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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.

Weekends are too short.

I know. D:

BAH!

Did you ever play The Longest Journey? Best computer adventure game ever; and now you can get it for $10 at Target. Also the Gabriel Knight games. Love them.

Hello, I am a giant nerd.

I've not heard of The Longest Journey, but after looking it up, I think I might need to get that. OOOOOOOOH. Might have to look at those Gabriel Knight games too. Yeah, that's exactly the kind of games I love where you have to collect things or solve small puzzles as part of a bigger puzzle, all within a story setting.

There are Nancy Drew games? I need these games!

Have you tried the Monkey Island series. The same kind of premise, with pirating and silliness thrown in!

I now want Myst, Nancy Drew (FTW!), and every gane that's been mentioned in the comments so far. Dammit! I WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD IF YOU PEOPLE KEEP DISTRACTING ME LIKE THIS.

;-P

Like, wasn't Sara(h) supposed to die last spring? Or is it this fall? What ever happened with that? Not that I watch.

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.

And they're...the Nancy Drew games. SHUT UP. For ages 10 and up. JUST SHUT UP.

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.

OMG! You're talking about adventure games! That's what I play! I can tell you about all kinds of games you would probably like. Damn, where's my list....

Longest Journey is the best game of all time, EVER!

Ok, that's it, I'm going to find or type up the list. (I also have an adventure games tag on my lj)

Ok, and there's a collector's edition too that includes the sequel and the first game and extra stuff, so I would buy that one.

You'd like the Final Fantasy games, then. =D Particularly FFXII, because there's a lot of that in XII.

^_^

Weekends ARE too short. Particularly when your roomates throw a party and you're the only one relatively sober by the end of it.

I am still confused on what it is I managed to miss. Because, yes, flist went kablooey.

Nifty!

Oooh. I probably would.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Drew#Series_in_computer_games

I have have the Monkey Island series! Funniest computer games ever. :D

*WAVES SHINY THINGS*

So they tried to write her out of the show, but she refused? Is she still on CSI or did they just get rid of the character another way?

I can totally see how the Nancy Drew books would get kids into reading. I read the vast majority of them when I was a kid.

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

\o/

That *would* be a short weekend. :D

Apparently the worst thing to grace the Highlander series, is what. Heh heh.

My little cousin was playing one of these Nancy Drew games so I brought some home from the library for her. Now I will have to try them myself.

Little cousin who I'm sure is very mature for her age and wise beyond her years, right? No? DRAT.

OMG, how did I not hear this? Okay, by not being in the fandom. But still!

If it's even half true, my Jorja Fox love just increased exponentially. She's insane, but I still love her.

Apparently I missed some Highlander thing on TV that half my flist has been stabbing things over.

You should consider this a Really, Really Good Thing. It was astonishingly bad, but not in a sufficiently cheesetastic way.

That's not what I heard, though I do get a good laugh out the idea of an actress refusing to get written out of a show. That's really funny! Too bad the actors don't have that much power when it comes to cancelling a show. I can see it now -- "No, sorry, the fans don't want you to cancel us so we'll just keep working, thank you." "Oh, nuts, now we have to make new episodes!"

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!)

I have some of those games. But I think one of the ones we have has a glitch in it, 'cause we can't get past some point. (And my sister and I are 16 and 19 respectively. Hush, there's totally a glitch. Somewhere.) We have the one where she's in some hotel in the mountains that gets snowed in (and you can get killed if you accidentally trap yourself out in the snow, or fall down this one elevator shaft), and the Hollywood one. Neither of which we have finished. *why, yes, we are lame*

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...

That's what I hear. Makes me glad I'm not in the fandom, otherwise I'm sure I'd be out there stabbing things too.

I'm kinda curious to know what all happened now. Or I guess it has yet to happen? I'm fuzzy on the whole thing.

Ooooh. DRAMA. You know, you kinda wonder how much of this has been specifically orchestrated to build up buzz around the show. That whole "will she die?" thing. I mean, I'm talking about it and I don't even watch.

Oh, I'm suuure it's a glitch. :D And it was totally a glitch that made me look up a walkthrough on what to do next at one point. (I consider me automatically figuring out that I need to turn a statue's hands in the directions of the figures on the door outside is a total glitch. And that the parrot kept saying "the door! the door!" was all part of that glitch. *NODS*)

And man, the drama with CSI. I'd be frazzled if I were into that show.

*lol* Well, I looked up the next thing to do on the walkthrough, and I can't do it for some reason. As in, it's not even an option where I'm at in the game. But now I'm really tempted to start playing them again, just to see if I can get through them...

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*

The Longest Journey is honestly amazing, has some of the best voice acting ever in games and a wonderful story. There's a sequel called Dreamfall, which isn't quite as good, but compared to TLJ, how could it be?

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.

I really think I'm gonna have to get this. After my Nancy Drew thing is over. And for the really old school adventure games, I've played Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - the text-based adventure. Ah, the joys of combining tea and not tea.

I loved text adventure games. *sniff* I miss Infocom.

So now, I am both a nerd, and old to boot. Groovy.

The Highlander thing? Totally stab-worthy.

One of my person squees is snow. :^D

Are these games online?

I found a 45 minute demo version...somewhere. I think maybe on the publisher site? Her Interactive? (Don't really want to wander around on the work computer.) But to actually play it, you have to buy. I picked up a bundle of two at Target for $20. Figured $10 a game was worth it.

CSI: Yeah, Jorja refused to show up to film her death scene, so they scrambled to film some fill in with Marg (Catherine).

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.)

Really? Well that explains a lot. Thanks for clearing that up!

(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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