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Thank you for the help, I beat the game!

I'm stuck as well :/

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I'm stuck with the mine field (presumably). I figured I'd use the weight plates, but Cadence won't let me - she won't even let me replace the weight plate with the hubcap.

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I have a problem with Trilby's Notes. (The Apprentice -games work and so does 1213). The palette of the game looks weird and wrong. Any tips?

EDIT: Oh, sorry. Trilby's Notes was probably made with AGS 2.72.

how can you say that there are no companies out there creating adventures?

there are a ton.

Autumn Moon, Tell Tale, Adventure Company -> has a ton of individual companies.

He said "realy [sic] quality".

I must agree.

 

Me! Me!

It's called "Tulosvaroitus": http://wormsie.adventuredevelopers.com/tulosvaroitus2.mp3




...Don't ask.

It's interesting how in a situation like this the gay kids are the ones with enornmous amounts of patience... and hope... and understanding.

Ohhh let ME talk to your parents on the phone, let ME do it! I swear to god they'll love me! Oh god let ME do it! I love talking to parents!

Will you call my parents? I'd be weird enough to actually let you do it.

The gay penguin thing is awesome, because their relationship was supposed to be like that just because there weren't enough female penguins, but looks like they've become attached to each other. Awwww! There was a case where a gay penguin couple tried to get pregnant, but naturally couldn't. So the scientist gave them a few eggs, and they started looking after them.

Although I really do appreciate your support. It's kind of a mind-battle for me. I spent so long trying to 'talk myself out' of being gay that I learnt basically every argument against gays on the way, and as much as I hate it, I can refute nearly everything people say in support.

Eventually, I think, you just have to choose what you think is best for you. That's what everybody does, ultimately. Every right-wing Christian does that, too. That's the pain of existentialist angst - we don't have clear answers, only more and more questions. We just have to decide for ourselves. Now that I think about it, I quite love that freedom.

And as much as they will love me regardless of it, there is such a thing as good and bad timing.

For me, there is no good time for that - I'm just too freaked out. I usually tend to exploit a side route in a conversation and just ride the adrenaline rush...

Fun fact of the day: No gay person I know is feminine. Not surprising, since I'm in a university of technology...

Oh, I forgot. One of them is a lesbian, and she IS feminine.

Geoff: Yes, as ironic as it sounds, I've prayed very fervently about it. For about the last 3 or so years actually, every single day, probably twice or more a day. I prayed that God would take away this 'sin' from me, and well, quite frankly, after that long, I grew kind of sick of it.

If I could endure something so heinous to christianity for 3 years without succumbing to it, and God STILL does not get rid of it, then something's wrong. Okay, okay, I'm not trying to bag out Christianity here, or any religion or anything. I'm just kind of bitter for those 3 years that were, ultimately, in vain.

I used to do that, too, but only when I was much, MUCH younger - around... ten. Eventually I realised that I had the wrong idea of God and religion altogether... And then I read philosophy, and decided to become an atheist. I felt that I was finally free to think for myself.

However:

"The Christian Scriptures, in their original Greek do not contain any clear references to consensual homosexuality within a committed relationship, and certainly do not contain any unambiguous condemnation of gay and lesbian sexual activity. However, after having been filtered through the belief systems of the translators, many English versions of the Bible clearly condemn homosexual behavior. Now that the famous "anti-homosexual" passages of 1 Corinthians 6:9 and Romans 1:18 have been so long identified as being critical of homosexual activity, it would be impossible for Bible translators to offer alternative explanations; their Bible wouldn't sell." - see here

But that's just the liberal view. Of course, you might find the words of my good friend Kingzjester comforting: "I don't get what the big deal is with homosexuality. It is just like heterosexuality, only with more gay sex. Then again, if you choose to believe it, Lev. 20:13 did say, 'If a man lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death.' So, ok. Abomination and death for fags. It is still not that bad. Snowmen have lived with abomination for ages already, and as far as death goes, mortality has been running at 100% for an eternity, so it is not such a shitty hand of cards when you look at it, thou abominable Finnish queer."

Well, I suppose according to the bible I already AM damned, so I guess I'm free to give up anytime soon...

The bible issue in't that simple. The New Testament says NOTHING about gays, and that's the book Christians should believe in. Also, if you take the bible literally, eating shrimp is an abomination. It's in the same list as homosexuality. Eating shrimp is no longer considered an abomination, but homosexuality still is - see the hypocrisy? Besides, the writers of the Bible considered slavery, genocide, mass murder, and the oppression of women acceptable.

This page has more info: http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_bibl.htm A quote:

The New International Version (NIV) currently translates Leviticus 18:22 as:

    "Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable."

The New Living Translation (NLT) widens the translation to also include lesbians:

    "Do not practice homosexuality; it is a detestable sin.

Imagine what would happen if the translators decided to be accurate to the original Hebrew and render this verse as:

    "Two men must not engage in sexual activity on a woman's bed; it is ritually unclean."

This is what I think about coming out to your parents - your view might differ, but you might want to know that you can think this way too: I think that my personal life is NOT my parent's business. It's none of teir business with whom I go out with, live with and have sex with. You can think that way, too, especially if your parents are very homophobic. However, if they are "gay is OK, go for it!" type, the love and support they can give you regarding your relationships, for example, can be good. There's no NEED to come out, and if you feel guilty for not having come out... don't. It's none of their business.

But, most parents learn to accept their child's sexual orientation in time.

[Homosexuality as prelude to acceptance of other sexual deviations.]

"Homosexuality as prelude to acceptance of other sexual deviations. This claim is so vague and unfounded as to be in the category with: 'When did you stop beating your wife?' As far as I know, no official organization has seen fit to officially refute the claim, because it is absolutely baseless and ludicrous. It arises from the old belief that homosexual orientation was a perversion, which enlightened psychiatrists and psychoanalysts no longer believe. Nor did Sigmund Freud. He went to great lengths to differentiate 'inversion' (homosexual orientation) from 'perversion.' In contemporary terms, we differentiate homosexual orientation as encompassing healthy, warm, and enduring relationships with partners, just as in heterosexual individuals. A perversion is a specific type of behavior that tends to dehumanize its partners and to be focused only on a substitute for a mutual relationship." -  Ralph E. Roughton, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Emory University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Atlanta, Georgia

And congratulations for coming out. 

Didn't even have to really think to read that. It's that whole letter order thing, you know?

It was Chinese. You need to set up the Chinese font on your computer in order to see it.

And that will be SO much more helpful.

I tried very hard to feel offended, but couldn't.

I also tried to be amused, but was only mildly.

Bored of the Rings is better - but not much. (Did I get the name right...)

Not to mention in Curse of Monkey Island, the first time you try to pick up/use any trinklets, vases and other stuff that is made from procelaine (What in the world is porcelaine anyway apart from it's somekind of china?) and Guybrush says "Ahh! I hate porcelaine!! It's a long story, I tell you later.". He never tell us about it, not even in MI4 (which is a bit disappointing because I really want to know why porcelaine frightens Guybrush). Now there's some kind of history.

Believe it or not, the porcelain "joke" is a reference to MI1, where Guybrush uses a porcelain vase for something. It was in the governor's mansion I believe. The game developers said that they thought that this reference was obvious. (I read this from a mixnmojo interview. Or was it scummbar?)

Is all the publicity getting to you? How much good has it brought to you as opposed to unpleasant things? Do women find you more attractive?

Deadworm, somebody had to assume the role of the man in this relationship.

Naturally, since the only romantic relationships I feel comfortable with are gay ones.

Oh, and I might be an AGS user. I don't know yet. Someone would have to convert me.

But of course I love you Yufster. I especially admire your raw masculinity.

Wintermute supports 3d characters, yufster.

No it doesn't.

How do I know?

I use Wintermute.

WME will support 3D characters in the future, though. At the moment it uses 3D acceleration for faster alpha blending and such. But no actual 3D objects.