Link Post - Octopath Traveler Review Roundup
My next game
Polygon - They praise the game's mechanics and art and striving to do something new.
US Gamer - Better explanation of the battle system, no final score as the reviewer is waiting to finish the game.
Kotaku - A negative take focused mostly on the stories being unrelated and that the system seems too simple.
Link Post - 10 Years Of Apple Missteps
Apple's greatest hits in annoying developers
MacStories - Apple's battles with developers is just as much a part of the history of the App Store as anything else. The worst part is that some of these were just pointless to begin with.
Link Post - The Beginning Of A Michael Bay Movie
A black, mysterious sarcophagus, what could go wrong?
Science Alert - Do you want to be in a disaster movie? Because opening mysterious artifacts in the middle of a half a dozen global crises is how you end up in a disaster movie. There's probably some Goldblumian science advisor the President is ignoring frantic memos from.
Embrace The Slack
The five of you that regularly read this probably noticed that I went dark for most of last week. I took a vacation from work and decided–beyond getting my daily bike ride–I was going to take a real break. I kept up on webcomics, but I mostly unplugged from the daily news. I didn’t do my hobby coding, nor did I write much.
The . . .
Link Post - 10 Years Of The Software Swap Meet
Scourge or Revolution, The App Store Did Change Things
Mac Stories - Apple rightly gets some criticism for its tight control over the software on iOS. On the other hand, you can't argue that the App Store made a market for small software developers to easily make and sell new apps. The rise of free to play games and VC funded social media long ago eclipsed those early successes, but the App . . .
Link Post - Old School Mac, New School Rap
Rotoscope 80's Style
Boing Boing - In proof that memes live on long after their flashpoint, someone is animating Childish Gambino's This Is America using a vintage Mac.