Anghel Dust

[davidn]

Today's episode is actually quite short, consisting mostly of a large discussion where we're basically reassuring ourselves that what we're seeing is in fact real.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MLLoCwv33E

0:40 Hoping for no further mutations
1:10 Anghel's weapon
3:00 Haah!
3:15 Anghel dust
3:35 Endangered windows
3:55 DavidN sanity check
4:20 School food
4:55 11 Wisdom (5)
5:05 Anghel highlight
5:50 More post-revelations
7:15 The Kalante family tradition
8:15 Nothing but tests
8:55 More plot verification
13:45 Back to the game/cave doorbell
15:05 Happy new year!
15:45 Hibernation
16:15 Enjoy it while it lasts
17:15 Racism count!

Comments

[premchaia_pre4]

Which I suppose could make sense either way, as vs lbh vagrecerg gur travgvir nf orvat gur fbhepr bs gur fbat, vg pbhyq or jrnire svapurf (ol rkgrafvba bgure oveqf), naq vs lbh vagrecerg vg nf orvat gur gnetrg bs gur qrngu, vg pbhyq or gur bayl perngherf xabja gb npghnyyl qb nal jrnivat, but those links seem a bit weak.

[davidn]

I don't know - it sounds dangerous ;) It's difficult to say, given how surprising it's already been that this game knew what it was doing to us for so long, how far its knowledge goes and when we're just projecting things on to it... and I'm afraid to speculate.

[premchaia_pre4]

I'm beginning to wonder whether you people are making it up that you find this sort of after-the-initial-observation connection surprising! I find it surprising that creatures would find this sort of thing surprising, myself, rather than merely delicious.

This is oddly similar to the difference between my response and you folks's to Hanano Puzzle, in retrospect.

[davidn]

Why would I make anything up at this point? This game makes it completely unnecessary.

[xaq.livejournal.com]

...what?

[davidn]

Gur EBG13 pvcurerq grkg, fbzrjung harkcrpgrqyl, vf gur cneg bs gung cbfg gung V haqrefgbbq gur zbfg.

[xaq.livejournal.com]

*10 minutes of confusion and searching later*

Oh, okay. Sorry, this is the first I've ever even heard of this particular cypher.

(Bancuhymmo, E's suna y vyh uv dra Al Bhed myhkiyka vun kuuvpymm ahlnobdeuhc mega drec.)

[davidn]

Yes, sorry :) ROT13 has been around for a very long time, having the advantage that the same algorithm can be used to both cipher and decipher text.

I liked Al Bhed a lot, though - just by shifting the vowels and consonants around separately, the end result was a language that sounded... believably pronounceable, for the most part, with words like "essateydamo". It instilled a fascination in me that I hadn't felt since Commander Keen :)