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Goddamnit Hamlet Sr I told you to keep your ear covered man, I told you bro. Now you're a ghost.
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# ? Mar 25, 2015 06:05 |
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# ? May 10, 2024 01:28 |
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Become Patrick Swayze
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# ? Mar 25, 2015 06:57 |
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Let go of your earthly tether, and become ghost.
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# ? Mar 25, 2015 07:04 |
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I find it amusing that 'once upon a time a king died and chose not to be a spooky ghost the end' is considered 'better than Shakespeare'. Then again, even Shakespeare wrote some... not so great stuff. (We need to get some serious Shakespeare buff in here to nerd out about Hamlet.)
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# ? Mar 25, 2015 07:17 |
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FredMSloniker posted:I find it amusing that 'once upon a time a king died and chose not to be a spooky ghost the end' is considered 'better than Shakespeare'. Then again, even Shakespeare wrote some... not so great stuff. Well if you read that same story from the other characters' POVs, it turns into a tale of the PERFECT CRIME by Hamlet's Uncle (whose name i can't remember oh nooo i'm gonna fail 11th grade English)
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# ? Mar 25, 2015 07:57 |
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I knew where Hamlet Sr was going the second they mentioned one of his special talents was naps. Also because I have read/seen Hamlet like a dozen times.
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# ? Mar 25, 2015 08:08 |
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Captain Oblivious posted:Time is like a river. Imagine four ghost dads at the edge of a cliff. Say the first ghost dad chooses nonexistance...
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# ? Mar 25, 2015 08:55 |
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I'm going ghost!
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# ? Mar 25, 2015 13:45 |
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Vote's as unanimous as it gets. Let's see how Hamlet Dad can do as a spooky afterlife ghost. Music quote:
Ghostly Hamlet Dad is off to a rough start, and Yorick's still nowhere to be seen. Pittsburgh Lambic fucked around with this message at 04:03 on Jun 5, 2015 |
# ? Mar 25, 2015 14:10 |
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Well, nobody could live forever. We must have had a heart attack during us skilling up our Naps skill.
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# ? Mar 25, 2015 14:12 |
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We must be a ghost for SOME reason. If we were really ready to accept a heart attack, we would have just moved on, wouldn't we? Let's hang around for a while and listen in on people.
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# ? Mar 25, 2015 14:42 |
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Our ears are practically aching for some sweet gossip and we wouldn't want to hit another dead end (get it because we are dead), so let's drop some eaves.
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# ? Mar 25, 2015 14:49 |
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As if ancient Denmarkians even KNEW about heart attacks. Not knowing how you died and assuming you died from something that wasn't discovered until a few later centuries is a super form of irony. Let's go irony-er. Heart Attack
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# ? Mar 25, 2015 15:06 |
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Clearly murder was afoot! Let's drop some eaves on the suckers.
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# ? Mar 25, 2015 15:28 |
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Let's go 3 for 3. Clearly it was a heart attack.
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# ? Mar 25, 2015 15:30 |
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Stay a while and listen, friend!
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# ? Mar 25, 2015 16:07 |
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This better not be another one-off choice. Heart attack
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# ? Mar 25, 2015 16:19 |
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dreezy posted:Our ears are practically aching for some sweet gossip and we wouldn't want to hit another dead end (get it because we are dead), so let's drop some eaves. Actually since dead-ends unlock art you want to hit all the dead ends just to see if the art is any good. Maybe not for an LP, though. Pittsburgh Lambic posted:Ghostly Hamlet Dad is off to a rough start, and Yorick's still nowhere to be seen. I think it's reasonably non-spoilery to say that once you're off the trail of Yorick skulls, you're not getting back to Shakespeare's version of events any time soon. Of course, even I haven't gotten through a whole lot of the game, I just took the skulls for my first playthrough, so maybe it will join back up in the future? Just, don't be expecting skulls near the start except when playing as Prince Hamlet. Oblivion4568238 fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Mar 25, 2015 |
# ? Mar 25, 2015 16:51 |
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Does the iOS app include the 'prequel', Alas, Poor Yorick?
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# ? Mar 25, 2015 16:54 |
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Heart attack Everyone loves us, after all, can't have been murder or such nonsense.
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# ? Mar 25, 2015 17:20 |
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If we're going to be all Phantom Detective about our own death we're going to need to listen up.
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# ? Mar 25, 2015 17:24 |
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Qylvaran posted:Does the iOS app include the 'prequel', Alas, Poor Yorick? Doesn't appear to, but Ryan North did release Poor Yorick in ebook form as a free download from one of his websites so I've gone ahead and grabbed it. It's pretty short at 35 pages in PDF form and has some illustrations by Tyson Hesse, and the mobile book form has tappable links for making decisions without flipping between pages. From here on out, each time we hit an ending I'll give everybody the option to vote to divert to Poor Yorick, playing until we hit an ending there. I'll go into more detail about what Poor Yorick is when the time to vote comes. Voting on our current decision closes at 10 CST. Pittsburgh Lambic fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Mar 25, 2015 |
# ? Mar 25, 2015 17:50 |
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Listen in on people. Worst case, we get some juicy gossip for the next spooky Stitch 'n Bitch. Those ghostly shrouds don't make themselves.
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# ? Mar 25, 2015 19:07 |
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Right, so having looked through Poor Yorick I have the following observations. It's extremely short, with the total number of scenes numbering in the dozens, and the longest story path is fewer than 10 choices long. There are, however, a lot of different endings, enough that I'd be comfortable using Yorick's misadventures to fill in the gaps between each of our runs of To Be or Not To Be. My inclination is thus to alternate between the two, running To Be or Not To Be to an ending and then running Yorick around until he meets his demise. Once we hit the end of our current run, we'll switch over to Yorick and get him killed, which seriously happens really loving fast no matter what we do, and then we'll go back to To Be or Not To Be.
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# ? Mar 25, 2015 20:52 |
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Another very close vote, as we begin our investigation into our own demise.quote:
Let none ever say that the Ghost King wasn't a resourceful old bastard. Pittsburgh Lambic fucked around with this message at 04:04 on Jun 5, 2015 |
# ? Mar 26, 2015 04:04 |
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Do it with paper.
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# ? Mar 26, 2015 04:33 |
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Do the written thing.
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# ? Mar 26, 2015 04:33 |
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Use a piece of paper to ask
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# ? Mar 26, 2015 04:36 |
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Write it down, that's the whole point of that extended nonsequitur about norwegian just now.
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# ? Mar 26, 2015 04:43 |
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Ghosts can't manipulate physical objects, that's poltergeists. Are we Poltergeist Dad? I think not. Let's have a friendly chat using our lovely ghost voice.
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# ? Mar 26, 2015 05:57 |
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But can we speak Norwegian? We know Danish and Norwegian are similar in written format, so let's write. And if we can't physically write due to our non-corporeal nature, then gently caress it for giving us a choice we couldn't acquiesce to in the first place. Question by written format, explaining carefully that we are writting to this person because the Norwegian language eludes us, due to the fact that we're a murdered Danish king. Hope you understand. Much obliged, Former King Hamlet Sr. Esq.
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# ? Mar 26, 2015 15:13 |
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Counterpoint: "Norwegian speakers can understand Danish easier than Danish speakers understand Norwegian". Additional counterpoint: "you can understand Norwegian speakers only if you're concentrating ... and only if they're speaking slowly and clearly". Third and final counterpoint: Ryan North's a dick and that's just the kind of poo poo he'd pull.
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# ? Mar 26, 2015 16:27 |
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Oh hey, I have the actual physical book-version of this book. Also of Poor Yorick. Anyway, write something down with a ghost-pen
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# ? Mar 26, 2015 16:35 |
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The votes are in, and it turns out that despite being a ghost and not a poltergeist, we can still both flip through diaries and handle writing utensils. Never underestimate the Ghost King of Denmark.quote:
That came through pretty well! But is the Ghost King as good at swimming as he is at investigation and diplomacy? Or should he just take a safer and perhaps slower route back to his homeland? Pittsburgh Lambic fucked around with this message at 04:04 on Jun 5, 2015 |
# ? Mar 27, 2015 04:14 |
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Ghosts don't get tired, swim that bitch!
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# ? Mar 27, 2015 04:31 |
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Swim Not like ghosts are impeded by water like vampires, right?
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# ? Mar 27, 2015 05:36 |
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Go for a swim. Ophelia's the one with the -1 weakness against water, not us, and worst case we end up haunting some fishes and hey that's cool too.
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# ? Mar 27, 2015 05:40 |
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Swim like Beowulf
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# ? Mar 27, 2015 05:50 |
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Swim. You're good at everything aren't you.
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# ? Mar 27, 2015 10:10 |
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I don't want to be the odd one, but I'm pretty sure it's faster by boat and revenge IS a dish best serve pipping hot. Cross fingers for a ghost ship.
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