Why I Occasionally Regret That My Niche Has Become Mainstream:

August 27, 2008 at 6:48 pm (Links Of Interest)

Ten years ago, no one would have reported this: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,410781,00.html

It HAPPENED, but it wouldn’t have been on Fox News. Okay, maybe Fox.

And how horrible am I for thinking that instead of dumping her, the guy should have been grateful she was in fact a she?

Hat tip to good ol’ Swanny for sending me the link.

Bonus hat tip to Scott for sending me this: http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-10025123-7.html

It just gets better! The dog was making too much noise!

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Expectations

August 21, 2008 at 5:02 pm (Meta Community)

It seems like the Age of Conan community is more… agitated… than Hellgate: London’s community.

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/LFG

August 14, 2008 at 8:42 pm (Just Thinking, Links Of Interest)

I feel like I’m on a particularly bizarre bandwagon. There’s a lot of drinking and black humor, so it’s a FUN bandwagon, but still.

As you already know if you’ve been reading, oh, any gaming news site in the WORLD, Austin got a little wild-eyed and scary recently. A lot of good people are looking for work right now.

So am I!

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Answers To Problems Web 2.0 Created

August 10, 2008 at 7:46 pm (Links Of Interest)

This is as clever as it was inevitable.

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The Jellybeans Community Project

August 6, 2008 at 9:02 pm (Meta Community, Tales)

There’s an old joke that goes “For every time you have sex before you get married, put a jellybean in a jar. For every time you have sex after the wedding, take out a jellybean.” The punch line is that the jar will never be empty. That joke is so old that originally, you were supposed to put the jellybeans in the jar during your first year of marriage. But (as usual) I digress.

You could make the same “joke” with developers and how much they post before and after launch.

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