Selfsurprise

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01mm3bn/grand-tours-of-scotland-series-3-1-scotland-in-miniature-the-isle-of-arran

Reminds me of the series Coast. I'm waiting for iPlayer to upload the next episode of Rick Stein's India, so I'll probably have a peek at this tomorrow.

I completely forgot about this, I apologize Binky. Hopefully it's still available to stream...

I tried to make Twitter a regular thing, but I was rubbish at it. Is it still 140 character limit? I usually have a hard time summarising my thoughts without it becoming a fully fledged twenty point manifesto on the nature of politics, society and reality. I'll never be accepted by the rest of the Twitterati.

That's why Twitter almost became a "Describe your day in one word" site for me.

The thing is, I've been on holiday for the last two weeks, so I've not had to contend with the usual orgy of abhuman hate that is retail. I've had plenty of time to fanny about doing exactly the sort of thing I like doing; writing, reading, eating out, going to art galleries, playing games, watching an indefensible amount of Star Trek DS9, etc - temporarily without all the pressure of having to actually earn money and keep a roof over my head. When you describe Twitter like that, I'm actually sure I could make regular summaries of my day.

25 / 02 / 16

Cant tweet. Genocidal.

 

26 / 02 / 16

Still genocidal. BRB.

 

27 / 02 / 16

Read an article about co-worker homicide. Feel strangely okay.

 

28 / 02 / 16

Did more reading today.

 

29 / 02 / 16

Has anybody ever heard of something called Zyklon B?

I think if I ever do start a Twitter account I'm never going to post in it when I get home from work. It might become a problem.

The Sadness Of Things by David Tibet & Steven Stapleton

Make sure you don't run out of Phoenix Downs... :3

I'm near the end of the first God Of War game and I can't get up those rotating knife pillars in Hades. Any tips?

Kooky dark comedy about a charming socially advancing psychopath obsessed with 4:13 PM, who absolutely has to murder someone at that time daily, in increasingly convoluted and ingenious fashions.

Next film, The Lion King II: Simba's Pride

I found your explanation, inspiring... :3

Apoptygma Berzerk: Seemingly nothing happens, as the audience mill about looking at one another in apparent bemusement. Suddenly the polite murmuring of the crowd is cut asunder by an almighty cry of "SKYRIM BELONGS TO THE NORDS" immediately followed by a explosion of ladies undergarments twangin' off in all directions, wrapping around people's faces and limbs, taking out eyes and teeth with the elastic tension. It's a bloodbath.

Next band: Scorpion Wind

9/10, can't argue with Twain.

"I'll slash my body all over. I'll tattoo myself. I want to be as ugly as a Mongol; you'll see. I'll scream in the streets." - Rimbaud, Delirium I - The Foolish Virgin

8/10

That wouldn't happen to be D, of Vampire Hunter D fame, would it?

The Elder Scrolls series has that expansive feel to it, like the Warhammer universe or Star Trek. They leave a lot of room for fans imagination to run wild.

Addendum: Assuming said fans will let you! [sorry about this snarky post, I'm just bummed out by unimaginative lore nazis turning franchises into their own private fiefdoms]

I honestly don't buy the idea that the only place habitable is America and I think it was just the original devs trying to write off doing another country. Hell, a lot of survivors in America weren't even from vaults. They were just people that got lucky. The only settlements/groups that I can think of that were made by vault dwellers is Shady Sands, Arroyo, Vault City and the Great Khans otherwise everyone else was primarily descendants of people who survived the Great War.

That's what I've been trying to get at through this thread. Wouldn't it be reasonable to assume that other countries would of had equivalents of Vault-Tec? Or at least some contingency similar to stuffing a best and brightest into a vault somewhere. Some people may of had access to other structures capable of withstanding the worst effects of nuclear holocaust, despite that not being their intended purpose. Locales that possessed deep enough cave systems might of been able to avoid the initial dangers of an atomic apocalypse on the surface. It's fun to account for accidental survivals as much as those who were cherry-picked as the bombs fell.

I don't recall any of the lore ever saying that it was... I sincerely doubt Africa was hit very hard by the nukes, or Australia.

I think I've been giving people on the internet a little too much credit in regards to what is known about the Falloutverse.

Reading various forum archives of fallout.wikia.com there are a lot of boring and unimaginative non-canon assumptions presented as "facts". Why do nerdy lore followers do this? And I feel perfectly legitimate asking that question because I am a lore nerd. Surely a setting, whether its' fantasy or science fiction or even alternative history, should exist to inspire and expand upon it's own themes and diversity, spark the imaginations of the series fanbase and allow the world to organically accumulate new perspectives and exciting variations on it's theme. Instead, when lore-heads get their hands on a franchise they seem to do everything in their capacity to acquire all pertinent official information on the subject, mostly just so they can shoot down anybody who dares present an exceptional scenario or ponder if the world is actually bigger than the main quest everyone is familiar with. Strange how the most liberated of genres can inspire such basic and unwarranted conservatism.

Anybody else here remember a game called Shufflepuck Café? Whilst I technically never played the game, I fondly recall watching my older brothers

playing it on the Amiga and I recently stumbled upon it whilst looking up some other old games, PS1 titles strangely enough. To roughly sum up the game's premise,

it's a sort of air hockey simulator set in some seedy space cantina where you have to play matches of the titular Shufflepuck with an eccentric cast of aliens and sci-fi

stereotypes. Looking at some of the screen shots now it screams "prime Gaming Dungeon material" to me. Apparently there is some of rerelease/remake

on Steam, if one doesn't fancy performing a presumably hideous blood ritual in order to resurrect this mummified gem.

One of the most genuinely atmospheric and satisfying point n' click games I've ever played. An absolute must-play for fans of spooky British folklore,

vaguely threatening implications of conspiracy and stories about an eerie locale where nothing is quite as it seems. As well as solving puzzles and engaging

in a lot of conversations with the natives of Saxton (the oddly displaced coastal village that the game takes place in) you also have to detect proof of the

villages numerous ghosts and haunted sites, through a plethora of techy tools, including a night vision camcorder, an electromagnetic detection device and

a somewhat superseded type of tape recorder. The black n' white visuals with occasional evocative spot colour, collaged backdrops composed of CGI and

real photographic elements, a stirring soundtrack and haunting ambient sound design rates this one of my all time top ten.

Eyy, Ross! http://www.pcgamer.com/darkspore-will-close-for-good-next-week/

not that im suprised anymore PCG picks news up late.. But there seem to be tons of fans in comment section referring to you and RGD, wondering if PCG got this info from.. RGD.

 

PS! while i am unable to partake in this action due to, well, finances and distance, i do spread the word. Idea of being buzzing noise in companies ear that just wont stop.. That sounds perfect

There is a tortoise and hare quality about this whole endeavour. I'd like to think we can make meaningful dialogue with EA through civil agitation rather than intermittent and explosive abuse. We have to be extremely careful that this campaign doesn't descend to that level.

I tried to make Twitter a regular thing, but I was rubbish at it. Is it still 140 character limit? I usually have a hard time summarising my thoughts without it becoming a fully fledged twenty point manifesto on the nature of politics, society and reality. I'll never be accepted by the rest of the Twitterati.

Hah! I understand you well! I didn't like Twitter because of that.

I'm a writer so 140 characters is almost nothing... Even if I like shorter forms myself. But there's a solution! Make a random thought even shorter but still meaningful - which is a nice writing exercise - or write two or three tweets in a row (or 20)!

I'd have to learn to be more concise and resist the urge to extrapolate more motes of information from my initial thoughts. Maybe it's something I could try out some day.

Untitled (A1) by Shards

"Im not even 25% done with the movie and i need to make 10 more Game Dungeons by the end of the month"

I wish Ross could astral project. He could haunt EA executives with that exact expression, and warn them to change their policies or else risk CERTAIN DOOM.

Atta's Apartment Slated For Demolition (Bouthayna Engineering) by Vatican Shadow

Originally the previous Fallout devs said they'd never do another country but now that Bethesda is running the show I'd love to see something in Asia or Europe in the Fallout universe, show Vault-Tec and the Enclave weren't the only ones who decided "we should build large bunkers and underground complexes"

 

Like a game set in the ruins of Hong Kong or set in Mexico, they would kinda be really cool.

Because I didn't know that much about Fallout's lore, it has been pointed out to me that in this universe and timeline much of Europe and Asia is uninhabitable. But for the sake of my own imaginary excursions I chose to supercede the importance (i.e. "ignore") some of these otherwise important details. I agree with you that America and China wouldn't necessarily be the only countries to make contingency plans. And even without them, despite outright nuclear holocaust there would invariably be survivals, perhaps something totally unexpected and contrary to the previous worlds regime.

"Oh look! Incriminating images of my ex! On my phone! Maybe I can get a piece of that birthday fund for my-little-old-self."

:3

^ Something we can all relate too.

I tried to make Twitter a regular thing, but I was rubbish at it. Is it still 140 character limit? I usually have a hard time summarising my thoughts without it becoming a fully fledged twenty point manifesto on the nature of politics, society and reality. I'll never be accepted by the rest of the Twitterati.

^ Thanks Binky! I do try to come up with something more exciting than the usual infinitely endless thread games one can find anywhere on the ol' interwebs. I liked what you did with mine.

Sigil Infinity

"Digital space has no end."

An addictive puzzle-based simulated growth game themed on the unlimited expansion of a bodiless artificial intelligence. The player utilizes "sigils" of ever increasing intricacy to build a fractal structure unique to his or her game, the long term goal of endlessly expanding the structure but also challenged to incorporate hundreds of patterns, forms and arrangements in a nonlinear fashion.

~

Tara McPherson, Snow Bride

INSPIRATIONAL TAGS: platformer, undead, frozen paradise, ugliness and beauty

I agree with the conclusion you've about the personal letters, I think I will wait and take my time to write the absolute best letters I can. I want my rhetoric to as sharp as a sword with which I will strike. After all they won't expect to find a vigorously sharpened Zweihander amongst a pile of dull butter knifes if you get my meaning.

Hell, if you can write your own name without falling over and hurting yourself, you're already doing a better job than most Youtubers! ;p I sent my letter to six of EA's heads this morning, par avion. I threw in some amusing Grayson Perry postcards too, to stand out a little.

Frankly I don't see how it's so damn hard. I've never bought anything from Ubisoft or Konami, and I haven't bought an EA or Warner Bros. game since Mirror's Edge and Arkham Asylum respectively, and I don't feel like I've missed out on anything important.

Some people are more swayed by good marketing more than others, in a sense I don't think anyone is entirely immune to the siren call of advertising, some of us just possess more honed "bullshit" detectors. Boycotting never seems to make much headway in gaming circles, because no matter how many morally indefensible moves a big developer makes they'll eventually announce something that will be of pertinent interest to a substantial number of gamers. And as boycotting requires an equally substantial amount of time to force a CEO's hand, self-discipline inevitably frays.

Just for fun and the hell of it. A lot of Elder Scrolls fans do this kind of stuff and it's pretty fun to get into. Also while it does border on sci-fi it kinda fits for Morrowind since Morrowind is the most alien land in the entire series.

The Elder Scrolls series has that expansive feel to it, like the Warhammer universe or Star Trek. They leave a lot of room for fans imagination to run wild.