A web site that you can't even browse without either getting deep-linked in from elsewhere or creating an account, which is a practice that pisses me off to no end.
I changed my mind about internet anonymity a couple of years ago. It's worth more to me to control what comes up first when you google my name than it is to be secretive and have googlers easily find whatever secretish thing slipped through the cracks.
Eh, I don't see it as anonymity. I am me, no matter my name. But my legal name wields a certain kind of power that I don't really need people to deal with outside of scenarios where people need to deal with my legal name.
Or in real terms, I'd rather the first thing someone see when they search for my name be my stackoverflow and linkedin profiles instead of some archived article from when I was in high school or something.
On a global scale, I have a fairly common given name and a decently common last name. So until any sort of event under which I become famous, electronic or otherwise, I don't see much chance of finding myself in the first few pages of Google.
@Brant That's a very important plus for listing the real name; but fortunately for me my real name already gives decent results, because of my university listing
By the time you hit 100k, wouldn't you be so e-famous that it'd be simpler to just tell people "Yeah, that tree over there? So much reputation? That's me. Bask in my awesome."?
That's part of the reason I feel better to stick with a name. In community, people will still know you by that name a lot better than if I were to spontaneously change to my real name
I like TAS runs more than regular speed runs. Regular speed runs depress me because I'll never be that good. TAS runs are cool because they show me the theoretical limits of the game.
But I don't have to be jealous of the TAS, because it's cheating :D
I started trying to speedrun Oblivion a while ago, then saw someone else speedrun it while I was trying to plan my route and gave up on the whole thing.
I find it more impressive to see what insane things people can truly pull off. It may occasionally phase me, but honestly I got to see a good show of gameplay in the process. That's what I personally like.
@StrixVaria That's why I don't competitively do it. I enjoy being extremely skilled in games, and I do very, very well. But it's a hassle to try and keep on top of everyone world-wide, and there are people who are just too devoted to it.
@badp I don't even know what'd be feasible in the former option. The games I play automatically record replays or have utilities to assist the speedrunner by recording it alongside.
The last time I think I played any game with a large group of friends was when we used to do Halo parties, then before that it was CS in gaming cafes in Hong Kong. Ah, the good ol' days.
I just noticed, @Fallen, you've returned from vacation (and sickness, good to be in good health!) just in time to stay ahead of me in site reputation, haha~
Recently i heard that ps3 supported HDTV, i was confused and looked it up. I found this which talks about adding support to blu-ray movies. But the context i heard it was about it being in games.
Also there are dozens of 3d tvs. Is there some kind of standard (will there be a format war)? Will t...
> * I have been ["moderating"][1] [chat][2] for a few months now, bringing [g][3][ri][4][ef][5] and [j][6][oy][7] with my abuse of [feeds][8], [migration][9], [pinning][10], [privilege granting][11], [events][12], [room naming][13] and [absolutely everything else][14]. Oh, and [I really do chat][15] [too much.][16] I actually [won a t-shirt][17] for that. (I haven't claimed it yet, though.)
