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There are only 12 models of Scientologist. And they have a plan...

If you're explaining open source you need to make clear the distinction between free (as in priced at $0) and free (as in freedom). AGS is the former and not the latter. Buying a supported version of Linux is the latter but not the former.

A scientologist! A scientologist! A scientologist! A scientologist! We've found a scientologist! A scientologist! A scientologist! A scientologist! A scientologist! We've got a scientologist! A scientologist! A scientologist! Burn her! Burn her! Burn her! We've found a scientologist! We've found a scientologist! A scientologist! A scientologist! A scientologist!

    We have found a scientologist. May we burn her?
    Burn her! Burn! Burn her! Burn her!

    How do you know she is a scientologist?

    She looks like one.

    Bring her forward.

    I'm not a scientologist. I'm not a scientologist.

    Uh, but you are dressed as one.

    They dressed me up like this.

    Augh, we didn't! We didn't...

    And this isn't my nose. It's a false one.

    Well?

    Well, we did do the nose.

    The nose?

    And the hat, but she is a scientologist!

Is your machine dual-core? There's a known bug in processor drivers for dual-core that can give AGS problems.

And don't forget the lube 

All those who are arguing about this, if they promise to give your games 5 cups, will you shut up?  :

It wisnae me that made Richard game of the month! It was that oldest of old-guards, CJ...

Also, 7zip unzips RARs if you don't want to have unregistered nagware

You may also want to google for "graph searching algorithms"

I've imported the walkcycle generator to 2.8 and it depends on the "magic pink" a lot, and it works fine, so I don't think its 2.8 that is the problem

Oh yes, I think award nominees should be added to the database. And really there should be a way to exclude the booby-prize awards from that, too.

You can't run the game out of a zip file without unzipping it first: you can't use Windows XP's "virtual folder" thingy

First car: Fiat Cinquicento 1994
Current car: Ford Focus S-reg 1998
Next car: Vauxhall Zafira... probably about 2002 model and diesel

Surely the most important thing for a woman buying a car is not the make, but the colour

I like scotch's idea: guidelines with common-sense override. Perhaps an idea of the target distributions should also be kept in mind: Only allow 2% of games (out of say 500 existing games, that makes 10) to get 5 cups,  a further 8% can have 4 cups and 20% can have 3 cups.

Subdivided ratings is not a good idea for this purpose, we want one simple number with only a few divisions. I hope we still keep the user ratings, but perhaps reset them since they have been abused in the past.

You can keep bringing up personal examples of great games until the cows come home, but sooner or later we'd have to settle for some criteria.

My personal favourites (games like Mom's Quest and Aaron's Epic Journey) wouldn't get many cups according to this document (nor would my very own games...), but I'm trying to think outside my own black box here.

5 Days a Stranger qualifies for 2 cups at best, which will be perceived as not being best. Many people think that this is the best AGS game out there. That is not a personal feeling. Just because we have to draw the line somewhere is not a valid argument for drawing it in the wrong place. I don't think you can put Mom's Quest and 5 Days in the same league.

Many of Yahtzee's games can only get 2 cups because they use RPGMaker music...

I certainly agree that while the very top mark should only go to games that are excellent everywhere, there are plenty of games that entirely neglect something like music which are otherwise excellent. As I usually play with the sound off anyway, its not a big factor for me. Also, if a game gets 4 cups and then someone finds a subtle bug in it, what happens?

There should perhaps be an "unrated" classification for games that plain just do not fit... such as foreign-language-only games

Only vaguely on topic, but...

There was a minor spelling mistake in a product that I was testing at my job and so I filed a defect report:

"ERROR: Failied to load config file"

And in the defect report I said "There's only one i in failed".... then I realised, that would make a great title for a self-help book!

Will pick of the month still exist? That seems to be used by some to determine good games, since the current pick always features up in the top 5 downloads of the week...

As GG says, the loop number is not saved/restored by Lock/Unlock views

Vive la Revolution

I choose PikaLenin!

I agree with Caine, but have to criticise one aspect of what he says....

You went to see the Pokemon movie.? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

I rest my case.