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Oh, right! I recognize her now. The Good Fight, then?

Isn't that Felicia Day? She's been in a ton of stuff, so I'll just randomly guess Supernatural.

It's not, but reminds me of, the classic Cheesoid sketch by Mitchell & Webb:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWP52PcdpAw

Snarky: That module is no longer available...

It is if you read the thread to the end. (And in general, when the download for a module is down, you can just ask. Usually someone has it.)

1. Yes, this is possible. The easiest way is probably to use the MultiResponse module, which provides the function Multi.SRandom() that does pretty much exactly this. Without testing it myself, I think you would write it like:

Code: ags

  cBert.Say(Multi.SRandom("Do I look like some kind of pilchard?>Err, that's utterly pointless.>That'd be daft."));

And it would randomly use one of the lines separated by > signs.

2. It's possible, but it's not recommended. You're better off using the Speech Center plugin, which collects all the dialog in one convenient editor inside the AGS editor.[/code]

Scripting a bilinear interpolation filter is complicated by AGS's crappy color handling (not allowing you to get or set the full 32-bit color value). To get the correct result without degrading the screenshot to 16-bit, you would have to grab the individual pixels as sprites and draw them on top of each other at various transparencies.

Let the Right One In?

No and no.

If it's the inferior-titled remake Let Me In I'm going to be a little annoyed. Is it?

But that option is not even applied to DrawingSurface operations, only when drawing characters and objects in the room.
(Which may be an oversight really. Also, that should be technically possible to add an option to switch sprite anti-aliasing at runtime, if really necessary)

It feels like a design decision made back in 2000 or thereabouts that doesn't make much sense any more.

How I would want it to work, ideally:

-Antialiasing (or more properly interpolation) for scaling characters is a game setting that can be controlled in script
-There's a game-wide default value, but it can also be overridden for individual characters
-Possible values for this setting would be Nearest Neighbor, Bilinear, Bicubic and User-Configured (which would then be controlled by winsetup; the default for backwards compatibility), with option to extend later
-For relevant DrawingSurface/DynamicSprite operation (scaling and rotation), there would be an optional interpolation argument with the same possible values, defaulting to Nearest Neighbor
-While we're at it, also add a subpixel Translate operation to shift a sprite by a fraction of a pixel (using any of the interpolation settings â€" though Nearest Neighbor wouldn't really do much).

[force]

2) Resize the sprite using the DynamicSprite and DrawingSurface scaling abilities -- apply the antialiasing at that time.

I don't understand how this step is supposed to work. Neither DrawingSurface.DrawImage()/DrawSurface() nor DynamicSprite.Resize() allow you to specify antialiasing â€" I'm not sure whether it's always off or whether it depends on the "Smooth scaled sprites" setting in winsetup, but it's not something you can control through AGS script (the best you can do is game.disable_antialiasing, but there's no game.force_antialiasing).

It might be possible to write a function to do bilinear sprite scaling by reading and drawing individual pixels, but that would be SLOOOW.

Let the Right One In?

One or the other... 

Yeah, it's Pitch Perfect 2.

Very well:

Big Business? The summary says it's about twins switched at birth or some such, though the ones in question appear to be played by Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin.

I heard. I like Anna Faris a lot, but of all the movies to remake...

Overboard? (Is that the name? The one where Kurt Russell abducts, enslaves and rapes an amnesiac Goldie Hawn. It's a romantic comedy.)

Yeah, I also didn't get a Nazi vibe from him, and I remember that being quite refreshing.

I'll pass my turn to someone else.

Death Becomes Her?

Indeed it is: Janelle Monáe's "Emotion Picture" that combines music videos for her album by the same name into an overarching narrative:

Over to you, Ben.

I have no idea what you're talking about