keithburgun

Could someone explain this joke to me, a total programming noob?

Check out the book "punished by rewards". Also explains why achievements in video games are such a bad idea.

Reminds me of 9/11 and no one in government taking any responsibility. Except Richard Clarke.

Yeah you can write a "note". But it sucks, closed to people who don't have FB accounts, and, depending on your settings, possibly closed to people who aren't your friend.

Okay, it was down, but now it's back. I guess nevermind. It's just I never ever see it go down.

Oh crap, was that today?

Just want to point out, that the reason he cites is NOT, at all, the reason why most sci-fi sucks.

The real reason that most sci-fi (and fantasy and romance and most 'genre' novels) suck is that they focus too much on the "stuff", and not on the things which actually matter in narrative fiction writing.

The things that really matter in a story are characters, strong motivations, good dialogue, plot, conflict, etc... techniques of the writing craft. These are what make a book good or not, but they are kind of an afterthought to all the "STUFF" in Sci Fi books.

I love how it's considered this great awesome thing that you "can" spend lots of money on BUTTONS for the damn thing.

Most iPod Touches do not have a microphone =[

I also hope they don't "do a worse" than Yahoo. I'm a big Yahoo fan, actually. Call me crazy. I prefer their email service to gmail - I know that's not allowed, but I do. They have text email links that I can open in new tabs, look it up Google. Also I love Yahoo! Games, especially Chess and Go. Great service. Google, where are your games?

Full disclosure, I'm the lead designer of the game. It's on sale for 1.99 right now, btw, and there is a new playable class that just got freshly released. A female skeleton thief.