Locmaar

Wow, he seems to have liked it a lot. That's one hell of a review.

Originally Posted By: Danny the Fool Originally Posted By: TheBadAgent But seriously...would be nice if the Androids COULD somehow use .exe files. That would be nice Not really nice, since it would require them to have x86 CPUs which means no battery life whatsoever at that size ;-) But, has anyone tried DOSbox? At least Exile should run on Win 3.11. There is to my knowledge no necessity for .exe-files requiring a x86 CPU, at least not physical ones. That would seem to a matter of recompiling for a different processor, nothing more.

Originally Posted By: Sarachim Didn't the creative restrictions of newspapers make Watterson ragequit (rageretire?) after only 10 years? Not from what I've read in his foreword to the essential/omnibus/whatever edition. He sounded more like he wanted to stop while C&H were at their best.

Originally Posted By: Enraged Slith The newspaper is where humor goes to die. Really? I love Calvin and Hobbes. PS: and I was going to say 'The Far Side', too, but didn't want to risk someone beating me to my first reply.

You want to email Jeff about this as there's a chance he won't read it here.

Just finished Jon Krakauer's Where Men Win Glory. It's a personal account of why Pat Tillman went to war and how he never came back in one piece. Sad story I have to say.

Originally Posted By: Dintiradan Hey! Why didn't I get a cat with my discs? You have to buy all at once.

We've had this discussion before. If you rely much on quality writing in your game - which I think Jeff does - you need a quality translation, properly handling command of style. And you need somebody else to proofread and verify it's a quality translation. It's not something that can be easily done in anybody's free time, let alone anybody's free time who has the skill set to do it. Also the affect this will have on sales is dubious at best. You don't know before you try so I guess you would have to arrange for payment after sales. It's probably too risky from a commercial point of view.

Originally Posted By: Nikki. I think it depends on what kind of zinc it is - if it was from the kitchen he'd probably already eaten everything else. Eating a kitchen zinc is something I'd rather not contemplate.

Welcome to the boards, Olle. You have come to the right place. Leave your sanity at the door, don't feed the fluffy turtles and don't step on the kittens and everything will be fine.

I prefer Avon

I'm curious... will Mac OS install on any drive and computer just like that? I believe I heard somewhere that the installer performs a hardware check (read: DRM) before installing. I don't know for sure 'cause I only ever installed on Macs.

I like the Firesteel Gauntlets better. Firesteel Gauntlets = Smoking Gauntlets + Essence-Infused Iron (12% armor, +5 Battle Magic, +5 Mental Magic, +5 Blessing Magic, +2 Strength of creations, +2 Dexterity of creations, +2 Endurance of creations)

He has in the past contemplated but decided against it. For one, he would not have control over the quality of style of the output but also it is doubtful if the market will be worth the effort. But when I inquired in the late 90's it was about German so he might have a different view now and on Russian in general. Email him about it.

He was probably just trying to hide the fact that he is an Ossi

I know that you know that I was reciting an old and terrible joke. At least I hope that you know that I know that you know, you know?

Originally Posted By: Student of Trinity Grüß Gott! Wenn ich ihn treffe...

Originally Posted By: CRISIS on INFINITE SLARTIES It's true: http://groups.google.com/group/talk.bizarre/browse_thread/thread/7775d695050a005f Thanks for sharing

Originally Posted By: The Voice of Atalantë Originally Posted By: Locmaar Unless you don't believe the deeds and events related in those epics actually ever happened like they have been written down. I've also read novels based on real people so, no, I don't think the way you're distinguishing between novels and epics makes any sense. It does. A novel is an individual act of creation. No one would have heard of, say, Arrakis, were it not for one individual--the author. Things like Beowulf, despite the fact that we are reputed to have only one original text, were the product of a collective imagination, whether or not ne individual did the compiling. Make sense now? An idea maybe an individual act of creation, a character, a story... but an entire novel? I don't know. There are just too many cultural and/or historical references contained within most novels to still call them individual acts of creation. I'm sure we can find a difference between most epics (like the Silmarillion) and most novels (like Riven Rock) but individuality in the act of creation does not work for distinguishing between the two. Also, there's no reason why it should as others have pointed out.

Originally Posted By: Student of Trinity That's what I mean by birth of an art form. And that's what I see happening with all these little games. Do Spiderweb games really fit the bill? Maybe not. But how about this as a prediction: Within five years Jeff will be releasing six chapter-length app-games per year, instead of one long game per year. His games have already gotten pretty strongly chapterized; he writes them chapter by chapter, and you play through them that way. If he takes the small step of releasing them that way, too, then he gets to reach a much bigger market. It might not quite make sense yet, but I bet it will within a few years. Isn't this rather the birth of a market for an existing art form? But I can see where you're coming from. Unless it spreads it may just as well not have existed. I do like your prediction. Hey, if it works for Monkey Island, why shouldn't it work for Jeff's campaigns?

Originally Posted By: Alorael You can follow the Moses from birth to death as he leads the Israelites from Egypt to Canaan... Is it just me or does this sound like an advertisement for a Bible game? Let's follow the Moses

Originally Posted By: Voice of Atalante A novel is a product of the imagination. An act of creation on the part of the author. In this sense, NO ancient epic is a novel. Unless you don't believe the deeds and events related in those epics actually ever happened like they have been written down. I've also read novels based on real people so, no, I don't think the way you're distinguishing between novels and epics makes any sense.

One's a review and the other is a paper to show how wrong that review is. It's some sort of meta review and it's also incredibly dull.

I don't know that Jeff has a formal review environment, nor do I know that he hasn't. I do know how hard it can be for people to submit themselves to review processes, though. I personally remember it being a steep learning curve, especially if you have to be blunt while at the same time wanting to maintain good manners - that seems to be of little value in some fields of peer review as I have come to learn. I have learned listening to criticism, but I have also learned when to stop listening, which is usually if some loudmouth wants to be right, no matter what. What you fail to take into account, though, is this: when you submit your work to a review environment it's usually to get help to get it ready to market (whatever market this may be) - if Jeff manages to do that without our preferred review environment who are we to argue with that?

Originally Posted By: cfgauss Personally, I have a number of people that I go to first when I have some crazy new idea, because I know they're more than happy to say "this is the stupidest thing I've heard in my life, you should never tell this idea to anyone ever again." This kind of thing is very valuable! Jeff has these people, too, and repeatedly says so. Apart from that you do raise interesting points but ultimately I think this is about two different things altogether. In scientific research it is probably easier to say something is right or wrong, or works/doesn't work respectively. In a story-telling environment this very easily shifts to 'it doesn't work for me' or even to 'I don't like it very much'. We are talking about various aspects of how the game may be improved but so far there doesn't even seem to be a unanimous vote on how that's got to be achieved. A lot of discussions on this board deal with taste-based positions so I do understand that Jeff doesn't want to get too involved in them as they are about his creation. I suspect he reads more comments than he admits, though.