Comments on: Shrink Rapt – Radiator #2

By: rei

rei — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:21:55 +0000

(1) X9 is where you’re supposed to file the last repressed memory you get, but the numbers only go up to 7.

(2) If I don’t misunderstand what you mean by backlot, you should end up there after you wreck enough boxes and presumably freak out in the physical world.

(3) All instances—the happy, the sad and the premature—should terminate with you walking out of a door (either in the repression centre or the movie prop place).

It kinda sounds like your installation might be borked; when you end up back in the counsel session Dylan should either tell you that you’re getting a divorce, or are going to try again.

By: Freddy

Freddy — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:58:25 +0000

I have played through Polaris again (after hearing there were more than one ending). It was nice, but I liked HWC better.

In HWC, I went out the exit after I realized it wasn’t locked like I expected. That wasn’t a satisfactory ending, though. So I replayed it. I had heard that there were three endings- leave early (the one I just did), get a divorce, and stay married. I went through breaking boxes once and then storing boxes. But they both lead to the same ending- sitting in a room with the therapist and Dylan just looking at a each other. That isn’t a satisfactory ending, either. I decided to noclip around and see what I could see. Apparently there was a movie theatre set (I am guessing that this is the backlot thing mentioned in other threads), but I can’t figure out how to get there without noclip. Same thing with X9, something I had heard mentioned in other threads. I have no idea what this is. Maybe someone who could play this game right could answer some of my questions:

1- What is X9?
2- How do I get to the backlot without no-clipping?
3- Are the endings supposed to be something other than sitting in a room for an interminable amount of time?

Hoping that the new post that brought me here will also bring someone who knows more about the game. Much thanks.

By: Jayt

Jayt — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:53:35 +0000

Your thought process hurts my head chemix

By: Chemix

Chemix — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:18:17 +0000

I said the homesexuals are genetically different, something that many gays believe, and I mis-recalled a lesson in bio on genes related to sex, a big mistake, yes, I screwed up, yes, I know and admitted that it is not kleinfelter syndrom. I was speaking out of memory misread and should have treaded more carefully, yes. As towards women being mentally attuned, that’s based mostly on personal experience, which I noted, is a generalization, and can lead to mistakes, and is also related to the evolutionary psychology theory. I’m not going to retract that, with few exceptions, the women I’ve been around act as I described, note, this generalization is not meant to cover ever single woman on earth, just a cultural majority from one puny man’s perspective.

My citation of gay relations are attempts to show connections and a lack of apparent bigotry, and as for differentiating them from others, I regard them as people, even if they themselves make a distinction. It simply wouldn’t make any sense to just say people however when being accused of bigotry. Perhaps a better word is to use for the specific people I was rationalizing the characters behavior to would be feminine, or stereotypically feminine, but I didn’t think Political Correctness to such a degree would be required here, nor did I think that it was such a hot topic, I was apparently wrong, in many respects. At least this experience will leave me with a mental note to make sure I don’t make that mistake again, or cite that mis-information from memory again.

As for damage I’ve done, I am sorry for any offense I have caused. I’d say more, but, no need to dig anymore with the chance that I may be wrong, but one little bit must come out: there are trends (psychological) that define cultural sexual identities, feminine and masculine, and they tend (note: tend- in this case meaning a high probability or ratio) to affect their namesake genders, hence their names.

By: IvanHoeHo

IvanHoeHo — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:34:24 +0000

Man, almost made it to G1 (the last one, I think?)… but then there’s just too much stacking – like others have said, and the never-ending whining was getting on my nerves. Is that what it’s like to be in a dysfunctional relationship?

Whatever. I mean, What’s the worth of a marriage if they can’t at least be reasonably honest to each other?

By: Bhazor

Bhazor — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:02:13 +0000

Reply to Chemix
You said homosexuals are deformed and that women are mentally attuned to cleaning and being emotional. How exactly were we meant to take that?

Also repeatedly talking about your gay friends as some sort of collective individual body just illustrates how you see them as different than the normals. That isn’t helping.

You’ve done your damage now just duck out before you dig yourself deeper.

By: Chemix

Chemix — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:37:52 +0000

Oke doke folks, I made a mistake when recalling bio-101, if you find it offensive, then I’m sorry, alright, I’m not trying to upset anyone. I was simply being honest on my opinion, perhaps, too honest, but it is an easy association, as the stereotype stands, and knowing some homosexuals, the stereotype can be true, obviously, generalizing on this point can be harmful if people are sensitive to the issue, as this discussion shows, but when writing a quick post on the internet, one can make assumptions and post without thinking too heavily.

On that note, I acted defensively on the post because of real life experience and the direct attack comments (mind you, some poorly remembered bio-homework from 2 years ago). I’ve had friends, and not so friendly acquaintances over the years that have been homosexual, so being called homophobic was interpreted on an attack on my character, which has shown a rather poor reflection of what I’d like to think of myself, or at least, the placement of my flaws, and that’s mostly my fault.

As for my collection of “relationship” comics, if you’re talking about my hentai archive, then I do have quite an awesome collection. Doctoral advice books from the 50s I am lacking, mostly due to heavy biases drawn from a “democracy/ America/ other countries are shit” perspective and a lean towards the psychoanalytical form of psychology that hasn’t proven very effective in the past century (whereas it might have been semi-helpful in the Victorian era).

By: Muzman

Muzman — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:30:56 +0000

Say what you will about the guy, I bet he’s got the most awesome collection of ‘relationship’ comics and doctorial advice books from the late fifties.

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:23:31 +0000

Truth is, there observed patterns around the basis of sexuality, and its quite independent from sexual identity. The common line being many transvestites are not gay. But really i find it all flawed as there is an pre-requisite that sexuality is a biological truth rather than a mere preference.

In short chemix, if you are going to complain about the character being a whiney bitch don’t let me stop you, but keep the bigotry out of the comments eh?

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:50:46 +0000

Chemix: Man, seriously, if you don’t know the Biology, don’t pretend to. You’re being really offensive.

By: ACS

ACS — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:39:49 +0000

I mean really, he’s a whiny piece of crap that acts like a woman with PMS, which to some extent makes sense, as the character is homosexual and that can have woman like tendencies, but I could care less about them when they act like this.

Considering that you dislike both women and homosexuals, please never be in a relationship. Thanks.

By: Bhazor

Bhazor — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:30:46 +0000

Reply to Chemix

No, XXY is Klinefelter syndrome not the gay gene. Klinefelter is essentially men who have tits and shrinky dinky testes. If you are going to try defending the indefensible at least check your facts in Wikipedia first.

Now enough, this a blog about games not pseudo science and bigotry. Well a blog about games and games writing. Well a blog about games and games writing and plugs for the authors. Well a blog about games and games writing and plugs for the authors and the fact that Ken Levine has come to bed eyes.