By RPS on December 1st, 2009 at 2:34 pm.
It’s only three and a half minutes until Christmas! Quick! Buy socks and walnuts! Quickly, or all shall be ruined! Those of you who have already adequately prepared may stay here, and enjoy our exclusive advent calendar, counting down the scant time until Non-Denominational Festive Holiday Day (on which we celebrate the infinity of Horace The Endless Bear) with a clutch of chipper writings about the PC games we’ve most admired this year. Give your heartfelt thanks to Horace for this warm word-bounty, and take it away by clicking on door the first…
We shall be updating this daily with magic powers of doorian activation, by the way, so check back regularly.
It is now officially Christmas!
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Nothing says Christmas like an unbearably long wait until the 24th.
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How many feets does he have?
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Two feet every two meters X Endless
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Infinity feet.
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I feel his infinite-ness is down, not to his deific properties, but due to his mum being intimate with a millipede.
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Aleph Null
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That image will haunt me.
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Clearly he’s not Endless. We can see his end right there on the calendar!
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Horace has a beginning, but no end.
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I feel every occurrence of a link to TVtropes should come with huge “INTERNET LANDMINE!!1!” warning tags.
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He still looks so sad. Is he still friendless?
We’ll be your friend, Horace! Worry not :C
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This is a good christmas idea, bookmarked :) and can’t wait to see each day.
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TooNu: We’ve done it once before, if you want to have a nose.
KG
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i’VE SEVERLY dissapointed that you CUODLN’T COME UP WITH A NEW IDAE.
Also: Is this a real Horace Calendar? Did someone make it for a RPS/PCG/John Walker in-joke? Amazing!
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It’s my drawing, with Alec’s photoshopping, and Kieron’s coding. Jim shouted orders from his throne.
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It’s excellent.
I’m sure internally Jim was already busy raising questions as to the nature of Horace the endless bear.
“If Horace is infinitely long, is it meaningful to say there is anything at the other end?”
“Actually how does he have a face, how does that work?”
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If Horace is endlessly long how does he poop in the woods?
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But is there no chocolate behind yonder doors? Must we make our own OM NOM NOM noises? Or is that, like, so totally 2007?
Mind you, Horace. He’s endless.
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NEEDS MOAR MEME!
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Thats more like a brown-colored snake than a bear…
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You shut your whore mouth >:(
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Or you’ll find out exactly where an infinite bear shits.
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YOU draw better!
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Reply to AndrewC – really? If he’s infinite in one direction (clearly he has a head), then he has no bum. With no bum, how does he shit? (In the woods or otherwise…)
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If you’re so confident, Scandalon, insult John Walker’s drawing ability again and find out.
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I think you may be on to something very profound, Scandalon. Bears shit in the woods. Horace’s bum resides at infinity. Therefore, a forest must reside at infinity!
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Clever system with the numbers.
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Yay — I’ve been looking forward to the RPS end-of-year roundup stuff. I feel like 2009 was distinctly underwhelming for gaming, probably due to all the good games running away from MW2, the cowards!
However, I’m sure there are gems I missed. Gems RPS didn’t miss. Gems RPS will tell me about.
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what were all these good games that ran away from modern warfare exactly, i’ve been playing the shit out of dragonadge (it’s better that way) and borderlands as well as other games! what games are coming out immediatly next year that weren’t supposed to, the only games i’m looking forward to are mass effect 2, avp and alpha protocol all of which have perfectly good reasons for not being out this year.
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I found Dragon Age and Borderlands both somewhat disappointing. Hence 2009 being distinctly underwhelming.
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Yaaay! I had given up hope of seeing one of these again-I’m sure they are very labour intensive.
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Bears are always so much better when they are endless.
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Does the existence of Horace prove that the universe itself must be endless, so as to be able to contain him. (Or her I suppose, having no end makes it very difficult to check, but with a name like Horace you have to make some assumptions). Or does Horace fold space, such that he is able to be endless, while still taking up finite space (perhaps by containing himself.)
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It’s possible and worthy of consideration that Horace is endless in the sense that;
a) He has no end point in time – he is an unchanging constant, an abstract law of the universe. We can never truly ‘know’ Horace in the perceptive sense of knowledge, but rather manifestations of his existence are evident in everyday life.
b)Horace exists in every possible instance in the infinity of parrallel universes.
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Yeah, Quantum Physicists are suggesting that all bears are actually cross-sectional emanations of the immanent Horace, but as usual they are probably talking bobbins.
I reckon he just goes on a lot.
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WTF is that?!? Mr Hanky after the rack?
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Also, I missed the intro to the Horace, er, I hate to use the term “meme” for something as ineffable as the Endless Bear, er, thing. It just started appearing on here one day…
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Scandalon: There was no intro to the Horace, The Endless Bear. How could there be? He’s endless.
KG
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But wait, John told me he had a beginning, but no end. Surely that implies he has an introduction!
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This is how schisms start.
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You are presuming that endless bears have only one arse at the end and not endless arses every x metres.
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In the beginning was the word, and the word was God, and then Horace said ‘Oh, Hullo, who are you? Would you like to be my friend?’
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And then God said ‘no’. :(
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Is that why Horace looks so sad?
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So, back to a game a day rather than the 12 games of Christmas from last year, eh? Is that because of it being a better year for PC games (and thus having more of them you wanted to talk about), or just a format preference, or… ?
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The very idea that such levels of thought go into anything we do is, although misplaced, very complimentary.
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Yes, but when there’s all four of you, thinking at once, it’s entirely possible a small amount of reasoning might happen.
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You’re welcome. :)
So you’re telling me you didn’t actually come up with the games you wanted to write about before choosing the format, instead you chose the format and will now try to dig up enough games to fill it in? That sounds suspiciously like something *I’d* do.
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This calendar is full of WoW-Gayness. I made Photoshop mockup to show how it’s done in the true spirit of the original Advent Game-O-Calendar.
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bookworm8at : I applaud.
KG
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I think I love you now.
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IN THE GRIM DARKNESS OF THE FUTURE, THERE IS ONLY HORACE
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made me chuckle.
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Awesome. There was one thing missing though
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a386/Rinox/nuadvent_nowowg.jpg
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What is this witchcraft
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Can I get this as a Christmas card? Inside it should say, “Happy Non-Denominational Festive Holiday Day from Horace the Endless Bear”
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Can I get this as a Xmas card? Inside it should say, “Happy Non-Denominational Festive Holiday Day from Horace the Endless Bear”.
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Oh, bother.
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Double post? That’s a paddlin’.
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Pardon me for saying, but I always thought of the Endless Bear as an infinite swirling recursion of Endless Bears, spinning inward to infinity.
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Nicko: You’re referring to the Batheaston Heresy. The central papal bodies cast that one out.
KG
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isn’t the endless bear endless in the sense that you didn’t draw his end? he doesn’t have an arse or is it working under the laws of quantum mechanics and so exists in every state possible BECAUSE we can’t see it? answer quickly please i’m writing a thesis on it, show you’re working.
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Schrödingers bear?
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RInox: No, since we can see that Horace is alive without opening any boxes, he is disqualified from being a Shrödingers bear.
However, if everyone closes their eyes, we have no idea of knowing if Horace is dead or alive at the given time, during which he may be both dead and alive, which would make him a Shrödingers bear.
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Argggg… we pirates like are information, so ye better start talkin about the 9th, 10th an 11th days o gamin’ or we might be forced to be doin’ sumthin’… unpleasant.
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Can i set the page to ignore this bear and calendars thing? :)
I wanna read about videogames, i don’t wanna know about these… drawings… of some holiday… things.
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