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You'll have to set up routes by selecting settlement A and settlement B, and they'll just be linked together.

I've never played Railroad Tycoon, but I'm guessing it's like Simcity with railroads.
What willl CybRailroads be like? Is it like playing with a model train or do you have to make money?

(if you make a computerised version of model trains you won't have much competition. Google could only find one, and that's still in the beta stage)

"Bomber Planes" and "Zombie Attack" don't sound too interesting. A level editor doesn't do it for me, unless you got lots of people contributing, like with Dink Smallwood.

Out of the other two I have a slight preference for Castle Wars since I don't like sim games.

According to reports, a Pakistani ISP tried to implement the government edict not by blocking the traffic but by changing network routing so that attempts to reach YouTube were directed to another IP address.

But the way the Internet works meant this route spread outside Pakistan, and YouTube's site became unavailable to a growing number of users around the world until the bogus route announcements were stemmed and YouTube issued new routes to undo the damage.

Pakistan hacks YouTube...

EDIT: my information is from http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16832/53/

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"A demon, a wizard and an elf meet up in a dreary old inn at World's End.
They have been called by someone named Hermes. Why?"
This game takes on the form of an interactive play, where you can push it into different directions by the choices you make. That means it's replayable

I should include a warning: The play is a farce, there are some vulgar scenes and suggestive dialog.

Some background information: I had a lot of fun making this. It's based on the commedia dell'arte from the Italian 17th century, but very Neil Gaimany in execution.
Don't know if people will like this, it's kinda experimental. I barely finished it, due to some unforeseen difficult scripting. Due to that same difficult scripting it's also very short.
I didn't have time to test it all, so there is the possibility of major errors..

But enough of this pessimestic talk, please, be my guest, and click on the title screen to download it.

- TwinMoon

Great!

That would give my enough time to smoothen the edges enough to make it acceptable.

Hm, too bad. I was really going somewhere, have been working all day.
But it's not finished. I can't just post it like it is...

So I guess I'll have to fold...

It was yesterday.

I was watching All or Nothing by Mike Leigh. There's a part where Timothy Spall says to his partner/wife "You don't love me anymore?" and she can't answer him. The whole movie builds up to this moment and before I could compose myself tears were falling down my cheeks.

And I never cry at movies 

"Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner"

Thanks, that's it 

Ford: "It's unpleasantly like being drunk"
Arthur: "What's so unpleasant about being drunk?"
Ford: "You ask a glass of water"

Man, I can't believe I forgot that one. I'm changing my vote.

Not accurately quoted, but I haven't got the book here:
"Though humans are descended from ape-like creatures, they never invite their ancestors 'round for a cup of tea."

In the tv adaptation you then see a picture of humans at a dinner table with some monkees between them and a large caption saying: 'This never happens'.

Now that this post has been bumped again, I remember I wanted to post here.

Normally I only read hardcore literature to show off, but some weeks ago I read the sf-novel The Dispossessed by Ursula LeGuinn. Highly recommended!

Two planets, one capitalist, one anarchic/communist, are seen through the eyes of the scientist Shevek, a real anarchist, who travels to the capitalist planet Annares. It's an obvious analogy of the US and the Soviet Union in the Cold War, but pretty well executed.

Her novel The Left Hand of Darkness (about gender and feminism) is also recommended for people who like sf that explores social issues rather than technological.

The relevant number these days is not storage space, but bandwidth.

Yep, it's a noob question. I realise that now.
It just seems odd, most offer 20-50 mb and suddenly's there lycos offering 1 gb. But there's a lot of bad press about 'em.
They do offer unlimited bandwidth, fair use policy. Which means you don't know how much it'll be. I'll look further.

While searching for a home for my webpage, I noticed that Lycos offers 1 GB for free. My paranoid mind immediately went into 'being too good to be true' mode.
They do say they'll send you some spam, any reserve the right to remove anything.

So there's some serious drawbacks, but also a tempting 1GB webspace.

Anyone got any bad experiences with them? Or good ones...

Useful information, DrewCCU.
I never looked into ripping videos from youtube, maybe I'll have a stab at this contest too (pun intended). There's nothing holding me back now.

Didn't mean to, but I pulled something out of the hat so I might as well enter. 45 seconds of fun. It's MIDI btw.

Not really cheerfully 80's but more hardboiled noir style.

On my old computer Wintermute games were unplayable slow while AGS worked fine.
That's a pentium 120, 16mb RAM, 1,6 Gb harddisk. The monitor broke two months ago, so I can't tell you any more...

Only one I always remembered was: "How would you like your eggs in the morning? Fertilized or unfertilized?".
But I never use chatup lines, since it never can remember 'em at the right moment. I just talk about the music that's playing or something.

Now that I think of it, I have used "Do you come here often?"

Hm, sound like a good game with an interesting story, nice looking graphics too. Congrats on completing it.

That raises an interesting question.  Maybe he truly is homophobic in the clinical sense.  Maybe his reaction, psychologically, is the same as an arachnophobe discovering that the barber is actually a giant spider.

You can be conditioned to be homophobic, just like you can be conditioned to be afraid of spiders.
Still, you're responsible for what you do with it.

King Graham is married. So are Guybrush Threepwood and Sonny Bonds. Even Larry Laffer is married at least twice, albeit not for very long, and Roger Wilco will apparently marry Beatrice in SQXII.

Police Quest 2, that's indeed an example of good writing. But what I meant was that most games feel empty, i.e. without a character background. Then again, people play adventure games for the puzzles, so it's not always that important.

On topic: my father is a rascist and he makes 'African American' sound like an offensive term. (I translated since we're not americans, but you get the point.) That's my two cents on the whole P.C. thing.

@Radiant: S.O.? Sexual organs?

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TheJBurger
just a "plain old joke", but a damn funny one. Effectively written.

Andail
I know a girl like that. The cliffhanger at the end is very strong.

Eggie
it really happened, so saying I like because it feels like it happened would be redundant.
Yet that's excactly why I like it.

(great topic, VinceXII)