subbes

How many Thumbs play browser games, like Kingdom of Loathing or Urban Dead? Surely some of you. Here, I'll start. I play Echo Bazaar and a pre-alpha of something Urban Dead flavored. Echo Bazaar is a narrative-oriented single-player steampunk-cum-Gothic browser game set in Fallen London. Somewhere part way through Queen Vic's reign, London fell underground (some say it was dragged by bats, but surely that can't be true), along with its full complement of bohemians, revolutionaries, urchins and writers. Down underground they mingled with devils, Rubbery Men, walking corpses and sailors on the Unterzee. And everyone was getting along, until you came... The game is primarily single-player, though you can enlist friends for assistance with actions. You ge 40 actions a day, counted out by means of a candle that can hold 10 actions (actions recharge one per 6-7 minutes). You can double your number of daily actions by becoming an "Exceptional Friend" using points - you can find these points in-game but they're rare and most people prefer to buy them with PayPal. Accounts are through Twitter or Facebook with oAuth, so you'll need one or the other (you can echo things to your twitter or Facebook account if you choose). Oh, and the makers are British, so all the spelling is correct. If you're playing, I'm Lady Deluxe.

The iThing is my primary gaming platform these days (if you count web based games as well as apps). I suspect that brands me as a casual, but I don't really mind - you can't look at things like Hector (now on other platforms courtesy of TTG) and claim iThing gaming doesn't have quality products.

I'd prefer the accountability option, but removing them altogether does accurately follow the "this is why we can't have nice things" principle.

(Post deleted, and subbes has been restrained in a secure facility. Ed.) OH NOW COME ON WHO PUSHED ME DOWN THIS WELL THERE ARE SPIDERS IN HERE

Wau! 100 pages. My parents just flew off, too - they're in Warwickshire buying a house (they're moving back to the UK because my Dad has early-onset ALZ and needs to be somewhere familiar and with affordable healthcare). Unrelatedly, a London estate agent seems to think I'm looking for flats in the half-a-million-pound price range.

(Post deleted, and subbes' crisps have been taken away. Ed.)

I suppose some of us get very attached to grammar.

Er... this thread was about the tags, not specifically about you, Tanu. If you'd like, I can start a thread specifically about you?

Animations are using it too: witness Wakfu.

Pime Taradox? Pime Taradox.

Lolcats with trollfaces for heads. > implying cats don't normally have trollfaces > implying we weren't going in this direction anyway > implying ps3 has games (Etc.)

"Sony, I Am Disappoint": A Press Release from Anonymous.

"Sony posted an update to its PlayStation blog Friday stating it was "unaware of the extent of the (network) attack" adding it needs to "conduct further testing of the incredibly complex system" before it can restart its network."

Well, happy birthday to YOU.

THIS HAS NOT HAPPENED YET. WHAT THE HEY? OK THANKS GUYS

Tags serve as a side or back-channel way of meta-discussion (I fully expect to see my name in a tag about this now), usually a snarky channel, and take discussion out of the very thread itself. They're limited to 25 charas so it's not like you can even have much of a discussion in the tags. I suppose, really, I'm conflicted. I'd prefer to see them stick around because of the opportunity for humour in them, but I'd also prefer to see them used in an adult manner (and I don't mean XXX). Ideally we'd not have to devolve into sniping in the tags because threads wouldn't need to be sniped about. Perhaps if you have a problem with a posters behaviour, instead of sniping in the tags, you could send them a PM* to discuss it? Full disclosure: I've applied childish tags to a thread in the past ("aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" was my expression of frustration at the Sony thread). * not a Prime Minister.

Teehee! You said hurrah.

(NVM, real life intervened.)

I like strawberry jam.

Maybe one or both of you should take a break from this thread and come back in a few days after the convo has moved on. At this point it's just going 'round and 'round.

I'm residing overseas and forgot to check whether I could have absentee voted (I somehow doubt it). Go ahead and blame me if we lose by one vote.

Cream cheesed.

I think it's worth trying, in order to be sure whether or not you like a game.

I want THIS to be an Emotion Engine.

Ignored.