Floatpoint Floatpoint is an excellently written scifi story played to a point where an important decision must be made; then you make it. More...
Having fulfilled the sexual needs of others all day, Osaka sex worker's then turn to "hosts boys" to fill their emotional needs. This movie documents the hosts and the enormous amounts of cash that
the sex workers spend in their "hosts clubs" (it's an Australian documentary and there was some doubt in my mind whether the currency referred to in the subtitles was the Australian dollar or the USD, but
either way, we're talking about large wads cash spent without thought on ridiculous amounts of champagne). The bizarre ecosystem of hosts, clubs and customers is so interesting in its own right that it wouldn't take much directing to make the movie worthwhile; but the director nonetheless leads you through this subculture in an incredibly artful way, allowing you to accumulate a number of
assumptions about everyone involved and then in turn breaking those assumptions apart. Highly recommended.
An Act of Murder Act of Murder is interactive fiction in the style of an Agatha Christie murder mystery: an old manor in the countryside, five suspects...
Just on the verge of its-so-bad-its-good, but nonetheless teetering into downright awful, and yet: "Dhoooom! Dhoooom!" Also, you can apparently deflect bullets with a snowboard when you go sand skiing behind a train. Give us Dhoom 1!
Nightfall The premise of the game is that you have ignored a mandatory evacuation of your home town in order to remain behind and find a woman...
Violet Violet is entirely responsible for rekindling my interest in interactive fiction recently. The interesting aspects of this game are amply...
Varkana This is a romantic fantasy adventure in what I believe to be the style of writers like Mercedes Lackey and Tamora Pierce. The game relies...
Lost Pig A short but fun game that relies on the inherent humor of its orc protagonist. Fortunately, the game is easily solved before the joke of...
Gray's Paradox solved. It's okay, bumblebees can fly and dolphins can swim fast.
There's no good reason for scientifically inaccurate children's books. A starfish (ick, use "sea star") is not a fish! #
TalkLeft talks Josss Whedon. The last thing I expected to read on TalkLeft, but I totally approve.
This quote will seem quite familiar if you follow small press—or so-called “indie”—RPG design and the corresponding response to it by the likes of the pugnacious RPGPundit. When she describes the argument over the terms “interactive fiction” and “text adventure,” think “story-game” versus “role playing game.”
«In form, this is interactive fiction. Over the course of amateur IF development, there’s been a movement towards more complete implementation and more literary story-telling: more descriptions of objects, more actions for the player to use on everything and sundry, more plausible settings, more logical solutions to puzzles, greater concern for literary values in story, and so on.
There has also been a compensatory school of authors and players who reject the literary nonsense (deeming it pretentious), and who prefer obvious puzzles and unsubtle implementation as more essentially fun. These are often the same people who dislike the term “interactive fiction” and consider “text adventure” more honest, or at least a better description of what they want to play.
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—Emily Short, from her review of Treasures of a Slaver’s Kingdom
«That time on the sixth floor of the library:
“Violet, that was—that was—”
“Magical?”
“How did you do that?”
“Any sufficiently awesome girlfriend is indistinguishable from magic.”
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Jekyll is another simple ruby blogging engine implemented on github.
Trivium's code is available and comes with some elisp to blog from emacs. Nice.
@austonianb: I'm using emacs to squish your head right now. #
Emacs (with bitlbee) has rendered all other applications vestigal except perhaps firefox, mplayer and gnucash. #
OpenBSD 4.4: They just keep pimping it. #
@finalrune hey, the Radio Drama Revival feed has been inaccessible for a few days. Is it just me? #
@finalrune: Are these the productions just referenced on sffaudio? Are they drama or audiobooks? #
@austonianb: Ooh, I should have switched to twit.el a long while back. Thanks for bringing this up today. #
Hello from twit.el #
Read peanuts from the very first strip (all 21001 of them)!
Ediacaran. I'm loving this blog.
proced is like dired for processes.
GenderAnalyzer: "We think http://mazirian.com/metavore/ is written by a man." Correct!