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Happy birthday, Dave Snider! May it be a lovely year for you. Hugs and kisses.

I, too, had no knowledge of the Vectrex before reading this. I would definitely like to try one some day if I get a chance. Good job on the posters. Nice and informative.

Cheered so hard at that victory. TEAM BRAD!

These are awesome! The first is definitely my favorite. I like having "the" in there. Great work.

Great panel. And that was the best Q&A that I can remember from past panels on the site. Looking forward to new Cards Against Humanity and new shirts.

This thread encouraged me to change mine up. Went from one Botanicula wallpaper to another.

http://playmade.ru/upload/iblock/43d/43d91face211331d029b117c95c79da2.jpg

Caring about politics used to be assigned to me. That was high school, and it was really easy to attach importance to these issues when a grade depended on how much I knew about them and how well I could debate. I, to an extent, enjoyed keeping track of things and discussing subjects with my fellow students in class. Now I'm in college. Nothing related to politics affects my grades any more. I'm not going to spend my time and energy researching things to vote on. A single vote will be extremely insignificant and will not turn the tide of any election. I'm going to spend my time and energy working to prepare myself for gainful employment. If I ever have something remotely resembling the free time I had in high school again, I'll probably put some of that time into reading up on politics. Until then, I'm going to do something that has a tangible effect.

As for other people my age who I see around me, there's a wide spread of how much people care. There's a few people who put time into being educated voters, plenty of people just waiting for a chance to get in a huff about their pet social issue, plenty of people who care to a moderate extent, and plenty of people like me who are cynical, and not particularly proud of it.

Thanks for the rundown. That's a good way for me to get at the big list of games they have up there. I'm on my way to upvote Incredipede.

@BBAlpert said:

I'm completely stumped, as I feel like I've done as much as I can with everything that the game has told me about. All I can think of in terms of possible solutions is that maybe there's some other object that isn't specifically mentioned, and that you just need to know is there. Or maybe I just overlooked something that's been sitting right in front of me the whole time.

Process of elimination, things I have tried that yield results other than the default "you can't do that" messages:

• Ask Drew/Dave/Vinny about hatch
• Ask Drew/Dave about Dave/Drew
• Flip switch on HOTAS
• Flip fuel, battery, and inverter switches on control panel (in various sequences)
• Flip switch on ejector
• Eject
• Examine Dave, Drew, Vinny, self, track IR, altimeter, control panel, hatch, ejector
• Take control panel, altimeter, ejector switch
• Give control panel, altimeter, ejector switch, HOTAS to Dave/Drew/Vinny

I can't think of anything else, really. Am I at least on the right track with any of that?

The important things are all in there except for one. There's one more thing you have to ask Dave about once you've made the necessary preparations.

@Getz said:

so is the point that you can't win?

It's winnable. Just fairly oblique. Pay attention to the things the game mentions as time passes. Most of them, like the stuff about a racing wheel, is meaningless, but trying commands with that stuff is how I eventually found the solution.