dude, I can post you about 2,000 of them if you like…
Phaze
on the “wonder if I can get dosbox for my phone, hmmm” ID
This is lazy clicking, but didn’t Leather Goddesses have some kind of Douglas Adams connection?
not as such dxf, being somewhat less lazy than you 
i’ve done a lttle research, leather godesses of phobos was released by the same company , using afaik the same engine as the hitchikers text adventure.
HTH
Phaze
on the “One january i stayed late in college playing H2G2 text adventure and had to walk 4 miles uphill in snow as the buses stopped” ID
I loved gaming on my old 48K Spectrum. One of the most awesome games of the time was the turn-based Laser Squad (which later became X-COM), and 3D Deathchase. Much later I was immersed in Metal Gear Solid for far too long during my university years.
You’ll all recall I’m not a huge fan of the use of 3D (the nausea I get watching doesn’t help that!), so I’m very much on board of 3D becoming a tool in the visual effects toolbox as opposed to a mandatory marketing ploy 
So, if I was too young for a lot of the stuff you guys talk about, but I’m also too old for Power Rangers (the kids I babysat loved it though), so I wonder, what generation am I? Then again, I had very restricted viewing, thanks to the parental no-commercial policy.
I’m very excited for Caprica to come back, though I wasn’t turned off it by the dog stuff as much as a lot of others were (the circle of fire freaked me out, though). It really, really picked up near the end of the half-season, though, and I can’t wait to see what’s going to happen - that car crash, the V-world domination, etc. Plus, Clarice is an awesome character. So complex!
I watched Spartacus on Sean’s recommendation in a 2 or 3 day binge before it went off Netflix IW, and I loved it. Spouse was quite confused, because there was so much blood, which is something I generally don’t like (but it’s Spartacus! hehe). Meanwhile, spouse had gotten super into True Blood, and has watched it all and now is getting me to (re)watch it with him. I have to say, I’ve only seen season 1 so far so things may change later on, but the sexy in Spartacus is much more than the sexy in True Blood (though both are fun). I also didn’t think I was going to like it (I feel like maybe Audra and I would have had the same objections?)
The first time I watched Close Encounters it was dubbed in a foreign language I speak. Not the same effect! It turns out one of my parents hated the film, so we never watched it in my house.
Audra and I had the same dream of being the kid on Reading Rainbow! I also wanted to be on Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego because I was driven crazy by the kids didn’t know where anything was on a map, and got to the final…
To add yet another voice to the cacophony of Kirk Star Trek must watch films: show 4! Time travel! Whales! Hippie Spock!
I have heard of this movie but never seen it, I do see it is on instant streaming on netflix so i will have to check it out.
Everytime I hear Sean mention Final Fantasy I get all warm and fuzzy inside. FF7 was my first real game I owned. I had always really liked video games growing up, but it was still very much seen as a waste of time when I was young, especially for a girl.
Finally my senior year of high school,I said forget it, took some of my graduation money and bought a Playstation and a copy of Final Fantasy 7. I didn’t even know what a RPG was, but I thought the commericals looked cool. Needless to say, I was hooked. I must have spent every waking moment playing that game.
After that every extra dime went to video games. When I went to college I was the only person in my dorm with three different systems.
I need lots of plot in my games and some of my favorites were Xenogears (RPG with giant fighting robots, good stuff), Suikoden and most of the Metal Gear Solids. Some of the girls in the dorm would actually come over to watch me play, like it was a movie. Which looking back, stunk. I couldn’t just pick up and play. I had to call people to tell them I was playing so they wouldn’t miss anything.
To wrap it up I kinda feel like I help some women get over the video games are for boys thing. By the time I left college, several of my friends had at least 1 console (my roommate 2), not to mention 3 female coworkers picked up PS2 as well.
You are made of too many kinds of OSSIM!!
I was an 80’s arcade girl, back in the day. I even played a cheapo portable version of Pong! lol!
I remember kicking the butts of some boys I knew, and loved my 2600 with Adventure and such. Got a Gameboy as soon as they were back in stock after payday. Moved on to a Sega Genesis (which is my missed call alert).
We have a PS2 (Soul Edge-yeah!) and a Wii, but the strings of family life allow little time for me to play. It takes me forever to figure out the buttons on the controller! And if we do play, it’s with games that aren’t too much for my 7 almost 8 year old. Rayman’s Rabbids in big in our house.
If I had the time, I’d be ossim, too! lol!
So thanks for carrying the standard and inspiring fellow femmes to play!
PS: We used to have an arcade called Nickel City/Wunderland where the hub & I would play House of the Dead. We ran out of nickels to finish the game, and the surrounding people were so caught up they financed us through the last level- lol! That was cool.
Not that I’m aware of. DNA did have a close relation to Infocom, though, so that may be the source of confusion.
As a consolation prize, here’s the H2G2 game. (despite what our intrepid hosts have said, reading the novels isn’t much, if any, of an advantage. It was intentionally designed to be fiendishly difficult. Doug could be a bit of a bastard when he wanted to.)
Well thanks to fashion week, I’m just now listening to the Close Encounters then the Blade Runner podcasts. It’s relaxing to hear these after all the craziness of FW
This is my first ever post/reply, so NO idea if I’m doing this right (please be kind if I’m not doing this right):
The hand gestures are used in music to give a visual frame of reference for various pitches. So instead of just singing “do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do” a music teacher can give the class a hand gesture (no, not THAT one, lol) and the class can relate it to a pitch (e.g. “do. re, mi,” etc). The teacher also holds their hand at a certain relative height, aiding the students (usually elementary age kids) in grasping the relative height of the pitch.
So a teacher can flash hand signals and the class can instantly follow and sing the desired pitch. The hand signals were developed by Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly (cool name, eh?) in the early 20th century.
Still, that doesn’t explain why the French dude used it in the film…I guess just giving his (presumed musically inclined) audience a frame of reference. I guess discerning the pitches was the important thing, but why use the Solfege hand signals? And why was it played to be such a big deal in the film?..no idea.
Welcome aboard. You’re doing it right.
Welcome aboard Amarillo. I think the answer to this, like most movie questions, is “because it looks cool.”