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Roseanne Barr is famous, controversial, and really, really easy to rip on. This is going to be great.

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... ... You don't really mean...

... masterplum?!

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Bump!

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Also, I just took a quick look at the Udacity FAQ. There are no deadlines for individual assignments.

Oh God, I just learned we'll be using Python. This is gonna be interesting.

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I'm really amazed at the rising popularity of this sort of thing. Thanks for the links. I've always been interested in free education but have never taken the plunge until now. Screw it, I want to learn. Seeing these sorts of things enough times has finally made me want to do it. I'm excited!

Any B8'ers interested in a study group if enough of us take the same class?

I've just signed up for "A History of the world since 1300" and "Applied Cryptography".

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Alright, feel better dude,

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Hey, ertyu, in all seriousness, are you ok? I don't get to see every post every day, so I don't know what's goin on, but you seem extra angry lately. I hope things are alright

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I think they're gonna make it!

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Gettin' closer!

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Bumping just for more awareness

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Thanks for the heads up!

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bokonon get your sense-making the **** out of this topic now - Cat1001
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Ah man, I remember Gabriel knight. There are new Gabriel Knight games? That's tempting. Now I wanna go back and play all the text adventures and point-and-clicks.

ALL OF THEM.

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Well, to be honest, I've never played a King's Quest game, though I have heard them praised many times, so I'd expect to enjoy them myself. I was always more of a Space Quest and Monkey Island guy.

Space Quest has on occasion been guilty of some of the things you mentioned I guess, to some extent - though never as unforgiving as, say, Police Quest (now there's a game I haven't thought of in years!!). There was one game, early in the series, where the first area had a missable item that you needed much later: a keycode or something. The Guys from Andromeda actually got asked about that in their AMA. I forget what they said, but they definitely weren't defending themselves. That sort of stuff is old hat now.

BUT, they learned their lesson. I don't think any of the later games had any true missables. And they definitely didn't have items that you could "lose" or "consume" before you needed them.

The series definitely evolved towards something more similar to Monkey Island, in which there really was never any way to get perma-stuck (except in Space Quest you could at least die... in fact, the death sequences were often among the more entertaining parts of the game).

Not having enough clues or the ability to work out puzzles based on available information was a problem in a few games, notable SQVI, but that was almost entirely because one of the two creators left in the middle of the game's development.

Now that we're out of the mid-90's, I think developers are a lot more savvy, and I'd be absolutely shocked if it were possible in SpaceVenture to screw yourself over bad enough to need to restart from the beginning. I feel like the genre has really worked itself out of kinks like that. Monkey Island is one series that got it right from the start, and I have no doubt this one will follow their lead in that regard.

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Today I learned how to get a private room with Jeff Zero >_>

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Nearly at 400k now!

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\m/

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bokonon get your sense-making the **** out of this topic now - Cat1001
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Yeah, seriously!! I'm doing my best to spread news via word of mouth, but I kinda wish there were a little more time left before the deadline. I'm just hearing about it today, and I'll be a sad panda if it doesn't take off. In their AMA, they say they have a "Plan B" if the KickStarter doesn't work out... but they seem pretty loath to consider it, whatever it is. I'd hate to see this fall apart after all the work they've done.

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Woohoo! You're awesome.

Also forgot to mention, this involves the voice actors for GladOS and the Sniper from Team Fortress 2. As well as a bunch of people involved with the old series, including the narrator.

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No love? :'(

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(Two Guys From Andromeda)

AMA on Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/upxvi/iam_we_are_guys_from_andromeda_scott_murphy_and/

KickStarter:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spaceventure/two-guys-spaceventure-by-the-creators-of-space-que



First of all, I had no idea they were back together. I know they had a falling out sometime in the 90's and that they still hadn't reconciled for the last few games in the series.

Secondly, I'm just super-pumped. I know there probably will never be another Space Quest game, and they don't have the rights to Roger Wilco, but they brought back the narrator from the old series as well as some of the original composers.

Unfortunately I don't know if it looks like they'll be reaching their KickStarter goal. I hope they do; this is one I really want to see happen. Anybody else here old enough to be nostalgic for these sorts of games? I know there are at least some Monkey Island fans here. King's Quest, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry..... I want more! More!

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I am god but I am not god

Because
Secret

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bokonon get your sense-making the **** out of this topic now - Cat1001
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Well her first thought was "oh ****, it's my fault", we aren't planning on trying to dispute the blame officially or anything. Also this wasn't in a city really, it was more suburbia. Now, yeah, we personally believe the other driver was being reckless, unsafe, etc... But that doesn't mean my girlfriend wasn't at fault. The other driver was making things difficult, and my girlfriend understandably messed up. Doesn't make her a bad person, and no one's throwing anyone under the bus by talking about it. And yeah, the reason we think he was speeding is because she didn't see him coming and he hit us pretty damn hard. And we recognize that it's just speculation; maybe he wasn't. This thing isn't really a sore subject for me or anything. Would've been nice to flag a witness and see if we were right, but really, like was said, the person turning has a responsibility in this situation, so she was content to just get it all over with.

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bokonon get your sense-making the **** out of this topic now - Cat1001
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Hmm, I can't say for sure whether the puns have happened before or not. But this is definitely the first time I've actually almost died!

I can see having nightmares. I've actually always been kinda frightened of cars. I once had this weird psychic sorta feeling that the way I'm gonna die is getting hit by a car while on foot. But now I'm extra jumpy about loud noises like horns, motorcycle engines revving, and tire squeals.

I took a half day at work today, needed to get home and clear my head, couldn't focus. I definitely replayed the scene in my head a bunch of times. I wouldn't say it's that much of a life-changing experience, though. Doesn't really change my outlook on life or whatever. I'll get over it.

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Hahaha thanks everyone.

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I think he was afraid he'd killed me too, because he asked me if I was all right and said he saw the air bags deploy. :-|

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bokonon get your sense-making the **** out of this topic now - Cat1001
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Oh, nah, I didn't tell the whole story about the cop taking care of matters and everything, because that part of the story is boring.

But yeah, the cop was on the scene really quickly. He came over and made sure we were all right. I was searching for my glasses for a while, and actually the other car was nowhere in sight for a minute, so we were really pissed off. But it turned out he just kept driving so that he could park down the street and not be blocking the intersection. The driver then walked back towards us and was very cooperative and stuff. The cop was friendly, helpful and nonjudgmental, and he dealt with things very quickly. The driver stuck around long enough to give the cop his info and hear that it'd be coming out of my girlfriend's insurance and not his, and then the cop said he could go.

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bokonon get your sense-making the **** out of this topic now - Cat1001
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Hahhh. Yeah, I'm sort of the boy who cried wolf, aren't I? That's funny. But yeah, actual car, actual accident.

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Bokonon_almostdies

For some reason this is cracking me up right now. I'm still a little shaken up (this happened last night), and I've been latching on to anything remotely funny since then, lol.

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I was in the front passenger seat, and my girlfriend was driving. We were waiting in an intersection to make a left turn. Light turns yellow, nobody's coming, we begin turning. But a car comes barreling towards us, trying to beat that same yellow light, just as we're turning in front of his path. I look out the window, and it's coming straight towards me, and we're in the middle of a slow turn. One second the car is about to collide with my door, and immediately the next thing I know there's a loud crash and something hit my head HARD, and the interior of the car near me was detached and hanging over me, and the air was filled with white dust, and I was terrified and disoriented. It took me a few seconds to realize that all that hit me was the side air bag, and that I wasn't dead. What happened was my girlfriend saw the accident about to happen and PEELED OUT so the other car ended up hitting the rear of the vehicle instead of me. If she'd frozen up, it probably would have hit the middle of the right side of her car (and at the time it looked like it was gonna hit the front right side, so who knows). Completely terrifying. Her car isn't drivable; they had to tow it. But we think it's fixable. It's just that there's a dent, and some of the frame is bent over her rear tire. Other than that, the bumper's off, the trunk won't close, and the interior on the front right side is slightly out. Only the side airbags were deployed. She JUST bought this car and is in the process of switching insurance, so she's terrified it'll be totaled, but I'm convinced it's fixable. But nobody got hurt. The other car must have grazed off and been fine; the other driver was able to drive off after the cop finished dealing with us. No injuries, somehow. And it hit us HARD. We convinced ourselves he was speeding (and may have run a red light to get there, because we did NOT see him coming), but it is coming out of my girlfriend's insurance, because she was sitting ahead of the white line you're supposed to wait behind. Everyone pulls ahead of it anyway, expecting to be able to get a better chance to turn, but there's technically no law for that; you still have to yield to oncoming traffic. We didn't get any witnesses and don't really know for a fact that he was speeding, and yeah, pretty much my girlfriend's first thought was "****, this is my fault". But yeah, we're just grateful nobody was hurt. She keeps apologizing for almost killing me, and I kept thanking her for accelerating and saving my life. Maybe we can call it even, heh.

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bokonon get your sense-making the **** out of this topic now - Cat1001
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Up >_>

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Oh man, I forgot I made this. Okay, keep this bumped, I don't actually have time, it ended up being a busy day at work after all, but I should be able to answer tomorrow. (It's gonna be a busy night too, haha.) Thanks for these, this is gonna be good.

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Or, you know, whatever

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Evil is relative. Stupid is as stupid does. I'll take evil, because that means I'm doing it for some purpose, be it foul or fair. It means I'm getting something out of it, and probably something other than just seeing the world end. If it were an accidental world-ending scenario, then everyone would be screwed. If it were my deliberate, evil intentions, then odds are I'm living in a space station or Terraforming Mars or something, with my elite group of minions whom I've allowed to live.

Picking "evil" is actually the "good" choice here.

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I used to e-fed, but it's been years. How often does UCA book? I don't have a lot of free time anymore.

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>_>

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XIII_rocks
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Yayy thue hkrddxs gxt guffd utjue efd hdjfh fk d kdgs gjaoqt isgjdgr brbyvy vvhfj aowj

Yay, the herds got guffed out the e-fed. How'dja fake da kids? Giant skewer? Brown baby gravy? Which owls?

Oh man, which e-fed? Cows always have so much guff; glad to see they got a taste of their own medicine. I wanna read that promo. No giant skewer needed, by the way; I was able to fake those kids' identities without any dead bodies. I know a guy who does fake birth certificates, and you'd be surprised how many agencies don't bother following up on verifying them as long as they look authentic to the naked eye. But yeah, a little brown baby gravy in the cribs helped the illusion and also got the inspector out of there in less time than he's probably used to. And you know I can't tell you which owls. Gotta protect what's mine. You know that, man.

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Raka_Putra
Bokonon lives.

Bokonon lurks.

StifledSilence
How Bokonon Got Her Groove Back

I missed you guys!

Dark Young Link
Welcome back!

Thanks! Let's make this a talks-to-the-users topic.

MajinZidane
hi boko

Oh you. I forget, did we ever have that Boko vs Boko showdown in that user contest? I think we did, right? That was the start of the whole "Who is Boko" thing. Best thing ever. Glad this board has not been without a Boko in my absence!

MRNlCEWATCH
LMFAO

Pretty much

nm14
Howdy

Sup! As I can see from your topic, you're new to the board. Welcome! Where do you normally post?

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.....topic

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I ain't even mad

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lmfao.

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I bet a mod got it

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oh

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Flawless victory.

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FINISH HIM!

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MORRRTALLLL KOMMMMBAAAAAAATT

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Watch this topic get modded before the message ID landmark >_>

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derp

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