Erkki

I finally watched "Dark Knight". Awesome! Batman is still the only superhero thing I tolerate, but this one was brilliant.

Yeah, it did feel kind of lame at times. Also, maybe I remember the previous games wrong, but DeathSpank used to at least want to do good. In this game, when he is asked to do something evil (which seems to be way more often than not) he pretends he doesn't understand how it's evil.

This doesn't parse. Your parents "fired" you but you still have to work for them? Explain.

How about starting to receive spam e-mail from a friend who died 10 years ago. Happend to me. I guess they recycle e-mail addresses after a while.

Hmm... I pre-ordered and tried the alpha. The combat is quite fun, but it's worrying that after all this development time that's all there is. They just seem to keep polishing this one thing. I don't know, it might be good to do that since that's the core of the game.

I actually liked that. If the game can't have true RPG style ending where you see consequences of your action throughout the game, and instead the ending is chosen near the end itself, then it's better to just have

Finished "The Bakoning". It was good, but I liked the first two games better. There was a lot of recycling going on in this one, and the structure of the game was boring-linear. The only thing making you go back from time to time was the arena.

You have become a spam bot!

The abandoned mines are pretty scary. Huge and much more dangerous than simple caves. The one I found earlier seems to extend to under my lighthouse.

How? I only saw one vent that went about half way.

Since I wasn't going for the achievement and had already killed a couple of people, I just murdered most of them, but I think a gas grenade or two would be helpful, if you have any.

Added. Anyone feel free to add me too. I'm currently reading his Cryptonomicon, and it's one of the most amazing books I've ever read. I mean, who else could go on about a weak link in someone's bicycle for 4 pages without getting boring. Is his other work as good? But I've been reading it since August and am only on page 200. Due to all kinds of things, mostly work related, I'm tired enough lately that I read a page or two and fall asleep.

That Gooreads iPhone app is actually pretty good. LibraryThing doesn't seem to have a dedicated app (although a generic scanning app at least could be used I guess). I will give Goodreads a try, and since I'm moving to a new apartment soon(ish), It'll be a good time to scan all my books (at least Enlgish ones, grr..) Hm.. LibraryThing actually has an Estonian UI, I wonder if it would be better from multi-language perspective.

Yeah, not arguing against that, I've played for 6+ hours and the new world generation is really cool. I may keep playing on and off for a little while until the next update.

I'm about to give up hope that minecraft will become a really interesting single player game. One of the reasons is the above mentioned loss of survival aspect after a short time, due to abundant resources. Another is that the view distance really hampers the exploration aspect, and I'm guessing it won't get any better, at least while Minecraft runs on Java. And some might argue, but while the game became easier with health regen, the random creeper deaths are still fucking annoying, as they can set you back tens of minutes or hours. Actually, I just lost all my stuff to a spider I was trying to run from, and when I went back my stuff wasn't there. It seems rather random whether your stuff remains after you are dead or not if you died far from spawn.

I died building this lighthouse I think I've discovered permadeath isn't for me, because I'd like to keep playing.

Poor thing: Part of the old mine lead to this cave that takes in seawater. Some squids were stuck in there.

So the "unicorn" map was pretty interesting at first. I'm playing it permadeath. There's one tree on the island you start at, so that was enough to make some tools and plant new trees for a boat. I dug under the island a bit and found iron and coal. During the night, there came a skeleton, a zombie and a creeper. I had to eat the rotten meat of the zombie to make survival easier. The next day I made a boat (one tree grew from the sapling I planted), picked a direction and went looking for land. Eventually I found it, and where I landed was a lava pool (what's with all these lava pools on the ground?) and a chasm near which I made a home. Turned out there was an abandoned mine there as well. It was night, and I was really hungry. Was attacked by a skeleton near morning, and only one heart left. I went looking for food and found A LOT of cows. I was saved! But from this point on, the survival aspect kind of disappeared, as I now have lots of resources available all around me.

Ah, thanks. LibraryThing or GoodReads looks like more or less what I had in mind. [edit]Yeah, Goodreads' iPhone app even has the barcode scanning I wished for. Unfortunately, their search sucks badly. Search for William Gibson, and you'll find Romeo and Juliet, Lord of the Flies as the first results. [proof] And if you go to William Gibson's books, the first result is Moby Dick, for which he has apparently written a foreword. Still, that site seems pretty close to what I had in mind.

Amazon is Amazon. It's too tied to sales. And a blog wouldn't work (I'm not good enough of a critic myself that people would go there to read my reviews). What I have in mind is easily searchable and browsable database where anyone can make an account and start writing reviews (or even just giving a rating). For example lets say you read a book by an author you didn't previously know and want to read more of him. You look up the author by name and sort his books by reviews scores. I know what most of us think about game scores, but I've found using the local sci-fi/fantasy/horror site is that for books the average of peoples opinion works for me pretty well -- if I buy something that has 4+/5 average there, it's pretty good. The site should be multi-language, but you could filter it by languages you are interested in. Also, if you're a genre fan, you could filter reviews to be only from those who've declared themselves fan of the same genre. etc. You could log in using Twitter or Facebook, and optionally when you write a review, the site could tweet a link to your review. There should also be a smartphone app for using in bookstores -- scan a barcode (or search by title), and it would open reviews from the site. Maybe there are apps like that already, don't know.

I read mostly sci-fi, and since I don't read a lot (book per month, lately even less) I tend to rely on reviews for purchase decisions. There's a local sci-fi review site that is great for this (due to the content), but the site design is from 97 or so (still using frames and all). I tried to convince the owner to let me do a rewrite, but that conversiation kind of abated. So I started thinking, there doesn't seem to be a proper Web 2.0-ish awesome book review site out there, does there? Would it be worth creating one? Could something like that be mildly profitable? (via. Amazon links or ads or whatever?)

I think I'll try one of those Robinsone Crusoecraft worlds.

I did try the pre-release and updated to 1.8 release as well. Nothing wrong so far, but should I be worried? Or what should I do, still nuke the .bin file?

1.8 is out? Is that why Twitter is down?