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I think about Achievements a fair bit and I came up with an idea on how a publisher could monetize achievements over multiple titles. I'll try to lay out the basic idea and then provide a concrete example.

The basic idea is to use achievement points to unlock content in a title. The maximum number of points available in the title would not suffice to unlock all the content simultaneously, or to unlock the best content. However, achievement points would be tracked across an account, rather than through a single game - and they would go into a shared bank. By accumulating achievement points across multiple games a player could access higher and higher, perhaps even the highest, level of c

I want to be able to work/play at my computer while either sitting or standing. I've been looking for equipment that would let me do this, and this seems to be the best I can find for price/options: http://888ergodir.com/page/ErgoDirect/PROD/STND/10375

If you have any ideas on other solutions, or where I can find cheaper/better products, I'd love to hear them.

The basics of what I want, in order of importance are:

1. Adjustable monitor height, swivel, and tilt (ergonomics)
2. Adjustable keyboard/mouse height (ergonomics)
3. Not a permanent installation (easier to move)
4. Options to add a second monitor and keyboard mounts, supposing I want a second monitor, or the wife wants to thro

Tonight I introduced my wife to Minecraft in the hopes we'll be able to play it together. I set up a LAN server with my desktop, and got her laptop connected.

The first thing she did was punch my character to death [note: we have a happy marriage, I think].

It was cute...like a kid in their very first game. She doesn't have gaming-motor skills yet, so there was a lot of looking at the sky, then the ground, jumping up and down aimlessly, running straight at block walls in attempts to chase cows, and so on.

She got a bit maniacal trying to kill cows and harvest wool from sheep, which is a good sign (not emotionally perhaps, I mean a good sign of interest in the gaming activity).

I want

EDIT: SC2 passes are gone.

I have two SC2 guest passes and two WoW (10 day) guest passes. They were in my SC2 retail box that I just now opened (my mom sent me the serial key while I was abroad).

PM me if you want one. One per person (you can't have both SC2 and WoW). First come, first serve.

The Game Preserve in Fresno California is liquidating its stock because they can't afford to keep the store open anymore. He's offering pretty steep discounts on all his remaining WH/WH40K/Citadel Paint stock.

You may have seen my posts regarding this elsewhere on Reddit, but to reiterate - I do not know his inventory, and I do not know if he will ship, but I will be asking him about both tomorrow.

I asked offhand what his sale prices were and they seemed pretty damned good (definitely not normal "We're staying in business!" prices) - but give him a call to get a quote yourself.

If you're interested you should give the store a call - (559) 237-9222.

I'm going to start with my schpiel and then explain where it's coming from.

The Game Preserve in Fresno, California, is a mom and pop gaming store that's going out of business. The owner is looking for a buyer while simultaneously liquidating stock because he has to be out in about 4 weeks. He's asking $50,000 for the business, which would include ownership of his guestimated $80,000 in stock. But, like I said, he's liquidating stock as well - and it's ALL on sale.

RPG manuals of every kind, figurines of every kind (WoW TCG Mini's too), Warhammer and WH40K models, Citadel paints (he has a WHOLE paint rack w/ paints for sale), fantasy novels, loads of board games old and new of various styl

EDIT 1: He was impressed with all the phone calls from Reddit, and moreso with the online response!

EDIT 2: He WILL ship out of state and out of country.

EDIT 3: He does NOT have a current inventory, but said he will consider doing one because Reddit has responded so well. He genuinely seemed impressed with you guys. I offered to help, and he said he'd talk to his wife. He has my number.

EDIT 4: I can't go down there (30 min drive) today + will wait till maybe Saturday to pester him further about an inventory + cross check it for specific requests which have been made.

I'm going to start with my schpiel and then explain where it's coming from.

The Game Preserve in Fresno, California,

I'm going to start with my schpiel and then explain where it's coming from.

The Game Preserve in Fresno, California, is a mom and pop gaming store that's going out of business. The owner is looking for a buyer while simultaneously liquidating stock because he has to be out in about 4 weeks. He's asking $50,000 for the business, which would include ownership of his guestimated $80,000 in stock. But, like I said, he's liquidating stock as well - and it's ALL on sale.

RPG manuals of every kind, figurines of every kind (WoW TCG Mini's too), Warhammer and WH40K models, Citadel paints (he has a WHOLE paint rack w/ paints for sale), fantasy novels, loads of board games old and new of various s

Haven't seen a spam of Shogun 2 comments...and it's been out for a good 12 hours? Can anybody who owns it provide some early feedback and critique?

I'm a "hard-core" gamer and I loved Free Realms. The mini games were fantastic (especially the cooking game). I'd love to have a chance to ask one of the mini-game designers some questions about their design philosophy.

Just recently I had an immigration wave which coincided with uninvited guests - a goblin ambush/welcoming party. It wasn't pretty for the immigrants (although I silently mused to myself that at least I wouldn't have to rush to build 20 new homes for them).

Now, while I'd walled myself off and had floodgates blocking the entrance, I realized that when I opened them for immigrants, goblins could rush in as well. So I started the Dwarven TSA program.

I now have two gates, with a meeting area between them. When immigrants arrive the first gate is opened and they're admitted to the screening area. Once they've all arrived the outer gate is shut, they're all strip searched, and if no IED's o

I initially stayed away from League of Legends because I had beta tested Heroes of Newerth and seen how bad the community was. Eventually I tried League of Legends because a couple of people (on Reddit, I think) insisted the community *wasnt as bad* as HoNs.

After playing for a little while Ive concluded that the difference is not in the community, but in the game design. HoN offered a lot of ways for people to be abusive - one of the common ones was starting a 5v5 and spreading your team of 3-4-5 clanmates out over both sides. When pubbers joined, the host would auto-sort and launch the game, leaving his team on one side, pubbers on the other. Its easiest to start playing League of

Most of the time when Kobold thieves skulk around my base early on in a fortresses life, my war dogs can chase it, but not kill it. Once in a while 2-3 dogs chained up by a doorway can savage a Kobold before it escapes, killing it - but it`s uncommon.

Today I had a lone war dog catch a Kobold thief and really lay into it. The thief seemed to be trying to escape at first, because it didn`t fight back for the first five pages of the combat report. My war dog kept latching on to hands or legs and shaking the Kobold around. A lot of damage was done - tendons severed, bruises...err...purpled? And so on.

Eventually the Kobold thief began to fight back - probably because the war dog had latc

I`m planning on using Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit.

CPU: i5-760, 2.8ghz, QCore, 8mb Cache ($210)
Motherboard: Asus P7P55D-E Pro ($180) [has a high pitched whine issue?] Video: 460GTX - 1GB - Cyclone ($200)
PSU: Corsair 650W (modular) ($120)
HD: Samsung 500gb Sata 3.0gb/s ($50)
RAM: 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1333 G.Skill ($85) [looking for diff. ram currently]

Comments, Suggestions, Criticisms? I`d really like motherboard suggestions. I know the PSU is overkill, but I wanted the option to SLI it in the future.