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'Today, it is certainly more acceptable to be openly gay. But these actors must still answer wrenching questions: Just how candid do you want to be? Would you be happy appearing only in comedies, or being pigeonholed as a character actor? And what does the line “You’re just not right for the role” really mean?'
links for 2008-09-28
links for 2008-09-26
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Rant on the quality of animation (or lack thereof) in McFarlane's shows.
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How and why to enable RMT in order to prevent third-party gold farming.
links for 2008-09-25
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'An Islamic lifestyle ad illustrates that co-existence with gaming when it shows an Arab player embroiled in an intense race in a LAN party competition when he looks at his watch, notices that it’s prayer time, and abandons the race seconds before crossing the finish line.'
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Suzanne Vega on "Tom's Diner", remixes and rights, and being the mother of the MP3.
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Finalists for best magazine cover in 2008.
links for 2008-09-24
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'earn points by playing real-world missions with your friends. Missions might include giving someone your favorite book, inviting a friend for drinks, or buying a friend some chocolate.'
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Marketing WAR by playing up the personalities of its developers.
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Deacon's Spring '09 show at London Fashion Week had a Pac-Man theme.
links for 2008-09-16
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"We hijack innocent tweets, subject them to our patent pending penisization process by replacing certain words with 'penis', and republish it for your entertainment. We find it funny."
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'I am not saying that people shouldn’t be proud of or take joy in our work. too often we developers end up front and center, and too often we forget to serve the player. If you’re like me you know of of these people and wish you could crush more than just the joy…'
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Why I like Tom Chick, #12: While previewing upcoming racing games, he goes out of his way to plug Excite Truck and Eve of Destruction.
links for 2008-09-15
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'David Foster Wallace, whose darkly ironic novels, essays and short stories garnered him a large following and made him one of the most influential writers of his generation, was found dead in his California home on Friday, after apparently committing suicide, the authorities said.'
Time to recharge.
Yesterday was my last day at Secret Level.
links for 2008-09-12
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Flash-based Guitar Hero clone with some sort of online.
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Interview with Kim Hyung-Tae and Bae Jae-Hyun on NCSoft's upcoming martial arts MMO.
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"Let me break that down for you: Most people think they're better than they really are, but they're too stupid to realize it. And that same stupidity makes it difficult (and sometimes impossible) for them to recognize skills and competence in the non-stupids, which perpetuates their cycle of idiocy and megalomania."
links for 2008-09-10
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What you actually want to know from a weather report
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“The games I personally find to be the most influential are ‘Xevious’ and ‘Geometry Wars.’"