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Yeah. To be honest, I'd still be up for a 2nd referendum even if it did mean risking another leave win. At least this time we'd know that enough people still want it even after everything that's gone on in the past few years and perhaps it'd be time to accept Brexit. But until that day I would like to see the whole matter dropped and everything reverted back to pre-ref times.

Nice theme.

What are the current rules on pre-existing resources? Any? Trove only? Templates and sound effects only? None?

Whatever you can get your hands on, frankly. 

I saw PJ Harvey live in 2001 at the Reading Festival . I was only aware of one song of hers at the time but after seeing her at Reading, I got quite into her. I haven't really followed her in recent years, though. I will rectify that.

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Whenever I open this thread I don't happen to be listening to anything (which is why I rarely post) but in the last few days I've been looping one track loads. Those Anarcho Punks are Mysterious by Against Me! Man, this is a good song.

@fernewelten - I like that analysis. None of those 3 options can get a 50%+ majority, so no matter what they do, a significant majority will be upset.

Except, I don't think that's the case any more. I really think if we had another binary leave-remain referendum, the remain camp would come out on top this time, providing a 50%+ majority over leavers (hard and soft).

I do wonder though, if we had a three-way hard-soft-remain referendum, what the result would be? Remain would probably not win such a vote, certainly not by 50%+.  It would be a perfect illustration of the stalemate you describe above.

As I said in my first reply, the whole referendum should never have gone ahead. It is the single most ill-thought-out political decision in my lifetime (domestically anyway).

Nice work. You really captured that Lucas style while keeping it recognizably Gabriel Knight. Bravo. Are you gonna do more of these?

I started work on my game yesterday but today got some emergency news and have to fly back to Australia for probably some time.

Sorry, I'm out.

Don't be sorry, dude. Take care.

I advised NuggetSeb that broader themes tend to get more entries, and this is nice, juicy open theme so don't let him down.   

Wow this thread used to be hard to keep up with.

Happy birthday LimpingFish

I never really got the Will Ferrel thing. I missed that boat. I mean I saw Anchorman and a couple others but they never struck me as being as funny as people made out. I think people mistake quotable for funny.

I have the same thing with most of Judd Apatow's output. I haven't really watch any of them but my friends would all sit there quoting lines from Knocked Up or something and it didn't make me want to watch it. I'm not saying Knocked Up isn't a great film. But I just haven't felt compelled to watch it yet, just so that I can join in with quote sessions.

I think it's like Adam Sandler's “downfall”. People say his films got shit. Looking back I think they were always a bit shit (with a few exceptions). My mum knew they were shit. She would say “why are you watching this shit?” as I cracked up at the next “You can do iiit!” which was somehow funny at the time.

What I'm saying is I think I just realised I don't much like American Comedy films...

huh...

Oh Jeez. I didn't even know that film existed until a week or so ago. Just from the poster alone I knew I was never going to watch it.

I hope every Brit who's posted here fearing Brexit gets the hardest possible Brexit.

Why though?

What I fear about Brexit, as a Brit living overseas, is the sheer uncertainty. Nobody knows exactly how things are going to go down. That's why making a deal seems so important from where I'm sitting. I have no idea how Britain's leaving with no deal would affect my family back home, who are already all on low incomes.

Maybe nothing bad will come of it in the end and we'll all look back wondering what we were so scared of. Maybe all the doom and gloom is just ‘project fear', But we just don't know that until it happens. And I'd just rather it didn't happen.

But since this thread is about brexit, remember when Johnson was asked whether he had any hobbies and started talking really weirdly about crafting toy buses from wine crates? Some people suspect he did this to influence the search results when people google "johnson bus".
Anyway, it's a pretty good video.

It's damn sight clever, though. As an idea, that is, obviously it didn't work in the slightest, and if that was the plan then Boris or his team must have deeply misunderstood how online search engines work.
It's a similar kind of misdirected smarts as the whole "behave like a bumbling fool, pretending not to know you're about to give a speech when you are" -shtick he's been using over and over.
He may look like the village idiot, but there is some cunning to the man.

I hadn't heard about this but it makes absolute sense.
At the end of July, a bus for the Brexit Party was spotted having apparently broken down and been ditched.

While everyone was joking and mocking Nigel Farage I made the following observation.

It was, to me anyway, a clear attempt to manipulate the Google search results for the words 'brexit' and 'bus'. Well done, it worked for about a day.

What Khris posted above proves I wasn't being paranoid.

I think it looks beautiful. Though the BttF influences are very on the nose for a commercial release.

Also I agree with The Last to Know. You're going to have to make the speech font more readable. Try spacing the letters more and making the black outlines thinner (and/or just increase the font size a touch).

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Deadline September 30th


Create a game that has magic somehow take place in the form of however you see fit. Most anything goes so long as it can be considered magical!





What is MAGS?

Started in 2001, MAGS is a competition for amateur adventure game makers. The idea is to create a game in under a month, following the rules set by the previous winner. It aims to help you work to a deadline, improve your skills, and provide a kick-start into making adventure games. Regardless of skill, MAGS is for everyone. Voting is based on "favourite" games, and not the most artistic, or the best coded. If you have bad art skills, use it as a chance to do some graphic work. If you're sub-standard at coding, use it as a chance to give scripting a go. Ultimately, people will vote for the most enjoyable entry.

Rules

Entering MAGS is simple. First, conceptualise your game following the month's criteria (see above). Second, create your game fuelled only by coffee. Finally, post your game in this thread, including:

* A working download link
* The title of your game
* A suitable in-game screenshot

At the end of the month, voting will begin, usually lasting for fourteen days and the winner chooses the next month's theme.

Just in case anyone thinks I'm an idiot for calling the EU Europe, well I am an idiot but not for that reason. “Europe” is often used to mean “The European Union”.

I just can't get my tiny little head around the fact that the referendum was held in the first place, or at the very least it should have been made plainly clear in massive text on the polling card itself and on signs in the polling station that “THIS REFERENDUM IS ADVISORY ONLY AND IF YOU EVER SAY “WE WON” AFTER THIS DAY YOU ARE A MASSIVE BELL-END”

To add something relevant to the first post, I'm actually not completely opposed to the idea of pulling away from the EU, if that's what enough people want. Personally, I wanted The UK to remain in Europe, but if a good deal can be reached where we keep some trading ties and an element of free movement and it's all done amicably by grown-ups, without shitting all over the Good Friday Agreement, then I'm open to seeing how it might go.

But pulling out without a deal seems like nothing anyone would want. I can't fathom why so many people do actually seem to want a no deal Brexit. I mean what are their arguments?

Cassie, would you and your team like to come up with a back-up theme, as you guys came in 2nd. So if we don't hear from Nugget by the end of the month, we'll still have a topic for September.

Has anyone heard from NuggetSeb. He hasn't been on for a few days and I need his topic details for next month.

Yeah, that was impressive. Well done chaps. Nice riddle, man.