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I think this would be as good a place to discuss it as any. Am I the only one who seems to think indie RPGs are incredibly stagnant? Frayed Knights, mentioned by WorstUsernameEver, seems interesting simply for being a comedy. But it doesn't strike me as all that intriguing in any other sense. It's still dealing with fighters, mages, priests, and thieves. Swords, daggers, traps, fireballs, and heal spells in a roughly medieval setting. So the question here is, is my attention too selective, or do indie RPGs lean towards that tradition perhaps a bit too much? I guess, assuming I'm not completely off here, the reason this seems to bother me is that I'm a fan of RPGs, and the indie game scene has otherwise produced some very original and creative works. Just not any original and creative RPGs. It seems so strange that for a genre that is so diverse elsewhere, with Vampire RPGs, grim dark RPGs, play-as-a-monster RPGs, superhero RPGs, clock punk, steampunk, futuristic, post-apocalyptic, the indie computer game area is oddly limited. We got Cthulhu Saves the World and Breath of Death, yeah. But what else? I would like to be wrong here.

My understanding is that spiders can FIRE their web. So they'll shoot the web itself that distance and hope it catches where they want. Then they may pull it in a little to make it taut. Edit: I'm searching, but I'm not finding support that they can shoot web quite that far, however. So I don't know. Edit2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_web According to this

My only complaint is the scripting is too heavy. I got to one area, and once I moved to a particular spot, a guy spawned in and started shooting at me. The thing is he couldn't see me. He was still shooting me. I was hidden. Then he stopped and went idle. The ambush deathclaw from nowhere. The tunnelers. It's everywhere. Cross a trigger and guys spawn in around you. If you play stealth, the only saving grace is that sometimes they still don't see you. Sometimes.

Wired has decided to gift me with yet more reasons to hate cutscenes. 5 Film-School Violations in Videogame Cut-Scenes

38 here, but I am glad I brought my AMR.

I thought it seemed clear that he was warning about losing the original versions. Whosoever does it, it is the rewriting of our cultural history. He says more than just this. This site has the full speach:http://www.savestarwars.com/resources.html So you're right that he's against others than the creators altering the work. But he's still for maintaining the originals and the cultural history. Analysis on other points in it can be found here: http://savestarwars.com/lucasspeechagainst...ialedition.html Bits include

It's not like we like her in those roles or anything!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/72760/ It's up.

When would THAT happen? When looking at job requirements, while also being afraid that your degree is worthless. Thinking people require an even more advanced degree than they actually do doesn't help.

I had a short panic attack due to mistaking the phrase "graduate degree" for "doctorate." I can't help but think this reflects poorly on my self esteem.

That may well be, but at least it allows you to stab Morrigan in the gut, while in Origins your character is forced to stand around like a retard in a cutscene while the bitch slowly walks out of the room. Don't make me send John Crichton after you! Assaulting poor Aeryn like that.

I'm mainly against that stupid musical number.

I can literally count the pixels that make up Sabin's face. And you'd be easily forgiven for not realizing that Kefka is still wearing his makeup, since the number of pixels that comprises that detail could be counted without taking off your shoes. Kefka's also the only one to have a nose.

How could you lose detail? There barely was any. You'd have to move to stick figures to have any less.

Not last I heard. The original negatives degraded. And the restoration process was solely done to create the Special Edition, so they didn't restore it unaltered. This is why the last release of the originals, on DVD, were from the laserdisc masters. They're the only copy of the originals in any worthwhile condition. The idea of a "unified whole" is merely an excuse for rewriting our cultural history. It does not deny the accusation.

It's a bit out of context, but would you believe it is George Lucas making those statements in 1988? http://www.toplessrobot.com/2011/09/1988_g..._george_luc.php

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10-16 year olds wouldn't even know Final Fantasy VII. And were only just born-9 when X came out. I don't see how that claim is supported. People who like a game most are generally going to have been the target audience when it was released.

Finished Chaos Rising. Moved to Retribution. I'm losing steam to keep playing. Chaos Rising seems to have been the best campaign so far. It was shorter, but the plot was more interesting and the characters had lots more to say. Also tried out Wing Commander III from GOG. It seems to be flaky with a 360 pad for joystick, sometimes completely ignoring directions for unknown reasons. Switched to mouse and it's much smoother. But the gameplay isn't very exciting.

But it is the whiniest.

I hope they got "I don't want to set the world on fire." That would be satisfactory.

Is this the character from those live action shorts with Felicia Day?

One guy did a 92 pound slab of stone. Yeah. (warning, lots of men without their shirts) http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/human-ma...in-vietnam.html Which demonstrates two things. One, it can get very sticky. Two, it isn't magnetism.

Chris Farley was pretty funny for his day, but I hardly see what it has to do with spoofs.

Old trick/con. It's called not bathing. Seriously. Previous people who claimed it were debunked by Randi. Put some talcum powder on them and it ceases to work.