Wall for trachy (page 28)

https://www.facebook.com/tinyleaders/posts/1572932262973760

http://reason.com/blog/2015/05/01/145-intellectuals-agree-dead-cartoonists#.ovenxw:53Sy

So that thing I mentioned only some 21 hours ago slammed open its doors on Kickstarter today, the Banjo Kazooie spiritual successor. Yeah it already reached its kickstarter goal of 175.000 $. So that went fast.

So a spiritual successor to Banjo-Kazooie have been announced, called Yooka-Laylee. Its made by the original creators of Banjo and what little concept art looks vibrant with color. It might still suck but I'm inclined to be positive after last weeks turmoil.

Good on Valve for removing paid mods. That was quicker than usual for them. Probably because all of the justified hate they were getting for it.

"Newell also said Valve is going to add a "pay what you want" option for modders who prefer to accept donations for their work, similar to the voluntary donations accepted by mod community Nexus Mods.
During the AMA, Nexus Mods founder Robin Scott asked what Valve would do if a game company limited modding only to Steam Workshop.
Newell responded that Valve is "pretty reluctant to tell any developer that they have to do something or they can't do something," but he added that were such a situation to arise, "we'd be happy to tell developers that we think they are being dumb."

I don't think this will save this whole situation but that last quote is pretty golden.

Tiny Leaders is such a fan format for Magic the Gathering. Basically it is like Commander.  You have a General, and all your cards must be in that General's color identity. You can also only have one of each card, with the exception of basic lands and cards that say in their rules text that you can have as many copies as you want (such as Shadowborn Apostle). However, the big twist is that all cards in your deck for Tiny Leaders must have a converted mana cost of 3 or less. There are also some other rules, like having only 49 cards in the deck+the General. And starting with 25 life.

Ah that stuff.

Not a huge fan of the new Joker. In the past, Joker has always had some perverted class to him. This newest Joker looks more like a member of his gang, rather than the Clown Prince of Crime.

Forbes putting out good gaming articles as they tend to do. This one sums up the problems with the new system Valve is using for Skyrim mods: http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/04/24/valves-paid-skyrim-mods-are-a-legal-ethical-and-creative-disaster/

Most unfortunate consequence is in my opinion the splitting of a once united community. There are a lot of feuds and hatreds going on right now. Greed corrupts all that is good.