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From the AGS Awards to the GDC... that's one small* step for Dave, and one giant leap for adventures.

*Small in this case meaning huge, awesome, and well-deserved.

6. It might be time to expunge this award from future years...

AGS needs its Raspberry awards, but perhaps not as part of the official AGS Awards.

As for the first letter looking like a C, I do agree, but why break the "X Days a S..." formula? If it is indeed an S, the lower part is below the rest of the line, and thinner than the top part of the S.

It may be a phonetic pattern, with the word one where 'c' is pronounced like 's'.

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=71842

New developer (site isn't actually launched yet, though) is apparently planning on making a trilogy of classic, 2d point-and-click adventure games for PC based on the history of Japan. Good luck to them, I guess.



Apologies if this has been mentioned before, but I've never heard of the game until today (when Eurogamer posted on it).

Trying to get back to pixelling (despite never being very good at it in the first place):


(2x)

I'd like to add some definition to the face but have been unable to do so while keeping its appearance halfway decent.

You seem to have this idea that we should be nice to everything and everyone, and that criticisms are inherently a questioning of the worth of something. There is a tendency in today's world -- and perhaps there always has been, but I haven't been in any other world so I wouldn't really know -- to preach conflict-avoidance and appeasement and "everyone is special" and "all opinions are equal". This is what I see in your posts -- perhaps not directly or intentionally, but even the specter of that is enough to scare me, because I think that is some of the most dangerous thinking in the world: a celebration of stagnation and degradation.

You shouldn't be afraid of conflict -- besides the physical kind, anyway.

So, yes, one should consider all aspects of something and not dismiss it out of hand; but having considered, one has to be prepared to say it's crap when it is.

Or something. I realize this is worded about as well as your previous posts (which is to say, not very.)

Get inspiration from everything. Never disregard anything simply because you don't like it.

I agree. But there's a difference between disregarding something and criticizing it.

I try to keep everyone happy

First mistake.

But I feel it's wrong to rag on something simply because you don't have a taste for it.

What would be a better reason to "rag" on it? Not having a taste for something is simple a matter of degrees from vehemently hating something, is it not? Is there a line, somewhere along there, where it stops being okay to criticize? You can say rap is bad, but not rock? (I know that was a joke, but your tone suggests the joke was "haha, those morons who like rap" and not "haha, and of course there would be a hypocritical exception that everyone is expected to agree with it". Don't get me wrong; I don't like rap. But that comment makes what comes before it seem exceedingly hollow and, well, hypocritical -- though perhaps I've simply misjudged your intent.)

- Sporadic play. This concept where instead of constantly playing the game, you just log in to the page, queue up a bunch of actions, run, leave, and come back in a few hours when it's done. They say it's kind of like checking your e-mail.

Hail reading of posts.

She appears to be missing a right arm?

I'm fairly sure its Microsoft Clipart.

Indeed.

Open the pod bay doors, HAL.

Er... seems that one doesn't really work here.

You do realize the dinosaurs died out at the end of the Cretaceous, right? The Jurassic ended about 140 million years ago, long before the dinosaurs died out.

Felgercarb.

but don't forget this is the last season, so it's all winding down (and they have less time to do it in than originally planned).

What the fuck are you smoking? Like hell it's the last season.

The point is that it would have only been used in that single instance, which disqualifies all of your examples.

ACT - 34 (out of 36)
SAT - 2200 (out of 2400)

Tests are boring.

"Door, meet hand-cannon." *Boom! Boom! Boom!* Problem solved!

Doesn't work, as per Mythbusters. (Rifles will, but pistols won't.)

Yeah, I always preferred "use plastic card to unlock door".

That one has actually helped me in real life.

We used to that almost every day at school. The teachers were late getting back to class after lunch, so we let ourselves in.

If you think Lost is consistent with a real plan behind it, you're the one with a short attention span.

(Before you start, consider that my favorite show is Battlestar Galactica, which is just as complicated as Lost except it actually makes sense, in addition to being light-years ahead [pardon the pun] of Lost in terms of character, plot, thematic content, and just about everything else you could compare TV shows on.)