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Love that guy! Anyone who tweets about how his fans don't deserve a Fez sequel is the type of maverick I can get on board with!
Back to business: Civ 5 Beyond Earth is what I'm currently waiting for. Antici. Pation.
Favorite PC games: FTL, Civ 5 Gods and Kings, Fez, Brothers, Rome II:Total War, alpha of Jon Shafer's At The Gates, beta of Endless Legend. Braid is also amazing but haven't had a chance to go deep yet.
(About console gaming: It's weird I don't hardly ever power my Xbox up since I got a full-on gaming PC as my living room computer, but used to be very into FIFA soccer, Civ Revolution and Tropico. If I don't end up skipping this gen of consoles altogether I will probably go PS4. But once you have a Steam-enabled PC the game consoles just seem like money pits.)
For mobile I love Uniwar, Summoner Wars, World of Goo, and Andor's Trail (free old-school RPG available on Android Play).
Honorable mentions: Scribblenauts for PC, Super Meat Boy and the OUYA console for letting you try every game available on the system for free.
I feel that. You can't bring anything into this world without a bunch of randoms bashing it.
This deserves its own thread! A buddy and me are about to re-build our HTPCs and I think Mikey was going to join us... maybe I can host a build party if others want to sponge of our (mostly his) knowledge. For a few hunnie (about the same as a current gen console) you can have a high-end HTPC that will support modern gaming, and Steam will sell you $60 games for $10-15 if you wait for sales.
My current box is a AMD proc + mobo that includes on-board graphics acceleration running Win7 but was mid-line when built and is def showing its age now. I have a big platter drive for media/games and a flash drive for OS, TV card for picking up OTA signals and a Windows Media Remote which Microsoft is doing its best to make slowly useless so I recommend a nice Harmony remote if you can swing it. I also run a w/x logitech k400 keyboard and a w/x logitech gamepad, wonderful products esp the gamepad.
Future build will be Intel-based (i5 or i7 if cheap enuf) with a dedicated graphics card. And quieter fans. I have a nice Silverstone case that fits in with the A/V equipment, if you are going to splurge on anything make it a nice case and extra RAM.
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I hate to burst your bubble, but Steve Jobs was an overblown hack. He was nothing more than a salesman." blah blah blah, it goes on.
When I see stuff like this, I have a twinge of Ayn Rand run through me, because it's just so annoying to see some anonymous nobody talk trash about someone who worked incredibly hard and brought a lot of innovations into our lives.
"Nothing more than a salesman" is way too far to one side of the spectrum for me, but if you look at the dude's patents he was not an engineer or (much of) a designer. More of an iterator in an industry using the USPO to build a moat around its profit margins.
His management skills are a mixed bag according to his own hand-picked biographer.
So where does that leave us? Either pure salesman or some sort of "technology integrator slash product visionary". I lean toward the latter, but if you do some reading about his roles at Pixar and NeXT there's an argument to be made for salesman. I prefer to call him an entrepreneur. Or what do the startup kids call themselves nowadays? "Makers?" Like they are in a Orson Scott Card fantasy novel, or a clan of friendly wizards from Harry Potter.
I admire the shit outta Jobs, but I don't put him in the same category as Einstein, or even Elon Musk.
Edit: To put in perspective can you IMAGINE what Steve Jobs' rep would be like if he reinvented the electronic payment and auto industries and THEN single-handedly kept the US in manned space flight? He would be bigger than Jesus, The Beatles AND Oasis put together.
If you build synths you will probably be teaching us by the end of the afternoon. None of us are hardware types -- I'm honestly nervous when I try to seat a CPU.
PS4 is nice for all the indie games. PS+ gives you a free game once a month. That's how I got into FEZ. I like playing games with people in a living room on a big TV otherwise I would think about getting in on your build party. Also, there is a level of gamer that I don't think I am ready to cross into and I think it is computer gaming. I definitely am sorta a self-hating gamer.
@Marc_Zuckerburg what about Jobs v Musk? Still dinner with Jobs? (You have to pretend for the purposes of this question they are both alive. Otherwise I'd rather have dinner with Jobs and leak the video to Adrian Chen for exclusive scoop. JOBS ALIVE AND LIVING IN PASADENA WITH TWO DOGS AND A REALLY EXPENSIVE LAMP)
I played some version of You Don't Know Jack a long time ago. It was fun.
just wanted to share, re: video games and sorrow
http://www.theonion.com/articles/voters-clamoring-to-know-if-female-political-candi,36479/
I like silk dyeing and piano playing and logic puzzles and houseplant care and dogs. Are there games for those things?
you're in the gaming industry.
Say stuff about #gamergate
Seems pretty depressing.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-04/sparrow-gamergate-when-outsiders-become-the-oppressors/5719584
On a side note, why does it always have to be bald white guys who make these offensive videos? Godammit.
An amazing synopsis of the Phil Fish saga, an exploration of the phenomenon of internet celebrity, and a thesis on the cause of the decline of the 4th estate. All in 20 mins.
Everyone has to deal with a prejudice though I guess except plain ol full head of hair, well off white dudes.
Not saying being a young bald guy is anywhere near as difficult as being a minority or a woman btw, but the prejudice is maybe more insidious. Being a bald lady has got to be crazy difficult.
I can't even begin to tell you how many people have said I look like Mr. Clean or Moby and thought that was totally ok. Do those people go up to every black person and tell them they look like Denzel Washington?
Also the saying "At least I have my hair."
Fuck you. So what.
Phil Fish is a big focus of this movie and although his personal brand of crazy is more normal you definitely can see how nuts it is making him to be working that hard under that much stress all the time. In fact I am kinda stressed out for everyone in this movie. They are all sorta going insane. I appreciate Fez a lot more. This is a good movie.