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I've played through the whole game now but was wondering who exactly did the voices for which person...

Can't you guess?

Where is this firecracker o_O?

Follow Rob around, he drops it at some point.

Furthermore, you can make parameters to a function optional, as long as you declare the function in a script header. This allows you to call the same function with e.g. one, two, or three parameters.

I've noticed a strange fact: Controversial games are popular.

That's not strange, that's human nature. Forbidden things are exciting. That, and many people want to find out what everybody else is so excited about. This has been going on for ages. For instance, any story by De Sade. Or the faux-novel Naked Came The Stranger. Or basically any film by Tarentino.

And, while we might not have any controversial adventure games per se, there's a number of them that focus heavily on sex and are popular mainly for that reason. It probably explains why Leisure Suit Larry was so popular - they're poorly written, but OMG boobies! The proven fact is that you make a book, adventure game, or whatever with "sex" in the title, people will download or buy it, regardless of its actual quality.

Have a different walkable area on the spot where an object might appear, and disable this walkable area when the object is there.

Add a Display() command in there to find out what the present values of Nimbleness, Lockpicking, and door_defense are.

If you're aiming for a P3N1S award, you should know that those were cancelled a couple of years ago.

No they weren't.

"County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know, and I'll stop you when... Hello??"

-- Calvin & Hobbes

Only south park maybe but that isn't a very good one to use.

Yep, same here. My first choice was the Simpsons, but you can't really parody a series that's only barely serious to begin with. I suspect the same applies to South Park - you can't parody it because it parodies itself, constantly.

Anyone remember those really stupid questions at the beginning of Larry 1 and 3, that were apparently meant to "determine" whether you were 18?

I wonder what Quest for Yrolg is?

Aaah, wait and see!

It's not a sequel. It is an adventure game. it's also high resolution.

Coming soon to a website near you.

While I have no doubt the Swiss are nationalistic, comparing them to Nazis is going way too far. Did you hear the one about Godwin's Law?

In fact, I think we are facing serious risk if our arguments for civil equality rely too heavily on the scientific notion of biological equality between the sexes.

I believe there are two hazards here.

First, I'm not at all convinced that the debate of "sexist language" is actually worth the time some people put into it, because it distracts people from the actual underlying issues: it's treating symptoms rather than causes. The reason I'm saying this is because it seems to be more about political correctness than about solving anything. As an example, I used to work at a convention where chairmen were referred to as "chairs" (which sounds like furniture but I guess it's okay) but the people who were welcoming others were known as "hostesses", despite the fact that half of these hostesses were male. In other words, the organization of this convention, by unthinkingly using non-sexist language, achieved little else other than make itself look silly.

Second, it is possible, but a bad idea, to deny people opportunities for the sake of equality. This goes for both sides, obviously. The reason I'm saying this is the following: the Netherlands used to have several levels of high school, depending basically on the intelligence or scholastic aptitude of the students (which has nothing to do with gender, but the example is relevant anyway). Because the new government insisted on treating every student equally, they now have one level of high school, which proceeds too rapidly for the less able students, and is denying opportunities to the smarter students. Needless to say that doesn't work all that well.

In other words, equality is about granting opportunities to those who were held back in the past - not about denying opportunities to those who were put ahead in the past.

So I guess what I'm trying to say is that the consequence of seeking easy answers is to be consistently wrong.

It's not there early in the morning. Try leaving the dorm and coming back a while later.

I think it might be as interesting to wonder why male suffering is becoming something close to a taboo?

What makes you think it is - in this century where you can see videos of war, police brutality, and prisoner abuse over the internet?

Monarchies are different in two ways:

I am aware of that, but since the point is not "women's ability to govern" but "American men's uneasy feelings towards having a woman at the top of the pyramid", the point still stands.

(and, no, please, nobody tell me that a strong woman is a turn on, because a lot of men say that in private, but are in truth not prepared to be governed by a woman).

Well, if that is the case, then America seriously needs to grow up, because most European countries have been ruled by a queen or two throughout history.

Ahhh... yes, I see. But if you've have to choose between a female or a male going through some hardships, wouldn't most rather see the female than the male?

Well, yes, because if the target audience is women, then showing women will make them commiserate more; whereas if the target audience is men, the winning combination is schadenfreude plus boobies.

I mean, why do you think they invented cheerleaders? The one thing that's got to be better than watching sport, is watching sport and boobies. Predictable, no?

If psychology doesn't make you laugh, it's bound to make you cry.

That's a load of opinionated bull.

People love watching other people suffer, period. It's called schadenfreude. Yes, admit it, funniest home videos and celeb scandals and Darwin Awards are fun to many. And yes, thinking so makes (nearly) everybody a (slightly) bad person - but whether the suffering person is male or female is, to most people, irrelevant.

Hm, that's odd, the story feels like there's a bunch of sentences missing at the end

Anyway, thanks.