My take on music being a universal language, esp when it comes to melody and vibrations.
Watch babies and young toddlers, they can’t understand the words, but as soon as music goes on, they start to sway and bop to the feel of it. My son does it all the time, he loves his music and rocks from side to side…It’s kinda cool and sweet.
I never played x-wing or tie fighter, but I did play the heck out of X-wing VS. Tie Figher. I wonder did they have a book for that?
loved your post, even though I am musically stunted!
I love Kodály. Especially the gorgeous heart-squeezing cello pieces. Can you recommend some cds for me? I’m ignorant, but love classical music. I remember much from my childhood (my Pop loves classical) but have no idea who the composers were. sadface
I love to put on classical cds when Puddytat does her homework!
Wow. That’s a couple years older than my Wumpus experience. If it were up to me, I’d have brought along more than one arrow to hunt a Wumpus. But…
That was cool! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks bkitty!!
I’d love to make some recommendations, but give me a few days so I can find some time to think about it.
Not sure this tops your game-playing experience Solai, but my first gaming experience was playing Oregon Trail after high school on a 300 baud dial-up modem (the kind where you had to put the handset on the modem after dialing the number on the landline). A keyboard and the rolled-paper printer. We could only play for 30 minutes at a time, due to the high cost of the dial-up. We could also play a Star Trek game, but you had to be lucky enough to connect with the system that hosted the game.
The experience was interesting and you learned to type BANG or POW as fast as you could and hit return on the keyboard. If you were fast enough, the printer spit out the following line: “Nice shooing! Good eating tonight!” Mind numbingly slow now that I think about it.
Ah yeah, an old skool geek-off. How long is YOUR onion belt?
That’s a rather personal question IYKWIM.
Pshaw. Got something to hide there, Tiny?
Lucas breath. d:
I simply don’t want to make others feel inadequate.
Where has this thread gone?
I loved hearing you guys talking about the first tall, thin alien and then the little tella-tubbby style aliens. In the “Making Of Documentary” contained in the 2001 Close Encounter’s Collection edition Spielberg states a few things. First of all, the technology to present aliens was in its infancy and the tall stringy alien was actually an early screen test on a puppet style alien. Also the little Tella-Tubby aliens were actually little girls. They tried some screen tests with the little aliens moving fast while everyone else movied slow, but it never worked out. However, Spielberg staed that it was his intention to show different races of aliens. He thought that since there were so many races of humans on Earth that he wanted to depict different races that evolved on the alien planet as well. I thought that was neat, anyway.
~Shooter Out
My dad has never been a scifi fan (got the bug from me mum) but he took the family into Nottingham way back when to watch Star Wars and a few months after release it was still had long queues so we watched Close Encounters instead. I would have been 10 at the time and I was mesmerised but I think it’s style and message hasn’t aged too well or maybe I’ve just more cynical well me and the world:)
Text adventures, never too old to play them and Infocom’s “Planetfall” was the first game I cried while playing, I really invested in Floyd the Droid. I have some time off in December, time to get some blank A4’s (for mapping) and delve back into Zork or maybe the Enchanter series but I still don’t think I could handle A Mind Forever Voyaging or Bureaucracy:D
Audra- I call pecs that big ‘chesticles’.
I understand it’s not so much the shape, as the cup size.
We don’t objectify women. We objectify parts of women.
We meaning me and my member, keeping with the theme of parts. IYKWIM.
talos starts singing
Me… And my mmmmeeemmmmber
Walking down the avvvenue. Avenue. Avenue. Avenue.
Me… And my mmmmeeemmmmber
Checking out the women’s parts. Bouncy two. Oh my, you. Tub of goo!
giggity
I think this is the ‘back of the box’ game Sean mentioned: Leather Goddesses of Phobos
Don’t let anyone ever tell you that nothing happens in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, because on this day in 1936, you’re snatched out of your favorite bar in Upper Sandusky - kidnapped by minions of the evil Leather Goddesses. You are brought back to Phobos as an experimental subject, as preparations continue to enslave every man and woman on Earth.
ahh retro gaming where to begin.
I suppose I do recall the old stuff, I appeared on a television quiz show to get an Atari VCS (as the 2600 was known aa over here) but one of my early utter addiction games was on the spectrum (yup, I was a Sinclair not a commodore and woe betide ere the two should meet, my first compy being a ZX81 at the tender age of nine).
But coming back to the speccy, my utter addiction game was called quazatron, you played a robot who went around and could grapple with other robots (power designated by letters, easiest robots being far down the alphabet, harder ones being lower letters).
The grapple mode (if you did attack another) flicked in to a mini game where you had to fire little arrows to control some lines on a 2x2 grid, the more advanced than you the other robot was, the greater the imbalance in no of arrows.
Ohh, I just googled and I’ve found some lunatic in kiwiland who’s developed a flash version, right i’m off to give that one a spin. I’ll post more laters folks and where’s FSL 3.0:green white and orange ops.
Phaze
on the “yes the colours I’ve chosen for FSLthreepointoh do happen to be the Irish national flag, so?” ID
More Infocom goodness. There’s a whole bunch of them available for play online (including Leather Goddesses of Phobos.)
About the hand signals in CE3K, trivia from IMDB: The hand signals used by the aliens are actually used by classroom teachers to teach the solfege scale. They were invented by the Reverend John Curwen, an English Congregationalist minister, and then adapted by composer Zoltán Kodály.
More on Sofege on Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solfège
I’ve still got the originals somewhere and a later compilation but now no excuse, there goes the rest of the year…
