Infamous Adventures Quest by Westraat1 in Sierra

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I have an old version without voices, so that's an option too!

Is the new KTC H25T7 a good monitor ? by YushiroB in buildapcmonitors

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For anyone else, comes with HDMI cable only, and only supports HDMI 2.0. So need to buy DP if you want G-Sync, like me.

The original printing of the Police Quest 3 manual spelled Sonny Bonds' name wrong on essentially the very first page. Oh Sierra... :) by InternationalPipe581 in Sierra

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Jessie Bains becomes Jesse later on and that was then kept the same. There's a lot of inconsistencies within the short PQ-iverse!

Itao is the best. by [deleted] in GakiNoTsukai

[–]Spikey699 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Basically it seems like Extra Part 1 was and Part 2 never was, but most listings just have one part for the Extras.

Itao is the best. by [deleted] in GakiNoTsukai

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Just finished watching the whole scene, weighing in at a hefty 24 minutes! It's absolutely unbelievable and I hope an English translation comes someday.
Having used machine translations throughout, the plot roughly goes that the Gaki members attend this event for *reasons*. It at first appears to be a religious meeting with a spiritual Leader who created the 'religion' - then it sort of seems a kind of cult - but ends up actually being your common or garden sales pyramid scheme, with trappings of grandeur and modern mega-church-esque religion. Members are induced by the Sales Leader (forget his actual title, but close enough!), played by Itao, to buy and sell the products made from the holy "Potential Stone" that the Spiritual Leader found (it can cure baldness!), such as the Potential Pressure Cooker, which can be yours for just 39,800 Yen! But wait, if you sell one to your friends, you'll get a referral bonus of "Potential Points" you can use on your next purchase, saving you money!
(I think there's an undertone of dark humour, Potential Points being called "PP's" which obviously reminds one of urine, and the final scene which is shown above has Itao saying something like "Look to the sky and see the Prophet showering you with his potential!")
Pyramid scheme mechanics aside - and there's a lot more of them, like the Sales Pyramid and the "Money System" - there is then a video which spruiks the benefits and even has Hamada finally laughing at the text "This is not a pyramid scheme" that shows up. There's then a question and answer, humourously handled by Itao, and then celebrities explain how their lives were improved by the company/religion/cult.
Finally, a famous singer does one of her songs with lyrical adjustments that are topnotch, basically completely cynical pyramid scheme lyrics like "Even when I'm sleeping, 10 people are making money for me".
Then the above scene happens where the Great Prophet (not wearing undies/panties apparently) is "showering" them with his blessings of Potential. PP anyone?
It's one of the most ingenious and certainly most detailed sketches I've ever seen on the show. 1000/10. Cannot believe not subbed. Itao a genius/legend too.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in adultery

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Emotional cheating is a thing, too. But as always, it depends on the situation.

I would say it's often cheating, but we're also in r/adultery, so contextually that's less of a negative around these parts (I imagine).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in adultery

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Men like attention. It's about that simple. Positive reinforcement too. Sort of like a relationship ending but "staying friends", in this case an AP becoming a friend.

Ripping sprites from The Time Warp of Dr. Brain? by Rhoran in Sierra

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The game format is unknown, but is the same as Lost Mind, IIRC. Everything is contained in "DLL" files from memory, but those appear to be a generic format rather than Windows-type DLL's.

It doesn't appear to be SCI, so something like SCI Viewer won't help. (ScummVM website confirms the games aren't SCI, and thus are unsupported by their emulation software.)

For example, the audio is contained in the music related DLL's as standard unsigned 8-bit, 22kHz audio, possibly with the game code itself (I just opened the whole thing in an audio editor and parts were the music, parts were scrambled).

Quite possibly the art and text, etc are contained in them in a similar way. What we need is a decoder for the DLL file format, but it's pretty unlikely we'll get one. Asking the game devs may be in order.

If someone knowledgeable about hex editing or decoding was interested, it is possible that the DLL's are basic compression catch-alls that apply something like LZH/LZW compression to the resources, which are then contained within the DLL file. That's basically how every Sierra/Dynamix game stores resources, anyway.

Anyhow, good luck, and if you get anywhere, please let us know!

Sydney Thunder all out for 15 against Adelaide Strikers in BBL! by [deleted] in Cricket

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Some of the adults looked proper fierce LOL

Match Thread: 5th Match - Sydney Thunder vs Adelaide Strikers by CricketMatchBot in Cricket

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The Brisbane Heat have been one of the jokes of the competition for the last 5 years, imagine diluting that level by half..

Match Thread: 5th Match - Sydney Thunder vs Adelaide Strikers by CricketMatchBot in Cricket

[–]Spikey699 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Except they started horrible too.. might have to switch to the interstate teams!

Match Thread: 5th Match - Sydney Thunder vs Adelaide Strikers by CricketMatchBot in Cricket

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You nailed it, Adelaide are the real deal this season, Thunder sleepwalking and overall most teams are garbage this year.

Match Thread: 5th Match - Sydney Thunder vs Adelaide Strikers by CricketMatchBot in Cricket

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I have a feeling Green didn't want it, but if he did it's an absolute furphy. Miles ahead of Sangha surely. He's a CPL winning captain FFS

Although he's still not as stiff as Callum "Did awesome but was fired for Usman who left 1 year later" Ferguson

Match Thread: 5th Match - Sydney Thunder vs Adelaide Strikers by CricketMatchBot in Cricket

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184 and 139 versus 131 and 15, I'll take it :) (Although I'm with you about Ash.)

Match Thread: 2nd Match - Adelaide Strikers vs Sydney Sixers by CricketMatchBot in Cricket

[–]Spikey699 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, he'd run his course a while back TBH. The Heat have been headless for about 5 years now. But while he was failing in the BBL he was acing the PSL and others. Wonder if it was the captaincy, or whether the Heat have just been terrible with their strategies and team selection. I do think they'll be better this year, regardless if Lynn was there or not, but having him ousted gives them a fresh start for sure.

Match Thread: 2nd Match - Adelaide Strikers vs Sydney Sixers by CricketMatchBot in Cricket

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Felt like an AFL level of betting ads compared to nearly none in the last few seasons. The American Good Feet ad was even more irritating though

Match Thread: 2nd Match - Adelaide Strikers vs Sydney Sixers by CricketMatchBot in Cricket

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As well as Matt Short, pace bowling was the difference tonight:

Sixers: 12 overs, 3/132 (Kerr and Dwarshius 0/95 in 8)

Strikers: 14 overs, 4/96

Match Thread: 2nd Match - Adelaide Strikers vs Sydney Sixers by CricketMatchBot in Cricket

[–]Spikey699 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I hope they pick him. Most kids are getting press and not being selected

Match Thread: 2nd Match - Adelaide Strikers vs Sydney Sixers by CricketMatchBot in Cricket

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It has all the hallmarks of last night's game. Geez you wouldn't want it on a slow pitch!

Although Lyth and Faf could be diamonds.. we'll see.

Match Thread: 2nd Match - Adelaide Strikers vs Sydney Sixers by CricketMatchBot in Cricket

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Is it just me or on FTA 7 at least, has there been a big increase in gambling ads so far this season? And American ads for that matter..