Oh hey, new IV game? Shows how much I pay attention these days.

Shame it's only for Windows.

Discovered an interesting YouTube series the other day: a modern retelling of Michael Faraday's lecture series of "The Chemical History of a Candle".

Nope.

Red-footed boobies are where it's at:

NeatNit wrote:The IRC server seems to be down, what's up?

Edit: the UplinkCorp one, obviously

It's okay, it's up again. It wouldn't be the same if it didn't flap occasionally...

Feud wrote:And here I was, for whatever reason, thinking xander was an archeologist.

an archeologist of numbers!

NeatNit wrote:interesting - what does it mean??

You can now refund a game within 14 days of purchase for any reason, provided that you have played the game for less than two hours.
Developers of games that are shorter than two hours have since noticed their sales dropping somewhat.

NeatNit wrote:I just Ascended

Now do it in Nethack.

shinygerbil wrote:I watched the trailer and I'm intrigued....but is it really worth that almost-AAA price tag?

Looks like there's a demo.

jelco wrote:Pft, office interwebs is cheating

Surely academic interwebs are also cheating?

I collect the dice. My good man, you realise that's not possible. As you'll recall from the infamous crown dependencies 1987 couples match between the teams for Guernsey and Isle of Man, numerical dice are only in play at the usual fixed intervals on the DLR. I was planning to play Embankment, but ...

So, I picked up Rogue Legacy in the Steam Summer Sale. It's a rather addictive "roguelite" platformer, with an interesting twist: each successive character has some kind of trait: one might be colourblind, another might have giantism, another myopia, and so forth. The gimmick on some of th...

Rkiver wrote:

Laika_rus wrote:"On Her Majesty's Secret Service" with Lazenby is quite lovely.

Lies. It's one of the worst Bond films ever.

One of? I'd go as far as to say "the worst".

NeatNit wrote:Wow, was absolutely EVERYONE connected to wolf.uplinkcorp.net instead of ice.uplinkcorp.net?

Well, technically, everyone bar you. Presumably everyone connects to irc.uplinkcorp.net (which is wolf).

xander wrote:http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.1016

xander

I understood nothing past the seventh word of the abstract, but congratulations nonetheless.