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So wait, you put your printer in your scanner and are now surprised that it won't fax?!

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Mac fell down and was sucked into the machine because he was covered in gold, as soon as he put a gold necklace on I thought "Ah, he's going to be sucked into the inevitable destruction at the end because of that."

just because that's the reason he was killed doesn't help me accept his apparent UNQUENCHABLE THIRST FOR GOLD! that lead to his ruin...

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I think it was a fine movie and a fine Indy movie, if it came out 2 years after the 3rd Indy movie people wouldn't be so harsh towards it but alas...

I did enjoy:

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How the opening shot has the Paramount mountain turning in to a mole hill

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oh yea, forgot to add, the main thing that angers me about this movie

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is that it will spur on the retarded and racist beliefs of Erich von Däniken. This movie hit all the major points of his book Chariot of the Gods. Nasca lines, aliens bring technology to primitive non-white cultures, I mean, how else would primitive non-white cultures have the ability to do things like dentistry and seemingly major surgeries if not for aliens teaching them, there's no way they could have learned through basic human achievement! They were too stupid!

However, this is obviously a specific gripe and not involving Indiana Jones at all, just stupid humans.

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There's a river... there are rocks... beat the dirt out of your clothes like we did for thousands of years!

I don't think a car situation would work though, me, Jess, The Ivy and MillsJRoss are all meeting up in CDG airport and if there's enough room for 4 new people with all their luggage than sure! Let's all pile in... But otherwise I think it's the train for Jess and I at least.

Unless a big ol' party van is rented like Mittens Canada

But I'm a cyborg, CJ!

Also, I just booked our flights... Now we need to find out how we're getting from Charles de Gaulle airport to Paris to the house. The train seems... Far away and expensive! I wonder if my rocket pack will get through customs...

Dammit Eldkatt, I was just coming here to mention this podcast.

It's the only one I listen to [not counting This American Life since it's more than a podcast] and I love it.

My name is Eric and I have paid.

WITH MY LIFE!

R.I.P.

Eric Colossal

peprony and
chease

I dreamt I grew a beard of hamburger last night, shaved it off, and ate it.

I think the main thing to remember, which is what Evenwolf touched upon. Is that we are uneducated to what space looks like on a daily basis. Especially compared to a NASA scientist.

What does space look like normally? We as adventure game authors don't know. People look at HOURS AND HOURS AND HOURS of footage and find the 1 thing that doesn't jive with what we think space should be like and we immediately assume it's a UFO. We'd be just as right if we assumed it was a football floating in space. When you assume UFO you're taking a backlog of knowledge about which there are innumerable amounts of bad science behind it and applying it to what could very well be anything.

When the camera zooms in on that tether video, how come the dust particles get bigger and fuzzier and turn into discs with black dots in the center? Not because you're zooming in on a platter UFO but because you're zooming in on a small particle that is being distorted by the focal point of the lens. Just like supposed orb footage from ghost photos.

You work with cameras and have a knowledge about focal length and such, is this not what's going on?

If you show footage from a movie to someone who does not know how the earth and it's atmosphere works and in this movie a lens flare shoots across the movie lens, they may immediately think that a series of UFOs has just shot across the scene.

"UFO's seem to like thunderstorms, and congregate above storm clouds perhaps to gain energy." What about the idea that there are naturally occurring weather phenomena that happens in thunderstorms that we misinterpret as alien in origin?

"If they're clouds why do they move over a storm and then stop and hold position?" That's a good question, what is the scientific answer? Do you accept the scientific answer or do you automatically reject it?

http://www.rense.com/general49/blurfo.htm  this is a neat site I just found, it's a believer in orbs and other ufo styled images explaining how cameras work and why blurry pictures of normal things look like orbs and ufos.

Anyway, not to try and rain on parades but don't you think it's odd that you spent all this time reading about this stuff and then saw another UFO later? Would you call shenanigans on someone saying they spent all day reading about fairys and goblins and then went for a walk that night and saw some?

I buy music from amazon's download service if the cd is on there, if it isn't I usually just give up and I won't look somewhere else. Jess buys things off of iTunes mostly and sometimes off of Amazon, she has the ipod so it's mostly iTunes.

My physical cds just go into my multi-cd case which means I have to do away with the plastic case anyway, if I want lyrics I just look on the internet and if I really want the album art I guess I can look at that on the internet too or have it automatically downloaded... But I don't see no album art as an automatic fail for downloading music off the internet.

Also, as per your situation, what service was it you used? That sounds crap to have to use their music player. You have to use a small downloader application for Amazon but it's really not that big a deal and is like 200kb. I guess that's why I don't use iTunes for downloading music, it feels too big and bulky when I just want a tiny program that plays mp3s and sits at the top of my window and is almost totally hidden.

Easiest way to get a game that might be shut down to completion is not to have a web presence until the game is done.

Work on the game in secret and then release it onto the internet, once it's out there they can't really shut down every server that has it hosted.

Otherwise trying to get permission from something as big as the Hitchhikers Guide just won't happen, more than likely. So stick to smaller indie things that don't have huge corporations backing them.

nope*

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I suggest you read up on the engine on the front page if you want to know more.

*someone will come along and say "well you technically can do 3d" and sure, we have a plugin that shows you 3d models and such but it's not for making games at the moment, no matter what anyone says.

So Jess and I have our passports, we just need to now research plane tickets and how many arms and/or legs it will cost.

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=1003

Did you try the game page? Does this link not work for you?

Here is the Completed Games thread about this game:

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=33919.msg441717#msg441717

however the hardest thing to do is condemn someone for using the word "gay" in a nonsexual derogatory way and then turn around and call something "retarded"

"It's pretty retarded the way you use 'gay' like that..."

Try reading both her posts again. Especially one just above SSH.

unlike in gay bars...

Man, if it bugs you so much, go to a different gay bar! You're obviously hanging out in the wrong ones.

The problem with UHS styled systems, for me, is that I get stuck at the lava bridge so I go to UHS, click on chapter 1 of my game and it gives me 5 options: Opening the first door, Getting past the lava bridge, Building a rocket ship, Opening the gateway to hell.

Great now I've accidentally read the 2 hints past where I am and know that I have to build a rocket ship and open a gateway. Even worse is when they're written like questions because you have to read the whole thing in order to see if it pertains to your problem. You want to know how to get past the lava bridge so you look at the questions and 3 start with "How do I" so you read farther on the top most one and it say "How do I get rid of the ancient curse" and crap! Ancient curse is spoiled for me!

I would like to see a hint system with a text input. You tell a database Location: Underground, Last Inventory Item Picked Up: Crystal Shield, Hint Need? How do I get past the lava bridge?

and it tells you a hint...

But anyway, if we already have UHS and users can update that themselves, what specifically does your system provide that normal HTML doesn't?

edit: Ok I just took a closer look at UHS and it seems random people on the internet can't just add new hints and they're still selling a UHS reader, I wonder how many people buy them... So your system would be free and open, that's one reason to use it over UHS.

If all ISPs start doing this then let's say... Some people want to try a new internet search engine, they have some good ideas and think they can make something useful. They start working on it, can't pay the fees to be put in the "fast lane" of internet speeds, no one uses their search engine because it's too slow and they go out of business.

Let's pretend that that company was Google.

Let's pretend 2 brothers wanted to start an internet cartoon and they couldn't pay to be put on the fast lane, there goes Homestar Runner.

I just can't imagine how internet start-ups would get by with this new business model.

Jon Titor kind of was an alternate reality game thing kind of...

Dude posted on a forum "I am a time traveler, ask me questions" so people did and he made up a bunch of stuff and photoshopped some pictures and people fed him questions and theories and he fed the people supposed answers to the future and such.

As was stated he always had an "out" that we could avoid everything he predicted because of *reasons reasons* but it was quite sensational in certain internet circles when it was going on. The same amount of discussion about that happened with other early alternate reality games before people got savvy to them as marketing, I would guess. Jon Titor just wasn't selling anything, just doing it for fun.