Using the argument of what's-his-name over on the general board in the third cybernetics thread, I remain confident that even when I'm claiming something happened in the story that you think didn't, it did happen and you're just not looking at things in the correct light. ;>

Kidding. Really. I'd just forgotten.

>Dur-Dur-Dur-Dur-Dur-an-dal.
>He ain't no slouch, pal.

Um... I'm missing the reference here, I just know it.

>[Basically that plan failed because Bobs aren't fireproof and the
>Pfhor flooded the complex with lava.]

"New, improved Bob with fire-resistant skin! Be the envy of every other Rampant AI that calls an alien race to a colony ship to set into motions plans to eventually escape the heat-death of the universe!"

Me, I'm still trying to figure out what Durandal's angle is going to be in Apotheosis Now. It's pretty clear that you're not going to be outright cheering against him (like, say, Tycho), but Durandal isn't the sort of AI that falls into a convenient sort of classification as hero or villain...
-Eliot "Maybe that's why I like him so much" Lefebvre
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In the first game, during the phase of Durandal's Rampancy which I can only think must be classified as "Wacky", he grabs the player away from Leela for a bit and, at one terminal, regales him with a lengthy song whose chorus is the above repeated many, many times, and which is, according to the citation given in the terminal text, a rewrite of a popular song of the era. (Yes, that's right - early in his Rampancy, Durandal writes filk about himself.)

I'm not sure why, but seeing his name in that list with Tylenol and so forth made me think of it.

--G.
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Blockout? My mom's still playing it. She's obsessive about bumping my dad off of the top ten boards.

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Nah, I'm pretty sure it was another something-tris game. Welltris, maybe, given that the whole game involved Tetris pieces falling down a well...

--G.
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Back shortly after Tetris came out, the-Russian-guy-that-created-it-whose-name-I-don't-remember created a bunch of "tris" variations. Welltris was one of them. So was Hatris.
-Eliot "If you don't know what Hatris is about, you don't wanna" Lefebvre
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-Craig

>I prefer Puyo Puyo!

I prefer Vagrant Story.

Generally speaking, though, I'd prefer [CENSORED]. ;>
-Eliot "Fill in your own blank, there" Lefebvre
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I prefer blondes

well.. in all honesty, I prefer EQ.

-Craig
EQ? I pity your soul... please, no long, silly discussions on the matter: everybody already knows everybody's arguements, and it's not a serious comment anyhow. Some of my favorite soul-less roomies are EQ people.

I don't think most people consider having [CENSORED] a game. ;>

>EQ? I pity your soul... please, no long, silly discussions on the
>matter: everybody already knows everybody's arguements, and it's not a
>serious comment anyhow.

"No long, silly discussions"? Dude, that's all that anybody has here.

Anyhow, my favorite Tetris variant would have to be the classic. I know it's bland, but it's always been the one that I like the most, even if my mom can whip me at it. ;>
-Eliot "Having spewed vitriol, I'm back to normal" Lefebvre
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Welcome back to normal. Of course, that's far enough away from where the rest of us live that you'll have quite a commute to here...

-Craig

Facestris, Wordtris, and I think there was a couple of other ones. I never got to play Facestris, but the latter was rather neat game, if a bit slow.

Reverend Hammer
Who is now able to play Tetris DX in color...