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Scott Jennings

DON’T COPY. THAT FLOPPY.

So apparently Half Life 2 is going to use a Windows XP-style online only authentication scheme, according to this forum thread. Ignoring for the moment that every post on the Internet is ALWAYS COMPLETELY TRUE, it’s pretty interesting. Valve is basically assuming that every computer capable of playing Half

2004 GOING ON 1944

Dedovschina, alive and well in 21st century Russia.

THE THINGS I DO, LOOKING FOR A GROOVE

Hi, my name’s Scott, and I’m an online music addict. I have a particular quirk with my online music habit. I buy it. I know, at this point you are probably overcome with laughter at my stupidity. But frankly, I’d rather just hit a button and get

NINJAS ARE VERY PRECISE WHEN THEY FLIP OUT AND KILL PEOPLE

EA learns the value of Real Ultimate Power. (Link courtesy of Div)

DECONSTRUCTING PHAT LEWT

Randy Farmer, who’s been at this longer than most, on creating a virtual economy that survives contact with eBay, with a detailed model of one designed for children. I took it as a personal challenge to someday build a virtual economy that did not rely on the slippery slope

WHOOPS

Sometimes, you just should have your license to the internet revoked.

ARCHIVES MUCH BIGGER, HARDER TO USE

I’ve gone ahead and imported the old LtM archives into the brokentoys.org archives. What this means is that if you do a search, you’ll probably find something really, really out of date and poorly formatted. LtM was originally an almost direct opposite of brokentoys.org’s color