a thoughtful web.
Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking.   Login or Take a Tour!
crayon's comments
activity:
crayon  ·  3851 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: My Husband’s Other Wife

Uplifting? I'm crying like a baby here.....

crayon  ·  3859 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams held over 1972 killing of suspected informant

Quite a 'convenient' time to be arrested. Sinn Fein currently are at their most popular since the Civil War. Not that I particularly like SF (or Gerry Adams for that matter.)

Any Irish hubskiers wanna weigh in here? ;)

crayon  ·  3963 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The First Cypherpunk Smartphone Is Built to Protect Your Privacy

I'm not following. Could you elaborate?

crayon  ·  4070 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ireland

This was a test post, but I guess if you're irish you can comment and let me know your here!

crayon  ·  4070 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Spore: My View of the Elephant

Thanks for sharing this!

I followed that game for YEARS and, as you can imagine, was gutted when it finally came out. I debated for a further couple of years on the forums and eventually let go of the game that was supposed to be a revolution in modern video game design.

It's nice to finally see a true explanation of what was going on behind the scenes, and from someone credible. It's sad that it was Will Wrights latest (and probably last) game he's developed. It's also insane that no other game has come close to touching the games INITIAL theme of scientifically-accurate evolution and gameplay depth - just LOOK at the envisioned space stage back in '05 -

http://youtu.be/T8dvMDFOFnA?t=20m20s

Can you imagine what could be developed today? 8 years later? With not 1 single game that comes close to the overall idea? A true testament of WW's creative mindset and risk-taking.