I venture), but I am in the local band, and I am also the school sportswriter.

I am planing on doing an article on the youth football-crazed frenzy state america is in, but first, I have a question

Is there something like this is other parts of the world? In England, do schools plunk down half a million euro soccer stadiums, and have tens of thousands of screeming, drunk grown ups go into a frenzy over 15 year olds? Does this happen with Cricket in Austrialia? Or is this friday night fever one of those "only in america" things?

#368
General Discussion / Re:Brush's with fame...
Fri 22/08/2003 15:54:18
here's mine

okay, so me and my buddies are going to go see our fav. swingband, big bad voodoo daddy. We decide it would be cool if we show up in pinstipe suits, fedoras and spector shoes. so we do that, grab some chicks, and start dancing  right in front of the stage. the band thought this was really cool, and gave us all the thumbs up sign.

Later, I got all of their autographs. what a thrill

lets see...I've also got Weird Al's autograph

and..Bob Sura's autograph (he was some loser who used to play for the cleveland cav's basketball team)

and thats it I guess

My uncle met pele once...but I didnt :(
#369
General Discussion / Re:How gay are you?
Thu 21/08/2003 03:22:23
i am 26% gay.

whatever. I think this is just b/c I know nothing abouts cars
#370
General Discussion / Re:We all knew it
Wed 20/08/2003 14:17:32
ummm, I not seeing this artilce m0ds. it says it doesnt exsist
#371
im serious here. lets just send it back to LGM, call it a story and start again

these projects shouldnt have more then 10-15 people i think
#372
General Discussion / Re:most important book?
Tue 19/08/2003 12:56:42
I'd like to avoid most religious books in this thread. those are too easy! It doesnt take a whole lot of thought to determine that books in which major, earth chagning reglions follow.

I'd have to disagree with the enders books. Good novels, yes. But I simply cannot think of any change in society that has come from those books, other then prehaps inside jokes amound your friends.
#373
General Discussion / Re:most important book?
Tue 19/08/2003 01:58:54
ref. to sex in the bible, yes. several. However, I do not know of any passage descibing lesbians, unless you are prehaps refering to the section in levitiucs where it says not to do that.

prehaps you can enlighten me?

anyways, back on topic. good responces here people, I like the answer of the atlas.

keep them coming people!
#374
General Discussion / most important book?
Mon 18/08/2003 03:19:47
Hey, I thought this might be an interesting topic of discussion

what do you think, excluding religious texts, has been the most important book written? by important, I mean influencual (sp?) history altering, powerful, etc.

My vote goes to the Communist Manefsto, by Karl Marx. This book helped spawn one of the biggest political movements ever, which lead o the creation of a superpower, a dangerous semi-war, and whose docterines were perverted by many a misguided leader into creating corrupt and evil dictatorships

Also getting votes are The Jungle, and the little red book.

your thoughts?
#375
robin hood, conquests on the longbow. The game that got me into adventure gaming, and keeps me there.

I also highly enjoyed the middle games of the King's Quest seires, rather, 4-6. The ones before were too hard for, me and KQ7 sucked
#376
The Rumpus Room / Re:The MSPaint game
Sat 16/08/2003 20:45:08
* El Panda Grande gives high five to earlwood
#377
is this possible? is there a dialog script command I can use so when I player uses a certain topic, an inventory item is given?

if so, what is it, and where do I add it in the script?

thanks guys
#378
The Rumpus Room / Re:Haiku maybe help?
Sat 16/08/2003 01:05:50
Yesterday a game
of soccer I played the
team I faced was good

and mine was not so
our team was bested greatly
many goals were scored

disheartening it
was for I, the keeper to
to lose five to zero

#379
The Rumpus Room / Re:Haiku maybe help?
Sat 16/08/2003 00:40:32
mitar, such language
is crude and so unneeded
please tone it down

I get the hang of
this style the more I write it
Haiku grows on me
#380
The Rumpus Room / Re:Haiku maybe help?
Sat 16/08/2003 00:09:44
king, we yelled at
Mitar for not posting in
haiku here. you must.

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