Or he could just occassionally browse to those URLs and not bother joining.

Yup, of course, but joining twitter allows you to be immediately aware of a tweet made by Abe or Alf, and that's something I quite like :D. It also allows you to have only one stream with all the tweets of the guys you follow, so you don't have to manually go on each page to check if something new has been posted.

I just have their twitter accounts as tabs, along with oddworld.com and oddmobb.com

<3 firefox

What does ice-cream have to do with firefox?

Yeah, just like we can occassionally visit far-flung regions of the world and not both watching the news.

What I meant was I really don't know any of that twitter language everyone types in there.

@somethingsomething

#somethingsomething

I just don't get it.

its a load of crap but I still joined

Is to talk to, or to mention another user, here called somethingsomething.

Is to tag your twit with the tag #somethingsomething, so people can click on the tag and find out who else is talking about #somethingsomething.



For instance when AbeMudokon posts:

He's referring to the user alfmudokon and tagging his tweet with the #Oddworld tag.

I'm all existed, i wonder what it could be :D

Your existed are you?

Woo!!! Alfs back!! I hope the rehab and tea returns too! That must've been the longest holiday ever.
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...Why did you attach a screenshot of an old Windows desktop to your post?

*sigh*

Maybe that's the Odd What. Windows OWF: Dynaficks edition. (That's just joke, I like you because you have Maxwell in your avatar)

It was meant to be like how long he's been on holiday (the last time there was a new Dear Alf).

Something new and exciting:

"Looking forward to tomorrow! #Oddworld about 7 hours ago via web " (Alf)

This would make my year.

I was using WinXP when he last posted and I'm still using it now. So perhaps operating systems aren't the best guide.

Nate, you're such a geezer. :p

I hope they'll announce something soooooooooooooon.

I really hope this is going to be good.

Turns out it is good:

http://www.oddworld.com/?p=259

DEAR LAWDAH.

I hope to god my PC will run MO and SW.

Holy Yaweh!

Hey! It's that thing we knew about!

Yes, but now they've announced it, and it's too soon to move without very good reason. You made a fuss over when Tim Schafer stopped saying 'We're ready to do Psychonauts 2.' and started saying 'Right, we're actually ready to do Psychonauts 2 now.'

Deal with it.

That's a new game, and it's the first time he said it. If I'm still excited after he says it thirty times then you can yell at me all you want. Actually, I take that back. I still get to be excited because it's a new game.

OANST, why are you so negative when it comes to Oddworld?

OWI and JAW are trying their best to keep us updated, you shouldn't shit on them right away.

I don't know. Maybe because they hint and hint and hint about great upcoming projects. Then they announce the projects, which turn out to be ports of games that were made years and years ago. Then they delay the release of the games that were released years and years ago. Also, they cancelled new games outright, tried to make an absurdly stupid looking film that fell through, thank god, and their new "new" project is a social network. So, yeah. They've used up all the good will that I had to offer.

I will buy the remastered Stranger's Wrath, though.

I'm slightly sided with OANST on this one. I just want a new game, they need to stop teasing us.

Sadly, you're pretty much right.

But Gilray did say there will be five or six new projects and we have yet to see what the upcoming ones are.

I really hope that they'll announce something truly new and not a freakin' Munch's Oddysee remake for the 360 or anything like that...

I dunno. A remake of MO the way they originally intended it to be would be pretty cool.

Yes, but if they would just remake the game that they released in the first place, don't know...

Yeah, I guess it could be interesting.

If they are doing that they should just make Munch's Exoddus.

Yeah, Munch's Exoddus would be nice.

In fact, pretty much anything new from the Quintology would be nice.

What would be the difference between reimagining Munch's Oddysee with all the originally-intended plots and characters and creating Munch's Exoddus with all of Munch's Oddysee's originally-intended plots? At least with the former we can pretend the original MO never happened.

Thinking about it, there might not really be a difference, that's true. Man, MO was very misleading. The first few cutscenes were very good. You could see the downward spiral at the beginning of the Lulu section, and then all those godawful newspaper segues. Please no mudokon teeth either.

I just think it would be confusing to people who aren't privy to all the ins and outs the way we are.