Interesting Links for 03-08-2013

[andrewducker]

• And I’m like, Quotative ‘like’ isn’t just for quoting
  (tags: language vializziecassmaran )
• Penguin's insane policy on electronic galleys for authors
  (tags: publishing )
• 7 Terrible Truths About Motion Capture Suits - Part 1
  (tags: motioncapture )
• Bucket! Of! Sloths!
  (tags: viaEatSoylentGreen cute video )
• How milk changed the course of humans in

Comments

Everquest

[xenophanean]

I see what you mean about the Molyneux problem. What they are attempting looks almost impossible. I wish them luck, but I won't hold my breath.

Re: Everquest

[andrewducker]

Yeah, I can think of ways of doing some of it, and making it be fun. but I want more details before I get too excited.

Re: Everquest

[cairmen]

It's similar in many ways to what Guild Wars 2 attempted, and partially succeeded at, but more ambitious.

I'm optimistic. A lot of people, from SOE down to the tiny team making CubeWorld, are all working on the same problem right now - a living fantasy land. It only needs one of them to get it right and that's my entertainment for the next decade or so sorted.

(Plus, two words: Oculus Rift.)

Re: Everquest

[andrewducker]

I'm more thinking that if you let a bunch of players loose in a fully-destructible world then you'd have a pile of smoking cinders left 17 seconds later.

I can think of solutions to this - but I'm waiting to see what _their_ solutions are. If they can't cope with griefers knocking out all of the bridges connecting the capital city to everywhere else then they haven't thought it through :->

[andrewducker]

#36 was the one that got me.

[andrewducker]

Does this work any better?
http://stancarey.wordpress.com/2013/08/01/and-im-like-quotative-like-isnt-just-for-quoting/

[poisonduk]

Wow. Not turning this into which is better as you know I'm not like that but totallly gobmacked that find my android isn't already a standard. I'd say its my most invaluable iPhone functionality. The amount of time I've saved myself by checking the map location to see if I've left it at the other house!

[andrewducker]

Yeah - Google provide enough other services (Maps, email, etc.) that you'd think that "Store the last location your device was seen at" would be an obvious one!

[resonant]

Interesting how "peynir" in Turkey is similar to the "paneer" of northern India. Migration of the lactase tolerance mutation and the vocabulary of dairy products may be linked. Probably happened before the Romani migration, though.

[andrewducker]

Similar enough that the Wiki page for Paneer lists them as the same thing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paneer