The Gamer's Quarter

Been playing Oblivion as a de-stressor as I get ready to move. Just had one of the more amusing moments, which was when I tried to find somebody in the chapel in Cheydinal by going into the underareas ...

Count me in as somebody else who found the straight-forward nature of Castlevania III to be incredibly disappointing after the madness of Simon's Quest.

It would be vandalism. It would be covered by comprehensive car insurance, not by collision (less the deductible, of course). No idea what the percentages are in terms of people having comprehensive a ...

Yeah, the shooting was either the work of somebody who was incredibly stupid or crazy.

The riot was pretty stupid too though.

I just started up a new fort and am currently at the point where my initial "pocket" fortress is being invaded by waves of immigrants. I went from my 7 initial dwarves to 35 within two seasons and thi ...

But hey since we're talking about it, what's with all the royal we over there? And why aren't there author names anymore?

I think it's meant to represent the group of writers as a collective under ...

It makes for trashy, actionbutton.net style writing.

I <3 you too!

Same here. Must be an election thing.

Heh, Ed Balls.

Edward Testicles (pronounced like Pericles).

Eddie Goolies.

Sorry I missed it; I was broke and extremely sweaty though*.

* - In a really unhygienic way, I had just gotten out of the second of the two soccer games I played yesterday and lord did I smell bad.

I fail to see how that IOZ excerpt could be anything except complimentary.

Orb Live 93 :: 39 eviL brO

It's utterly fantastic. The version of Towers of Dub on there is probably the best-ever Orb track. It's the perfect mixture of dub, electronica and acid-freakout.

Any ...

Illuminatus recently?

Planet X!

Satan!

Not enough homosexual sex though.

The wife and I have started playing multiplayer Diablo 2 again. We only play the campaign, never PvP. We're right smack at the start of Act II after two sessions, the first ending when we rescued Cain ...

so diablo 2 just borked me. or i borked myself. not sure. died while fighting act 2 boss. didn't build a portal. so...all my awesome stuff is in that thing's lair. and i have nothing.

give up?

y ...

Most of the American media have been along the lines of "OH GOD RUSSIA THEY WERE EVIL ALL ALONG THEY WERE JUST PLAYING ALONG AND NOW WORLD WAR THREE OH GOD", mostly

Maybe this should be in the development forum?

In any case, I do wonder why there aren't more indie game collectives. Not in the Glorious Trainwreck sense, where people get together to make a bunch ...

As we called them in high school, "goth fries".

why?

Because the mayo is white. I know, not particularly edifying.

As we called them in high school, "goth fries".

Cycle is correct.

(Relatively) thick fried cut chucks of potato = fries in America, chips in Britain, chips in Australia.

Thin, roughly spherical fried slices of potato = chips in America, crisp ...

Yeah, I only remember that to get there from Santa Cruz you went over 17 and then two exists south on 85. So I guess that's fairly fair south. We'd drive over after dinner around '98 or so to play the ...

Daph, is the Nickel City off of 85 still rollin'?

Actually, the Third Man is one of the films that I adore, so that's a good choice. I don't think that there's a lot of films out there that do what Psycho does any better and it still feels very uniqu ...

Also, since then many other directors have done it better. So I still have to say that I don't understand why it's still considered a masterwork of film.

This sounds a little bit to me like saying ...

I'm going to go with Notorious as my favorite non-big Hitchcock movie. The main reason for watching this movie are the extended periods of suspense and tension, especially in any scene involving Claud ...

My sister came over last month and left Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, so I sat down and read it in a single sitting. It's a memoir of when her husband died from a massive heart attack at ...

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jOAQKzY-aOBqDspFkEAV_ZO65vZAD92718CG0

this weekend i asked no one in particular why someone would shoot unitarians. i guess we know now.

Because his food stamp ...

Nah, most modern music is "electronic" in the sense that it's using instruments that require electrical power, meaning that "electronic music" is more useful as a phrase to describe a genre.

"What then is the decent, reasonable attitude to adopt? Very simple: make the assumption, first, that the old style - whatever it is - has exhausted its possibilities and can only offer repetition or ...

I just like poking at hyperbole.

there are simple questions of quality that it's impossible to avoid: characterless art, cold visuals, wonky animation, weak real-time combat, off-kilter writing. As it stands, Fallout 3 just doesn't f ...

Considering that Fallout 3 can be played as an FPS (in a post-apocalyptic word), if you think there's "no similarity" between that and S.T.A.L.K.E.R., well, uhm, I'm not sure how you're using "similar ...

Shit, I was about to post that he'd forgotten "rather".

I do have my pinky out though.

You can shit on me for being an over bearing fucking spaz who takes everything too seriously, but it's better than being someone who takes his shit so seriously that he only operates in a shroud of co ...

It's not like levelling is the bane of all RPG games, everybody's favorite Morrowind had it, yet it managed to balance it (see: rarity) in ways that Oblivion fucked up.
What? I don't believe it did. ...

80s maybe. 90s it would run the risk of being made into a largely tangential platformer, a la Rocketman, Wayne's World, etc.

Been digesting Health's HEALTH//DISCO remix album lately. It's basically pretty raunchy electro remixes and I have to admit, it's the bone dizzle.

For the record, I talked way more shit about Doom 3 than I ever did about Oblivion.

It's not like levelling is the bane of all RPG games, everybody's favorite Morrowind had it, yet it managed to ba ...

I've found like half-a-dozen Joy Division live bootlegs and culled the best tracks from them into a new mix that's quite nice. There's one show where their equipment all starts breaking down and it's ...

Well, they were all over the place (not just the main story) in Oblivion, which led to some very silly things, like bandits loaded with Daedric armor and it being very doable to become Champion of the ...

Bethesda games are almost always worth getting on the PC just because of user-generated content and honestly, user-generated bug-fixes.

Wow, I've added quite a few screensavers thanks to this thread! And holy shit... I totally remember seeing that TORGA screensaver years and years ago, having no idea what it was about but being enchan ...

However, enemies that lie along the plotline will be levelled to match you so that the difficulty curve is kept to Bethesda's heel.

Oh flapjacks.

(The preview sounded reasonably promising though ...

As has been stated elsewhere, I do kind of feel bad that not liking the looks of the Fallout 3 demo puts me anywhere near the Fallout kids, considering that they might feel somehow justified in their ...

Ah, After Dark. I probably had 200 modules or so. It helped that I was friends with the guy who was an intern at Berkeley Systems.

My favorite screen saver, which I've only seen once was an animate ...

I also really like the Outrun remake. It's ugly, yet it plays really awesomely.

Word. Probably the worst Outrun car in terms of visuals; however, the controls are so precise that I played this for ...

Great movie.

Have you seen:

http://processing.org/learning/basics/ ?

I've tried to make myself learn Processing -- I just don't have the time right now though (which is ridiculous, I should have lots of time ...

Food: Get a burrito. El Farralito is a good starting point. There are tons of good places along Mission. There's also loads of good Asian -- I like Thai personally, King of Thai Noodles just off of Ma ...

[url=http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/]A new Dwarf Fortress release approaches!

Just starting up a new game myself, world gen is ridiculously fast compared to previous versions and when you export ...