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Submission + - Space Quest Spiritual Successor Project, SpaceVenture (kickstarter.com) 62

Mr. Jaggers writes: "Remember the old-school Sierra On-Line Space Quest series? With the original IP tied up in a giant Activision-Gordian-Knot, Scott Murphy and Mark Crowe ("The Two Guys from Andromeda"), the creators of SQ, have set up their own indie studio to invent a whole new hilarious universe, new characters, and puzzles; all the while respecting the style of art and comedy for which they are remembered. SpaceVenture is set to lambaste sci-fi franchises (as was done in SQ), and the team claims that none are safe, including Doctor Who, Stargate, Avatar, and others. They've lined up an all-star voice-acting cast, including Rob Paulsen (Animaniac Yakko, Pinky, TMNT's Raphael), Ellen McLain (GLaDOS), and radio legend Gary Owens. It's being promoted with a blog, podcasts, videos, live chats, and fan efforts including SQ marathons, comics, and fan videos. Best of all, as funding milestones are reached the team builds and releases prototypes; living, playable concept art demonstrating the character of the final game! The Kickstarter project targets PC/Mac/Linux/iOS/Android for release and includes awesome rewards that can land you in the game itself. It's definitely worth a look for fans of adventure games and sci-fi parody!"

Comment Re:Is it me... (Score 1) 62

The fact that the author did not intend to put it there does not mean it is not there. It could very well be that Lucas was going for space soap opera and he actually created believable, interesting characters who actually do tell us something about ourselves and answer some interesting philosophical questions. Also, many critics believe that, during the original trilogy filming, Lucas didn't have enough power to overturn any decision made by intelligent, creative assistants who actually know a lot about films. This, in turn, made a lot of the bad decisions he made in the new trilogy more apparent.

Comment Re:I don't think so. (Score 1) 1128

I do not understand the intricacies of quantum theory, however, I know that quantum theory has been discussed by people who do understand it, and that those people have reached consensus, made experiments, proven (or disproven) theories each time explaining better and better the things they are observing and I understand that there are probably some other things which don't quite fit in their current theory, but when they find them they will come up with better theories instead of ignoring the observations. That is definitely not faith.

Comment Re:My personal opinion (Score 1) 195

I don't understand this point at all. The huge-selling Wii now has a market that means a lot more than "core gamers". Even if these core gamers stay with Microsoft or Sony, Nintendo has a big market all for themselves and Nintendo has their own exclusives which include the three the top rated games in Gamerankings. And if the Playstation and Xbox have shown something is that "continued rehashes of old franchises" is exactly what the market wants, look at the top selling games for PS3 and Xbox 360 and most of them are yearly rehashes (7 instances of the Call of Duty series!)

Comment Hangouts are Awesome (Score 1) 310

My family and I are spread throughout the world. At first we used Skype to talk, but in recent versions they decided to remove the option to video chat with more than one person (unless you want to pay for the plus version) so we started looking into some other options, since most of us have Android devices we figured it would be easy enough to try out hangouts and so far they have worked great, people can connect from their browser or from their Android device and you get decent audio and video for at least four people in different parts of the world. I am a big fan.

Other than that I cannot say I use my G+ account much, though, however, I would say I use it as much as my FB account.

Comment Psychohistory (Score 1) 246

no browser wars, no open Web standards, no Mozilla, no Firefox. How might the Web — and the world — have looked today if that had happened?"

Hari Seldon would disagree. Even without Netscape, the web would have eventually realized that the healthier state was open standards and the movement would have started, maybe it would have taken more time, but sooner or later someone would have thought: "Know what? Things would be a lot better around here if instead of one big company changing the way things work whenever it wants we just decided on something and stuck with it."

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