Erkki

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Dear Esther, You are the ungamiest of games (more ungamy than you have to burn the rope or Passage) and you suck besides. I like your looks, but that is hardly enough. Sincerely, Not your friend

Wow that does sound much more than what I was expecting, although it still probably won't be a Far Cry 2. Especially everything in that second video made the game sound really interesting. I haven't played Crytek's games so not getting that deja vu.

How about pine cones?

What's a boondongle?

Unfortunately, I've only been to the San Fransisco airport, but not the city itself. I was in some place called Milpitas and Santa Clara for a conference. But even there I had some excellent sushi! I hope to visit the city one day.

Welcome, new peoples! Fixed

Happy birthday!

Wasn't that... oh, nevermind.

I ehanced the jpg and the last sentence says "you are going to be a part of thumb, Giant thumb". My guess is that Idle Thumbs and Giant Bomb are going to merge and form Giant Thumb, a U2 cover band and we are all going to be blood donors for their charity campaign.

You were not talking about freeware, but freely available, and I count "pay what you want" as pretty close to freely available. Sure, there's the charity bit involved what makes it a bit different, but there are many other "pay what you want" examples, in music too.

khm humble indie bundle khm

Not understood.

Placed beneath mustard pile.

I wish I'd have thought of that -- I only funded the sound effects

I've never had a credit card either. Yet I keep buying stuff online somehow I don't know if they have something like this in the Netherlands, but look into virtual credit cards -- they are not really credit cards as there's no credit involved. In Estonia only one bank (SEB, maybe you have SEB there as well?) offers it, and I've been using it forever. I can create a new one in a couple of minutes, set the limit myself and they are only valid for 40 days. [edit] Hmm, I guess this might be unique to Estonia, says so here: http://www.seb.ee/en/business/bankcards/virtual-card [/edit]

Wow, $1.5 M seems a certainty already, but with 32 days left, who knows how much they'll hit. I think it'll be $2 M at least.

That's a good question, and it probably has legal implications as well, such as about taxation.

Don't know, but some software companies might devote 30% or so to marketing.

Already twice the goal pledged! Wow

:tup: that I was boycotting amazon payments, but what the hell, I wasn't going to keep that up forever. I'll likely back it on a later date cause I'm using 40-day credit cards and current one probably expires before the payday.

Happy birthday, dude!

I think Toblix is onto something with the secret collecting of people's addresses he's been doing in previous years. I want in on that business! And coincidentally, there are some games on my shelf that I probably won't end up playing any more -- I've either re-purchased them on Steam or they are play-once games or I suspect that the cases contain anthrax or my Xbox RRODed. Some are old, so I'm not sure if anyone still wants them. So, if anyone wants any of them, PM me your address and I'll send them to you, hopefully by Christmas. PC games: Chronicles of Riddick (Developer's Cut) Civilization IV Complete Dark Messiah of Might and Magic Die by the Sword Fable: The Lost chapters Fallout (the first one) Gothic 3 Knights of Honor Marc Ecko's Getting it Up Mass Effect Prince of Persia (2008) Runaway Assassin's Creed Tomb Raider Underworld FEAR Gemini Rue Unreal Tournament 2004 (probably useful for mods only) Baldur's Gate (both games and add-ons) Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth Colin McRae's DIRT Desperados 2 Oblivion PS3 games: Assassin's Creed 2 ("Special film edition", probably shipping without the film) Assassin's Creed Brotherhood Heavy Rain (Move edition) Uncharted 1 Uncharted 2 Xbox 360 games: Mirror's Edge Viking Brütal Legend GTA IV Guitar Hero II Guitar Hero III Guitar Hero World Tour Red Dead Redemption Wii games: Simpsons: The Game Steam games: Puzzle Agent Half-Life 2: Episode 1

So, castorp, you want thems games?