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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/10637968/Facebook-sex-changes-which-one-of-50-genders-are-you.html The full list, which explains how it managed to get up to 50. Synonyms. Also Ellen Page has come out as gay http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/ellen-page-announces-i-am-gay-at-las-vegas-conference-for-lgbt-teens-9130529.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-26177050 FB have massively expanded their gender options. A positive move, though I'm struggling to come up with 50. Unless they're including the far out ones like otherkin and such?

I'll likely pick this up in the future. Maybe around birthday time when it's good and cheap.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-02-13-microsofts-pc-gaming-chief-leaves-after-just-six-months MS hire executive from Valve for thier PC dept. After 6 months he's already left. What the hell is happening within Microsoft's PC division?

So firstly: I was under the impression that while it likes to style itself as hippy central, at the end of the day when it comes to politics California is pretty conservative, hence Prop 8 passing. And Secondly: I'm not the only one seeing the K in the topic title right? (or left as the case may be)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-26166794 So this throws a big spanner in Independent Scotland. Kinda need money to run a country. It's shit on both sides mind, Independent Scotland should never have assumed they'd get to use the Pound and Osborne is just been a nob and playing politics in saying it'd be an instant no on our front.

http://www.titanfall.com/beta Titanfall Beta sign ups.

I guess if it was made passive (in the electric games) it might be improved, but I don't think there's anything inherently bad with the recharging. It allowed the designers to vary difficulty throughout in key placement of charge points, knocking out power, giving you a bus with infinite charge to ride around on etc.

On one hand this could be useful given for years Steam has seemingly insisted that "indie", "Family" and "Action" are useful genres. But on the other hand, it's probably going to take an age to actually work and it's once again another new feature on top of the burgeoning 2010 build of Steam. Someone at Valve really needs to stop the feature creep and get Steam a major overhaul in usability, especially if they're going to continue adding games at the current accelerated pace. Since the 2010 redesign they've added: Greenlight Tags Steam OS Big Picture Mode Market Workshop Hubs Steambook Guide Early Access Linux Recommendations Reviews Screenshots Software Probably others And this is all built upon two websites, one a store for games, and the other a community feed. Edit: I'm not sure if this will work without like a billion people using the tag (from how it reads on the page) but: http://store.steampowered.com/tag/en/PXOD/ If you tag games as "PXOD" that you recommend, potentially they'll end up on there.

The dice rolls mentioned in Alex's link. And sure they are in many RPGs, but this a shooter, which as they note in most online shooter games it tends to be physics/trajectories/all that lot. I think Fallout is one of the few SP shooters with dice rolls. And "persistent shared world co-op" is pretty much an alternative description of "massively multiplayer on-line game". As far as destiny goes, that seems to be an MMO as well, but just like yourself, not using the word "MMO". I imagine due to stigma.

Well until there's a broader range of words use in the industry, the oversimplification by calling it "MMO" will have to do. It ain't co-op MP and given the persistent nature I'd guess it's not completive MP either. PvP and PvE are MMO terms, and there's a comparison to Guild Wars, which is an MMO. Dice rolls is another MMO thing since it's easier than doing the physics in real time in an MMO server. Obviously it's not WoW, but it ain't no CoD or Borderlands either.

I'm just hugely bummed it's an MMO.

Well as I said, hit up SCEJ, they're the ones releasing Vita TV only in Japan citing net speeds, and SCEA are the folks knocking out PS Now in NA despite the net speeds.

It's a 27 year old file format that's from a time where text websites were still pretty much king and broadband speeds were things Universities had. Things like Imgur and Tumblr were barely a twinkle in folks eye at the time. It's a pretty solid given it's age and limitations. Gfycat uses HTML5 and six video formats to cover all current unagreed upon HTML5 video formats. They're relatively new and given the aggressive use of bots throughout Reddit obviously aiming for some kind of minor explosion in use and VC funding/buyout or what not. I can't imagine converting to 6 video formats and hosting unlimited size gifs is going to be a wholly viable long term business model. Also they compress the gifs, which is generally the main issue with gifs loading slow. No one uses APNG because it's Mozilla's baby that the PNG board rejected. It would be a good high quality alternative to gif but as it's a non-standard that Mozilla control/don't control it would be useless for other browsers to implement. And since it's only viewable in one browser, no one creates APNGs when GIFs work everywhere. WebM will likely be the overall winner, but W3C are fucking slow ass movers and there's a shit ton of politics surrounding HTML5 video.

Vita TV does the whole Remote Play shebang, which is it's done from a distance would require decent internet speeds. PS Now isn't hitting Japan first because Japan won't have the PS4 until end of this month. And we've already covered the "yeah it's a bit silly that PS Now is coming out in NA first". Given previous game streaming success stories you'd figure they might purposefully aim to have as few fuck ups as possible as they launch. Anyway I'm not head of SCEJ, ask them about it.

Given the reason for Vita TV being Japan only for now was "everyone else has shit internet" I can't see it being a case of twiddling thumbs for a couple months for a NA release, but potentially for a couple years.

GIF being the format of choice is mainly due to: 1. It works/it's simple 2. Usually it's pretty fast (compared to video)* 3. APNG is Mozilla's non-standard baby 4. No one can agree on a video format for web use. *And if compressed properly, which is the same with most things on the web.

It's been out on PS Store for ages (at least in UK) https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-gb/games/final-fantasy-vi/cid=EP0082-NPEF00157_00-GFINALFANT000001 (Where it's also £8/$13 making it £3 less than on mobile)

And oh what privilege would that be, and pick your hand very carefully on this one. As a hint, you can't play the straight card.

Various comments made by Gabe and Valve over the past year or so show a dissatisfaction with Greenlight, and also an implication of user curated stores powered by Steam.

FDS, what part of 1. you're trying to hard 2. "not for everyone" Are you failing to grasp?

Just wait until the rumoured "everything goes" store comes for Steam (which amazingly some folk are really gagging for. Death to Greenlight and all that)

Except I haven't made any of those assumptions, and I even added in the "though not for everyone" bit cos I know you'd be a stickler for pointing out not all gay men like anal sex. You are trying too hard.