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Re: I am Trapped in a Box for a Month
« Reply #20 on: June 18, 2011, 11:31:09 AM »

Play a game of chess against the entire boards!
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Re: I am Trapped in a Box for a Month
« Reply #21 on: June 18, 2011, 11:38:39 AM »

Man Chess is a chump's game!
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Re: I am Trapped in a Box for a Month
« Reply #22 on: June 18, 2011, 11:40:47 AM »



...and a total fuckin' mystery. I hate it.
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Re: I am Trapped in a Box for a Month
« Reply #23 on: June 18, 2011, 11:42:37 AM »

ok fine

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Re: I am Trapped in a Box for a Month
« Reply #24 on: June 18, 2011, 11:44:39 AM »

Kabbage Dawn of Discovery is also a PC game dawg. It's not on steam because Ubisoft was a bitch and didn't update it with the nice patches that made it not crash and wipe your save game.
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Re: I am Trapped in a Box for a Month
« Reply #25 on: June 18, 2011, 01:19:33 PM »

Kabbage I'm sorry you are so sick man. You need lots of hugs.
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Re: I am Trapped in a Box for a Month
« Reply #26 on: June 18, 2011, 01:43:07 PM »

I was put on Accutane for about a week, after which my dermotologist took a sample of blood, looked at it for like 5 seconds, and then told me if I didn't throw away all the capsules imediately my liver would shut down within a month.

It also cleared up my acne permanently.  Whatever that shit is it's the pharmaceutical equivalent of being hit by a bullet train.

So yeah, I can see how your shit got so fucked and I am sorry.  I suggest taking the time out to do something constructive - learn a new language or Maya or something.  You'll feel infinitely less like you've been punished when it's over.
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Re: I am Trapped in a Box for a Month
« Reply #27 on: June 18, 2011, 02:19:42 PM »

I suggest taking the time out to do something constructive - learn a new language or Maya or something.

If you're interested in fucking around with 3-D modeling programs like Maya or 3ds Max I might have some really beat-up books on the subject I could toss your way. 

You and Stush could have an intense doodle-off in the doodles thread to see who can draw the manlier muscles.

Might be a good time to play some long, involved space/trading-sims if the genre doesn't make your eyes glaze over.  Space Rangers 2 or Escape Velocity Nova seemed like less intimidating entries in the genre to me.  I've also heard good things about Mount & Blade around here.  Or try one of them Arr-Pee-Gees that have a minimum of dumbass dialogue/story segmenets and focus exclusively on party tweaking and dungeon-crawling like Etrian Odyssey III?

Also P.S. that totally sucks hope you get better soon why do they always take the pretty ones?!
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Re: I am Trapped in a Box for a Month
« Reply #28 on: June 18, 2011, 03:46:37 PM »

Well if nothing else, the Accutane DID clear up my acne forever. So there's that. It just utterly destroyed my guts forever to do it.

I suggest taking the time out to do something constructive - learn a new language or Maya or something.

If you're interested in fucking around with 3-D modeling programs like Maya or 3ds Max I might have some really beat-up books on the subject I could toss your way. 
I'm actually like a forth into the Lynda.com tutorials for Maya right now, and it's going pretty well, all things considered. If you feel like sending the Maya book my way and it isn't old as sin, I'd definitely be interested in checking that out.

I've also heard good things about Mount & Blade around here.  Or try one of them Arr-Pee-Gees that have a minimum of dumbass dialogue/story segmenets and focus exclusively on party tweaking and dungeon-crawling like Etrian Odyssey III?
I'm considering Mount & Blade, mainly due to this magnificent video.

I'd love a good RPG right now but to hell if I'm touching another Etrian Odyssey after my twentieth wipe in the second. God only knows how people enjoy that series.
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Re: I am Trapped in a Box for a Month
« Reply #29 on: June 18, 2011, 05:09:49 PM »

ALSO:

Mongrel you are forbidden to give suggestions

My two thoughts before scrolling down to this post were "Holy balls this sucks intensely for Kabbage" and "Hmmmm... I don't think I have any good suggestions, most of the good ones I can think of right away, other people have already been made."


So, uh.


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Re: I am Trapped in a Box for a Month
« Reply #30 on: June 18, 2011, 05:15:39 PM »

God dammit Mongrel
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Re: I am Trapped in a Box for a Month
« Reply #31 on: June 18, 2011, 05:20:57 PM »

I'm considering Mount & Blade, mainly due to this magnificent video.

This is basically the best video.  Also, Mount & Blade is fantastic.  Steam has me at 100+ hours clocked.
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Re: I am Trapped in a Box for a Month
« Reply #32 on: June 18, 2011, 05:22:35 PM »

God dammit Mongrel

Whatever man, I'm not going to fuck with you over this. Maybe you think I don't give a damn (shit, I have absolutely no idea what you think of me other than the fact that you think I post too much), but what's happened to you is pretty damned awful. I sure as hell wasn't about to start making fun of you or submitting stupid joke suggestions.

You've got lots of good sensible (and fun) suggestions already from good folks here and you don't need any grief. So take it easy, get well, and that's all I'll say I guess.


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Re: I am Trapped in a Box for a Month
« Reply #33 on: June 18, 2011, 05:22:48 PM »

Remember that "WASPS: ZERO PERCENT MERCY" thing?

Make more shit like that.


If you think you're man enough.
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Re: I am Trapped in a Box for a Month
« Reply #34 on: June 18, 2011, 06:05:30 PM »

Do kabbage may cry 2. Except this time you play BattleTanx.
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Re: I am Trapped in a Box for a Month
« Reply #35 on: June 18, 2011, 06:13:04 PM »

Remember that "WASPS: ZERO PERCENT MERCY" thing?

Make more shit like that.


If you think you're man enough.

I fully support this, if you still work with that software.  You need a repository of usable educational images though.
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Re: I am Trapped in a Box for a Month
« Reply #36 on: June 18, 2011, 06:23:03 PM »

That's what google image search is for.
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Re: I am Trapped in a Box for a Month
« Reply #37 on: June 18, 2011, 07:14:36 PM »

What about tigers?  I hear they're the wasps of Africa.
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Re: I am Trapped in a Box for a Month
« Reply #38 on: June 18, 2011, 10:05:19 PM »

Ouch.  Sorry to hear it, mang; best of luck.

I actually started doing this over the past few weeks, after getting out of the hospital, starting with the Tom Baker ones. They're charming, but they aren't really... anywhere near engaging to justify their length (i.e. Terror of the Zygons, The Brain of Morbius, Seeds of Doom). I guess they're just sort of predictable, is what I'm finding. I worry that the more I watch these, the less I'm going to like the franchise as a whole.

I did sort of like the Ark in Space, though! Something about the setting.

I've got an entire thread's worth of suggestions on my favorite serials, but my all-time favorite is City of Death, co-written by Douglas Adams.  Watch that one if you haven't.  There's a lot there that he reused in Dirk Gently, but it's still pretty neat.

(The BBC site also has a limited-animation Flash adaptation of his unfinished serial Shada, which he also cannibalized for Dirk.  That's bound to take a bit more patience but I remember enjoying it when I watched it all in one sitting when I stayed home from work with a migraine.)

I recommend NOT binging on a show. It only hurts.

I'm inclined to agree but the anthology-style shows we've been talking about in the Twilight Zone thread might be an exception.  The episodes are self-contained and tend to be pretty diverse, though they DO suffer from often-predictable twist endings.

Have someone run out to a book store and spend $8 on a book for you called "The Atrocity Archives" by Charles Stross.  It's like 300 pages long, and you can knock it out in a couple days.  If you like it, go on and pick up 'The Jennifer Morgue".

Seconded.  I love me some Bob Howard.

This author is also working on a book called 'Rule 34', a government agency whose job is to identify trends on the internet and determine if they're harmless fantasy or masking criminal motive.

Rule 34 is the sequel to Halting State.  Probably best to read Halting State first.

I think it's quite good as a work of speculative fiction (whereas the Laundry series is straight-up fantasy/satire) and I also like the presentation, though the plot falls apart a bit at the end.

And some people like watching shows straight through.

Anyway.  Witcher 2's pretty neat but, as Nor put it, "runs like letterboxed butt" unless you've paid upwards of two Franklins on a video card within the past year.  Course, if you haven't played the first one yet, it's $10 on GOG and has much more modest sysreqs, and is quite a long and engrossing game.  There's also all that stuff I mentioned in the Old PC Games thread when I was unemployed and had a bunch of free time but no money.

Don't know if you've got old game consoles set up but I recently hooked up my NES and Genesis to an old CRT; I've just ordered Battle Kid and the Fortress of Peril (haven't gotten it in the mail yet but I hear good things) and the Sega CD plays burned discs.

And since the PSP's on its way out there are a lot of good deals in that space.  Think I'll probably get me one of those and a handful of games as my next $200 game purchase, but seeing as I just spent $300 on a graphics card that's not going to happen right away.

Comics: can't remember which of Sandman, Y: The Last Man, Fables, Scott Pilgrim, Hellboy, or Bone you've read, but going through the full run of any of those will kill some time.  And since you didn't recognize the "L&R" acronym when I used it the other week, I'm assuming you haven't read those either; I'd recommend picking up a copy of Heartbreak Soup and going from there.  Robot 6 has a pretty good Comics 101 on it.

Oh also I just read Zot! and really need to do a writeup on it in the Comics for People Who Don't Read Comics thread, because it is wonderful.

And there's a lot of great public-domain shit at Digital Comic Museum.  Maybe give a look at Police Comics as it has The Spirit and Plastic Man.

And speaking of public domain books, Project Gutenberg, MobileRead, and ManyBooks are all pretty massive libraries.
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Re: I am Trapped in a Box for a Month
« Reply #39 on: June 18, 2011, 11:26:01 PM »

Kabbage if you are really broke I will buy Charles Stross for you. Or you can talk someone into going to the library for you.

Also, Project Gutenberg and Wikisource. Learn the wonders of the public domain!

If you can use your hands knitting is pretty relaxing and you can make stuff with it. Or some other craft.

Watch all DC animated shows from the 90s.

Play Phantasy Star 4. Get some maps and play 1 and 2 as well.
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