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So many people think tank/heal/dps is the only way to go. I want to try some alternatives. - Rob Shillingsburg

❝Some guy named Mike from Milwaukee, WI put together a 70-minute video review discussing the many reasons why the movie was horrible. And this isn’t your usual fanboy rant, this is an epic, well-edited well-constructed piece of geek film criticism. In fact, the way I learned about the video was from Lost co-creator and Star Trek producer Damon Lindelof, who said “Your life is about to change. This is astounding film making. Watch ALL of it.”❞ - Jim Norris from Bookmarklet

Just watch a couple of minutes. Then try to stop watching! - Rob Shillingsburg

Confused Matthew is another geek teardown reviewer that is fun sometimes, here's his takedown of Matrix Reloaded Architect scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch... "Is this just a shitty architect?" "This has got to be the worst architect in history of fiction." - Ray Cromwell

I want my two minutes back. - Matt Cutts

Viral time killing. Me too :( - Henner Zeller

This is actually really good. - Rob Shillingsburg

Zombie console MMO: sounds cool. - Rob Shillingsburg

Please? - Rob Shillingsburg

Kol Tregaskes (used to work in the industry, now a casual gamer) - http://friendfeed.com/koltreg... (add yourself below) - Kol Tregaskes

Bumped. - Kol Tregaskes

A great profile of Jon Blow. - Piaw Na

Modern Warfare 2. Yes, it's pretty successful. - Andrew C from Android

“Flashbang decided to make games on an 8-week cycle (!!) and post them at blurst.com. They made 8 games this way. ” About software development at Flashbang: short working hours, very short meetings, alternating flow and breaks, keeping everyone aware of what everyone else is doing. - Amit Patel

They gave a great talk on their techniques at GDC Austin. - Rob Shillingsburg

Agreed, persistence is just in the characters, not the world. - Rob Shillingsburg

It's funny because it's OMFG funny. - Kevin Fox from Bookmarklet

Somehow it seems the iPhone will always win on hardware. You know, unless they make a Droid phone brown and able to squirt songs to other Droid phones. - Alex Bourt

Blizzard still working on the pug experience. - Rob Shillingsburg

got one :) - Rob Shillingsburg

Sigh - Rob Shillingsburg

My thoughts exactly: "The players should generate the story as they go...This means breaking down some of the mechanics we are used to and allowing players to actually change the worlds they inhabit, instead of being forced to spin their wheels by fighting monsters that will simply respawn in five minutes or an hour. Some may object to this as being a “niche” feeling, but this niche has room for everyone. If executed properly, a player-generated story-based MMORPG solves a lot of the problems we have today with much less developer, writer, and designer time needed." - Rob Shillingsburg

The emphasis on quests, items, and character development, as opposed to dynamic story generation, seems to come from computer RPGs, not new to MMORPGs, and I think it's because it's impractical to have much story development from a small number of people. So the story is written in advance and everyone experiences roughly the same story. MMORPGs do open up the possibility of having... more... - Amit Patel

depressed - Rob Shillingsburg

Lyrics are depressed, tone is cheerful. I like in incongruity. - Melinda Owens

"Book Ten suffers from Yet Another Wandering Narrative Safari – a condition not uncommon in MMO design and certainly not exclusive to LotRO – it is categorised by large amounts of exposition with little-to-no action or adventure until the very end, and possibly occurs because the content designer spent the night before overdosing on re-runs of the X-Files." - Rob Shillingsburg

"Devs, if you really want to combat bots, just make the gameplay fun. Don't make crafting and harvesting a simple matter of clicking on a button and waiting." - Rob Shillingsburg

"This, to me, is a powerful argument in favor of… ok, you knew this was coming… procedurally generated content." - Rob Shillingsburg

"They designed a system that effectively requires frequent respecing, and then charge $12.50 per respec. Amazing." - Rob Shillingsburg

too funny - Rob Shillingsburg

:D Today's comic is awesome, too. The one called "Nachos" - Kamilah Gill

I watch/listen to this pretty much every day - Rob Shillingsburg

website problems? sounds like they need to ssh tunnel through another server first - Mike Chelen

Yep, Eva has been having some harrowing issues with her web host - seems to be moving hosts now. The key part of her post was a link to the album on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Here-Co... - Andrew Perry

I enjoy C++ :) - Rob Shillingsburg

I find C++ tolerabe, but I'm not in love with it. - Piaw Na

"There is no such thing as 'players doing it wrong', there is only bad game design leading players in the wrong direction." - Rob Shillingsburg

“Review: "I've spent hours trying to write this review; trying to figure out how I'm going to preserve my precious journalistic integrity while reviewing Jesse Schell's The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses. I've been looking for ways to pan it, to do what all good critics do: critique... I can't. This is unequivocally the best book on game design I've ever read." - James Portnow, Edge Online(http://www.edge-online.com)” - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

Also there's a Kindle version! Though at $44 it's the most expensive Kindle book I'd own. I think I'd spring the extra $10 for the hardcopy. - Kevin Fox

"No one should ever be left behind or forced to sit out because the group or raid is full. No player should ever be prevented from completing a dungeon crawl because not enough players are online." - Rob Shillingsburg

I never thought I'd make this comparison, but I'm glad this turned out to be more like "12 Monkeys" than "Up". - Ben Darnell

Thanks for the bug fix! So many people will be pleased. - Anne Bouey

Interesting! - Rob Shillingsburg

Quick FAQs to clear up confusion about Love. - Rob Shillingsburg

"The purpose of this blog is to keep my dream of that ultimate MMO where even the smallest person can change the world by some act of kindness or bravery; the realization of a truly dynamic, living breathing virtual world where one person can make a difference." - Rob Shillingsburg

"The sobering reality is that only a handful of people in the world have the power and resources to make a MMO." - Rob Shillingsburg