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[melchar]

Lessee - 'Hitchhiker's Guide' was entertaining. [except for the opening dolphin musical number - which I think went on waaaaay too long.] Other than that it was fun - especially Rickman's 'Marvin' performance.

Am chugging along in 'Torment'. Started a new game to try and do a lawful evil 'Nameless'. So far I've managed Ln - and keep slipping back to Lg. Trey -laughed!- so hard to see me with a Limlim last night. [bought a pet limlim and ... hilarity ensued].

{I showed Trey what you could so with a limlim, petted the limlim. trey comments 'I bet that helps your 'good' alignment' and I go 'eep!' then try to kick the limlim. The limlim tries to run away so I let it and my limlim disappears! ... so I had to reload THAT game!]

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[venusrising.livejournal.com]

Just what is a limlim?

[melchar.livejournal.com]

Limlims are a weird sort of pet you can buy in the 'Planescape Torment' game. They are like a cross between a cute green bug with wings and a monkey. They take up an inventory slot but you can take them out and play with them.

[vrghr.livejournal.com]

Hitchhiker's Guide certainly was entertaining, and in the long run did manage to keep to the spirit of the book even if it deviated in pretty significant ways in the plot. I do wish they'd kept a bit more of Adam's dialog and explanations. Frankly, I was a bit puzzled why they cut some of the sentences they did, when they were the "punch lines" to a joke and wouldn't have added more than a couple seconds to a scene. For instance, they went through the lenghty explanation of the "Babel fish", then cut the line about it starting more wars than anything else in the universe.

Granted, being a visual medium, they had to show things instead of describe them, so we lost several of Adam's gems, like the Vogon construction fleet "...hung in the sky in much the way that bricks don't." But replacing something to the effect of "... a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea" with "I said it made tea. It just doesn't do it very well." -- I just have to ask myself why the producer thought that second one was funnier.

Still, it beat the HECK out of the Triple X sequel I saw later on in the weekend, and I'd watch it again. And it does seem to be getting some folks interested in going out to read the books, which is a "very good thing".