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I promise not to become someone who links everything they ever do anywhere, as if the mere fact of their involvement is reason enough for you to care. But I happen to have posted two things that fit within James’ remit on the PC Gamer blog recently. Jim mentioned today that he’d tried to look it up online with no luck, to which my mental reaction was “Dear God, he’s right! The world needs to know about Thedret the Exaggerator!” As far as I know, the steps described in this article should let anyone create their own Exaggerator, but I’ve never tried to repeat the phenomenon. It would seem to undermine it, somehow. | ||
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Calaros: Damn Redguard. Always up to something. I see what you're up to Thedret! I SEE YOU!!
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Over at the PC Gamer blog today, the full story of my doomed attempt to play the one game I know for sure I’ll hate: Football Manager. It doesn’t go well. | ||
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Fever: Ha, I've actually been to Ruzomberok few times. It's not far from where I live.
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 “Oldman kidnaps the most closely guarded man on the planet in order to negotiate the release of a dictator who’s being held by … Russia. That’s right, he’s threatening to kill the President of the United States to scare a country that just spent the better part of a century glaring across the Bering Strait and muttering ‘motherfucker’ under its breath.” | ||
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Thomas Lawrence: Ah, so you are lined up to review it for PCG? Good good. Will it be in the July ish?
I've played a couple of games of it now, my first experience with GalCiv II having bought the megapack on a whim (another sale secured almost entirely by your AAR blog with the Spectres of Agony, no doubt). In any case, I like it. The fancy new race specific tech trees are mostly well done (although there are a few annoying flaws at the moment connected to some races missing starbase upgrades). It strikes an interesting middle ground with them - they aren't utterly distinct (a good 60-70% tree is still more or less identical for each race), but it isn't just a few token techs for each race either, and in some cases it does require an interestingly different approach. Particularly with the Thalan, although their tree is one of the ones most hampered by lacking starbase upgrades they ought to have. | ||||
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I’ve wanted a service like this for years: I tell it my favourite bands, it lets me know when they have a new album. I have far too many favourites, far too many of whom rarely release anything, to keep track of them manually, and too few people share my particular cross-section of interests to be comprehensive sources of information. I sometimes find out the third best band in the universe had a new album two years ago and no-one told me. Worse, I sometimes don’t. Finally, there’s something a bit like that. I’d thought it would make a good Amazon feature – anything comes out by anyone I’ve rated highly or bought something by, mail me and you’ll probably get yourselves a sale. But it’s a Last.fm mashup that’s finally answered the call. This is great for me, Tom Francis, but possibly awkward for you, non-Last.fm user, because you can’t quickly make a Last.fm account and add a load of bands to it. The site insists that you use its Scrobbler in the background while you listen to your music normally, so it can spy on what you really listen to rather than taking your word for who your favourite bands are. It’s called Soundamus, and it just generates an RSS feed of all new releases by all the artists you’ve listened to according to your Last.fm account. It’s actually slightly awkward for me too, because however much I love Buck Rogers, I don’t really care that Feeder have a new album. But on the other hand, this system is far more comprehensive than any that relied on me to remember who I like. The reason this is a problem that needs fixing in the first place is that I’m incapable of remembering that more than the last fifty bands I listened to even exist. Here’s my Feeder-heavy feed, if you’re curious. | ||
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Lukasa: Barenaked Ladies = Win. That is all.
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More Team Fortress 2
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WeakLemonDrink: Man, there's quite a shit storm brewing on the Steam forums. Among the usual assortment of whining little bitches spouting classic hyperbole such as "TF2 is now ruined, it is worse than a MMORPG" etc, it seems some people who've never even heard of the cheat command have had their achievements reset. They could be telling porkies, but there are just too many of them for that.
I guess something had to be done to knock back the cheaters, but this seems like a big shame. I know if I'd had my measly 12 achievements reset overnight I'd be spitting actual blood. | ||||
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The British Office of Government Commerce have finally discovered what webcomic author Ryan North has long known: if you put the letters OGC on their side, it looks a bit like a seated man clutching his own erect penis. Unfortunately it cost them £14,000 to commission the logo which edified the resemblance, and remarkably they’re not scrapping it. The Telegraph story on the matter doesn’t name the spokesperson defending it, but he’s my new favourite nameless spokesperson: “On consideration we concluded that the effect was generic to the particular combination of the letters OGC – and it is not inappropriate to an organisation that’s looking to have a firm grip on Government spend.” Or, a penis. | ||
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rfry11: ...Wow. I've never noticed that. Can anyone else see the whole OGC being developed on some Counter-Strike server?
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I forgot to tell the entire world about this when I discovered it a while ago. If you put a frog in tepid water and then, very slowly, heat it up – the frog gets the fuck out. If he could talk, he’d be like, “What the fuck, asshole? I was hanging out there! Why the fuck have you got to be such a goddamn dick all the time? Jesus.” Then he’d hop off to hang out with someone who wasn’t an asshole. Dear people trying to make a point about things changing slowly: I don’t doubt the humans you’re talking to are morons. I don’t doubt you could boil them. But don’t bring frogs into it, you need a lid to cook those motherfuckers. PS: It is true that Cane Toads ate Australia. They’re sorry about that, but it’s kind of our fault for flying them out there and Australia’s fault for being so delicious. | ||
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GaGrin: That doesn't seem fair, Jesus isn't an dick all the time.
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“If you get this job, and it goes well, they might actually carve your head into a mountain. If you don’t think you’re better than us, what the fuck are you doing?” (7m20s in) | ||
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Jazmeister: You could even appear as a statue in Fallout 3.
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