Good job, whomever decided on this piece is definitely a man or a woman of culture. First Contact is one my favourite sci-fi movies of all time too!

Mars sucks ass I hope we never go there. There are plenty of other decent celestial bodies around. We should colonize Moon for starters. Moon colony would be amazing.

Not sure why you’re being downvoted. Sure it’s sorta self-promo but chill boyos give him a break.

Now that you mention it, yes. However it’s probably so deeply ingrained in American authors that bicycles seem like uncool garbage that’s not very useful so they don’t even think about it.

Consolas is perfect

Yeah she’s amazing.

Nihilism, pessimism, jadedness, misanthropy etc. (qualities that I myself possess in varying digrees of crippling severity and realise their unwholesomeness) aren’t excuses for not being kind, tolerant, generous and compassionate. These things aren’t mutually exclusive, in fact the latter ones are an antidote to the former ones and everyone should nurture them. That’s my take.

Chief is probably my fav, so I see you’re as an absolute winner, the man DID succeed in making Cardassian replicators cook a decent bowl of oatmeal after all (his wife sucks though).

This one hits hard.

Legend!

My favourite was The Motion Picture, it was the most Star Treky of the bunch for sure with awesome high concept sci-fi without a dumb blockbuster feel.

Nightdive Studios just keeps on pumping out banger releases.

I feel like early Legend Entertainment games are a perfect gateway to interactive fiction since they do have some graphics and interface while still being primarily text-driven. My personal favourite is Frederik Pohl’s Gateway series (books are amazing too), but you could check out Spellcasting 101 and Eric the Unready which are available on GOG.

And if we’re talking classics I’d recommend Babel for starters, it uses very modern game design without softlocks and unfair fail states, almost entirely narrative driven with simple and satisfying puzzles sprinkled in.

Otherwise I’m a huge fan of anything by Andrew Plotkin.

Not a huge fan of Zork, it’s so rough to play these days without a guide. Maybe other Infocom games should be played first, like Planetfall, it’s relatively not so player hostile.