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September 3, 2010

02:07
MrSkimpole: bowing in respect: http://makikoitoh.com/journal/satoshi-kons-last-words
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01:27
MrSkimpole: RT @icefirecz: First news about #gameofthrones from Czech Republic. Steven Erikson will play tiny role in GoT!
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September 2, 2010

22:22
MrSkimpole: @Squirrelpunkd Damn ;)
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21:30
MrSkimpole: @Squirrelpunkd This is for you: http://j.mp/dfKG83 Nice list of wonderful books I'm sure you haven't had the luck to read.
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19:51
MrSkimpole: @greygirlbeast But after reading online a bunch of comments and other reviews I'm more at peace with it :) I'm glad to have read the book.
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19:50
MrSkimpole: @greygirlbeast Some aspects that more than belonging to contrasting explanations I just couldn't place anywhere.
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19:48
MrSkimpole: @greygirlbeast I actually figured out certain things while writing my impressions. My problem was more about retracing certain aspects.
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16:41
After the previous weekend’s failure at Weathertop, we decided it was time to work on getting a few levels before attempting to move on with the epic quest line again.  With four of us looking at a 6 person event, we need to get well ahead of it in levels before we go back. The [...]
Categories: Bloggers
15:50
Fro those that are dipping their toes into the SC2 multiplayer ladders, I highly recommend taking a look here. What we’ve got there is a huge amount of SC2 replays with analysis from a gent named Day9. He really seems to know his stuff and I’ve learned a tonne just watching these things. Funny enough, [...]
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08:01
So Square Enix found and fixed the bug in the Final Fantasy XIV beta and decided to start the open beta today. Which would be good news if you could actually get into the open beta, which you can't:...
Source: Tobold
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07:53
Direct2Drive is celebrating its 6th anniversary with 4 weeks of sales. Every week different games are on offer for $6 each. Now the general idea of such a sale is that you don't know what games will...
Source: Tobold
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06:47
MrSkimpole: @greygirlbeast Still troubled, but I tried to write down a review about The Red Tree. Still struggling to interpret it. http://j.mp/aRChTH
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06:43
MrSkimpole: The Red Tree - Caitlín R. Kiernan - my review http://www.cesspit.net/drupal/node/1995 quite amazing
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05:22
MrSkimpole: I think I've managed to write this "The Red Tree" review.
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03:08
MrSkimpole: So, I finished The Red Tree. Writing a review will be hard and dissatisfying.
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September 1, 2010

22:23
I took on my raid – er, ultramarathon – and completed it in a little over 23 hours. The weather was perfect, the scenery was stunning and the experience was unforgettable but it was tough and apparently about 1 in 4 runners wiped. Many thanks to those who offered well wishes and thoughts after my [...]

Achievement unlocked is a post from: Kill Ten Rats

Categories: Bloggers
20:53
MrSkimpole: @greygirlbeast What about "rural fantasy"? (finishing The Red Tree in the next few hours)
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20:52
MrSkimpole: Read yesterday 70 pages of The Red Tree. I should have time today to read the next 60, meaning that I'll finish the book.
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20:48
MrSkimpole: Egawa is genius.
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20:44
MrSkimpole: RT @ClarissaG: A new Golden Boy manga? Not a bad thing, but I wonder what prompted it. Some interesting revivals lately. http://is.gd/ePweK
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19:02
Is it just me, or do the unique class mechanics stand out more in Warhammer Online than in most other games? The more I reflect on it, the more I see it in other games, but it just seems more prominent in WAR. By “unique class mechanic,” I mean the special feature that guides many [...]

Unique Mechanic is a post from: Kill Ten Rats

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16:50
September 10th. That is the day that Lord of the Rings Online follows Dungeons & Dragons Online into the land of Free to Play. Or endless beginner trial. Or no-money down access. Or however you want to frame the business model that Turbine is adopting. But the change is coming.  The floodgates will be open. [...]
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15:19
Facebook ads are to this coming decade what 3am TV ads used to be 20 years ago; low budget and often humorous. I keep seeing ads on Facebook that make me chuckle or scratch my head, like this one. How is this different than regular paper? The Facebook ad system allows you to pick your [...]
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08:55
The Final Fantasy XIV open beta, which should have started today, has been postponed because, oh my god, the devs found a bug!!! Obviously you can't release a beta with a bug in it, so the open beta...
Source: Tobold
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08:04
I've been trying out the Mafia II demo, and I'm considering buying the game. In the last decade or so a strange inversion happened: It used to be that shooter games were just about, well, shooting,...
Source: Tobold
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07:19
I am currently playing mostly A Tale in the Desert, and occasionally a bit of World of Warcraft. I'll be playing Final Fantasy XIV next, and then Cataclysm. How about you? What are you currently...
Source: Tobold
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05:14
I have not given up on blogging, despite all appearances to the contrary. It’s just that, well, I’ve been busy. Lots of great stuff going on at work. As you may have heard, we announced our first product and have been talking about it at various shows. I know many of you are anxious for [...]
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03:38
MrSkimpole: Nadal vs Gabashvili is being EPIC. #usopen
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01:22
Make things visible on the execution side of an action so that people know what is possible and how actions should be done; make things visible on the evaluation side so that people can tell the effects of their actions. — The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman Decoration and interaction appear in non-user-friendly [...]

Display the Options is a post from: Kill Ten Rats

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August 31, 2010

23:21
MrSkimpole: RT @gwhitta: Amazing Yoda cake http://www.instructables.com/id/Yoda-Head-Cake/
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16:09
The Site This month saw another big spike in traffic due to something pretty much unrelated to the site. Cracked.com linked to a rant I wrote quite a while back about the mis-use of the term “microtransactions.”  They did a humor piece about FarmVille, and somehow my post seemed relevant. Also driving traffic this month [...]
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13:38
I found this interesting, if not a bit cynical (full story needs registration…): Q: How has the rising cost of making triple-A games changed production at Ubisoft? Alain Corre: The games that are not triple-A are not profitable anymore. And that’s changed in the last 18 months. When you have a triple-A blockbuster it costs [...]
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09:30
Wolfshead is again posting a long rant on how everything was better in the past, or more specifically how the original Everquest was the best game ever, and all newer games are just shallow pieces of...
Source: Tobold
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08:16
Gordon from We Fly Spitfires is wondering how it comes that some people are discovering EQ2 only now, that it went Free2Play, when in fact the game is older than WoW (by two weeks). He thinks that...
Source: Tobold
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07:16
MrSkimpole: Federer #usopen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8h5zueXTWs
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06:01
MrSkimpole: @Squirrelpunkd from yours and other reviews the book seems to lack a certain identity. It just appears too vague. Other epics seem defined.
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05:35
MrSkimpole: @Squirrelpunkd Good review even if I still have no idea of what fills 1000 pages.
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03:44
MrSkimpole: Federer has just executed a spectacular reality-bending god-like trick on #usopen
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01:52
MrSkimpole: Federer match at #usopen may start in half an hour. I hope it's a good one.
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01:51
MrSkimpole: HOTD 9 was rather awful as usual. Less fanservice, less action, but some slight introspection. Plot continues to be utterly insensate.
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August 30, 2010

21:57
MrSkimpole: @Eternally88 ma che gruppo guardi? Quello che seguivo e' ancora indietro (alla 6)
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14:19
I played a bunch of Guild Wars this weekend as I am slowly working on my titles.  17 more Nightfall explorable areas to completely vanquish of mobs, and I will hit “I’m Very Important” from the maxed titles achievement track.  This might come as a surprise to many of you who might think that I [...]

HoM-rizon is a post from: Kill Ten Rats

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09:29
I got married yesterday, but only in virtual life, and not to somebody else: I married my main character and my second character in A Tale in the Desert. ATitD probably has the most extreme...
Source: Tobold
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08:25
The best number on APB players I could find was that All Points Bulletin has 130,000 "registered users". Note that this isn't "subscribers", but basically represents the box sales, each box coming...
Source: Tobold
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August 29, 2010

09:10
MrSkimpole: #malazan Hetan on The Crippled God: "I think Dust of Dreams is a really mouth-watering first half of a great book - the second is epic."
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05:30
Readers were asking me about what was so bad about All Points Bulletin as game that it failed so miserably, and I didn't have an answer. I never played the game, which shouldn't surprise anybody,...
Source: Tobold
Categories: Bloggers
03:02
Commenters elsewhere respond to Ravious’s post on the GW2 Necromancer. Within 24 hours of first Necromancer information, the comments note that Necromancers are overpowered and that Warriors will devastate Necromancers. It is not just that people are commenting on balance for a game they have never played, for which they have no stats, where the [...]

Class Wars is a post from: Kill Ten Rats

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00:50
MrSkimpole: Bakker: "Reading consists of stamping clarity onto ambiguity, and what that clarity will be depends heavily on one’s assumptions going in."
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August 28, 2010

22:59
MrSkimpole: @Eternally88 Vorra' dire che sei il punto di riferimento di molta gente. Congratulazioni ;)
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22:20
MrSkimpole: @ALRutter I'm writing some replies of Sykes blog, this argument of "inferior fantasy" has to be dealt with once for all.
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