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best avatar. ever. (jakes)

i just read this on slashdot, and for some reason, i had, like, a spiritual sort of feeling from it. Bram Cohen thinks he could get his code from god, and is mildly autistic. i had a brief period in my life a while ago, where i thought i was god, and when i later brought it up, some friends told me that 'everybody gets that'. anyhow, the idea (i'll just inject it in here) that god is in fact an all-powerful storyteller, or a programmer, or a gardener, or a mystical combination of all three, and every one of us takes their 'turn' at acting as god's avatar is one that brings me to my point: i'm a fuckin idiot.

yep. come to my gig in The Mezz in town tomorrow! You knwo the best part of that is that it says I chose lounge as the murder weapon. damn. now i have to go back and fix it. not.

mustard revolver kitchen mayhaps? how sad is this?

my new dentist is a lady dentist and i was mightily impressed with her technique with the needle. it goes in oh so gently that you can hardly feel it at all. the previous guy just shoved it in there. she has a foxy little assistant too who she bosses around during the operation. now I enjoy going to the dentist. good, eh?

green piping conservatory?

wooohoooo! yeah! party!

prof. plum w/ spanner @ kitchen

there's two other articles on gamasutra worth reading too. an interview with Jordan Mechner and Ernest Adams' latest. the technophile argument is only valid because of the relative youth of the games industry and is something that will work itself out imo.

some really nice photos there dude. i'm only posting so youse can see my new sig.

go dúl ar mo bhud!

they're advertising for a sound designer on gtxa. frankly, I think the sound design should have been done earlier, given that they're trying to target emotions and stuff like that. i was going to suggest this as a comment to that post, but the comment form is broken or summat. a seinfeld-ish approach, with bits of context-aware riffs at the boundaries of each of their 'story beats' (you know what i mean if you've read any of their literature) would work well, I think. dammit I want to play katamari damacy. cunts.

CROWD: Burn her! Burn! Burn her! Burn her!

"While at Lucasarts, Schafer first presented them with a design document detailing six games he wanted to make. The first was Full Throttle, the second, Grim Fandango, and the third, Psychonauts. Three to go ..." from Official Playstation magazine November 2004 (see it at psychonauts.com) some of you guys live in SF. I know Chris has been in DF . have any of yis any idea what the other three games on that document are about?

no. ditto.

eh calm down, calm down. this as a smiley would be quite useful here on idle thumbs, methinks.

when you're right, you're right. and you're right.

he was introduced on parky as gervaze. that's what i thought everyone thought it was.

yeah, i had my head chopped off when i was about 14. i could taste the blood and everything. my head rolled around for a while and then i could see everything in silhouette and the moon was huge. there was a tree on a hill in the dark.

I'm sorta into cars so I always watch it. somehow vaguely anarchic while playing about with 100000 euro hunks of metal

naah that's just nutty.

just thought - what about using karma as a game mechanic - you start as a crap low level character, and in order to level up, you have to die after 'leading' a 'good' 'life'. reincarnating with new powers commensurate to the sort of life you previously 'lived', and a 'bad' life results in leveling down or 'something'.

goddamn it. the same two suggestions again. :ponycrap: he played jazz! with his trunk! it was great!

i said 'other' - it's got to be a chocolate jesus

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=4548 this is a gamasutra news article about a lawsuit whose results will be important for any games that allow user configuration or content creation. copyright law usually allows use of trademarks for academic or non-commercial use, and it's pretty clear to me that in this case the users aren't getting anything out of it, BUT with the commercialisation of game content seen in a lot of MMORPGs, it could become a skeleton of serious contention.