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games it is the biggest reason why i ended my career as a lawyer very early on so i could found the video game studio frogdice in the process of making video games and running a studio there are countless setbacks and reasons to get discouraged bugs timelines having to cut features you love systems not working how you expected hoped long hours extreme difficulty getting publicity for your game tremendous struggles getting onto the sales platforms you desperately need like steam selling enough copies of your game to make the next one stressing over these things even when you aren t supposedly working but every now and then there are moments that remind you why you are doing this moments that remind you why you love your career and your industry i am about to share a few of those moments with you here and no it won t be some hockey stick sales chart showing a couple hundred thousand units sold as awesome as that would be that isn t ultimately what gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling though it does help keep the lights on what i am going to share with you are some comments made by an independent twitch tv streamer who played our game for his community this past weekend he had intended to play for about 2 hours but instead played for 6 here are some of the comments he made about the game i am going to be casting this game for quite a lot of time i am having a lot of fun this game is great this game is addicting this game is too awesome if you haven t figured it out yet this game is amazing i could see playing this game for hours trying to craft everything i don t want to stop i m really enjoying this game it s better than skyrim the bestiary is one of those little things that puts this game over the edge this game is awesome it s addicting it s a steal it s dr mario tetris and d d had a baby and as amazing as those sentiments are it is even better when you can see someone s joy in action here is a video of his epic battle vs the gigantuar rat in closing i want to thank everyone who has ever played a game i was a part of thank you for buying it of course but more than that thank you for playing it and enjoying it that is why i love what i do what could be better that bringing fun and happiness to people s lives 7th october 2013 notes 3 georgia s strength and conditioning program is embarrassing georgia has possibly the worst strength and conditioning s c program of any top school this is why we consistently have major injury problems and it is also why our 4 and 5 star recruits so often underperform in college and then blossom into superstars in the nfl the following is from a georgia sports blog here is what you will find on the alabama website under strength and conditioning in fact it is not just contained within the football coaching staff page like us it has its own link and page alabama strength and conditioning staff scott cochran head strength and conditioning coach football terry jones assistant head strength and conditioning coach rocky colburn assistant strength and conditioning coach michelle martin diltz assistant strength and conditioning coach jonathan farris assistant strength and conditioning coach jim hamner assistant strength and conditioning coach corey harris assistant strength and conditioning coach mark hocke assistant strength and conditioning coach travis illian assistant strength and conditioning coach kindal moorehead assistant strength and conditioning coach lou deneen strength and conditioning phelon jones athletic intern josh hampton athletic intern now here is what you will find on our site georgia strength and conditioning staff joe tereshinski director of strength and conditioning knows nothing about s c john thomas sr associate director of strength and conditioning sherman armstrong associate strength and conditioning coach justin lovett assistant strength and conditioning 6th october 2013 to julie uhrman here s free advice on a dramatically superior free the games program update i re read this and it comes off harsher than i intended i apologize for that i want the ouya to exceed i love bold brave ideas but ouya needs to raise its game fast and focus more on substance over sizzle the ouya continues to amaze me but not always in a good way a word from julie on the ftg fund this is ouya s latest attempt to close the loopholes and combat abuse the new basic details project minimum 10k match amount 100 of your funding goal to a maximum of 250 000 minimum of backers for every 10 000 raised on kickstarter you have to have a minimum of 100 backers exclusivity 1 month for every 10k funded by ouya up to 6 months payment 50 of the funding at functioning beta 25 at launch on ouya 25 at end of exclusivity period how is it that they still don t get it the reason there are such glaring loopholes is because ouya is abdicating responsibility and putting it on kickstarter and the kickstarter community to do their curating for them i will give julie uhrman some free advice here is a better free the games program that won t continue to embarrass you and is actually far more appropriate developers submit their prototype demo playable build etc to ouya depending on the quality of the game and the determination of ouya staff a sales advance will be offered to the developers ranging between 10 000 and 250 000 50 75 is paid in advance remainder paid upon delivery of a final build that meets ouya s approval 1 3 months ouya exclusivity 1 month per 75k when if the developer s cut of sales exceeds the amount of the advance the developer begins receiving their royalty payments normally tweak it a bit as needed but that s the core of the system you need julie what are the key differences you re actually owning up to your responsibility to curate your console s official content is this hard of course it is but if you want to be a platform this is one the areas where you prove you deserve to be one 6 month exclusivity is absurd there are giant publishers who don t even ask for this much do you want these indies to go out of business they need the other platforms to stay afloat and eat don t force people into a draconian exclusivity duration simply because you are hurting for content you should be bringing in content fast enough that 3 month exclusivity is more than enough you re now actually paying when it matters pre beta that s when developers need money once the game is in a playable beta why do they need you they could just push to the end and release on bigger platforms that have tens or hundreds of millions of users furthermore holding money beyond the release of the game is outrageous lets be honest you might not even still be in business 6 months from now julie your minimum of backers is just as easily gamed that will accomplish nothing the only way someone can afford to participate in your system is if they intend to game it people will continue to game your system because no legitimate developer will be willing or able to develop a game within your outrageous restrictions if any publisher came to me tomorrow and offered me your terms i d say no i m not developing a game for someone s platform if i don t get any money until beta and where 25 of the money is held back for up to 6 months post release that is crazy i wouldn t accept that from publishers whose platforms actually have customers why would i accept that from ouya that has only a couple thousand people actually buying games oh and before you even give people money they have to go through the enormous challenge and work of running a kickstarter campaign here s a little clue most campaigns are a helluva lot harder than the one ouya ran we don t all get to be darlings of kickstarter that receive mountains of free publicity and promotion i don t expect julie uhrman to read this or make the necessary significant changes to their system to make it worthwhile to legit developers i also don t expect ouya to still be in business a year from now all that said i m still rooting for them to right the ship what do you think click to comment via disqus 20th september 2013 i am the corgi king so you want a corgi huh a guide to corgi ownership iamthecorgiking so you want a corgi huh look i want you to have a corgi more than anything these strange and incredible dogs will bring so much joy to your life that i feel like everyone should have one but there are quite a few things you should know first after that we ll get into how and 13th september 2013 reblogged from iamthecorgiking notes 383 the struggle of indie game development the dominant sisyphean struggle of indie game development is the constant battle against obscurity new unpopulated platforms don t help 13th september 2013 notes 1 i really hope i get to meet someone from windstream at a lexington business meeting soon i have come to the conclusion that they are engaging in grossly anti competitive and monopolistic behavior it needs to stop the quality of internet access is bad enough in kentucky without windstream trying to drive away competition 1 windstream just upgraded the infrastructure so they can offer 12 15 mb dsl to their customers at no extra cost over the previous 5 mb great right not so fast my friend they are not making this network available to any competing dsl providers like http www iglou com of louisville monopolistic behavior you know darn well that as soon as they drive people like iglou out of business you ll be paying double at least for this 12 15 mb access 2 if you have dsl service from anyone other than windstream you lose access every few weeks due to a cut cable miraculously these cut cables never knock out windstream dsl customers even in the same neighborhood my in laws live a couple hundred yards from us and their dsl is never impacted the level of incompetence it would take to cut a cable every few weeks is even beyond that of windstream furthermore the technological impossibility of this coincidence leads one to conclude these cut cables are just a lie to get people to dump their dsl provider and switch to windstream the most recent cut cable happened around 1pm yesterday it is now 10am and it is still not cleared seriously you can t fix a cut cable faster than that shooting for 24 hours i have been informed that iglou has lost a ton of lexington customers because of this mission accomplished right windstream to the kentucky government and people who care about tech in kentucky if you want to host servers in kentucky iglou and qx are basically your two choices do we really want one of them driven out of business also do you think less competition in the area of internet access providers will improve our infrastructure that is already lagging behind everyone in the business community here knows the low quality of kentucky internet access is my 1 issue it is massively holding back our tech sector and thus it is holding back the economic development of kentucky windstream twitter fcc twitter update i learned that there is no oversight for broadband in kentucky why see the 2nd picture above 10th september 2013 we really really really need google fiber here in kentucky 10th september 2013 so the folks who created adblock are upping the ante and have created a crowdfunding campaign to spread the word about adblock the slogan is 7 in 10 internet users still see ads help us tell the world about adblock they say this like it is a tragedy that 70 of people see ads if you use ad block you should be really glad that most people don t because those 7 in 10 internet users are the ones paying for the content you enjoy on ad supported web sites they talk about using adblock as if it is a virtue that needs to be evangelized make no mistake using adblock is free riding in the truest sense of the concept it is certainly not a virtue i don t think it is stealing when people use adblock everyone has a right to control the way content is being displayed on their web browser and computer also i admit that many most content sites are completely out of control and excessive in the way they display ads they also took advantage of the pre adblock days by going nuts with tracking cookies malware adware and similar abuses but people who use adblock need to be intellectually honest with themselves and realize that the sites they visit depend on that ad revenue to exist by using adblock you are consuming content and not giving anything back that is your right and option but you need to be honest with yourself about the costs of your choice fast forward to now adblock is taking things a step further it is one thing to create a product that denies others their livelihood but profiteering off denying people their livelihood is indefensible adblock makes money through a pay what you want system i have read estimates of 10 15 million since its creation but honestly who knows how much they make michael gundlack creator of adblock and his wife both left their jobs a few years ago and live off adblock they live in the bay area that can t be cheap if you lower the slider to 0 you get a message that includes this comment which frankly insults one s intelligence if you can afford to pay to help us eat please do millions of dollars is more than helping them eat i don t begrudge anyone the right to charge money for their product or service but don t act like you re a starving artist when you aren t that s dishonest that dishonesty speaks to the integrity and ethics or lack thereof of the product and its creator s in the campaign video gundlack makes the dubious claim that we re not taking a dollar of this campaign for ourselves that s an incredibly murky statement how do they define for ourselves what if they raise enough for that times square billboard and have to travel to nyc to negotiate terms would using funds from the campaign for travel expenses count as taking dollars for ourselves or is that just management costs of the campaign furthermore if the campaign does indeed increase the number of adblock users a percentage of whom pay for adblock then in a pretty direct way they are still profiting from this campaign there is one moment of the video where there is an incredibly vague implication that widespread use of adblock would improve the internet they don t say how perhaps they are so completely self serving and self interested that they truly just mean improving the internet for people who use adblock if they were trying to imply that more people using adblock would motivate content sites to improve their business models then they really should have come right out and say that that might be the beginning of something worthwhile and i say a beginning because in the meantime those sites and writers are still deprived of income and potentially their jobs a more interesting campaign would be some effort to promote positive change what if adblock let people opt in via their donations to a virtual tip jar adblock could divvy up the funds based on how often a site was visited by the people who opted in that s jus...