Comments on: Painting With Shotguns X

By: Amanda d'Adesky

Amanda d'Adesky — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:45:35 +0000

I read this article on Tim Schafer, and I thought of you. While I have only played one other game he worked on (Psychonauts), I feel Yahtzee still makes several good points.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extra-punctuation/6714-Extra-Punctuation-A-Study-of-Tim-Schafer

By: Amanda d'Adesky

Amanda d'Adesky — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:20:29 +0000

I agree with you on Brutal Legend. I really, really, really wanted to love that game through and through. Alas, while the story is enough to make me see this through to the end, I’m still quite angry with Tim Schafer for several things that are bent and busted in that game. *sigh*

Will comment on the rest after I get dinner out of the oven.

By: Julie

Julie — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:03:48 +0000

oh, well touch YOU.

yes, i’ll just bet that party was nerd city.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:05:49 +0000

Who? Moore? Oh, aren’t *you* fancy?

I can beat that, lady! I got three books signed by him. (Lamb, Dirty Job, and a UK copy of Practical Demonkeeping.)

My mates were kind enough to also include a signing by him for by bachelor party (possibly being one of the nerdiest bachelor parties in history).

Further, we got to go out and have drinks with him in South Carolina.

During that trip, we went to watch dog racing and dog fights. It was a night of hookers and blow. Always bet on the smaller dog, he said. Lower center of gravity.

…

Okay, that last part might not be true. But the rest, totally true.

– c.

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:00:42 +0000

He signed my copy with a personal note. muahahahaha.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:34:59 +0000

Jesus was a rad dude.

Also: Lamb, the Gospel According to Biff, Best Friend to Jesus is great. Christopher Moore is a patron saint of mine. Fluke? Dirty Job? Brilliant.

– c.

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:08:16 +0000

*stands up and cheers for Josh*

My favorite take on Christianity is The Gospel of Biff. I’m certain you already read Lamb. I prefer to keep that in my head at all times.

Like I explained to my mom a few weeks ago, I love Jesus. Jesus was a pretty awesome dude. And he’d be absolutely appalled over the shit done In His Name.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:54:27 +0000

Well, that’s the thing, though — I don’t think making it metaphorical sours the message. I think it strengthens it. Taking it *all* literally becomes an absurdist reduction of logic; in the Bible alone you found several “versions” of Jesus that don’t play well together unless you see it as a metaphorical quilt showing us the many facets of the man (or even Man).

– c.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:50:25 +0000

One of my favorite prayers, as a Christian, goes like this:

“Dear Jesus. Please save me from Your fan club. Amen.”

While I acknowledge that the Bible is more metaphorical than literal and there’s some scary stuff in there when put in the hands of fanatics and dipshits – or worse, fanatical dipshits – I still think some of the scripture has merit and is worth following. Jesus set a great example of how not to be a dick while not being a total pussy, and if more people focused on that rather than burning people alive or trying to browbeat them into submission, we’d have fewer problems on this tiny rock hurtling through space.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:33:35 +0000

I didn’t just want to love it — I did love it. For the first hour or three…

And every hour since, my enjoyment has swiftly waned by another 22 pleasurecrons.

I am now down to -3 pleasurecrons.

…

– c.