Saber Cherry is alive and well - Page 6

Gandalf Parker · #51 July 12th, 2004, 03:10 AM

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Me, I feel that there's no meat quite like freshly killed, especially if you killed it yourself.

Meat is better after it's been hung up for a while and allowed to age (bleed) a day or so. It's by far more tender than cooking it freshly-dead. I prefer my (rare) steak to be tender and juicy, not tough and jerky-like.

Ever read the description of "Dropped Duck"?

Saber Cherry · #52 July 12th, 2004, 09:42 AM

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What does this game involve? How do you play it? And what is that THING? Is it shiny?

How can you ask such a silly question? It's closely related to you, from the looks of your avatar...=)

The game is, er... actually, I'm about to start graduate school in artificial intelligence. So, the game is a study in artificial intelligence that happens to have graphics, so I can see what's going on. But, despite how it looks, the majority of my effort went into graphics (and making them fast) so that the AI is still half-baked=)

I'm thinking the plot might be something like... say... there's a really small robot. Or there are really big bugs. And, they fight! Also, the bugs are evil so you have to save the world, and you're the only one who can do it because your father left you the family's treasured giant robot (or tiny robot).

Just kidding, that sounds pretty lame! Hahaha...

Ok, really, I think the plot will involve magical mitochondria capable of a direct matter-to-energy conVersion of Elerium, thus allowing insects to grow to fantastic sizes depsite their lack of an efficient circulatory system. The gameplay will by a hybrid of X-COM, Privateer, Secret of Mana, and possibly Sim Farm. (This paragraph is actually true.)

Of course, you can also just sit back and watch the bugs run around and eat each other, which is pretty fun. For some people.

spirokeat · #53 July 12th, 2004, 10:29 AM

Blood pudding ? thats Black Pudding where I come from and its lovely fried, though you get it in a white variety too.

Tripe is also nice, though I dont see that as often as I used to anymore. Nice plate of honeycomb tripe or elder smothered in vinegar on a saturday afternoon. yum.

Ox heart is also nice, but takes a damn long time to cook.

Spiro.

Chazar · #54 July 12th, 2004, 10:55 AM

I like the thread's new topic about exotic food. And I like exotic food (actually I wanted to eat bugs at the EXPO2000 in Hannover, but the queue was way too long for me to wait).

But that leads to a Dom-related question: I think that considering a pest to be edible is a good way to get rid of the pest. (Didnt the french pull that trick recently with a foreign frog/toad species that was crowding out the native species?) So where is this concept in Dom2? Are there any creatures eating up their enemies?

I think Dom2 covers an awful variety of themes, but this might acutally be a part they forgot... (And I dont accept scavengers/undead varieties like Eater of the Dead.)

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HotNifeThruButr · #55 July 12th, 2004, 11:12 AM

I'm not sure if we're talking about the same blood, but I like mine in a tofu-like consistency. And we all know how easy it is to get our hands on buffalo, right?

Taqwus · #56 July 12th, 2004, 04:37 PM

Those who wish to satisfy their insectivorous urges could do worse than to search for a company called "Edible Limited". BBQ worm crisps, chocolate ant bars, and scorpion lollipops, oh my!

#57 July 12th, 2004, 05:00 PM

Don't make fun of Cherry's bugs!

I believe they are cute and vicious, precisely what bugs should be!

Arryn · #58 July 12th, 2004, 05:07 PM

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Don't make fun of Cherry's bugs!

I believe they are cute and vicious, precisely what bugs should be!

Aren't programmers supposed to eradicate bugs, not deliberately create them?

#59 July 12th, 2004, 05:25 PM

Not when they are cute and vicious. That is I also think the term bug is too liberally applied. Though I wouldn't mind seeing an Alien tear through a server case and devour a user every once in a while, but only because I believe that the end of civilization is the self-checkout at the grocery store.

Arryn · #60 July 12th, 2004, 05:36 PM

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I believe that the end of civilization is the self-checkout at the grocery store.

I agree. A most ill-conceived notion if ever there was one. An attempt to cut business costs (payroll) at the expense of customer convenience. What makes it especially egregious is that it's masked as an attempt to *improve* customer service. Yeah, right. A cashier can check someone through far faster than the customer can do the work themselves. Customers have too many buttons they need to push (a bad UI) and it still requires a cashier's involvement despite paying by credit card. Self-service gasoline and banking make sense. Self-service retail shopping does not.