January 2012
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“Chesterton and Tolkien and Lewis were, as I’ve said, not the only writers I read...”
– Neil Gaiman (via neil-gaiman)
neil-gaiman reblogging neilgaiman, quoting Neil Gaiman. This is so meta.
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In Every Generation, There is a Chosen One |... →
Here’s a little something to blow everyone’s minds: this being 2012, March 10th will mark the fifteenth anniversary of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer premiere on the now-dead WB Television Network.
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The Lord of the Rings Family Tree Project →
Saruman, Sauron, and Gandalf have their place near the top, right under Eru Ilúvatar, while you can find Elrond, Galadriel and company more towards the middle. Hobbits and humans are around the bottom middle. via tor.com
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Visual Studio Achievements Program Brings... →
The Visual Studio Achievements plug-in analyzes a background thread each time code is compiled, as well as listens for particular events and actions from Visual Studio. When certain criteria or actions are detected, the plug-in triggers a pop-up alert and awards a new badge, which is then displayed on the public leaderboard and the developer’s Channel 9 profile.
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New DC Comics have “Too Much Sex and Violence for... →
A friend of mine (the awesome Andy Duncan if you know him) got a letter published in People magazine after the first X-Men movie came out. They’d run a review about that movie that complained that this was a movie based on a comic book, and since when did a kid’s medium have stories about discrimination? Well, for DECADES! And I recall a Time magazine review of Anne Rice’s Interview with a...
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Anime on the Front Lines | Tor.com →
With giant battling robots being one of the first images to spring into people’s minds when you mention anime to them, it’s no surprise that military science fiction was for years one of the most popular genres in Japanese animation. In fact there’s so many shows depicting some kind of futuristic — and usually mechanised — warfare that it can be hard to know where to start.
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Maniac Tentacle Mindbenders: How ScummVM's unpaid... →
ScummVM addressed this problem. Little did its earliest developers know, however, that it would grow far beyond its origins, taking on a life of its own as more than 100 people contributed a million lines of code over the next decade. Today, ScummVM has become almost a general-purpose adventure game interpreter that can run on nearly any architecture. How did an ever-changing group of volunteers...
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Raph's Website » F2P vs subs →
That said, people playing for free are subsidized by those who pay — often quite a lot. These people only pay because they really want to, by and large, though of course, like any business, there are many tricks used in order to get people to convert to payers. But overall, a single-digit percentage of users are paying enough so that the average across all users including the free ones works out...
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Diablo 3 release up in air - Koreatimes →
The virtual auction allows users to buy and sell items won during the game, which for many, including the board, resembles gambling. The controversial cashing-out feature, which would convert play money into real currency, was excluded in the most recent resubmission on Dec. 22 but continues to confound the process.
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