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by Grandstone
Wed Feb 06, 2008 2:31 am
Forum: Introversion Lounge
Topic: A Clockwork Orange
Replies: 4
Views: 2503

If you get it from the library, make sure there are no notes translating the book's slang scrawled in the margins. That ruined the first part of the book for me.
by Grandstone
Wed Jan 30, 2008 2:27 am
Forum: Introversion Lounge
Topic: Super Tuesday
Replies: 36
Views: 9157

My state's in it, but it doesn't feel like it. Maybe I just don't watch enough TV to catch the awful, awful campaign ads. In any case, I'm registered as an Independent, so I can't vote in either primary.
by Grandstone
Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:51 am
Forum: Introversion Lounge
Topic: Movie Thread
Replies: 61
Views: 25738

I had the perfect cinema experience last night...i haven't seen Blade Runner in years and had been contemplating buying it of recent times until i checked my local cinema listings and they were showing the new Final Cut....so off i went to book my ticket during my lunch break and straight after wor...
by Grandstone
Wed Jan 09, 2008 1:15 am
Forum: General
Topic: The mood of Defcon gives me the creeps
Replies: 9
Views: 3036

I like the feeling of being the ghost in the machine that Introversion evoked in Defcon and Uplink . It lets you use your imagination. Every time I crashed a central mainframe in Uplink , I pictured a bunch of executives panicking and wondering what on Earth they would have to do next. Every time a ...
by Grandstone
Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:59 am
Forum: Introversion Lounge
Topic: Movie Thread
Replies: 61
Views: 25738

Is Luc Besson any good? I saw a movie he produced (Banlieue 13) to practice French and came out thinking the action fine and the story preachy. Are the movies he directed any better?
by Grandstone
Fri Dec 28, 2007 4:52 am
Forum: General
Topic: The mood of Defcon gives me the creeps
Replies: 9
Views: 3036

It goes away? Aw... :(
by Grandstone
Thu Dec 27, 2007 12:31 am
Forum: Introversion Lounge
Topic: FreeRice
Replies: 26
Views: 7242

As do I (cursory Greek and Latin is useful), along with automatically eliminating words of the wrong type. But there are words that just sound like their meanings, despite my lack of (conscious) knowledge of them - for example, poteen as bootleg whiskey. I'm puzzled by the ranking of some of the wo...
by Grandstone
Thu Dec 27, 2007 12:11 am
Forum: Introversion Lounge
Topic: Ye Olde Politiks: Winner, but decreasing rapidly: Gandhi 75%
Replies: 191
Views: 65955

Left/Right: -0.25
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.26

Huh. About what I'd expect. I don't know much about economics, so I'd expect to be close to the center there. I'm curious about which of the answers I gave were authoritarian.
by Grandstone
Thu Dec 20, 2007 6:45 pm
Forum: Introversion Lounge
Topic: Slaves to Armok: God of Blood - Chapter II: Dwarf Fortress
Replies: 40
Views: 12287

Are all of those subtitles jokes, or do they actually add up to something?

I'm almost afraid to try out this game. I liked NetHack, but this seems to push ASCII to a whole different level. I get vertigo looking at the screenshots.
by Grandstone
Tue Dec 18, 2007 1:38 am
Forum: Introversion Blog
Topic: It's all in your head, Part 7
Replies: 43
Views: 148659

Dude, Joy Division would have loved you.

EDIT: I, too, think that picture goes next to "awesome" in the dictionary.
by Grandstone
Sun Dec 16, 2007 10:58 pm
Forum: Introversion Lounge
Topic: Had you visited a haunted place in your city?
Replies: 17
Views: 6837

Where is that? Fairly close or a few hours out? When I was twelve or eleven or so, I went to summer camp at a place where there was a decrepit brick building set off aside from the main campgrounds and locked with chains and a padlock. It was small and had a green slanted roof with a little gable on...
by Grandstone
Sat Dec 15, 2007 4:48 am
Forum: Introversion Lounge
Topic: Picture Wars!
Replies: 3873
Views: 987242

wwarnick wrote:Ah. I've never listened to Van Halen. Anyway, the "guy on the left" is none other than Steve Wozniak, the inventor of the Apple computer.

wwarnick


Well, today I learned what Steve Wozniak used to look like. Cool.
by Grandstone
Sat Dec 15, 2007 2:43 am
Forum: Introversion Lounge
Topic: Picture Wars!
Replies: 3873
Views: 987242

Well, I'm pretty sure it's David Lee Roth, but some would probably debate that he was really a musician...and why is he with the guy on the left?
by Grandstone
Fri Dec 14, 2007 5:04 am
Forum: Mod Projects
Topic: All Cities Mod
Replies: 26
Views: 32488

Centurion Wind, your avatar is a little odd. :) Should I feel complimented at that statement or suddenly enter a mad rush to change my avatar? :P why dont you post the entire production of the Simpsons while ur at it? Gees that thing is long! Great, what was previously a discussion about a rather n...
by Grandstone
Fri Dec 14, 2007 2:06 am
Forum: General
Topic: Best 1 vs 1 Player? Part I
Replies: 62
Views: 11528

I simply will not spring to the defense of my native land's spelling of color, no matter how much it offends my sense of honor not to do so. I find it hard to sympathize with either side of this foolish argument, so I will not show favoritism by putting my foot down either way. Take that check to th...

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