This time for Final Fantasy XIV. Once again, I have to call into question including such a completely different sort of game as an MMO in the "main line" of the Final Fantasy series. I think it would be better making another "branch" just like the Tactics series.

Anyway, the ideas here are interesting, such as the removal of "leveling". I'd like to actually try them out, but so far Squeenix has disappointed me because the client is crashing on launch.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/...g-woes.ars

All of those questions sound like the idiotic "focus group" parodies on Futurama or The Simpsons. I mean, really? "Can Joe be a monkey"? "We don't want to focus on fun?"

RUMBLER! GET IN HERE! I want to hear a business person justify it, and also we need someone to burn.

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It's now illegal to photograph what's going on in the gulf. Why? What purpose does it serve? This'll get challenged in the courts for sure. Sorry Obama, this was a boneheaded unconstitutional move. Not a single news station, who make their living from freedom of the press, are going to be with you on this. Fox News? Hahaahaahahaha.

France votes to ban burqa; niqab.

Ban on Muslim Coverings

If I were a left-ist nutbag, I could say that this is blatantly racist, discriminatory, etc. etc.

But I'm not.

I see a declining, frail, decadent, and aging West trying to resist being outbred and replaced on its native soil. I see it as a defensive measure against cultural replacement.

NOT AT ALL UNLIKE AMERICANS AGAINST ILLEGALS WHO ARE DOING THE SAME THING IN THE STATES: REPLACING THE ESTABLISHED CULTURE AND SOCIETY WITH THEIR OWN.

I know how much you all hate space exploration, and me, by proxy, for liking it, and that you all think that using bundles bank notes as fuel for stoking fires is a better usage of it than space, and that you all hate space in general, and are committed to preventing any exploration of any kind by anyone into space...

...but here's an article on solar sails anyway.




http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/wor...00618.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikaros

http://gizmodo.com/5584640/create-your-o...e=true&s=i

Some time ago I was thinking about how to make a powerful "map editor" type software much more user friendly (I was thinking this since Warcraft 3, and again when Smash Bros. Brawl's map editor managed to disappoint me). I thought that if a company like Nintendo is ever going to give it's users a lot more power over their maps, they'd need something Nintendo-friendly, so I imagined pre-built blocks of code that appeared to the user as literal building blocks that they snapped together. They'd be color coded depending on which objects one "snapped" into the input and output of them. One could literally pick up a block and "drag" it over various objects on a map to "link" them. If they wanted a timer map trigger, they'd literally just drag in a stop watch item and drop it onto the block over "trigger", that sort of thing. It'd be soft cuddly and powerful.

Google beat me to it... They're awesome.

http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/

Just check this out. It's frightening just how closely this matches what I had in mind. Of course it won't be as powerful as a typical programming language, but if users can, after learning a few things, design their own "code blocks" it has potential to BECOME that powerful.

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MEW

Everytime I'm playing a strategy game, and I hit pause to plan an attack or defense, this FUCKING ANNOYING WINDOWS WINDOW OPENS AND IT MINIMIZES MY GAME. TELL ME WHAT IT IS AND HOW I CAN FUCKING OBLITERATE IT.

My new ionizer converts my farts in to fresh clean smelling air. Instantly, it's true I tried it..

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