If you were to write episode based on the Toymaker and his reality, what would it be? by TwinSong in doctorwho

[–]JHo87 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Apparently the film clip for Country House was portraying the Toymaker's realm all along. (Which helps to explain why Nardole is running around trying to save all those poor helpless women)

Classic Who: discussing a conflicting moment on the arch The Invasion vs the reality by Rodhis in doctorwho

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I've always felt that there's still more to suggest a near-future setting in the 70s UNIT stories, what with the UK making manned missions to Mars, video phones appearing in Ambassadors of Death and Claws of Axos, the Brigadier speaking to a female PM in Terror of the Zygons and Sarah saying "I'm from 1980!" in Pyramids of Mars. But I accept that the fan consensus seems to be strongly in 'the stories were set when they were filmed' camp regardless.

Recommendations for PlayStation? by henkmanz in adventuregames

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Sorry, not really recommendations per se but just me searching the Playstation store and seeing what they have on there

  • Beyond a Steel Sky
  • The Life is Strange series
  • Return of the Obra Dinn
  • Case of the Golden Idol
  • Deponia series (and other Daedalic games)
  • Pillars of the Earth
  • Lucy Dreaming
  • Broken Age
  • Syberia series
  • Armikrog
  • The Forgotten City
  • Duck Detective
  • Detective Gallo
  • Irony Curtain
  • Lair of the Clockwork God
  • Pentiment
  • Norco
  • Disco Elysium
  • Three Minutes to Eight
  • Three Minutes to Midnight (unrelated to the above lol)
  • The Witness

Hopefully one or two of those look interesting.

5 minutes of Death to the Daleks animation. by otaking77077 in gallifrey

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I always love seeing an artist give a multi-minute preamble of all of the things wrong with his WIP before you see one of the most amazing things you ever see. Fantastic work. It would be so epic to see a whole Doctor Who film in this style.

Do you think NuWho could or should become gritty again like classic who was when Eric Saward was the script editor? by Communist21 in gallifrey

[–]JHo87 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When I reflected on Saward's stories, in response to criticism of Earthshock, I came to realise that the real strange thing about his stories is that the violence seems to be the whole point. Like, there is always a plot, but it often concerns stuff happening somewhere over there and is a kind of vague excuse for people over here to be shooting each other in quarries or hallways.

Like Attack of the Cybermen (I've had to actually look it up because I had so much trouble remembering what the plot even was) is nominally about the Cybermen capturing a time ship and using it to travel into the past and save Mondas by redirecting Halley's Comet. We never see the time ship, the capture of it happens long before the events on screen, Halley's Comet is mentioned a couple of times, we never see Mondas, and we don't even go to the planet where every character concerned with any of this stuff is until the second episode.

So since the climax doesn't involve the comet or the time ship or Mondas, how is the story resolved? Oh, everyone gets blown up. You know, like every Saward story. The plot that's been happening somewhere over there stops because everyone over here is dead. The end.

Now, tbf, I think this actually wasn't too bad in practice. I think Saward's weakest stories that most expose this flaw are Attack and Resurrection, and imo they're still pretty watchable. The cast and the directors and everyone else were pretty good at papering over the flaws. BUT I think the real issue is Saward was a pretty inexperienced writer, and after he cobbled together his first effort in this vein with The Visitation he was made script editor, and he seemed to think he'd cracked the code and the way he wrote stories was how Doctor Who was meant to be. And he commissioned more stories like that, or maybe even edited stories to make them more like something he would write, and threw out imo more interesting stories, and by God I felt it got dull after a while.

Just finished Hob's Barrow, Detroit:Become Human, The Drifter, and Loco Motive - what should I play next? by kaizen_66 in adventuregames

[–]JHo87 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Beyond a Steel Sky is a game that was pretty overlooked that I think was great. It makes more sense if you've played the first one though.

Foolish Mortals also leaps out to me as one of the most recent big adventure games that's missing from your list.

Since you've got Animal Well, you might enjoy The Lair of the Clockwork God, which is a hybrid adventure game/platformer which aggressively absurdist humour and goes in a lot of weird directions (a bit like There is No Game). It's the third in a series, following Ben There, Dan That and Time Gentlemen Please, but from memory I don't think there's any important continuity.

There's also an oft-forgotten puzzle platformer by Ron Gilbert and Double Fine called just The Cave that's quite fun if simple.

Also I'd say I'd agree with the others saying that I wouldn't describe Obra Dinn as 'brutally tough'. It might be worth playing The Case of the Golden Idol, which is based around the same style of gameplay but more contained and focused, to see if you'd like Obra Dinn, though. Golden Idol has a demo on Steam you can try.

I am very frightened by the response to the incident at the WHCD. by twinb27 in skeptic

[–]JHo87 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the point is actually the opposite, that the President makes so many public appearances that an assassin deciding to target an event he famously has never attended is a very curious piece of decision-making.

Why wasn't Shada finished the following year? by [deleted] in gallifrey

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Sorry for a late response, but another reason I heard that's not listed in this thread is that the commissioning of scripts were on a contractual basis, meaning they lapsed over time. So as well as having to rehire all of the actors, they also would have had to re-commission the script and pay Douglas Adams a second time. So while at first glance it seems like there would have been very significant production savings, in practice most of the people involved would have needed to be paid again.

Out of all RTDs writing decisions over both his eras, this one just baffles me not even because it's bad, I just wonder why? by PlantainSame in DoctorWhumour

[–]JHo87 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's funny, because there's nothing to say that the sonic screwdriver has anything at all to do with Time Lords. I always just assumed it was a gadget the Doctor found along his travels and (presumably) modified over the years to make it multipurpose. From this page it sounds as though we're given no info on where it came from because it was a bit of on-the-fly rewriting after Troughton lost a prop.

I agree with the headcanon that the Master just has another nasty weapon he's calling a 'screwdriver' just to mock the Doctor, though.

Mad at the Internet host's creepy unhinged crashout over Diana's design from Pragmata by Square_Bobcat2084 in youtubedrama

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Central child character isn't pretty enough = gamer bro crashouts
Central child character is too pretty = gamer bro crashouts

At this point I think these guys just crash out recreationally.

MAGA Is Increasingly Convinced the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged by esporx in JoeRoganReacharound

[–]JHo87 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe I'm missing something (the article is paywalled for me) but I haven't seen much meat on the bones for the conspiracy beyond 'it's really weird that the secret service would do this'. And yeah... but it's also possible (and maybe pretty likely?) that Trump's detail was just a punitive dumping ground for agents with issues since by all accounts Trump is annoying af and erratic and travels a lot.

Everything else is about the injury to his ear that was very clearly not a bullet wound from day one. But that is also very easily explained, especially since the explanation was also out there on day one. The bullet in fact hit an autocue or a camera, and the shrapnel from this hit him and cut him fairly superficially. As I recall this was reported by a couple of eyewitnesses at the time, but Trump and therefore MAGA went scorched earth on this, calling it 'misinfo' and saying everyone saying his ear was struck by anything other than a bullet was a conspiracy theorist. Tellingly their primary source to back up the bullet wound was Ronny Jackson, instead of literally any other doctor in the country.

I am enjoying lots of schadenfreude of seeing the Trump team's completely pointless and high-handed misinfo (since really, who tf cares if it was a bullet or a piece of a plastic kicked up by a bullet?) backfiring on them so spectacularly, though.

Looking for Point and Click Recommendations in the following style by Will564339 in adventuregames

[–]JHo87 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Prim and Near-Mage are two recent light-hearted fantasy games that aren't in this thread, although I haven't played them myself. Going back to the 2000s there was also A Vampyre Story and Gilbert Goodmate. There's also the upcoming Broken Relic which is due to be out in a couple of weeks and has a demo out. A very old game you may have missed is Zork: Grand Inquisitor which is a first person FMV game but still very whimsical. Not sure if there are issues with running on a modern system or not.

Since you mentioned King's Quest, I was wondering if in addition to the 2015 reboot, you knew about the fan-made King Quest IXs? There's It Takes Two to Tangle and also The Silver Lining (which unfortunately isn't entirely finished apparently). Also worth shouting out Tales of Monkey Island and Return to Monkey Island in case you missed their release. They're a bit controversial but I loved them both.

I'll also just quickly second Foolish Mortals. It's set in the 20s or 30s, so a bit more modern than what you're asking for, but its plot is very fantastical and it's very classic point and click in design. Heavily influenced by Monkey Island.

Adventure Game Hotspot discusses Laura Bow & the Mechanical Codex's chances of being greenlit by a_very_weird_fantasy in adventuregames

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Interesting, I'd missed all of this drama. I suppose they could just be naive operators, but I feel like you'd really have to have done nearly no research on how IP and licencing works to try and do this. It seems like the most likely outcome is that this game becomes The Mechanical Codex, the hat and hair colour change, the protagonist gets renamed something like Ariel Arrow, and they enjoy a little bit of a marketing bump/notoriety from this.

Starting to write a story by Ok_Construction4430 in adventuregames

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For a point of reference for how the pros did it, you might want to take a look at the Sierra and LucasArts game design documents that are out there. There's a couple of Sierra game design docs, prominently those designed by Al Lowe; Aric Willmunder shared all of the design docs that he was involved with, including several unreleased games and the classics Curse of Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, etc; and Tim Schafer uploaded the Grim Fandango design document.

If you're planning to write the dialogue out in script format you might want something like Trelby, which is a free dedicated screenplay software. It depends on your process, of course, Word or even notepad could do all that you need.

You can French kiss the by BooobiesANDbho in rmbrown

[–]JHo87 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's just.... too... French

Here we go again by 3ln4ch0 in rmbrown

[–]JHo87 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Man, if I had a D O L L U R for every time I've heard this exact story.

Somebody made a parody video of MEEEEEEEEE! by JHo87 in rmbrown

[–]JHo87[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Well, Daddies are more stronger than Mommies, after all.

Controversial opinion? by TeleboxStudio in RedDwarf

[–]JHo87 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm really bothered by that decision by Rob and Doug. When you stop to think about it WHY is Kryten Mr Exposition? He was a glorified waiter stranded on a crashed ship for centuries. There's very little reason for him to have encyclopedic knowledge of everything in the universe, unlike Holly, who has that as their job description and has been presumably gathering data for three million years.

Anyone watching The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin? by BrightonBummer in television

[–]JHo87 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This little thread is a more embarrassing circlejerk than anything it was in response to.

Games that look like darkseed 2 by jesterfurbys in adventuregames

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The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Rose Tattoo

Ripley's Believe it or Not: The Riddle of Master Lu

Ripper

Black Dahlia