MrHoatzin

Eh?

Yeah, I didn't really count all that retrofitting garbage for zombie browsers that refuse to die... It is not like one had to manually put every one of the blank pixel gifs in place on the site for the png fix to work. I have never thought of these as spacer gifs when in the png fix context.

Hahahahah. Yes, browsers have had CSS for a while now... you have to go back to the 90s to find a browser that doesn't. Spacer gifs are not a thing any more, unless one has slept for a decade.

Notepad does wacky things with line endings and encoding. Anything is better than notepad. Sublime doesn't do diff stuff as far as I know and a cursory search makes it seem like it might be a functionality to show up at some point, as a plugin or natively, as there is chatter on the forums about it. I very seldom do comparisons, and I throw files at kdiff for that... even though there is supposed to be something in xcode that is allegedly better. I am sometimes lazy in the wrong kinds of ways.

I am a huge fan of Sublime Text 2, an heir to the awesome TextMate. It is multi-platform and free while still in Beta. It is slightly wackily supported because of that. It supports textmate plugins, so any textmate bundles you can just drop at it and it will play nice with them.

WOO CONGRATS! :tup: This news has been super oblique to parse, but I guess it is like for real and stuff I think. Also a bonus WOO for wearing the Seditious Industrial Complex tee on your first day to work. Also, the Double Fine forums need someone to put the foot down. I just visited them for seriously the first time yesterday. The interesting threads in the secret member DFA section consist basically of a developer putting in a 72pt Impact DISCLAIMER at the top of the post that EVERYTHING is TEMPORARY ART as in NOT PERMANENT PLACEHOLDER ASSETS to NEVER EVEN BE CONSIDERED FOR THE FINAL GAME, while they play with the technology and the kinds of things they would like the engine to be able to do—and fully 70% of comments thereafter are people complaining that the art sucks or doesn't fit their own vision. I can see how a community manager willing to lay down the law can make the community-dev interaction more worthwhile for everyone.

Houston is terrible. San Antonio is not.

If you strike inside the soiler it looks "better".

Down is not a difficult direction to propel oneself in.

Rad as fuck.

We can move the spawn into a mushroom biome, no?

HEEENGH? HEEEEEEENGH??? :yep: Ultimately tho, I dunno how much I can commit to playing, but if we can make a world like this, I will most def try my darnest to participate.

Someone was talking about this restaurant by the name of Pacific Moon the other day, and my mind filed it away as "<Something> Wizard".

I'm with Forbin. I actually gave creative a go and made the wacky modernist museum house in the grassy plane south of spawn inspired by this library Steve posted on rekall… but it seemed like it would've been more fun if I were cheating in survival rather than doing full creative. That at least gives you the option—if you want it—of having to protect from zombies and do something with an actual effect on the world rather than adding a thin layer of frosting on some inert, randomly-generated nature.

Maybe if there is interest idlemc.com could come back... Found this the other day:

I know, I had skimmed through the rest of them. I didn't see twitter or anyone here talking at length about the other little articles tho. It is total linkbait with some plausible deniability thrown in for taste. Respectable publications have been doing desperate things as of late (see Forbes). Way to ruin my fun jeremiad with facts. Jeez. Not cool. I haven't seen the movie, but I found the trailer off-putting. It is still propaganda for a certain ersatz objectivity which is increasingly becoming suspect. Sure. I still think a lot of the respect people have for the NYT and serious air that this piece is consuming is illegitimate. I mean, their ombudsman recently publicly wondered out loud and for real if it should be the job of the paper to correct mistakes and fix misconceptions—or if they should just plow over them as if everything is hunky dory.

I don't mean this to be confrontational at all but this is a typical privileged white guy thing to say. I feel we've had this conversation a million times before so I don't really care to have it again.

I would agree that fiction targeted at young adults is stupid by definition. Kids who like to read are already reading more serious stuff at that age mark. Most YA books are seriously crappy formulaic nonsense—but then again, most books are. Most of everything is. So who gives a shit if adults read kids' books? I read the Earthsea books in college. Should I have avoided these exquisitely well-crafted and original stories so as to not give an opportunity to this ass to feel annoyed at me for reading outside of my age group? Since when is, What will people think!? a good reason to do or not do anything?

A postmortem at Gamasutra. :tup:

You're all such good, obedient kids. I am so proud.

I think you misread the nature of his objection. Also, I am saddened that no one cares for Rupaul's Drag Race.

Oh shit! I am fo real, yo. Try the first episode of the current season if you don't trust me.

Oh, I thought you were talking about the periodic table: From Alkaline Metals to Noble Gasses, that sort of thing.

I think the Idle brand can comfortably be turned into an umbrella. The header art stays and we get The Idle Thumbs Video Game Podcast and The Idle Thumbs Book Podcast and The Idle Thumbs Three Moves Ahead Podcast... In the sequel you still have The Prince as the protagonist, only there are also all these cousins with wacky-shaped heads participating in the spotlight without quite fitting in the story—yet everyone's having too much fun to care.

This industry isn't going to fix itself until more people in the shit lift the middle finger at their owners.