i remember seeing this on a Commodore 64, but sadly it wasn't a location i returned to.

this is all good to know since (though i bought the full pack from GoG a while back) i still haven't played any zork since iii.

it saddens me (and in a way, creeps me out) that this series seems so invisible to the present-day gaming world (compared to, say, Ultima or BG). being eclipsed by Halo seems the only obvious piece of that puzzle, but I have stumbled over this:

thanks for this! much like being a BBS denizen but then sleeping through the IRC golden age until everybody and their mom were dicking around on the interwebs, I was a great lover of Starflight in its day, but completely missed that SC ever happened.

(i am more interminably drawn to adventure epics, but for strategy and tactics, i have spent the most time with warcraft 2 & starcraft...)

sweet! i only just read the Audran trilogy a few years ago. thanks for the retro-heads-up!

D3 should have been D2? okay...

+1

pocket plane is where i started my BG modding community affair! also where i felt the most at home getting into assorted geekouts/arguments with the regulars. jcompton definitely deserves one of the big cheers for keeping the dream alive. i also learned to love the goods at spellhold studios (great fixes and…

"the reason bioware fails to measure up these days is because" EA.

+1 for even knowing about any Ultima.

David Warner ftw! for those of us who grew up with Time Bandits, it was almost too good (Evil) to be 'actually happening'.

finally, some nuance up in here!

now a Better Off Dead sitcom, that I could get behind.

'prometheus rising' by robert anton wilson is still a fun primer for a very similar premise (it uses a hardware/software metaphor early on, but goes way deeper/higher with Leary circuit/imprint hypotheses...)

well-spotted! they're dressing up in Rational clothing and making Rationalesque noises in the hopes that the intrepid-investigative-scientist-in-a-haystack (who is only interested in the truth and not beholden to a subsidiary for his/her well-being and not easily tempted/distracted by [laundry list of human foibles]…

still, the occasional dose of How They Actually Rationalize Their Shit Specifically can be good medicine against over/underestimating, caricaturing or otherwise misrepresenting. maybe more useful to wry satirists than lowbrow cartoons, or what-have-you... ;)

however, (20,000/84) of those car crashes presumably include scenarios in which you don't see it coming and/or can't do anything about it even if you do...

EXACTLY. so sick of people turning a phrase into a flag (of any color).

i think one of the points being argued is that "appeal" is inferred rather than inherent to [at least some] work in evopsych.