Chris

We still don't have internet bandwidth sufficient to stream from the office. Hopefully soon!

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Ah yeah I remember reading that. I'll have to read it again now in light of this.

I just finished NW by Zadie Smith and it was really excellent; definitely one of the best books I've read recently. Thanks Argobot for recommending and eventually guilting me into finally reading it.

Welcome, new folks! Cyborg771: I picked up that usage of "bespoke" from working at Irrational. Fobwashed: Nice job on the Patrick sprite!

I don't care about the fiction of XCOM, but there's a bunch of stuff to actually DO in between battles that I like a lot. I don't care about the fiction of The Banner Saga but also there's pretty much nothing else to do in between battles that I find interesting.

It's the part of the game that resonated and felt substantial to me. In XCOM, the stuff in between battles still feels vital and vibrant. In The Banner Saga, it doesn't so much for me. It feels extraneous. For me it's a matter of execution, not principle.

The "View New Content" button is amazing. It's what makes this forum software better than most I've used, and the volume of content here is not so astronomically high that it's unmanageable. Also welcome new people!

We're just terrible. We'd like to bring it back though! I think it'll be easier in the coming months, for various reasons.

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We were "working" on it through most of 2003 as I recall but it didn't actually launch until E3 2004. (That's why 2014 is the 10-year anniversary.)

The Spelunky stream is basically just free. I'd be doing the Daily Challenge every day even if I didn't stream it. It's not coming at the expense of other games; I've been out of town playing the game on a Bootcamped Mac laptop for the past week anyway. I'd be happy to stream other stuff if other Thumbs want to, and I think that may become more feasible in the coming months, but right now it hasn't been super practical for us.

I picked up using "bespoke" in that context from Irrational.

Yeah it's definitely not challenging in any way. There's a range of styles over the course of the various stories but none of it gets particularly esoteric or anything. I liked it a lot though. There's a bit of the affectation and dissonance that is almost inevitable when trying to capture on the page dialogue as it is truly spoken in life, which I feel like just comes with the territory of contemporary literary fiction, to some extent, but what can you do?

Today I finished Tenth of December, the most recent short story collection by George Saunders and the first work of his I'd read. It was really excellent. Nearly all of the stories are fairly tragic, but they all contain a great deal of humanity and levity as well. And the prose is wonderful to read. I highly recommend it.

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I don't know where any of this is coming from. Part 1 comes out in January, Part 2 comes out a few months later. The Wikipedia page, which one doesn't need to be a backer to access, has the same information. The only mention of 2015 on there was that Tim recognized that at one point in development, the current rate of progress would have led to the game coming out in 2015. So, that's why the team changed the process instead of not changing it. The game has never had a release date of 2015.

I worked on that fucking game too! OKAY STEVE

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I think every time we (or at least I) use the phrase "lore" it's with an implicit bafflement that it is such a normal part of discourse in video games.

lol

I made that! It changes any color-based CSS properties for any number of DOM elements, in a synchronized loop. On the blog page it changes the color of the logo, post dates, and text links.

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Yeah, the thing about bartenders drinking without being served is a known issue. The thing with people "eating a meal" but actually waiting just means that's their intention of what to do. It'll say that's what they're doing even if they're trying and failing. That should probably be clearer in the UI.

So having opinions about things is what makes someone a hipster...? If I had the same opinion but didn't live in San Francisco or wear glasses would it be fine, or the same? I don't buy the "you need to say 'in my opinion' at the end of every opinion" thing. I'm the one saying it so obviously I'm the one who dislikes it. People taking out their phones and waving them around at a concert reminds me of the exact opposite of the point of a live music show. Your own opinion on the actual point itself is well stated, and obviously you disagree with me but I'm not going to cast aside the opinion I hold out of the shame of someone perceiving me as a hipster, which is something I barely know how to parse in the first place.