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"Downsizing" is one of the most touching and wonderful films I have seen in years, with unforgettable characters, a unique but perfectly-done story structure, and deeply philosophical while never being preachy. It presents several moral choices and shows the choices the characters make but never suggests these were the right ones, leaving a lot of room for thought and discussion afterwards.

Wait... you liked Downsizing?
You could remove the whole shrinking aspect, and you'd only change the first fifteen minutes of the film!
It's like they combined two half finished film scripts into one.
Here I was waiting for the whole shrinking thing to completely blow up in everyone's face (of which there was plenty of signs pointing to that), and suddenly, the film changed tone and started treating it as set dressing.
There's all sorts of ways they could've handled the film. From big people no longer supporting little people, and rats breaking in, and so on. To a full on apocalypse outside, with the little people all slowly realizing that they depended on big people to survive. So on, and so on. But no, instead they used it as an excuse for the main guy to have a divorce.

I could easily describe the ENTIRE PLOT of that film, without once mentioning the shrinking aspect. Shrinking should not be the least important part of a film, which has shrinking in it!

But let's take a look at it without the fact that they shoe-horned shrinking into it, just to sell tickets. And instead just look at it as the film it is.
In that case... meh. It's alright I guess. If you like that type of film. Personally I've seen it done better.

+1 on Will Ferrel. No idea what everyone was on about.

Same here. I can't think of one film he's been in, that I've liked.

It is rare that I turn a movie off even half-way through but this is the first time that, after 20 minutes watching, I've had to fumble for the control, pray I found the stop button fast enough, and then pop the screen the finger and say, our loud, "Fuck you!".

I present to you: Holmes And Watson. May it be played endlessly on repeat to child-molesters in Hell.

I had the exact same problem with Napoleon Dynamite.
If you think Holmes and Watson was bad, then you've not watched people literally saying "duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh" for half an hour.

I thought "surely this can't be the entire film" but after half an hour, I realized it was.

That is absolutely wrong. The last sentence even said it wasn't My Name is Earl.

Damn, I missed that little note. 

Well, I'm stumped.
I can't even hazard a guess by simply looking at guest roles Erik Estrada has had in television.

I'm pretty sure this is My Name is Earl.

Some sort of Spectrum port of Rogue?

It grinds my gears, that when a huge controversy pops up out of nowhere, and a bunch of people are suddenly knee-deep in outrage. You sometimes can't find out why because everyone either completely avoids the details of the topic at hand (for example: "I can't believe he did that! I'm never buying Fez 2 from that asshole!"), or there's two sides that both hate each other without explaining the difference between the sides (for example: "Anyone who is pro-gamergate is dead to me!").

To this day, I have no idea what gamergate was about. And when I made a comic about it, asking people. Everyone commented saying that they also didn't know! 

Mandle - I like them. Keep going!

Cheers for that! At the worst I'm just not being funny and I can live with that.

Yeah, keep going. 
Sorry if I sounded disheartening. I didn't mean it that way.

I'm sorry to say Mandle, but most of those I either don't get, or aren't funny.
The "spawn campers" one though, is hilarious. 

Also shouldn't it be "ride" not "rode"?
I mean even then, it's still the wrong word, but at least it'll be grammatically correct.

Ultima Worlds of Adventure 2: Martian Dreams. I'd say the Ultima franchise as a whole should make its glorious comeback (Shroud of the Avatar wasn't quite what I expected, sadly).

Yeah, it would be awesome if the Ultima franchise came back. But considering EA owns the rights... let's just say it'll either never happen, or if it does happen, you'll wish it didn't.
But hey, we can still dream.
It'd be nice if Might and Magic made a proper comeback as well, Sci-Fi mixed with High Fantasy and all.
I'd like to see Wizardry come back as well.

If there's something I've noticed it's that everyone believes that everyone younger than them is an idiot for not having their wisdom, and everyone older than them is an idiot for not moving along with the times.

"Hah, those old people don't know how to use a computer! They're idiots!"
and
"Hah, those young people only ever have their eyes glued to their smartphones! They're idiots!"

You've just got to remember that the more things change, the more they stay the same. 

Every single crappy horror asset flip game on itch.io says that though. At this point it doesn't really mean anything except maybe a couple of VERY LOUD JUMPSCARES!

Oh I could tell you a thing or two about those crappy horror "games" on itch.io.
I've already boiled it down to a formula.
Always a flashlight (sometimes one which runs out of battery power, so you can't see anything).
Always a room that's illuminated red, somewhere in the game.
Always notes littered about the place, because apprently people write down their thoughts on random pieces of paper and leave them lying around.
Almost always a basement that you have go into to attempt to turn the power on.
ALWAYS literal key-door puzzles. Find a locked door, find another locked door, find a key, open locked door, find another key, open the other locked door, ect.
And then there's the fact that it's either a "monster maze" game, where you're wandering around and a monster is too, and that monster can usually run faster than you, with no way of avoiding it once you see it. Or it's a "haunted house" game, where you wander around and there's literally nothing that can hurt you. The walls may bleed, and the corridors may change layout behind you, but nothing will actually hurt you. You may get to a point where you're being "chased" by a monster, but in that case you merely have to wander around slightly faster, otherwise you'll have to retry the scripted chase sequence.
Throw in a few loud jumpscares, which by this point no one is startled by anymore, and there you go. Your very own "horror game". 

Deep Sleep?

To destory the world. They may not know how to spell it, but already focus on it.
I like the drawing too.

This seems, I don't know, suspicious? Like their writing is better than mine yet they can't even draw stick figures? Plus they all seem to have the same handwriting. Is there just a staff member writing out the words that really can't spell?

Hmm, based on how the kids wrote their names, I guessing that the text at the bottom such as "I want to destroy the world" and such, are already printed on the page. And the kids just had to draw in the box what that looked like to them. Or perhaps a teacher wrote it in for them. In either case, I'm saying an adult did it, which makes the misspelling rather shameful. 

Welcome to the boards notarobotyet. 

Against all odds, though, I'm about to finish my first demo/game/experiment, which I will most certainly post here very soon, I'm thinking probably a week from now .

Sounds like you know how to keep things small. A very useful skill indeed. Most people get overambitious on their first project, and try to make something that would take years for an expert to make. Starting small, is always the best way to go. So great job there, I look forward to seeing your game.

I can't draw or design to save my life, but I'm really invested in the idea of learning how to do pixel art

As someone who couldn't draw to save their life as well, up until a few years ago. Here's some friendly advice, traditional drawing skills translate into pixel art skills. I don't know how, but when I started practicing with a pencil, I suddenly found myself able to make decent pixel art.
So draw everyday. Get a pad (something cheap will do), find a comic you like the artstyle in, and everyday draw a panel from that comic. Don't trace, use it as a reference. Try to enlarge the panel to cover the entire page. After you've filled in the entire pad, you'll be able to draw. Not very well, but you'll definitely have the basics. And unfortunately there's no other way to learn those basics. It's like riding a bicycle, you've got to do it to learn it.

Good luck! 

Bridget Jones Diary?

AL Gurbish in Nick it & Run, I played recently by a recommendation of a friend and it was fun

Hey, I remember that being one of the first AGS games I ever played. 
I also remember disliking it.
So um... two conflicting emotions there. Hmm, I'm sure nostalgia will win over. 

Hmm... Don't Escape 4?

The Walking Dead?
Sorry, that's the only AMC show I know. 

Hi! I recently started posting here because I wanted to put my little project where someone could eventually see it. I have had the user for a while, but most of my technical questions were solved by forum/manual digging, so I haven't needed to post for that luckily. I've been playing with AGS on and off since 2010 and I've been actively developing the game I'm working on now since 2017. I found the latest updates on the engine (modifying custom properties at runtime!) so amazing and I generally enjoy coming here and seeing how much this place has grown. I'm mostly a forum lurker, though, and may become active for a while and then go back to lurking...

I have, however, a little thing that makes it kinda hard for me to be anything close to active here and it is this question:
"Are you a human, or a robot?:"

You see, I understand this whole robot discrimination that's been going on online, since most of my kin are prone to vandalism and such, but I find this question to be terribly annoying, since I can't for the life of mine find a way to answer it. (Jokes aside, I mean it... I tried all answers that came to my mind, and non really work? I'm resorting to reload the page till the other questions appear because I haven't figured that one out and it's quite tiring having to do that every time).

Welcome to... um... posting on the forums. I can't really welcome you to the forums since you've been lurking here for so long. 

As for answering that question. The answer "human" (without quotation marks) seems to always work for me.

Well, the EU wants to get rid of it, so there's good news for you.

It grinds my gears that despite the EU wanting to get rid of it, Britain is fighting to keep it. Despite the majority (if not all) British citizens agreeing with the EU and wanting rid of it!

Solomon's Key? 

Close, but no cigar.
This game is kind of obscure. So obscure, that simply putting its name into Google, doesn't yield any results unless I append "game" to the search.

I looked for 'Solomon's Key Clones', and found Zipang.   
https://www.giantbomb.com/zipang/3030-52560/images/ n

That's right, it's Zipang. 

But Zipang IS Solomon's Key, just a dolled-up installment to tie up with a movie. It's licensed from Tecmo.

Well I did say it was close.
And besides, I think some (if not all) of the levels in Zipang are different to those in Solomon's Key. I'd have to check to verify that though. 

Speaking of Solomon's Key clones, have any of you ever encountered an old windows version, with a level editor and the ability to play with up to three players, and a chibi artstyle?
I've been looking for it forever, but as far as I can tell the game doesn't exist on the internet.