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So awhile ago I wrote a little thing about the concept of Peak Effort, which is that, given equal motivation, top players of various competitive games put in a relatively equal amount of effort, even if the returns are more less in any given game. The hardest games to play at a high ( Read more... )

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With the Cross Assault stuff going on, I’ve read a number of pro-woman (though not always expressly feminist) pieces and it’s great to see this kinda of out pour of support. Classier, older members of the gaming community are starting to take a stand. That said, there are a number of ( Read more... )

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So I was checking an old design forum I used to read. I see a post by an notoriously awful poster there. Now this guy isn’t INHERENTLY stupid, he’s like a smart numbers guy, but he has totally stupid, inflexible views on things. The threat was (and this is referring to competitive ( Read more... )

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So my cool-ass music guy, Warg, is having trouble keeping up with the development of BE:P and we sorta both agree that he has way too much pressure on him. So Warg needs some help! I’m looking for some chiptune artists who can do authentic NES style stuff, like in famitracker. Warg ( Read more... )

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Recently Notch has tweeted about what happened with him and the Yogscast guys, which basically involved them apparently being assholes at MineCon. Now Notch might (though I really doubt it) be embellishing the truth, but even if he was, this would be an interesting topic anyways. So ( Read more... )

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Warning: The following contains sexist, racist and homophobic language. Not in a sexist, racist or homophobic content, but they’re there. This is a post about foul words. They will be used. A lot.

Now with all topics like this, let me state that I am white, straight, male and middle ( Read more... )

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I won’t go too much into detail about the Rebecca Watson thing as I am ignorant to most of it. But I do remember defending the predominately male side in Dickwolves case. I did this because I think the women who initially cased the incident were overreacting to an initial joke. What ( Read more... )

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