Recent content by DrCogSci

Weeeeeeeeeeeell, as soon as they're discovered, they become part of the natural world, don't they. :)

This may not hold true for everyone, because it gets progressively more irritating the longer you play, but the old MIDI tracks in Theme Hospital were quite happy/cheerful/excitable.

Hey, let's leave the discussions of what constitutes addiction, what is addictive, and whether or not games *can* be addictive to the professionals, a'ight? The only acceptable evidence for this would be peer-reviewed scientific journal articles that were conducted to rigorous standards...

Fallout 1 has a couple of limitations in bad dialogue writing, Fallout 2 was perfect (bugs included). Fallout 3 was disappointing, not funny enough, and I didn't sympathise with anyone I met - if 640 x 480 isometric has me feeling more about characters than bump-mapped, bloom lit blah blah...

Well, strictly speaking you don't need to change any syntactic rules. Just find a language whose word order you find appealing, and invent a new lexicon to be arranged in the same way. Thus, new language. You can even use the alphabet from another language. Unless your requirement is to have a...