toblix

Is there a limit to how much backers are «allowed» to discuss the documentary outside of the backer forums? Also, I really liked the last episode.

Sorry to hear it bro

So, clothes. Any way of comparing stuff to what you're wearing? Any way to change clothes without having to drive home (or restart the game, which is quicker?)

That whole process of retroactively trying to merge two personas in your mind is awesome. There's also the one where you think two internet people, say a Twitter user and an Idle Forums person, are the same person and then you discover they're not. Internet stuff, I guess.

What the hell. I just noticed a copy of Dead Island - Game of the Year Edition in my steam inventory. If anyone wants it, PM me your Steam avatarhandle.

If anyone wants a free Steam copy, PM me your Steam cybername.

I'm toblix. Just kidding, I'm tgdahle.

What do you mean «better come out in Europe?» I was going to go home today and buy this – will I be fucked by lawyers? edit: Apparently it'll be out on Tueseday/Wednesday next week. M-m-m-m-m-onster edit!!! They will release the next Call of Duty as a cheap-o downloadable game in Japan, and Giantu 巨大な爆弾 omberu will laugh at our games.

Some interesting factoids on the (to me) weird practice of film dubbing in this hyperlink: link

I hacked to this secret page which reveals the 16 people with the power to moderate/administrate the forums. I know most of them, but some of them are unknown to me, like... mike? And why are there two Nicks?

After delivering one million Knox vans, I'm starting to think there's no actual limit to the number of times I can complete this quest.

Maybe, and I considered it. I don't think the way to get them to deliver the best service possible is to pay them for something sub-par, though. I mean, they're really going to sit on it for 24 hours? They already have the digital video files; all they have to do is transcode them and transfer them to the customers. Pirates have to re-record the shows, cut out commercials, make sweet ASCII art for the .nfo files and then upload them to the 0-day T3 servorz, from which l4merz destory the warez community by downloading and putting on The Pirate Bay. If a company can't compete with a network of 14 year olds, they need to change their ways; Ski or die.

24hrs? Oh, that's no good.

I'll definitely be subscribing to check it out, but if it turns out to be a bigger hassle than, or of a lower quality than just torrenting shows, I'm not going to keep using it. I really hope someone makes a great, legal way for me to watch my stories in high quality and a timely fashion, and I sincerely hope this is the first one. Pirates have shown that it's technically possible, so there's no excuse for HBO to not make something even better. Of course, I fully expect them to mess it up in some ridiculous way.

Oh shit, why is Twig no long on t

If you like thorough, technical blogs about game development, I just found this, detailing the development of the original Starcraft.

Though it might seem complicated, the physics of electricity is really quite simple: it's a malevolent force that lives in fuse boxes and dangling wires, and travels across water and metal. Usually electricity periodically emits small sparks, which is useful when trying to avoid it. Known insulators are wooden crates or trying to jump over it. Learn more about electricity on Wikipedia.

Apple just sent out invitations to their iPhone 5 event, so, in a week or so, prepare to have all your social media channels gush and spurt nothing but comments about NFC, ear buds, minijacks, screen dimensions, connectors and SIM cards for a few hours.

An eternal dark conflict between inline spoiler bars and forum updates.

Sweet, did you update the Kickstarter compendium thread thing? I backed this right away. I spent so much time on the Vault Network Arcanum forum, so a Tim Cain kickstarter immediately triggers my automatic kickstarter backing mechanick. edit: Oh, and more than one million dollars?

I tried using it for too long before converting to Downcast. It was the thing that made me realise how crazy many of Apple's UI decisions are. I heard a lot about the calendar stuff, but didn't notice it since I never use the calendar app. Actually having to use the unfinished, unstable, user-hostile garbage that is the iOS Podcasts app really made it sink in. On a more general note, I think the amount of great stuff Apple has done in the area of mobile phones has made people blind to the less brilliant stuff they're doing, and almost immune to criticism among too many people. Having used their phones for three years now, I've often been amazed at how their products are often lauded as almost perfect in every way despite glaring bugs or design stupidity, like the two full years everyone was forced to use their ugly, terrible notification system, and how the Settings app has these weird, inconsistent parts of application-specific settings in it, or how the current audio player just loses its state at times, or how the phone was physically shackled to iTunes for too long. What new features did they add? I only remember it being worse at everything.

Yeah, I don't think anyone is saying skeuomorphism is intrinsically a bad thing – at least I don't think it is. It can definitely be useful both aesthetically and usabilitilityably. The problem is knowing when to back off and say «enough is enough.» To me, it seems Apple is not doing that at all, to the detriment of a lot of their latest software.

Oh sweet! Thanks! Another thing. When fighting the big guys that can't be grabbed and that grabs you and makes you wrestle yourself free, I'm only able to counter them about half the time. Is there something wrong with me?

And the Award for Thread with a Title that Looks the Most Like Spam at First Glance goes to this one! Making a video game for the military in 180 days sounds interesting and challenging. As usual I'm not going to have anything to contribute with, but I really hope you get this gig and get to tell us all about it, though I expect you'll not be able to confirm nor deny anything.