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How an Indie Musician can make $19,000 in 10 hours using Twitter

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TOTAL MADE THIS MONTH USING TWITTER = $19,000
TOTAL MADE FROM 30,000 RECORD SALES = ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

For those of you who are, like me, fascinated by the strangeness of living in the future.

It's a fascinating application of the 1000 True Fans theory. Though if I understand correctly, the 1000 True Fans didn't do all the work, but they did provide the critical push needed to get the hash tag into non-fan spheres.

I don't actually use twitter or know much about it, so the mechanic there is not entirely clear to me. I get the gist of it though.

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General Gaming / City of Heroes - User-Generated Missions
« on: May 13, 2009, 10:10:53 AM »
It sounds like it's all gone horribly wrong.

User Generated Quests and the Ruby Slippers

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When City of Heroes released its user-created mission generator, it was mere hours before highly exploitative missions existed. Players quickly found the way to min-max the system, and started making quests that gave huge rewards for little effort. These are by far the most popular missions. Actually, from what I can tell, they are nearly the only missions that get used. Aside from a few “developer’s favorite” quests, it’s very hard to find the “fun but not exploitative” missions, because they get rated poorly by users and disappear into the miasma of mediocrity.

This was not what the designers hoped for.

Anyone in there at the moment?

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General Gaming / Age of Conan Shrinkage
« on: February 25, 2009, 10:37:21 AM »
Funcom CFO resigns following $23.3m loss

So Age of Conan has taken a big hit due, they say, to "shorter average subscription periods than anticipated". Looks like their subscription numbers have plummetted and they're merging servers.

Any of you guys try it? I never did, but I heard from people that did that it had its problems.

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General Gaming / Parent of Gamer asks Son to Honour Geneva Conventions
« on: February 24, 2009, 09:05:41 AM »
Parent of Gamer asks Son to Honour Geneva Conventions

I'm going to go out on a limb and assume you guys don't worry yourselves so much about the Geneva Conventions in Eve.*



* You will horribly disappoint me if you say you do.

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The Dog & Duck / Periodic Table of Awesoments
« on: December 17, 2008, 10:42:21 AM »
Next time someone tells you that something is full of win, you can ask for a more detailed breakdown.

http://www.dapperstache.com/index.php?contenttype=ptoa.

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The Dog & Duck / Doomed
« on: December 11, 2008, 10:19:03 AM »
Yesterday was the 15th anniversary of the release of Doom. Yep, it's been fifteen years since we jumped into hell armed with a chainsaw and a shotgun, to blast apart imps and dodge beholders, and all without using a mouse.

You all played it, right?

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Warhammer Online / Captured in Stone
« on: December 10, 2008, 10:51:50 AM »
Warhammer Online to carve statuary of the top players

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Mythic's introducing a rather cool little addition to Warhammer Online, aimed at making outstanding players feel more like ineluctable legends of the game lore. Starting with patch 1.1, Mythic will reward the top ten players on each realm with statues of their characters in the main city centers.

What defines a top player in Warhammer, exactly?

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The Dog & Duck / The Great Firewall of Britain
« on: December 08, 2008, 10:54:49 AM »
The Great Firewall of Britain has hit the big leagues by appearing on boingboing this morning:

Britain's "Great Firewall" set to restrict access to Wikipedia

How the Great Firewall of Britain works

And also an article on the Register.

This is the first time this has really popped up on my radar. I was feeling a bit smug about not being behind the one they're creating back home in Australia, but it appears I may be behind one after all.

My specific ISP, Pipex, isn't mentioned, but in the two years I've been a Pipex customer they've gone through several changes of ownership and infrastructure, so really I could be affected.

A few weeks ago I replaced my D-Link wireless router with a Belkin one (my brother had it spare). About a week ago, I noticed intermittent though frequent problems with Google image searches and Youtube. Google images hardly ever load, and Youtube thumbnail pics also tend not to load. This is both when I'm on Youtube, or when I'm looking at a top 20 clip site. Occasionally it works fine. Often it doesn't.

So while I've been wondering if it's the Belkin router (hell, maybe I just need to upgrade the firmware) I'm now wondering if my ISP is trying to filter my content. Nothing else I do seems to be affected, mainly it's just these two things.

This may also have been the real cause of what I thought were my antivirus problems.

Is anyone else more deeply into this than I am?


EDIT: It' occurs to me I should add this is when doing any kind of Google image search, not a search for the topics mentioned in those linked articles. ::)

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General Gaming / Jumpgate Evolution MMO
« on: December 02, 2008, 06:58:07 PM »
Came across some concept art for what looks like a patch/expansion to Jumpgate.

Jumpgate was the first MMO I actually ever really wanted to play. I was a Privateer addict back in the day, must have played that game through three or four times, and then I played Tie Fighter and fantasised about the Privateer game on the Tie Fighter engine. Yes, really. It would have been awesome. I had a 386, what can I say?

Anyway, I was within Oz's then primitive internet back then and was a poor uni student, so I merely got to stare wistfully at Jumpgate's website via dial-up at uni. Anyone play it? Or heard anything about this patch/expansion?

A bit cheeky of me to ask, perhaps, given all the EVE threads I see here lately. Nevertheless.

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