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This is something I've just noticed: Unless I got confused somewhere, our site just ranks games linearly in order of upload when creating their URLs, and the newest games are at 7500+. Yet, we "only" have 3269 games. Does it mean that more than half of all games on here were taken down by creators or something? Hope someone can fill me in on this.

For me, the Zener cards were always best used in the Starship Troopers, along with those other awesome mid-film commercials. I wonder if the upcoming serious remake (which is about 85% likely to be horrible) will still include them, or not?

This reminds me; it would actually be pretty awesome to have a quality SST game (hopefully not a badaptation) on RMN. Maybe I should get on it sometime after my current writing tenure is done (i.e. not anytime soon).

Oh, yes, what you say sounds very familiar to my current writing on Nihilo. Having said that, I generally have flowchart-style writing only for the actual dialogue trees; when it's to do with area/item description, I tend to just wait for my partner, Giznads, to develop the area of a game and send me a screenshot/demo. Then I label all of the objects in the screenshot, Ctrl + V it in Word and write descriptions underneath. Whatever works, I guess.

I'm comparatively new on here, so I never really got to interact with your alts, and so I suppose it doesn't affect me much. Then again, before I was on RMN, I was part of a certain forum with zero effective moderation and where I was seemingly the only person without an alt. account. Those were fun times.

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Oh, I remember that review. Some truly vile stuff was said, but to be honest I don't really blame the guy- he's apparently pretty hard into psychedelic drugs, so he's no doubt very spiritually and personally connected to his art. I think his reaction was because it was judged as a game when he really intended it as a purely artistic piece.

I guess that explains a lot. Believe or not, however, I actually view all games as artistic pieces, which is part of the reason why I tend to give lower scores on here than most. It's just that to me, gameplay in a game is like cinematography in a film, i.e. an integral part of an experience regardless of how artistic it intends to be. And of course, I mostly praised the gameplay; it was the storyline I had greatest issues with.

EDIT: @ Housekeeping: Didn't see your post when I first wrote it, but I guess same points apply. And I agree that the discussion overall was worth having; I just wish, like everyone else, that it could've been conducted with more grace (which I suppose I must take some of the blame for).