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Sep. 11th, 2004 03:12 pmI much prefer old, depressive-to-rival-Leonard-Cohen Counting Crows to new, happy Counting Crows.
It's quieter now all those weddings and barbeques have subsided for a bit. Me and she had a lovely evening with Gareth and Emma the other night. Gareth is the Scourge of Uk.religion.christian, putting nutters to flight with his rapier-like logic. Or something.
I remember mentioning Leonard Richardson's Guess the Verb interactive fiction game, Munchkin, and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
opportunitygrrl (whose interests include geology, interplanetary video feeds, Mars, and Christina Aguilera).
Speaking of interactive fiction, I remember I promisedterriem some links to IF works recommended by S. terriem also pointed me at Kingdom of Loathing, which I've not tried yet. I played through Slouching Towards Bedlam and enjoyed it, although I did have to resort to the help a couple of times. Still, the story's the thing in this one, not the puzzles so much.
S also recommended 9:05 (which is short and funny in a twisted sort of way), and Spider and Web (which I've played a little way, and which is apparently longer). Get them from Home of the Underdogs in their IF section. To play them, you'll need an interpreter which runs the files. On the Mac, I got Frotz from Fink for the .z5 files and MaxTADs for the TADS ones. This page lists IF interpreters for Windows. There's a selection of Beginner's Guides to help with the conventions of the medium.
It's quieter now all those weddings and barbeques have subsided for a bit. Me and she had a lovely evening with Gareth and Emma the other night. Gareth is the Scourge of Uk.religion.christian, putting nutters to flight with his rapier-like logic. Or something.
I remember mentioning Leonard Richardson's Guess the Verb interactive fiction game, Munchkin, and
opportunitygrrl (whose interests include geology, interplanetary video feeds, Mars, and Christina Aguilera).Speaking of interactive fiction, I remember I promised
terriem some links to IF works recommended by S. terriem also pointed me at Kingdom of Loathing, which I've not tried yet. I played through Slouching Towards Bedlam and enjoyed it, although I did have to resort to the help a couple of times. Still, the story's the thing in this one, not the puzzles so much.S also recommended 9:05 (which is short and funny in a twisted sort of way), and Spider and Web (which I've played a little way, and which is apparently longer). Get them from Home of the Underdogs in their IF section. To play them, you'll need an interpreter which runs the files. On the Mac, I got Frotz from Fink for the .z5 files and MaxTADs for the TADS ones. This page lists IF interpreters for Windows. There's a selection of Beginner's Guides to help with the conventions of the medium.
