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As a piece of music management software, itunes is pretty crap (maybe it is better on OSX, but I'm on windows), but I was pretty impressed with it when recently I had to replace my iphone. Plugging the new phone in and synching to restore everything I had on my old phone "just worked." I've never had an android phone so maybe this is par for the course and I'm just easily impressed.

This is an interesting question because I think with cultural stuff in general, things that are *handwavy* "artistically significant" are often significant in the the context of/as a reaction to what has gone before and some of the "point" is lost if one is unfamiliar with the kind of thing being reacted against. And with books and music (though less so, I think, with films if you go back to Lumiere brothers or even Eisenstein era kind of stuff) a really old work can be approachable or appealing on its own merits so the barrier for entry to gaining that familiarity is lower. But I feel it's a much harder ask for someone to go check out, say, Wasteland (where you had to refer to a separate booklet for text description passages) or older interactive fiction (where limited text parsers are almost bound to generate frustration).

I'm not too far into the game, but I did. . When you get to pick among the 4 watches/clocks, do you end up doing all the scenes eventually or do you actually miss out on seeing/playing stuff depending on what you pick?

wasn't really interested in multiplayer-only, but single player appears to be a possibility (or maybe in a sequel) now: http://www.rockpaper...-single-player/

congrats, shammack!

I find Ascension for ios played offline against the ai pretty relaxing.

for what it's worth, my preference is for The Black Book, My Name is Red, and The White Castle in that order. I've also read The New Life (or something, don't remember exactly what it's called, but I found it pretty forgettable and preferred Snow). The Black Book is one of my favourite novels.

Prince of Qin (this Chinese developed Diablo clone) is hilarious. It's combination of voice acting, translation, and writing makes it hard to pin the blame on just one of them, but, yeah, it's like they used google translate and then had one guy do different voices for all the parts (including the female ones). Enjoy: [media=] [/media]

Have you read other Pamuk? I preferred The White Castle (which incidentally might be an interesting counterpoint to A Sense of an Ending), My Name is Red and The Black Book over Snow.

So I finally got round to seeing Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and while it's a better technically crafted viewing experience, I think I preferred the Alec Guinness mini series thing from way back for what it had the luxury of including due to the longer running length and to Alec Guinness' performance which IMO, while taking nothing away from Oldman's performance, felt closer to what I imagined from the book (Oldman gives the impression of a deeply buried rage/vindictivess under the surface where Guinness I felt gives off this more depressed/jaded/resigned vibe). Also there were times I felt the music was unnecessarily heavyhanded/overmelodramatic. Still it's much more beautifully shot/better production values than the miniseries so it has that going for it.

I am mostly a non-shmup/bullet hell type person, but rRootage is appealing to me in some way that others in the genre generally aren't and it is free and you should totally check it out if you haven't already.

It depends on a lot of things, but if I put down money for a game (as opposed to some freebie indie/web thing), I try to give a title at least a half hour (above and beyond character generation and/or tutorial level if those are applicable). I've also given up much later into a game (due to an insurmountable difficulty spike, for instance), but a half hour is kind of a minimum (barring straight up bugginess/technical problems).

Yes that was what I meant. As in "the interview is rad" rather than "rad! there is an interview." I lol'd at the bit where you went off about Stacking and I was thinking to myself even before he said it "I bet Gilbert hasn't played Stacking" (that's not a criticism of your interview style or anything btw, I just found it amusing)

listening now. rad.

Oh incidentally, the guys that do sublime text owe you a beer or something. I got my manager to foot the reg fee when the trial ran out. I figure I'll just duck into eclipse when I actually need to do a diff, because sublime seems better in pretty much every other circumstance.

No install needed; there's a portable version. Just unzip and run.

As recently as support for IE6 (which depending on who you ask may be a decade ago, but probably isn't), spacer gifs were useful for the ie6 png hack. Spacer gifs for layout may not have been a thing for a decade though.

I played around with it a bit and sublime does do a diff, it's just this inline flat diff instead of the nice one-file-on-each-side-of-the-page semi-synched scrolling thing that eclipse does.

I have 1 steam copy of Torchlight 1 to give away. Give a shout if you want it. found a taker

Oh hey that's pretty great, the one thing it doesn't have that prevents me from switching out of eclipse is the diff doesn't do the side-by-side scrolling eclipse's 'compare with each other' thing does. It's certainly a heck of a lot snappier and out of the box without customizing things yourself the color scheme is more legible.

It's one thing if you're doing js or server side stuff, but for just css & html, what do you really want out of an editor (that a plain text editor doesn't provide) aside from syntax highlighting?

actually Dreamweaver can be really handy if you want to use nested tables to manage your layout.

so I don't know if anyone's mentioned it yet, but Kids on the Slope is apparently a thing (a new Shinichiro Watanabe & Yoko Kanno thing)

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See, my thinking was that YA is a marketing label that is shorthand for "this novel will appeal to young adults" (which doesn't preclude it appealing to other audiences as well). The question to my mind isn't who Dickens was writing for how popular he was, but rather if you were marketing Great Expectations or David Copperfield as a brand new novel today, would you be better served by slapping the YA label on it or not? I'm not really sure. Certainly Charles Palliser's Quincunx (wikipedia, so spoilers, though highly recommended if you're a Dickens fan) has a lot of Dickensian bildungsroman about it, but it wasn't marketed as YA.