Up in the air legless, or sinking into the soil?

I notice (and appreciate) the nipples too.

I've seen Wile E. Coyote walk on his butt, so why not?

Yes, what is with all that perky nipple action lately?

Have you ever heard of erectile elbows? Or belly buttons?

I think Popeye had erectile elbows and them ain't belly buttons, pardner.

He certaily had a pipe that dipped and bobbed in a suspicious manner...

The background is sooooo familiar... Did you get the inspiration from Yume Nikki's "strange planet"?

I don't even know what Yume Nikki or "strange planet" are, so the short answer is "no."

But I've been around some parts of the southwest, and seem millions of photos, so it wasn't hard to come up with something that looked realistic.

The basic idea I had was of an area with plenty of sub-surface ice. Then, millions of years ago it melted, and the draining water caused the surface to begin a collapse. Continued collapse and drainage eventually created this subsistence gully, choked with rubble. Areas like it do exist on Mars, though I can't claim I know what they look like on the spot.

Ooh, yes~ X3

Yume Nikki is a really good indie game that screws with your mind.

I haven't played any video games in years -- the only two I had any interest in were "adventure" games. "The Neverhood" was one. There was another one about tracking a killer mime through Paris and other exotic locations, who belongs to a secret Templer organization, but I can't recall the exact name of it. Games that are mostly motion and noise and gunfire don't interest me. I'm also uninterested in playing the air guitar. Not to mention I have a constitutional objection to paying scores of dollars for these things.

Yume Nikki is a completely silent game where you travel through the psychotic dreams of a little girl, seeing subtle, creepy hints of her nightmarish past. It's well-known for its creepiness. that and UBOA.

Okay, now that's beginning to sound interesting. Now tell me it only costs $3.95 or it can be pirated somewhere.

Free. You can download it free. The tricky part is to get it to work on your computer since it's japanese software, but it comes with an instruction manual on how to get the computer to understand the program. It's a bit boring at first since it's mostly wide spaces... at least until you find some secrets, and it gets better from there on.

You almost "sold" me on it, there. But as soon as you got to the part about how to get my computer to run it, you lost me. I don't have any interest in tinkering with my computer. Hacking isn't fun. As long as the system works I don't try to fix it.

Oh, nothing like that. your computer has a program already built into it, but it's almost never used, so almost nobody knows of it. I forgot the specifics but there's instructions on how to find that and use it. it also comes with a program called applocale in case you can't. Nothing like hacking or tinkering.

Geeze, I probably should have picked better words for that, huh?

Well, give me a link to somewhere it can be downloaded. I can save it without risk or difficulty, then have someone who knows about these things look into installing it for me.

http://www.indiegames.com/blog/2008.....ume_nikki.html

I suggest unzip and take a look at the instructions first. I think you're overestimating what I meant. ^^;

I've started downloading -- at 44 meg it's going to take a good deal of time. I only have a dial-up connection. The illustration I saw wasn't too encouraging -- just a flat, overhead perspective, low rez image.

It's an indie game. But remember- some of the greatest games were in 2D. Or are you one of those people who only like flashy 3D games?

Who knows what I like? I don't. Not until I like a thing. We'll see when I've got this mutha downloaded. Should be sometime before Friday...

Owch. well, tell me how you like it (or not) when you get it~

I've got it saved. But I need to take a break now. I've been sitting in front of this furshlugginer computer since something like 4 or 5 a.m. -- about ten hours -- doing this, that, and the other thing.

Furshlugginer. XDDD

You don't need my permission to do your stuff, just go ahead~

ohhh a link to Hitch-Hikers guide there XD Would she read/use such a book?

A grand piece ^^

I can't actually imagine Saara using the HHG since it's mostly a book of surreal jokes and implied ridicule, but very little useful information. she might read it while waiting for a bus though...

I meant the guide in the SF book XD not Douglas Adems work XD

"The Link"? But it's just the student newspaper this is appearing as the cover of. I modeled it after a real cover. I can't imagine any good reason for Saara standing around on Mars reading an obscure college paper, but it seemed like a good idea at the time. I plan to use this on some fanzine, eventually, and will remove the "Link" cover from the art.