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  1. Comment on What are some of the lesser known upcoming games that you're excited about? in ~games

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    Yup. The original IP owners are developing a sequel, and the new IP owners are developing a prequel. There are also arguements about which chunks of IP are owned by who, and they are currently...

    Yup. The original IP owners are developing a sequel, and the new IP owners are developing a prequel. There are also arguements about which chunks of IP are owned by who, and they are currently suing each other. Lots of drama.

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  2. Comment on What are some of the lesser known upcoming games that you're excited about? in ~games

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    Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption. It is a kickstarted game by the people who made the Quest for Glory series (which is a fairly major game from my childhood). Its development had some rocky patches...

    Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption. It is a kickstarted game by the people who made the Quest for Glory series (which is a fairly major game from my childhood). Its development had some rocky patches (they ended up changing some pretty big things because of backer feedback, and then did a second round kickstarter), but they have reached actual beta testing stages. I really hope it ends up being good, because I've been following it for a long time.

    4 votes

  3. Comment on Speaking Of Podcats, What Do You Use To Listen To Yours? in ~talk

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    I'm also a pocketcasts user. I'm curious how/if they will change now that NPR bought them.

    I'm also a pocketcasts user. I'm curious how/if they will change now that NPR bought them.

    13 votes

  4. Comment on US President Donald Trump calls off meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Un in ~news

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    I'm a bit skeptical there, because from earlier reporting they actually accidentally destroyed their facility a while back with testing.

    I'm a bit skeptical there, because from earlier reporting they actually accidentally destroyed their facility a while back with testing.

    8 votes

  5. Comment on How Reddit killed science AMAs in ~science

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    It wasn't exactly hidden that we did that, since we explicitly said we removed posts for AMA promotion in our rules. We had an entire paragraph stating that is what we do, and have had it for well...

    It wasn't exactly hidden that we did that, since we explicitly said we removed posts for AMA promotion in our rules. We had an entire paragraph stating that is what we do, and have had it for well over a year.

    4 votes

  6. Comment on How Reddit killed science AMAs in ~science

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    My suspicion is that he wanted to try to have us convert twitter users to reddit users by doing so. Of course, the fact that their anti brigading detection gets triggered and it actually harms the...

    My suspicion is that he wanted to try to have us convert twitter users to reddit users by doing so. Of course, the fact that their anti brigading detection gets triggered and it actually harms the visibility of the AMAs if we followed his suggestion didn't really matter to him (my recollection is we could see a leveling off in score growth temporarily around when other people linked in to us).

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  7. Comment on What books are you reading nowadays? in ~misc

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    Lately, I haven't been feeling like reading anything complex. I've been looking for simple, fun, predictable books, with quality being a secondary requirement. So, to that end, I've been reading a...

    Lately, I haven't been feeling like reading anything complex. I've been looking for simple, fun, predictable books, with quality being a secondary requirement. So, to that end, I've been reading a bunch of LitRPGs. The most recent one I'm reading is Threadbare by Andrew Sieple, which is actually surprisingly good. Many LitRPGs basically read like a power fantasy crossed with a person reciting an MMO log, but that book managed to be fairly entertaining.

    1 vote

  8. Comment on What books are you reading nowadays? in ~misc

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    This has been on my to do list. I stayed caught up until Robert Jordan died. I then decided to wait until all of the remaining books were released before finishing it. I haven't yet gotten...

    This has been on my to do list. I stayed caught up until Robert Jordan died. I then decided to wait until all of the remaining books were released before finishing it. I haven't yet gotten together the willpower to do a final massive reread and finish off the series, but I think I'm getting close.

    1 vote

  9. Comment on I'm Brian. I'm an intellectual property attorney and I moderate some stuff on Reddit, like IAmA. Ask Me Anything. in ~talk

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    The bad distribution network is a pain. My most recent gripe is buying ebooks on Amazon. I don't like Amazon's ebook reader on android, and to use my preferred one I need to strip the DRM from...

    The bad distribution network is a pain. My most recent gripe is buying ebooks on Amazon. I don't like Amazon's ebook reader on android, and to use my preferred one I need to strip the DRM from their books. It is literally less effort for me to purchase the book on amazon and then go pirate a copy elsewhere than to download a copy to my computer and strip the DRM from it.

    4 votes