Comment Yup (Score 1) 18
Still here.
Watching.
Waiting.
Growing stronger...
PS - still think ur really a d00d
Journal Journal: Who's on twitter? 5
Ok, so I haven't been posting much here because recent developments in my personal life don't leave me with a lot of time. So: I've been using twitter more lately. particularly because I can post from my BlackBerry. If you're using it too, feel free to follow me.
Journal Journal: Finally bought some virtual console games [crosspost] 3
Bought Donkey Kong, Super Mario Bros. 3 and Legend of Zelda.
Also, THIS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69_l1oZ2b2M/
I have 500 Wii Points left, what should I spend it on? (Note: no gamepad controller)
Boss By Day, Gamer By Night 51
Ant writes "Computerworld queried seven executives at some of today's top tech firms to learn how they started gaming, what they play now, and how their virtual skills translate to the real world of the office. Alan Cohen, vice president of enterprise solutions at Cisco Systems, had this to say: 'Now, increasingly, games are Internet 2.0 encounters. They're all about how well you work together with others any time, any place, with players from around the world. Rock Band 2, World of Warcraft, even Guitar Hero promote the shared experience and are all about how together we can do more, be more, compete better than we can by going it alone. That's right in line with how the corporate environment is evolving: You can play (or work) anytime you want, and you have to compete and collaborate on a global basis in order to succeed.'"
Rails and Merb Ruby Web Frameworks Merge 80
An anonymous reader writes "The Merb and Rails Core Teams today announced a major merger; the two projects will become one, and be released some time in Q2 of 2009 as Rails 3. This is great news for lots of folks who worried about the potential community fracture, as well as great news for all the developers who will now have an all-around better option for programming Ruby. Read more about the details in Yehuda's blog post, or at the Ruby on Rails blog."
Survival-Horror Genre Going Extinct? 166
Destructoid is running an opinion piece looking at the state of the survival-horror genre in games, suggesting that the way it has developed over the past several years has been detrimental to its own future. "During the nineties, horror games were all the rage, with Resident Evil and Silent Hill using the negative aspects of other games to an advantage. While fixed camera angles, dodgy controls and clunky combat were seen as problematic in most games, the traditional survival horror took them as a positive boon. A seemingly less demanding public ate up these games with a big spoon, overlooking glaring faults in favor of videogames that could be genuinely terrifying." The Guardian's Games Blog has posted a response downplaying the decline of the genre, looking forward to Ubisoft's upcoming I Am Alive and wondering if independent game developers will pick up where major publishers have left off.
Multi Theft Auto - San Andreas Goes Open Source 127
dan writes " Multi Theft Auto is a third-party modification for Rockstar's hit title Grand Theft Auto San Andreas — and it has become open-source after over four years of closed source development. As a (somewhat) regular player of MTA since the early days of GTAIII, this hit me by surprise, somewhat." (The news is on the project's front page, from which dan extracts more details, below.)
Journal Journal: Dialectic (for real) 1
A short while ago, I posted a journal entry titled "Dialectic." Thanks to Nate Silver and a crude individual named John Ziegler, we have a real life example of such a conversation as the one I parodied.
Stay classy, losers!
(Useful) Stupid BlackBerry Tricks? 238
Comment Re:Clinton numbers (Score 1) 7
Better than Clinton numbers - he got >50% of the vote.
Journal Journal: Guess Who's Barack? 7
WHY CAN'T HE SEAL THE DEAL?!! oh...oops, never mind.
It's going to be fun watching Pudgy do a 180 and start feverishly explaining why the President has no real power "according to the Constitution," ignoring / deleting his journal entries from the past 8 years, etc.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to the mandatory daily "2 Minutes Hope" sessions. Should be fun!
Journal Journal: Guess Who's Back 12
Guess who's back?
Guess who's back?
Guess who's back, guess who's back, guess who's back, guess who's back, guess who's baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack?!!!!!!!!one
Bookmark SPAM: Boing Boing Cool Blog
Bookmark Lovecraftian horror (yog-sothoth.com)
Journal Journal: On Irony 6
Remember when Katrina happened? There was this one Slashtard (DesCorp?) who was writing these really dark JEs where he wrote (verbatim) "they should just open up the floodgates and wash the entire city [of New Orleans] into the Gulf and not bother rebuilding it." And of course he was blaming the victims for "choosing" to live in such a disaster prone area.
