Author Topic: I've got your Miscellaneous Links for ya, 2012! RIGHT HERE! (Read 38454 times)

metroid composite · « **Reply #50 on:** January 30, 2012, 08:57:04 AM »

I saw this once, thought it was decent, and then it keeped seeming better and better in my memory and I had trouble finding it:

http://z0r.de/L/z0r-de_3714.swf

Captain K. · « **Reply #51 on:** February 03, 2012, 12:58:51 AM »

http://www.1milliongamerscore.com/

This is the guy with the highest gamerscore (achievements) out of all Xbox players. He writes a humorous little blog about his goal of reaching 1 million gamerscore. It's pretty interesting just to see the mini reviews of games from a guy who plays nearly every game that comes out, from shovelware to AAA titles. Right now he's challenging himself to earn a number of achievements per day in excess of the number of points Kobe Bryant scores in a Lakers game - and Kobe has been on a tear lately.

metroid composite · « **Reply #52 on:** February 03, 2012, 04:59:39 AM »

http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html
Programmer humor.

http://www.gshotts.com/humor/languages.htm
More programmer humor.

SnowFire · « **Reply #53 on:** February 03, 2012, 06:48:51 AM »

Eh. Not THAT funny. Let's go with

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

instead. Moderately accessible to non-programmers as well, mostly due to funny pictures.

For other weird stuff:

http://blogs.forward.com/forward-thinking/150723/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/01/bishop-eddie-long-crowned-king_n_1248346.html

Wat.

Grefter · « **Reply #54 on:** February 03, 2012, 11:43:36 AM »

Thanks alot arsehole. I was going to post about how much I laughed at "1965 - Kemeny and Kurtz go to 1964." and your video link and you had to fuck it up by making me want to murder people.

Douche.

Shale · « **Reply #55 on:** February 04, 2012, 09:22:43 PM »

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/599092525/the-order-of-the-stick-reprint-drive

If you read Order of the Stick (which you should, it's great), you should probably think about throwing some cash the author's way. He's running a Kickstarter to finance reprints of the compilation books, and the donation rewards have gotten progressively more ridiculous as they raise more and more money (going on half a million dollars now). Ten bucks gets you seven exclusive short comics (Probably 70-90 pages in total) and a refrigerator magnet. Another $15 and he adds in a set of stickers, an OOTS-themed notepad, a poster print and a (coloring) book.

AndrewRogue · « **Reply #56 on:** February 06, 2012, 03:15:14 PM »

I deserve that stuff for when I put up with the goddamn split the party, update when I feel like it (once every three weeks) schedule. <_<

Shale · « **Reply #57 on:** February 06, 2012, 03:26:52 PM »

From what little he's willing to say about his health, that was less "when I feel like it" and more "when I am physically able to sit upright."

DON'T YOU FEEL LIKE A JACKASS NOW

Captain K. · « **Reply #58 on:** February 06, 2012, 04:26:42 PM »

How about I don't feel like giving him money because of the Azure City arc?

AndrewRogue · « **Reply #59 on:** February 06, 2012, 05:56:06 PM »

That may excuse the schedule (although, really, if you're having problems you should just outright say it and take the time off), but it still does not make an already tedious arc any less tedious. >_>

Shale · « **Reply #60 on:** February 07, 2012, 07:00:11 PM »

Speaking of ridiculous sums of money appearing from nowhere:

Notch would like to know how many dollars, in millions, it would cost him to get Tim Schafer working on Psychonauts 2.

Edit: He's posting on Reddit: “[If Tim is interested] then we'd probably move on to start sending each other a bunch of boring documents and projections, discuss recoup levels and dlc terms and distribution platforms, get our respective lawyers to look things over, then hopefully finally land on an agreement that both parties think will be beneficial.
Assuming THAT works out, I'd be all over it, and I wouldn't want (or require) any creative input at all. Tim and co has MORE then proven themselves excellent game designers, and it would be incredibly narrow minded of me to think I understand how to design games like that.”

Cotigo · « **Reply #61 on:** February 08, 2012, 06:37:58 AM »

Guys, this means that the money I tossed toward minecraft will be ultimately producing Psychonauts 2. What have you done for gaming recently? That's what I thought. (Shh, MC. Shh. And Laggy working for a F2P MMO isn't doing anything.)

Grefter · « **Reply #62 on:** February 08, 2012, 06:54:06 AM »

I have bought Psychonauts on 2 different platforms and bought Minecraft, so you can blow me.

If I hadn't done that you could still blow me though. The offer is always on the table.

Cotigo · « **Reply #63 on:** February 08, 2012, 07:40:22 AM »

Hard for that offer to be on the table when your dick is already in my mouth.

metroid composite · « **Reply #64 on:** February 08, 2012, 07:52:22 AM »

Quote from: Grefter on February 08, 2012, 06:54:06 AM

I have bought Psychonauts on 2 different platforms and bought Minecraft, so you can blow me.

If I hadn't done that you could still blow me though. The offer is always on the table.

Damn, I've only bought Minecraft once and bought Psychonauts on one platform. I am outmatched, curse you Shale

. I will have to settle for having had some email conversations with Anna Kipnis.

Although...now that I think about it, I'm not sure "Making Tim Schafer work on a sequel instead of Tim Schafer working on yet another totally original game" is doing a service to gaming.

Shale · « **Reply #65 on:** February 08, 2012, 11:35:37 AM »

Schafer has said that he wants to do Psychonauts 2, and gone so far as to pitch it to quite a few different publishers but with no bites. If he thinks it's worth doing, that's good enough for me.

(Also I bought Psychonauts three times)

Grefter · « **Reply #66 on:** February 08, 2012, 01:20:12 PM »

http://shop.doublefine.com/psychonauts.aspx

If you want to be a better fan you can buy another copy that is signed.

Shale · « **Reply #67 on:** February 08, 2012, 01:22:01 PM »

You son of a bitch.

I can have posters signed by both creators of Monkey Island? Goodbye, money.

Grefter · « **Reply #68 on:** February 08, 2012, 01:25:47 PM »

I will be disappointed if I don't show up to DLCon and you have a signed PAL X-Box version to give to Yakko. I would offer to bring my brother's old PAL X-Box, but I don't feel like paying the overweight baggage fee.

Shale · « **Reply #69 on:** February 08, 2012, 02:01:02 PM »

Sadly I will not be at DLCon at all this year, so you may not want to hold your breath for that.

Captain K. · « **Reply #70 on:** February 09, 2012, 06:50:55 AM »

I'm curious, what MMO is Laggy working on?

Shale · « **Reply #71 on:** February 09, 2012, 02:37:10 PM »

Speaking of piles of money falling onto Tim Schafer...

Double fine is making a Kickstarter-funded point-and-click adventure, helmed by Schafer and with Ron Gilbert on the staff. This is happening. They raised $500,000 in the first 12 hours. For reference, that OOTS campaign I linked to before has raised $560,000 in two weeks, which makes it the sixth-highest-grossing campaign in the site's history.

I am trying very hard not to pledge for the $250 signed poster.

Hunter Sopko · « **Reply #72 on:** February 09, 2012, 03:56:10 PM »

Quote from: Shale on February 09, 2012, 02:37:10 PM

Speaking of piles of money falling onto Tim Schafer...

Double fine is making a Kickstarter-funded point-and-click adventure, helmed by Schafer and with Ron Gilbert on the staff. This is happening. They raised $500,000 in the first 12 hours. For reference, that OOTS campaign I linked to before has raised $560,000 in two weeks, which makes it the sixth-highest-grossing campaign in the site's history.

I am trying very hard not to pledge for the $250 signed poster.

Never played one of their games, but I am trying very hard not to pledge $20,000 for the dinner and bowling with Tim and the staff.

Fudozukushi · « **Reply #73 on:** February 09, 2012, 04:59:47 PM »

Quote from: Hunter Sopko on February 09, 2012, 03:56:10 PM

Quote from: Shale on February 09, 2012, 02:37:10 PM
Speaking of piles of money falling onto Tim Schafer...

Double fine is making a Kickstarter-funded point-and-click adventure, helmed by Schafer and with Ron Gilbert on the staff. This is happening. They raised $500,000 in the first 12 hours. For reference, that OOTS campaign I linked to before has raised $560,000 in two weeks, which makes it the sixth-highest-grossing campaign in the site's history.

I am trying very hard not to pledge for the $250 signed poster.

Never played one of their games, but I am trying very hard not to pledge $20,000 for the dinner and bowling with Tim and the staff.

I'm more partial to the 30K rewards.

Grefter · « **Reply #74 on:** February 09, 2012, 08:10:34 PM »

Oh wow. I heard about the Need Fir Soeed guys doing something similar. Don't believe it is nearly as successful.

Also Sopko we are going to have to rectify that.

News:

Author Topic: I've got your Miscellaneous Links for ya, 2012! RIGHT HERE! (Read 38454 times)