July 2011
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Freemium Devs "Extract" $14 per "Consumer" →
The Tiger Style Biz Dept (TM) spends a lot of time deliberating over how best to empty our fans’ wallets, so articles like this come in handy as we plot our retirements (diabolically).
In seriousness, it’s an interesting article for a couple of reasons:
1. The $14 a consumer thing is totally misleading when you consider the buried statistic, “Our data shows that around 3% of...
TIME TRAVEL IMPOSSIBLE, SAY SCIENTISTS →
Hong Kong physicists say they have proved that a single photon obeys Einstein’s theory that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light — demonstrating that outside science fiction, time travel is impossible.
YAH RIGHT, I’M NOT GIVING UP ON MY FASTER-THAN-LIGHT DRIVE DREAMS
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Spacemen (and Women) →
Outrageously wicked art reference resource for Game #2. (Thanks Brennan!)
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Get Your Summer Jams Here →
With summer this far underway, don’t you think it’s high time you subscribed to this podcast so you can bump some sunny beats as you cruise in your convertible minivan with your giraffe head?
We're All Astronauts Here. →
I have great respect for the guy that made this video about being an Independent Astronaut. I’ve been wanting to come out as an astronaut for a while. He gives me hope that maybe one day I can finally do it.
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Reproduction
Which of these two events makes the most sense?
Alien creature X eats the seed of lifeform Y, gets “pregnant”, and finally lays an egg which births a new alien creature X.
Alien creature X attaches itself to the seed of lifeform Y, “fertilizes” it, morphing it into an egg which will birth a new instance of alien creature X.
From a gameplay perspective, they are...
