~I trust you implicitly doctor nothing bad has happened to me under your care

[zarla]

UMO recording! It goes

Liam "The Lemming" Hesse - Super Acid Block Attack - Tearing Up Space Time
Electric Concerto - Super Metroid - My Minute
TheWingless - Super Metroid - Edenal

The person before me ran late, so this one's a bit shorter than usual. :O

Anyway, last night or so I played an HL2 mod called Dear Esther, "award-winning, critically

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[melaniedavidson]

I always admired you for that; that you cried to fill whatever vacuum you found. I began to manufacture vacuums, just to enable you to deploy
your talent.

Uh.... D:

I have heard it said that human ashes make great fertilizer, that we could sow a great forest from all that is left of your hips and ribcage, with enough left over to thicken the air and repopulate the bay.

Is... is that a fat joke?

[bbot_org]

>Is... is that a fat joke?

The obvious literary allusion is that of fertility; hips, childbirth; ribs, creation.

[funkicarus]

or obviously hackneyed, pretentious writing.

[bbot_org]

BUT DID YOU SEE THE RPS WRITEUP

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/05/15/touched-by-the-hand-of-mod-dear-esther/

Dear Esther rejects pretty much every notion of what videogames should do, and instead presents a profound look at what they /could/ be doing. They could be telling stories that, while unforgiving and upsetting, exist within a format that no novel or film could ever reproduce. Stories that take clever audiovisual amalgamation for granted and go the extra mile, allowing the player to explore a tangible world that they would never otherwise be able to visit. In a sense, Dear Esther is pretty much non-interactive: nothing you do changes the course of the fiction, and there’s no element of challenge to speak of. But in another, far more accurate sense, the interaction is totally key. It’s your journey - whoever “you” are - and the intimacy heightens every emotion censor in your poor, overloaded brain. After

[bbot_org]

ALSO: No zings on me when talking about Korsakovia? I am disappoint.

ALSO: Zarla making fun of someone else for being morbid and depressive? LOL FOREVER

Another amusing quote from the RPS writeup:

Dear Esther turned me into something of a fanatical child. I was so taken by it that I drafted a thousand-word interpretation of the story and emailed it to the creator. Every time it crosses my mind, I scour the internet for people’s responses to this glorious masterpiece, reading through forum threads and blog posts and whatever else I can feasibly locate. Sometimes, I’ve been delighted that others share my views. Other times, I’ve been horrified by people’s remarks. One player, on a forum I can’t remember, gave tips for speeding the game up. “Bunny-hop around the island,” he said. “It totally destroys the atmosphere, but it’s more fun

[seiberwing]

If you’re looking for fun, I’ve no idea why you’re playing Dear Esther in the first place.

I...I think someone doesn't quite understand thee concept of 'game'.

[funkicarus]

it's bbot, he got all butthurt when i kept leaping down elevator shafts in vs l4d2.

[funkicarus]

it lost me at "intolerance of the masses"

[zarla]

I KNOW RIGHT i was tempted to quit the first time I randomly died for no reason. BUT IT WAS A SHORT GAME SO I SAW IT TO THE END

korsakovia was more interesting

[vwl]

Random thought--have you ever played Five Days a Stranger or any of its sequels? I wasn't a huge fan of the first game...wasn't all that scary to me for whatever reason, but Seven Days a Skeptic (the sequel) still gives me nightmares. @__@ And I...never finished the third game, Six Days a Sacrifice. 8D Oops. BUT YOU SHOULD REALLY CHECK THEM OUT SOMETIME.

[zarla]

I HAVEN'T i've meant to for a while though. MUST GET AROUND TO THAT AAAA

[vwl]

OKAY CAUSE OMG THE WELDER IS LIKE SCARIER TO ME THAN PYRAMID HEAD :|
WHEN I GO DOWN THE STAIRS TO THE BASEMENT IN THE DARK, I EXPECT TO SEE THE WELDER, NOT PYRAMID HEAD
AHHHHH I am not going to sleep tonight :[

[zarla]

DOES HE WELD THINGS

[dreamcager]

Hmm, Dear Esther reminds me of Myst. Irritating, vague, with barely any important story line. Just kind of throwing your character on an island and saying "do whatever you can and try to figure out how to win!"

I don't see how a game like that can possibly hold anyone's attention.

[zarla]

This does remind me of Myst, now that you mention it. I guess it appeals to a certain set.

[dreamcager]

This is completely off-topic (and a little late) but your icon reminded me--do you know anything about getting games to work correctly on new computers? You're a fan of the Kyrandia games too, so I thought I could ask you if it's not a problem

[zarla]

Hmm. Have you tried running it via DOSbox at all? :O If not I can go into more detail on how to do that. Unless you're talking like, Kyrandia 3, that might be tricky.