Re: [Audyssey] A Suggestion for SCW
Hi, Seriously, I want JK.Rauling to release more books on Harry Potter. Like how he works in the ministry as an orrar, it would be quite interesting to read. - Original Message - From: Charles Rivard woofer...@sbcglobal.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 2:17 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A Suggestion for SCW What about book 8? --- Laughter is the best medicine, so look around, find a dose and take it to heart. - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2011 5:22 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A Suggestion for SCW Good grief. Maybe jk should now release 9th book, Harry potter and the publishers of idiocy, in which harry Ron and Hermione discover that the spirit of voldemort is being channeled through miss written books in the wizarding world, which changes the facts and alter what happened. The book mostly concerns them breaking into the publishing house and turning all the scum bag pen pushing, small minded idiots into toads ;D. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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I don't actually mind when they make the wrong mistakes, as long as I understand. - Original Message - From: Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 5:47 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A Suggestion for SCW Admittedly I've deviated from cannon in my fanfics. WHat I find more annoying is the ones who don't even bother to proofread. So you get then instead of than. Or people who supposedly have read the books and don't evenmanage to get names right. And I'm not talking about just misspelling them. Grinda Marchbanks. Grummund Place? Serveus Snape? And yes, I've seen all three of those. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 10:42 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A Suggestion for SCW Hi Dark, Lol! Well, trust me some of the fan fiction I've read is a lot worst than what the American publishers have done. Admitedly though some places like the Sugar Quill attempt to stick to cannon as much as possible and I find their fan fiction archives of a much higher quality than you will find on fanfiction.net etc. Some of the writers on the generic fan fiction websites aren't worried about maintaining cannon and go off into alternative realities or something. Especially, some of the adult Harry Potter fanfiction dealing with an imaginary sexual relationship between Harry and Hermione. Yuck! Cheers! On 3/6/11, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: Good grief. Maybe jk should now release 9th book, Harry potter and the publishers of idiocy, in which harry Ron and Hermione discover that the spirit of voldemort is being channeled through miss written books in the wizarding world, which changes the facts and alter what happened. The book mostly concerns them breaking into the publishing house and turning all the scum bag pen pushing, small minded idiots into toads ;D. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Actually Muhammed I'm afraid I totally disagree. I'm really not a fan of series of books or tv series that just go on and on and on without ending churning out one thing after another getting worse and worse and never actually resolving plot. Startrek voyager rather fell into this gap, as have many anime which go on for hundreds of episodes with not much happening. personally while I love harry potter, I think jk rowling is right to let the story end as a complete story rather than dragging it out. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Muhammed, Watch your mouth! We have rules against perfanity on list, and weather you quoted a book, fan fic, etc you are not to repete it here on list. If I see any more language like that on list I'll have to moderate you. On 3/8/11, Shiny protector muhamme...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, My favourite fanfics of Harry Potter are Harry Potter and the misterious island, a serpents sacrifice, learning to breathe, Gryffindors never die, and you're a girl. Those ones are cool, especially the part in Gryffindor's never die when \Harry says, Suck it, bitches! No one takes Harry Potter down! I think some authors are good writers, like, Ben, not you Ben, another one which I don't know, Xoxo Sparkshine and more. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] A Suggestion for SCW
Hi Dark, Yeah, I agree with that. It is better to let a series come to some kind of final conclusion rather than let it go on and on forever. I've seen series that drag on and on for years and it seams at some point all it does is ends up getting worse and worse the longer it drags on. Authors run out of new ideas, new ways to market it, and eventually nobody wants to read, watch, or listen to it any more. The longer it drags out the more ways the author has of screwing up the story. For example, let's take Xena Warrior Princess. It was a television series I was fond of. I watched it clear up until season 4, and then it took a nose dive. Around season 5 it really began to get worse and the storylines for the epasodes weren't that good compared to the first couple of seasons. Even worse when they finally did reach the last epasode in season 6 they ended it with Xena being beheaded and Gabrialle walking away crying. They killed it because I think they had too long with the series, and by season 5 and season 6 they were frankly out of ideas how to progress the series any further. Star Trek Next Generation is another case in point. In general the entire seven seasons were all fairly good. It remains my favorite television series of all time. The only thing is when they decided to go to the big screen they ruined the series in a big way. In Star Trek Generations they destroyed the Enterprise, and had to replace it with a newer looking Enterprise in First Contact. Data finally got his emotion chip which forever changed his character that could be good or bad depending on your point of view. What really took the cake is Star Trek Nemesis. Yeah, they finally brought the Riker and Troi relationship to a close by marrying them at the beginning of the movie, which was good, but they killed off Data, destroyed the new Enterprise, and Riker finally got his own ship at the end of the movie. I'm sorry, but I think they had too much time to screw up the Next Gen series. They'd have been better off to end it at All Good Things, and then leave it at that. Anyway, like I was saying regardless if it is Xena, Star Trek, Star Wars, or Harry Potter the longer the author has to drag a series out the longer he or she has of ruining it. I'm personally glad J. K. Rowling ended it at Deathly Hallows, because it was one of those series that had a potential for going on forever, but it would have eventually lost its charm if it was out there for too long. In a way, I think J. K. Rowling did ruin the series at the end because many of the main characters were killed off by the end of the series. Not exactly the happy ending we were expecting. Cheers! On 3/8/11, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: Actually Muhammed I'm afraid I totally disagree. I'm really not a fan of series of books or tv series that just go on and on and on without ending churning out one thing after another getting worse and worse and never actually resolving plot. Startrek voyager rather fell into this gap, as have many anime which go on for hundreds of episodes with not much happening. personally while I love harry potter, I think jk rowling is right to let the story end as a complete story rather than dragging it out. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi tom. In terms of startrek I agree, but I'm afraid I totally disagree about harry potter and character deaths. I find I am far more engaged with books, films or tv series where the characters are not safe. Where any event can be life threatening, and kill, or profoundly change a character. During my first go through of deathly hallows, and even before that in books 5 and 6, I actually found myself really and seriously bothered everytime a life threatening or dangerous situation turned up sinse there was no guarantee the characters would get out of it alive. For me there is nothing less interesting than a really predictable plot where you know, oh look, the hero runs into the burning building and just gets off scot free by some freak survival. Jk Rowling took this even further, by having an absolutely realistic level of danger where even a miner confrontation or change could be crytical. There aren't many authors or series I know that managed to get this level of absolute realism into their work or make you care so much about characters when they go through profound changes. Tad williams, jk rowling, and Ian M banks are the authors that most come to mind for this, as do the series babylon 5 and more recently being human. This is however very ot so I'll stop. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Dark, True. That's one of the reasons why Harry Potter etc became very popular. The endings of her books were pretty shocking. We have Sedric Diggary dying in Goblet of Fire, Serious Black dying in Order of the Phoenix, Dumbledore dying in Half-Blood Prince, and lots of deaths in Deathly Hallows. I agree with you that J. K. Rowling is a good author for not following the predictable path of all the heroes getting out alive. I also admire her for not following the lead hero marries lead heroine path. I don't know if you remember this but around the time Goblet of Fire came out there was a huge internet debate on who Harry Potter would fall in love with. There was a very very large group of people who predicted Harry would fall in love with Hermione, and so there was a huge slue of fan fic with Harry and Hermione romantic based storylines. I suppose given Harry was the main character and Hermione was the lead female character that conclusion wasn't out of the question, but I always thought Harry and Ginie would make a better couple. As it turned out that's exactly how J. K. Rowling played it. Ron and Hermione got together and Harry and Ginie got together at the end of Deathly Hallows. I felt she ended it right, and didn't do the predictable thing of Harry and Hermione which was the popular view for a long time. Cheers! On 3/9/11, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: Hi tom. In terms of startrek I agree, but I'm afraid I totally disagree about harry potter and character deaths. I find I am far more engaged with books, films or tv series where the characters are not safe. Where any event can be life threatening, and kill, or profoundly change a character. During my first go through of deathly hallows, and even before that in books 5 and 6, I actually found myself really and seriously bothered everytime a life threatening or dangerous situation turned up sinse there was no guarantee the characters would get out of it alive. For me there is nothing less interesting than a really predictable plot where you know, oh look, the hero runs into the burning building and just gets off scot free by some freak survival. Jk Rowling took this even further, by having an absolutely realistic level of danger where even a miner confrontation or change could be crytical. There aren't many authors or series I know that managed to get this level of absolute realism into their work or make you care so much about characters when they go through profound changes. Tad williams, jk rowling, and Ian M banks are the authors that most come to mind for this, as do the series babylon 5 and more recently being human. This is however very ot so I'll stop. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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oh yeah what I was thinking hmmm. Hmmm what was I thinking, that was a good question. At 10:37 p.m. 6/03/2011, you wrote: Hi Shaun, Ummm...Final Conflict? I don't think so. Its Time of Conflict. Cheers! On 3/5/11, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: anyway its not likely we will see anything on that front any time soon. Gma has been silent about all projects since final conflict. At 11:29 p.m. 5/03/2011, you wrote: Nice idea. except, I don't think the gma engine has mouse support. kind of sad. __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5266 (20100709) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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What about book 8? --- Laughter is the best medicine, so look around, find a dose and take it to heart. - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2011 5:22 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A Suggestion for SCW Good grief. Maybe jk should now release 9th book, Harry potter and the publishers of idiocy, in which harry Ron and Hermione discover that the spirit of voldemort is being channeled through miss written books in the wizarding world, which changes the facts and alter what happened. The book mostly concerns them breaking into the publishing house and turning all the scum bag pen pushing, small minded idiots into toads ;D. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Dark, Yes, I take your point, and you are absolutely right. It does seam the rest of the world isn't treated individually from the way it sounds. I wouldn't know, because that's just the way it is in terms of adds etc over here. Everything is modified to suit an American audience which, as you say, really strips it of its original culture and meaning. It doesn't seam that we do the reverse when targeting other cultures. As for the Simsons jokes Homer was talking about football, and no, I'm not talking about socker. The Dalase Cowboys is a popular American football team, and for a while had a great record and played the Super Bowl a few years in a row. Now, though, some of their mvp players have retired and the new draft players aren't as good. This year they played rather poorly over all. The Denver Broncos are also a football team and I haven't kept up with their stats this past season. HTH On 3/6/11, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: Hi Tom. Historically I can see the logic of that, sinse as in the case of pizza, America had a lot of immigrants turning up with their own culture and ideas, however going in the other direction, ie, american exports to other places, it often seems that american companies, add agencies etc don't take into account that people in other countries do not always use the same language or have the same standards as the us. Take hollywood films for instance. Some years ago, I remember a huge controversy over a second world war film about the enigma machine which was used to crack the german radio code. The problem was where as in reality this had been done at the naval base in portsmouth (england), the Hollywood directors decided to relocate it to I believe los angeles and thus make it entirely American centered. Needless to say, the people who actually did! work on the code were extremely irritated at this, and it lead to a huge law sute. my point however, is that the concern of the directors here, much as with harry potter, was only to make something American, not with the actual historical content of the film. It would be like someone over here making a film about the entry of the japanese into the second world war, but having Liverpool bombed instead of pearl harbour, or making a film about the battle of getisberg set in London, --- -completely crazy! However my problem is the same process doesn't go on in reverse, American programs are not rebranded to appeal to audiences in other countries, neither are american products changed. I have for instance seen adverts over here talking about something being too good for Geeks which is a very Us expression, or using terms like sleep overs (I saw a recent wii title advertized in this way), which again are neither particularly British expressions, nor really concepts over here. Yet, American advertizers automatically assume that Britain is exactly like the states, and so do no rebranding or markiting at all. Over here, it's quite accepted that some things take place in America, much the same way watching an Anime series automatically implies that it takes place in japan. Take the simpsons. Frequently there are jokes on the simpsons about celebrities or ideas that are totally unknown over here, in fact I've often found myself utterly confused at some of the jokes. Take for instance the point where Homer works for Scorpio the james bond villain. Homer says his ambition is to own the dallis cowboys, and at the episode he ends up owning the Denver Bronco's. I'm not even sure which sport these two teams play, much less their track record which would be necessary to understand the joke. do we see head master Skinner, care taker willy, and Mo owning a pub? heck no! such a thing would be ridiculous. I think this is my main problem and the reason I talkedabout Americans forgetting about the rest of the world. Imports into the states are most often reclassified, redistributed and redubbed as American, even down to established historical fact, where as exports from the states simply assume the rest of the world is exactly the same, which actually seems a product of the imports, sinse if Americans are used to only uUs centric things and language, more people will assume that the rest of the world is exactly the same. Btw, this isn't intended as a wrant against America or as an attack on anyone in particular. Heck, this list, and the accessible games community in general is extremely diverse in terms of nationality, I'm just trying to highlight something of a social trend in this case which I've noticed. Also, i'm not implying that everything American is automatically bad, or worse than everything British. I've said before that the Us seems to have a generally much better atitude to disability than over here, and I actually really enjoy the simpsons. Beware the Grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want
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Hi Dark, Lol! Well, trust me some of the fan fiction I've read is a lot worst than what the American publishers have done. Admitedly though some places like the Sugar Quill attempt to stick to cannon as much as possible and I find their fan fiction archives of a much higher quality than you will find on fanfiction.net etc. Some of the writers on the generic fan fiction websites aren't worried about maintaining cannon and go off into alternative realities or something. Especially, some of the adult Harry Potter fanfiction dealing with an imaginary sexual relationship between Harry and Hermione. Yuck! Cheers! On 3/6/11, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: Good grief. Maybe jk should now release 9th book, Harry potter and the publishers of idiocy, in which harry Ron and Hermione discover that the spirit of voldemort is being channeled through miss written books in the wizarding world, which changes the facts and alter what happened. The book mostly concerns them breaking into the publishing house and turning all the scum bag pen pushing, small minded idiots into toads ;D. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Not sure if anyone else has read these, but I thought these were better than the average one... Both of these could've been good replacements for book six, IMO. Hary Potter and the Guild of the Night Hary Potter and the Veal of Mystery Both of these could've been a good seventh book... Hary Potter and the Crystaleen Darkness Hary Potter and the Ring of Reduction The guild of the night and crystaleen darkness follow each other, and so does veal of mystery and ring of reduction. I loved both of these, particularly veal of mystery and ring of reduction. At 09:42 PM 07/03/2011, you wrote: Hi Dark, Lol! Well, trust me some of the fan fiction I've read is a lot worst than what the American publishers have done. Admitedly though some places like the Sugar Quill attempt to stick to cannon as much as possible and I find their fan fiction archives of a much higher quality than you will find on fanfiction.net etc. Some of the writers on the generic fan fiction websites aren't worried about maintaining cannon and go off into alternative realities or something. Especially, some of the adult Harry Potter fanfiction dealing with an imaginary sexual relationship between Harry and Hermione. Yuck! Cheers! On 3/6/11, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: Good grief. Maybe jk should now release 9th book, Harry potter and the publishers of idiocy, in which harry Ron and Hermione discover that the spirit of voldemort is being channeled through miss written books in the wizarding world, which changes the facts and alter what happened. The book mostly concerns them breaking into the publishing house and turning all the scum bag pen pushing, small minded idiots into toads ;D. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Admittedly I've deviated from cannon in my fanfics. WHat I find more annoying is the ones who don't even bother to proofread. So you get then instead of than. Or people who supposedly have read the books and don't evenmanage to get names right. And I'm not talking about just misspelling them. Grinda Marchbanks. Grummund Place? Serveus Snape? And yes, I've seen all three of those. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 10:42 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A Suggestion for SCW Hi Dark, Lol! Well, trust me some of the fan fiction I've read is a lot worst than what the American publishers have done. Admitedly though some places like the Sugar Quill attempt to stick to cannon as much as possible and I find their fan fiction archives of a much higher quality than you will find on fanfiction.net etc. Some of the writers on the generic fan fiction websites aren't worried about maintaining cannon and go off into alternative realities or something. Especially, some of the adult Harry Potter fanfiction dealing with an imaginary sexual relationship between Harry and Hermione. Yuck! Cheers! On 3/6/11, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: Good grief. Maybe jk should now release 9th book, Harry potter and the publishers of idiocy, in which harry Ron and Hermione discover that the spirit of voldemort is being channeled through miss written books in the wizarding world, which changes the facts and alter what happened. The book mostly concerns them breaking into the publishing house and turning all the scum bag pen pushing, small minded idiots into toads ;D. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Agreed... and I've seen those as well. What I hate worse is when Hary Potter tries to cross itself over with an anime... Hary Potter and Bleach tried to mesh together, and Naruto as well. Those were both dreadful to read... I stopped halfway through the second chapter or so. At 09:47 PM 07/03/2011, you wrote: Admittedly I've deviated from cannon in my fanfics. WHat I find more annoying is the ones who don't even bother to proofread. So you get then instead of than. Or people who supposedly have read the books and don't evenmanage to get names right. And I'm not talking about just misspelling them. Grinda Marchbanks. Grummund Place? Serveus Snape? And yes, I've seen all three of those. We are the Knights who say...Ni! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Just so you know though, it's Harry, not Hary. Two R's. LOL. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: Clement Chou chou.clem...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 10:50 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A Suggestion for SCW Agreed... and I've seen those as well. What I hate worse is when Hary Potter tries to cross itself over with an anime... Hary Potter and Bleach tried to mesh together, and Naruto as well. Those were both dreadful to read... I stopped halfway through the second chapter or so. At 09:47 PM 07/03/2011, you wrote: Admittedly I've deviated from cannon in my fanfics. WHat I find more annoying is the ones who don't even bother to proofread. So you get then instead of than. Or people who supposedly have read the books and don't evenmanage to get names right. And I'm not talking about just misspelling them. Grinda Marchbanks. Grummund Place? Serveus Snape? And yes, I've seen all three of those. We are the Knights who say...Ni! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi, No, I haven't. I'm going to google for them shortly and take them to bed to read. I'm always looking for decent/good fan fiction to read. Cheers! On 3/8/11, Clement Chou chou.clem...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure if anyone else has read these, but I thought these were better than the average one... Both of these could've been good replacements for book six, IMO. Hary Potter and the Guild of the Night Hary Potter and the Veal of Mystery Both of these could've been a good seventh book... Hary Potter and the Crystaleen Darkness Hary Potter and the Ring of Reduction The guild of the night and crystaleen darkness follow each other, and so does veal of mystery and ring of reduction. I loved both of these, particularly veal of mystery and ring of reduction. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi, Well, to be honest that is a major thing that put me off Harry Potter fan fics for a long time. I was grabbing them off of generic fan fic websites and there was no attempt to edit or correct spelling errors, grammar errors, and people screwing up the names outright. That's why now days if I want a particular fan fic weather it is Tomb Raider, Harry Potter, Star Wars I try to go to places that moderate the fan fiction and edit it before posting. That's why I like the Sugar Quill because they do a decent job of making sure only decent stuff gets posted to the archives rather than just anyone's fan fiction. I don't mind deviating from the cannon so much as that the text is well written and doesn't look like a second grader wrote it. Cheers! On 3/8/11, Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: Admittedly I've deviated from cannon in my fanfics. WHat I find more annoying is the ones who don't even bother to proofread. So you get then instead of than. Or people who supposedly have read the books and don't evenmanage to get names right. And I'm not talking about just misspelling them. Grinda Marchbanks. Grummund Place? Serveus Snape? And yes, I've seen all three of those. We are the Knights who say...Ni! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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well look at technology.jaredrimer.net to see what the american name has become. Personally the amercan way has degraded to a point where I doubt I will trust anything that comes out of america in the way I'd used to. Look at the article about the net laws etc. At 12:49 a.m. 6/03/2011, you wrote: Yeah I never understood why they changed the name of the book the American name is pants and it doesn't even explain anything as to what this stone is. If anything it offers a misconception -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of dark Sent: 05 March 2011 11:14 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A Suggestion for SCW suspect Tom was just referring to the game which was licensed by the film, sinse even in the us, the first book is stil called philosophers' stone. It always amuses me that the hollywood numbskulls thought Americans wouldn't know what a philosopher was so called it sorcerer's stone instead, by the same logic, sinse I'm doing a phd in philosophy, can I say I'm doing a phd in sorcery? ;D. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Shaun, Ummm...Final Conflict? I don't think so. Its Time of Conflict. Cheers! On 3/5/11, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: anyway its not likely we will see anything on that front any time soon. Gma has been silent about all projects since final conflict. At 11:29 p.m. 5/03/2011, you wrote: Nice idea. except, I don't think the gma engine has mouse support. kind of sad. __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5266 (20100709) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Good grief. Maybe jk should now release 9th book, Harry potter and the publishers of idiocy, in which harry Ron and Hermione discover that the spirit of voldemort is being channeled through miss written books in the wizarding world, which changes the facts and alter what happened. The book mostly concerns them breaking into the publishing house and turning all the scum bag pen pushing, small minded idiots into toads ;D. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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That's true Bryan, but that expression is a good bit older and slightly obscure, and it wouldn't have occurred to me as a concern for reading the book. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Tom. Historically I can see the logic of that, sinse as in the case of pizza, America had a lot of immigrants turning up with their own culture and ideas, however going in the other direction, ie, american exports to other places, it often seems that american companies, add agencies etc don't take into account that people in other countries do not always use the same language or have the same standards as the us. Take hollywood films for instance. Some years ago, I remember a huge controversy over a second world war film about the enigma machine which was used to crack the german radio code. The problem was where as in reality this had been done at the naval base in portsmouth (england), the Hollywood directors decided to relocate it to I believe los angeles and thus make it entirely American centered. Needless to say, the people who actually did! work on the code were extremely irritated at this, and it lead to a huge law sute. my point however, is that the concern of the directors here, much as with harry potter, was only to make something American, not with the actual historical content of the film. It would be like someone over here making a film about the entry of the japanese into the second world war, but having Liverpool bombed instead of pearl harbour, or making a film about the battle of getisberg set in London, --- -completely crazy! However my problem is the same process doesn't go on in reverse, American programs are not rebranded to appeal to audiences in other countries, neither are american products changed. I have for instance seen adverts over here talking about something being too good for Geeks which is a very Us expression, or using terms like sleep overs (I saw a recent wii title advertized in this way), which again are neither particularly British expressions, nor really concepts over here. Yet, American advertizers automatically assume that Britain is exactly like the states, and so do no rebranding or markiting at all. Over here, it's quite accepted that some things take place in America, much the same way watching an Anime series automatically implies that it takes place in japan. Take the simpsons. Frequently there are jokes on the simpsons about celebrities or ideas that are totally unknown over here, in fact I've often found myself utterly confused at some of the jokes. Take for instance the point where Homer works for Scorpio the james bond villain. Homer says his ambition is to own the dallis cowboys, and at the episode he ends up owning the Denver Bronco's. I'm not even sure which sport these two teams play, much less their track record which would be necessary to understand the joke. do we see head master Skinner, care taker willy, and Mo owning a pub? heck no! such a thing would be ridiculous. I think this is my main problem and the reason I talkedabout Americans forgetting about the rest of the world. Imports into the states are most often reclassified, redistributed and redubbed as American, even down to established historical fact, where as exports from the states simply assume the rest of the world is exactly the same, which actually seems a product of the imports, sinse if Americans are used to only uUs centric things and language, more people will assume that the rest of the world is exactly the same. Btw, this isn't intended as a wrant against America or as an attack on anyone in particular. Heck, this list, and the accessible games community in general is extremely diverse in terms of nationality, I'm just trying to highlight something of a social trend in this case which I've noticed. Also, i'm not implying that everything American is automatically bad, or worse than everything British. I've said before that the Us seems to have a generally much better atitude to disability than over here, and I actually really enjoy the simpsons. Beware the Grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Wow, I wish I could've come to your wedding ;D. For some odd reason our light opera society had a hole spanish contingent involved. At one time the conductor, Director, lead comedy baritone and pianist were all! spanish, (sort of amusing considdering we were doing gilbert and sullivan, but hay). After the show, the pianist and conductor decided to have a payellia party. Fantastic! some of the best cooked stuff ever, --- and extremely filling! not overly spicy sinse it was spanish more than mexicon, but fantastic none the less. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Nice idea. except, I don't think the gma engine has mouse support. kind of sad. __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5266 (20100709) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Actually tom, I'm not sure if you've played aprone's latest game (he who made towers of war), daytona and the book of gold, sinse that is exactly what you do, cast a magic spell to make gold appear by performing mouse movements. see http://audiogames.net/db.php?id=Daytona+and+the+book+of+gold It's a nice idea for a game, but I'm not sure how well it'd fit in sarah, sinse your running around avoiding ghosts, solving puzles etc at the same time, and adding mouse movements to that (which take some practice), might just be a bit too much. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 5:29 AM Subject: [Audyssey] A Suggestion for SCW Hi Phil and all, Tonight I was sitting back playing a game of Sarah when I realised there is a feature I'd really love to se added to the game at some point. I don't know how many of you have ever played some of the Harry Potter PC games, but in many of them you have to use the mouse to cast spells. For example, in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone to cast the Flipendo spell you have to move the mouse right, down, and then quickly up again. Then, click the left mouse button to cast the spell. For one thing it is visually pretty cool because Harry follows your wand movements on screen, but more than that it makes the games a bit more challenging because you actually have to learn and remember how to do each and every spell in the game. I was wondering if this could be a possible addition to Sarah at some point? Cheers! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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suspect Tom was just referring to the game which was licensed by the film, sinse even in the us, the first book is stil called philosophers' stone. It always amuses me that the hollywood numbskulls thought Americans wouldn't know what a philosopher was so called it sorcerer's stone instead, by the same logic, sinse I'm doing a phd in philosophy, can I say I'm doing a phd in sorcery? ;D. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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I would find that absolutely insane, english characters using American terms, heck when something from America comes out over here we don't have it edited to use the British terms for things at all, in fact I remember being quite litle when my dad explained to me that American words for clothing such as pants and shorts didn't mean the same thing as over here. I wonder what they did about the very english slang such as git as an insult or Loo for toilet which both come up in the books. The one odd thing is jk does use the term moaning mertle's bathroom on occasion even in the original uk edition, she alternates betwene this and calling it a toilet as would be usual over here. Beware the Grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Yeah I never understood why they changed the name of the book the American name is pants and it doesn't even explain anything as to what this stone is. If anything it offers a misconception -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of dark Sent: 05 March 2011 11:14 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A Suggestion for SCW suspect Tom was just referring to the game which was licensed by the film, sinse even in the us, the first book is stil called philosophers' stone. It always amuses me that the hollywood numbskulls thought Americans wouldn't know what a philosopher was so called it sorcerer's stone instead, by the same logic, sinse I'm doing a phd in philosophy, can I say I'm doing a phd in sorcery? ;D. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Dark, Well, to be honest the kinds of wand motions we are talking about are generally pretty simple. For example, Alohomora, which Phil uses in Sarah, is left, right, down, up. You can do that pretty fast in the Harry Potter games. Remember we aren't talking huge motions here so using a mouse a little move left, a little move right, a little move down, and a little push forward would do it. What's that a couple of seconds? Generally speaking you have plenty of time to pull off a wand movement like that. It is certainly faster than bringing up the spell menu and looking through the list for the one you want. In fact, that is a big reason why I'm suggesting it. I think the spell menu is too slow and doesn't give you a quick and easy way to get to the spell you want. With the mouse you can draw the spell, click the left mouse button, and presto. Cheers! On 3/5/11, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: Actually tom, I'm not sure if you've played aprone's latest game (he who made towers of war), daytona and the book of gold, sinse that is exactly what you do, cast a magic spell to make gold appear by performing mouse movements. see http://audiogames.net/db.php?id=Daytona+and+the+book+of+gold It's a nice idea for a game, but I'm not sure how well it'd fit in sarah, sinse your running around avoiding ghosts, solving puzles etc at the same time, and adding mouse movements to that (which take some practice), might just be a bit too much. Beware the Grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Dark, That's precisely my point. That's why I personally purchased the versions published by Bloomsberry. The characters are from England, the books takes place in England, and the American copies have been edited to be more Americanized. I found it slightly odd myself, and I'm not even from the U.K. Lol! Anyway, to bring this back on topic with gaming the odd thing is you see this in the Harry Potter games as well. If you fire up Philosopher’s Stone for the PC it will ask you what language you want the characters to speak in. They have American English, British English, German, Spanish, etc. I can certainly understand having options for foreign languages like French, German, and Spanish but having American acters doing Harry Potter, Hermione, and Ron, etc is weird. Why didn't they just stick with the U.K. acters for the English cutscenes? On 3/5/11, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: I would find that absolutely insane, english characters using American terms, heck when something from America comes out over here we don't have it edited to use the British terms for things at all, in fact I remember being quite litle when my dad explained to me that American words for clothing such as pants and shorts didn't mean the same thing as over here. I wonder what they did about the very english slang such as git as an insult or Loo for toilet which both come up in the books. The one odd thing is jk does use the term moaning mertle's bathroom on occasion even in the original uk edition, she alternates betwene this and calling it a toilet as would be usual over here. Beware the Grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Thomas, I think I announced that the next version of the Sarah game would have mouse support. Unfortunately, just as it's current joy stick support, the mouse can only use existing keyboard commands. For example the forward, backwards and turning movement keys. The left mouse button pulls up the spell menu and you can move thru it with the mouse and click on the right mouse button to cast the spell. I was hoping that David could add more flexible mouse control, but that would require the game engine to record what the mouse was doing and compare the results in a group of variables. I do like playing the wand game in, Brian Bors' Three mouse driven games. Gestures. You are attacked by ogres and imps and must combat them with two spells. These spells are cast by performing various gestures, and variations of these gestures using your mouse. including a game tutorial that will let you practice the spells. I also know of Jeremy Kaldobsky's Aprone's Daytona and the Book of gold . The metallic sounds are made as I move the mouse into different shapes. What is cool is that each direction you move makes a different noise so someone sitting beside you can actually tell which shape you drew once they've been exposed to the game for a bit! The voice on the right is my character reading up to 3 shapes from the spell book that I must draw next. The voice to the left is just encouragement or warning depending on how fast and accurate I currently am. Each successful shape, in the right order, conjures more [gold] coins that can be heard falling to the table. Each successful shape makes its own sound as it casts and a central voice announces its name. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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HI Dark, Ummm...No. The U.S. version of the book is Sorcerer's Stone, same with the film, and the first vidio game for the PC. Warner Brothers had nothing to do with the name change. Cheers! On 3/5/11, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: suspect Tom was just referring to the game which was licensed by the film, sinse even in the us, the first book is stil called philosophers' stone. It always amuses me that the hollywood numbskulls thought Americans wouldn't know what a philosopher was so called it sorcerer's stone instead, by the same logic, sinse I'm doing a phd in philosophy, can I say I'm doing a phd in sorcery? ;D. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Phil, Major bumber. Too bad I can't just port the game to BGT or G3D. Mouse support would add so much more to this game. Especially if you could use gestures and wand motions. I've got a pretty good idea how to do it too. Basically, you'd just create an array that keeps track of which way the mouse is moving. When you perform a left click it would find out which patern is in the array and cast that spell. Unfortunately, as you stated the GMA engine isn't that flexable. Cheers! On 3/5/11, Phil Vlasak p...@pcsgames.net wrote: Hi Thomas, I think I announced that the next version of the Sarah game would have mouse support. Unfortunately, just as it's current joy stick support, the mouse can only use existing keyboard commands. For example the forward, backwards and turning movement keys. The left mouse button pulls up the spell menu and you can move thru it with the mouse and click on the right mouse button to cast the spell. I was hoping that David could add more flexible mouse control, but that would require the game engine to record what the mouse was doing and compare the results in a group of variables. I do like playing the wand game in, Brian Bors' Three mouse driven games. Gestures. You are attacked by ogres and imps and must combat them with two spells. These spells are cast by performing various gestures, and variations of these gestures using your mouse. including a game tutorial that will let you practice the spells. I also know of Jeremy Kaldobsky's Aprone's Daytona and the Book of gold . The metallic sounds are made as I move the mouse into different shapes. What is cool is that each direction you move makes a different noise so someone sitting beside you can actually tell which shape you drew once they've been exposed to the game for a bit! The voice on the right is my character reading up to 3 shapes from the spell book that I must draw next. The voice to the left is just encouragement or warning depending on how fast and accurate I currently am. Each successful shape, in the right order, conjures more [gold] coins that can be heard falling to the table. Each successful shape makes its own sound as it casts and a central voice announces its name. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Thomas, This is why I wish I had written the Sarah game myself instead of using David's engine. I proposed several ways of casting spells, but the game engine is not capable of doing them. He is working on mouse support right now and it does sound like it would work well with the game. I do now have hot key support inside the spell menu. For example, control s brings up a quick menu and then you can hit u to cast the unlocking spell. There is a keystroke ini file that allows you to change the quick spell menu from control s to just s, which would make casting even faster. Phil - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 7:06 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A Suggestion for SCW Hi Dark, Well, to be honest the kinds of wand motions we are talking about are generally pretty simple. For example, Alohomora, which Phil uses in Sarah, is left, right, down, up. You can do that pretty fast in the Harry Potter games. Remember we aren't talking huge motions here so using a mouse a little move left, a little move right, a little move down, and a little push forward would do it. What's that a couple of seconds? Generally speaking you have plenty of time to pull off a wand movement like that. It is certainly faster than bringing up the spell menu and looking through the list for the one you want. In fact, that is a big reason why I'm suggesting it. I think the spell menu is too slow and doesn't give you a quick and easy way to get to the spell you want. With the mouse you can draw the spell, click the left mouse button, and presto. Cheers! On 3/5/11, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: Actually tom, I'm not sure if you've played aprone's latest game (he who made towers of war), daytona and the book of gold, sinse that is exactly what you do, cast a magic spell to make gold appear by performing mouse movements. see http://audiogames.net/db.php?id=Daytona+and+the+book+of+gold It's a nice idea for a game, but I'm not sure how well it'd fit in sarah, sinse your running around avoiding ghosts, solving puzles etc at the same time, and adding mouse movements to that (which take some practice), might just be a bit too much. Beware the Grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1204 / Virus Database: 1435/3481 - Release Date: 03/04/11 --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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How do you do stupify in the harry potter games? - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 12:06 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A Suggestion for SCW Hi Dark, Well, to be honest the kinds of wand motions we are talking about are generally pretty simple. For example, Alohomora, which Phil uses in Sarah, is left, right, down, up. You can do that pretty fast in the Harry Potter games. Remember we aren't talking huge motions here so using a mouse a little move left, a little move right, a little move down, and a little push forward would do it. What's that a couple of seconds? Generally speaking you have plenty of time to pull off a wand movement like that. It is certainly faster than bringing up the spell menu and looking through the list for the one you want. In fact, that is a big reason why I'm suggesting it. I think the spell menu is too slow and doesn't give you a quick and easy way to get to the spell you want. With the mouse you can draw the spell, click the left mouse button, and presto. Cheers! On 3/5/11, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: Actually tom, I'm not sure if you've played aprone's latest game (he who made towers of war), daytona and the book of gold, sinse that is exactly what you do, cast a magic spell to make gold appear by performing mouse movements. see http://audiogames.net/db.php?id=Daytona+and+the+book+of+gold It's a nice idea for a game, but I'm not sure how well it'd fit in sarah, sinse your running around avoiding ghosts, solving puzles etc at the same time, and adding mouse movements to that (which take some practice), might just be a bit too much. Beware the Grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hmmm, I probably had a bit of a misconception, sinse daytona's motions are a bit more complex, but that is the point of the game. Hmmm, I'm not sure, casting the wrong spell at the wrong time might be a bit of a problem, and there are always the shortcut keys for speed. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Selecting American English? that's absolutely mad! i will say though that I have rather noticed a tendency from some people, companies and agencies in the Us to forget that the rest of the world exists, in fact it can be quite irritating over here when American companies or people forget that that not everyone is part of the us or uses the same language. For instance, I saw an add the other day talking about home movies which is certainly not a term we use over here. Even words liek Jerk, dorc, or geek which are sometimes used in adds tend to not be used by people on the street, just on tv. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Dark, True. Then again, considering the Harry Potter games were targeting preteens etc it is not that surprising they didn't use too many complex wand motions.In fact some of the levels were a bit lame in my opinion. For example, in Sorcerer's Stone the most common enemy you encounter is gnomes running all over the Hogwarts grounds. Harry basically has to use the Flipedo spell to turn them over. Not exactly true to the books, of course, but that is the sort of enemies you generally fight. Sounds to me like they wanted to soften the action for younger gamers to me. On 3/5/11, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: Hmmm, I probably had a bit of a misconception, sinse daytona's motions are a bit more complex, but that is the point of the game. Hmmm, I'm not sure, casting the wrong spell at the wrong time might be a bit of a problem, and there are always the shortcut keys for speed. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Oh, that's more dire than I thought, i just thought it was the usual hollywood idiocy. I'm surprised Jk didn't stop that one. Beware the Grue! dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Of course, that was back in the days befor harry potter and the tremendous blood bath, aka the deathly hallows ;D. When some deluded people stil considdered harry potter a kids book only. One of the favourite moments for my friends and I from the hp films is the chamber of secrets, when you see the basillisk from the back and the phenix flying in, then here noises, when tom riddle then spouts that brilliant line: your bird may have blinded the bassilisk but it can smell you Or rather your bird may have blinded the bassilisk, --- but we couldn't show it in a pg 12! ;d. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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I've not heard that one phil, but it sounds quite possible to me. A bit of a long title though ;D. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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He used that title because that is the title of the book published in the United States, where he resides. --- Laughter is the best medicine, so look around, find a dose and take it to heart. - Original Message - From: Ben gamehead...@aol.co.uk To: 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 1:12 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A Suggestion for SCW By the way tom. Not meaning to be picky... but in the uk, its philosopher's stone - it just, no offence meant, seemed a bit weird you calling it by that name... but that's just me. Don't take it personally. -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: 05 March 2011 05:30 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: [Audyssey] A Suggestion for SCW Hi Phil and all, Tonight I was sitting back playing a game of Sarah when I realised there is a feature I'd really love to se added to the game at some point. I don't know how many of you have ever played some of the Harry Potter PC games, but in many of them you have to use the mouse to cast spells. For example, in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone to cast the Flipendo spell you have to move the mouse right, down, and then quickly up again. Then, click the left mouse button to cast the spell. For one thing it is visually pretty cool because Harry follows your wand movements on screen, but more than that it makes the games a bit more challenging because you actually have to learn and remember how to do each and every spell in the game. I was wondering if this could be a possible addition to Sarah at some point? Cheers! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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I don't remember who it was, but someone once said that the United States and the United Kingdom were two countries separated by a common language. --- Laughter is the best medicine, so look around, find a dose and take it to heart. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 1:40 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A Suggestion for SCW Hi Ben, Yes, I know. You can blame the naming issue on Scholastic. For reasons no one will ever understand, including J. K. Rowling herself, Scholastic insisted that the name be changed for the U.S. market even though it was being marketed in the U.K. by Bloomsberry as Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. As you might have guessed the movies, games, toys, etc followed the patern. In the U.S. it was named one thing and in the U.K. another. Its not something we can do anything about, and I've gotten use to calling it by both names. At any rate you might be surprised I have a complete copy of the Harry Potter books published by Bloomsberry instead of Scholastic for that very reason. Scholastic basically took the books, heavily edited them, and made it easier to follow by an American audience by changing the names of things when and where necessary. I didn't really like it, because they changed the story a little too much in my opinion. For example, in Chamber of Secrets when discussing the Ford Anglia the U.K. version uses English names for things like the boot and bonnet of the car. In the American release they use trunk and hood instead. Instead of using toilet they inserted the word bath room. These are relatively miner changes, but I personally like reading it exactly as J. K. Rowling wrote it instead of reading it second hand after some American editor got done changing this and that to fit their idea of how the book should read. So, yeah, I agree if you read the U.K. versionand then the U.S. version it seams quite strange to see how much difference there is over all. Cheers! On 3/5/11, Ben gamehead...@aol.co.uk wrote: By the way tom. Not meaning to be picky... but in the uk, its philosopher's stone - it just, no offence meant, seemed a bit weird you calling it by that name... but that's just me. Don't take it personally. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Using gestures to cast spells makes me wonder if a version of the game could be made to be used on an iPhone. Shaking the phone, tilting in any of the 4 directions left, right, forward or backward, moving your finger in particular patterns to perform functions, and other stuff like that are used on the touch sensitive screen, and, as a new and ongoing learning experience is showing me, certainly can be performed by a blind person. I would think this would take an awful lot of work by the developer, but it would be cool for the gamer. --- Laughter is the best medicine, so look around, find a dose and take it to heart. - Original Message - From: Phil Vlasak p...@pcsgames.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 6:28 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A Suggestion for SCW Hi Thomas, I think I announced that the next version of the Sarah game would have mouse support. Unfortunately, just as it's current joy stick support, the mouse can only use existing keyboard commands. For example the forward, backwards and turning movement keys. The left mouse button pulls up the spell menu and you can move thru it with the mouse and click on the right mouse button to cast the spell. I was hoping that David could add more flexible mouse control, but that would require the game engine to record what the mouse was doing and compare the results in a group of variables. I do like playing the wand game in, Brian Bors' Three mouse driven games. Gestures. You are attacked by ogres and imps and must combat them with two spells. These spells are cast by performing various gestures, and variations of these gestures using your mouse. including a game tutorial that will let you practice the spells. I also know of Jeremy Kaldobsky's Aprone's Daytona and the Book of gold . The metallic sounds are made as I move the mouse into different shapes. What is cool is that each direction you move makes a different noise so someone sitting beside you can actually tell which shape you drew once they've been exposed to the game for a bit! The voice on the right is my character reading up to 3 shapes from the spell book that I must draw next. The voice to the left is just encouragement or warning depending on how fast and accurate I currently am. Each successful shape, in the right order, conjures more [gold] coins that can be heard falling to the table. Each successful shape makes its own sound as it casts and a central voice announces its name. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Charles, There is a Harry Potter Spells App. Introducing the new Harry Potter: Spells - Free version - available now on the app store! I don't know if it is accessible but think not as the tutorial just shows you the gestures to use for each spell. Once enrolled, receive the wand destined for you before being Sorted into one of the four houses by the Sorting Hat. Then using specific hand gestures for each of the 20 spells, practice, practice, practice before experiencing the ultimate contest - Duelling! Compete against the computer or challenge a friend to a real-time duel -- player versus player, casting spells from one device to the other. Earn valuable house points for your house while learning, practicing and dueling. Visit the house points section to see your wins and losses in duelling. You can also see where you rank globally - in your house or in all of Hogwarts. Finally, share it with the rest of the world by posting it to your Facebook page via Facebook Connect. http://harrypotterspellsapp.com/ --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Actually he said it can' still hear you, not it can smell you. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 7:22 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A Suggestion for SCW Of course, that was back in the days befor harry potter and the tremendous blood bath, aka the deathly hallows ;D. When some deluded people stil considdered harry potter a kids book only. One of the favourite moments for my friends and I from the hp films is the chamber of secrets, when you see the basillisk from the back and the phenix flying in, then here noises, when tom riddle then spouts that brilliant line: your bird may have blinded the bassilisk but it can smell you Or rather your bird may have blinded the bassilisk, --- but we couldn't show it in a pg 12! ;d. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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I believe there's already an Ap for that. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: Charles Rivard woofer...@sbcglobal.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 10:06 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A Suggestion for SCW Using gestures to cast spells makes me wonder if a version of the game could be made to be used on an iPhone. Shaking the phone, tilting in any of the 4 directions left, right, forward or backward, moving your finger in particular patterns to perform functions, and other stuff like that are used on the touch sensitive screen, and, as a new and ongoing learning experience is showing me, certainly can be performed by a blind person. I would think this would take an awful lot of work by the developer, but it would be cool for the gamer. --- Laughter is the best medicine, so look around, find a dose and take it to heart. - Original Message - From: Phil Vlasak p...@pcsgames.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 6:28 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A Suggestion for SCW Hi Thomas, I think I announced that the next version of the Sarah game would have mouse support. Unfortunately, just as it's current joy stick support, the mouse can only use existing keyboard commands. For example the forward, backwards and turning movement keys. The left mouse button pulls up the spell menu and you can move thru it with the mouse and click on the right mouse button to cast the spell. I was hoping that David could add more flexible mouse control, but that would require the game engine to record what the mouse was doing and compare the results in a group of variables. I do like playing the wand game in, Brian Bors' Three mouse driven games. Gestures. You are attacked by ogres and imps and must combat them with two spells. These spells are cast by performing various gestures, and variations of these gestures using your mouse. including a game tutorial that will let you practice the spells. I also know of Jeremy Kaldobsky's Aprone's Daytona and the Book of gold . The metallic sounds are made as I move the mouse into different shapes. What is cool is that each direction you move makes a different noise so someone sitting beside you can actually tell which shape you drew once they've been exposed to the game for a bit! The voice on the right is my character reading up to 3 shapes from the spell book that I must draw next. The voice to the left is just encouragement or warning depending on how fast and accurate I currently am. Each successful shape, in the right order, conjures more [gold] coins that can be heard falling to the table. Each successful shape makes its own sound as it casts and a central voice announces its name. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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man, if it only were vo accessible, might check it out tomorrow though I don't have my hopes up sadly. - Original Message - From: Phil Vlasak p...@pcsgames.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 6:44 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A Suggestion for SCW Hi Charles, There is a Harry Potter Spells App. Introducing the new Harry Potter: Spells - Free version - available now on the app store! I don't know if it is accessible but think not as the tutorial just shows you the gestures to use for each spell. Once enrolled, receive the wand destined for you before being Sorted into one of the four houses by the Sorting Hat. Then using specific hand gestures for each of the 20 spells, practice, practice, practice before experiencing the ultimate contest - Duelling! Compete against the computer or challenge a friend to a real-time duel -- player versus player, casting spells from one device to the other. Earn valuable house points for your house while learning, practicing and dueling. Visit the house points section to see your wins and losses in duelling. You can also see where you rank globally - in your house or in all of Hogwarts. Finally, share it with the rest of the world by posting it to your Facebook page via Facebook Connect. http://harrypotterspellsapp.com/ --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5266 (20100709) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5266 (20100709) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Lol except Scolastic left in headmaster, lessons, and caretaker! On 3/5/11, Pitermach piterm...@gmail.com wrote: man, if it only were vo accessible, might check it out tomorrow though I don't have my hopes up sadly. - Original Message - From: Phil Vlasak p...@pcsgames.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 6:44 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A Suggestion for SCW Hi Charles, There is a Harry Potter Spells App. Introducing the new Harry Potter: Spells - Free version - available now on the app store! I don't know if it is accessible but think not as the tutorial just shows you the gestures to use for each spell. Once enrolled, receive the wand destined for you before being Sorted into one of the four houses by the Sorting Hat. Then using specific hand gestures for each of the 20 spells, practice, practice, practice before experiencing the ultimate contest - Duelling! Compete against the computer or challenge a friend to a real-time duel -- player versus player, casting spells from one device to the other. Earn valuable house points for your house while learning, practicing and dueling. Visit the house points section to see your wins and losses in duelling. You can also see where you rank globally - in your house or in all of Hogwarts. Finally, share it with the rest of the world by posting it to your Facebook page via Facebook Connect. http://harrypotterspellsapp.com/ --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5266 (20100709) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5266 (20100709) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Dark, They did keep in git, as well as headmaster, caretaker, and lessons, strangely enough. And by the way, it's Sourcerers Stone over here, not Philosopher's Stone. I really wish Jim Dale had read the U.K. editions, or rather, that the U.S. ones didn't even get changed by Scolastic in the first place. The reason we have Google is so we can look stuff up, you gits. Or kids could go to their school or nearist public library for God's sake! It really is stupid that this kind of stuff happens. It makes me feel as if publishers think we're stupid or something, or too lazy to research. Besides, it takes away the authenticity of the characters and setting, in my oppinion. They're in England, for God's sake, not America. Let them talk like it! Sorry, rant over now. Thanks, Ari On 3/5/11, Arianna Sepulveda englishride...@gmail.com wrote: Lol except Scolastic left in headmaster, lessons, and caretaker! On 3/5/11, Pitermach piterm...@gmail.com wrote: man, if it only were vo accessible, might check it out tomorrow though I don't have my hopes up sadly. - Original Message - From: Phil Vlasak p...@pcsgames.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 6:44 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A Suggestion for SCW Hi Charles, There is a Harry Potter Spells App. Introducing the new Harry Potter: Spells - Free version - available now on the app store! I don't know if it is accessible but think not as the tutorial just shows you the gestures to use for each spell. Once enrolled, receive the wand destined for you before being Sorted into one of the four houses by the Sorting Hat. Then using specific hand gestures for each of the 20 spells, practice, practice, practice before experiencing the ultimate contest - Duelling! Compete against the computer or challenge a friend to a real-time duel -- player versus player, casting spells from one device to the other. Earn valuable house points for your house while learning, practicing and dueling. Visit the house points section to see your wins and losses in duelling. You can also see where you rank globally - in your house or in all of Hogwarts. Finally, share it with the rest of the world by posting it to your Facebook page via Facebook Connect. http://harrypotterspellsapp.com/ --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5266 (20100709) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5266 (20100709) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Dark, Actually, from what I've read what happened is when Joanne Rowling sold the rights for the first Harry Potter book to Scholastic they were bound and determined to name the book Harry Potter and the School of Magic. There was a furious argument between Joanne and the publishers, and they eventually settled on a compromise. As it turned out the title they agreed upon was Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Exactly why Scholastic insisted on a name change nobody really knows, but apparently Scholastic felt that the original name of the book was inappropriate for American children or some such non-sense. Either way that's what I've heard, and explains why there are esentually two different versions of the same books. Cheers! On 3/5/11, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: Oh, that's more dire than I thought, i just thought it was the usual hollywood idiocy. I'm surprised Jk didn't stop that one. Beware the Grue! dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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I could be mistaken about this but it could be because Philosopher's Stone is used in some quarters as slang for Whisky. I know of an Irish drinking song that actually uses the term in that context. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 10:53 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A Suggestion for SCW Hi Dark, Actually, from what I've read what happened is when Joanne Rowling sold the rights for the first Harry Potter book to Scholastic they were bound and determined to name the book Harry Potter and the School of Magic. There was a furious argument between Joanne and the publishers, and they eventually settled on a compromise. As it turned out the title they agreed upon was Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Exactly why Scholastic insisted on a name change nobody really knows, but apparently Scholastic felt that the original name of the book was inappropriate for American children or some such non-sense. Either way that's what I've heard, and explains why there are esentually two different versions of the same books. Cheers! On 3/5/11, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: Oh, that's more dire than I thought, i just thought it was the usual hollywood idiocy. I'm surprised Jk didn't stop that one. Beware the Grue! dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Charles, Exactly. More to the point I was actually talking about the first vidio game for the PC, Gameboy, etc which was also called Sorcerer's Stone. Although, most Americans would know what I'm talking about if I called it Philosopher’s Stone that is technically incorrect seeing as the vidio game was called Sorcerer's Stone not Philosopher’s Stone. So I don't know why anyone is making a big deal out of this. That's just what it is called in the U.S. Cheers! On 3/5/11, Charles Rivard woofer...@sbcglobal.net wrote: He used that title because that is the title of the book published in the United States, where he resides. --- Laughter is the best medicine, so look around, find a dose and take it to heart. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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As I said, I wasn't trying to. I was just picking up on it. -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: 06 March 2011 06:25 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A Suggestion for SCW Hi Charles, Exactly. More to the point I was actually talking about the first vidio game for the PC, Gameboy, etc which was also called Sorcerer's Stone. Although, most Americans would know what I'm talking about if I called it Philosopher's Stone that is technically incorrect seeing as the vidio game was called Sorcerer's Stone not Philosopher's Stone. So I don't know why anyone is making a big deal out of this. That's just what it is called in the U.S. Cheers! On 3/5/11, Charles Rivard woofer...@sbcglobal.net wrote: He used that title because that is the title of the book published in the United States, where he resides. --- Laughter is the best medicine, so look around, find a dose and take it to heart. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Dark, Well, I wouldn't say it is so much a matter of forgetting the rest of the world exists, but more the fact we have a tendency of borrowing ideas from other countries and somehow making it uniquely our own thing. We do this with everything weather it is food, books, games, you name it. Someone sees it and then comes back to the USA and comes up with his or her own version of it. The idea is original enough but the end result often turns out to be quite a bit different than the original thing he/she was trying to copy. For example, let's take the topic of pizza. During the late 1800's and early 1900's I've heard there was a large amount of Italian imigrants who came to New York City and many of them opened restaurants selling Italian food. Perhaps the most popular was true Italian pizza. Unlike the American version of pizza we have now these pizzas were square, thin crust pizzas, baked in a brick oven, and were just sauce and cheese. What we think of as New York style pizza today. However, pizza became a very popular hit with New Yorkers and it wasn't long before American restaurant owners started creating their own versions of pizza, and it began to become popular all over the country. In very quick order restaurants stopped making square pizzas and made them round like a pie, and started experimenting with all sorts of toppings and sauces. In Chicago one restaurant owner, I don't remember the guys name, decided to make the worlds first deep dish pizza with a thick crust and several layers of meet and cheese. This became known as Chicago style pizza because it was first created in Chicago. Thus we borrowed the idea of pizza from the Italian imigrants who came to New York, setup shop, but American restaurant owners decided to take the idea and make it something more uniquely American. Same thing could be said for Mexican food. There are hundreds of Mexican restaurants all over the country, but most of them don't really sell original Mexican food. Instead it is Americanized Mexican food. I have actually eaten some true Mexican food and I can say it totally taistes nothing like Taco Bell or any of the other Mexican restaurants that try and pass themselves off as Mexican. For one thing different spices etc which totally changes the flavor of the food, and I have eaten some true Mexican hot tamales so hot it felt like I swallowed a blow torch. Fact of the matter is most Americans aren't use to eating food quite that spicy and hot, and so the Taco Bell's of the world make a plane facsimile of Mexican dishes with their name on it. Anyway, the point is as a culture we just take ideas, borrow them, and somehow make them our own. Change them to suit our taistes or personal likes/dislikes. This is obviously what happened to Harry Potter. It was too British for the publishers and they wanted to Americanize it to suit an American audience. In fact, I've read this was one reason Harry Potter got a very slow start in the U.S. Harry Potter came close to never being published at all, because it didn't fit in with the kinds of childrens books that were being published at the time. For example, before Harry Potter became a big name block buster publishers didn't think they could sell it to an American audience. They clamed that an orfened boy, growing up in a disfunctional house hold, going off to boarding school wasn't something that would be of any interest to parents and children. To say nothing of the fact it delt with magic which was being regarded as off limits in a childrens book. To put it bluntly the kind of book Joanne Rowling was selling was taboo for a lot of reasons. Remember at the time Harry Potter came on the scene the dust was just beginning to settle down after R. L. Stine's Goose Bumps series came out in the early to mid 90's. The Christian right, as usual, were suing schools, libraries, etc trying to get such books banned and/or removed. The end result of the Christian rights' hell raising was that publishers had decided to begin turning down books dealing with magic and other themes dealing with the super natural. The only thing was that Harry Potter was becoming so popular in England American publishers had to take notice eventually. Scolastic paid eventually paid something like $105,000 for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone which was unheard of for any childrens book before that. They believed they had commited financial suicide, but within a year it would be on the New York Times best seller list So I guess what I'm saying here is that the entire Harry Potter series got off on the wrong foot in the U.S. to begin with. There were so many misconceptions, fears, and worries that it wouldn't sell that they did everything possible to market it to an American audience. By doing so Americans do what they always do we take something and make it our own even if our version isn't exactly like the original version. Cheers! On 3/5/11, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: Selecting American English?
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Hi Muhammed, I honestly don't remember. Its not like I played them often. They aren't exactly accessible. Although, my son is trying out Lego Harry Potter for the Wii now, and I find it not as good as some of the other Potter games. Kind of lame if you ask me. On 3/5/11, Shiny protector muhamme...@googlemail.com wrote: How do you do stupify in the harry potter games? --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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You're definitely right about the Mexican food thing Thomas. When my brother was married, now almost three years ago, the food at the wedding was authentic Mexican. My grandma complained outrageously about that. LOL. My wife, though born in America, has a strong Hispanic connection since her folks have both Mexican and Spanish ancestry. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2011 12:13 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A Suggestion for SCW Hi Dark, Well, I wouldn't say it is so much a matter of forgetting the rest of the world exists, but more the fact we have a tendency of borrowing ideas from other countries and somehow making it uniquely our own thing. We do this with everything weather it is food, books, games, you name it. Someone sees it and then comes back to the USA and comes up with his or her own version of it. The idea is original enough but the end result often turns out to be quite a bit different than the original thing he/she was trying to copy. For example, let's take the topic of pizza. During the late 1800's and early 1900's I've heard there was a large amount of Italian imigrants who came to New York City and many of them opened restaurants selling Italian food. Perhaps the most popular was true Italian pizza. Unlike the American version of pizza we have now these pizzas were square, thin crust pizzas, baked in a brick oven, and were just sauce and cheese. What we think of as New York style pizza today. However, pizza became a very popular hit with New Yorkers and it wasn't long before American restaurant owners started creating their own versions of pizza, and it began to become popular all over the country. In very quick order restaurants stopped making square pizzas and made them round like a pie, and started experimenting with all sorts of toppings and sauces. In Chicago one restaurant owner, I don't remember the guys name, decided to make the worlds first deep dish pizza with a thick crust and several layers of meet and cheese. This became known as Chicago style pizza because it was first created in Chicago. Thus we borrowed the idea of pizza from the Italian imigrants who came to New York, setup shop, but American restaurant owners decided to take the idea and make it something more uniquely American. Same thing could be said for Mexican food. There are hundreds of Mexican restaurants all over the country, but most of them don't really sell original Mexican food. Instead it is Americanized Mexican food. I have actually eaten some true Mexican food and I can say it totally taistes nothing like Taco Bell or any of the other Mexican restaurants that try and pass themselves off as Mexican. For one thing different spices etc which totally changes the flavor of the food, and I have eaten some true Mexican hot tamales so hot it felt like I swallowed a blow torch. Fact of the matter is most Americans aren't use to eating food quite that spicy and hot, and so the Taco Bell's of the world make a plane facsimile of Mexican dishes with their name on it. Anyway, the point is as a culture we just take ideas, borrow them, and somehow make them our own. Change them to suit our taistes or personal likes/dislikes. This is obviously what happened to Harry Potter. It was too British for the publishers and they wanted to Americanize it to suit an American audience. In fact, I've read this was one reason Harry Potter got a very slow start in the U.S. Harry Potter came close to never being published at all, because it didn't fit in with the kinds of childrens books that were being published at the time. For example, before Harry Potter became a big name block buster publishers didn't think they could sell it to an American audience. They clamed that an orfened boy, growing up in a disfunctional house hold, going off to boarding school wasn't something that would be of any interest to parents and children. To say nothing of the fact it delt with magic which was being regarded as off limits in a childrens book. To put it bluntly the kind of book Joanne Rowling was selling was taboo for a lot of reasons. Remember at the time Harry Potter came on the scene the dust was just beginning to settle down after R. L. Stine's Goose Bumps series came out in the early to mid 90's. The Christian right, as usual, were suing schools, libraries, etc trying to get such books banned and/or removed. The end result of the Christian rights' hell raising was that publishers had decided to begin turning down books dealing with magic and other themes dealing with the super natural. The only thing was that Harry Potter was becoming so popular in England American publishers had to take notice eventually. Scolastic paid eventually paid something like $105,000 for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone which was unheard of for any childrens book before that. They believed they had
Re: [Audyssey] A Suggestion for SCW
Hi Phil, I see. Well, if you ever want to port Sarah to BGT or perhaps Genesis 3D let me know off list. I'd love to help you port it to something else. While the GMA Engine is nice for what it does it really is too restrictive for a game like Sarah. There are a number of things I always thought could have been done better, and there still are little bugs that pop up. I often still get the bug where Sarah starts and she can't move, and i have to restart the game again to have it load correctly. While I love the game such miner bugs get to be annoying to say the least. Anyway, I know about the hot keys for the quick spell menu, but still I find it a tad bit slow. Perhaps asigning a spell to a number like 1 through 0 might help. You could select the default spell and then use spacebar to cast it. That way you could have stupify or something like that at the ready when entering an unexplored room. Cheers! On 3/5/11, Phil Vlasak p...@pcsgames.net wrote: Hi Thomas, This is why I wish I had written the Sarah game myself instead of using David's engine. I proposed several ways of casting spells, but the game engine is not capable of doing them. He is working on mouse support right now and it does sound like it would work well with the game. I do now have hot key support inside the spell menu. For example, control s brings up a quick menu and then you can hit u to cast the unlocking spell. There is a keystroke ini file that allows you to change the quick spell menu from control s to just s, which would make casting even faster. Phil --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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By the way tom. Not meaning to be picky... but in the uk, its philosopher's stone - it just, no offence meant, seemed a bit weird you calling it by that name... but that's just me. Don't take it personally. -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: 05 March 2011 05:30 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: [Audyssey] A Suggestion for SCW Hi Phil and all, Tonight I was sitting back playing a game of Sarah when I realised there is a feature I'd really love to se added to the game at some point. I don't know how many of you have ever played some of the Harry Potter PC games, but in many of them you have to use the mouse to cast spells. For example, in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone to cast the Flipendo spell you have to move the mouse right, down, and then quickly up again. Then, click the left mouse button to cast the spell. For one thing it is visually pretty cool because Harry follows your wand movements on screen, but more than that it makes the games a bit more challenging because you actually have to learn and remember how to do each and every spell in the game. I was wondering if this could be a possible addition to Sarah at some point? Cheers! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Ben, Yes, I know. You can blame the naming issue on Scholastic. For reasons no one will ever understand, including J. K. Rowling herself, Scholastic insisted that the name be changed for the U.S. market even though it was being marketed in the U.K. by Bloomsberry as Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. As you might have guessed the movies, games, toys, etc followed the patern. In the U.S. it was named one thing and in the U.K. another. Its not something we can do anything about, and I've gotten use to calling it by both names. At any rate you might be surprised I have a complete copy of the Harry Potter books published by Bloomsberry instead of Scholastic for that very reason. Scholastic basically took the books, heavily edited them, and made it easier to follow by an American audience by changing the names of things when and where necessary. I didn't really like it, because they changed the story a little too much in my opinion. For example, in Chamber of Secrets when discussing the Ford Anglia the U.K. version uses English names for things like the boot and bonnet of the car. In the American release they use trunk and hood instead. Instead of using toilet they inserted the word bath room. These are relatively miner changes, but I personally like reading it exactly as J. K. Rowling wrote it instead of reading it second hand after some American editor got done changing this and that to fit their idea of how the book should read. So, yeah, I agree if you read the U.K. versionand then the U.S. version it seams quite strange to see how much difference there is over all. Cheers! On 3/5/11, Ben gamehead...@aol.co.uk wrote: By the way tom. Not meaning to be picky... but in the uk, its philosopher's stone - it just, no offence meant, seemed a bit weird you calling it by that name... but that's just me. Don't take it personally. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
