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mchicken is dejected. Cover of Rush's Seminal Album
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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:37 pm Post subject: Cardinal Directions |
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So I'm playing this series of games from the second greatest shareware developer (behind Ambrosia), Spiderweb Software. It looks like this:
As you can see, things are rotated 45 degrees, and CLEARLY there are direction indicators at the corners, so you know which way is which.
So I'm following a walkthrough as necessary, and the guy who wrote is has NO idea what directions are. Every time he says south, that could mean either south, east, or west, depending, apparently, on his mood as he wrote it. THE DIRECTIONS ARE ON THE SCREEN...JUST READ THEM! I honestly don't know how he could get it wrong, and wrong in a different way every single time, but I do know that any direction listed in it will be wrong most of the time. It is incredibly frustrating, and as is the case with most of these things, he wrote 3 of the 5 walkthroughs for the series of games. I don't know if I'm going to make it without going insane, and without forgetting what cardinal directions are. And that would betray my Native American heritage.
So basically, "Matt P." is an Indian-hating, directionless monster. |
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lugo is unable to remember his password. Such an Aries
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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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Really couldn't get into those games when I tried em.
Maybe you could, you know, try it without a walkthrough. Real Native Americans don't use walkthroughs, they are too busy smoking pipes and shoving hooks through their chests.
And what's with that guy named Mycroft? _________________ ' What I'm thinking in my head is, 'Well, the truth is, Brian, we can't solve global warming because I f---ing changed light bulbs in my house. It's because of something collective'. |
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mchicken is dejected. Cover of Rush's Seminal Album
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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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lugo wrote: | And what's with that guy named Mycroft? |
I don't know but that's the default name (the picture is from Wikipedia).
I played the original versions (Exile) about 10 years ago so I have a big soft spot in my heart for them. |
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lizakova is shinying up her life. Kitty Guardian
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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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I feel like a true Native American wouldn't bother with cardinal directions and would just use the position of the sun to pinpoint exactly where he is, where he was, and where he will ever be. |
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mchicken is dejected. Cover of Rush's Seminal Album
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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:06 pm Post subject: |
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lizakova wrote: | I feel like a true Native American wouldn't bother with cardinal directions and would just use the position of the sun to pinpoint exactly where he is, where he was, and where he will ever be. |
Native Americans love the number four, and they love cardinal directions. Their doors face east for the sunrise.
There's a fancy chart about it on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_directions#Americas
(I am part of the "Sioux" line (Santee Sioux) and the reservation my mom and I lived on would be part of the "Lakota" line (Sicangu)).
Look, I was there when the Sicangu built their casino, and we drove through my mom's people's town to see their casino as well, it doesn't get more Native American than that.
And also your plan doesn't work at night. But I guess at that point we would just turn into a bear or a wolf or our spirit animal or whatever. |
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xavid is surprised at continuity. ≠√3
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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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mchicken wrote: | And also your plan doesn't work at night. |
Look, man up to stars. |
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lizakova is shinying up her life. Kitty Guardian
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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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mchicken wrote: | But I guess at that point we would just turn into a bear or a wolf or our spirit animal or whatever. |
Look, I read Twilight. I know what you people do when no one's looking. |
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mchicken is dejected. Cover of Rush's Seminal Album
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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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lizakova wrote: | mchicken wrote: | But I guess at that point we would just turn into a bear or a wolf or our spirit animal or whatever. |
Look, I read Twilight. I know what you people do when no one's looking. |
Neither Native Americans nor vampires are going to support that trash. It dishonors all of our and their good names. |
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hankr is 100% sold to a law firm for the low starting price of $160k/year, his soul, and his free time annex ghost
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Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 1:30 am Post subject: |
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How Native American do you need to be to count as Native American anyway? |
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mchicken is dejected. Cover of Rush's Seminal Album
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Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 1:36 am Post subject: |
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hankr wrote: | How Native American do you need to be to count as Native American anyway? |
25% of a single tribe to be a member of that tribe is typical. Therefore, I am not a member, while my mother is. My grandmother was 100% Native American, just not 100% of a single tribe.
Fake New England casino tribes you only have to be like .5%. |
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hankr is 100% sold to a law firm for the low starting price of $160k/year, his soul, and his free time annex ghost
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Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 1:48 am Post subject: |
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Apparently my paternal grandmother was either full or half Native American. I don't know any more, because knowing more would require talking to my father, and I'm really not sure it's worth the awkwardness. |
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mchicken is dejected. Cover of Rush's Seminal Album
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hankr wrote: | Apparently my paternal grandmother was either full or half Native American. I don't know any more, because knowing more would require talking to my father, and I'm really not sure it's worth the awkwardness. |
What does that last bit mean? |
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hankr is 100% sold to a law firm for the low starting price of $160k/year, his soul, and his free time annex ghost
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Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 1:56 am Post subject: |
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I didn't meet my father (that I remember) until I was 14, and I've only seen him maybe five times since then. It doesn't help that half the time I talk to him it's because my mother called him to get him to call me so he could convince me to do something that she wanted me to do. Even though I don't really know him at all, so it's the rough equivalent of some random guy on the street walking up to me and ordering me around. Any phone call with him is just so....awkward. I'm not sure me calling him up and asking about his dead mother's ethnicity would make anything better. Though, on the other hand, he might appreciate me taking interest in his side of the family at all. |
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mchicken is dejected. Cover of Rush's Seminal Album
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Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 2:04 am Post subject: |
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Fair enough. Also that story is very odd. I guess Chris Rock was right. |
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lugo is unable to remember his password. Such an Aries
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Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 5:07 am Post subject: |
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Man, I wish I had a secret mystery Indian grandma. _________________ ' What I'm thinking in my head is, 'Well, the truth is, Brian, we can't solve global warming because I f---ing changed light bulbs in my house. It's because of something collective'. |
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