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TAGE #1: Discussion thread

 
  

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Alex's Grandma
19:04 / 22.08.05
Exciting! Teh computer has both a taste and a talent for violent situations, it seems.

It sleeps now, teh computer, but of what does it dream?
 
 
Ganesh
19:47 / 22.08.05
Ganesh sits down and sings about gold.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
23:39 / 22.08.05
I am sad that teh computer has still not allowed protagonist to kill with gun. Kill with GUN.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
23:42 / 22.08.05
Well, you have two guns now. It could all get a bit John Woo... Eventually.
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
14:04 / 23.08.05
Do you think everyone could calm down a tad? I count 11 current instructions. Could we limit it to 2 or 3 a pop?
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
14:27 / 23.08.05
I keep saying that, to no effect...
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
14:38 / 23.08.05
Maybe you could just ignore all instructions beyond the first two. That'd learn 'em.
 
 
bitchiekittie
14:38 / 23.08.05
I curse at the TAGE traffic jam!
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
14:45 / 23.08.05
I'm going to ignore some stuff - tuxedo? - but work other bits in, given time. Honestly, though, some people would be SO BAD at a real one of these. Inventory, people! You have TWO THINGS on you now that tell the time!
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
14:45 / 23.08.05
[Insert smiley!]
 
 
Disco is My Class War
02:44 / 24.08.05
My bad.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
07:31 / 24.08.05
Nah, not really. By the way, if anyone thinks this is losing its shine, do tell me. I'm a bit worried that it was better when it felt less defined, and I'm going to try to switch up the genre again soon...
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
12:04 / 24.08.05
Reverting to form: hands up who knows how to get to Acacia Avenue?
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
12:05 / 24.08.05
I mean, you can make an educated guess...
 
 
Disco is My Class War
15:57 / 24.08.05
No idea how to get to Acacia Avenue, but if you're turning this story in a cyberpunk, Gibson-style direction you could do worse than directing our hero in the direction of "dramatising the experience of the brand."

Also according to Babelfish, the bartender is "interior cover". Leather, vinyl or sheepskin? Also, on Monsieur G, in gender-neutral Babelspeak: "It is one on two sides in a play. It often eats in a restaurant on the avenue of acacia with a friend. It paints."
 
 
Disco is My Class War
15:59 / 24.08.05
Wait, this isn't going to turn into some gritty realist kitchen sink drama, is it?
 
 
Whisky Priestess
17:40 / 24.08.05
It is one of two sides in a game. What have they been feeding that Babelfish?
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
17:50 / 24.08.05
Leather, vinyl or sheepskin?

Definitely not sheepskin.
 
 
bitchiekittie
20:01 / 24.08.05
not losing its shine - I love this! thanks for the imaginative work, flyboy.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
20:55 / 24.08.05
I'm glad people are still enjoying it - not least of all because this provides some justification for the fact that it is eating my life.

One thing I'd recommend (although not insist on by any means), is if people want to know what a character you run into looks like and they haven't been given a description, ask to examine or look at that person... 'Cos I'll probably be describing characters automatically less often as it goes on... At least partly out of laziness.
 
 
Ganesh
21:47 / 24.08.05
I know this is terribly pedantic, but... could people remember teh computer's writing in 2nd person but our instructions are in 1st person ie. "perforate my duodenum" rather than "perforate your duodenum". Teh computer is not exploring Bastard Bay; we are.
 
 
Ganesh
21:49 / 24.08.05
(We're exploring Acacia Avenue at the moment, but I'm sure yuggeh m'eh.)
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
12:48 / 25.08.05
Quick note: Il Centro is going to be one of those big, key, important scenes... So I'm going to write it tonight. Hold tight players!
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
18:56 / 25.08.05
So tempted to pick up a plate off the people's table and go 'WoOoOoOoOoo..'
 
 
Triplets
23:36 / 25.08.05
The creator line makes me think Highgraves is some kind of clone or cyborg (or, if you go by Flyboy's comments on every male character in Lost, a super-soldier )
 
 
Persephone
14:14 / 26.08.05
Boy, fish vs. guns ...that's the sorrow of the world, isn't it?
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
14:20 / 26.08.05
In this game, you are allowed both!
 
 
Triplets
16:47 / 26.08.05
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
18:46 / 28.08.05
Respect to Mike/M**m!
 
 
Mike Modular
19:48 / 28.08.05
Heh, well, I was about 90% sure who the barmaid was. Glad I chanced it... This is a very good game, BTW.
 
 
Mike Modular
19:51 / 28.08.05
And, fucking hell, I can't believe which song came on shuffle when I hit 'post' just then...
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
23:19 / 29.08.05
Two quick things:

i) The most recent post should say 'now lurching' instead of 'not lurching' - I've moved to moderate but wanted to let anyone reading know in case there are no Creation mods about.

ii) I think I've been forgetting Robert's mobile phone in the inventory. Oops. Well, you still have it.
 
 
Quantum
14:54 / 01.09.05
It sleeps now, teh computer, but of what does it dream?
Electric sheep of course.

I've got a terrible feeling we are trapped in an MTV Matrix solipsism and will awake to discover it was all about Ludacris' crib.

I *accidentally* put a pic post in it which I've moved to be moved to here, soz dood.

If you tire or flag, simply nod and TAGE #2 will be born, oh yes, I simply await your fatigue sir...
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
17:03 / 01.09.05
Hey, there's absolutely no reason why two can't run at once - I mean, I did put that #1 there in the hope it would spark some more...
 
 
Quantum
17:37 / 01.09.05
That's what I thought, but I didn't want to steal your thunder. Since there's plenty of thunder to go round (witness the manymany responses every time) I'll start the TAGE #2 Psi-Fi-Ting-Fantasy thread right now for the out of hours posters and star wars fans. Woohoo!
 
  

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