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I'd be happy to help but am not going to download 180 megs for it. Why not post a screenshot or two and describe the interfaces? IIRC one has a simple verbcoin (which is ok as long as it has keyboard shortcuts, and extremely annoying otherwise) and the other has the weird 3-d walking interface that I found awkward and inappropriate for an adventure game. Imho and ymmv, of course.

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I'm not sure how I feel about being labeled a conspiracy theorist.  Is anybody who doubts anything automatically a conspiracy theorist? 

No, a conspiracy theorist is one who believes theories about (generally governmental) conspiracies, such as the theory that the US government conspired to create the 9/11 disaster. Generally such theories fall foul of Occam's Razor (and also, Hanlon's Razor) and discount or ignore plainly visible evidence to the contrary. For instance, I notice you've not responded to my and Big Brother's arguments about the laws of physics.

With me, it's:
- Firefox: 33.520 kb (I run 2 windows now)
- AGS: 15.328 kb

Well, of course, both allocate memory as needed, so Firefox will claim more memory whenever you load more webpages, or especially more graphics on those. AGS will claim more memory whenever you load more sprites and other resources.

The towers were over-engineered, and I believe the creators specified that even if two of the main support columns were entirely cut, the towers still would've stood.

The towers were engineered differently than older and more time-tested skyscrapers, and many experts claim that an old-style skyscraper would have withstood the attack better. You can't compare the neat removal of redundant support columns with the impact of a hundred tons of flying steel. My source is the Wikipedia article; what is yours?

The trade center buildings had well over 1000 times the mass of the aircrafts that hit them,

Plausible, but entirely irrelevant if you know anything about demolition, or classical mechanics. Impulse equals mass times VELOCITY, therefore a smaller mass moving at a higher speed can do ugly things to a larger mass that is stationary.

and were built to withstand high wind loads of 30 times the aircraft's weight.

Physically speaking, that sentence doesn't make any sense. You're comparing wind speed with aircraft weight, the proverbial apple and orange. (if you want to compare velocities, cruise speed of an airplane is several times faster than hurricane-level wind speed)

The buildings would've easily absorbed whatever energy and shock was produced by the initial impact. 

Both theory and practice easily prove you wrong. Please read up into physics before talking about energy absorption like this.

It is interesting to note that none of the steel from the wreckage of the towers was tested or studied to see what caused it to fail.  The towers were allegedly built with very high-intregrity steel, which would've have easily survived the heat. 

There was an extensive investigation, and the conclusion was that the initial shockwave caused the removal of large amounts of fireproofing, which allowed the kerosene-fueled fire to wreak havoc. Fire can cause damage in other ways than melting the steel.

I would encourage you to look at any footage of the trade centers collapsing.  The towers just seem to slide into the earth, as if they were sitting on top of a massive hole in the ground, and somebody just pulled the foundation right out from under them.

This is characteristic of gravity. Towers don't fall sideways, they fall down.

Again, if the frame of the structure gave way because of melting steel, the whole building wouldn't have just fell in on itself, only the affected floors would fall away, and I would expect more of a crumbling effect. 

It's fine that you expect that, but your earlier posts have not exactly indicated a substantial grasp of high-level physics. Steel doesn't have to melt to collapse.

The eyewitnesses and firefighters that survived described multiple explosions, some of which actually blew them against the wall, etc.  They all believed that there were bombs planted throughout the building.

They ALL believed that? Heck no. Of course there were multiple explosions; if a fire spreads, any time it hits a new source of fuel (such as a large room full of oxygen) it causes a flare.

Finally, most of all, I'd suggest looking into what happened to building 7.  No airplane hit that one, and it fell straight down like the other two.

The results were similar therefore the causes must have been similar. That reasoning is fallacious. Sorry, but your scientific and logical backing doesn't hold water.

The towers were designed to withstand the impact from
jetliner(s), such as those that hit the buildings that day. 

Which, rather obviously, had never been tested in practice. Field conditions never match the design lab.

However, the collapse thing is just rediculous.  There is no way that those ENTIRE towers collapsed JUST because of the fires inside them. 

Not the flames, but the massive impact. Given that you can collapse a bridge by marching a group of soldiers over it, it is entirely plausible that being hit by a high-velocity airplane can cause an entire building to collapse.

Kinetic energy equals half mass times velocity squared. Cruise speed for an airplane is about 1000 km/h (280 m/s) and it weighs at least 300 tons loaded. Do the math and you end up with a blast of about 11.6 GIGAjoules of energy. That's the equivalent of eight lightning bolts, three tonnes of TNT, or an hour's worth of five hundred horsepower. And that's not accounting for the fuel that the planes were carrying.

Cute list, I like it.

(goes off to double-check ATOTK...)

Given their track record of competency at just about anything else, it is amazing that people actually believe the government capable of keeping such massive conspiracies succesfully covered-up.

(which I believe is paraphrased from a Pratchett quote, but I couldn't locate the original)

Mien is a Quoet form META.

Guys, I really have a question: Don't you know that there _might_ be people who want to play Adventures that are not in 320x200 with 16 Colors? Would you like to see Syberia in that resolution? Come on, we have 2006 ...

The moral of that story would be that fan-imposed standards are significantly higher for remakes and sequels of existing games, than they would be for original games.

Is it possible to set the speed at which a character's portrait animates when speaking? At a guess, this would be the same as the character's regular animation speed. I would like to be able to separate the two.

You might try instead using FollowCharacter with the follow_exactly parameter.

I would recommend against limited inventory space, because most players would feel it as an annoying restriction rather than added realism.

Sanity bars are cool. I recommend you take a look at the old Infocom text adventure Bureaucracy, which does the concept pretty well, and possibly the AGS game GRRRR! Bearly Sane.

not 3rd, 3d as in 3-dimensional.
though is this according to the planned trilogy?

No. The planned trilogy goes Loom - Forge - The Fold. And neither of the sequels would have Bobbin as the player character.

I note that the Chaos website does not say anything about the story or plot; Loom is a very tough game to write a good sequel to unless you somehow get The Professor involved. I've seen two or three earlier attempted sequels but they had rather lousy plots.

could somebody just give me the answer. i give up. i feel so dumb.  :'(

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WHAT is your Quest?

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What I don't like is any situation where the player character has to do something for which he has no plausible motivation whatsoever (oh yes, I should use the hammer niw to break off a piece of crystal so I have another inventory item in the future), and also puzzles that have a ludicrously complex solution because the obvious and simple solution does not work for no discernible reason. Also, I agree with the "tacked-on" puzzle as mentioned earlier, as well as "tacked-on" items.

is the answer in this part of the script?

No.

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WHAT is your name?

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So... even with all the above hints, I'm still stuck on that second question. I've tried

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looking at the file size of Meta.exe, which gets me 9310208 bytes), divided that by 1024 (gets 9092 kilobyes)

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with no luck. Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Is my opinion of the ideal adventure game not the same as the cup's?

That's interesting... it is possible that you have a virus on your computer that attaches itself to executables, thereby increasing their size.
My version is 9308583 bytes, thus the answer would be either 9090 (X/1024) or 9308 (X/1000; both are acceptable).

yeah, i did find the script and it says: "In order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings forty-three times every second, right?"

True, but the question is not "how often needs the swallow beat its wings", but "what is its airspeed velocity". Look further on in the script

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The answer is not a number. It is a trick question.

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