Aussie Group 5: Another happy evening of multiplaying

[finbar]

Originally posted by deity
Yeah, stop cr@pping on fin and talk civ!

Sorry, I have a life!

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by deity
Horse, it's not about often, it's about reliability.

Spoken like someone who disappears for months at a time

[srholmes]

i'm not around tonight but should be ok for saturday

[Alexander's Horse]

Okay - looks like a another build a civ/kill a deitician night for me.

My favorite

[SuperSneak]

The cool thing about being a native of the same town as Groening is that his character names are mostly snatched from local place names...every now and then you see a street and think of a Simpson's character.
Something about Portland produces great writers...must be the long, dreary winters. We've got Ursula K. Le Guin as well.

[Alexander's Horse]

So what's your excuse?

[deity]

Originally posted by finbar


It's an extraordinary piece of writing. I keep meaning to tape an episode and extract - on paper - a scene breakdown from it to examine their storytelling methods. A recent ep started with Homer and Bart using fire crackers to solve problems around the home - extracting a video jammed in the VCR, etc - and, within 30 seconds, the entire family was at a literary convention, and within another 30 seconds, the ep was about Krusty's love child. Usually the story shifts are seamless. On the odd occasion they're not, the ep just feels fragmented.

Beyond the storytelling, though, it's the density of the writing that lifts the show above most - if not all - others. You couldn't count the layers they manage to weave into their dialogue.



I haven't seen Family Guy, and Futurama just doesn't cut it for me. The characters are uninspired, the situations uninspiring, and it's always trying too hard. It labours trying to achieve what the Simpsons achieves on its ear. Which isn't to say what they do with the Simpsons is easy - it's not, it's incredibly difficult, but that they make it look easy is the indicator of their great skill.

never takes my advice...

[finbar]

What? Provoke other people into attacking you and claim a spotless reputation? Nuh. I'm already a big enough pain in the a*se.

[trev]

I will be on probably from now to about midnight ( no later as I have a lecture to attend at 8am) so come online and restart a game asap

[deity]

Yeah. come on guys, let's go!

[Hydey]

I here, having trouble getting ICQ connected

[trev]

Hydey calls the game off for the night and I was on the verge of a city capture too, I suppose Hydey hopes I will forget the game status before it's resumption but I have frozen it into my memory, so he is not in luck

[deity]

Ah well, he has an appointment in the morning and said midnight was his deadline...

[atawa]

Are we still on for the eurausie game tomorow morning Deity?

In about 14 hours right?

[finbar]

I shan't be around tonight, chaps. People coming for dinner.