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April 19

Strange dinner party video game

I remember this quirky shareware videogame for Mac and PC where you were invited over for dinner at a bickering couple's apartment. You typed in English phrases (i think). The 3D graphics were very basic -- i think everything was 2D planes. Anyway, things got really socially awkward quickly and the challenge was to see how long you could stay in their apartment before they kicked you out. The title of the game escapes me, but I think it was a French word. Any ideas? --Navstar (talk) 01:57, 19 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Never heard of it, but it sounds like a bizarre attempt to incorporate Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? into a video game. Our articles on the play and movie don't mention any video games, though. Weirder things have been made into games... but none spring to mind. :) Matt Deres (talk) 02:20, 19 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Found it! it's Façade_(interactive_story) --Navstar (talk) 03:31, 19 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

GEFS Online

My flaps/gear and brakes indicator disappeared from GEFS Online. How to fix it? Thanks.93.174.25.12 (talk) 11:20, 19 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

2012 - Number of Arks ?

I don't know if this is the right place for this post but, I was watching 2012 the other night on DVD & started thinking about how many Arks that might have been/ were built in the film. So I re-watched the film & had the counter clock on the screen.

00:35:41 (approx), Carl Anheuser talking to President Thomas Wilson, "The good news, consensus is that four of the Arks will be operational in time"

00:35:45 (approx), Carl Anheuser talking to President Thomas Wilson, "We can save over 400'000 people"

01:42:47 (approx), Carl Anheuser & Captain Michaels (of Ark 4) "There have been reports of severe damage captain. What's the status of Ark No 3?" "We Haven't done a complete assessment yet, but it looks like we lost it."

01:44:30 (approx), Captain Michaels & Carl Anheuser "That's Ark No 3, the roof collapsed on it during the shifting of the Earth's crust"

01:49:41 & 01:56:37(approx) - Close ups of Ark No 4's Communication Switch Board, showing nine graphics representing each Ark, seen when Ark No 4's Communications Officer contacted Arks No 6 & 7.

So I was wondering that where they planning to build nine Arks, each with 100'000 people, but in the time that they had they could only complete four ? Scotius (talk) 14:48, 19 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

news - hours and hours of rehash

On a news channel, when something is covered continuously for hours and hours, like the Boston bombing, when there is nothing new to report, and they keep rehashing the same thing over and over - is the news anchor winging it or do they have a script? Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 23:30, 19 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I suspect a lot of "winging it". For example, I've noticed that the dialog of The Weather Channel seriously declines in quality hours into a major hurricane's land strike. We end up with them saying things like: "The big twisty storm is biggening to 4" instead of "The hurricane is expected to increase strength to Category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson scale overnight". StuRat (talk) 23:58, 19 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Scott Pelley did a pretty good of saying the same things over and over, until Suspect 2 was confirmed captured. But that was only about 2 hours worth. Imagine working for CNN and having to say the same things for about 24 hours. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 01:24, 20 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

We get insight such as "this was either going to happen very quickly or take a long time". Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 03:16, 20 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That's in the same league as Curt Gowdy, trying to console Red Sox fans after Boston lost the 1975 World Series, that "their future is ahead of them." ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 03:37, 20 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"It ain't over 'til it is over." Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 03:47, 20 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I once saw a football coach answer a question about his game plan: "We're going to use our runnin' and passin'." Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 04:02, 20 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

My game plan would have been "If our running and passing can score some points and the defense can hold them to fewer points then I think we will win the game." Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 05:27, 20 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I don't waste my time watching repetitive stuff like that. I waste it here instead. HiLo48 (talk) 03:55, 20 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't watch much, but just about every time I turned it on they were saying the same thing they said many hours ago. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 04:02, 20 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The primary goal is to avoid dead air at all costs. The announcers "wing" going back and forth between reading cards or monitors with scripts that have been written for them, announcing that live updates are arriving, and in-studio chatter and commentary or discussion with talking heads. The producer's job is to coordinate this and to keep the newsreader stocked with verbiage and his statements coordinated with the image seen on screen. μηδείς (talk) 16:28, 20 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Another factor is that not everyone has necessarily been monitoring the show, and the repetition helps the "drive-by" viewer get up-to-date. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 17:06, 20 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved

Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 03:10, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]