Every time someone mentions Spore (or what it became, rather), I think back to that old demo reel and wonder if anyone else besides myself saw it. Thank you for confirming it wasn’t some wonderful fever-dream.

Nobody beats the Kachou.

That pretty much mirrors my current wishlist.

That’d be awesome. Maybe the Alliance will form an... well, an alliance with them. They can be the answer to the Federation combat ships.

It’s currently just limited to artifacts and signs of them, though there’s a precedent for them in Elite lore.

The fact that they’re being found in inhabited space makes me wonder if they’re some kind of Thargoid beacon. Like, those are where they’ll drop out of witch-space when the invasion comes. People are currently fixated on the sounds they make, but they keep thinking they decode into a set of coordinates. What if they…

I love that your correction of adding a diaeresis to the i wasn’t the purpose of your post.

I’m shooting little green men all over Ms. Universe.

One of them, Octarine Core, is a nice little hat-tip to the recently deceased writer Terry Pratchett.

Well, one positive thing that may have come from all of this is that it brought the donation feature of Nexus further into the light. People clamored so much for a donation feature, hopefully they’ll actually go use the one that’s available to them.

Well, it does go with everything.

In that regard, I apologize. My response to things taking priority is only in regards to his corporate responsibilities, not his health. Obviously, his health should take priority, nobody is suggesting otherwise.

I totally agree. However, as an important CEO, certain things should take priority. This seems like one of those things.

Which is a cool way to run a company. I just meant that it’s difficult to type well thought out, convincing arguments on an iPad.

I followed the thread as it happened this weekend, and it seemed to me that the reason he was down voted so much is illustrated at the bottom of the second-to-last picture up there: the one about responding to irrelevant posts. If you try to read through that ridiculously lengthy thread and look for GabeNewellBellevue…

There’s actually historical precedent for this. Aleister Crowley’s cult believed in the power of menstrual blood, otherwise known as the “blood of the moon”. It was apparently one of their most powerful reagents.

Optimism is great. Sadly, we’re already seeing where this trend will lead us. It’s down the same dark, nasty road that In-App-Payments lead us in the mobile game market. It’s a road marked Greed. The creator of the Midas Magic mod (currently also the most expensive paid mod available) “updated” his free version of the…

I see where you’re coming from, but in the case of SkyUI, the creator has stated that the MCM portion will always be free and all updates compatible with v4.1 (the last free version). In addition, the last free version is open source, and people are already working on free forks of it. But, again, I understand and…

This debacle keeps spiraling further and further into madness. Chesko has essentially completely withdrawn from the modding community. He’s deleted his Reddit account and many others, he’s pulled all of his mods from both the Steam Workshop and Nexus, and he’s publicly stated that he’s leaving the community for the…

That is too bad. Alas.