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- Apparently I missed some Highlander thing on TV that half my flist has been stabbing things over. I've found I've taken a semi-interest in shows I don't watch, just because of LJ flailing. Like, wasn't Sara(h) supposed to die last spring? Or is it this fall? What ever happened with that? Not that I watch. Just remember a few posts about it.
- Certain things in life are your personal squee. Maybe it's jumping in puddles. Or smacking snakes with your car. (I knew someone whose squee was exactly that. Ew.) Mine is making someone smile and/or laugh. I swear it's like crack to me.
- I'm not really a big computer gamer. Like, much at all. I have a brother and so I played his stuff - Doom, Hexen, Heretic, Quake and so on - but what I really liked were the Myst games. You know, the adventure puzzle games. And ever since the Myst series, I've just never found any puzzle games like that. Until now. And they're...the Nancy Drew games. SHUT UP. For ages 10 and up. JUST SHUT UP. I'm sure many people would be downright bored playing these, but I kinda like having to, for example, arrange 20 frogs which will then open a secret passageway. Clues! The last game was a bit more fun than the one I'm playing now though. Last game I got to talk to George, Bess and the Hardy Boys via cell phone all the time. This game it's nothing but Ned who is just utterly useless. *ponders if there's a "dump Ned" feature in the game*
- Weekends are too short.
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I know. D:
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Hello, I am a giant nerd.
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Ok, that's it, I'm going to find or type up the list. (I also have an adventure games tag on my lj)
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^_^
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The Gabriel Knight games are fun, fun, fun. They're hard to find now, though. If you have trouble locating them, let me know and I'll see if I can't find mine to loan to you.
OH! Another one you should totally check out is Still Life. That's a terrific adventure game, too.
I love old-school adventure games.
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So now, I am both a nerd, and old to boot. Groovy.
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Have you tried the Monkey Island series. The same kind of premise, with pirating and silliness thrown in!
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I have have the Monkey Island series! Funniest computer games ever. :D
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;-P
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If I remember correctly, she was supposed to die, it was written in the script, but the actress refused to show up to film her death scene. So they had to scramble to come up with a different episode ending.
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If it's even half true, my Jorja Fox love just increased exponentially. She's insane, but I still love her.
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My understanding for CSI is that the actress was undergoing contract negotiations and they hadn't reached an agreement by the time of the finale. So they ended the season with a cliffhanger (her being kidnapped and trapped under a wrecked car), which would be resolved in the fall, depending on the contract talks. TV Guide Magazine reported over the summer that she had signed on for the next season, yet they are also dropping spoilers that the show is bringing in a new young female investigator this season, hinting that she might get replaced after all.
My personal hope is that Sara is going to survive, but because Grissom let it slip that they have been secretly dating, she is going to have to find a new job (what with him being her boss and all). I'm really hoping that we'll get a hospital bed proposal in the opening episode and they'll write her out that way. After seven seasons, these two deserve a happy ending, so I'd be content with having occasional mentions to Sara's off-screen new job as she and Grissom plan their wedding, or move in together, or whatever. (Now the season just needs to start to see if I get my wish!)
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Oooo, Nancy Drew. My whole life was changed thanks to that plucky girl detective. I had trouble reading, so my second-grade teacher told my parents to give me Nancy Drew books. They did, and that was all she wrote.
So I'd never make fun of you. In fact, it actually sounds like a cool game! And I'm completely and totally serious.
And of course Ned is completely useless. That's his whole purpose in life.
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These games are kind of fun, although I have to say I liked the first one I played better - the Shadow Ranch one. A lot of it is intuitive as far as the clues and stuff. The current one is Blackmoor Manner which throws a lot of stuff at you at once. You kind of have to sort out on your own what exactly you need to do first, next and so on, and it's not exactly that straight-forward. I suppose I could have put it at the easier setting so that I would have had a checklist, but...ages 10 and up! :D
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I am still confused on what it is I managed to miss. Because, yes, flist went kablooey.
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Apparently the worst thing to grace the Highlander series, is what. Heh heh.
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You should consider this a Really, Really Good Thing. It was astonishingly bad, but not in a sufficiently cheesetastic way.
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And I never even read the books...
CSI: Yeah, Jorja refused to show up to film her death scene, so they scrambled to film some fill in with Marg (Catherine). Forget what it was though. So Jorja was renogotiating her contract with CBS (again; see two or so seasons ago, when she and George Eads didn't show up for the first day of filming and were "fired") all this summer. The season premiere should show how those negotiations turned out, in whether Sara shows up. (Of course, I could always brave the YTDaW forums for spoilers, but I haven't done that in a long time.) /t.v.-geekery
I wouldn't know about the weekends thing anymore. I don't start school 'til nest Monday...
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And man, the drama with CSI. I'd be frazzled if I were into that show.
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Oh, the drama indeed. I used to be big into it, and it kept sucking me back in. As soon as I'd resolved I'd left the fandom for good, they had the little reveal that Grissom and Sara were together (I waited four and a half freaking years for that). And then, as soon as I didn't watch most of this last season because I wasn't interested, they make the entire plot of the finale "killing off" Sara. Yeah, I'd say I'm a bit frazzled. And I'm not even really in the fandom anymore. *waits impatiently for American television premieres*
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Not what I've heard. The events of the finale--including the cliffhanger ending--had been spoiled long before any of this "Jorja refused to show" business came up. It was pretty much always planned that way. I think this story first came from, like, the Star or something, and that, combined with nobody double-checking the source and Jorja being in contract negotiations at the time, made everything become a big conspiracy.
(Not trying to jump on you or anything. It just seems like Jorja gets a bum rap on everything, so I wanted to explain what happened.)
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(And, even if it were true, I reall wouldn't like Jorja any less for it. She's awesome, as far as I'm concerned. :D )
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One of my person squees is snow. :^D
Are these games online?
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