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61% of historians rate the Bush presidency the worst in U.S. history.

-Noah

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Jatopian
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Wait, Harding is no longer worst /or/ second worst? When did that happen?

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mrimer wrote:
...it is neat, but to think that game concept won the IGF grand prize this year makes me gnash my teeth at the state of gaming today.

How so? It seems like a simple concept with some potential to it, particularly with some cunning level design. Drawing, say, your own catapult would be most entertaining.

Wait, Harding is no longer worst /or/ second worst? When did that happen?

Yeah, I find this hard to buy.

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RoboBob3000
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The article wrote:
An unscientific poll of professional historians...

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mrimer
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Mattcrampy wrote:

mrimer wrote:
...it is neat, but to think that game concept won the IGF grand prize this year makes me gnash my teeth at the state of gaming today.

How so? It seems like a simple concept with some potential to it, particularly with some cunning level design. Drawing, say, your own catapult would be most entertaining.

Hmm...what does "simple" have to do with being the best IGF game of 2008? Are we talking old-school is Teh Win here? Like Space Invaders? Like art deco? And a game with an idea "with some potential" in no way means it should even be considered to receive a grand prize...unless everything else is even worse. Were I a judge, I would have said, "Why don't you get some of that potential into your game and let's see it again for real next year."

But I think I should mount my argument properly in another thread about game play and design.

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The science of magical thinking (not that I think that psychology today is a very reliable or worthy site, but that is a good article)

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Beef Row
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NiroZ wrote:
The science of magical thinking (not that I think that psychology today is a very reliable or worthy site, but that is a good article)

Interesting read, though I think the last page's analogies relating to modern technology are rather strained and clumsy.

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NiroZ
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Beef Row wrote:
Interesting read, though I think the last page's analogies relating to modern technology are rather strained and clumsy.

I suppose they were trying to spruce up very old common knowledge. I mean, gunpowder has been considered to be magic by naive natives as far back as the 15th century.

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Avalanche. A time-killing platformer.

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The Philosophical Revelations of Sinistar

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Pinnacle wrote:
The Philosophical Revelations of Sinistar

Coffee with Sinistar

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The Backloggery, a website for managing the backlog of all those games you've been meaning to play. It's quite well laid out.

Here's me.

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Jocks vs. Nerds. Nerds win.

Edit: fixed link.
Don't know how that happened.

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Dolan42
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golfrman wrote:
Jocks vs. Nerds. Nerds win.

Corrected link. (Or at least a link that works for my firefox. It doesn't like the extra s before http)

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Find out your Discworld Zen name. Mine is Enlightened Mind of Deja-Fu.

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The best way to explode a Creme Egg - utterly, utterly pointless. But brilliant.

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calamarain wrote:
The best way to explode a Creme Egg - utterly, utterly pointless. But brilliant.

Nice.

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Very very cool. Reminded me of this Honda commercial. I'm pretty certain they had a bigger budget to work with, so the "brilliant" factor isn't as high, but it's still pretty amazing seeing as it's all real time -- no CGI.

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noma wrote:
Very very cool. Reminded me of this Honda commercial. I'm pretty certain they had a bigger budget to work with, so the "brilliant" factor isn't as high, but it's still pretty amazing seeing as it's all real time -- no CGI.

Actually... they did cheat slightly. It's not one continuous shot, it's two, spliced together at a certain point in the middle. But still epically awesome nonetheless.

I just find the creme egg one extra impressive because it's home made.

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In the same vein: Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Der Lauf der Dinge (1987).

http://www.tcfilm.ch/pop_lauf1e.htm

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Continuing the Creme Egg theme... mousetraps - again utterly pointless but cool.

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Awwwwww www...

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Draw an image, get an image. Basically, you draw something with a mouse, hit "swap" button and receive someone else's drawing. It's quite fun, I have to admit:

Sketch swap.
Another sketch swap (no moderation, has undo/reset).

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I want one!

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Why gas prices are so high, and what you can do to help lower them

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Beef Row
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DiMono wrote:
Why gas prices are so high, and what you can do to help lower them

Cool, its actual practical suggestions instead of that "don't buy gas on day X!" nonsense that always floods the internet.

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Beef Row wrote:

DiMono wrote:
Why gas prices are so high, and what you can do to help lower them

Cool, its actual practical suggestions instead of that "don't buy gas on day X!" nonsense that always floods the internet.

I must say I like the message, but I honestly don't understand why Americans are actually complaining about high oil prices. A gallon of petrol costs here (in Europe) about 9 US dollars, and people here are still buying it. (It's 1.5 euros per litre, so converting to gallons and dollar it's about 9.)

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Americans are greedy (no offense) and want more money for an unknown purpose. Spending money on gas and petrol uses up that money.

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Mr. Slice wrote:
...more money for an unknown purpose...

the worth of the Dollar is going down. right now, €1 is already worth around 1.5$, that's a big difference in worth.

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Did someone say gunfire techno?

(A track made entirely out of COD4 gunfire clips)