A Tumblr curating a collection of long-form pieces about the game that was.
The joke is on them though, because any writing about games is better than no writing about games.
And hey, if it’s good enough for the Rolling Stone, it’s good enough for everyone, no?
I don’t own an Xbox One, but the Titanfall Limited Edition Controller looks amazing.
Shame the game itself didn’t really impress me when I played it during the beta period. Maybe I’ve just fallen out of love with multiplayer first-person shooters (Battlelog says I’ve played 22 hours since launch), but while I appreciate Titanfall for mixing it up and trying to do something new (the jetpacks, the Titans), at the end of the day it’s just another COD-like experience which doesn’t really do anything for me.
Updated 04/04/14: Microsoft have Titanfall-themed Xbox One consoles, too, but you can’t buy those. And yes, they look as impressive as their controller counterparts.
In response to an XKCD strip about an insular community born from a defunct but still active product support forum, Colin Birge shared the story of someone’s touching conversation with Clippy.
Worth reading. I had no idea responses to Clippy were monitored.
Pure gold:
It is with a heavy heart that I must put this invaluable relic of culinary excellence up for sale, as there is only so much power that one man can wield for so long. Many moons ago, I unwittingly bought this magical forge of nourishment from a sand swept bazaar named ‘Barbecues Galore’. The gloriously bearded one-armed merchant warned me of untold rewards, that of which I could never fathom at the time. Since that fateful day, I have achieved flight without the use of propulsion, bedded Scarlett Johanssen on the back of a unicorn, and maintained a 100% strike rate when inserting a USB stick. It is now time for someone else to reap the life changing benefits of this mystical contraption of sustenance.
The original link is gone, but Google has cached it here.
Great piece from David Pogue on what I was writing about just a few short weeks ago.
His piece is much better written than mine is, but I guess that’s why they pay him the big bucks.
— permalink to this postBarley for WordPress is a super-cool plugin that lets you make changes to posts on the front-end, rather than having to dive into the WordPress editor to make your changes. Great for if you spot a typo, updating a link, or re-writing entire paragraphs.
But I don’t think I’ll be using it, because as Shawn Blanc discovered, it converts posts into HTML from the WYSIWYG/Markdown backend that I enjoy using. That’s a super-minor issue and shouldn’t discourage “normal” users from picking it up, but it just doesn’t work with my post workflow, you know? I’d rather edit in Markdown than have to write messy HTML in posts.
Hopefully one day soon the WordPress folks will bring native Markdown support to self-hosted WordPress blogs, not just ones hosted on WordPress.com, but until then, I’ll be sticking with the excellent Markdown on Save plugin.
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