tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post6478932000685969112..comments2024-03-28T15:25:30.216-04:00Comments on The CRPG Addict: Shadow of the Evil: Writing in the WallsCRPG Addicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-62038640316955937482022-12-26T16:29:46.461-05:002022-12-26T16:29:46.461-05:00What even is that thing attacking you with the mac...What even is that thing attacking you with the mace? Lord Humungus? Some guy wearing an owl mask? A plasma globe bolted on to the body of a lizard man?Tipihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11416637333851125884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-39857368753137256802022-12-10T05:01:57.352-05:002022-12-10T05:01:57.352-05:00Chicago is built on a grid - even the river downto...Chicago is built on a grid - even the river downtown is engineered to turn at a right angle, just like it would in a Crpg. The grid makes it very easy to navigate, especially because you can always orient yourself towards the lake. There would be no point to mapping it, though - every block would look about the same.Theclahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05277762151507243666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-30147050130029032882022-12-08T16:20:04.022-05:002022-12-08T16:20:04.022-05:00Movies? A movie would get labasted as fiction if i...Movies? A movie would get labasted as fiction if it showed a city as bad as Manhattan. Business leaving by the hundreds every day, crime so bad people don't even report it and hordes of giant rats roaming the streets. People can't sleep because of the gunfire, that's why they call it the city that never sleeps, because it always sounds like an active warzone! Good thing the city provides armored bus and security or all the tourists would get shot as they step off the plane! They need that money or the city runs out of money and looks like zombie movie. What a lovely place!<br />>complains that bland concrete buildings is infair.<br />>lists bland concrete buildings.<br />I really want to go see old skyscraper that looks like the cold shit or a kid's first building in minecraft. Or neofascism or whatever you yanks call them. You forgot the 20000 world famous pizza joints because some English said it didn't taste like burnt battery acid, or SCENIC HOLE IN THE GROUND. Flies enjoy feces, so feces must be tasty.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-50327518930157607272022-12-08T15:42:14.457-05:002022-12-08T15:42:14.457-05:00More importantly, what's the first-best jazz c...More importantly, what's the first-best jazz city in the world ? New Orleans ?<br />Narwhal, the Wargaming Scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05808952600298482923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-49580990882451293672022-12-08T14:55:57.688-05:002022-12-08T14:55:57.688-05:00Oh I actually did, too. But I recall only quotes f...Oh I actually did, too. But I recall only quotes from the legendary first.fireballhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01094871771537115267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-85934429632087985032022-12-08T13:40:11.632-05:002022-12-08T13:40:11.632-05:00Wow, that escalated quickly.Wow, that escalated quickly.poster formerly known as VKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09766031949641666286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-32980496030306665492022-12-08T12:41:18.032-05:002022-12-08T12:41:18.032-05:00Only Showsni has watched Die Hard with a Vengeance...<i>Only Showsni has watched Die Hard with a Vengeance, it seems.</i><br /><br />That blond dye job on Jeremy Irons is hard to forget.PK Thunderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14416777230563913195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-39965733477913230822022-12-08T12:24:09.143-05:002022-12-08T12:24:09.143-05:00Why is this thread not in one of the BloodNet entr...Why is this thread not in one of the <i>BloodNet entries?CRPG Addicthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-34494927664630670112022-12-08T12:22:24.982-05:002022-12-08T12:22:24.982-05:00Yes, Manhattan, the de facto capital of the world,...Yes, Manhattan, the de facto capital of the world, visited by over 65 million tourists a year before COVID, including more than 20 million from Europe. Home of such "bland concrete buildings" as Grand Central Station, the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, Rockefeller Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Statue of Liberty, and the Guggenheim Museum. Home of Broadway, the United Nations, and Lincoln Center. The City that Never Sleeps. The city where everything happens first. The second-best jazz city in the world. <br /><br />No American would deny that Europe has wonderful cities, some of which I'd happily rank above New York, but they're at least on the same list. The idea that all American cities are "hideous," or that either way it has anything to do with the street layout, is a uniquely ignorant point of view.CRPG Addicthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-12791380813381184032022-12-08T12:00:27.822-05:002022-12-08T12:00:27.822-05:00You seem to be mistaking dystopian movies from the...You seem to be mistaking dystopian movies from the 70s and 80s for reality. The Rotten Apple days were never nearly as bad as contemporary movies made them out to be. The Rotten Apple era has also been over for decades.<br /><br />Alternatively, you are trolling.Gnomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13920812227941556716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-90289936609343147612022-12-08T11:25:56.908-05:002022-12-08T11:25:56.908-05:00The answer is obviously 0 (excluding yourself), bu...The answer is obviously 0 (excluding yourself), but for a different reason. All the wives are going to hell for carrying around 56 cats in a sack and the husband is already there so he's not going anywhere.Ken Brubakerhttps://kejabrsoftware.wixsite.com/kejabr-softwarenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-19436382492146688362022-12-08T11:23:41.278-05:002022-12-08T11:23:41.278-05:00Manhattan, you mean the city full of bland concret...Manhattan, you mean the city full of bland concrete buildings and homeless people shitting in alleies? So beautiful, you had to ask the Fre*n*h to give you a statue that doesn't look brown and grey? The city that's been failing ever since you lot moved in? I'm so envious!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-53985587989140973442022-12-08T10:11:59.133-05:002022-12-08T10:11:59.133-05:001. In this particular case, the party doesn't ...1. In this particular case, the party doesn't need to see the writing. "SOTE" is more of an Easter egg than a solution to a puzzle. So no conflict here. But I agree that there are times (cf. SHELTEM) that it makes little sense.<br /><br />2. Our "hideous cities" . . . like Manhattan?CRPG Addicthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-50231374611869010702022-12-08T10:03:55.533-05:002022-12-08T10:03:55.533-05:00Grid-like city plans were quite widespread in both...Grid-like city plans were quite widespread in both Ancient Greece and Ancient China, so they predate the American city by a couple of millenia minimum. poster formerly known as VKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09766031949641666286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-40698108839359811872022-12-08T08:22:54.570-05:002022-12-08T08:22:54.570-05:00Only Showsni has watched Die Hard with a Vengeance...Only Showsni has watched <i>Die Hard with a Vengeance</i>, it seems.CRPG Addicthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-21166333806467823452022-12-08T06:16:48.860-05:002022-12-08T06:16:48.860-05:00ampersand!ampersand!BESTIEunlmtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-34357041990781912222022-12-08T02:08:29.904-05:002022-12-08T02:08:29.904-05:00In that case it would be zero, as it only asked ho...In that case it would be zero, as it only asked how many kits, cats, sacks, and wives went there. However, you can't know how many other kits, cats, sacks, and wives not mentioned went there. <br /><br />But then, you can pretty much raise such questions with every puzzle, even those which are supposed to be answered straight.Bucknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-47964154305684520252022-12-07T18:36:10.411-05:002022-12-07T18:36:10.411-05:00@fireball The answer is just one - you're the ...@fireball The answer is just one - you're the one going to St Ives, the man and his wives are coming the other way!Showsninoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-5153099844951505222022-12-07T17:53:10.753-05:002022-12-07T17:53:10.753-05:00The difference between "was able to hit you&q...The difference between "was able to hit you" and "might be able to hit you" in German is only the umlaut: konnte vs. könnte<br />It feels a bit like being translated "word by word" instead of really knowing the language.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-53642331487238926202022-12-07T16:42:44.573-05:002022-12-07T16:42:44.573-05:00@Gerry Well, I guess the answer is NOT 7^4 cause t...@Gerry Well, I guess the answer is NOT 7^4 cause that would be to simple...or is it? fireballhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01094871771537115267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-84602229696559905482022-12-07T16:24:31.666-05:002022-12-07T16:24:31.666-05:00Yeah, you never see Americans talking about living...Yeah, you never see Americans talking about living on a grid when they talk about their hideous cities.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-69421345230409592802022-12-07T14:05:19.093-05:002022-12-07T14:05:19.093-05:00Or there's this one:
As I was going to St. Iv...Or there's this one:<br /><br />As I was going to St. Ives,<br />I met a man with seven wives,<br />Each wife had seven sacks,<br />Each sack had seven cats,<br />Each cat had seven kits:<br />Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,<br />How many were there going to St. Ives?Gerry Quinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04078394659680797175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-46954635084482904112022-12-07T11:34:31.936-05:002022-12-07T11:34:31.936-05:00'ΙΧΘΥΣ' might be among the earliest known....'ΙΧΘΥΣ' might be among the earliest known.Ahabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04131989140638867919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-78969887921546793192022-12-07T10:50:48.836-05:002022-12-07T10:50:48.836-05:00Thank you for your explanation.Thank you for your explanation.Joaquim Nogueirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10653845250432128753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-67986343663686620172022-12-07T09:55:56.722-05:002022-12-07T09:55:56.722-05:00Quite possibly. I think acronyms (or at least, ini...Quite possibly. I think acronyms (or at least, initialisms, which is the specific kind of acronym people are usually talking about when they use the word) have not been confirmed as existing before the late 19th century, but often turn up in folk etymologies for much older words.Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09703211229982182936noreply@blogger.com