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@mb said:

Good man! EBA deserves to be on all the lists all the time, always.

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Hey everyone, I made two lists. One containing pretty much all the 2013 games I played, one containing the 2013 games I didn't play but probably should have.

I did the thing where I write a bunch of things about things, so feel free to check out my GOTY 2013 list and my 2013 Pile of Shame list.

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Added all you guys on 3DS. If one of you could tell me what's in my safari, that'd be extra awesome.

Friend code: 4957-3120-5743

Trainer name: Sjoerd

Thanks!

Nintendo is in a tough spot, but I can't say he's wrong on this. Sure, PS4 and XB1 will be the new hotness. Much more powerful, better online capabilities, all that jazz. Wii U has games. Exclusives even. And they probably won't suck. I'm all about the new hotness, but I'm more likely to buy a Wii U this year than I am to buy a PS4, and I definitely won't be buying a XB1 (because Microsoft isn't selling it here this year and I also don't give a flying fig).

Actually, VAT varies across Europe, ranging from 15% to 27%.

I'm relatively optimistic about Europe's future, but those numbers are a bit low. Europe as a whole has an unemployment rate of over 10%. Southern Europe (depending on definitions) has about 15-20% unemployment, Greece and Spain both having over 25%. Youth unemployment across Europe is around 25%, with Spain (over 55%) and Greece (over 60%) holding top slots.

Having said that, we're still relatively rich, with our fancy cell phones and HDTVs, social securities, etc. Most of the prices for Europe, when you subtract VAT, are roughly 50 USD higher than the American prices. And there are still costs associated with releasing hardware and software for multiple languages, across multiple countries, each with its own laws and regulations in addition to EU law. It sucks, but it's not unreasonable I think.

No, because (at the risk of stepping on all the toes) avatars are pointless when pretty much everyone has a random video game character, random anime character, random Japanese lady or Ryan as their avatar.

I got really excited for a moment there, but then I noticed all the actual rewards are only shipped within the US. No option to pay a bit extra to cover shipping abroad. Guess they don't want my dirty Euros... >_>

It’s an unwritten rule between Alex and I

I hate to be that guy, but this is a nit I must pick. It's an unwritten rule between Alex and "me". Well, Alex and Patrick, but in that sentence, Patrick is I and should be me, see?

But really:

@Branthog said:

I haven't been following the development of the new site. Was there any explanation of the choice of PHP over Python? That is baffling. At least they avoided the Ruby/Rails hipster thing (though they seem to be on the NoSQL bandwagon?), but I don't understand why you'd choose PHP over Python or any other options. Has PHP really advanced so much since the last time I did much web development? (Years ago). It always had too many security issues (if not inherent to PHP, then in the way it was implemented in many cases by those who create various things you might need to patch into your own work). If you gave me a thousand guesses, the only one that would come further down the list than PHP would be Perl (even though it remains my personal preference for my own masochistic reasons).

The explanation for PHP is, in Dave's words "CBSi is a PHP-shop". It's what the company uses, so it's what they must use. I'm sure they all had enough experience with PHP to know what they were getting into. I don't think it was something they looked forward to, but in the end it's just a language. You know, give a sculptor a spoon, and you've got a great metaphor. Dave, Alexis and all those other guys working on SeaSerpent, they're fucking (adj.) Rodin.

And no, PHP hasn't advanced. It's mutated sideways and backwards and upwards and inwards. It's an even bigger mess than it ever was, with terrible attempts at every paradigm imaginable (I hate OOP, as a paradigm, but even I am insulted by PHPs take on it) and inconsistent standard libraries.