OK, opening it on another browser worked. “why it was so easy to blow up the death star” got me Rogue One. So far 3/3, plus a login prompt which drops the score to 0/4.
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Third try got me a login prompt (how about no). Definitely not good.
And “horse drowns in quicksand, very sad” got me The Neverending Story. Also good.
“Pigs and diamonds” got me Snatch. Seems good.
That's monstrous. When I send a PDF I don't want it to be editable, if I wanted an editable format I'd use an editable format. Exporting to PDF is supposed to be a digital equivalent to printing.
He set The Hobbit (which he wrote for his kids) in the world he'd already built... not because he particularly enjoyed worldbuilding, but because a culturally complex fantasy world with a rich history and mythology was a prerequisite for the epic poetic sagas he felt needed to write in order to properly develop his fantasy languages, which is what he really liked to do, as a philologist.
“There's no underwear in space.”
He only wanted to create languages, for fun... but he wanted to do it properly, so he needed full cultural backgrounds for his languages, including epic poetic sagas written in said languages... and to do that properly he needed a whole history of the world said languages and cultures had developed in... so the maniac built that. And then he wrote a children's book set in that world, for his kids, as one does.
Visually it's obviously very dated, but I can still whistle Monkey Island's theme any time I want after all these years...
The question is how long that mindset will survive once Gaben leaves. Or dies.
We need to upload him into a GabenOS of sorts. To preserve the Valve mindset, and also for science.
Some neurotoxin and mass murder would be a small price to pay.
It's the same engine Morrowind was on.
OK, last try: (spoiler warning) “Turns out he was Jesus” got me The Man From Earth.
This shit would be good, if it weren't for the login prompt.