Game: Invisible Friend (Sign up for Round 53)

[Gabi]

OK, that makes 5 players. I'll see if anyone else registers tomorrow, and then start the next round on Saturday, if there are no objections.

[Gabi]

...And no one else has signed up, so it's Fibre, VSMIT, Jer-oh-me, e_voyager and Jairus.

I'll start PMing everyone now. The round will end in 2 weeks' time. That is on Saturday, 17th of October.

[Fibre]

(I hope I'm supposed to be posting already? I was going to wait and watch for others since I haven't done this before, but it's getting late... I guess it can't hurt, anyway.)

Greetings Invisible Friend,

How are you?
How's the weather?
What are some of your favorite webcomics?
Is this space intentionally left blank?

Looking forward to hearing from you,
- Fibre

[Jairus]

Dear Invisible Friend,

Hello, how are you?
How's the weather where you are?
Do you play video games?
Do you watch anime?
Are we going to have fun these next two weeks?
Do you hold any form of antipathy towards me for the last round?

[Jer-oh-me]

Dear Invisible Friend,

Do you like fixing things?

Quantify your feelings for your mother.

Pepsi or Coca-Cola?

Coffee?

[VSMIT]

Dear Invisible Friend,
How are you today?
Do you have any hobbies?
What is your favorite "academic" subject?

[e_voyager]

Dear Invisible Friend

where is liquid snake?
who are the patriots?
what happened during the final days of fox hound?
who was the Joy?
what about the Sorrow?
Fox die or Fox alive?

[Gabi]

First set of answers! I'm keeping everyone's formats because I like variety.

Dear Invisible Friend,

Hello, how are you?
How's the weather where you are?
Do you play video games?
Do you watch anime?
Are we going to have fun these next two weeks?
Do you hold any form of antipathy towards me for the last round?

Hello, how are you?

I'm doing alright, although a bit tired at the moment.

   How's the weather where you are?

It's raining outside as I write this. A good chance of rain for most of the week, actually.

   Do you play video games?

Yes.

   Do you watch anime?

No, I can't say that I have.

   Are we going to have fun these next two weeks?

Certainly!

   Do you hold any form of antipathy towards me for the last round?

Not at all.

Dear Invisible Friend,
How are you today?
Do you have any hobbies?
What is your favorite "academic" subject?

Dear Visible Friend

tired
yes
computer science

Dear Invisible Friend

where is liquid snake?
who are the patriots?
what happened during the final days of fox hound?
who was the Joy?
what about the Sorrow?
Fox die or Fox alive?

Dear Visible Friend,

@.@

Dear Invisible Friend, Do you like fixing things? Quantify your feelings for your mother. Pepsi or Coca-Cola? Coffee?

Dear Visible Friend,

Not really, but I will.
I love her. She's there when I need advice, and has always been there for me.
Diet coke.
One milk, one sugar please.

(I hope I'm supposed to be posting already? I was going to wait and watch for others since I haven't done this before, but it's getting late... I guess it can't hurt, anyway.)

Greetings Invisible Friend,

How are you?
How's the weather?
What are some of your favorite webcomics?
Is this space intentionally left blank?

Looking forward to hearing from you,
- Fibre

Yep, you're good.

Hello, Fibre.

I am good.  How are you?
Actually, quite nice.
DMFA, CVRPG, QC, XKCD, AG.
I plead the third.

And I look forward to answering more of your questions.

Thanks to those who sent me quotes! Even the one who missed the 's.

[e_voyager]

dear hidden friend.

will you give me no answers to my previous question?
how do you hide yourself?
i have never spent time in the subject that was the background of my previous question but i asked them no the same so i ask you now. do you youtube?
at what internet did you go to high school ?

[Fibre]

Dear obscured acquaintance,

I am doing good as well, thanks.

What is AG?
You plead the third what?
What does my name make you think of?
What does your name make you think of?
If you could travel anywhere for a week, all expenses paid, where would you go?

Curiously,
- Fibre

[Jer-oh-me]

Dear Invisible Friend,

Would you dine at a Chinese Restaurant named 'Hung Far Lo'?

Star Trek, Star Wars, and/or Dr. Who?

Union or Confederacy?

Ramble on a subject of your choice.

[Gabi]

dear hidden friend.

will you give me no answers to my previous question?
how do you hide yourself?
i have never spent time in the subject that was the background of my previous question but i asked them no the same so i ask you now. do you youtube?
at what internet did you go to high school ?

Dear obvious friend,

Nope, cause they don't make much sense.
I just stand behind you and move as you do, so that I always remain in
your blind-spot.

Err, yes?

What?

Where's everyone else? Do I need to start poking?

[Jer-oh-me]

Uh oh, where is everyone? I think I sent my Invisamigo their response already, did you get it yet Gabi?

[VSMIT]

Dear Invisible Friend,
Can you elaborate on said hobbies?

[e_voyager]

Dear friend in hiding

all of my first questions were about metal gear and this web comic and so forth. solid snake liquid snake and so forth.
you can't youtube with out running across a metal gear reference or two
then internet is more of a high school then collage thing yet there ate internet collages and not high schools. this question was making fun of they saying people learn more on the internet then in high school now on to the questions.

was that a enough exposition?
do you need more?
what about less?
who said our questions had to make sense?
according to frank miller's description of the atom in the dark knight strikes back what is power?
can you CanCan?

[Jairus]

Sorry about that. Family thing.

Dear Invisible Friend,

Is it still raining?
What kind of car do you drive?
What kind of video games do you like to play?
What's your favorite video game?
If you could have three wishes, anything at all in the world, what would you wish for?
Batman or Superman?

[Gabi]

Dear obscured acquaintance,

I am doing good as well, thanks.

What is AG?
You plead the third what?
What does my name make you think of?
What does your name make you think of?
If you could travel anywhere for a week, all expenses paid, where would you go?

Curiously,
- Fibre

Dear Fibre,

AppleGeeks.  What else?
Amendment.  As in, to the US Constitution.
Tiny strands of glass.
My name.
To the moon and beyond.

Dear Invisible Friend,

Would you dine at a Chinese Restaurant named 'Hung Far Lo'?

Star Trek, Star Wars, and/or Dr. Who?

Union or Confederacy?

Ramble on a subject of your choice.

Dear Visible Friend,

No, not likely.
In order: Star Wars, Doctor Who, then Star Trek.
Union.
Why is it that people think that the spherical moons of Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack In Time are a ripoff of Super Mario Galaxy? Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando and Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal used spherical explorable worlds years before Super Mario Galaxy was released, and no one seems to remember that!

Sorry about that. Family thing.

Dear Invisible Friend,

Is it still raining?
What kind of car do you drive?
What kind of video games do you like to play?
What's your favorite video game?
If you could have three wishes, anything at all in the world, what would you wish for?
Batman or Superman?

Is it still raining?

Not right at the moment, but it has been, and there is a 90% chance for "severe storms" tonight.

   What kind of car do you drive?

I don't drive, actually, which is probably a good thing. Motorcycles and boats are fine, though I don't ride/pilot them very often. Helicopters, and perhaps airplanes, are on my to-do list, though. I am being far to verbose here, aren't I?

   What kind of video games do you like to play?

Nethack (not even roguelikes in general, really). Though I have enjoyed helicopter/airplane/motorcycle/car/submarine simulators, platformers, RTSs, and FPSs in the past, I haven't really gotten around to playing any for years...

   What's your favorite video game?

Nethack.

   If you could have three wishes, anything at all in the world, what would you wish for?

Unlimited currency from all current and future world governments, perfect anonymity/privacy as far as I desired, and perfect health for all living entities that I chose (possibly including myself) for the time periods that I chose.

   Batman or Superman?

I must admit that I have never really been a fan of either, but if I were forced to choose I suppose that I would go with Batman.

Dear friend in hiding

all of my first questions were about metal gear and this web comic and so forth. solid snake liquid snake and so forth.
you can't youtube with out running across a metal gear reference or two
then internet is more of a high school then collage thing yet there ate internet collages and not high schools. this question was making fun of they saying people learn more on the internet then in high school now on to the questions.

was that a enough exposition?
do you need more?
what about less?
who said our questions had to make sense?
according to frank miller's description of the atom in the dark knight strikes back what is power?
can you CanCan?

Dear friend in plain sight,

Okay.

Yes.
No.
...
Nobody.
...
I can, but I won't.

E, have a pic.

[Fibre]

Dear IF,

The only meaning that I could think of for AG was the Attorney General. But it looks like an interesting comic.

I do not understand your reference to the third amendment. I wouldn't want soldiers quartered in my house either, but what does that have to do with the question or the comic that you linked?

What would you do on the moon?
What albums have you been enjoying lately, if any?
What is your favorite operating system?
What operating system do you primarily use?
What is your favorite animal?
Do you have any pets?

Inquisitively,
- Fibre

[e_voyager]

dear invisible friend

first off thank you for you picture.
now on to my concerns
you seem to be having trouble with my questions.
why is that?
please lighten up and don't take things so seriously. the only part of this game i take seriously is drawing the picture and that's when i have some ideal what to make the person.
stamp on the ground or move your dead bones?"

can Hal Octagon"  dance?

[Jer-oh-me]

Dear invisible friend,

Please continue rambling, you chose an interesting subject.

[Gabi]

Dear Invisible Friend,
Can you elaborate on said hobbies?

Dear Invisible Friend,
Yes I can but I don't think you'll be interested in them. They are mostly in the a field considered  tactical arts 

dear invisible friend

first off thank you for you picture.
now on to my concerns
you seem to be having trouble with my questions.
why is that?
please lighten up and don't take things so seriously. the only part of this game i take seriously is drawing the picture and that's when i have some ideal what to make the person.
stamp on the ground or move your dead bones?"

can Hal Octagon"  dance?

dear visible friend

welcome.
...
not really.
don't have answers.
...

[VSMIT]

Dear Invisible Friend,
Please indulge me.  Tactical arts can be a lot of fun.

[Jairus]

Dear Invisible Friend,

I apologize for my lack of communication, but I am currently having car difficulties that are slightly distracting.
Have you ever been in a car accident?
DMFA or CVRPG?
What do you do for fun?
If you could go into space, would you?
What's one place you want to visit in your life?

[Gabi]

Dear invisible friend, Please continue rambling, you chose an interesting subject.

Dear Visible Friend,

Well, A Crack in Time (hereafter referred to as ACiT) features something called space exploration, where you fly your ship around on a 2D plane to go to other planets. You can also take on side missions or explore mini moons in order to gain prizes and such, expanding the story-based gameplay. These mini moons are spherical worlds and small enough that you can walk all the way around them, and there's moons for combat or platforming or some combination of the two. The thing is, most reviewers are comparing it to the spherical worlds of Super Mario Galaxy (SMG), which is fair, I guess, when in fact the Ratchet and Clank series has used this mechanic in two previous games, Going Commando (GC) and Up Your Arsenal (UYA), where they were pretty much the same thing: worlds designed to be explored and wandered around to solve puzzles and such to get things you need (or rampage as a giant robot). And both of those games were released a number of years before SMG. It's just sloppy research, that's all: would it really be all that hard for the reviewers to do a little research on the series they're discussing? Now, to be fair, most players are going to think about SMG when they see these mini explorable worlds, so if people enjoyed SMG maybe they'll think that they'll have fun with ACiT too, but a little proper credit would be nice.

How's that?

Dear IF,

The only meaning that I could think of for AG was the Attorney General. But it looks like an interesting comic.

I do not understand your reference to the third amendment. I wouldn't want soldiers quartered in my house either, but what does that have to do with the question or the comic that you linked?

What would you do on the moon?
What albums have you been enjoying lately, if any?
What is your favorite operating system?
What operating system do you primarily use?
What is your favorite animal?
Do you have any pets?

Inquisitively,
- Fibre

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PX swodniW.
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emit siht ta toN.

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Dear Invisible Friend,
Please indulge me.  Tactical arts can be a lot of fun.

Dear Invisible Friend,
You did not ask any questions this time around. Here is a Picture for you as for my art you'll have to use you imagination .

Dear Invisible Friend,

I apologize for my lack of communication, but I am currently having car difficulties that are slightly distracting.
Have you ever been in a car accident?
DMFA or CVRPG?
What do you do for fun?
If you could go into space, would you?
What's one place you want to visit in your life?

    I apologize for my lack of communication, but I am currently having car difficulties that are slightly distracting.

Oh, that's no fun. I hope that everything is resolved okay.

    Have you ever been in a car accident?

Yes, two. Luckily, they were pretty minor and did not deploy airbags or require ambulances.

    DMFA or CVRPG?

DMFA

    What do you do for fun?

This. (As in reading comics, CMF, and related.) Sometimes I work on a few software projects as well, when I'm not too burned out on programming from work. I also enjoy finding and listening to new music, usually while doing those things. And lately I have travelled a bit and have plans for more, too.

    If you could go into space, would you?

Sure, if there was a good chance of returning.

    What's one place you want to visit in your life?

Europe. If I had to be more specific, probably Germany; it seems like an interesting place.

[e_voyager]

dear invisible friend...

are you Jairus?
maybe not jay has a good sense of fun what about Filbre?
can you tell me how many hairs Gabi has on her head?
why are super sayan's eyes green?

[Fibre]

Dear anonymous amigo,

Have you attended any conventions/conferences?
If so, which ones?
Does the name Rainbow Falls mean anything to you?
How soon do you think I am going to run out of new synonyms for greeting and closing?
If you had a budget of $200k for a computer system, what would you get?
Do you think that my questions are odd?

Inquiringly,
- Fibre

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

If you had a budget of $200k for a computer system, what would you get?

A large chunk off my mortgage, and stick with the computer I already have... ;-]

[Fibre]

A large chunk off my mortgage, and stick with the computer I already have... ;-]

But the $200k is only "for a computer system", so it can't be applied to a mortgage or anything else. Not that I'm suggesting that spending $200k on a single computer for private use is a reasonable thing to do for (almost?) anyone, but the answer could be interesting...

(I guess I should also clarify that it's $200k USD.)

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

... Can I buy a cluster, sell it, and use the resulting cash to pay off my mortgage? ;-]

[Fibre]

... Can I buy a cluster, sell it, and use the resulting cash to pay off my mortgage? ;-]

Heh, I guess so; I didn't put any restrictions on the use. You might get better resale value from something other than a cluster, though.