By John Walker on October 15th, 2010 at 10:58 pm.
If we posted every time there was a new hidden object demo, we’d become Rock, Paper, Hidden Object Demo. Although by that logic we’re a website exclusively about shotguns, which probably isn’t the case. However, I really liked the name of this one, so it gets a link, despite being identical to all the others. It’s called Letters From Nowhere. Which makes me want to start an organisation which arranges for people to write letters to complete strangers. That would be amazing. This game – it’s ordinary. It’s a mix of objects hidden where they should be, and those disguised against the background. And of course there’s all the torn up pieces of paper and barmy attempts at a narrative as you’d expect. My husband’s gone missing! I’d best search the street outside for a dragonfly, baseball bat and lobster.
(Alternative joke for this post: “Dear Mrs Trellis, I’m writing to you to ask you to stop parking on my lawn. Yours sincerely, Mr Simon Nowhere.”)
Well, to be exact were that the case this would be a site about Paper Shotgun’s since the site logo in the top left lacks a comma.
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I am extremely amused by your errant apostrophe.
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Well then you will fall out of your chair when you realise it is actually a missing quotation mark before the P.
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@ Eamo
Surely by that logic the site is about ‘Paper Shotgun PC gaming since 1983′?
And the errant apostrophe in Shotgun’s is in fact the very comma you were missing after Paper! It just fell through the floor onto the end of shotgun.
Or something
Good night
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Except it’s not a quotation character, but a generic replacement character for those puny keyboard layouts that don’t have a real one. ^^
Here’s a comparison:
Replacements: “” ” – - – …
Proper ones: “” ‘’ – − — …
Here in Germany we just have a higher standard in grammar Naziism. For obvious reasons. ;))
And yes, I have all those on my keyboard. Plus the German ones.
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If you had the web-magic to turn small squares of the post’s image into tiny clickable links, I’d totally read RPHOD! “Can you find the link to this demo?”
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“Dear Mr Sainsury,
Please can you pass on this message to your shop clerks:
NO I DON’T HAVE A BLOODY NECTAR CARD
Sincerly,
Mrs Trellis of North Wales”
I believe that ISIHAC quotes are needed.
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“I’ve just received this note from Samantha to say she’s been delayed meeting a gentleman beekeeper friend near Warrington. Samantha’s just started keeping bees herself and has three dozen or so, and she says her friend’s an expert handler. Apparently he carefully takes out her 38 bees, and soon has them flying around his head.”
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Ahhh, this is why I love RPS :D
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Ahhh, its posts like this that make me proud to be British.
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Who will ever forget the show’s, now famous, commonwealth tour, when Lionel Blair jumped up and displayed his Passage To India for the full two minutes!
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“Possibly the most versatile performer was Lionel Blair, and no one will ever forget the occasion he was given A Town Like Alice, when he chose to do a silent impression of the author. Such was the performance, Una Stubbs gasped in amazement when she saw Neville Shute in Lionel’s face.”
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I have no idea what all this meant. :-/
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“Which makes me want to start an organisation which arranges for people to write letters to complete strangers.”
Alternatively, an anti-facebook where you can only interact with total strangers.
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That’s the best idea I’ve heard all week!…..now how would you go about enforcing that?
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You won’t be able to interact with people in your Friends List and posts such as “long time no see” and “how are you since the last time we spoke” would result in a perma-ban?
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the internets need this
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Isn’t that basically ChatRoulette? (Or the older, original Omegle, if you’re a purist.)
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Wait, aren’t these very comments here all just letters from strangers to strangers? ;)
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I was wondering if people would get that reference. I’m glad to see that the listernship of ISIHAC crosses over with the readership of RPS :)
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Where’s the lobster?
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Hidden object games?
Monkey Island with no laughs.
What a waste of time.
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Exactly what I thought. Searching the screen in general is a waste of time.
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they could always save time by doing like more recent adventure games and having a key to highlight all the usable objects on the screen.
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I think the point of this post has gone over my head. Does the new professional *cough* RPS have a daily post quota that someone is behind on?
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Waiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit a minute, this Website is not about shotguns? What’s next, you’re telling me you’re not all members of the NRA?
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More news from nowhere.
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I call upon the author to explain.
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Man if only…but wait!
http://tinyurl.com/24td8e3
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But what an enormous and encyclopaedic brain
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