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The Great Unwashed · Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 12:43 am Post subject:

http://userpic.livejournal.com/61895288/384450
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

HAR

The funny thing is I did actually mean something by posting that pic, the first time.

Yahtzee wrote in the small print of the last ZP that he wants the address of the person who reviewed his game in ZP style so he can go over and 'burn his fucking house down'.

daphaknee · Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 3:40 am Post subject:

whos patrick

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

daphaknee · Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 3:44 am Post subject:

BUT WHO IISSSS HE

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

How did he get on the cover of Psychonauts?

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Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 3:20 pm Post subject:

Spheres Of Chaos now free!
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dhex · Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 4:41 pm Post subject:

i laughed.

or should i say lol'd?
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Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 4:45 pm Post subject:

Isn't it lulled now?

I can't keep up with the internet.
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The Great Unwashed · Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 7:45 pm Post subject:

There seems to be a lot of real visceral hate for this man, this Yahtzee, who has committed the heinous crime of playing video games and then posting videos about them on an inter net. I dunno, I mean I find him funny, and you don't. So what who cares etc but there seems to be real simmering, vicious loathing here which I do not understand.
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sediment · Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 8:32 pm Post subject:

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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Oh, kirkjerk! What are we to do with you?
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The Great Unwashed · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 12:29 am Post subject:

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

I don't mind him.

dessgeega · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 1:19 am Post subject:

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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

That sounds like a waste of bile, Dracko, I'm sure there are more worthwhile things to get angry about.

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Yeah, like TV licensing.

But that wasn't brought up.
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kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

So the Escapist dropped the whole PDF and idiosyncratic layout?
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Harvey, I remember you saying about how the stark black/white tone of space is beautiful and should be explored more often. Allow me to introduce you then to this nice, gravity based puzzle game, entitled Once in Space, by one Arvi Teikari. Music by Nifflas.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Cool, but the stars wouldn't move like that unless that guy was trillions of light years high, and they were somehow aligned to two flat planes only :O

So it doesn't really have anything of the majesty of space I was talking about :O

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

I HATE YOU, HARVEY!
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Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 4:03 pm Post subject:

Flywrench is out and I was right, it is damn difficult.

Or maybe tedious, that's a good buzzword.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Man, screw you. It's difficult, yes, but brilliant.
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Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 4:32 pm Post subject:

It can be difficult and tedious and still be brilliant.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

I'm not sure you understand what tedious means.
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Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 5:17 pm Post subject:

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Oh, fair enough then. I don't have that much of a problem with it, honestly, what with the instant reloading and the puzzles being very short. I can see how it would get frustrating, though.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

The end credits? Pretty damn clever.
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For no particular reason other than a bit of annoyance at the difficulty of this game
(actually I got through, because I think for some reason my home computer was playing it a bit below speed) and because I actually like "flap" mechanics (see: Joust, and Balloon Flight), I made a parody mashup of this game: Flywrench meets my own Atari 2600 JoustPong in the thrill-a-minute world of: flywrenchpong
(You can also play it online).

It also features a homemade electronic soundtrack! (Made by slowing down and "wa-wa'ing" an Atari 2600 Supercharger .wav)

I think if I died tomorrow, the # of people who "get" the joke because of familiarity with both indy game flywrench and atari homebrew joustpong would go down by about 33%.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Flywrench

Here's a video for it. It's got excellent design and deceptively simple puzzles, but it's pretty great. And brutally hard.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

shaper, you may want to look up a few posts!
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

doh!
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bleak · . Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 258

But yes, it is pretty great!
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kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

I think it was greater slowed down a tad-- I think my home desktop is slower than my work laptop. Maybe it was the keyboard, though.

I got through it. Thought the credits were a tad over-rated.

Overall I liked this game.

And messhof described my parody mashup of it as "amazing" after I pimped it there.

That phrase is kind of like "appropriately impressed" in how it scales positive and negative, but I'm just in it for a nanosecond of my Wahol-ian fame anyway, so it's all good.
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dessgeega · Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 5:03 pm Post subject:

the passage is a neat exercize in autobiography that shouldn't need an explanation.
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Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

Ultima 5 remake in the Dungeon Siege 1 engine.

Must have DS 1.

So not exactly a free game.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

I don't know if any of you yanks have been paying attention, but the Australians and the Japanese are having a bit of a tiff right now about whaling. We think it's wrong to slaughter whales to extinction for snack food, especially when it's in OUR waters, and the Japanese are all like oh no it's science research even though we can clearly see them butchering the things on the boat, and even accidently slipped out that they were selling it as snack food in a little anti-Australian propaganda film they recently released. Oh and they are all like, we don't recognise it as your waters so get lost!!!

We Australians are a bit miffed by the whole thing, with pressure being put on the goverment to do something about it (one idea they're throwing around is taking huge destroyers out to sea, pointing guns right at their ship and telling them politely to get the fuck out of Australian waters), but one fellow from TANTALUS GAMES, a little Australian development company, made a game about the whole thing. In his words, its a "Cetacean Research Simulator, where you play the role of a Japanese scientist performing research on whales around Antarctica". Essentially its a bitingly satirical game where you play the part of the Japanese "research" vessels, harpooning whales which are then researched into whale burgers and catfood, all the time avoiding icebergs, Green Peace and the media.

Youtube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR4KN6EfX6M

Official website:

http://harpooned.org/

It's only around 10 megs, so give it a look.
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The Great Unwashed · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:45 pm Post subject:

Nice! I'll have a play with that, I will.

Seriously Japan, what the hell. When you have to give whale meat away to kids in schools because nobody will buy it, it's not tenable to turn around and say that "whaling is our culture and our right". Especially in Australia's goddamn waters.
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