No, said Aziraphale, it's ineffable.

atmzo

Did you participated in the “Pizza orgy”?
Bill Tiller: Oh yes, one for Brian’s Dig and the other for Sean’s. Both were stressful. At the first one […] a programmer came up to me asked me to stop playing, or to give someone else a turn. This puzzled me. Afterwards I found out that there was a crash bug that I was rapidly moving toward and the programmer didn’t want me to expose it.

– Interview with Bill Tiller, The Dig Museum, March 2005

What was the most difficult or problematic thing to do on The Dig?
Gary Brubaker: Brink. The original design (for Sean’s version) had Brink with you virtually the whole time. […] Unfortunately we found a bug late in development that required a huge redesign (both code and puzzle structure). So we just stuck him in a room with a crystal machine. It was very disappointing.

– Interview with Gary Brubaker, The Dig Museum, May 2005

“Congratulations! You have discovered the first bug in this game.”

– Hero’s Quest: So You Want to Be a Hero (Sierra, 1989)

I remember while watching Prometheus how much it reminded me of The Dig: a primitive, barren world, alien ghosts, ancient ruins, glowing hieroglyphs, alien space craft, dangerous monsters, astronaut archaeologists, aliens interacting with primitive man, a mission sponsored by a rich guy who dies (just like Toshi [Olema]). I wonder if David Lindelof ever played The Dig?

– Bill Tiller, interview with Adventure Gamers, June 2013

“Big things have small beginnings.”

– David 8, Prometheus, 2012 (directed by Ridley Scott)

PSA

bmouse

Great Falls National Park is teeming with Pikachu, pass it on.

vulcannic

Why don’t we ever talk about the fact that leonard nimoy had to walk off set because of tooth pain and show up at his dentist dressed as spock

ears-and-eyebrows

Also Brent Spiner broke his mandible during the filming of ‘The Game’ and had to be taken to hospital dressed as Data

jeshala

Jonathan Frakes got hit with a part of his quarterstaff when it was smacked with a sword and had to go to the hospital dressed in his Q-pid Robin Hood rags.

teroknortailor

Tracy Scoggins didn’t have to go to the hospital, but while she was filming “Destiny” in full Cardassian makeup, she “took the opportunity to walk around the lot at Paramount and scare the schoolchildren on buses. Until finally Security called the stage at DS9 and said, ‘Could ya’ll do something about keeping your aliens contained over there?’”

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shipsahoystuff

Nana Visitor sprained her ankle on the set of DS9. When they took her to the hospital the doctor freaked out when he saw her Bajoran nose, thinking that was the medical issue, until she told him she was in makeup.

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