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I'm on Vista.

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What?

Me too.  We are a rare breed aparently...

I'm gutted but I won't be able to make it.  Funds are tighter than I'd expected and it'd just not doable :'(
I will get a stay at home ticket though, and add something to the kitty. I should do that in the next hour, shouldn't I?

Men Who Stare at Mousetraps.

Oh yeah, They beat Jamie Oliver.  Way to go guys!

Yep
And you'll see my comment from 5 years ago saying how I intend to buy the film, haha.
Your turn ddq

PS, the clue 'Faraday' was a bit tenuous.  It referred to the fact that Jeremy Davies, who plays Daniel Faraday in Lost, is also in this film.

You should. It is a terrible film, though.   
I only bought it because someone made a video on youtube made of clips from this film and my favourite song from Vib Ribbon over the top of it.

Adventures In Primary Colors?

Erotic Tales of the Crayola Gang?

Days of Satin?

Nope, but not too far away.

You may recognise the woman in the picture as Tilda Swanton.

Nope, nope, nope.
I probably won't have time tomorrow to put another pic, so I'll do one now.



Also here's an extra hint: Faraday.

This screenshot doesn't really give anything away, but if you know the movie you might get it.  I'll put another up after a few guesses.

Can't wait to play this one

Rear Window!

Locking an item that is perfectly visible isn't my favourite solution to this problem.
Nor is having an item magically appear in a previously visited area once the player has been made aware that he needs it.
My solution is this:

8 ) Ensure that Person A has met and spoken to Person B before even coming across the item.

You could do this by ensuring that the item is beyond a room or area that has yet to be visited.  A boring example could be Person B says 'I need a rubber duck, here is a map to the rubber duck factory'.  This ensures that the player won't accidentally stumble upon a rubber duck factory before knowing what he needs a rubber duck for.

I'm fine with the player being able to pick up random stuff and using them in creative ways to solve puzzles on the way, but when it comes to fetching items for NPCs, I think it is best to make sure that the 'quest' is spelled out to the player before he has even had a chance to happen upon the requested item.

Morality is a communal/societal phenomenon.  What you say, Phemar, about morals being arbitrary and subjective is true, but I disagree that they come from within ourselves.  They come from the society around us, from our parents, teachers, friends, from history, religion, TV, books and so forth.  A psycho serial killer may think what he is doing is right, but he's a mentally disturbed anomaly.

Morality is arbitrary to the extent that some communities have slightly differing views on what's right and wrong.  Theres no reason that English people should have anything against, say, eating dog, other than the fact that we arbitrarily choose to keep them as pets rather than put them in the oven.  Also, some individuals within those communities have slightly differing views from his neighbours.

Everyone has a capacity for morality, just like everyone has a capacity for language, both of which separate us from the animal kingdom and both of which are equally arbitrary phenomena.  The sounds that come out of our mouths when we communicate depend enitrely on input from the community around us, of the same set of things I listed in the fist paragraph.  Language differs between people from different cultures (I say 'dinner', Japanese people say 'ban gohan', French people say 'le diner'), just as some things that might be considered immoral by most people in England are seen as a way of life in other cultures (stoning, cutting hands off as punishment for stealing, whaling, eating dog), and if those things are gradually being frowned upon even in their own cultures, that is because of increased globalization and the influence from 'The West', 'The UN', foreign protest, chaities intervening, etc... So in this sense, a universal set of morals is being enforced, to a certain degree.

Even within smaller communities, my friend says 'tea' instead of 'dinner' because his parents grew up in a different part of the country, so he had different influences to his langauge.  In the same way, my sense of morality undoubtedly differs from his.  I'm considerably more in favour of the death penalty than he is.  He's a vegetarian, I'm not.  He's strictly anti-animal testing, I'm for it on the condition that the animals are treated humanly.  These opinions are based solely on the external factors listed above, even if we use those external factors, and mull them around internally to generate our opinions.

Rats Krad? (written backwards)

[The Girl Who Played With Fire]

I also want to start reading Game of Thrones.  But at the moment I'm on The Girl Who Played With Fire, part II of Steig Larsson's Millennium trilogy.  Part one (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) was brilliant, but I'm not enjoying book II so much.  I'm about 5/6ths of the way through, nothing has really happened and there're far too many characters.

Takes me ages to read books though so don't expect much more input from me for a while on this thread.

The  Happy Legend of Caddy Vance Tin Shack Cup Gilmore?

Men Who Stare at Women's Chests?

Missed you guys, but I did seem to get a fair bit more uni work done this week than usual.
Maybe just a coincidence.

Also, I finally got around to starting Telltale's Sam and Max Season 1 which I bought yonks ago on steam.

What will become of my masterclass in stickdeath animation, stumoov.swf?
That's gotta be more than 10 years old now.  Kripes.