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thetron

135 karma · joined September 18, 2011

Ones, zeroes and cheese. Dev at Block

nicholas@bruning.com.au

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thetron··on Leisure Suit Larry
I don't think 'Fawn' (the woman whom Larry marries and who later ties him to the bed and robs him) is a hooker. I would consider her a major female character.

If LSL serves only to objectify women, then doesn't Grand Theft Auto serve only to glorify crime?

I always felt like these games were less about the women, and more about the comedy, stupidity and repulsiveness of the main character.

thetron··on Leisure Suit Larry
If amazing adventure game developers of yesteryear continue to start Kickstarter projects, I am going to end up seriously broke.
thetron··on OMGPOP CEO tweets: "Shay Pierce was the weakest employee on the team"
Sounds to me like Shay Pierce was the smartest employee on the team.
thetron··on Apple to hold call March 19th to talk about its $97.6B in cash
It would be great if Apple could deal themselves into the content creation game a little. If they purchased an existing studio and were able to distribute their own TV shows and Films in the manner that they wanted, then they would not longer have to go through lengthy deals with other studios before releasing new products. And having that content would put pressure on other studios to negotiate quicker (I would think).

Whilst that would be exciting and interesting - I think it will only be something boring like a dividend.

thetron··on Diablo III coming May 15
It was a little of both I suppose :)

I guess it's particularly frustrating when you compare it to a company like Valve - who set the same prices for Australia as they do for the US (not sure about other regions) for all of their new releases. Even Apple have brought the App Store price tiers almost to parity between the two regions.

I suppose that they did do the math though - as you said - I think they just priced me into ordering an import instead. A quick look around has shown a few online retailers offerring it for less than $AUD 60.

Meow.

thetron··on Diablo III coming May 15
I was referring to the digital copy - it's $20 more in Australia than it is in the US.
thetron··on Diablo III coming May 15
I am super excited for this, but a little disappointed that Blizzard apparently doesn't understand exchange rates.

The Australian dollar is currently worth (marginally) more than the US Dollar, and yet the game costs an extra $20 here. I don't understand how this is justifiable.

thetron··on Show HN: My new GitHub issue tracker, BugHub
+1 for the OS X app. I definitely know less git-savvy types that loathe having to use the Github just to access the issue tracker.
thetron··on Show HN: My new GitHub issue tracker, BugHub
Posted ^^this before I was reminded that Github released their own iPhone-only issues app. Thanks for giving the iPad some love though!
thetron··on Show HN: My new GitHub issue tracker, BugHub
Looks very nice - purchased!

I know some of my iPadless colleagues would love an iPhone version. Any plans to add universal support? Or even a separate version?

thetron··on Mothership Down: Apple bug halts the production of development certificates.
Does anyone have any insight into this problem at all?
thetron··on Oregon Blogger Isn't a Journalist, Court Imposes $2.5M Judgement
_Especially_ when going up against a law firm in court!
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