- Talking To Pirates
"A few days ago I posted a simple question on my blog. ‘Why do people pirate my games?’ It was an honest attempt to get real answers to an important question. …The response was massive. This is what I found:"
Tags: indie, games, piracy, drm, copyright, pirates, publishing, gamedev - On Luthor.
"Other villains fight men. Luthor is, when you get down to brass tacks, a man trying to fight God. …After all, if Superman was going to have an enemy - a real enemy, worthy of being Superman’s greatest foe - then that man had to be completely bad-ass. He had to be Batman, but evil."
Tags: lexluthor, superman, batman, villains, comics, enemies, superheroes, supervillians, dc - I failed at freelancing
Bryan Veloso explains why freelancing is not for everyone - I’m totally with him, here. I would suck at freelancing because I suck at selling myself and networking, and I need the pressure of an organization to enforce deadlines. Left to my own devices, I miss deadlines repeatedly. I’ve only done two freelance jobs, and both of them had me deliver way late.
Tags: bryanveloso, avalonstar, freelancing - Bait & Tackle
"The other day, while getting Noah ready for his nap, I noticed something. Something…odd…and white? What is that? The odd-and-possibly-white thing was on a…how shall I say…very delicate and highly valuable part of his anatomy."
Tags: amalah, children, babies, parenting, diapers, boys, funny - Penny Arcade: A Life Of Service
Funniest Penny Arcade in awhile. I love how expressive the Storm Troopers are.
Tags: pennyarcade, webcomics, comics, stormtroopers, starwars, satire, jedi, crates, theforceunleashed, video, games - FCC To Comcast: Stop Blocking Peer-To-Peer Content
"The Federal Communications Commission has ordered Comcast to stop blocking peer-to-peer traffic by year’s end, change its network management practices, and comply with several other requirements or face the possibility of an immediate injunction."
Tags: fcc, comcast, p2p, peertopeer, bittorrent, legal, law, business, internet, traffic - Harassment at Comic-Con
"There is not a word in the written rules about harassment or the like. I would like to see something like ‘Comic-Con has zero tolerance for harassment or violence against any of our attendees or exhibitors.’"
Tags: sdcc, comics, culture, gender, feminism, sexism, harassment, abuse, security, sandiego, comiccon - How to win a fight against twenty children
"Let the last one walk away. In Professional Twenty-Child-Fighting Leagues this is now tradition, but even during raw, underground twenty child street-fights it serves an important purpose."
Tags: children, fighting, martialarts, satire, howto, guides - Was McCain Tortured?
"in the Military Commissions Act, McCain acquiesced to the use of these techniques against terror suspects by the CIA. And so the tortured became the enabler of torture."
Tags: mccain, politics, torture, war, terrorism, vietnam, president, history, military, election







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