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IQ Chat / Re: Quest For Infamy - Available on Steam
« on: November 23, 2013, 09:12:07 PM »
Congrats :D

Big step forward. I imagine this will significantly lessen the burden for exposure.

"And you don't want us exposing ourselves!" -- Peter Venkman, Ghostbusters II (1989)

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Banter and Chit-Chat! / Re: My Debut Single Release - Uncontrolled Reentry
« on: November 23, 2013, 09:07:56 PM »
Brandon -- That was really great !   :)

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IQ Chat / Re: solar panels
« on: November 18, 2013, 11:47:09 AM »
Finally.

Someone here is actually concerned about our fragile environment...

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Banter and Chit-Chat! / Wars on Kinkade gallery
« on: November 01, 2013, 06:45:00 PM »

     Thomas Kinkade + Star Wars...

     http://rolanddeschane.deviantart.com/gallery/

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Quest for Infamy / Re: Are you ready to go back...
« on: October 29, 2013, 09:07:29 PM »
Goatmeal: Superfan.

Thanks for humoring me and my little scribbles...   :)

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Quest for Infamy / Are you ready to go back...
« on: October 29, 2013, 08:41:37 PM »
...to classic adventure gaming?


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Banter and Chit-Chat! / Re: The greatest movies of all time?
« on: October 24, 2013, 08:40:54 PM »

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Banter and Chit-Chat! / Re: The greatest movies of all time?
« on: October 24, 2013, 08:22:12 PM »
Why hasn't anyone mentioned Napoleon Dynamite?

Thanks to Kip's terrible dial-up, Napoleon would never be able to visit this _sweet_ website...

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Banter and Chit-Chat! / Re: The greatest movies of all time?
« on: October 23, 2013, 09:06:15 PM »
What?  No love for Casablanca?

There's a reason why Everyone Comes to Rick's...

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Banter and Chit-Chat! / Star Trek : 25th Annivertsary + Judgment Rites
« on: October 18, 2013, 01:05:18 PM »

I played the diskette version of Star Trek: 25th Anniversary (ST:25) when it came out 21 years ago (!), and recently bought the CD-ROM version of ST:25 and even more recently, the CD-ROM for Star Trek: Judgment Rites (ST:JR).

I just started replaying ST:25 and am definitely looking forward to ST:JT...  Aside from the Wing Commander bitmap dogfighting (which I happen to enjoy here, even though I'm more of an X-Wing/polygon fan), any thoughts or memories concerning these two games from an graphical adventure game perspective?

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Banter and Chit-Chat! / Re: How LucasArts Fell Apart
« on: October 03, 2013, 12:17:18 PM »
Yachts for everyone! Even for Collector and Goatmeal!


Bt

Yeah... The "HMS GOATMEAL"...  I'm ready to sell-out!

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Banter and Chit-Chat! / Re: How LucasArts Fell Apart
« on: September 29, 2013, 04:41:38 PM »
When trillionaires Blackthorne and Klytos are floating around Mars orbit in their own individual space cruisers, I better not be hearing this question 20 years from now, "Why did Infamous Quests lose their magic touch and start making crappy games?"

 >:(

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Banter and Chit-Chat! / How LucasArts Fell Apart
« on: September 28, 2013, 04:49:38 PM »

     How LucasArts fell apart
     http://kotaku.com/how-lucasarts-fell-apart-1401731043

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Banter and Chit-Chat! / Movie Prediction
« on: September 21, 2013, 05:59:40 PM »
All right, after recently watching the trailer for the new RoboCop remake/reboot, I can finally reveal my prediction for this movie:



Granted, it's based on a single awful trailer...  And I know from interviews that the makers didn't want to copy the original movie, instead opting to explore questions that were not touched upon in the original...

However, it's like they don't really know why the first one worked: it's about a man trying to regain/remember his lost humanity, along with a lot of sly social commentary.

The remake?  It's just a guy stuck in a super-suit -- à la Darth Vader.  How he adjusts after getting 'superpowers' makes this look like just another superhero origin story.  Also, with his ever-present family around, there's no room for pathos; sure, we see that things are now different, but not necessarily what he lost.

In the original movie, Murphy's family stays (correctly) off-screen, forcing the audience to experience the sadness of Murphy's loss by experiencing only what he does: with glimpses of memories and images of a family and life that's gone for good.

In the remake, they're not lost at all, and Murphy's still Murphy -- he apparently knows who he is, he's just stuck in a suit of armor.  It reduces Murphy to a divorced father or a deadbeat dad who can't -- or won't -- stick around...  "You need to speak to your son", indeed.  Much too touchy-feely for my taste.


And what looks to be like the film's biggest mistake?  As Miguel Ferrer's Bob Morton so eloquently said in the original: "Lose the arm."

Now that I think of it, probably not worth ranting about...

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Banter and Chit-Chat! / Re: Most epic songs of all time
« on: September 21, 2013, 12:10:02 PM »
I was always rather partial to "Weekend in New England" myself...

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