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And he exploded from being mentioned in another stupid game like this.  The end.

Ever since I was 5 or 6 I've wanted to be a chemist.

I am now about half done my chemistry degree.  Horray for me.

That sucks.

I'm looking for an artist and a digital composer to help me with my Hamlet project.  There are only 10 backgrounds, maybe 12, needed, but a few walking views and incidental animations of the various characters will be needed.  For music, I'd like someone who can compose to mood and for the proper timing of the scenes.  I'd like this to be a fairly fast moving project, please PM me with responses, contact me on IRC with Roger or email me at unilin@agagames.com

Problem's have been fixed.  Let all enjoy.

[Edit:]

Yes, the world's most popular, enduring and frequently produced play has finally broken into a new format.  The horrbily overlong AGS cutscene.  All thanks to a flippant comment by Commatoes, I have begun the arduous process of scripting the entrity of the play into AGS.  Thus far, I've finished Act 1.

Behold my progress thus far:





and download the zip file for the first act here

And of course you should know that I'm quite willing to accept the help of those willing to see the Bard's works treated with a little more dignity (that being, art, music, animations but not voices, as I'm not dealing with that yet).  Also, I have a playable version in the works as well, for those of you who might be adverse to the idea of a giant cutscene which is basically just me taking credit for someone else's creativity.

Edit: I've put it all into the latest version of AGS, and this seems to have corrected the problems people are having with it.  New version is available for download at the above link.

Somewhere northerly is better for me, not only because it's closer but because I am intollerant of heat.  Upstate New York sounds good.

And for my contribution to the madness: Another onion

You seem to be forgetting that capitalism is evil and that this is a socialist community.

I've played it at the gaming club I go to.  I almost won, too, by killing 25 zombies no less.  But then I died, and no one was reaching the helepad anytime soon, so we called it a draw.

A pustule upon the Earth,
His very presence saps my mirth,
Makes me reconsider the planet's worth,
That allowed him to be born.

And I find that I can not forgive,
A society that would let him live.
Let my wrath be your motive,
To have his heart from him be torn.

I promice you shall not miss the swine,
Who's presence was always quite malign,
From now on life will be devine,
Thus my oath is sworn.

Filled with spite,
And lacking might,
To back his words with action.
He'll give a slight,
And then take flight,
To wallow in satisfaction.

For by his parents he was bestowed,
All the morals of a toad.
Society he will corrode,
With surgical exaction.

Hmm, almost forgot about this.  Thanks to Scid for reminding me.

Now, then.  Multiculturalism in any society is a decidedly good thing.  Different cultures have different viewpoints on many subjects and having a variety of different viewpoints is a key element in effective self regulation.  The problems that one set of eyes might miss, another will spot easily.  Were one group alone to be involved in all law and policy making, then it would be unable to reliably police itself.  Bad laws would be made much more often and possibly not go corrected until the results became serious.

What's more, diversity is the fuel of development.  Were everyone to conform to a single culture, then there would be fewer sources for ideas, invention and inspiration.  Conformity serves only to bring stagnation to the scientific and artistic communities alike.  It is the influx of the new clashing against the old that drives people to create new things and develop exciting, groundbreaking theories.

Multiculturalism also teaches acceptance and tollerance.  The main reason for racism is fear of what people do not know or understand.  They grew up among their own people with their own traditions, never experianceing or even seeing the outside world.  Eventually they are bound to encounter something from another culture, and it may be so radically different from what they are used to that they fear it.  If they are then forced to live with this on a constant basis with no education as to why they do not need to fear it, the fear will build.  Eventually, out of instinctual self preservation (despite the fat that they're not actually in any danger) they will attack the source of that fear.  This can be expressed as anything from not speaking to the person (people) to beating them half to death.

By embracing a more multicultural society, they will be exposed to the various cultures more often from an earlier age and so will learn to tollerate one another more readily, resulting in a substantial drop off in hatred and racial violence.

There is a biological imperitive to multiculturalism as well.  Different groups will have different sets of antibodies and natural resistances.  The more diverse a society, the more variations in the biology and the more chances there are that certain individuals will prove immune or resistant to any great plague or other natural disaster.  A multicultural society will be more likey to survive any given holocaust than one in which all the members are alike.

Now, Rabbit, please don't take this the wrong way.  And by the "wrong way" I mean the way which is not the most offensive and insulting, because that would, in point of fact, be the right way.

Nobody likes, cares about or respects you so please, take the hint, shut up and leave.  Your smug, superior attitude is not hilarious, or even endearing.  It is annoying.  This is compounded by the fact that you are an idiot, and not the happy go lucky sort of idiot that everyone tolerates because they're good for a laugh, but rather, the sort of idiot that makes everyone grit their teeth until eventually they can't take it anymore and toss him into a meat grinder.  You are crass, insulting and offensive but have none of the wit or charm to make those things tollerable.

Once more, I'll reitterate, shut up and go away.

Crickets chirp softly,
A wolf howls in the distance,
The dusk's mist smells sweet.

Green toads chirp softly
Water drops fly when they leap
Golden light lingers

Swiming in despair,
Despondency overwealms,
The soul only sighs.

and;

Light kisses the land
Dewdrops gather on petals
Dawn arrives once more.

Well, I suppose I'm almost exactly like Piraty Pete, there, except instead of throwing rocks at people, I eat their planets.  And instead of an American chcik, I'm a space faring robot.  But other than that, right down to the stutter when I forget to pace my speech and the similies/metaphores which fly out of my mouth of their own volition.  Such as "It's like having a rickity, wooden carnival in your own room."

Death has been bested,
Raised Uppe from essential salts.
Can ye put it Downe?

Dark, howling madness
Hunger without direction
Azathoth rules all.