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... completely ignoring all the animes that do just that, and do just fine, of course. And all the movies (and TV series, of course) that have been made from books with notably long time frames and radically varying types of pacing. And a great host of etcs., and so forths, and so ons.

As for storyline stuff, well, games with sequels tend to handle that just fine. It's called 'canon', heh. An intended path through the available choices. There's nothing inherently cheapening about doing that, and can make for great storytelling. Different from an interactive media, but still great. Hell, to an extent, you see it with a number of Let's Plays -- ways to take the viewer out of the player seat and still make for a grand ride.

Really, the reason that I've seen that more video games haven't been converted into movie format -- or at least spun off a movie or two, or TV series, or whatever -- is just because no one's got off their arse and done it, for whatever reason. I've never entirely figured out why (or particularly bothered to try to, really), other than the copyright holders never quite cottoning on to the right sort of person to hire to manage the conversion and do so profitably/effectively.

It'll probably happen eventually, though. Another couple generations of people growing up online and exposure to all the sorts of media intermingling that leads to and we'll likely have a nice body of folks proven capable of pulling such conversions off, and then it'll just be a matter of funding and interest.

Yeah, I could probably throw in a body, providing the time's somewhere between friday and (early) monday morning. Fri-Sun preferred. Free agent wherever, heh.

If I remember correctly NPCs will emit anti-spawning radiation that'll help to keep monsters away, which is the only way to prevent monster spawning.

Unless it's changed between versions, player placed backwall will prevent anything from spawning where the backwall is, as well. Of course, that gives wraiths that spawn outside the wall something to float around on, but...

Presumably, if you backwalled a large enough area, nothing would be able to spawn while you're near the center-ish of it. Presumably.

Hotline Miami, fuck yeah. A movie in the style of Memento, Natural Born Killers, Lost Highway, Blue Velvet. I'd actually go to a movie theater to see that.

... y'know, my first glance at that read "Miyazaki" instead of "Memento". _{actually it was miyamoto but I wuz thinkin' -zaki.}

I... I'unno. I'd give someone a significant portion of my liquid funds to watch a Hotline Miami movie directed by Miyazaki. As in, the Spirited Away dude. Because I have no goddamn idea how that would turn out.

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This makes me wonder. Is dog abortion a thing?

Yes. But it makes Puppy Jesus cry.

Though, to clarify, there may be a time limit for the operation. If it's too far along, I think they say nay. It's definitely that way with cats. So... yeah. Ask a vet!

And, for what it's worth, Baby Jesus doesn't give a shit about dog abortions, so you'd probably be fine.

Hrg. Yes, yes you were. Sorry about that... any objections to waiting for wednesday? If so, I'll do the drawing later tonight (I've got to get up and head out quite soon, heh.) for the four of you, otherwise I'll wait for wednesday. Added to EYE, of course.

Hrm. Why not have the matches be no rune? Maybe even no mastery, or, at least, default cap to whatever side has the lowest level, if both aren't 30.

Hrgle. The drawing for the current batch is in 5 1/2 hours, so...

... I guess I can, hrm.

Okay. At drawing time, anything with less than four entrants will have its entry window extended until wednesday, 10/23, same hour. Should give time for the later offers to attract folks interested in 'em.