HALIBABICA'S PROFILE

One day, I find one of those old comedy/tragedy masks lying on the ground. It's the comedy side, and sports a big happy smile like this: :D. Knowing full well that comedy is nothing without tragedy to offset it, I realize I must find it's missing mate.

So I go on eBay and start snooping around. I see some good auctions, but most of them have both halves of the set instead of just the tragedy side. I browse for hours through thousands of auctions until I finally find a lone tragedy mask at a reasonable price. As I'm bidding on it, the price quickly becomes unreasonable, but I keep bidding, because dammit, comedy NEEDS tragedy! It just DOES. After the bidding hits over $5000, I finally win it with a surprise snipe bid at the last second (max bid $10,001.47, shnuckas!).

After about a week the tragedy mask arrives in the mail. I open it only to discover that it's a complete fraud. It wasn't the mask pictured, and looks more indifferent than anything else, like this: :P. So I complain to the seller and give him a bad rating, and he gets pissed at me and tells me to...well, nevermind that. I end up sueing him and we go to e-court for the case. I won the trial when the judge realized what a jerk that guy was and he was required to find me a real tragedy mask to go with the comedy one. But, as I was walking out of the courthouse, I tripped on what looked like a bomb with three wires cut, fell into the street, and got my head run over by a segue.

I dropped the the script containing the alternate ending to Kirby 64 where Waddle Dee pulls out a sawed-off shotgun and shows everyone what happens when you push a minion around too much.

Granted. Everyone tries to talk in iambic septameter, but most of them don't even know what it is, so the end result is poetic murder of spoken language.

I wish uploader sites didn't make you wait for set periods of time before letting you download stuff.

This is what Slamdance is for. This year, they hit a snag and had to cancel, but they should be back again at some point.

It also sounds like a grand-scale Play Something! Day. Nice idea, but an event this big would be very difficult to organize.

author=narcodis link=topic=1462.msg24447#msg24447 date=1216449321
seems like game developers tend to obsess over perfection. How often do you see a game complete and finished?

This is why I finish my games and fix them up later. That's not to say they aren't already good/playable, I just like tweaking things here and there as the ideas come to me. I don't usually make really big changes, as those can alter the game too much. It's usually just a little of this and a little of that, the things that make the game look more polished (b/c that's basically what it's doing).

Cool. It looks like Koregoth must've forgotten or something, but whatever! This coming week is totally awful for me, though. I'm working late most days, and the only one I have off is Thursday. Still, we can see what we can do.

author=Little Wing Guy link=topic=1490.msg24458#msg24458 date=1216460501
I live in the UK so theres going to be a time difference.

If you're in Europe, then there's a 6-hour time difference between me and you. My 10 PM is your 4 AM, so I wouldn't start any later than your 1 AM. Playing against you would be more an issue of starting too early than anything else.

And here I was worried people lost interest...