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Archive for July, 2005

A Nice Walk

Posted by GBGames on July 9th, 2005

I finally had a chance to weigh myself on a scale and found that I was 185 lbs. That’s 5 lbs heavier than I was when I last visited a doctor who told me to try to get back to 150. My watch has been feeling a bit tight lately.
So one day […]

Superstitious Pigeons

Posted by GBGames on July 8th, 2005

Seth Godin wrote wrote an article a few years ago in Fast Company called The Threat of Pigeons and Other Fundamentalists. He claims that not too much has changed today.
It basically talks about how people make business decisions based on what they think the truth is. Pigeons, it turns out, are superstitious. […]

A Game I Will Never Make

Posted by GBGames on July 7th, 2005

I will never make a Texas Holdem Poker game. Ever.
Why? Because hundreds of trackback spam and comment spam just came through the past couple of days. One was for male impotency pills. The rest were for some online poker sites.
And if I do make a poker game, I would fear that […]

TIGRS: The Independent Games Rating System

Posted by GBGames on July 7th, 2005

The Entertainment Software Rating Board acts as the video game industry’s self-regulating body to enforce and apply ratings and marketing guidelines among other things. Unfortunately, if you aren’t a multmillion dollar publisher, you might find it difficult to contact the ESRB to get your games rated.
What do indie game developers do? They either […]

Can’t Watch My Own DVDs Without Being Called a Criminal

Posted by GBGames on July 6th, 2005

The Chicago Sun-Times ran an article last week about DVD Jon cracking Google’s new video service.
Johansen, 21, became a hero to hackers at age 15, when he posted software called DeCSS to unlock the Content Scrambling System, or CSS, which the film industry used on DVD movies to prevent illegal copying. The act […]

Thoughts on War and Politics, Virtual or Real

Posted by GBGames on July 2nd, 2005

I read webcomics, and one of my favorite is CTRL+ALT+DEL. I enjoy reading the thoughts of the comic authors, and Thursday’s Of war and controller ports talked about war.
Battlefield 2 was recently released, and a number of people have been enjoying it. I haven’t played it yet, but I should probably add […]

Learning Something New

Posted by GBGames on July 1st, 2005

microISV had posted a link to Advice from an Entrepreneur by Harry Newton. After talking about how much better off he was than the rest of his class, he then provides some advice to their children and to everyone else.
It is always great to see nice, bulleted lists of things you […]