I love Jesper Juul's research. His first book, Half-Real, is on my bookshelf right now. He's a huge influence on why I'm doing my English Lit thesis on videogame narratives.

Anybody else kinda miffed that Steam's down right now? Blu was just about to win a heated game of Orange_v3 when suddenly the service crapped out.

Wait, so you mean to say that EVE Online wasn't like this before? I'm curious, what was it like prior to this update?

@Zelyre: Out of topic moment. You can brick a mouse?

@Zelyre: The problem persists with my laptop as well, not just the PCs. I think I may be mistaking the VIA chipset for something else, I haven't verified PC1's loadout since it's not around for me to check. But yes, I suppose flashing the BIOS for all three machines is the next logical step.

@Zelyre: It'd actually be less perplexing if we were all running on the same hardware, wouldn't it? Unfortunately that's just not the case.

@Zelyre: Disabling multicore support would help if we had graphical hitches or hiccups during gameplay, but as it stands right now we sometimes can't even last long enough to reach the "Options - Video - Show Advanced Settings - Multicore Rendering - Disable" part of the main menu without CingTD. It's off, anyway, at…

Just a warning for those who dislike walls of text. Long post ahead.

@Xenris: It seems to have fixed some CTD issues for me, but what I find strange is that for the first two days after release, I haven't had any issues with the game whatsoever. Yesterday and the day before, I kept crashing to desktop when trying to play L4D2 while Steam was in Online mode; it worked fine when Offline.

@Mit: I lost my achievements as well. Some people on the Steam forums said that theirs came back along with their stats, but I still have a big fat 0/50 at the top of my achievements list.

So is this game a "no," then? #guitarhero

With 1,047,671 players online just last night, within the first week of release, that's bound to have happened at least once so far.

@SplotchEleven: Japan = afraid of pubic hair? I politely disagree. #left4dead2

@DanoruX: Concur! #callofdutymodernwarfare2

@Marios_shadow: Agreed. It's where I learned what lagomorphs were! #halloween

@Kral2: I agree that on a business standpoint, the longevity of a subscription-based MMO should depend on the long-term players who stick around even long after achieving endgame levels rather than on potentially more fickle-minded short-term players who would probably pay for a month (and this *after* the free trial…

@Atheist Jew: That Asian is pretty cute. Was she around when you were still there, or did they hire her after? If the latter, I'd say that warrants a "GOOD JOB, GUYS!" too. #gameinformer

Any news on whether or not the Kel-Dor will be a playable race? I became a huge fan of Plo Koon after playing as him in Jedi Power Battles. #starwarstheoldrepublic

I hate campers!

@Clarke has received achievement: "h4xed"