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  On the live-action Eva thingy; James Cameron was supposed to have bought the rights a few months ago, but the initial speculation was that he was going to make a movie with a similar premise, and he only brought the rights to avoid another Harlan Ellison/Terminator-style fiasco (which was originally the reason he bought the rights to Gunnm/Battle Angel Alita, but it turns out that he's probably going to make that after all).
 It's also interesting to note that End of Evangelion was originally supposed to contain quite a substantial live-action segment, but Anno just couldn't get it filmed exactly as he wanted, and eventually the footage which was shot went towards a short-ish live-action dream sequence and one of the trailers.  There's a website somewhere which details what was originally intended to happen, if anyone's interested...

Leisure Suit Larry are classic adventure games, you'd be praised for making games like those..

That's a matter of opinion.  True, pretty much everything is a matter of opinion, but, you know... yeah.

SO I WILL!!!

-that guy who directed battle royale

That would be Kinji Fukasaku, who died earlier this year.

Nice little teaser; the concept is interesting and the art is very nice indeed.  As I was saying on irc, the first puzzle is a tad odd, but as it was a prologue-type thing and thus very reliant on the puzzles following the plot to the letter, that was understandable; I'm sure when the full game gets into the flow of things it'll all go swimmingly, so I'm very much looking forward to it.

Melia often feigns jingoism, Philchow - you'll get used to it.

It's like the pot calling the kettle black!

Am I the only person who keeps meaning to buy a white pot just so that if anyone uses that phrase I can wittily retort - 'well my pot is white, so that would be just fine'?

That would be 'Four Rooms', 12431 - and Tarrantino directed 1 of 4 segments, if I remember correctly.  Personally I think Jackie Brown is his best film so far; it was much more restrained and had a better executed plot than Pulp and Dogs, IMO, and I found the almost-romance between Jackie and Max quite touching.

The spork is mightier than the fork!

Just a word of caution from your friendly neighbourhood moderator, the second this starts turning into a 'teh mAtrix0r Sux0rr!!' and 'No it ARes NOT you are th smellL!' flame war *coughspongelgmevolvecough* then i'll be forced to do my locky-locky duties...  

*shakes fist*
*notices stalkey*
*removes hand from gentials and hurls cum at stalkey*

And well, to boot - http://notmydesk.com/eo.html

NOTE: if you have no idea who Chris Livingston is, please PM me your address so I can come round and cut off you willy with a pair of those scissors that have red handles that they give you in primary school.

I'm the precise opposite, Esseb.  Do I get a prize?


Anyhoo, my idea of hell would probably be existing in nothingnessness, but being conscious of the fact that there was nothing (make sense?  It better).

* Shattered Sponge burns his Solo and curses Iqu

Hey there!

I think that it's only fair to warn you that you can expect an Impossible Mission quote from Helm any second/minute/hour/day now.

Just curious, how the hell does one interpret Laya's old avatar as a guy..

I think it was the lips that did it for me, and the wig...

  If you'd read my post properly, Panda, you'd have realised that I said people have their predujices programmed into them FROM birth, not at - as you said, ignorant parents and peers are often to blame, but so is the society that humanity has built for itself; it encourages grouping based on irrelevant attributes and separation between these, and unfortunately we have gone so far into this mindset that it is impossible for we as a race to get out of it.
 Your argument that by placing conflicting cultures together they will start to understand each other is unfortunately too idealistic - if you put a nazi skinhead and a muslim in the same room, they aren't going to discuss their differences over a cup of tea and begin to understand the reasons the other is the way they are - they are going to beat the living shit out of each other (either the skinhead will start upon the muslim because of his race issues, or the muslim will become scared and nervous of that occuring and will attack the nazi before he gets the chance).  If you were to take this on a mass scale, although there would be those who indeed do change, there will always be some who merely vent their misguided beliefs through violence, which creates more unease between the races, which encourages people on both sides who normally would have taken the sensible view to 'stand up for their race', which results in even more violence ad infinitum.

  As Andail did specify that we would be debating the effects of multi-culturalism on society, I shall focus on this point and bring up economic and political arguments only if they should become relevant.  Also, by multi-culturalism I will assume that we are talking about the mixing of races and religions within the same society (for the sake of argument, let's just say a country) rather the interaction between soceities of different cultures, which is always going to happen anyway.
 Basically, the sad fact of the matter is that humanity is divided into groups; the way in which society has evolved has resulted in differences between religions and races defined by mere phenotypes - this is not the way things should be, it is the way things are.  While these seperate groups exist, there will always be conflicts between them, and though one may hope that by bringing them together we can help improve the understanding between them, the reality is that it only makes people uneasy.  Racists and those belonging to religious groups with violent disagreements with other religous groups almost always have there beliefs programmed into them from birth and bringing them closer to the targets of their hate, making direct conflict between them FAR more likely.  These people simply have to be seperated from one another in order to stop them from hurting each other.

  Well, in my humble opinion, they managed to get a damn good game out of Indy and The Infernal Machine (yet to play the new one), but then the movies themselves always had a lot of action at their heart, so it would be difficult to see it working with something like FT... I guess we'll just have to see.

  To be totally honest, though it initially sounds like a good idea, I think that this would really be a waste of time - I don't want to sound like a complete wanker, but the fact of the matter is there is no point in reading something if you already know EXACTLY what is going to happen.  Reading is a reasonably time-consuming task, and unless it was exceptionally well written and was a work that simply demanded study (which is, let's face it, unlikely) most people would elect to read something new, rather than something that they had already experienced.  That's without even bothering to mention the ridiculous amount of work involved.
 However, if the 'adaptation' was to view the plot from a different angle, to put a new spin on the events of the game that the player was unlikely to have considered, than it might be worthwile...
Anyway, that's all just IMHO, and most of you seem to disagree, so it's entirely up to you what you do with your game.

So you're into skulls licking cock then, Esper? Twisted mofo

You act like you're only just now realising this.

trying to win with nudity is weak

Unless it's x-ray nudity, it which case whoever is using it should win every cometition ever!