Archive for July, 2010
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31 Jul 2010
"Started the process of moving my money out of Bank of Assholes."
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31 Jul 2010
I’ve now played StarCraft 2 for two days. I’ve finished five missions on the single-player campaign, and played a handful of co-op multiplayer games. If you had asked me to describe the game based on the Beta, I would have said it was just StarCraft HD. Higher resolution, more beautiful, some new tech, but the gameplay is identical. The single player campaign, though, is where this game really shines. The original StarCraft’s single player was essentially a series of levels that got steadily harder and had some story connecting them. The sequel turns makes the stages non-linear, introduces credits as reward for some stages that you can then use to hire mercenary units when you’re in a bind for near-instant help or spend on research to improve units, and secondary objectives in some missions allow you to earn alien research points you can use to improve buildings. The original game only had ten Terran missions, and I’m willing to bet there are triple that in this game. Plus there are probably seven hundred achievements.
The multiplayer is fun, but you kinda need to be a semi-professional to do well at it. As Splatta said the other day, that seems too much like work.
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28 Jul 2010
"My video game wasn't delivered on release day. #firstworldproblem #starcraft2"
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27 Jul 2010
"My dream Rick Rolled me last night, and it's still stuck in my head."
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26 Jul 2010
"It's been a long time since I purchased a physical game, I forget how this works. I can't play #StarCraft2 until my key comes in the mail?"
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26 Jul 2010
The Library of Congress changed DMCA enforcement policy in a big way today. DVDs, cell phones, software, video games.. all kinds of hacks are now legal. -
26 Jul 2010
"Hey @bostonist, NextBus now works for all Boston bus lines. #MBTA announcement pending? http://bit.ly/azOQyi"
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26 Jul 2010
MBTA is probably going to announce this pretty soon. Looks like ALL buses now have GPS devices on-board.
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26 Jul 2010
God, this is brilliant. These guys keep coming up with really great ideas to try to pull me back into the game.
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23 Jul 2010
"I've come to the decision that M.I.A. is awesome and anyone who doesn't like /\/\/\Y/\ is wrong."
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22 Jul 2010
This is the tale of the decade, mixed in with some spot-on TV analysis.
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22 Jul 2010Triathlon triptych
Here are the three best "official" photos from the race. It would cost me more to get the high-resolution photos on a CD than it cost me to enter the race. No thanks, guys.
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21 Jul 2010
It was really stupid of Apple to point at other manufacturers' phones. That's just asking for your hand-waving to backfire.
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21 Jul 2010
"Today, I'm exactly half my dad's age. That is: I'm exactly the age he was on the day I was born."
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20 Jul 2010
"Goodbye Touchwiz, hello custom ROM. Holy crap, this is fast."