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My latest fond memory is actually not more than four years old. I had passed my final exams and had a lot of spare time which I spent sleeping, taking walks, preparing meals, watching TV and playing games. I had bought a game called Dark Souls, which I had heard nothing about back then. I popped it in, not knowing what to exspect, got killed a few times, progressed very slowly, got killed yet some more times, and before I realized it, hours and hours of me playing Dark Souls had gone by, me lying on my couch, controller in hand, forgetting time and experiencing a world which invited me to explore it more so than any other game in the last years. A masterpiece.

And for my childhood: Playing Zak McKracken or Monkey Island 2 with my sister.

Strange Days?

That's it.

Amayirot is on the right track, but it's not a direct adaptation of his work.

Maybe a glimpse on the cast might help?

It is an American movie which draws its plot from motifs of several well-known short stories. The two pictures I posted refer to two of these stories (and a third one would most likely give it away).

No.

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Well, there's a spider, so: Kingdom of the Spiders?

EDIT: No, wait. Is it the gas station scene from Duel? Wasn't there a spider farm or something like that?

Especially in games where fights start randomly on a map, I hate going back to earlier stages of the game where I get interrupted all the time, but not being challenged or rewarded by the fights anymore. On the other hand, I don't like enemies scaling in power with you, because that, for me, defeats the purpose of leveling up in the first place (why would you level up if you do not experience yourself getting stronger? Just to see higher numbers in the attack animation?).

I really liked the approach EarthBound or Ni No Kuni chose. In EarthBound, when you'd encounter enemies that were far too weak in comparison, the game would just skip over the fight as it figured you'd win it anyway. In Ni No Kuni, fights didn't start randomly; the enemies walked around the map and engaged you, so that if you were fast enough, you could avoid the fight, but in the beginning, the enemies were always faster. As you progressed and had a high level in comparison, the enemies ran away from you. So you didn't have to engage a low-level fight anymore unless you wanted to, in which case you just tried to catch the enemy, thus starting the fight. I found that to be an enjoyable system.

11:14?

Yes.

No.

That movie left me clueless about what to think of it. It was just weird.

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The second screen rings a bell ...
Is it David Cronenberg's Crash?

Yes.

No.

No. Wrong country, both of you.

Dang, I've seen this before. Dream?

No.

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