Dear Santa, thank you for the dolls and pencils and the fish. It's Easter now, so I hope I didn't wake you but... honest, it is an emergency. There's a crack in my wall. Aunt Sharon says it's just an ordinary crack, but I know its not cause at night there's voices so... please please can you send someone to fix it? Or a policeman, or...
Back in a moment.
Thank you Santa.
Tuesday, May 22
That's Cheating!
In
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, there are a number of scenes of characters facing their own doppelgangers - Willow and her alternate-universe vampire self, for example - but the one that really stood out on technical grounds was the two Xanders when his personality got split in two. While the two versions are kept apart for most of the episode, by the end they are interacting directly and seamlessly, simultaneously with each other and with the rest of the cast.
Which would be an even more remarkable achievement if actor Nicholas Brendon didn't have an identical twin.
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Posted by: d.k. allen at Wednesday, May 23 2012 01:56 AM (2lHZP)
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It's still possible to find archives of
The Erotic Adventures of Buffy and Evil Vampire Willow online...
-j
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Saturday, May 19
Cheerful Afternoon
Stretch goals:
- [UNLOCKED] $350k - Dual wielding pistols.
- [UNLOCKED] $360k - 25 extra pieces of unique item art.
- [UNLOCKED] $375k - Additional end-game boss monster.
- [UNLOCKED] $385k - 25 more pieces of unique item art.
- [UNLOCKED] $400k - A new environment set.
- [UNLOCKED] $412k - 2 additional monster types.
- [UNLOCKED] $425k - Three large, high-level dungeons.
- [UNLOCKED] $450k - Savage two-handed melee weapons.
- [UNLOCKED] $465k - Additional end-game boss.
- [UNLOCKED] $480k - New survivor town.
- [UNLOCKED] $480.5k - New and higher-quality developer beer!
- [UNLOCKED] $490k - 2 additional monster types.
- [UNLOCKED] $500k - A new dungeon art-set.
- [UNLOCKED] $520k - SURVIVAL MODE!
- [UNLOCKED] $535k - A new faction and story-line!
All the stretch goals beyond $480k were added and achieved in the last 24 hours.
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Now all he has to do is write all of that and get it working.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Sunday, May 20 2012 09:39 AM (+rSRq)
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They have a headstart in that the game already works; this is all about expanding the game world.
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And Now, An Overworked Minx Pulling Four Shifts As Substitute Site Mascot
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Posted by: tommy at Saturday, May 19 2012 12:34 PM (Iu7CY)
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I'm... not entirely sure what's going on in the headphones picture.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Sunday, May 20 2012 11:43 PM (6CHh4)
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She's all worn out and half asleep.
Also, since she has mink ears she can't wear people headphones.
(Or glasses, which is why those are all askew.)
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Friday, May 18
Schadenfreuded
So, Diablo III is out, and people bought it despite the fact that the always-online-DRM-crap obviously wouldn't work, and it
doesn't work.
Ha ha!
Me, I'm waiting for Torchlight II, which isn't out yet, but won't be completely crapped up either. And runs one third the price.
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Toooorchliiiiight Twooooo!
In all seriousness: As soon as it was announced that you can't pause, can't save when you want, and have to be attached to Blizzard's servers to play at all? They lost my sixty bucks, right then and there.
Posted by: GreyDuck at Friday, May 18 2012 11:33 PM (Buiw/)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Friday, May 18 2012 11:56 PM (+rSRq)
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Yeah, Blizzard lost my money with "no offline play," too, although had they been honest about their reasons and admitted it was to monetize the game, instead of claiming it was to help out people who were confused that offline-created characters couldn't be converted to online ones, I might have been more forgiving.
My decision has worked out well for me, too, because recently Time Warner "upgraded" my cable modem to one that randomly drops my internet connectivity for 2-5 minutes several times a day.
Posted by: Rick C at Saturday, May 19 2012 01:25 AM (vzfrq)
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What really cheeses me off is that EA are planning to pull the same stupid stunt with the new SimCity. I hope their offices catch fire and the fire engines can't reach them because the city planners forgot to join the roads up.
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"[...]forgot to join the roads up."
Par'n me a minute, have to drain some soda out of my keyboard...
Posted by: Mikeski at Saturday, May 19 2012 03:03 PM (1bPWv)
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Well, I got my copy of D3 because I told Blizzard I was going to play WoW for the next year at least (which I'd planned anyway).
I don't know if I'd have paid $60 for it, but getting it as a premium for doing something I'm doing anyway is okay...and that leaves me money for T2 when it comes out.
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"because the city planners forgot to join the roads up."
I LLOLed.
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Wednesday, May 16
Dear Fuckheads
Yes, you, who thought it would be a great idea to ruin people's websites with your horrible spam when it gave you a tiny boost on Google, and, now that your misdeeds have caught up with you, are issuing entirely baseless DMCA complaints -
I will cheerfully remove the offending links. Not only that, but I will also ban all the IPs involved, all IPs registered to your company, all URLs and trademarks and product names, and anything else even remotely associated with you or your business, from ever appearing on any site I run.
And may your businesses, whose names you value so highly, founder, fail, and rot in bankruptcy hell.
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Spammers are issuing DMCA complaints? On what basis, exactly?
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at Wednesday, May 16 2012 04:02 AM (GJQTS)
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I take it, the rights holders file complaints for spammers who advertise for them.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Wednesday, May 16 2012 06:37 AM (5OBKC)
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I'm confused, too. How can there be a DMCA complaint? (The idea of them sending a takedown notice would utterly idiotic.)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Wednesday, May 16 2012 07:06 AM (+rSRq)
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These DMCA complaints have no legal basis. That doesn't stop the fuckheads in question from filing them, and it doesn't stop the complaints from being a headache for me.
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Ok you made your point, I'm not gonna push a link in this comment
But I don't think all this work is gonna help you in any way with your spam problems. The most spammers are from India and they don't give a F about DMCA or any other things you are gonna do.
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You misunderstand: The spammers are threatening
me with DMCA complaints if I don't remove their spam.
Yes, that's completely insane.
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Monday, May 14
Also Also Wik
Before I forget, there's also this:
Yes, it's an updated X-COM clone. Of course,
updated X-COM clones already exist, but they've failed to recapture the magic, and there's a
real X-COM coming soon, but it's been simplified from the original, so there's still room for another attempt.
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Sunday, May 13
Purely Coincidental, I Tells Ya. Purely Coincidental.
Although the game may vaguely resemble a familiar family entertainment...
Okay, although the game may closely resemble a familiar family entertainment, it's not like it at all. It works rather in reverse, starting with a bustling happy city and proceeding toward the titular doom, the winner being the player bringing about their particular form of doom first.
And the special editions ($75 and up) come complete with pewter figures of the Elder Gods, which is not something you want to miss.
If you know what's good for you.
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Friday, May 11
Creatively Clouded
So Adobe's
new software rental model is finally out, and a lot cheaper than the previous version. And I noticed that they're offering a significant discount if you sign up for a full year and already have a license for any of their professional products version CS3 or later. Given the number of applications and bundles I've bought over the years, surely I'd have something that will do the trick.
So, let's see (shuffle, shuffle...) Macromedia Suite Version 8? Probably not. Aha, Fireworks CS3 license key. Type type type... Achievement unlocked: 40% discount! Achievement unlocked: Adobe Everything!
I will of course be too busy to ever do anything with any of it, but that's not the point. The point is, mine!
Update: There we go, I now have working installs of CS3, 4, and 5 Design Premium, and CS6 Master Collection. Skipped over CS5.5; it didn't really seem worth the effort.
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Thursday, May 10
Things That Are Sort Of True #1
The last veteran of the Crimean War only died in
2004.
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Did s/he come from a river in the Crimea?
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She was ship's mascot of HMS Queen during the first bombardment of Sevastopol in the Crimean War (she was the last survivor of this war)
Not bad for a turtle with gender issues.
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So it didn't come from the Crimea river?
Posted by: Wonderduck at Saturday, May 12 2012 01:44 PM (6CHh4)
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Doh!
Bad duck. Bad, bad duck!
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I've waited for
years to use that one...
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Wednesday, May 09
Minx: Tales From An Adorable Universe
Fiametta, music lover and podcast addict from mee.fm:
more...
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Heh... if she does a duck minx, I'll be greatly amused.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Thursday, May 10 2012 12:14 PM (6CHh4)
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mee.dk was already taken.
(Years before I started work on mee.nu, in fact.)
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