January 2008
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Money
Oh look. The banks are out of money.
This is a very interesting graph showing how much money banks have available for lending and in reserve.
If you notice, they don’t have any. In fact, they have what looks to be around -10 billion dollars in reserve.
Normally this gets you shut down right quick. But there’s a nifty program the Fed runs that lends [...] -
Boardgames
Cursed!
Brandon pointed out that Black Industries is halting production on their new WH40k book, Dark Heresy and ostensibly shutting their doors.
Which sucks. Because apparently Dark Heresy was awesome.
But even worse, it means that I don’t get to buy the Talisman Reprint. I stumbled across it a week or 2 ago and wanted a replacement for [...] -
Games
Embarassing confession
Harvest Moon: Rune Factory for the DS is fucking AWESOME.
Like the best Harvest Moon I’ve played so far. It’s a hybrid of a farming, hack and slash dungeon crawl and monster handling game.
While I dislike the getting married and having kids bit in the game, the basic farming loop is just great fun. (You in [...] -
Food, Life
In which I declare a winner.
Went into London to deal with some Finnish Embassy Stuff. Very pleasant.
And decided that since I wasn’t going to be back to London for a bit, to go get Fish and Chips. We’ve hit a few of the biggies, Masters Superfish and the Golden Hind.
Masters was hands down the absolute best but was a pain [...] -
Funny
This rules on a level that I cannot describe.
I have no words for how much this represents the absolute pinnacle of human achievement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWc6QQ9JlMc
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Games
In which I tell people to stop doing fun things.
So as an addendum. When I talk about bottom up versus top down design, one doesn’t mean you never do the other.
I am in fact talking about a very specific approach to game design.
I’m prickly about top down design because it’s one of the primary reasons that Design as a profession is so half-baked.
Let’s assume [...] -
Games
What this blog is not and why Eastern design sensibilities piss me off.
This blog is not some artistic as fuck analysis of the nature of design with no followthrough. We might talk philosophy, we might talk analytics, we might talk emotional tone, tenor and pacing. Hell, we might talk about the nature of experience.
But when it is all said and done the expectation is that we can [...]
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