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so I'm not going to be the one to leak it to non backers because they explicitly asked us not to, but holy smokes. that latest bit of news. as a fan of that guy who does the other thing etc.

yep, but cheap enough I don't particularly mind. (there was a quicklook on giant bomb that looked pretty playable despite its early access status)

So there's a Steam Halloween sale, apparently. I picked up Mercenary Kings, Spelunky, and Monster Loves You for about $23 total.

oh man it's so obvious now that "dunking on Obama" is cipher for Islam. (Hi NSA!)

I ran across a pre-schooler who was really excited about his brand new magikarp. Which I proceeded to flatten. Spec Ops: The Line has nothing on this game in the making-the-player-feel-like-a-monster department.

i've been too lazy to sign up for the beta, but am vaguely interested. when is it supposed to launch for reals?

fyi: he says pc and ps4 simultaneous near the end of this interview edit: this auto video embed thing doesn't like gametrailers links? this interview

oh btw, Scott blogged recently about representation in the game: http://bombsfall.tumblr.com/post/65054248951/night-in-the-woods-and-representation

I backed it, but that is partially because I am internet pals with Scott Benson. His animations are pretty cool.

Never played the beta but downloaded on steam. I am super early in (haven't even completed first quest from first village), but I really like the way healing pots work. Aesthetically, I am a weirdo and prefer the cartooniness of torchlight 2, but this seems better in most other regards. And it's astounding that it's free. If they are making enough to keep afloat on just cosmetic/character slots/stash size, that's amazing.

I don't do "proper" programming, but I do web dev. In my experience, the biggest motivator to figuring out how to use a new language (or api/library etc.) is needing to use it for a particular project. There tend to be a ton of nitty gritty implementation foibles that the baseline tutorials won't talk you through and until you're actually working with something and need it to do a specific thing, you're not even going to know the right question to post to stack overflow.

The Bogost piece is also, um, aspirational is not quite the right word, but close to it. He does it obliquely, but there is a way in which the piece isn't addressing GH or its developers, but rather other narrative game developers who have been praising GH. He's saying "GH is good. It's arguably even better than any other narrative game that has existed thus far, but don't see it as a kind of goal to aim toward; now that you've seen an example of how this has been done, it should instead be the point from which you start."

Okay, it's maybe a bit niche, but if you like a) stories with gimmicky typography (think House of Leaves) room escape game style puzzles Simogo's new Device 6 is bloody amazing http://simogo.com/games/device6/ https://itunes.apple.com/app/device-6/id680366065

I was just guessing because the rss feed link on this page uses that format: https://www.idlethumbs.net/idlethumbs/ http://feeds.idlethumbs.net/idle-thumbs

EXCITING edit: Cl??? H?????? = Cliff Huxtable AMIRITE? edit2: also, RSS link is nonexistent or busted. tried http://feeds.idlethumbs.net/tonecontrol http://feeds.idlethumbs.net/tone-control neither of which work.

FOYLE'S WAR IS THE BEST I honestly have no idea if I've recommended it in this thread before, but I'm just catching up on the latest series now. (It's a World War 2 period mystery series) SO GOOD.

lol @ Chris dropping Ursula Leguin knowledge in that audible plug.

So the demo for the remake is out and is pretty great (doesn't duplicate content from the game, so no spoiler worries): http://store.steampowered.com/app/221910/?snr=1_7_7_151_150_1 also he did some customized versions of the demo for various games press people which is a pretty clever marketing move: (the customized bit comes at around 7 minutes in)

In the weird experimental lit category: Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercises_in_Style is pretty rad. It may help to have some familiarity with the Oulipo though, in that some of the styles are types of constraints: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo#Constraints gives some of them, but the (GREAT) Oulipo Compendium has a more comprehensive listing.

FYI it's on sale on steam right now for any cheapskates like me who were waiting for a sale.

My musical wanderings have recently taken me to Ruth Etting playlist:

I think you misspelled "stylish". I tried late last night pacific time (ps3) and got stuck waiting for other players for the tutorial race thingy. I think I'll wait until they update saying they think it's fine before trying again.

I'm a ruin this for you (in spoiler tags):

I think Lowdown FM (DJed by Pam Grier!), West Coast Classics, and WorldWide FM are all decent. But yeah, there's no jazz or classical.

Aircraft in general. I saw one heist where one of the options was "you can do x in a helicopter" and instantly thought "guess I'm doing the other thing"