Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Ephemera 2009 (11): L4D2-sday

Lazy tab-dumping, because I got things to kill.

-- Somewhere in heaven, PT Barnum looks down on Sarah Palin and sheds a single proud tear.

-- I can't believe I yet again missed NaNoWriMo. The Doomed Pulp Novel remains unfinished. You know, when you look at what Wil's doing with his latest book, I am tempted to go just online and POD with it. Not like the odds favor me selling any more in bookstores than online. Nicely enough, other people continue to do my conceptual work for me -- although not all of the novel occurs in flooded New York. (h/t i09)

-- I created a public Xbox 360 ID. Add levrunner1 to your friends list, and if I pop up, it's for multiplayer zombie slaughtering goodness. Or M:tG. And yes, that is a monocle.

-- Scenes From An Alternate Universe Where The Beatles Accepted Lorne Michaels’ Generous Offer

-- The web series about Superheroes in group, The Sanctum, clocks in Episode Five.

-- Terrorists are not supervillains. They are grubby little transnational criminals. Do we really have to, yet again, discuss why I'm not scared?

-- Oh, hey, this is finally up on YouTube,



-- Plus, the geek viral of the week.

65 comments:

  1. Palin's not the Hitter, she's not really the Thief, and she's definitely not the Hacker or the Mastermind....

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  2. Amazing! Why anyone would waste a dime on a PC when Mac can do this is beyond me.

    I hadn't realized just how innovative Leverage really is from a technological standpoint. What's happening at Electric puts George Lucas in the shade.

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  3. Anonymous9:17 PM

    One issue I have with my PS3? Not enough zombie killing. (Except for Resident Evil 5 but I've tried the demo and found the mechanics frustrating.) Anyone got any idea if Value is planning a PS3 port?

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  4. Anonymous9:21 PM

    I mean Valve.
    Christ, even with spellchecker, I am hopeless.

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  5. Anonymous11:32 PM

    I do not foresee a PS3 port. Valve -hates- the Xbox360. And the feelings they have toward the PS3 probably don't even qualify as words.

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  6. Don Murphy12:29 AM

    hit me back big fellow

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  7. Anonymous4:39 AM

    Scott:
    Seriously, what's with all the hate leveled against the PS3?

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  8. Richard:
    The hardware architecture. Writing code for multi-core systems is enough of a bitch as it is, but doing it it for one with asymmetrical processors has to be a nightmare.

    Sony has made the PlayStation hardware more esoteric with each iteration, and I really don't understand why. One of the reasons the original got so popular was that it was easy to develop for.

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  9. Re: PS3: More game devs need to sack up and learn to write parallel code.

    Apropos of just about nothing: Rogers, do you have any comment on "Global Frequency Gets a Second Crack at the Small Screen"?

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  10. Anonymous12:56 PM

    Richard, I've got nothing but love for my launch 60gb PS3. I've also owned two 360s (orignal and replacement) which I finally got sick of watching it gathering dust and sold it off to a friend.

    But I also realize that not every developer is as fond as I am. Valve primary develops for the PC. They then port this over for 360 use, which enjoys some of the same development tools, but suffers from what they feel is limited hardware (memory to be specific). The PS3 has such a different codebase they just don't want to think about it.

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  11. Punxatawny Phil1:27 PM

    Happy L4D2-sday non-Australians, you'll simply MUST tell us what the real game is like
    http://au.gamespot.com/news/6240617.html?tag=latestheadlines;title;1

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  12. Anonymous2:49 PM

    Yo, Spiny.

    She's the mark.

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  13. Anonymous7:05 AM

    SH and Scott:
    Ah, So it's techie hate, not fanboy hate.
    I went with the PS3 because A) I loves me some Final Fantasy and B)I wanted something that could play Blu-Rays. I love it but then I don't have to write code for it.

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  14. I love pulp, I've been writing a lot of it lately... had several stories in ASTONISHING ADVENTURES, and the pulp novel I tossed off last year, THE FEAR MASTERS, continues to sell reasonably steadily as a Kindle edition. I'm currently working on a story called THE LAST TRUMP featuring a master of disguise/mystic type pulp crimefighter named, naturally, The Trump ("Any card can be... The Trump!") battling Scarlett Flayme and her Satanic Society high above New York City on the night before Hallowe'en.

    Nothing is as much fun to write as pulp. It's the only kind of writing in the world where, if something doesn't explode at least every other paragraph, you know you're doing it wrong.

    Two of my other novels are also pretty pulpy - WARLORD OF ERBEROS, which I haven't uploaded to Amazon yet, and ZAP FORCE: ROYAL BLOOD, which is not only pulp, but superhero/sf pulp at that.

    TIME WATCH, WARREN'S WORLD, ENDGAME and EARTHQUEST aren't exactly pulp, but they're good clean SF fun centering around the idea of what happens when a lifelong geek gains vas power for good or evil. I say with no modesty whatsoever, everybody who loves a good story should check 'em out.

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  15. Anonymous4:15 AM

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