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It's the little things: why I love Tex

Posted: May 17, 2014 • 3:16 pm
by dcat151
I am behind most people in playing the game: I just got to Day Three last night. But, I thought the certificate in the beach house was great. As a person semi-obsessed with grammar, I love the comment Tex has about "its". To me it's the attention to details like this that makes the game.

Re: It's the little things: why I love Tex

Posted: May 17, 2014 • 3:57 pm
by sam10100
Haha. I thought I was the only one that enjoyed that bit.

Re: It's the little things: why I love Tex

Posted: May 17, 2014 • 7:43 pm
by joliet_jane
And yet, strangely, when things start getting darker near the end of the game, he starts running out of things to say. Must be too shocked?

Re: It's the little things: why I love Tex

Posted: May 18, 2014 • 9:55 am
by Pston
Yeh,
take the middle path and you end up with Tex dating an "it"....
Not a he nor a she...
(I know I should have taken the Chelsee path, but I was just curious).... :roll:

Re: It's the little things: why I love Tex

Posted: May 18, 2014 • 10:02 am
by Pston
Ok, let me introduce myself first,
I am a long time player and played ALL Tex Murphy games from the beginning when they came out. All right, I was raised with floppy disks and the old 8088 or so machines working in DOS.

i never ever played another game, its the only one I do, because.... i still read books. (lots of them). i know, I am that old fashioned.
no games for me, Tex is the only exception. I do hate those puzzles though.

Re: It's the little things: why I love Tex

Posted: May 18, 2014 • 11:18 am
by joliet_jane
Pston wrote:Ok, let me introduce myself first,
I am a long time player and played ALL Tex Murphy games from the beginning when they came out. All right, I was raised with floppy disks and the old 8088 or so machines working in DOS.
Hi there! :) I've been catching up on all the old games on DOSBOX emulator. I didn't have a lot of games as a kid.

Pston wrote:Yeh,
take the middle path and you end up with Tex dating an "it"....
Not a he nor a she...
(I know I should have taken the Chelsee path, but I was just curious).... :roll:
Ahem. :? The word you're looking for is Transgender.
<spoilers>
I happen to really like the Saffyre ending. It's so interesting that Gay Tex also turns out to be ultra-masculine. Not good for canon, but so kickass. 8) <end>

Re: It's the little things: why I love Tex

Posted: May 18, 2014 • 12:17 pm
by Pston
Ahem. :? The word you're looking for is Transgender.

Depending on which side of the world you're living...

Re: It's the little things: why I love Tex

Posted: May 18, 2014 • 2:35 pm
by azalea_k
Nobody should EVER be referred to as "it". It's disrespectful and dehumanizing.

Re: It's the little things: why I love Tex

Posted: May 18, 2014 • 3:16 pm
by TexMex
Pston! My dear friend! It sure is a pleasure to make your acquaintance! It's great to see a new Tex Murphy fan posting on here.

Hopefully we here at UOTM can make an it like you feel as comfortable as we possibly can. We, in no way, discriminate or belittle anyone for something as binary as what kind of clothes someone puts on in their spare time, and whether or not they use pommel horses for their prescribed purpose. So, that being said, you should fit right in here! We can already tell that you are full of intellectual genius, and wit beyond your years.

I sincerely welcome you!

Okay, you can unintroduce yourself and get in the line with the "its." Kay? Thaaaanks.

And I hope you know where you can shove those ellipsis at the end of your empty redneck judgement.

Re: It's the little things: why I love Tex

Posted: May 18, 2014 • 3:19 pm
by TexMex
And also, if you haven't already been accustomed to the fact. There is a gigantic population of its just like you in the place that you live! You just have to find them, of course. But I'm sure that when you do, they'll love you with open arms like we do!

And when I say love, boy do I mean it. Yowza.

But seriously, go stand outside at night in an alley somewhere outside of a showing of Rocky Horror and talk like that. You'll get the its beating the crap out of you like the Riffs did to the Rogues at the end of The Warriors.

Re: It's the little things: why I love Tex

Posted: May 19, 2014 • 1:15 am
by Pston
Wow! That was some kind of introduction! Thank you all for your warm welcome. I feel such a Rook.
I know it is not easy being a mutant, (remember those cops treating a mutant in a bottle?)
but even holograms have their rights, so who am I ? It's the charm of the game....

Re: It's the little things: why I love Tex

Posted: May 19, 2014 • 4:51 am
by plumgas
I had never heard the word transgender before I came to this forum, In australia I have heard people call them all different names but the word transgender does sound a nice term. The only "it" I know is cousin it....lol

Re: It's the little things: why I love Tex

Posted: May 19, 2014 • 8:07 am
by Fred Buer
Hey, now, really. How could you forget Stephen King's IT..?

-Fred

Re: It's the little things: why I love Tex

Posted: May 20, 2014 • 6:15 am
by silvermitt
"I am a long time player and played ALL Tex Murphy games from the beginning when they came out. All right, I was raised with floppy disks and the old 8088 or so machines working in DOS. i never ever played another game, its the only one I do, because.... i still read books."

Don't really talk much about personal issues, so I'll skip the sex-gender bashing.

However, I also am old school. The Mac I currently use is circa 2000. And I still LOVE it over the new pcs/macs. I've had to grudgingly take in a castoff laptop to play the games now, with a program called DOSbox (I think it's called that). But I still have the old games AND the old pc that I originally played them on. One of these days, I'll clean out the mice nests and try to fire it up. Probably will fire up literally..... But nothing ventured, nothing gained!

Oh, and the original UTKM game? My two kids (under 10yo) love to watch the bumbling hero and hear his inner dialogues. I can't wait to show them the reason why he's called Tex.

Re: It's the little things: why I love Tex

Posted: May 23, 2014 • 5:48 am
by Frewella
Gosh Fred, the Stephen King IT scared the bejeesus out of me when I read that the first time…!!!

As for transgender - who gives a monkeys. I know I live in London, all cosmopolitan etc. and you wouldn't raise an eyebrow about that or many other things here that we regard as perfectly normal - in fact, I doubt I'd even look up from my book in the underground when another bunch of transgenders travel from one station to another, but personally I just WISH we had no need to even discuss it - it's all good!

And I'll go partying with Saffy any time :P