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But do they have secret society cinemas under them?

AGS is spyware!!11

T3R0RR1ST0RZ!!!!
Oh wait, you didn't mean me.
The first thing I thought of was the Last crusade at the entrance to the catacombs, with all the skulls. Only the second link made me think Broken Sword.

Well, yes, obviously.  The second link was the actual thing I was referring to, the first was just context.

Oh oh oh.  That guy.  I was thinking some Fark-esque site or something.

Have you ever noticed that in bookstores you have the genre shelves: "Mystery", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Science Fiction" - and then you have the rest of the stuff, "Fiction and literature". The underlying assumption is of course that genre fiction is cheap, it isn't art, it's for Barbare Cartland readers and sci-fi geeks who care only for their genres. To a certain degree this is true, A LOT of mystery, fantasy and romance books are written by hacks and churned out by the dozen. But great works of art have been written within those genres by people like Arthur C. Clarke, Roger Zelazny and Philip K. Dick. Yet somehow these genres are valued lower than the "real" "Fiction and literature". Same thing with movies - we have all the "dumb" genres, Comedy, Action, Horror, Sci-fi and then we have the "classy" genre, Drama. It always pisses me off, when I look at the shelves in a dvd-store and find Fight Club among the action movies instead of the dramas, and I think that pretty much describes the situation.

That might be part of it, but I suspect bookstores don't actually give a crap about putting down genre fiction.Ã,  It's a money/convenience issue.Ã,  By far and away, most sci-fi/fantasy fans read either exclusively sci-fi/fantasy or it's the vast majority.Ã,  It makes a lot more sense for bookstores to set sci-fi/fantasy apart because they know there's a substantial consumer base who will just go straight to that section.Ã,  It's easier for the genre fans and bookstores if the fans don't have to look through the enormous "fiction/literature" section to find what they want.Ã,  If suddenly everyone who reads books started reading tons of sci-fi as well and all the sci-fi fans suddenly branched out into other genres, I suspect some bookstores would start to combine the sections in some way, but that's pretty unlikely to ever happen.

And by the way, I don't need a million responses saying "I read all the genres, shut up!" because I know there are plenty of people who do.


EDIT: THAT SAID, I do agree with you in principle.  I really don't like how people have become such genre maniacs.  It drives me nuts.  I took a class on Dune last semester.  I'd never read the series before, and it was excellent.  However, it drove me crazy that I honestly couldn't find anyone else in the class with the slightest interest in anything other than sci-fi/fantasy.  They literally seemed to think their genre was the only one that counted (they were all very nice people though!).  Same goes for games.  The attitude of many of the forumers at Just Adventure+ (and a few at places like Adventure Gamers) is so elitist as to be infuriating.  It is in fact one of the primary reasons us Adventure Gamers/Mixnmojo guys decided to open up [ur=http://www.idlethumbs.net]Idle Thumbs[/url].  (Shameless plug time!)

Most of those answers are what I'd expect from some random rep, except this one...

Robin: Why did you shut down Sierra?

Representative: Sierra on-line is shut down? Thanks for the news! <chuckle>

Robin: Uh? Right!

Representative: Well, Sorry but I cant say

What?!Ã,  How could he not know that?Ã,  It's not like it was a secret or anything!Ã,  VU publically closed Sierra's offices months ago.

oops. i just understood this. they wouldnt need human dna would they. Even if they did take it and the enitre world died out, who would reanimate it? so we dont really need it. unless aliens can do it for us...

Well, presumably some people would have gotten off the planet (including scientists who know what they're doing).  At least, that's what I figured.

My guess this comes from Thrik? :p my friend copy and pasted from an irc channel with those links ._.

What's Thrik?

Read about this, then check this out.  Totally awesome.

here's mine....

Awesome!

How do you get to the icons past the edge though?

Do you have two monitors or something?

Bad ass.

No Diablo II icon?

*Cough...

http://www.idlethumbs.net/chris/desktop040906.jpg

In my defense, I rarely actually see my desktop or turn off my PC, so I forgot it was still set to that...

You can't connect two PCs directly with a network cable.Ã,  They need to go through a hub or a switch, otherwise it's not a network.Ã,  You can connect two PCs with a serial cable, I believe.Ã,  Failing that, do you have a CD burner on your 98 machine?Ã,  Or (unlikely) an external burner?

EDIT: Oh wait, you say you have a crossover cable?  That should work, I think... Not sure what the problem is, unless your PCs aren't set up with Windows Networking or something.  Man, I'm totally not the right person to be answering these questions.  I hope someone more helpful comes along...

Not that there's any sort of invite shortage or anything...

Something similar happened to me with my laptop last year.  It turns out one of the brackets holding the hard drive in place was scraping against the drive itself.  I had to buy a new hard drive and I lost everything that was on it.

It was a spoof but was based on one of Ian Fleming's actual Bond novels.

Mothafuckin Sean Connery.  (Mothafuckas)