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Re: 'Super Crate Box' Crash Fix Released, New Content Coming at the 5 Million Crates Mark

nostrich — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:48:20 -0000

How do you explain the Game Center high scores, in that case?

Re: http://happyfoodtest.tumblr.com/post/566054563

nostrich — Sat, 08 May 2010 13:22:59 -0000

Here's another.

Re: http://happyfoodtest.tumblr.com/post/566054563

nostrich — Sat, 08 May 2010 13:18:37 -0000

Here's a test comment.

Re: "moreish"

nostrich — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:06:12 -0000

Yes! "Elevenses" is a simply wonderful word and concept. I should introduce that to people too.

Re: http://tumbledore.tumblr.com/post/395199302

nostrich — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:37:48 -0000

Or maybe -- just maybe! -- it's because searching for your own name doesn't return your own posts; it only searches the contents of posts and tags. Keep up the paranoia though, it's amusing.

Re: http://shmups.tumblr.com/post/346066716

nostrich — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:38:55 -0000

It's about controlling the difficulty, Rich. If you just keep plugging until you die, sure, your rank will go down then, too. But if you can introduce an element of strategy, you'll see much better results. For one, hoarding lives increases rank too, so suiciding and ditching that extra life will have a marked effect on difficulty. And suiciding before a boss could mean the difference between making it through an easier boss fight without losing a life, and losing life after life trying to defeat a harder boss, because you ignored rank. It will also have an effect on your score: if you have a massive chain in progress, and you die, you lose a lot of points. If you pick a good moment to suicide, that isn't balls deep in the middle of a chain, you lose less points.

I'm actually not sure about the delay. I haven't played enough to get a feel for that. But generally speaking, it isn't an instant reaction. If you do something to increase rank in the middle of a wave of enemies, for instance, they won't suddenly start bombarding you with fire, but the next wave of enemies to appear on screen might. Which is another reason to pick your moments carefully.

Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

nostrich — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:25:17 -0000

The blog is made entirely of Flash. A blog. Made of Flash. That is ridiculous, and pointless, and stupid, and I didn't even bother sticking around to see what the music was like because of that. There is not one single reason to make a blog in Flash.

Re: Life is hard. Here is someone.

nostrich — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:59:47 -0000

I realise the hypocrisy of complaining about that when I could easily (attempt to) write my dream version of "Love in the Time of Tumblr" (got my title right there), and maybe I will some time, but for now I'd rather concentrate on making the relationship work than jump to immortalizing it on the internet.

I'm not enough of a dick to deny that it was a nice story, it just feels a lot like retreading the same ground over and over; there are only so many ways you can frame a fairly standard love story before it becomes tired. And regardless of my issues with the style, the more stories about online relationships (that don't start on dating sites) the better, I guess, if we're trying to give it some mainstream legitimacy.

And yes, I should imagine most of these stories are rather boring. Mine certainly isn't wildly interesting -- on our first meeting, we drank wine, played Guitar Hero and had sex, that's it (although it was new year's eve, so maybe that helps) -- and most would probably die before they read that, too.

Re: Life is hard. Here is someone.

nostrich — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:19:31 -0000

Ok so, I get that people love a good love story, and it's awfully upsetting when it doesn't quite work out, but why must the tale be so over-wrought with angst and unrequited love? I'd love to read a great, honest piece about the difficulty of conducting a relationship chiefly over the internet, instead we're bombarded with lumps in throats, silent tears, post-coital heart-to-hearts, and just another fluffy reworking of "girl meets boy, it doesn't work out, SAD." I know, I know, set the scene and all that, but the "scene" is the same every time. Maybe I'm just being overly cynical -- and I know my literary tastes are hardly representative of the general population -- but this is boring.

People meet online all the time now, and those stories aren't really all that interesting anymore either, but that's beside the point. How about a nice, honest piece about the difficulty of a long-distance relationship confined to the internet? The difference between physical presence and online presence? The trials of communicating in a medium in which tone and inflection are impossible to convey? Or how about just making meeting people online seem less creepy and appeal to more than perverts and overly-emotional girls? (And it was weird how the mention of Skype sex warranted a "god no!" What, people in online relationships have to go without sexual contact?) The large majority of my friends think it's weird that I met a girl online, and that only weird nerds do that shit. How about some steps toward dispelling that myth, instead of another dramatic retelling of a pretty boring story?

SORRY TO BE SO NEGATIVE. It's nice that they met on Tumblr and everything, but Tumblr barely even gets a mention here. (And god, being a Tumblette is hardly an honour. Anyone with breasts is -- or was, I guess -- allowed into the Tumblette club.)

Re: KatyDidSays - View from the third floor loft, overlooking the...

nostrich — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:41:10 -0000

This post is missing something.

Re: Young Henry Fonda

nostrich — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:33:12 -0000

Pending her owner being cool with it -- we're going to talk to her today -- you're welcome to come and see if you'd want her. She's not very well trained at the moment, very young, but she's super friendly and could be easily trained (we've been working with her a little, and she learnt to sit pretty fast).

Re: My take on the Sharks/Cats thing

nostrich — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:52:09 -0000

Private posts are different. For one, they're "published" and have a publish date attached to them -- which is to say, if you ever do publish them properly and publicly, they won't appear at the top of the dash, they'll appear back at whatever time you first saved it. Drafts on the other hand are unpublished and won't be published until you say they are. It's a semantic difference, I know, but I think in Tumblr's language, a private post is a post for you -- why would you want to share a private post? That's private! -- that's finished, and a draft is an unfinished post (that you can share if you want!). And the URLs really aren't "unguarded" -- they're random enough that no one's ever going to guess them.

It makes perfect sense to me. You can write a draft and mull over it as long as you like, maybe get a second opinion, maybe not. Publish it when you're ready. And you can also write a private post, that will never be seen by anyone else, unless you let them. Matter of opinion, and how you define "draft" and "private", I know, but neither of them are going to be found by anyone unless you give them the URL, so it's not really all that disturbing.

And Tumblr do what's best for them, which may or may not be what everyone else thinks is best for them. I'm sure they have a roadmap, and I'm sure everybody else's ideas feature in it somewhere. And you kind of nailed it: it's clear that they are targeting a younger crowd than us boring bastards that think Facebook is stupid. But also realise that they're nice enough to keep that stuff out of the way unless we want it, too. And they launched the tag-search-thing on the same day as improved Facebook integration, so there's something there for everyone. And there's probably a lot more going on behind the scenes than you think (their lead dev hangs out in an IRC channel I also hang out in, and I know they have a lot going on).

Tumblr are young. If they were Google, they'd have a beta tag slapped on it somewhere. They're not even profitable yet, so you can pretty much guarantee they're working on some stuff that's awesome enough that people would be willing to pay for it. And Facebook integration certainly ain't it. That's heartening, right?

Re: My take on the Sharks/Cats thing

nostrich — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:22:20 -0000

I'm not sure I agree that drafts are broken. I shared a draft with my girlfriend tonight, because I wanted her opinion on something I wrote. They're only accessible to the people you give the URL to, and I think that's handy.

And you don't get features just because you ask for them. I'll be surprised if Nick ever gets his feature; the solution to his problem is follow less people, not split the streams. It's signal vs noise, and Tumblr aren't here to filter the noise, they're here to help you follow the signal. You pick who you follow, it's in your control.

And Tumblr are _always_ working on cool stuff. Their lead developer had none or very little part in the Sharks vs Cats, so he wasn't too distracted from all the other cool shit he's working on.

And you didn't answer the most important question: are you a cat or a shark? (Pick cat or you're gay.)

Re: Life is hard. Here is someone.

nostrich — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 07:49:29 -0000

I just wanted to note that you get really creepy reblogs.

Good luck being a girl on the internet.

Re: Life is hard. Here is someone.

nostrich — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:07:24 -0000

Biorhythmist beat me to my joke. Fuck.

But I enjoyed reading this. People should write high more. Or is that a cliché already?

Re: The Twitter/Tumblr List

nostrich — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:29:22 -0000

@nostrich
http://tumblr.quisby.net

Re: Britishisms, On Saturday, the temperature in Indianapolis hit...

nostrich — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:36:07 -0000

We'll see about that.

Re: wednesday's child is full of WHOA - Twitter

nostrich — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:34:09 -0000

Dude, you fucked up.

Re: The State of the Web - Summer 2008 - livejamie.com

nostrich — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:52:59 -0000

Classy.

Re: The State of the Web - Summer 2008 - livejamie.com

nostrich — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:23:12 -0000

Looks like you forget the via. Whoops.

Re: Tuneage

nostrich — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:11:19 -0000

http://tuneage.tumblr.com/p...

Re: Anyone know how to teach my Tumblr template to not shrink images and video to 400 pixels?

nostrich — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:23:38 -0000

Step 1: Go to the customize page from the Dashboard, and look through the theme code for "{PhotoURL-400}" and replace all instances with 500. Video is {Video-400}, same thing. It's all on the help page: http://www.tumblr.com/help/...

Step 2: Rejoice.

Re: For Lack of a Better Title - Mailbag

nostrich — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:34:08 -0000

We're not exactly bombarded with suggestions, but we do get a fair amount of them. That said, we don't post them all. We try to listen to all of them, and only include the ones that don't suck — there's a degree of subjectivity, but we try to remain partial. We also don't include obvious suggestions that are already popular (Klaxons and Nada Surf are two I didn't include, for example), so we can try to keep focus on lesser known acts.

Anyway, feel free to feel special. I liked Tin Cup Prophette; definitely worth linking to, and possibly a whole post at some point. So thanks. :)

Re: Tuneage

nostrich — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:17:48 -0000

I'm afraid this song is absolutely awful.

Re: Taylor McKnight

nostrich — Fri, 30 May 2008 14:20:11 -0000

I would kill for an Indietorrents invite, if you're feeling generous.

Edit: Thanks!