Swimmin' Salmon

Not sure that this was a R.S.V.P. type of invitation.

As is obvious from the meta, people love a good controversy. And lacking that, they create one...

Also, we now need a poll on whether people like polls.

Fed road dollars were more importantly tied to the BAC limits.

Our relationship to Jeff is not the same as Jeff's relationship with us, much the same as the consumer relationship with any producer who is not a personal acquaintance. I don't owe Jeff anything, and he suffers the same encumbrance. Buying his games merely to keep him chained to a keyboard is cruel, but buying them to support him as an artist is the highest form of charity.

As far as the Wilde philosophy, I'm pretty sure the only thing that keeping the poor alive counts for is more opportunity to milk them for even more production. It's not like anyone thinks there is a chance of a socio-economic flip-flop.

Some laptops let you connect to an external monitor if you don't mind using it as a desktop. Laptop screens are usually more expensive then getting a new computer.

Amazon shows most screens run around $70. What kind of replacement laptop are you getting for $150?

Remember 160k floppies?

Apology excepted.

I found Avadon to be a slog, and Avadon 2 lost me before the demo capped out. 150Mb used to mean sooooo much more.

Back to criticizing the views of others? How does that address the poll itself? Are we to self-censor so as to avoid public shaming for our answers? Stick to answering the questions and maybe asking for expansion of the answers you see made by others.

I got the sense that someone was bored and found a thread on the internet.

Why not just install a replacement screen? Check on ebay or amazon. You'd be surprised at how inexpensive they can be.

I don't expect Jeff and his family would starve if Spiderweb stopped tomorrow. There are always other options. Of course Jeff may not like those options or wish to face them.

EE - re-read the last bits of the thread where DanNeely starts talking about iOS versions and it'll make sense why Randomizer said what he did.

It's not the same thing in a different package. That's suggesting that the game itself consists of just the story elements, and that the mechanics, including everything from party and stat mechanics to movement and spell variety, are simply "packaging." It's silly to suggest that either of those components are anything but part of the game.

 

Also, it's not the same group of people, not even parenthetically mostly. SW's customer base has expanded pretty dramatically in the time since A1-3. There are certainly a lot of players who stick around because there are few people still producing games that fit in this particular niche. And many of us have a lot of criticism for some directions some of the games have taken -- but I'd absolutely prefer the games Jeff makes, remakes and originals, with all their flaws, to having nothing at all.

 

I don't think I've heard the "feed the family" thing from SW itself in years, btw. But I mean, SW is a company, not a nonprofit. What were you expecting?

I don't expect a business to make it personal, which is what "feed my family" does. And while you may find that the difference between A1 and A1(v2.0) is significant, I don't. Arguing opinion is difficult. It's the same story, and although the chapters are altered slightly, I know where the story is headed, I know what steps need to be taken to progress, including the sidequests and the out of the way significant stops like "ancient battlefield" and the value of "bag of sugar". I agree that there is some value in re-reading a book, when it's the same copy. But I'm not likely to purchase a 2nd edition when I already have the first.

fwiw, the old saw "jeff has to feed his family" is tiring. He could stop remaking games tomorrow, look for and find a job (any job) and feed his family. And sometimes that is what people do when the creative spark is gone and they realize that they are selling the same thing in a different package to (mostly) the same group of people over and over. Patreon would be more honest.

The Declaration of Independence and U.S. Bill of Rights are not the guideline for the world. Just for us. I had hoped the poll was more about worldviewpoints on the listed ideals and not an opportunity for folks to castigate those with a different border between right and privilege.

My answers tended toward the right on these. Err. Not as it is used in the poll, however. Right leaning, but mostly because the questions were very poorly executed. "Is access to the internet a human right?" is my favorite. As written, it makes me think there are some internet police that check ID at the keyboard, refusing internet (but perhaps allowing intranet) to certain ne'er do wells. (They do this, you know...) Now, if you actually meant that there is some moral prerogative to create internet kiosks in every location that a person could possibly need one, I guffaw. We have the "right" to individually or collectively seek that which promotes life and liberty, but only in that it is something we have to do for ourselves, and we should not be prevented from doing this by government action. It's like saying everyone can be a millionaire. Whoopdie do. Anyhow, I found most of the questions to be quivering in their moral indignation, and answered in turn. :-)

My eyebrows have a life of their own at times. I expect it's a little more dangerous than mine.

Alo - I recently started playing the Avernum Escape game and thought to check back in. Intermittent, if anything. Sad to have missed Diki's rage though, was it epic?

Best exit EVAR!

Plants have been polluting the atmosphere with corrosive gas for millennia now, but you don't see many people crying about it.

-.5, -3.5

And another 5 minutes of my life is gone. That says more than the actual results of the test.

I would guess if the process was similar that the 9-month gestation would occur in the egg, but outside the human parent. Since the birth canal can adopt the diameter of a grapefruit, we're talking a small grapefruit sized human, or a very long egg, absent adaptations in skletal structure. With those I would think a simple disjointing would be the best bet, as a similar process already happens to afford the change in pelvic girdle size. Also, Scorp!

Jon.

With the inclusion of Nazi it has become 2006. Well played.