EIKE'S PROFILE

No. What? No, I'm an idiot. You said it was less about 'what cool tropes can I use for my game'. Don't mind me!

I like Brave New World a lot. I'd have to say, everyone says CAMERAS? IN MY TOWN?? IT IS LIKE WE ARE LIVING IN NINETEEN-EIGHTY FOUR but Brave New World always struck me as far, far more similar to modern-day.

I wouldn't necessarily say it was the difference between communism and democracy, Brave New World is still pretty totalitarian, but with a severely manufacured utopia as opposed to any kind of traditional dystopia. Rather than in 1984, where if you resist you are brainwashed, killed and forgotten, in Brave New World you have no means to resist and revolt because nobody gives a fuck because they're HAPPY. Probably shouldn't talk about Soma the painless wonder holiday drug on a videogame forum for irony's sake but that bit struck a chord with me as well.

There never seemed to be much 'boot smashing into a human face forever' and maintaining the status quo, is the thing, it seemed to have sprung from legitimate altruism which made it kinda scarier. The utopia is worse in some ways, I always remember the line about rather than suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, they're just abolishing the slings and arrows altogether. The annoying thing is there isn't really any decent argument against being happy all the time except for poetic kinds of reasons, (and all art is, of course, banned. Nineteen Eighty-Four had crappy lit. and films, can't actually remember if Brave New World had something like this. I imagine so) and if it ever came to a choice of manufactured happiness all the time and the actual range of human emotion I think more than a few people would be tempted after giving it some thought.

This is probably less-than-articulate, it's 4.30 and I need sleep. Well, there's some discussion, anyway. I do like the book. Orig, I'd be interested to see what you thought when you finish it/it's sunk in, or whatever.


edit: oh, haha, fun fact: Huxley knew George Orwell, I think he was one of his teachers at Eton, and shortly after 1984 was published, Huxley wrote to him basically saying "yeah, nice book. I think my one's the way things are actually gonna go down, but yeah good effort B+" I am prick-ising Huxley here, but yeah.

I liked them. Hmm, I think Dear George could (don't know if you're still working on it) get a lot funnier if it went on a bit longer. It feels like it's pretty abruptly cut off just when it's hitting its stride. If you're doing it live, it definitely should be longer, at the moment it's about 50/50 buildup and laughs, that's doesn't seem like a good ratio for a comedy song... but the buildup pretty much needs to be that length, yeah. Just my two cents. Haha, don't know if you wanted criticism or if you were just showcasing stuff. Sorry.

"*sniff* beautiful *sob*" made me laugh, as well.

I did like that part of FFVI a lot. I was originally going to do the Suikoden III way in my game, switching between the three parties from the start until they all meet up later, but decided against it because I didn't really want the lack of an obvious main character, and in the end just made one of them the main and put very short segments as the others early on to give them a little background before you meet them. S3 way isn't the exact same as the FFVI way, but worth a mention.

Like statistic said though, if you're doing this in RM2K3 you're going to have to work around the common inventory. I guess you could use a lot of variables, or just go for suspension of disbelief.

Wait, I can't actually remember, but I think FFVI had a common inventory as well. Ah.

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This was really fun to play through. Had quite a few chuckles. The Real Men room, Nightblade's mansion and Gallery were my personal favorites, probably.

It'd be really cool to have another this sort of project in the future, too. And if there is going to be one, I'll be sure to commit to it!

This, essentially. Also liked the evil topics!