In article <5842lk$kg4@panix2.panix.com>, mtepper@panix.com (Michele
Tepper) wrote:

>James "Kibo" Parry <kibo@world.std.com> wrote:
>
>>                              P.S. The real reason I wanna quit
>>                              is because nobody there is a good
>>                              Descent player.
>
>I almost had to quit a job because I speculated on this group that my boss
>might be the Unabomber.  Luckily for me, he's a *good-humored* fugitive
>from the law.
>
>I know the guy responsible for Descent.  And, of course, Descent II, which
>includes in its acknowledgements the only place in Ann Arbor where you can
>get jerk goat.

Yeah, so? I can beat him... using the keyboard, man! Because he's too close
to the game, man, but I've got distance, DISTANCE, distance is EVERYTHING,
man!!!! Oh geez I'm out of Fritos like bummer. if the game's not real then
where did my Fritos go while I was playing huh man?

(begins humming the theme to "George of the Jungle" while playing Q*bert
without holding the joystick the right way)

>(Well, OK, I mostly know his partner, actually, but they come to events
>together a lot.  Weird.)

Please tell him I really liked the scene in "Endless Descent" where Amanda
Pays has to take a shower in her underwear because there's an H. R.
Giger-inspired rubber monster after her. There's never been another movie
with that scene! Except Alien. And Aliens. And Alien^3. And Hardware. And
Apex. And SynGeNor. And every episode of the new Outer Limits. Okay, I was
wrong. Besides, Descent uses the same engine as Doom, so it's obviously
exactly the same game.

                              -- K.
                              I really like the sound the big
                              pink robots make (the ones that shoot
                              the nuclear pentagons) on the last
                              couple levels. They scare Spot.
                              Then again, the mousebots in
                              Dark Forces scare Spot.