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If you are like... to lazy to click the link on the slashdot front page.

Ever since he mentioned that you don't need to start at the beginning in order to get to a certain stage, i've just felt like it will be a bunch of mini-games, without present decisions being made in the current stage affecting your options in future stages of, what i assume, is the evolution of your creature(s). I have a feeling that the expansion pack he's been working on will be a ton better.

Tycho and Gabe have a pretty good idea about why you're seeing so many 10s...

the mouth breathing foofoo coffee denizens of Starbucks.

I was dragged into a Starbucks once a couple of years ago.

Google > NASA for directions
Mars is roughly 3715 miles from me, as the deepcrow flies.

Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik of Penny-Arcade fame got together with Scott Kurtz of PvP and played D&D 4th Edition. The escapades were recorded and are being posted as Podcasts. You can subscribe to the podcasts at http://www.wizards.com/dnd/rsspodcast.xml or download the First and Second files directly.

This quote is now featured front and center on the latest series of ads for the game:

http://ads.penny-arcade.com/delivery/ai.php?filename=rpsd02_728avail_3.jpg&contenttype=jpeg
http://ads.penny-arcade.com/delivery/ai.php?filename=rspd03_160avail.jpg&contenttype=jpeg

ROFL. ROFL.

This quote is now featured front and center on the latest series of ads for the game:

http://ads.penny-arcade.com/delivery/ai.php?filename=rpsd02_728avail_3.jpg&contenttype=jpeg
http://ads.penny-arcade.com/delivery/ai.php?filename=rspd03_160avail.jpg&contenttype=jpeg

ROFL. ROFL.

Let me be the first to say it's not for you.

The game isn't going to rank as one of my favourites, but I enjoyed it. For $20, I find it really difficult to complain about anything. They even managed to make JRPG combat fun for me again, and I've been jaded with JRPGs for years.

apparently the mod and/or mods (who may or may not be on crack) didn't get the reference

Kinda reminds me of this comic.

I'm a twitter-shitter!

"No offence to the people at Twitter, and maybe not the people who recently migrated there. But am I alone in being hesitant to welcome people who formerly worked at IBM, et al, and even Google?

Granted, they seem to be more directed at the physical performance of the system, but I see this as somewhat of an inroad to Twitter actually working, thereby requiring me to acknowledge its existence. And I would much rather have some no-name website, where people living in their mother's basements come to tell a world that would rather ignore them that they just had a shit, go under, than sap the life-blood of a decent technology company.

I have no idea what Twitter could be useful for, but I just find having big boys come in and having control over something that's (potentially, and already has been) so useless, uh...kind of boring."

Honestly though, what? They hired some people from real technology companies who might have the first clue of how to do what they should already have been doing. I have only the vaguest idea of what Twitter is, based on this and having checked it out, have had my suspicions confirmed. Call me a curmudgeon, but they just sound like they're trying desperately to survive in a marketplace already brimming with (better) competition by hiring experienced technologists. Seriously, how long before 'phones that can handle Facebook are the norm?

So if you got an idea, don't waste it. Do it, or at least tell someone who will do it. Don't let ideas die.

as there is smoldering.

Now I'm scared.

There's going to be some "Fucked 100 Fruit Fuckers", isn't there?

And probably a Testikill, just so they can.

Penny Arcade

The way the Kotaku article is worded - and it comes through on the summary is a bit confusing. Basically if the VGChartz esitmate is right they broke a record for earnings. They came in third for number of downloads- and that is what Gabe is talking about when he says "Given that our price point was double..." He means that he is happy they had the third most downloads since their game cost so much more than the others that came before it. He does not say anything about how much they made or make any comparisons regarding income to the other games. In a screencast they did for the game, he even jokes that due to the large initial cost of creating the game, they aren't making any money yet. You can see that video if you scroll to the bottom of this post.

Sounds dangerous. I hear there are bears "outside"!

That's because they forgot to multiply by honey.

If he's popular enough that his work alone could support him, then start a blog and throw a few ads on it. Come up with T-shirts or mugs or something. Perhaps best-of print collections. As far as books (as in novels), people are making a living posting their work online while selling print copies.

That's how online cartoonists do it. See Penny Arcade. Howard Tayler of Schlock Mercenary has been supporting a family for a few years now.

When I read the headline, I thought "I wonder how long it's going to take for some fanboy to recommend the iPhone, despite the fact that it doesn't have a keyboard & is inferior for text entry compared to say a blackberry, or even some of the HTC monstrosities."

The iPhone is fine for typing text. And the fully dynamic interface allows for some interesting possibilities for shell control, along with more room for a wider view on the screen. Penny Aracde of course, put it best... "If you find such things unpleasant, then I suggest you develop a taste for forced labor because by the year twenty-twenty all that sneer is going to get you is a slot in the underclass boiling corpses."

Don't be so dismissive until you see what terminal possibilities might arrive with the SDK.

And there you were - right in the first post. Thank you for reaffirming my faith in fanboi nature.

Don't your eyes scratch a lot with that wool you keep pulling over yourself?

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/9/24/

I assume harassment on Twitter consists of pre-twittering someone's intention of going for a shit?

Or is it being Twit-rolled

I do appreciate your warning me about the infiltration. When you spell Scientology "$cientology" though, this is what I picture.

Here is the link to the comic

http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/1999/19990305h.jpg

If this comic worked, you could see they poke fun at Windows, using Linux as a better example: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1999/3/5/

Their archive is messed up. I've tried to let them know.

The transcript is here: http://pennyarcade.wikia.com/wiki/March_5,_1999

"Rebooting again? What is that the third time today?"

Despite their past ambivalence to the OS and its partisans.

Despite their past ambivalence to the OS and its partisans.

Do you know what happens when I exercise? I burn calories...

And some of us sweat

They're already way ahead of you.

Obligatory Penny Arcade

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/07/16/

And for those out there who are wondering what I'm talking about, Kuro5hin recently enacted a $5 "membership" fee because they were being buried alive under a tidal wave of racist trolls. They figured that since trolls are generally cheap bastards that the fee would cause the trolls to move on to Digg,Fark, and yes, Slashdot. So don't be surprised if for the next few weeks you see post after post by impotent Nazi loving Teabaggers. Just make fun of them and they'll eventually move onto Digg.

You don't like their policies or practices then don't fucking buy it.

You need to start thinking like a Suit guy.

Most of them seems to think they have a God given right to sell as many games as their marketing department projected, if they don't meet the projections then it s clearly due to Piracy and weak DRM.

If we don't make sure to tell them why we are boycoting them then we will eventually end up with something like this.

Something like that, sure.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/5/9/

It's probably just a new initiation rite for the GNAA.

The truly sad thing is, it's shit like this that make people want to throw away the right to anonymity on the Internet. I guess we're stuck with the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory, though.

How cute! An input system that makes texting take 10 times as long as using the keypad.

It's as fast for me as typing on a Blackberry or Treo. I guess some people like you are just slow though and can't handle new things, I guess it's boiling corpses in your future.

Fantastic! I'm sure it works perfectly for Doom RGP and other popular mobile games. Oh and no other mobile phone as decent power and 3D capabilities, the iPhone is way ahead of the competition there.

Look Mr Corpse Boiler, I didn't say it was necessarily ahead of everything (though it certainly is ahead of a lot of Java Mobile platforms)- I just said it had good capabilities.

Then there is the little fact that there are already hundreds of ISV:s developing mobile games using the J2ME platform so that they can easily be ported between different phone models. But they are ofcourse going to give up (relatively) easy portability in favor of designing games for the Apple iPhone uberdevice exclusively.

I've actually done J2ME programming, so I know what can and cannot be done there. I don't see why J2ME game developers would cease writing games, there will still be plenty f market for that. But there's no question that iPhone games will be more visually appealing and have a lot more resolution to operate with, along with having a unique control scheme instead of sometimes laggy buttons.

See, unlike you I realize that just because gaming on the iPhone/iTouch takes off, it doesn't mean the end of other platforms - just the start of a new one.

man, those scenes with Sigorney in her undies really made the movies for us really young guys...

I know, kids these days, they don't know how good they have it.

Anonymity can have some pretty undesirable consequences...

But really. Have you ever read the comment boards on a local or national news site? Trolls and political shitstorms are the rule rather than the exception. Personal insults, extreme racism, and casual death-threats are fairly common as well.

In the end, each thread inevitably turns into a racist tirade, or a debate over gun control, religion, or "the democracts/republicans are killing America"

It's really no surprise that the Washington Post wants to put a damper on this. Although it may sound hard to believe, Slashdot is arguably one of the most effectively moderated large communities on the 'net.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/4/23/