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	<title>Comments on: Spandau Ballet Sits and Starts Singing about Gold</title>
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		<title>By: BooleanBob</title>
		<link>http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/01/28/spandau-ballet-sits-and-starts-singing-about-gold/comment-page-1/#comment-139979</link>
		<dc:creator>BooleanBob</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@unclelou: Actually wii play almost certainly &lt;i&gt;has&lt;/i&gt; sold multimillion copies in 2008, and the shooting gallery mode is enough of a blatant Duck Hunt homage for me to begrudge your point on the frantic antics of pedantic semantics.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@unclelou: Actually wii play almost certainly <i>has</i> sold multimillion copies in 2008, and the shooting gallery mode is enough of a blatant Duck Hunt homage for me to begrudge your point on the frantic antics of pedantic semantics.</p>
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		<title>By: vanarbulax</title>
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		<dc:creator>vanarbulax</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The games doing it wrong!

&gt;Press green button and strum
You can&#039;t use multiple objects with that verb.

Clearly needs to study the material they are satirizing, only when you&#039;re using the slider bar during solo&#039;s can you not strum, unless you turn the slider bar off in options. Even then you can only use the frets by themselves during solos. I object to the inaccuracies, guitar hero is serious business.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The games doing it wrong!</p>
<p>&gt;Press green button and strum<br />
You can&#8217;t use multiple objects with that verb.</p>
<p>Clearly needs to study the material they are satirizing, only when you&#8217;re using the slider bar during solo&#8217;s can you not strum, unless you turn the slider bar off in options. Even then you can only use the frets by themselves during solos. I object to the inaccuracies, guitar hero is serious business.</p>
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		<title>By: unclelou</title>
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		<dc:creator>unclelou</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Hmph. Is there any game that can’t be (poorly) re-rendered as IF that people won’t fall over themselves to adore?&quot;

While your example is rather amusing, Duck Hunt hasn&#039;t sold multimillion copies in 2008. :)

You&#039;d have more trouble with GTA, Spore or Fallout 3, I dare say.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Hmph. Is there any game that can’t be (poorly) re-rendered as IF that people won’t fall over themselves to adore?&#8221;</p>
<p>While your example is rather amusing, Duck Hunt hasn&#8217;t sold multimillion copies in 2008. :)</p>
<p>You&#8217;d have more trouble with GTA, Spore or Fallout 3, I dare say.</p>
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		<title>By: terry</title>
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		<dc:creator>terry</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Sends this to us this&quot; sounds like some sort of Lovecraftian chant and I will scorn any article that uses such phraseology!

I did enjoy the title however.  I...I think I might watch some TV in gta4 now :(</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Sends this to us this&#8221; sounds like some sort of Lovecraftian chant and I will scorn any article that uses such phraseology!</p>
<p>I did enjoy the title however.  I&#8230;I think I might watch some TV in gta4 now :(</p>
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		<title>By: jamscones</title>
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		<dc:creator>jamscones</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There&#039;s almost certainly a Sisters of Mercy angle to this story.  Oh look!  There it is:

http://www.thesistersofmercy.com/error404page.html

&quot;The chemist smiles knowingly&quot;

LOLELDRITCH</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There&#8217;s almost certainly a Sisters of Mercy angle to this story.  Oh look!  There it is:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thesistersofmercy.com/error404page.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.thesistersofmercy.com/error404page.html</a></p>
<p>&#8220;The chemist smiles knowingly&#8221;</p>
<p>LOLELDRITCH</p>
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		<title>By: Frankie The Patrician[PF]</title>
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		<dc:creator>Frankie The Patrician[PF]</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I laughed through every button press....totally random, I&#039;m a fokkin&#039; rock star, yeeeeah!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I laughed through every button press&#8230;.totally random, I&#8217;m a fokkin&#8217; rock star, yeeeeah!</p>
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		<title>By: Wildbluesun</title>
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		<dc:creator>Wildbluesun</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>HAHAHAHAHAHA.
HAHAHAHA.
HAHA.
HA.

...That was my true, honest-to-god reaction.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>HAHAHAHAHAHA.<br />
HAHAHAHA.<br />
HAHA.<br />
HA.</p>
<p>&#8230;That was my true, honest-to-god reaction.</p>
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		<title>By: Bobsy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bobsy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Kieron: agreed. But I find it so hard to play IF by their constrictive rules. Something about the elegantly written prose compells me to break out and go against the grain. I think we talked about this before...

... ah yes, we &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/11/19/if-comp-2008-violet/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;did.&lt;/a&gt; I make no apologies.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Kieron: agreed. But I find it so hard to play IF by their constrictive rules. Something about the elegantly written prose compells me to break out and go against the grain. I think we talked about this before&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230; ah yes, we <a href="http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/11/19/if-comp-2008-violet/" rel="nofollow">did.</a> I make no apologies.</p>
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		<title>By: Hypocee</title>
		<link>http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/01/28/spandau-ballet-sits-and-starts-singing-about-gold/comment-page-1/#comment-139609</link>
		<dc:creator>Hypocee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A bit of an understandable misperception I think, BooleanBob. Always remember, in matters of Meh the majority is silent. If you see this sort of thing and think &#039;oooh aren&#039;t you a clever lad with a fetching black turtleneck&#039;, you&#039;re unlikely to bother leaving a comment. The nice thing about Internet cults as opposed to real ones is that they don&#039;t hurt anyone and you can just leave them to their fun.

On the other hand, &lt;i&gt;Deity of Conflict&lt;/i&gt; is the same joke done the same way, and I thought that was a laugh riot and played it twice. Probably the choice of the drunken fratboy narrator made the difference.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A bit of an understandable misperception I think, BooleanBob. Always remember, in matters of Meh the majority is silent. If you see this sort of thing and think &#8216;oooh aren&#8217;t you a clever lad with a fetching black turtleneck&#8217;, you&#8217;re unlikely to bother leaving a comment. The nice thing about Internet cults as opposed to real ones is that they don&#8217;t hurt anyone and you can just leave them to their fun.</p>
<p>On the other hand, <i>Deity of Conflict</i> is the same joke done the same way, and I thought that was a laugh riot and played it twice. Probably the choice of the drunken fratboy narrator made the difference.</p>
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		<title>By: BooleanBob</title>
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		<dc:creator>BooleanBob</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hmph. Is there any game that can&#039;t be (poorly) re-rendered as IF that people won&#039;t fall over themselves to adore? With this in mind, I give you:

Duck Hunt, a seminal retro-indie mash-up IF phenomenon by BooleanBob (some credit reluctantly given to those Nintendo guys)

The scene is a lurid pastiche of neon greens, puce, and robin egg blue. Your view of the wildlife preserve stretches into a seeming eternity of sky, obscured only by a small, unhealthy-looking tree and some kind of bush peeking out above the undergrowth.

You know why you are here. Your family needs to eat. You don&#039;t like that you&#039;re having to steal, but it was either this or try your hand as a Somali pirate, and you&#039;ve never been good with boats.

You are carrying an awkward and unwieldy grey and orange gun. There is a duck here.

&lt;i&gt;Shoot duck&lt;/i&gt;

You level your gun at the graceful form of the bird in flight. Unfortunately, whoever crafted your weapon neglected to give it an adequate sight. Three brisk reports ring out, but the animal still honks, still flaps. You have missed.

The duck, ascending, soon flies out of view.

Your dog is here. He is laughing at you.

&lt;i&gt;Shoot dog&lt;/i&gt;

(first reloading gun)

You try to shoot your dog, but something is wrong with the gun. Your finger jams the trigger back time and again, but nothing happens. You feel the hairs on the back of your burning neck start to prickle as a mixture of rage and humiliation sweeps across your care-worn features.

&lt;i&gt;et cetera&lt;/i&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hmph. Is there any game that can&#8217;t be (poorly) re-rendered as IF that people won&#8217;t fall over themselves to adore? With this in mind, I give you:</p>
<p>Duck Hunt, a seminal retro-indie mash-up IF phenomenon by BooleanBob (some credit reluctantly given to those Nintendo guys)</p>
<p>The scene is a lurid pastiche of neon greens, puce, and robin egg blue. Your view of the wildlife preserve stretches into a seeming eternity of sky, obscured only by a small, unhealthy-looking tree and some kind of bush peeking out above the undergrowth.</p>
<p>You know why you are here. Your family needs to eat. You don&#8217;t like that you&#8217;re having to steal, but it was either this or try your hand as a Somali pirate, and you&#8217;ve never been good with boats.</p>
<p>You are carrying an awkward and unwieldy grey and orange gun. There is a duck here.</p>
<p><i>Shoot duck</i></p>
<p>You level your gun at the graceful form of the bird in flight. Unfortunately, whoever crafted your weapon neglected to give it an adequate sight. Three brisk reports ring out, but the animal still honks, still flaps. You have missed.</p>
<p>The duck, ascending, soon flies out of view.</p>
<p>Your dog is here. He is laughing at you.</p>
<p><i>Shoot dog</i></p>
<p>(first reloading gun)</p>
<p>You try to shoot your dog, but something is wrong with the gun. Your finger jams the trigger back time and again, but nothing happens. You feel the hairs on the back of your burning neck start to prickle as a mixture of rage and humiliation sweeps across your care-worn features.</p>
<p><i>et cetera</i></p>
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		<title>By: Thomas Lawrence</title>
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		<dc:creator>Thomas Lawrence</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That opening reminds me a bit of a nifty piece of IF called &quot;The Act of Misdirection&quot;, which had the fantastic opening conceit of placing you in the role of a stage magician, on stage, about to begin a magic act... but of course, without providing you any knowledge about what your act involves. It&#039;s very clever.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That opening reminds me a bit of a nifty piece of IF called &#8220;The Act of Misdirection&#8221;, which had the fantastic opening conceit of placing you in the role of a stage magician, on stage, about to begin a magic act&#8230; but of course, without providing you any knowledge about what your act involves. It&#8217;s very clever.</p>
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		<title>By: Meat Circus</title>
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		<dc:creator>Meat Circus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nobody shouts &#039;old&#039; any more. All the cool kids shout &quot;GAMMAL!&quot; instead.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nobody shouts &#8216;old&#8217; any more. All the cool kids shout &#8220;GAMMAL!&#8221; instead.</p>
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