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Thanks to the L4D2 demo, I now know that the machete is a highly effective anti-zombie device.
ha3rvey (business time), Jemm and Fee501st liked this
I found this in L4D2 Demo http://twitpic.com/ntx2p
- Fee501st
Machetes don't run out of bullets.
- Daniel Andrlik
@jeffisageek me too, I hope I signed up early enough, 100K invites can go pretty quick when it's Google.
Yeah. I'm lucky that I got into the developer preview about a month ago, so as I understand it I'm guaranteed an invite to the public beta.
- Daniel Andrlik
from iPhone
Interesting. Apple has eliminated the shopping cart in iTunes 9. Everything is one-click now.
Daniel Rowley, echostreamer, Glenn Slaven and Pam Gwenzi liked this
Wow. I kinda hate that. I used the cart to store things I wanted to buy later. I wonder where they went...
- Jason Baldwin
Jason- there is a wishlist feature now for that.
- Daniel Andrlik
from iPhone
Accidentally spending money is now easier than ever!
- tabbr
Works for Amazon..
- Tony Klein
I thought Amazon patented one-click :)
- Glenn Slaven
Cool! Thanks, Daniel. I hadn't explored the store yet.
- Jason Baldwin
Completely agree with Tabbr
- Manuel Mas
Honestly? Apple is always the best.. They know how to entertain us :)
- FFTornado
There's a lot of things I'd call it...'interesting' isn't one of them.
- Adi
.... and Steve Jobs appears and stock still drops!
- Stephan Romeo
Amazon MP3 still has a wishlist, if you like to collect up music to consider before purchasing.
- John Flinchbaugh
Oh that sucks
- Jay
Yes, but they've added a Wish List where you can store selections for future purchases/downloads.
- Tim Hale
Let the Right One In - http://www.netflix.com/Movie...
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Tricia Harvey, Don Wood, Johan Bakken and 6 other people liked this
Good one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Phillip Stewart
Excellent flick.
- Daniel Andrlik
from iPhone
On my list to see as well. Hear it's great.
- Matt
This movie was excellent!
- Gary Pooler
Milky Way's twin caught dismembering neighbour - space - 02 September 2009 - New Scientist - http://www.newscientist.com/article...
I can relate: this is how I treat my neighbors.
- Daniel Andrlik
from Bookmarklet
Inside Google Books: Download Over a Million Public Domain Books from Google Books in the Open EPUB Format - http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2009...
This is huge.
- Daniel Andrlik
I think hamburgers and sweet corn are on the menu for tonight.
That's hilarious. That's the same menu we are having tonight.
- Daniel Andrlik
Did Facebook just buy FriendFeed? Rumors everywhere...
Some links to rumors would have been nice... ;-)
- Danny Brown
Foursquare: Why It May Be the Next Twitter - http://mashable.com/2009...
They have to provide support for more cities first, and not just major urban ones.
- Daniel Andrlik
from iPhone
Geist: The Sin-Eaters Preview: Running Geist (Which Is Not Wraith) - http://www.gnomestew.com/specifi...
Outstanding idea for an RPG. I love the old Wraith books too, but it was totally unplayable. This, on the other hand, looks promising.
- Daniel Andrlik
Geeky Clean! - http://geekyclean.bigcartel.com/
Soap with a d20 inside. Comes in the following fragrances: Health, Mana, Barbarian Scrub, etc. Apparently, Zombie Repellent is coming soon as well. Hilarious notion for a product, and I may pick up the mana bar just for the novelty of it.
- Daniel Andrlik
Mission Impossible: The Code Even the CIA Can't Crack - http://www.wired.com/science...
Fascinating read.
- Daniel Andrlik
Cincinnati Patrolled By Real-Life Superheroes. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? [Citizen Superhero] - http://io9.com/5232842...
This will end very badly.
- Daniel Andrlik
The IT Crowd - Jen Brings the Internet to the Shareholders meeting - WIDE HD - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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SolidSmack, Carmen - Happy 2010!, John Wang and 2 other people liked this
I loved this episode.
- Daniel Andrlik
This is one of those videos you just look forward to seeing all day. ha!
- SolidSmack
When you play a video game, like an RPG, do you instinctually go good or evil?
J. Abdul-Qahhar, timepilot, ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0, and 28 other people liked this
good
- Kevin Fox
Good
- Matthew DeVries
Evil, just to see what happens
- Shevonne
Always good. I feel uncomfortable playing an evil character in a game.
- Tad
Good, but then bad later. Sometimes it's fun to be bad!
- Jeff
Good.
- Steven (optionshiftk)
Good. I have to consciously try to play evil most of the time.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
There's half of games I've never experienced, having never been able to bring myself to play Nod, Black, The soviets, Horde, Undead, Orcs, Empire, Dark side, etc.
- Matthew DeVries
Evil. If I have to choose.
- bnoise
For the record, I always play good!
- Veronica
Good. I just can't bring myself to do the other choices, even in games that don't penalize you. Perhaps it's because their evil choices are so banal. Give me real evil, Lovecraftian evil, evil wrought by Clive Barker or Neil Gaiman. The boogedy-boogedy twirling a thin mustache evil doesn't do anything for me.
- Neal Jansons
Good.
- Alex Scoble
Good; I find it uncomfortable to play an evil character, even when I force myself to try it.
- Tudor Bosman
Good.
- Michael McKean
Good always 1st! but if it's a single player RPG and i like it i go back and be evil!
- Fee501st
+1 Fee501st, exactly
- Majento
Good. But I find that a lot of games reward evil more. Weird.
- Shannon
Good. In some cases I play the game a second time as an evil character. But most of the time just good.
- René Schäfer
Got me thinking about someone's girlfriend who stopped at all the traffic lights in GTA4. Friggn' hilarious.
- Shannon
I usually always play good, with the one exception being the first Fable, where I went back and played evil.
- Carlton Hackett
In Knights of the Old Republic, you get money faster and stuff if you're evil, but you get fewer game options, because evil usually means "kill first and ask questions later." So you lose the nuances of the game. And I always want games to last longer, so I choose the options that involve more negotiation, which tend to end up being the "good" choices.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
good to start, but usually finish evil
- clarke thomas
Shannon: lol, Me and my friends try playing GTA4 where we respect every law and play it like real life, but it always turns into 5 stars! hehe
- Fee501st
chaotic good
- Nathan Rein
Leeerrrroyyy Jenkins!!!
- Alex Scoble
Almost always good. Can't help being the big boy scout, I guess.
- ha3rvey (business time)
from fftogo
Normally, I play good - neutral good. In KOTOR I went pure evil all the way, destroyed the rebels and took over the universe. I killed Carth and turned the good two shoes Bastila to the dark side...it was Epic!
- Nick
evil
- webosapien (Burcu Tüzün)
I thought everyone always went evil. Just to test the waters, so to speak.
- CAJ, somewhere else
good. i find next to impossible to play evil.
- Evan Travers
We're playing good, but I've always had a burning desire to be chaotic evil. I've actually quit my D&D campaign because I don't like being with a "good" party.
- Sally done with 2009
You still play D&D?
- Scott Royall
@Scott - actually, this is my first time playing the table top game. My husband and his friends have been doing campaigns for years. I always played the text-based computer games, solo. I like to kill bad monsters with a big stick. I don't like to talk with a group about how or why they might not be bad and why maybe we shouldn't kill them.
- Sally done with 2009
Good on the first play through, usually evil on the second foray. It's good to know what you're missing.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Evil. I have to be a good guy IRL, so it gives me the ability to vent negative feelings and thoughts. As a wise man once printed on a t-shirt "Chaotic Evil means never having to say you're sorry"
- Christian (Simply X)
Usually good.
- Rodfather
Evil, because I am good at it.
- Amber, Random Time Lord
Chaotic neutral if possible, lawful good otherwise. Paladins ftw.
- Rudolf Olah
Evil. I'm better at it.
- Steven Perez
Good. I'm a wuss.
- Mike Nayyar
From my D&D days, I'd say it depends on the type of person you are. Greed goes with evil.
- Chuck Denk
good
- Nia
To me, the term "RPG" doesn't call to mind the sorts of games where you have the choice to be "evil".
- Karl Knechtel
Good, with a streak of being greedy and being a bit of a dick. Example, I won't kill innocents in Fallout 3, but I will pickpocket everyone.
- Rob Haas
Usually good, or at the very least neutral (sometimes ya just gotta go out and do your thing for the money). I've tried to go back through some games and be evil, but it never works out for me.
- Joe Pierce
Good - I do the occasional evil thing and then feel guilty about it. The evil options are always so cruel. I often wonder how much you miss out on doing things the 'good' way tho.
- Amy
I don't think instinctually and RPG fit well together, but then I think I overthink things, so it can be me. Answering the question, I believe I'm good, but I do it for having more gameplay, as they usually put mor on the parts where the player acts helpful.
- Ramón FSM
Good, but I always end up doing evil things.
- Elizabeth Parmeter
Someone once tried to convince me that Horde wasn't "the bad guys" it was just a matter of perspective. So I rolled a Forsaken rogue. In my very first day, I had to murder a forsaken man's still living wife and daughter because he was butt-hurt that she remarried, I then had to poison a harmless puppy who didn't hurt anyone. I stopped playing and deleted that toon.
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew, those are undead issues, not Horde issues. Try another race, or another starting zone. Not a lot of evil acts in the Tauren starting zone as I recall.
- Joe Pierce
Lawful Good.
- Parth Awasthi
Matthew, you basically picked the most evil race and the most evil, sneaky class in the entire game. I assure you, as a card carrying member of the Horde, that we are not all evil!
- Veronica
Evil :(
- Andru Edwards
I always go for the good team...
- Ross Miller
good
- Adamo Lanna
On story based games I usually play good the first time through and then again as evil.
- Daniel Andrlik
Good.
- Chris Gardner
Good. Tried Evil, but unconsciously became "rough outside, sweet inside" type.
- Francesco Balducci
Generally good. Might be evil of RPG publishers hid the good/evil answers to their ethical challenges better.
- Barry Biddlecomb
from twhirl
+1 Barry, good point. It's far to easy to pick whether you want to be good or evil and know which answers to pick to go that route. Some actual ethical quandries with consequences that couldn't always be seen in advance would be nice.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Depends on the story. In the fable series, I enjoy being good, while in the KOTOR series, it's much more fun to be bad. For Mass Effect, I had equal enjoyment going both ways.
- Fleagle
Chaotic Neutral http://www.google.com/search...
- Mark Krynsky
I most of the times choose Neutral or the Choatic Neutral( if the DM allows)...I enjoy the duality of right and wrong in the face of a Black Dragon with an Armour Class of -4
- Terence
Good. Though I do savor playing Dungeon Keeper every now and again just so I can be evil. Because it feels so good to smack imps and take down the shining beacons of virtue that topple my dungeon walls...
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Good
- Sarah Peterman
neutral good
- James Michael Mike DuPont
Always Good.
- Nir Ben Yona
Evil. The rest of you are lying.
- Ryan Miller
Good.
- Jessica
Obviously evil. That's why they invented real life, to be a good guy/gal.
- Alexis Bellido
Have you ever noticed though, that when you play multiplayer, it seems the really really good players *always* play the "evil" side? Horde, nazis... I remember when I played RTCW:ET the winning team *nearly* always was the nazis. Weird.
- Evan Travers
I've heard people say that about WoW. The better side is usually Horde.
- Araceli
Good...then get board and go evil! ;)
- Brian Bufalo
Good. I can't help it. I throw in some shades of grey though.
- Andy Lewandowski
Good. My brother: Good first, evil next. (as in KotOR)
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
I mix it up depending on the day I've had.
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
I do good, but I can be pretty evil about it.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Why Engadget is blocking the DiggBar | Joshua Topolsky - http://www.joshuatopolsky.com/2009...
Jens Christian Freund and Allen Harkleroad liked this
So here’s how our solution works: If you follow one of our links from Digg — and you have the DiggBar active on your account — it now redirects to our original URL. You’ll see the DiggBar for a moment, but ultimately end up at the original content you clicked on in the first place. Which is how it’s supposed to work, mind you.
- Nicole Simon
I do the same thing on my site.
- Daniel Andrlik
Sony, MySoti team up to bring custom shirt designs to Home - http://playstation.joystiq.com/2009...
Admiral Anika liked this
"These custom shirts will be available for purchase for real world currency and the individual designers will take a cut from the overall profits. The interesting twist about all this is that you have the potential to be that designer making the dough."
- Eric Rice
from Bookmarklet
deja, uh, something ;)
- Eric Rice
Don't say it! You'll jinx it. Just quietly smirk in the corner.
- Daniel Andrlik
Oh totally dude, I won't say it, but you KNOW i'm thinkin it. Gotta be cool, spin, stay cool spin, don't be a dick, spin.
- Eric Rice
What an original idea. In my Second Life, I think I'll become a designer of computer clothes.
- Admiral Anika
....and you can do it on a uniform system, consistent user experience, installed in living rooms and bedrooms with little technical hurdles or barrier to entry, awash in high res performance and usability.... but i'm just nitting, now. ;)
- Eric Rice
At Home with my Sims in Second Life. I smell a reality show.
- Admiral Anika
@seanbonner agreed. Amazon should offer free/1.00 Kindle deals on books you've already purchased in "real" form through them.That would rock
vb100, Daniel Andrlik, Eric Geller and 3 other people liked this
This is a brilliant idea.
- Eric Geller
They need a package deal for books I still want a physical copy of: $2-3 extra when I order a book and then get the kindle edition immediately.
- Daniel Andrlik
The 6 stages of Twitter media coverage hell - Computerworld Blogs - http://blogs.computerworld.com/the_6_s...
Tyson Key and jjprojects liked this
We've secretly replaced the words 'Second Life' with 'Twitter' let's see if anyone notices. xD
- Eric Rice
from Bookmarklet
BTW I took that article and did a Find/Replace and LO http://docs.google.com/Doc...
- Eric Rice
I LOL'd at the find/replace version.
- Daniel Andrlik
yuk. adding your blog to the news feed in FB does suck in your content as a 'we owe that now' note - not what I want! turning FF back on.
Yeah, it's not cool. The way I dealt with it was to create an extra excerpt-only feed that I let Facebook import.
- Daniel Andrlik
yeah as I do not blog that much I think I rather announce them on twitter instead or use the delicious links and use that connection
- Nicole Simon
A lesson to marketers about the importance of reading the blogs they pitch to but who probably won’t read this because they don’t read the blogs they pitch to - http://thebloggess.com/?p=1960
Hilarious.
- Daniel Andrlik
RED MARS For Free - http://www.warrenellis.com/...
Also in the Kindle store for free at the moment as well.
- Daniel Andrlik
How to read PDF files on your Kindle « interface - http://interface.puhala.com/2007...
Matthew DeVries liked this
but but but, Amazon WANTS your PDFs to go through them so they can siphon market research off your documents, learn about you and the things you want to read. If you do this, you're depriving Amazon of that data stream, which was the whole reason they invented the Kindle. Don't do this.
- Matthew DeVries
Mobipocket is great, but Stanza is cross-platform. Use it on your OSX machines.
- Jason Griffey
from twhirl
Actually, a good option is to use calibre which is an open-source cross-platform ebook manager that handles desktop libraries, devices (including kindle) and ebook conversion between formats. http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/
- Daniel Andrlik
OneSwarm friend-to-friend P2P likely to irk Big Content, ISPs - http://arstechnica.com/softwar...
Very interesting project.
- Daniel Andrlik
Discovery News: Born Animal: See A Fish With A Transparent Head - http://blogs.discovery.com/news_an...
Bizarre and beautiful.
- Daniel Andrlik
from Bookmarklet
Attention gamer geeks! I need your assistance. Seeking cross-platform battlegrid for running a D&D game over net that doesn't look like ass.
Dan Patterson and Eric Rice liked this
keep me in the loop on this if i drop the ball, i'd like to know how it turns out
- Eric Rice
I'll let you know what I find when I'm done looking. It's a weird mix of stuff that does too little and stuff that does too much (but does that too much without being compat with 4E rules, probably due to issues with the change in d20 license).
- Daniel Andrlik
New Zealand P2P disconnection plan delayed after outcry - http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
That's progress, I guess. Keep the pressure on, people!
- Daniel Andrlik
Did Last.fm Just Hand Over User Listening Data To the RIAA? - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
This is part of reason why it's important that people realize that Techcrunch is not a professional news organization. First of all, even if you ignore all the denials from Last.fm, the aggregate music listening data has been available to anyone who asks since the service was just Audioscrobbler. Back in those days, Audioscrobbler did it under a Creative Commons license. Last.fm uses a...
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- Daniel Andrlik
Note: This is also part of the reason I don't read Techcrunch anymore. If I hear a lot of buzz about a particular article I'll check it out, but I don't consider a high quality source of information, and their editorial policy is questionable at best.
- Daniel Andrlik
The internet isn’t making you stupid. People are making you stupid. - http://futurismic.com/2009...
Bingo.
- Daniel Andrlik
Don't Click! No Really! Don't Even Think About it! - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
Wow, people have really been schooling Twitter on security lately. On the plus side, it raises awareness of common security flaws among developers and power users.
- Daniel Andrlik
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