January 2011
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I’ve begun to get to that point where the sheer backlog of photos that are unposted creates a malaise/inertia which prevents the uploading of anything.
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“Let’s talk dialectics:
Das Leben ist Scheiße. –– Life is shit....
– Joe, my German professor
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Hey! It snowed overnight in Prague. Making everything even MORE picturesque. Of course, I wonder if it’ll char and melt into slush like it does in New York…
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History is madness.
– Jan Urban (and not the soccer player)
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a final note for the evening: one of our academic buildings, where my informal Czech class begins in just over 9 hours, is housed in a complex called Richtruv dum which gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “you shall not pass”
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Arrived in Heathrow without much incident. Dan and I are now taking the ridiculously priced Heathrow Xbox (Express) to London. There’s WiFi, but only for 15 minutes. And here our troubles begin.
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Here I go!
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It’s only about exploiting the players and yes, people report having fun...
– Gamasutra - Features - Catching Up With Jonathan Blow
Jonathan Blow, creator of Braid and the upcoming game The Witness, talking about negative, exploitative design trends in games like FarmVille. Also present in some MMOs (Interview is more on the technical side of development.)