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Sounds like whatever you're working on will make a very interesting game. I'm looking forward to.... ummm... whatever it is.... (sorry I can't help, but consider this moral support).

Look at him in the picture in question, and get a pic of Dom from LOTR...

Stewie is definitely the complete and utter shite. However, I am kind of depressed about the fact that the God of All Cartoon Characters exists within such an utterly deplorable show. I might be a bit old fashioned, but I find jokes that degrade women and excessive sexual innuendos to be tiresome and immature (yes, I am a heterosexual male). I find Peter to be a fat idiot, like Farlander's concept of Homer, and pray daily for his immediate evisceration. Chris ::shudders:: let's not even discuss Chris. Seth Green should be ashamed that he can portray utter stupidity and... well, fatness isn't a personality trait, but... fatness... with such skill. Meg is okay, and Lois is okay. I want Quagmire to suffer a horrible death, although in the rare instance when he's not being a horndog he can pop out the occassional funny line. Joe is cool, and I love Stewie's perception of him as a cyborg ("tell me, how did you come across this wonderful machine?"). That black guy who's name I can't immediately remember is probably the third funniest character, even though he's as dry as Ben Stein (who is also, IMHO, quite humorous). Second only to Stewie is Brian. Spell "DOG" backwards and realize his true glory.

OK... in that scrabble game, who is the guy that looks like Dominic Monaghan (Merry from LOTR) in the middle? Forgive my squirrely ignorance, but I'm new in town...

I agree with Farlander, although it shouldn't have been cancelled after five seasons: Some of the older shows suck, especially before they changed the animation style and perfected Homer's voice. All in all, it only had five good seasons, but they were scattered around the however-many-season reign of the show, so it was a necessary evil.

BTW: Doctor Who has been going since 1954, I think, with only a decade or so break........

And how can you not like Mr. Burns: "Release the hounds!"

[The Best of Stewie!]

Heh. I have heard a billion Simpsons lines that are glory in the highest, but I can't remember any right now. So therefore, I give to you:

The Best of Stewie!

Waitress: Here you go, fella. From Flappy himself.
Stewie: I don't care if they...
[Stewie is force-fed a bite of pancakes]
Stewie: Oh... oh these are delectable. Hey, Flappy. Good news. I've decided not to kill you.

[watching a baseball game]
Why does that man drop his club before he runs? I would bring it with me.

Soooo Broccoli, mother says you're very good for me. But I'm afraid I'm no good for you.

Stewie: Cut my eggs.
Butler: [cuts eggs] Your eggs are cut sir.
Stewie: Cut my milk!
Butler: I can't sir, it's liquid.
Stewie: Imbecile! Freeze it, then cut it, and if you question me again I'll put you on diaper detail and I promise I won't make it easy for you.

Damn you vile woman, you've impeded my work since the day I escaped your wretched womb.

No sprinkles. For every sprinkle I find, I shall kill you.

You. Fetch me my copy of the Wall Street Journal. You two, fight to the death.

Come any closer and I'll cut her. [realizes he's holding a tongue depresser]
Alright, I'll give her a series of splinters... that could become infected.

Am I to spend the entire day wallowing around in my own feces? A little service here.

Let me guess, you picked out yet another colorful box with a crank that I'm expected to turn and turn until OOP! big shock, a jack pops out and you laugh and the kids laugh and the dog laughs and I die a little inside.

There's always been a lot of tension between Lois and me, and it's not so much that I want to kill her, it's just, I want her not to be alive anymore.

Bill Cosby: Stewie, what do you think candy is made out of?
Stewie: Sunshine and farts! What the hell kind of question is that?! I was under the impression the name of the show was "Kids Say the Darndest Things," not "Old Black Comedians Never Shut the Hell Up."

Lois: Stewie why don't you play in the other room?
Stewie: Why don't you burn in hell?

Oh my God... It has finally happened, he has become so massive that he collapsed into himself like a neutron star

I say, Rupert, this paste is quite delicious. It's almost worth the bowel obstruction!!!

Stewie: Well, Well mother we meet again.
Lois: Stewie I thought I tucked you in an hour ago.
Stewie: Not tightly enough it would seem, and now you contemptible harpy, I shall end your oppressive reign of matriarchal tyranny!

And, of course:

VICTORY IS MINE!

Actually, I said I would post in 24 hours, and that was only two hours ago... But I'm glad someone else wants to get this thing moving, so go ahead. I wanna sit back and see what's happening. I am a bit confused so far...

How do you post it? I had some good ones.... ::HINT: try something that Michael Bolton from Office Space says::

In case my handwriting (mousewriting?) is too bad, the eyepatch coyote is saying "Look out for Charlies in the trees," and the Charlie clam in the tree has a little ::klik:: next to the barrel of his mad evil 50-cal sniper rifle. I sure wish I would remember to bring my tablet to work one of these nights.

NEXT: Flying Buttresses

Because no one has posted for so long (I think it's because this is kind of hard to follow ) I will hold my place in line for the next frame.... But it might take me longer than twelve hours (it'll be twenty-four, actually, since I'm at work and didn't bring my tablet, and I don't have internet at home).

Here's the significance of the pentagram in the church. If you read the pastor's journal and the printout it makes it a little clearer, but it isn't necessary to conclude the game. HIGHLIGHT BELOW FOR A PHILOSOPHICAL DISCUSSION ABOUT WHY THERE IS A PENTAGRAM IN THE OFFICE

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I was trying to "wax philosophical." The belief in the supernatural kind of corresponds to a belief in the soul. If you believe in the soul, then what would a clone have? No soul, right? Because man cannot "create" a soul, that would leave the Noman Island clones without one. One belief about demon possession is that it takes place when a demon is able to overtake the soul. With no soul, a body would be useless, without a personality, like the pastor in the office (he's a clone too, but I guess the religious leaning of the original made it nonhabitable by the demons that took the rest of the clones on the island)... Until a demon came along and took full possession of the body. We are postulating that, because of the horrible events on Noman Island, the full power of evil is there, and when Frederick Stiles came to Noman and took Virginia Vallaincourt away, the demon's hold on the body became weaker. THus, in order to stop it, he tried to kill Stiles, but being far enough from Noman to weaken the demon, Stiles was able to overcome it. The significance of all this meaning the significance of the pentagram in the office, and the High pentagram with the triangle of the magus above it in the hotel room, is that the island was invaded by demons rather than just your garden-variety "zombie."

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I'm glad to see you guys still playing the game! By the way, here are the possible endings:

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1) Die from loss of blood by not bandaging your wound in the inn.

2) Jimmy kills you if you don't shoot him quick enough.

3) Lucy follows you on board and kills you.

4) If you have found Lucy's dossier but not Jimmy's, you kill yourself from grief.

5) If you found Jimmy's dossier but not Lucy's, you pack it up and go home, having failed in your mission.

6) If you blew up the island but didn't find Jimmy's dossier, you kill yourself and, in the animated version, the island blows up behind you.

7) If you blew up the island and found Jimmy's file, you escape and have succeeded. This is the best ending, but Frederick Stiles is dead.

8 ) If you found the lab but didn't blow up the island, the inhabitants of the island come on board your boat and kill you for knowing too much.

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Does that make more sense in a different language?

It isn't. They make mucho money off that from the advertisements of the different companies. There are even sites that give away free laptops, but even the 900 dollar or so laptop doesn't hold a candle to the money they make from all the companies that pay to have them link to them.

This game looks really awesome. Really... Really. Although, Solomon's temple wasn't lost, it was destroyed by Babylon in 539 BC under the command of Nebuchadnezzar when he trashed Jerusalem. Herod later rebuilt the temple, but used the wrong materials (from what I understand, it was solid gold) later on.

And as for the Last Crusade... It isn't really talking about the Last of anything regarding the story itself. It wasn't the last Indiana Jones story. As a matter of fact, it was the first, even though it was made third. The Last refers to the Crusades, the war to conquer the Holy Land. One "side quest" (in game terms) of the Crusades was the search for the Holy Grail, which is why the story is called the "Last Crusade..." It was the very last time the Crusades would be fought, this time with Indy against the Nazis rather than the Anglos versus the Muslims... Therefore, even if this game was the sequel to Last Crusade, it would still be correct in calling itself such.

   The graphics on this game are great, and the picture of the Golden Candlestick looks like it will make a great puzzle. I can't download it right now, since I am on my work computer, but as soon as I can, I'm going to.

no... I come from a Portuguese-American family (that's something you can't say in public, around here anyway: PORTUGI!) and I was always of the understanding that spelling APPLE in English: A - P - P - L - E, sounded like the words in Portuguese for "I Pee Pee over there..."

You know what I don't understand... Things like "Oh" and "Ah" aren't really words... They're monosyllabic gutteral intonations. However, you say them differently in other languages. That's like having a word in another language for the sound you make when you laugh... (I can just imagine those African tribes that click when they talk laughing and clicking away....)

Hey, while I have your attention, Rui.... There are some words that I don't know in Portuguese that I heard all the time as a kid. I don't know how to spell them, so this is as close a phonetic approximation as I can get:

   ma-MOW, used towards people who aggravate you, and EE-coo-DEESH, used when you're mad at something...

Broderbund was cool.... Mmmmmmmm, Karateka.....

@ Helm: That was cool. I instantly like you a hundred and seventy three point nine percent more now (don't ask why I didn't just use numbers and decimals... I'm not sure myself). Seriously didn't mean to go into defense mode. I never thought you hated black people (I don't hate black people at all... I think everyone should own at least two!) and I wasn't serious when I said I hated everyone... Although I do hate "people" mentality... I secretly have a crush on every girl in the AGS forums (girl gamers are so hot...) and can't afford to be made fun of in front of them... all...

As for the nickname... Sorry. It's not my fault Square stole the name ESPER (it seriously has been around longer than Final Fantasy 3), but I do like your name. I own two helms, one Roman and one German gothic, and refer to my computer (in a geeky Star-Trek sort of way) as the Helm... so I will probably not be too good at the comebacks...

Hey, speaking of Portuguese... Doesn't it mean something mildly inappropriate if you spell "APPLE" in English?

I'm not sure what's going on anymore. I am far from hating everybody, I only said it because Helm had said the whole "I hate black people" thing, which understandably had to do with the topic and not his actual feelings (and if it is his actual feelings, who really cares? Everyone is entitled to their opinion, just don't blame me when the Black Panthers drag you around town on a chain hooked up to a crappy 1976 Ford truck). In response, I was mocked incessantly, which I don't really care about except that it aggravates me that people try to use others by belittling them to make themselves look good. If that line was a joke, I'm sorry I got offended, but you must admit it is rather, as Farlander put it in his defense of Helm, "aggressive." Aggressive is not good, especially in a community. Now, I don't know the guy, and I'm sure if I met him we would both totally be unlike each other's ascience (non-knowledge... I think I made that word up just now, which is why it warranted the definition, but it very well may be real) of each other and get along quite well. If I ever go to a Mittens, remind me not to say that I'm Esper    Anyway, regardless of all that, I really could care less. We've wound up dragging what was previously quite a fun thread all to hell and back with this semiinfantile asininity. Let's give it a rest.

Driver is cool, but I'm looking forward to Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth. For those of you who don't know, it's a first person adventure/shooter set in the 1920's in which you are investigating a town called Innsmouth. Innsmouth turns out to be full of people who are part of a cult to Dagon, the fish-headed god of Sumeria who, for some reason, wears the exact same hat as the pope (hmmmm....). It is based on the Cthulhu Mythos, which, for those of you who don't know, is a group of stories originally written by H.P. Lovecraft and added to by such men as August Derleth. Cthulhu is an otherworldly demon/alien of such horrible magnitude that, were he not to kill you on site as he is propably most likely to do, you would suffer intense mental breakdown just by looking at him...
Ã,  Ã, And that is where the game gets cool/intense. It is billed as a FPS, but the truth is, most of the enemies you will encounter can NOT be killed by your guns... or anything you decide to throw at them for that matter. Running into combat, guns blazing, against an entity that has been around longer than the world itself is never a good idea. Thus, your best strategy is to RUN LIKE HELL! If you don't there are some seriously cool but terrible things that can happen to you. Your character, for one, will start to go insane. He will have hallucinations, see things and hear things, imagine that innocent townsfolk are really monsters.... Evil faces will appear to him out of nowhere, his vision will be blurred, he won't be able to see properly to reload his weapon or shoot... They aren't saying much more, since this is a revolutionary new concept, but I did read one thing that makes it seem wicked cool to me.
Ã,  Ã, The game reviewer had been in a firefight and gotten shot up a little bit. He was limping around because he'd been shot in the leg, and some horrific creature had bitten his left arm so it was taking him longer to reload with only one hand available. To make matters worse, he had encountered some huge, black, shambling mass on a rooftop and had fallen off, further hurting himself. As he was walking slowly away, trying to escape, he decided to open the door into a butcher shop. The creature he saw on the other side was an unspeakable horror, a pulsating ooze of long-decomposed human bodies and black sludge. Unable to control his character, the reviewer watched with mixed terror and delight as he turned his gun on himself.

Ã,  Ã, I think it should be fun and creepy. To learn more about it, go to www.callofcthulhu.com. It's made by Bethesda, the same folks who brought you The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind and the upcoming Elder Scrolls:Oblivion for XBox 360.