4114: Heads Explode
I guess if I want to keep it literal to the subject line, C just had his annual viewing of A Scanner Darkly [which, if you weren't aware, contains a hallucination of one]. I feel like I figure out something new about it each time--the drug scene is too foreign for me to understand it on one viewing alone... or even twenty =p
The main FINISHED thing I want to write up is finishing Dracula 3: The Path of the Dragon [subtitle necessary since there are apparently multiple Dracula 3s] after C made me start playing it after I bought it. That sounds pretty "oh you POOR THING[/sarcasm]" but I buy up point-and-click games when they're available and within my budget [~$10 for, say, a Nancy Drew title [other than "Dossier" which is hidden object SIKE]], even if I don't have the free time to play them immediately, 'cause how often am I able to find them when I want them, at a reasonable price?
Short of it is, it's a priest who finds out about vampires and makes a pledge to destroy them. The long of it is... well, you can read a walkthrough if you want SPOILARS. I think I am most mouth-foamy about this priest who knows at least three languages, was a field medic, AND can apparently do things like disarm explosives on the fly... but BOY, he seems thick at times.
What I wanted to point out about this game on my non-game LJ [though, my game LJ is pretty defunct] is this "clever" bit of puzzle [click for readable, animated to show captions]:
The text is supposedly some encryption of an ancient manuscript--all the letters arranged l to r, evenly spaced, with line breaks after every 17 characters, but it amounts to a jumbled mess wherein any old "secret message" can be hidden. The character who points out the "prophecy" within the document indicates that page 1 predicts the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo, 1914, followed by the Nazis in 1936 [at that point in the game, a prediction of the future]. This is later lampshaded when another character points out, "You can find any old thing if you want to find it! Here, look at page... 3." LOLOLOLOL HIROSHIMA =|
I give them props if it's real Latin, but it's still pretty weak on the believability. I've put all seven pages of the document in a gallery if you're interested in that kind of thing, but the main one I wanted to point out was this one [cfb]:
2001 TOWERS HAW
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Actually, I also was curious if anyone saw any words I might've missed--the words I've found are apparently completely optional [the last page is all references to the game company], so much so that I'm the only one who seems to have bothered looking, much less comment about the Easter eggs online. I'm a little disappointed. [Also, word searches are about the LEAST satisfying puzzle game EVAR.]
UNRELATED:
So is it a normal thing where Popeyes charges 57 cents on all orders over $5 but gives a discount of 60 cents if paid in cash? 'cause that seems skeevy somehow. Not like we really frequent the place--I got turned off from it the once or twice I've had it before on account of it tastes like [spicy] dry breading. In today's, I at least got some dark meat, though, and that wasn't so bad, but I really dislike breading as a whole, especially when it means removing the best part of chicken [skin]. I grew up on KFC original recipe, and short of a whole rotisserie chicken that's still the best tasting to me [even here in the DC area where it kinda tastes overdone], but I don't know if that's a recent global trend or if it actually IS made better in the East Tennessee area somehow. The last times I went "home" to visit, I didn't really do the fast food thing, so I have no idea.
The main FINISHED thing I want to write up is finishing Dracula 3: The Path of the Dragon [subtitle necessary since there are apparently multiple Dracula 3s] after C made me start playing it after I bought it. That sounds pretty "oh you POOR THING[/sarcasm]" but I buy up point-and-click games when they're available and within my budget [~$10 for, say, a Nancy Drew title [other than "Dossier" which is hidden object SIKE]], even if I don't have the free time to play them immediately, 'cause how often am I able to find them when I want them, at a reasonable price?
Short of it is, it's a priest who finds out about vampires and makes a pledge to destroy them. The long of it is... well, you can read a walkthrough if you want SPOILARS. I think I am most mouth-foamy about this priest who knows at least three languages, was a field medic, AND can apparently do things like disarm explosives on the fly... but BOY, he seems thick at times.
What I wanted to point out about this game on my non-game LJ [though, my game LJ is pretty defunct] is this "clever" bit of puzzle [click for readable, animated to show captions]:
The text is supposedly some encryption of an ancient manuscript--all the letters arranged l to r, evenly spaced, with line breaks after every 17 characters, but it amounts to a jumbled mess wherein any old "secret message" can be hidden. The character who points out the "prophecy" within the document indicates that page 1 predicts the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo, 1914, followed by the Nazis in 1936 [at that point in the game, a prediction of the future]. This is later lampshaded when another character points out, "You can find any old thing if you want to find it! Here, look at page... 3." LOLOLOLOL HIROSHIMA =|
I give them props if it's real Latin, but it's still pretty weak on the believability. I've put all seven pages of the document in a gallery if you're interested in that kind of thing, but the main one I wanted to point out was this one [cfb]:
2001 TOWERS HAW
¬_¬
Actually, I also was curious if anyone saw any words I might've missed--the words I've found are apparently completely optional [the last page is all references to the game company], so much so that I'm the only one who seems to have bothered looking, much less comment about the Easter eggs online. I'm a little disappointed. [Also, word searches are about the LEAST satisfying puzzle game EVAR.]
UNRELATED:
So is it a normal thing where Popeyes charges 57 cents on all orders over $5 but gives a discount of 60 cents if paid in cash? 'cause that seems skeevy somehow. Not like we really frequent the place--I got turned off from it the once or twice I've had it before on account of it tastes like [spicy] dry breading. In today's, I at least got some dark meat, though, and that wasn't so bad, but I really dislike breading as a whole, especially when it means removing the best part of chicken [skin]. I grew up on KFC original recipe, and short of a whole rotisserie chicken that's still the best tasting to me [even here in the DC area where it kinda tastes overdone], but I don't know if that's a recent global trend or if it actually IS made better in the East Tennessee area somehow. The last times I went "home" to visit, I didn't really do the fast food thing, so I have no idea.