Actaeon

Well, Sanderson only finished the first draft this past week. You're two million words in and have eight or nine months to finish the other half.

Are you sure we're not talking about a bound volume of the webcomic "Cat and Girl"? Bad Decision Dinosaur is up there with Kierkegaard and Rousseau.

Ditto. Lumped in with the likes of "Astrosquid". Then I discovered Geneforge 2 right here, and the rest is history.

Sophie's World fits two of those criteria, but I'd be curious to hear what it actually is.

We'll just have to fall back on the Festivus miracles.

I have a grievance against the Airing of Grievances, for probably qualifying as a posting game. Unlike the Twelve Days of Christmas.

But we never got past nine for Geneforge! And Tyran will have to write the Nethergate one all alone!

 

(3 "cheap wines")

 

Edit: Alternatively: "mushrooms".

Shame on them for not including Festivus.

Indeed! I have almost five hours set aside for that purpose. Out of curiosity, how does one implement time zone sensitivity like that?

Does pretty much everyone steal if they can get away with it? For some reason I haven't considered it.

I feel like a year or so might be covered in "some time". It just might be nice for there to be something waiting when Avernum comes out on Steam and Windows and the boards are flooded with new blood. (... A creepy combination of idioms, I'll admit.)

But as no entirely new games will be out for some time, perhaps something better formatted and more tightly controlled might be viable?

The first two Geneforges seemed just about perfect to me. I, too, found A4-6 a bit constrictive, and was consequently pleasantly surprised by the change. Although I actually liked the sheer size of A4. It made the Honeycomb ridiculous.

There are some mild cheat codes that might help with that, depending on how you feel about such things (and whether you got the hint book).

The sentence structure sure is suggestive, isn't it?

A light touch works wonders where the paranormal is concerned. The X-Files did an admirable job of walking the line between acceptance and skepticism, at least initially. Obviously the setting is different (and skeptics are a bit harder to come by), but I imagine that if you sit down with "Poltergeist" and "Hamlet" for a bit, inspiration will find you.

Which is why I wrote "believe". There is a fair amount of doubt in my mind, I'll admit. The man was brilliant, but also one of the few authors more obsessively involved in the world he created than his fandom. Which is saying something.

I don't believe Tolkien actually believed in hobbits. It can be done.

I saw a topic from September that covered this somewhat, but not in great depth. Nethergate had one, too, but... Anyway, we probably have some neuroscientists and lucid dreamers here. So in addition to being curious as to what sort of strange, Spiderweb associated dreams some of you have, I'd be curious as to your take on the purpose thereof.

 

I understand there are several scientific theories, but am under the impression that none are definitive. I tend to feel like my mind is running scenarios to help me cope with otherwise new issues. Others view them as a break from day to day life, a chance for your subconscious to express itself, or messages from another universe.

 

For clarification, I mean the hallucinations you suffer while unconscious, not your hopes for the future (though those are important, too).

A Google Calendar could take care of that pretty easily.

Thank you for during my research for me. I don't deny the existence of autism. It's where they draw the line between normal and impaired these days that confuses me. There are many things that can impair day to day life that we do not label as a disorder.

 

I can not speak to this directly. I do not quite meet the requirements for an autism diagnosis. I am thankful for that, as I value most of the criteria I don't meet.

 

Instead, I am responding from a general distrust of the "disorder" concept where it comes adjacent to what we label as "normal". Homosexuality used to be considered a disorder. Certainly, being gay in a predominantly straight society has an impact on one's life, but we no longer consider it an impairment, just a difference.

My understanding is that "autism" is something of a catch all term. Twenty years ago, Asperger's wasn't even on the radar for diagnosis, and only severe cases (which would not really allow you to post on a forum) were labelled as such. Now, society has found a place to lump the incurable introverts and label them as abnormal.

Given that several very high functioning members of an incredibly bright social group have identified themselves as such, I can't help but feel that we're looking at a subset of population as much as a disorder. Not to say that wouldn't be challenging in such a socially complex and demanding society, but this place and time is rather different from those that came before the Industrial Revolution.

Edit: You guys make me look like an optimist, and I don't like it. I have concluded that most people are not, in fact, jerks. Hanlon's Razor: never assume malice when stupidity will suffice.

Shouldn't you already be delusional? I can't be the only one that actually left my sanity at the door. There was a pile there.

I'd have to admit, though, that if I had to choose one person who seems most content in any given present, it's my autistic brother.

 

Edit: I suppose it's possible I have mild Asperger's myself, but after growing up around my severely disabled brother, I feel too bloody normal to bother checking.

How DARE you imply that I'm increasing my post count by occasionally posting about how silly competing over post count is. That would be very incongruous and potentially hypocritical of me.