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School must have been hard for you if chalk on blackboard is that horrible to you

Well, these two are real novels, but at least they are parodies. I think they're making a movie out of the first one with Natalie Portman.

"Hey! He doesn't kill death in the first ten pages and he doesn't even have an awesome scythe. They got it all wrong in this book."

He's not just bad, he's hardcore. I mean he stitched a fricking cross on his chest for no good reason, that's how bad he is.

Dante's Inferno, the first part of the Divine Comedy to get reprinted with an all-new cover: (from Kotaku)

I'd have a licensed psychologist check that.

French Star Wars

And another hapless victim falls into the trap. Be prepared for monumental disappointment starting about half-way though. I did try to warn people in the Steam sale thread:

SMH

Hey! No hating on TNO, he did what he had to for reasons of his own. Also, he was really really sorry afterwards.

The voice may be awesome, the PC isn't. For a space marine, she holds her own pretty well

You missed out on all the awesome lesbian interspecies sex You'd have to expand the scale into the negatives to accurately measure the horror that is Hayden Christensen's acting.

Until you actually hear him and the rest speak, and start wishing you had it all written down so you don't have to sit through it. Him? Jennifer Hale is awesome.

I guess I played Mass Effect too long ago. The intention thing is kind of nice, as is actually hearing your character speak.

Don't you just hate it when that happens?

How many other games have a dialogue system anyway? Having a wheel instead of a list is hardly the innovation of the century. That's like praising whoever invented the "grenade button" so that you don't have to specifically select grenades to throw them. Useful, but not really worth arguing about.

Here's the real kicker:

Don't forget Tim Schafer's free Host Master and the Conquest of Humor and all of Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw's crazy games.

BGE is unique in it's art style and unique(ish) blending of stealth, action and platforming. Audiosurf is unique enough, if just for the ability to use any song you want.

You fail at naming awesome and unique non-flash indie games Also you need to use tinyurl or something for Don't **** Your Pants, because otherwise the word filter screws up the link.

Well, the next one is supposed to come out this summer, no? At least he was kind enough to make the last two books twice as long as any of the earlier ones I'm kind of disappointed that not even the local People's Republic Of Tyranny was atheist, instead apparently everyone spread out to scientology and other lesser-known cults.

The key point to that.. is that the spaceships are designed that way for a reason.. First of all, so the author can simulate "space battles" with navies very reminiscent of ye olde Napoleonic War style wet navies and re-using their tactics just "in space" and with "sci-fi versions of cannon fire" . Second, so that in the middle of the series they can suddenly start changing the technology and breaking the "static" tactics they were using for the x decades/centuries before the series start. Personally I quite enjoy most David Weber writing. But the Harrington stuff is very much a.. "hornblower in space" for the early books. As the series develops the characters get more experienced, the wars start, and they really add in the politics beyond just being a ship's captain. Also minor elements of economics of it all. And a fair few point-of-view changes from character to character when you have big interstellar set ups. I got why he made the ships like that, it's just really uninspiring to have a bunch of spindles firing missiles at another bunch of spindles in space. The tactical combat parts are great, but the politics get pretty boring after a while. Also, Honor is such a do-it-all larger-than-life character by the later books that I couldn't care less about her. Not that this is a unique problem in long series'. So far the politics seem to come down to stupid liberals who don't want war because it's bad for business and awesome people who reluctantly have wars because it is the right thing to do(at least for the Manticore side). I'll stay with it to the most recent book.

You fail, Oner. Try: Portal World of Goo Beyond Good and Evil Osmos Gish Audiosurf Machinarium Defcon Uplink Gravity Bone(free) Most(if not all) are available on Steam and have demos. For older stuff check out this thread and Good Old Games.