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I've been listening to the show almost every day since the Idle Thumbs announcement, sometimes a couple of episodes a day. Really great stuff I will be sad when I run out of episodes and will have only one a week.

I've only played it once and loved it. It did take 3-4 hours though. I guess it's best to play this game (and most other board games) with someone who already knows the rules well.

I played some board games through the entire Easter weekend. The ones that were new to me and left the biggest impression were: Fortune & Glory - it seemed like something I would love before I played it. It's still somewhat fun, but it's a complete dicefest - almost nothing interesting happens without rolling a few. Even as one who contributed the most Fortune to the winning team in the only game I played, I don't really want to play it again. A Few Acres of Snow - this seemed really interesting. British vs. French fight over who controls more of the North of North America. Dominion combined with eurogame combined with wargame. Unfortunately I misunderstood one of the victory conditions and was baffled to find out the game was over when I thought it was only starting. Pacific Typhoon - card game where each round is a battle in the Pacific Theatre of WWII, and you play some cards either for Allies or for Japan. The player who contributed the most power to the winning side will divide the spoils among that side. Unfortunately the game can be ruined when overcalculating players don't even bring the other side into the battle for several rounds. Tulipmania - I don't like economic/market games where you have to calculate a lot

I hope the prompts and/or the character's voice can be turned off.

Don't remember the details but I think Baelish was implying more than just having heard the rumors. Remember John Arryn and how the whole story started?

Wow! That looks amazing. I really have to get my Xbox fixed.

Makes me want to get my Xbox fixed. Is it coming to any other platforms?

Yahtzee's next game http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/04/05/yorkshire-man-belmont-poacher/ Download this right now and tell me if the rabbit sound feels like its coming from your nostrils! It's fucking weird.

oh, I was talking about Frostbyte

I imagine this has been posted here before, but repeating won't hurt v9MTGNaEXGM Version with English subs:

Been playing this on and off. It's still the good old Trine, with some differences. The visuals are even more detailed than before, it looks absolutely stunning There seems to be more timed stuff this time, and the usual enemies are a bit tougher (which slightly annoys me). A few Pipe puzzles here and there A few Portal puzzles Cool secrets Some secrets seem hard enough that I'd rather just continue the game This is pretty much why I only play a couple of levels at a time.

It isn't complete nonsense. I bet server applications written in Java could outperform server applications written in C++ and be safer (given the same amount of man-hours to implement), but when it comes to certain classes of applications like games, Java really does lag a bit. One of the reasons is that every object is managed by the garbage collector (although recently there's been some progress in having non-escaping objects allocated on stack) and the more memory the more it has to work. So the way around this is to either write low-level code which uses primitives instead of objects (and there are limits of how far you can take that) or use object pools of mutable objects or something like that. I personally think this is not a good way to write code. .NET has value classes which solve this problem mostly (or completely?), but otherwise it is slower than the JVM. This is actually part of the reason I started working on my own language. PS. Another problem is the JNI overhead with OpenGL and such. I once tried to use C library sin (or was it sqrt) function from Java and the overhead of that call completely ate up the savings from using the faster C version of the function. (of course I might be dumb and maybe the Java function was actually almost as fast as the C function).

Totally BTW I'm a bit disappointed that nobody noticed from the code examples that it wasn't necessarily a stack-based language

Yes, that's exactly what bothers me about the claims Orvidos made.

Minecraft is written in Java and I've never experienced a GC pause in it. It can't be all bad.

I heard there was one. Everyone has their own quirks. For example we have this perfectionist guy who is pretty good, but always abstracts and encapsulates everything. So even a simple data class will have an interface and a factory and a manager and so on. Otherwise he is quite brilliant. PS. Already thinking about writing a compiler for the DCPU-16 Not likely that I'll go through with it though, and not sure I'll like the game as it sounds like it might be awfully complex.

Or Plato's dialogues

Why?

Don Quixote II might be the Far Cry 2 of books.

Wheel of Time is certainly not for everyone and I hope it was clear that it was a joke suggestion. Stephenson's Cryptonomicon is perhaps the best geek book ever, and one of my all time favourites.

My reading suggestions: Don Quixote Something from Borges Something from Neil Gaiman Something from Neal Stephenson All 13 bricks of Wheel of Time in one week

Only .,! work for me. Seems to be for English keyboards only?

Cool. That's the best one I've seen so far.

Also be careful with some of the games -- when I uninstalled one, it started popping up messages about DLL-ls in Windows system folder no longer being used and I let it delete a lot of them until I realized it was probably listing every DLL in there. Now another game is not starting due to a missing DLL.

Yeah, I really want to read something where the wheat has been separated from the chaff. I tried to play a couple of games I just picked myself, but they weren't very good.