Bugthing

We've been joking about Oslo having turned into Bergen. -.-

Who are you!? What are you doing with this information!? Who do you answer to!? Why did I click on it!? Why am I writing this way!? Edit: It just occurred to me I can kinda tell where you are from because of your choice of countries. Minus Norway and Iceland of course.

You and me both then. Man, remember when watching Freeman's Mind didn't get you laid? Now you make a Freeman's Mind reference and your the hit of the town. Man, remember when watching Freeman's Mind didn't get you playing Saxophone, keyboards, and drawing? Hmm.. no, that doesn't make any sense no matter how you turn it.

Deus Ex, around 1998 or so. I think I went to a store, oblivious of any reviews or hype around the game. I saw a few screenshots on the back of the box and I believe the HUD and style of the game reminded me of Syndicate, a game I read about in magazines when I was 15 or something. I never got the play Syndicate, but Deus Ex seemed cool. Best impulse buy ever. System Shock 2 came shortly after that, naturally.

I miss the days when there were as much French, German or Swedish cartoons on TV as there was American stuff.

I would shoot the Internet for being strange. What would you do if you woke up, hung over in Amsterdam without any recollection of how you got there?

Those pictures are beautiful, J.C.

Planescape Torment. I'll even acknowledge it's the better of Baldur's Gate as a feat of storytelling. I just can't get over the lengthy beginning. Tried.. many, many times.

ThatSmartGuy

(@Epsilon: I would be pretty freaked out about G-Man being an actual person.) @ThatSmartGuy: I would feel pain and I would scream. What would you do if you are not the first but the second person to respond to this very post?

My name is Bugthing and I say things. I play music, games, read literature and both do and think about a whole range of other things that at the end of the day don't really affect the way I say things. I can be pretty whimsical. Most of the time though I'm just weird.

I might finally get interested if either the stores decide to release some kind of package deal for the whole series in one box, or if Pocketplane Group decides to create Mass Effect:Tutu.

I would drive lego cars to work. What would you do if the rain outside would not stop for several years?

Sexuality is about things that are sexy, I think. If you are unlucky like me, you tend to not find a whole lot of things sexual by nature and have a bit of trouble dealing with the concept. I ended up envying a few people who did seem quite resolute in their reasoning, but it's not like any of them were ever interested in sharing their secrets with me. I think I've found different men and women attractive at some point or another, but probably more women on average. Never been with another man at any rate. If that's heterosexual or metrosexual or whatever, it's only because someone came up with a word for it a long time ago. I prefer not to think about the politics of it.

Having sex, preferably during the morning after waking up. It should be mentioned that I do not have much reason or will to show off to anyone by stating that. It is simply one of those things that are included in my top 10 favourite things that I have no qualms talking about. Also somewhere in the list: baking bread. Oh god!

Red vs Blue. I saw the first episode, but didn't get it was a series. Couple years later I realized my mistake and sat through the whole series. I figured there was HalfLife machinima later, after I had read Concerned and such, but it never looked too good until I found FM.

Oslo is very warm and humid. I've experienced this type of weather before in the Netherlands, but I hear it is somewhat unusual in Norway.

Tag. But then again, I was 6.

Oh, I also once tried to 'mythbust' how vulnerable computer parts really are, using an old Pentium 3. I tried to deliberatly static-shock every part that went into the mainboard (and the mainboard itself), but it caused no problems whatsoever. Then I made a whole bunch of scratches on the mainboard with a screwdriver, no efect. It didn't start showing problems until I screwed open the CPU casing and poured coca cola directly onto the CPU. I put some in the PCI sockets as well, I just figured something as acidic as coca cola would just have to rust something though. But I think it wasn't so much the acid as a think, sugary paste that did the trick. Inexplicably it started working again a week or so later, after I left in on for an extended time. I think the heat or vibrations eventually took care of the layer of sugar the coke had left behind.

Well.. I once patched up a broken ATI GPU fan with a case fan. It didn't fit and there were no screwing holes or anything. It ran too hot to use tape or glue, so I used a wood clamp to attach the case fan to the GPU. I only had to saw off the handle because it initially didn't fit on the mainboard. The guy at the store where I bought the fan told me it would never work. I told him that, between a 5 euro fan and a 400 euro new card, it was worth a shot. You really only need to know where the fan outlets are on the mainboard. It ran more stable, more cool and more quietly than the original 'onboard' GPU fan (I think it was a 9800xt type ati), for many more years until I switched it with a fanless Zalman GPU.

Doom. I was around 12 years old when it was released, but I probably didn't touch it until a couple of years later (seeing as how I didn't own a proper PC until 1999). Before I got to finally play it there were a couple of years when I was wicked interested in the game. Around the age of 12-14, I read about it in gaming mags, drew little demons in my school books, etc. Most noteably I had dreams about fighting those demons I had seen from magazine screenshots. By the time I finally got to play it I think I must have pretty much peed my pants. It was also right away my first multi-player experience, as I still didn't have a PC and my neighbor wanted someone to DM / COOP with -get this- over a Null Modem. Those days were special. I did play it occasionally around 1999 by myself, but around those days I was more captivated by Unreal, Unreal Tournament and Half Life than any Doom or Quake game. By the time Doom 3 was released, I had firmly planted my flag into RPG territory and there wasn't much about FPS games that interested me anymore. I think I played through at least a third of the game, but I never finished it. Once upon a time there was a Half Life 2 preorder ticket that I received after buying an ATI GPU. I had given away to a friend because I didn't care for it. I think around 2008/9-ish he remembered me and gave me the Orange Box as a gift in return. HL2's unique atmosphere and artistic design really drew me in, and I don't think any other modern FPS could have done that. I'm still mainly an RPG gamer, HL2 is just an exception. Doom 4? I don't think that's going to happen for me. I will fondly remember playing the game as a kid though.

I think merging them is pointless. Perhaps even wasteful. It creates more work for you and leaves no immediate traces behind for new users who haven't got a feeling for the community yet. Having locked threads around is usefull because like a stickied thread they serve as visible markers that certain types of behaviour are not okay. Otherwise it might appear to a new user (that failed to read up on the rules and or stickied thread) that complaining about machinima might still break new grounds.

Sticky this thread & add a forum rule. Lock threads that ignore the house rules and give short bans to repeat offenders / instigators. Problem solved. Forum moderation is about being consistent, not specific.

It serves a point, though I am not at all sure if many non-FPS games around or before 1998 had some semblance of stealth gameplay. Heck, I hardly remember what I played before Half Life. .. Lemmings. I need to play Lemmings again. Don't care much for Doom, Dune or Commander Keen. I want to see cute things kill themselves over and over and ov- ..

Not really. I can't remember a single moment in Half-life that didn't involve running out guns blazing and shooting your enemies in the face. The only time i can think of stealth mode is with the giant tentacle monster, in the actual game you have to crouch and sneak past them, using grenades to make them turn away from you so you can get to ladders and doors, Ross Scott didn't do that, he was able to use a little bit of HAX to get by them in a non-obviously-a-game way, but if you tried what he did in-game you'd die. Good point. Half Life was released in the same year as the first Thief game, although I don't know which came first. There must have been some pressure to include stealth as a gameplay element. Not a lot of stealth gameplay in 1st person games comes to mind before that year. The first was likely the original System Shock and *maybe* Strife or Heretic/Hexen after that. Most of them were hybrid RPGs as well.