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Well, my rather limited artistical output can be viewed most easily at my deviantart-page, I suppose:
http://geisterfaust.deviantart.com/
Mainly photography and poster designs recently, but there are some other things there as well.

As for music, well, I sing in the following bands:
Remos Third Ear (Folk/psychedelia)
http://www.myspace.com/remosthirdear
Late 60's/early 70's-sounding psych/acid-folk inspired by Comus, Tir Na Nog, Incredible String Band, etc...

Ingnis (Death/thrash/prog metal)
http://www.myspace.com/ingnis
Mixing the extreme brutality of death metal and grindcore with the melodic catchiness of Depeche Mode.

The Longest Hour (Experimental/hardcore/post-rock)
http://www.myspace.com/longesthour
Cinematic, experimental soundscapes and heavy, doom-ridden riffing.
Cult of Luna meets Godspeed you! Black Emperor.

I'm pretty sure that most of us here would appreciate a great hi-res game just as much as great lo-res one.
And I'm also pretty sure that most would get just as excited and drop exclamations of hype and praise when somebody posts screenshots of a game with beautiful, hi-res CoMI/whatnot-styled graphics as we would when somebody posts great lo-res graphics. (Fallen Legend being a great example - Beautiful hi-res graphics, and lots of positive response from the first day of posting)
I think it's mostly a matter of lo-res being easier to handle, quicker to draw, and overall being a style that a lot of people here like. (as many has already pointed out) In the end, it is indeed just up to the game makers themselves.

So, in short, I'm with Eggie: I can't really see the conspiracy here.

I've always been a huge fan of Eric the Unready, meself: http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=375

A great text/semi-point-n-click game with a funny, tounge-in-cheek fantasy storyline. Highly overlooked and entertaining.

Methinks that monkey's entry is:

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"This monkey's gone to heaven" by the Pixies."

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And a wild stab at Bucketheads:

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"Sleeping with ghosts" by Placebo.

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Well, if it doesn't matter what genre, you are more than welcome to play our music in your store: http://www.myspace.com/ingnis

Aw crap...  One of my favorite stand-up comedians. He always amazed me by how he kept being both angry, fast and bitingly funny, even though he was getting older. And now he's gone. Rest in peace, George!

I always found the atmosphere in all three of the Gabriel Knight games to be really intense and fright-inducing, to be honest. Just in the way the story and the mood was slowly raised, and how the researching of the early parts of the game successively gave way to some really suspense-ridden parts. (i.e. the zombie-statues of GK1, the woods in GK2 and the investigation of the murders in GK3) It isn't "horror-movie scary", there's just something genuinely unsettling about them all. In a good way.

I must say I actually like the first Broken Sword very much. Agreed, Stobbart isn't much of a character, but there is just something very enjoyable about the game, I find. The atmosphere, the story, the graphics, the voices, the music, etc...
Broken Sword 2 is a bit so-and-so, plot-wise, but still fun. Broken Sword 3 and 4, however... Well, that's a different story. Things just went out of hand from there, methinks, and not just beacuse of the graphics.
On the whole, I do prefer Gabriel Knight, though, yes.

Well, the most up-to-date photo I have is this, from a photoshoot with our band Ingnis. Me being the one in the front.


http://www.myspace.com/ingnis
Songs from our brand new album is up now, so do take a listen if you have nothing better to do.

What Petteri posted. Pure goodness.
And of course, possibly the best theme song ever written: The Persuaders.

Discworld 2.
Partly because it was my very first adventure game, partly because it really is great, for real.
And yeah, lots of others too, as well.

Haven't made that many close friends off the forums, really, with the exception of Snake. As he said, we've been toying around with ideas and stuff for Leitors edge for years now... A really nice guy he is. I did get into a bit of unexpected msn-contact with Cameron recently too, though, which was surprising, but fun none the less. Heh.

Well, since I don't really have any example of me talking online, I suppose my singing will have to do, seeing as it is my voice, after all.

For growling/screaming/crooning:
http://www.myspace.com/ingnis (Melodic/pseudo-progressive thrash/death)

For growling and the occasional pretentious spoken word:
http://www.myspace.com/longesthour (Experimental/Post-hardcore/rock)

And for the entirely clean vocals:
http://www.myspace.com/remosthirdear (Acid/psych-folk)

I think, like you said, that Gang of Four largely influenced Emo. They were part of the post-punk/hardcore scene very early on, which led to Fugazi a little later around the time it began transforming into the first generation of Emo. Because of this I'd say they were emo, or at least inextricably linked. Lemme put this in a metaphor so I can properly express what I'm trying to say. Gang of Four were old black guys, and first generation Emo was Elvis 

Haha, I like the methaphor get what you mean, yeah. I think we're very much along the same lines, really. I still wouldn't go as far as claiming them to be a part of the genre, but hey, you can't agree on everything. Heh. It's a bit like the arguing about whether proto-punk bands such as MC5 or The Stooges should be classified as punk, since they influenced the late 70's punk wave...

Post punk and emo kinda blend at points. It's difficult to seperate it all really.

Well, fair enough, I suppose, seeing as both genres emerged from punk/hardcore, it's hard for them not to blend into each other in the end. I just felt Gang of Four was a rather odd example. Wasn't their most important and defining work made in the late 70's/early 80's, before there really was an "emo"-scene/genre to blend with? I'm not saying they weren't influential to the genre, just as they've been influential to loads of other genres, I just wouldn't call them a part of it.
A great band, whatever you choose to call them, anyways. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZwQ_WJWX68

I won't get myself too deep into this discussion about what's emo or not, seeing as I really don't have enough interest or knowledge to make statements about it, but I will say one thing: Gang of Four? Haven't they always been post-punk? :S

I cry fairly easy in movies and watching TV, but the one that gets me the most is MASH. It always makes me cry, especially Hawk Eye's dear dad eps. Yeah, I'm a big softy.

Ah, MASH, heck yes. I cry every time I see the episode where Colonel Blake dies. I think death and loss in fiction is the thing that makes me cry the most often, hands down.

Myesh, read about this the other day... I'm not sure what I think of this. On one hand I am surprised to see that DiCaprio has a fine taste in movies, and their ambitions to adapt it from the manga is honorable. But on the other hand, Akira is one of my favourite films ever. I don't really want to see a live-action version of it. Maybe if they can get Geinoh Yamashirogumi to do the soundtrack again, but heck, what are the chances of that?

This one is really from "Life, the universe and everything", but it's still one of my favourites:

"Arthur felt happy. He was terribly pleased that the day was for once working out so much according to plan. Only twenty minutes ago he had decided that he would go mad, and now here he was already chasing a Chesterfield sofa across the fields of prehistoric earth."

Focus is good stuff indeed.
But the best song ever? Pfah, I say "A Proper Love Ballad" by Bill Bailey.