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Is that laptop suddenly powered up again?

NO, my folders just weren't organized enough...

[> Take one coat hanger and untwist the neck to make a long hooked line. Do this again with the second coathanger, but store this one for later use.]

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> Take one coat hanger and untwist the neck to make a long hooked line.  Do this again with the second coathanger, but store this one for later use.

It is done!



> Examine the location of the bolt (which holds the locker shut normally when turned down) on the inside of the OPEN locker to get an idea of where it is located.

You examine the bold on the door of the already-opened locker. Inside the door, opposite of the dial, is a black metal box apparently welded to the door. A metal pin slightly protrudes from the box and you spy a corresponding hole in the metal frame of the locker itself.

You're quite sure you had more ideas but they somehow feel like futile attempts right now. Instead you prod the slits on the locker with the hook, but can't feel anything of interest inside.

[He Watches (DEMO)]

For thine consideration,  m'Lords and m'Ladies, I have produced three candidates during the past year:

1. He Watches (DEMO)
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=1477

A short playable demo showcasing the story, visuals and the atmosphere of the upcoming He Watches. The game is to be a combination of classical ghost stories and horror themes and more modern gameplay mechanics and internet horror (labelled "creepypasta").

Potential nominations:
- Best Demo
- Best Music

     



2. Submerged - LaSol
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=1404

The game that managed to win the MAGS competition of February 2011: Submerged - LaSol. An underwater adventure in which you must help Stan Winston, an unlucky janitor, to escape certain watery death.

Potential nominations:
- Best Short game
- Best Voice Acting ()
- Best Programming (how do we decide this one? Released source is reviewed?)
- Best Innovation
- Best Sound Effects
- Best Puzzles
- Best Music

     



3. Of the Essence
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=1426

Of the Essence was a technical experiment into a more direct and more action-oriented gameplay and was created for the MAGS competition in April 2011. While the deadline of the competition caused the game to get cut short of content, the game itself is still a working example of gameplay and tech. Besides: this game comes with achievements! See if you can get all of them!

Potential nominations:
- Best Innovation
- Best Music

     

...it involves a femCabadath without the mask...

I have the weirdest boner right now...

[> Return to the dormitory room and search the beds and locker. (Note to self: DO NOT open the bathroom door.)]

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> Return to the dormitory room and search the beds and locker. (Note to self: DO NOT open the bathroom door.)

You leave the poor man to his own wits and head back to Mr. Newell's apartment. You check the lockers, which seem unchanged since you left. They have metal doors with small rotating combination locks on them, with numbers from 0 to 50. The left locker door open. You spot a pair of shoes similiar to the ones you are wearing, although they seem to be of smaller size than yours. Other than that, there are only two bare metal coat hangers. The right door is closed and locked.

You examine the beds too, while you are at it, but they are rather bare. A simple mattress with a sheet, a green blanket and a thin pillow. You move the pillows in case there is any smut hidden underneath, but unfortunately there is none.

You come close to opening the bathroom door, but remind yourself of the potentially devastating consequences of such action and manage to restrain your hand at the very last minute. That was a close call!

'Tis sad to behold a thread quite so droll
The OP stands most certainly a Troll

A bad game in the planning?
Poor Darth's heart will break

"Please, please don't do it,
instead come, have some cake!"

EDIT: Tried reading this aloud and now my ears are bleeding. I can't rhyme!
EDIT 2: Modified to at least rhyme a little better

You could also do what the japanese (and others) are doing in cartoons, comics and movies.
If you cannot get the rights for the correct item, modify it very slightly. Examples: Television sets that have their logo written out as "PONY" or "PHONY" using the Sony logo font. 

Instead of "spitfire" you could just use "spitfury" and be done with it. Peace of mind and identifiable references to those viewers/players who would get the reference anyway.

Can you help me pick a good webcam for small video projects? I'm looking for one that can do at least 720p at 30 frames per second and most importantly has a good quality microphone that can pick up voice at over 2 meters. That is, one with a microphone that doesn't require me to lean into it all the time...


Hmmm... I keep asking but haven't really helped anyone. Let's try at least...


@Bici: I fear laptops meeting those requirements came and went. The Asus eeePc series had some fairly cheap ones that met your requirements, but the ones that came with Linux preinstalled (and would thus count as "linux friendly") went out of production about a year ago as far as I know. The biggest issues and uncertainty is whether or not you will find one that has a working 3G card that has proper support for linux drivers.

All I can suggest is you find laptops that meet your requirements and then dig around to see if you can find out what 3G card / chip they use (manufacturer website often has this info stashed away somewhere) and then try to find out how well it supports Linux drivers. If support exists, you're pretty much in the clear.

All in all, I can only recommend working with Windows OS when it comes to laptops, due to the wide ranging driver issues revolving around laptop hardware.

[> say: "But I will have to come in as the elevator is the only way out of here to escape from drowning, so if you want to survive you better be peaceful and work with me to finally get out of here."]

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> say: "But I will have to come in as the elevator is the only way out of here to escape from drowning, so if you want to survive you better be peaceful and work with me to finally get out of here."

There is no response from withing the elevator. You can hear some sort of rattling noise and the occasional bang on the elevator door, as if the man was warning you to not try opening the door.

> secretly hope that he is inspired by this and finds a way out we can use too afterwards

You hope very hard. Perhaps you should also try the Care Bear -chant while you're at it?
Your hoping has no effect that you can observe.

[> Say "Sorry. Shouldn't have said that. I don't know what came over me. I've been under a lot of stress tonight... How are you holding up, buddy? Would you like a Hot Pocket? I know where there's a bunch of them."]

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> Say "Sorry. Shouldn't have said that. I don't know what came over me. I've been under a lot of stress tonight... How are you holding up, buddy? Would you like a Hot Pocket? I know where there's a bunch of them."

You try to reconcile your earlier outburst with some smooth talking. In response the man inside the elevator gives you a hearty "Fuck you!".
You can hear metallic banging noise from inside the elevator. After a few seconds the noise stops abruptly.

Man: "Hot-fucking-pockets? You've been into the freezer?"

There is another short pause.

Man: "Now I KNOW you're not one of us, so keep out or God help me I will kill you, understand? Go! Get back to your OC friends and leave us to drown already!"

[> Respond to man "If I did have a gun, I'd shoot you through the elevator doors, you annoying bastard!"]

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> Respond to man "If I did have a gun, I'd shoot you through the elevator doors, you annoying bastard!"

There is no response from the man, but he appears to slide the elevator door to a complete close, possibly believing the metal door is sturdy enough to stop a bullet.

[> Rap gently on elevator doors. Say "I'm serious, friend. I really don't have a gun. I wish I did because there are crazy people running around who do have guns. Now come on, buddy. Come out of there. We need each other if we're going to get away from those crazy guys. We don't want to end up like Gabe, right?"]

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> Rap gently on elevator doors. Say "I'm serious, friend. I really don't have a gun. I wish I did because there are crazy people running around who do have guns. Now come on, buddy. Come out of there. We need each other if we're going to get away from those crazy guys. We don't want to end up like Gabe, right?"

There is a loud bang inside the elevator, as if the man just smashed something against the elevator door to scare you away.
Man: "Go away! I'm not talking to you!"

[private]

It means that if you're going to be new Julian Assange on your facebook wall or organize riots like middle-east did, your friendly neighborhood KGB-(whatever) goes to facebook, asks for your posts and tortures you in cellar based on them. It also asks for who your friends are, what did they private message you about your crazy ideas, and grabs them aswell.

Yeah, It's a good thing modern cell-phones and other means of communication than facebook are completely tampering-proofed and cannot be observed by any government related parties whatsoeve... Oh! Wait! I see what you did there!

What you seem to want is to change something that has always been. The difference is that instead of a manager in a printing company giving out your information to police because you had your "Anarchy everywhere" and "fuck the police" fliers printed there, you are now afraid that Facebook will do the same.

And what if you tried to organize an anti-EU riot in Worldbook that is funded by the EU? You don't think they might send your information forward to some police / secret service representatives so they can pay you a visit the next time you post on Worlbook how you are, right now, enjoying coffee at the local coffee shop? HA!

Compared to Facebook, Wikipedia is cheap to run. It mostly stores text, hyperlinks and the occasional picture or audio file, one or two per article on average and even these ofthen in poor quality JPEG's. Facebook stores dozens of images per average profile (hell, even I have over a 100 photos on facebook), tons of video and has to have the server capacity for constant bombardment of neverending updates, instant messaging service and more. The difference in scale and scope is immense!

Besides, even Wikipedia seems to be in trouble, what with the nevereding "personal appeals" for more donations to keep the service running. I see no way a service of such magnitude as Facebook could ever be run on donations and common effort alone, unless we limit users to one 800x600 picture per profile and impose other quite drastic limitations on the current concept of facebook. Do that and as a result you will, again, lose the purpose of the service, lose user base and functionality and cause a collapse.

But with what incentive? Where will the money come from? Global Facebook tax?

@InCreator : If not run by capitalists who make money off of it, who could run something as massive as Facebook? Thousands of servers, terabytes upon terabytes of stored data, designers, testers, janitors, all who get paid to help keep the site up and running, costs in the millions...

How can you de-commercialize something like that? Either the service has to have a price for it's use so it can fund itself, at which point the user base would decrease so far as to make the service worthless, or it can be as it is now: free to use, funded by ads and data distribution to third parties.

I think Facebook is a great free service and I see nothing wrong in it's creators, owners and investors trying to make a buck with it. They have every right!
And when it comes to the loudly discussed "facebook is stealing and selling all your information" -thing, keep in mind who put all that information there in the first place.

It should be very, very bad

Then don't bother with it and try to make something that's good, perhaps even very good, instead.

Whoo-hooo! It's about goddamn time!

[> Enter the break room carefully]

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> Enter the break room carefully

You carefully step through the doorway and into the break room.

[> Remove the bullets from the gun]

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> Remove the bullets from the gun

What a great plan! You can easily remove the bullets and fool the man into thinking you are cooperating! All you need to do is... Wait, what? Gun?

Who said you have a gun?

You check your holster and find it alarmingly empty. Your left pocket holds an extra ID CARD, a pair of BENT SCISSORS and a CONDOM. Your right pocket contains a broken ladder RUNG with pieces of your old PANTS strapped to it, and a HOT POCKET (a sort of a pocket withing a pocket, if you see what I mean) that feels alarmingly moist and warm in your pocket.

You should probably try to find a doctor. This lack of short-term memory is alarming!