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[song_of_silence]

I figured I should make a post on account of it being my birthday today. So, um, here it is

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[cut_copy_paste]

hey man.. happy birthday!
do you want those godards and man with movie camera? I could burn them to a dvd if you have some way of coming by to scoop them up...

[song_of_silence]

Yes, I would like/need those. If nothing else, maybe this weekend? I'd be surprised if we didn't run into each other then.

[cut_copy_paste]

that definitely sounds like the most straightforward plan.. I just wasn't totally sure when you needed them by.

[chibifrieza]

Happy birthday! In honour of the day, and also because I don't want to make a post about it but I think it may amuse you, I have a funny story, though it's slightly sketchy from an Olwyn-being-considered-a-responsible-adult standpoint:

So I left my horn in the Mac lab in the Fine Arts Building on Saturday. I had it with me because I came straight from a show and since the lab was going to lock in about three minutes, there wasn't time to put the horn in my locker before going into the lab. So I went in, did random stuff for a couple of hours, and left. I remembered as the door locked that my horn was still in there.

School was closed Sunday and Monday. Today, I came right after work and looked in the lab, hoping that, if it was gone, it would have been turned in to Campus Security.

But it was still there, sitting at the back, more or less where I'd left it - I think somebody may have moved it out of the way a bit.

I love this building. It's full of musicians. Instruments aren't considered out of place wherever you find

[song_of_silence]

Thanks. Your story is both heartening and rather damning to my school, where the shortest span of time is quite enough for anything valuable to get snatched up.

If you actually have a computer to play it on, I'd definitely recommend the demo. A given level only takes a couple of minutes, so it's not bad for someone as busy as you.

What is this plan?

[chibifrieza]

Since I don't actually own my own computer and we're not supposed to download/install much on the school ones, I'm not sure I could get away with it. I might give it a try, though.

I wish I could remember it more specifically, but the idea was, I believe, partially inspired by a number of songs on Chicago's 16 album. I will outline it for you as well as I can remember

[anomalie]

This is a jig of birthdayness. FOR YOU!

*jiggance*

[song_of_silence]

Ah! Thanks. I'll supply my own hornpipe.

[kopah]

Um, I have no jigs, but happy birthday anyway. I look forward to seeing you and everybody this weekend.

[rinku]

Thanks for the review of my game btw -- (I found it through the referral logs). All of the authors of the game are on LiveJournal (as well as the person who wrote Raberata), and many of us met on LJ.

[song_of_silence]

Now this I was not expecting. Thank you for noticing and for making such an addictive game. Now I regret the deep lameness of my review.

[rinku]

Haha, no need to regret, I enjoy any review and prefer more spontaneous ones to well-written ones anyway.

Also hopefully it's not just addictive, since I don't like when I play a game and it addicts me but is just a time-waster, because I don't get anything out of it other than used-up time; Final Fantasy 12 was one example, I played that for 100 hours or so and at the end didn't get too much out of it except an idea for a variation on the AI-based RPG idea, and one speech by Cid which I thought was wonderful.

[song_of_silence]

I can't say as I'm a fan of the practice of embedding, for lack of a better term, a certain number of hours of play into a game like they do with the Final Fantasy games nowadays. I've played your game for a fair length of time because I really enjoy it (and also because I'm either a terrible player or that first Brother Bavakh really is an absolute bastard to beat). A really, really good story can justify huge cutscenes and such, but games should generally not make one feel like one has drunk away all memory of the preceding weeks.