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I'm sure it's: mold = shaped object, usually made of plaster or such mould = not so nice thing to have on your walls, usually a sign of damp.

It still needs this for it's theme tune: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZAhqEiq4cA

Yeah, I'm waiting on their blog post though. See what they actually have to say on it. The tweets that came from them were a start, wonder if they set the tone of the blog post. Side effect of commenters dropping off: Less than 2 weeks into the month and they're having to recycle TAY pictures. I'd of said it'd be a case of Totilo not realising, but he has put in a special plea for new images.

http://www.thq.com/us/news/show/13677

I'm still logged in(network wide hiccups tend to log everyone out, I've not had to log in for over a week now) and it doesn't seem to be an issue for anyone else(You're only one up to now that's brought it up). Also that screengrab is yesterday and a bit of the day before. When was it yesterday you stopped being able to log in?

Gay Gamer?

The boxart. Well done THQ, well done. via @quinns108

Wow, please tell me you did not just go there. "You think it's bad, therefore you must suck". I'm not a fantastic player, but I ain't too bad if I say so myself and even I agree with a fair few of his points. Also if you're watching bot lanes you won't see the assassins. Most tend to be outside your spawn. Which is oh so fun. Also regarding the whole teamplay in general, rarely am I in a match where folks bother with the turrets, they'll just go on and do whatever without taking any grander strategy into consideration. Which sucks cos the ROI of making turrets isn't too huge, so normally if there's just one of you doing it, then your team is fucked no matter what. One guy cannot make and maintain enough turrets with the skimpy amount of cash it generates. Actually talking cash that system is fucked up too. Cannot count the amount of times I'll kill someone then an assassin on my team will dash in and pick up the cash n juice.

I'm tidying up my Dropbox folder (which means I may need to FTP a few things up here in future) and came across this: The mid-beta server browser. Buggy, quite different, and it also opened on the LAN tab by default.

Just to hammer home what Kearney said: Here is last week http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2066351/Screenshots/Kotaku/Last_week.png (2/2/11, see I chose a nice international date) And here is yesterday (cos recent articles will be low anyway) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2066351/Screenshots/Kotaku/Yesterday.png (10/2/11) Both are big files btw. 80-90% of articles struggle to get past 100 comments, whereas last week 80-90% were well past the 100 comment mark. Hit's are roughly similar though.

(there may be something more appropriate, but this is the first thing on my shelf that suited)

Hah, your post read more like it should of opened with "Hello, my name is excalipurbs and Iv'e being reading Kotaku for 5 years now......and I've not read it for 3 days now" *small round of applause from the rest of us* "feels good man" Yeah I echo your sentiments on Bash, dude is pretty chill and he has been one of the best when replying to emails. But he's not exactly what I'd go to a game site to read Luke annoyingly is generally one of the more on-topic, but yeah he's very opinionated. Which because of the way the system (very depressingly) works can become the opinions of everyone else. Tim...well Tim on the new format better not become a featured article because...http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2066351/kotaku%20beta.png (large-ish file) The COD obsession I'm kind of unsure about. tbh many of us reckon there's some under the table deal, cos even a huge COD fan isn't going to start spending articles on reviewing faceplates for a game. http://kotaku.com/#!...ut-does-the-job It was a star well spent (shame he banned everyone else in that thread) Though I guess it might be the reasons for more recent posts and his GOTY stuff (I didn't actually read any of their GOTY stuff, I have a feeling I should get up to speed on Crecentes. I echoed the opinion that their method was very pretentious to hold out, especially since their GOTY choices were pretty much the same as any other site anyway) It is a shame their coverage is so mainstream. They rarely cover indies unless they become big via other means (and while I'm a fan of Minecraft, their coverage went too far. However it does make a lot of videos and images which make for nice n simple posts to make) Anywho I'm gonna reply to your "Introduce Yourself" queries here: Basically after I was banned last July Crecente made a comment on Speakup that directly referenced stuff I'd said on Facebook. Thing is googling my kotaku account name for my facebook account takes you to my dummy account: http://www.facebook....100000905110468 which I used to play Farmville for a while (was gonna do an article on it, kinda gave up cos the game was a tad crap). Which means you'd have to jump through a couple loops to get to my real name from knowing my kotaku username then to get to my facebook. Now going through your readers facebook profiles is crossing the line, but going out of your way to track down their facebook account? That's not just crossing the line but going right over the border. Should be noted I'm not their faceboook friends, I don't use a facebook account on Kotaku and I don't have kotaku "liked" especially after that whole thing where they stuck Gawker Applications on our FB accounts without asking. Oh here's the 3DS thing as promised:http://kotaku.com/#!...343073:24343073 Lol at his "confirmation" (which I repeat from yesterday turned out to be wrong) I can't remember if we had PXOD back then, I think we did, I should of brushed up that image n posted it as an article. Anywho I can't find his reaction of the concorde stuff. There is this one which is pretty infamous across the net: http://kotaku.com/#!...s-the-xbox-pure Where he basically blamed CheapAssGamer for a rumour he reported on, rather than taking the hit himself for not bothering to look more into it and notice CAG had a forum competition going on to come up with a rumour. I assume the guy who came up with the Xbox Pure rumour won Which apparently googling for myself on kotaku and then the CAG incident chucks up this which I guess might be worth a spin through. I guess folks finally took crecente up on his "like it or leave" offer. It did link to this which I remember it being fun when it hit the net:http://www.something...taku-parody.php Oh and Kotaku in general: http://kotaku.com/#!...slow-load-times If they find a game they want to dislike, they'll go full hog on it. A fair chunk of thier GT5 stories were ridiculing how long it was taking to come out but this took the cake. While it was eventually updated and corrected it took them about 2 days to do that. Took them over half a day or so for them just to put in the first update despite many folks immediately pointing out that it was obviously slowed down. But hey, why listen to your readers pretty good and correct advice huh? edit: some more of that trademark "I'm right, you're wrong lalalalalala" http://kotaku.com/#!kotakueditorialboard/forum?comment=35899914:35902898

For srs? You accidentally reading Kotaku Australia or something? Investigative journalism: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/02/09/will-bulletstorm-murder-your-children-no/ http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/02/09/churnalism-fox-news-selective-quoting/ http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/02/10/the-fox-news-debacle-techsavvy-update/ Which then became: http://kotaku.com/#!5756624/how-fox-news-gets-video-games-so-wrong If reading other sites and linking to them is investigative journalism then those newspaper folks put in way too much effort. Still more power to you if you feel their articles are informative n such.

You guys would be looking for this: http://twitter.com/#!/gabrielsnyder/status/32975739020115968 As for it being a Yay or Nay? Yay that they're getting their just desserts for being so damn arrogant, also Kotaku could do with being knocked down a peg or too, might have to actually starting putting in some effort to get readerbase. But Nay in that the commenters over the past few years have being pretty cool and it's a shame to see them all go and be broken apart over this. Which I touched up on a fair bit the other day Thing is from what Denton has said, and Luke echoed, they reckon it'll be like Facebook; People complain, but ultimately still stick about. What Denton & his disciples forget is that you can count the amount of sites like facebook on one hand.....and still have 3 fingers and a thumb left over. There is nowhere to really go from facebook. Your friends and family are there, and unless they're also on Imaginary Site X too, then that one has nothing to offer you. There are however at the very least 34 alternatives to Kotaku (since that's the amount of feeds in that pack I made the other day, and that's still short a few sources). And Kotaku & co have nothing unique to offer other these other gaming sites other than science articles and the occasional Japanese tittes. And you can get them other sites too. You can head to Joystiq and apart from lack of TAY you won't much skip a beat in the content you read. Actually TAY, I lie they did have more to offer over others and that was it's community. Shame none of the higher ups recognised that fact. In fact as seen multiple times and in Dentons own words (it's in the Fuck kotaku thread) they actively want to discourage us pretty much. Kinda forgetting the community = readerbase = pagehits = advertising revenue. Which I always thought funny when the Kotaku defendees would be "this is a free site, do you pay them?" and I'm like "well not directly, but if a bunch of us all fuck off, then the Advertisers won't pay them". And hey, look what happened.

For the dead bodies just melee them and they die. It's because they're not dead, just mortally wounded. Hence them still being solid as if they were alive. Also means if you don't whack em they'll possibly get a medic a couple seconds later and get their revenge.

And what name do you use when you're in public or just not copulating in general?

Ach! Dude get it on PC. It's not much these days (shame we're a month past the last Xmas sale) and we've got a server set up where we'd quickly get you up to speed on the PC version.

tbh with COD it seems all the other publishers (though EA was a bit dim-witted to that fact mr "release 2 modern war games in a year") have picked up that it's pushing that particular segment of FPS games into the shithole so are jumping ship from "semi-realistic modern/recent combat FPS" games to less realistic, more stylized FPS games. The FPS genre has long legs, and for smart developers quite a bit too offer in things to work with. So we're getting Bulletstorm, DNF (though if that's on purpose or coincidental timing unsure), Brink, Portal 2 (def coincidence) and maybe a handful of others(I don't follow FPS too close). But yeah sucks for Rockband crew that Activisions destroyed their potential money spinner. You have to wonder what the hell Bungie was offered or was thinking. Cos either they can't see trends, or their contract has some built in failsafes on ACTI doing things kind of stuff to them. (Also I assume ACTI are planning for a Post-COD world in picking up Bungie)

I'd say it's more a case of hardware n games not made for it anymore. Cos I reckon there's folks still playing NES games, but the NES has been dead for a while.

Hence me asking. also I notice I wrote roof when I meant ceiling

http://www.destructoid.com/dtoid-new-features-faq-viewing-preferences-and-groups-190844.phtml Heh... D'toid revamped their site too. Not a drastic change, but something similar to what Gawker were aiming for. Basically the hotness of a story determine it size. IF you look down the front page some are full articles, some are just minor leads with thumbnail image, and some are just headlines.Not a bad concept.Also notice the lack of complaints. (though just for Faiblesse I will point out that since D'toids recent revamp, they tweaked it a few months back, it is one of the most resource hungry sites on the net.) Joystiq still rocks the best redesign. It's clean and elegant, regular blog view. The articles have a platform tagging system that works pretty well, and with major tags at top for different types of content the site has. I think they need to pick one or the other on featured article bars at top, like drop the 3 view, and keep the timer bar thing up top. And the side bar has random useful things, rather than containing the blog scroll all crammed up.

But that'd also be a pretty silly amount. Anyway looking it up, the max is 4 Move controllers at once. That's max the system supports, but yes PS3 can do 7 bluetooth devices, so I'm unsure why the Move is limited to 4. Might be them imposing it and not a technical limitiation. Which once again, probably a H&S thing. 7 people waving moves about would take a fair chunk of space and lead to injuries.

Back in the day IW wanted to just call it Modern Warfare. Have it as a spin-off of COD rather than a direct part of it (It'd also of given them more leeway over ownership of the name) Activision would have none of it and it gained COD name a few months before release.