I don't think you suck, that game is notoriously hard.

Ya. Keep in mind they used to make money off "tip" lines where you could call and ask for a clue ect for xxx per minute.

Your score is 0 of a possible 400, in 19 turns.

Whee!

My favorite bit is being able to put on a gown that isn't in the room description! I now remember why I always hated this game.

type miserable = death
type "miserable" = salvation

Yes, it is. '...a chair with a tatty dressing gown slung over it...'

btw here's a walkthrough in case you guys need it.

All spoilers. Be warned: http://www.eristic.net/games/infocom/hhg.html

Fuck a walkthrough, text based adventures are my jam.

So hey.



Bout that walkthrough.

They should really include an html version of the invisible ink hint book, too.

ok where are the rest of the infocom games. I am waiting for Leather goddesses of Phobos!

Need a +1 Natsukashii mod

I don't suppose you have a scratch and sniff card to go with the wonderful link?

While we're at it, here's a link to zork games 1-3, the manuals, and the walkthroughs: http://www.ironrealms.com/zork

This is where I should talk about Eamon.

Eamon was a text adventure like Zork, but it had some great features. I used to love this game. First of all, it was much more of an RPG in that you could equip yourself with superior equipment, recruit allies as well as solving puzzles. More critically, it was the first game of its kind that supported user generated content, and tons of adventures (of varying quality) were available. Currently there are more than 250 adventures, and some permit a degree of continuity of your character and equipment.

http://www.eamonag.org/pages/Play_today.htm

This is the weakest brag ever -

I've got an original 'Don't Panic' badge that came in the box of the Apple IIe version of this game on my fridge.

I used to play the HHGTTG game when i was a kid - if i dug through under my mothers house (storage going back decades), I could probably find the box and disks as well.

I wonder if the pocket fluff is still there too -

I had one from childhood up until the leather jacket it was pinned to got stolen in the early '00s.

I have some original Pacman magnets on my fridge.

OH MY FUCKING GAWWWD!

I use to play this all the time.

When I was a kid I played this without reading the book.

That was not easy.

Well, you can also try listening to the original radio broadcast.The first episode is available for 6 more days.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jlzj

Oh, I've read the series a couple of times. Mostly thanks to trying to beat this game :)

Still, there are large variances between the radio series and the books, and the radio series is still awesome. I torrented it years ago and still give it a spin every now and then.

Between the books, radio series, and the BBC TV miniseries.

The miniseries is still something I find more entertaining than the movie, even with the 80's Doctor Who special effects.

All I remember about this game is that getting a babel fish into one's ear is really, really difficult.

This was the first time as a kid I really wanted to love a game, and hated it. It was a frustrating waste of money for me at the time. I never did get beyond the vogons.

Ya. My dad copied this back in the day.

Dat Commodore 64.

Even better, if you fail to solve it in a certain number of turns, you can continue to play but the game is unwinnable. Because ha ha, fuck you, players, that's why!

Much like life.

i did in fact finally beat this game after about 4 months. glorious.

save often, save smart

hmmm... seems i can't embed youtube vidyas

anyway
http://youtu.be/JzOPVe7Usms

Get Lamp trailer

To embed YouTube videos you have to check the "use old embed code" box.

Did anyone catch the new Cosmos on Fox or Nat Geo? I thought it was pretty good. Everything was definitely massively oversimplified, but I think it has the budget and writing to inspire. I also like the way Christianity was denigrated for punishing those that care to think beyond dogma.

Good, but so many commercials. Wasn't fond of the Obama intro either. I was really hoping the fact that it was on Fox would get a number of people I know that could really benefit from watching, to tune in with an open mind. Pretty sure having Obama introduce it slammed that door shut.

If that's enough to do it, it's unlikely anything else in the program would've penetrated their shields, either.

Maybe, maybe not, but politicizing a science program meant to reach the layman in a nation with an extremely polarized political climate is not the way I would have chosen to find out.

The president saying "science good" before a good science show is politicizing it? Especially one of this magnitude?

If his political opposition is that deranged, my original statement stands. If Obama said the sky was a lovely shade of blue, they'd try to claim it was Cerulean and you're a traitor to your nation if you don't.

Sorry to say they are that deranged, and will certainly view his appearance as politicizing.

Yet it's an appearance on Fox. What effect will those two conflicting notions cause?

I'm hoping for mass fatalities due to brain explosion.

Oh, absolutely. There was a "libtard vs conservitard" (their words, not mine) argument on the Cosmos facebook page almost immediately because of it. Totally unnecessary. NDT even did a pretty good job of showing how science's roots and a man's love for god were compatible at one point.

Whether they like it or not, most conservatives still believe in science, their model of science just happens to be somewhat outdated. And frankly, most liberals really aren't that much further ahead in their understanding. The difference is most liberals still think of scientists as authority figures while most conservative authority figures are bashing science. This was a pretty good chance for NDT to sidestep all that political bullshit as the other type of american god, The Television Personality! And with the blessing of a network most conservatives trust no less!

And, if I may remind you, a moon base for He3 mining and the first checkpoint to a massive space program would be an awesome chance for scientific and economic advancement. But the second Gingrich said it, it was stupid, a joke, lunacy. Ha! ;) So it's not as if that derangement is one sided. Very few of us truly give the thoughts of our opposition the consideration we should.

Ah, well. Fingers crossed for ep 2 :)

For this left-of-center voter, it wasn't that Gingrich proposed the concept which made it crazy. It was that he said it and still expected to get elected with all the other loopy stuff he'd said.

M'self, I'd love to see some asteroid mining, research on a space elevator, and several other concepts that would help us make space exploration have a more easily demonstrable benefit.

And that's awesome that you can separate the man from the idea, but there were many who didn't.

I would too. I don't think we're quite at space elevator yet, but I really wish our space program was treated with same fervor our country applies to war. Our society is overall very accepting of the idea of throwing bodies at foreign diplomacy issues, but when it comes to space advancements, a shuttle explosion resulting in seven deaths is enough to cause people to question if we should even be bothering. I'm not saying I want people to die either way, but I'd be much more hopeful if the idea of sacrifice for human endeavor and global advancement was the norm rather than throwing lives away for wars that are ultimately about lining the pockets of the rich.

Did you happen to see Neil Stephenson's Solve for X talk a couple of years ago? Good stuff.

Okay, Neal Stephenson is a bit of a sore spot with me.

I didn't like "Snow Crash" because I thought it couldn't decide if it was supposed to be a satirical look at cyberpunk or a showcase for a bunch of tech-related ideas he had and duct-taped together.

But the big thing I hate about him is that he worked (and still does, for all I know) with a company called Intellectual Ventures, one of the biggest patent trolls ever made (This American Life and Planet Money did a disturbing piece on them). Then he has the gall to go give talks about how patent trolling is hurting innovation. He's one of those gurus that I think achieved guru-hood before they'd been fully vetted.

As for the space elevator, Terry Pratchett noted something about it that appeals: Once you get a mass (people, cargo, etc.) up the thing, so long as you're sending things up and down, the energy required is about as efficient as you can get in the real world, since you're largely using counterweights to travel, like you would in a physical elevator.

Aw, that's a shame. I'll have to look into that. I like his works as he has a certain type of literary architectural style to his writings I enjoy. I especially like Snowcrash and Diamond Age :P

As a matter of fact, I read the Discworld series last summer, including the Science books. Loved them! Number 2 especially, as information structure and how it flows through the world is kind of my thing. I had been using the idea of phasespace for almost a decade in my rantings without ever having a proper word for it till I read those books. I was so happy :D .. and then I was sad when I realized they weren't going to be many more :(

when most faux news viewers look at him as "that uppity N**ger", then yes it is politicizing the intro IN THEIR VIEW "and if he likes it, I MUST hate it.

Look at how they reacted when Michelle suggested we eat healthy.

That's just another case of the democrats interfering with our personal lives.

My email to her that she should focus her efforts on telling people to breathe oxygen has not yielded any results.

Thus far.

I don't think it was over-simplified for what it was intended to be, a quick overview of all of space and time in 50 minutes. It was an intro to put our place in the Cosmos in perspective, and to establish a metaphor (the cosmic calendar) that I suspect they will return to repeatedly.

I'm sure we'll get a lot more detail on pretty much every point made in the first episode.

Fairly well done, nice effort by Tyson with a very fitting nod to Sagan at the end. But Tyson alas is no Sagan.

But they are both star-stuff.

Welcome to the cosmus.

Having just finished it, I thought it was excellent, and I think Tyson was the perfect choice.

I just remember that damned "buffered analgesic." I didn't know what the hell that was or what to do with it. It was so frustrating. I think I was 10 or 12. I'm guessing I didn't get very far, because that's all I remember from it.

10 out of 400, in 17 turns. I got exactly as far as I could remember from when I was a kid. I managed to take the buffered analgesic, go outside, and get hit with a brick when that damned bulldozer crushes my house. This was the very first video game I ever played as a child, and it was maddening. As a side note, I had no idea what an "analgesic" was at the time, I think I looked it up to learn it was a painkiller. And that word has always stuck with me since.

Also, I played this long before I read the book series, so it was quite a fun revelation when I did read the first book, how the first scenes of it were what this long-forgotten game had been representing.