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This is actually becoming almost as entertaining as watching the boom/bust cycle of hope associated with Star Wars fans. I'm beginning to hope Valve just tease us forever and only release it once these few generations who care are mostly dead. From future-wikipedia: Half Life 3: A video game that some people once cared about a lot. Released in the year 21XX, it's notable for its game design being about 100 years out of date.

Oh, I can't believe I forgot that! Yes. Depression Quest taught me new stuff about a state of mind I thought was long gone.

Super Hexagon. Me and a friend have a good rivalry going with it, and taking it in turns to beat each other's scores, have pushed it past completion and pretty far up the high score tables.

Actually, lack of choice or systems is more to do with the way people are using Twine than Twine itself. One of the reasons I like Cuddlefish compared to many other Twine games is that it has an underlying system you have to tinker with to get to the end. Edit: I think we'll always see a majority of games without elaborate systems or branching narratives, since it's easier and most of us are more habituated to write linear narratives.

Lawrence Croft.

Cuddlefish: A silly but somewhat game about a cuttlefish trying to have sex. I love this game. Cara Ellison described it well as being like it's narrated by a 15 year old David Attenborough. http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/79581979/cuddlefish.html#9 Mastaba Snoopy: Brilliant and in parts absolutely horrific. Based around a decaying computational singularity that's tried to reconstruct Earth, but only has a Peanuts Anthology to go on. Some of the endings are quite beautiful. Most are horrible. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/3p6uthbmkusf2ja/MASTABA%20SNOOPY.html CRY$TAL WARRIOR KE$HA: Made on the basis of actual Ke$ha quotes. http://aliendovecote.com/uploads/twine/kesha.html#7

Those stilts may only be an inch tall for now, but just you wait:

I wanted to like Rubber, and found it really funny at first, but the fourth wall stuff felt a bit… student film trying really hard. I think I might just hate fourth wall breaking in general and judge it more harshly as a result. Even done well it leaves me kind of cold. Coen Brothers: Did anyone else read the script for To The White Sea? It is bleak.

I had a CycloDS, but it mostly sat in a drawer after the initial excitement and the DS Lite was the last platform I pirated games for. I felt guilty about it, and like osmosisch, it was the convenience of not carrying little chunks of plastic around that I actually liked. I was also kind of shocked at how widespread it was: Totally non-technical, non-games people I knew who owned DSes were casually talking about R4s. Totally with Mington; the collections of discs in cases that I want to hold onto dwindles every year. I have a couple of dozen CDs, DVDs and games now, and even that feels like too many. Collections are mostly just shite to dust, and break your back with when you move house.

Yes! Fantastic film that doesn't seem to have gotten anywhere near the amount of attention it deserved.

Rainwear is useful if you're commuting and need to be presentable at the other end. If you usually ride to the point where you get a bit hot though, you'll boil alive in cheap waterproofs. If I'm just out for exercise and it's raining, as long as it's not freezing cold I wear a single lightweight synthetic layer: Thin clothes hold much less water and synthetic fibres don't absorb it, so they dry fairly fast just by body heat. The psychological discomfort of being rained on is quite deeply conditioned into us. I got over it, but am a bit of a freak when it comes to that sort of thing. I've tried a lot of rainwear for cycling: softshells can be great for long distances in cold weather, but only vented ones, preferably with armpit zips. The most comfortable I've ever been riding in a torrential summer downpour was in a sleeveless base layer, a pair of mountain biking shorts, and a BMX-type skid lid that kept most of the water off my head. All the stuff about rain and cold making you more susceptible to illness is bollocks; we're more susceptible to germs in winter because sharing confined spaces increases our exposure. As long as you aren't risking hypothermia (or complications with other medical conditions) and you can eat something at the end of it, you'll be fine. This article completely changed the way I approached exercise. Understanding that overheating limits endurance and that sweating is a shitty way to cool down (but the best our bodies can do) means certain types of bad weather are good for getting fitter in.

I do the same to keep my heart rate down if I'm trying to lose weight rather than build strength. After a few rides, I develop quite a good conscious sense of my heart rate, but without the watch my estimates tend to drift lower than the actual rate.

I'm pretty much certain that wasn't the case. There was genuinely a wide expectation that Sony were going to announce similar plans. Interesting to see Whathifi and Giantbomb reporting this in quite a lot of detail today, then Microsoft confirming about an hour later with somewhat less detail.

Tonight someone told me about the Reddit Up Goer Five challenge: Launch something, get to the Mun and back, but with the engines initially facing upwards. There are quite a few on youtube, but I think this is my favourite: This is a good one too:

One thing that might be affecting you is new exercise excitement. New runners sometimes sprint instead of jogging, with predictable results. Pace yourself a bit more and your range (and subsequent fitness gains) might go up dramatically. In turn, taking it easy lets you build better all round fitness: If you only work at maximum capacity, that's all you're training your body to do and you're effectively turning aerobic into anaerobic exercise. It's easy to get on a bike and overtrain, especially in a town with hills. I have a heinous 1:4 hill climb at the start of my commute, and if I hammer it up there as fast as I can each time, within a few days my legs are getting strained faster than they can recover.

I Saw Daesin is right, this is totally how that stuff works: The prototype is rough as shite, as long as it shows something to prop up the pitch and get the money. Having one at all can make a pitch impressive compared to others.

Regrettably not real, though the photo is a nice touch and gives it more gravitas than most places reproducing it managed.

If that were a real quote, it would be all over the place.

I don't really see it. The last two CGI faces especially look very feminine to me. I suspect I might see it differently if I spent a lot of time looking at porn star faces* and developed a corresponding bias. * Safe for work in that it's not pornographic, but does talk about porn.

The domain was registered late May by Corporation Service Company, who appear to be based in Delaware and do lots of work with Pepsico. Nonetheless, someone at Microsoft obviously signed this off, possibly long before Doritosgate. I'm guessing the disclaimer we see here was something requested by Microsoft after that.

Break a leg, Pabosher! Most people's unconscious minds aren't particularly accessible to them. Ask someone to define their motive for an action and two things will tend to happen: You'll be told a more socially acceptable and cleaned up version of their actual intent, or they'll come up with a complete post-hoc fabrication of motives because they didn't really know themselves why they were doing whatever they did (Not as cynical or absurd as it sounds: These are things we all do to ourselves). Your suspicions might be true, but that doesn't mean she had conscious intent to behave so shittily. Anyway, that sucks and I'm sorry to hear it Sorry if the above seems unsympathetic, because: The same happened to me, and 18 months later I still get a bit angry if I think about her. I worry about death, but find doing stuff makes things okay again. It seems criminal to let myself age without achieving things. A significant part of my childhood and teens was being conditioned to believe that, as long as I followed the unattainably high rules of a cult's vengeful god, I'd live forever in an earthly paradise. The years of existential angst and mystification between then and now were long and intense. I've ended up an atheist and feeling somewhat okay about death, but only as long as I'm doing and making stuff. Moving on from that past has imparted a very keen sense of how limited my time is, and if I ever stagnate, I feel anxious and depressed. Once during the transition, some buddhists refused to teach me the meditations surrounding these beliefs, so I invented my own based purely around the process of putrefaction. I only did them once, and it was somewhat upsetting to imagine my own corpse and its deterioration to mould and dust. The upset was short lived, and I think there was some value to actually reinforcing the concept that I'd one day die, but it probably takes a particular mindset to go into an experience like that and I very much doubt doing it would be good for everyone. I also still have no way to measure how well adjusted, or not, I am in relation to death. I accept that it will happen, but am never comfortable about it and don't want to think about it. I've been in situations where I was much closer to death than usual and thought "This experience is valuable enough that I accept this risk". When I read about others having these feelings, despite doing excellent/exciting things like moving countries to start a game studio, it occurs to me that maybe I just don't think about it as much or as consistently as some do; maybe most of the time my unconscious is whistling past the subject and will have a massive crisis one day.

I'd accidentally read a massive spoiler about GoT, but:

Great news Merus! I hope your brother recovers quickly.

This is true, and what I ended up doing, but I never found a good ROM for the Legend. Unless you know there's one out there for the phone you're getting, it can be a lottery.

I have had regrets over going with Android in the past, but it's improved a lot in recent years. The times me or friends have looked into Android phones, it's seemed to come down to a Samsung or a HTC. I got a One X last year, it's absolutely fine, and I'm pretty overjoyed at not having to dick around rooting it just to make the damn thing work. If you decide not to root, then things can vary depending on your carrier. Mine seem to send HTC updates out almost immediately, but a friend has the same phone on a different network, and they can take a few months over it because they insist on shoving carrier specific shitware in there with it. IMO, rooting Android phones isn't much fun unless you like having a project instead of a phone. I used to have a HTC Legend, and never found a build that didn't have some catastrophically annoying bug or other.