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Either way, I've got to be in the mood. If I'm feeling like superstrategyboy then RC3 just isn't going to diddle my klangjubs... but if i'm feeling like having a bit of fun making crazy roller coasters, shooting fireworks and winning shit, it'll do me just fine. It's all about MOOOOoooOOoOOoODs. You know, light a candle, incense, play some jazz, eat some chocolate, smell a rose, build a coaster...

There's this great film, about an experiment held in Oxford...

According to Wikipedia it's based on an experiment conducted in the U.S. @ Stanford Univeristy in California. As Anian pointed out the film is German, although there is an American Remake currently filming: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Experiment_%28film%29

Shelton... stop posting images without Waldo... 

I actually much prefer RCT1. Call me old fashioned.

After playing this and think about my experiences with the originals. This game is much more accesible. The oriinals focused more on strategizing and allocation of resources, where as this feel like the creators of Bejeweled retooled RCT, passed it off to some Web 2.0 designer to slap on a sexy UI and toned down the difficulty. Rather than sit for hours worried, pulling my hair out, making every dollar count, advertising at the right time, etc- I just sit back and play and almost always win by accident withing 45 minutes! Sometimes though, I like to sit and agonize... It's why I play Civilization...

RC1 and 2 are secret spies who do things gingerly and intelligently. RC3 is Chris Evans, cocky, flash, easy but with a lot of good under the surface...

The Pacers

Apparently my coasters are TOO scary... pussies.

Have to tell you this, Stupot: I showed that funny interactive image of yours to my girlfriend. Not a good idea... She ended up crying for ten minutes and now she hates me :/ Remind me to never do that again.

Trust Stupot? Visit random websites? Have a girlfriend?

DEFINITELY NOT!

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I remember being addicted to the first (and all its expansions) but when the second came out I was really disappointed because it was the same game... so I stopped playing altogether. Years later I found out that they were making a third one but by then I was into shooter games. My Grandmother bought it for me for my Birthday about a year and half ago, or so... never played it. I found it on my bookshelf, installed it (it was the Platinum Edition YAY FOR EXPANSIONS!) and I literally just played the game from 4AM to 8:30AM so far!

VERYVERYVERYADDICTING

Wally coming off a Heroin high...

I thought he was avoiding a lawsuit... 

Because even the most basic PCs have paint programs, but not all of them have Garage Band. Because Visuals+Coding = Game but Coding+Music = a pleasant sounding blank screen...

Music is not integral it is complimentary and more difficult for people with small resources to digitally render than visuals. The music would have be limited to audio expressly distributed with a free-use license, in order to avoid stepping on toes.

I understand your argument that it should be "all home brew" or "truly open" but making a decent midi is infinitely more difficult than drawing a stick figure in paint. From my observations many AGS user tend to be on the lower end of the hardware/technical spectrum (although this is probably not the case for people enters Hourgame) which exacerbates the level of difficulty in creating audio.

I could fall asleep at night either way but I whole heatedly believe that the ability to create music (not artistically, but technically) is more limiting than the ability to create even rudimentary visuals.

even the worst architects can't defy perspective... it might help cleaning up the lines a bit.

... as in the case of John Carpenter's The Thing.  To me that movie is an excellent example of a gory shocker because not only does it have key moments that are really disturbing visually but Carpenter... of these things (isolated, dangerous location, an enemy that can be anyone) combine to make a very effective scare picture.  The game was a so-so attempt at recapturing that magic ...held back the game from being as good as it could have been.

Never played the game but a good point about "The Thing," I completely forgot about that movie. Often times when a movie has shots of beautiful country-side with wind blowing the tall grass, or stolid moments of silence and subtlety it is all just filler. Well, it is SUPPOSED to be atmospheric, it is supposed to subconsciously drag you deeper into the world and who the characters are, to invest in the simulation of it all and begin to lose awareness that it is a fiction. "The Thing" does a pretty good job of getting you to empathize and engage in the mythos and ultimately when teh shat hit the fan it felt like getting hit in the chest by a car wreck, to me... great. Not entirely unpredictable but still great. It isn't a movie that I would quantify as "scary" (you don't necessarily fear anything) but it is IMPACTING in a non-positive way; which is, maybe, just as important.

I'm gonna give it a go with a girl this time..

Our baby... all grown up...


I believe that MashTato is a lady-- isn't it?

I would say that music should be an exception, but I agree that existing artwork shouldn't be allowed.

I think we need more distinguishing names than "MAGS A" and "MAGS B."

Suggestions?

Tell me what the topic is and I might try again...  ;P

This is how I dress at weekends.  =^.^=

Single Greatest Photograph, All Time
Consider the 2010 National Geographic Photography Competition prematurely placed on hiatus...

These are the kinds of people that think Johnny Depp really is a pirate.

Wait- what? JESUS CALIN! Ever heard of f****ing [SPOILER ALERT?!?!]

P.S. Is it wrong that every-time you gave an example of what isn't acceptable I thought: "Well, it really depends on the presentation..."