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Twitter Updates for 2012-07-05
Jul. 5th, 2012 03:59 am- Trine 2 (PC): More accessible, but somewhat less satisfying version of the first. Worth getting. #
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Twitter Updates for 2012-06-24
Jun. 24th, 2012 03:59 am- A Virus Called TOM (PC): Starts out amazing, then quickly falls victim to the fallacy that tedious challenge is good challenge. Skip. #
- Quantum Condundum (PC): Fun, amusing, worth getting. Flawed though: too many tedious jumping puzzles and Q needed more takes at his lines. #
Originally published at Mining for Cows.
Twitter Updates for 2012-05-23
May. 23rd, 2012 03:59 am- Warp (PS3): Decent action puzzler. No threat to Portal, but well worth getting. #
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Twitter Updates for 2012-05-06
May. 6th, 2012 03:59 am- Endless Space: If you like 4X games at all, get it. Even in alpha it's a better sequel to SotS than SotS II. #
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Twitter Updates for 2012-03-19
Mar. 19th, 2012 03:59 am- Journey (PS3) impressions: Scratches an itch you didn't know you had. Well worth playing. #
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Twitter Updates for 2011-12-13
Dec. 13th, 2011 03:59 am- I remember having a lot of fun with Empire Earth. Not many RTS games let you stomp uppity stone throwers with laser mecha. #
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Twitter Updates for 2011-11-01
Nov. 1st, 2011 03:59 am- Voxatron: Short but fun. Old school mix of voxels, Gauntlet and adventure. Not sure it's worth $15, but (for now) it's pay what you want. #
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Livejournal screws up: episode n+1
Oct. 27th, 2011 11:15 pmvanya_elda on journalelfen: “Several users are able to see the f-locked and the private entries of other users/communities… [also the pages to] edit profiles, edit journal information/settings, managing userpics, and even checking your message inbox.”
Apparently it was just a “quickly resolved” bug that caused “the system [to] issue cached pages from the users who most recently visited the same page”. Sucks, but everyone makes mistakes, right?
Except it apparently went on for a lot longer than the officially stated “3 minutes”.
Except LJ has made a habit of screwing up.
And finally: Except the fact that it’s possible to screw up in this way belies bad design.
Why is private data even touching a caching system in the first place? A cache provides no benefit whatsoever for user-specific content, and that this even happened suggests the design is enough of a hackjob they *can’t* avoid caching it.
Bonus: The same update apparently broke the utilities people use to dump all their posts as a first step in moving to another site.
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Twitter Updates for 2011-10-22
Oct. 22nd, 2011 03:59 am- RAGE (PC) final impression: Merely okay. Middling port of a merely okay console FPS. Some fun, but wait until it's <$20. #
- It's a pity id Software's lost their way. They defined the genre, but since Quake II they've slowly drifted into B-team status. #
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Twitter Updates for 2011-10-12
Oct. 12th, 2011 03:59 am- Aha! Finally fixed my Firefox 7 + Noscript + @Instapaper bookmarklet browser freeze: Turn off HTTPS Everywhere for Instapaper's website. #
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Twitter Updates for 2011-10-05
Oct. 5th, 2011 03:59 am- Rage (PC): Five minutes in and the consolitus is already driving me nuts. "Press Enter" at the start and downhill from there. #
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Twitter Updates for 2011-10-03
Oct. 3rd, 2011 03:59 am- Yay future. ifttt.com to gtalk msg when it's raining means never having to get up and look out a window. #
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Twitter Updates for 2011-09-21
Sep. 21st, 2011 03:59 am- Singularity (PC): Quite fun. Yes, largely cribbed from other FPS, but if you can't be original, stealing from the best works almost as well. #
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Twitter Updates for 2011-09-15
Sep. 15th, 2011 03:59 am- Bastion (PC): Mix a little Diablo, a little beat-em-up, a little artsy indie and end up with quite a bit of fun. Easily worth the $15. #
- Bastion (PC): Minor annoyance: definitely a gamepad game, but only xbox 360 pads work. I ended up having to use x360ce with my PS2+smartjoy. #
- For reference: Grab x360ce app from http://t.co/LljYoogF , put x360ce.exe in dir with bastion.exe, run, configure buttons, win. #
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Twitter Updates for 2011-08-29
Aug. 29th, 2011 03:59 am- Deus Ex: Human Revolution completed. My verdict? A worthy sequel. Well worth acquiring, if you're one of the few who haven't already. #
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Twitter Updates for 2011-08-26
Aug. 26th, 2011 03:59 am- Hmm, that was annoying. Until I cleared all Google cookies, search results redirected to a blank search box with emsg=NCSR in the url. #
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Twitter Updates for 2011-08-02
Aug. 2nd, 2011 03:59 am- "3 minutes of why PC gamers deserve the option to alter their games, and why the world is a better place for it." http://j.mp/nVwE1V #
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Twitter Updates for 2011-07-25
Jul. 25th, 2011 03:59 am- 1964 Antique MODEM Live Demo: http://youtu.be/X9dpXHnJXaE #
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Twitter Updates for 2011-07-10
Jul. 10th, 2011 03:59 am- Kerbal Space Program: Actually rocket science. And by rocket science I mean a lot of fun for something that's still very alpha. #
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Twitter Updates for 2011-07-03
Jul. 3rd, 2011 03:59 am- Alpha Protocol: Far from perfect but actually worth playing. It's Deus Ex light, and fun enough if you like to get your Batman on. And I do. #
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