Comments on: Russian to finish it

By: Maddie

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:30:29 +0000

hehe. that, Easca, would be awesome.
*stands in a field*
“rocks, i command you, DING!”
*rocks, quite rightly, ding*
“YEEEEESSS!”

By: easca

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:17:29 +0000

I worked on building a roof once. It was pretty fun. It was only one story, though. Plus it was a VERY small house.

I love Tetris. I’m not addicted to it, though. I just really like it. I actually haven’t played it in a really long time because I accidentally deleted it, and haven’t gotten around to having someone get me a new copy. Hm.

I also love Zelda. Personally, I developed a compulsion for chopping down all the grass with my sword. Swissssh. It gets rather bothersome when I have to go through the same room multiple times because I keep dying or something, but somehow, I can’t seem to resist… But now every time I go through long grass in real life I expect a giant green stone to magically appear with a lovely *ding* sort of noise.

By: Ben

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:54:07 +0000

Hmmm, no, experiences of dropping things on ppl below tell me that there will be no frantic anything happening.
A long and stupid union meeting will follow, nothing will happen and then we go back to work.

After playing Tenchu or BurnOut Revenge, I feel that I shouldn’t be allowed out into society.
I have strong urges to run cars off the road and sneak behind ppl and snap their necks, dragging their still and silent bodies into a dark corner.
Fortuently, I have neither the ninja, nor the driving skills to achieve these aims.

By: Maddie

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:56:08 +0000

woops. seems like tetris has reminded a lot of people of bad memories..

By: dishwasher

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:54:26 +0000

Why did you have to remind me of Tetris - i’ve bloked it out of my mind for a few years now.

By: Maddie

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:20:35 +0000

Adam, I have no idea how i weaned myself off tetris..i think the first time i lost my internet connection, then the other four i banned myself from playing. but, i’ve now got a new obsession so it didn’t work too well, clearly.

By: justine

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:45:26 +0000

i love zelda a little bit <3

By: Adam

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:43:00 +0000

from what I know, at least 10% of the population are acting like Link at any one time.

By: justine

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:33:03 +0000

and i thought i was the only one.

By: Adam

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:31:33 +0000

I can confirm that she does indeed do just that.

By: justine

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:29:06 +0000

do you walk into someones home and hear “doo doo doodoodoo” music and proceed to jump on their bed, climb all their ladders, steal all their treasure/life savings and smash as much of their crockery as you can?

By: Ms Em

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:14:05 +0000

For me the worst game for warping the mind is Zelda. When I walk into town the appropriate music follows me, likewise strolls in the country are soundtracked too and with the added tension of possible attack.

By: Joseph Hewitt

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:48:25 +0000

Matt is indeed a very decent chap. Yes, with the help of some time saving techniques such as writing all the dialog in ball point pen without preparing a script beforehand and not caring about perspective or consistent character design, I managed to do this in 17 hours and 14 minutes. It’s a great experiment to see what you can produce in such a compressed time frame.

Now I’m thinking about doing some mini-speed comics later- say, 6 pages in 6 hours with no preparation beforehand.

Ms Em- I do that too. I have a similar experience when playing Katamari right before bed.

By: The Great Joe Bivins

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:23:38 +0000

I once had a dream I was on Star Trek.

Now when I go to sleep I try to think of Star Trek to see if I can make it happen again (but it never works.)

By: golfwidow

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:21:20 +0000

I have been known to dream in Tetris blocks.

By: Adam

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:12:22 +0000

Yay, thanks for the link (I should have checked).

That’s really impressive, seriously, you got all that done in under a day?

It’s amazing really, how much you can produce when you have the time and impetus.

ToastYeah = Matt Sandbrook… a very decent chap he is too. For those of you that don’t know his work, ChipShop Adventures, go and have a look:

http://www.mattsandbrook.co.uk/home.php

By: Ms Em

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:09:56 +0000

Tetris stops me from sleeping. I lie awake as imaginary blocks fall through my mind and I always find room for them, so the game never ends. Being an insomniac really sucks sometimes.

By: Joseph Hewitt

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:03:57 +0000

It’s currently up in the Ataraxia Theatre forum, and will later be going up on the website. It’s a shame you couldn’t take part- it was a lot of fun, in a very masochistic sort of way. ToastYeah of Chip SHop Adventures (I ought to learn everyone’s real name) also did one.

http://transplantcomics.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4103

By: Adam

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:22:10 +0000

Congratulations Mr Hewitt… I was going to do something this year too, but I just couldn’t clear 24 hours (actually I couldn’t get a clear 5 hours). I’m not a fast drawer anyway. You’ll have to let us know if it is going to be available for general consumption.

Maddie, you’ll have to let us know how you weened yourself off tetris… is there some form of tetris-methedone?

TGJB, The aesthetic argument for tetris… I know a couple of players that struggle to win because of an over-riding sense of symetry. It’s like an analogy for religion.

Ben, Y’know I’d never thought of it that way. Perhaps next time you are on a roof you could start dropping tetris-shaped bricks on those below and watch them as they desperately try to line them up.

By: Ben

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:02:41 +0000

Yeah we are rare cos we keep falling off the roof.
Worst a bricky can do is drop a brick on their foot, we can drop ourselves on a bricky.
I am actually trying to hang up my tek-gun and snips, because of how stupidly dangerous it is. My insurance agent told me that the only way I could make it harder to get insurance would be to join the armed force in an active combat role.

Congrats to Seraphine and Maddie for having the discipline that I lack, I am meant to be in tafe right now sitting a welding exam that I should have done weeks ago. I’ll do it after smoko.

By: Maddie

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 15:46:37 +0000

Seraphine, i would love to be like you. seriously. actually, i feel rather proud at the moment. i have anentire week to do all my homework, but do you know what? i just did most of it. the second day of a 10 day half term, and i’ve done most of my work already. in fact, i’m now just sorting e-mails before i do some work on my essay. how’s that for discipline, eh?

and Ben, you’re right. but same as Justine, i’ve never thought of it in that way before. oh, and by the way, well done for being a roofer. people who lay bricks are too common, roofers are a lovely rarity

By: Seraphine

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 08:02:11 +0000

I don’t like Tetris either, not having the
patience for it. I’m either early or late
for a deadline… usually early. Why wait
for tomorrow when I did it yesterday?

By: Ben

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 05:38:41 +0000

Meh, bricks, only chumps lay bricks.
(Says me who is a proud roofer).

By: justine

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 05:35:19 +0000

ha! oh mr ben, most of the time you are exceedingly lame but sometimes…sometimes you are not. i have never ever thought of tetris like that.

By: Ben

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 05:27:00 +0000

lol
I hate tetris.
Reminds me of laying bricks.
It like a game the devil made to torment us ppl who work in building.
He (satan) said “You shall forever lay these bricks of odd shapes and any well laid rows will forever disapear, but should you make it to the top, you lose”.
Yeah, great game.