I don’t much to add to this post by Brian (Psychochild) Green other than to say it was a great read for someone who is heavily invested in the MMO and game dev space, even if its from the outside looking in. The connection to “Superstar” by Cyprus Hill is indeed a good one (plus its a good song), as I think many times MMO fans expect miracles to happen, even when that ‘miracle’ is considered an obvious change in the minds of the fans. If reading the forums as a player can make you depressed, I can’t image what it could do to someone actually invested and working on a game. Again, the post is a great read, so go check it out.
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Three developers in a studio forced to work together on a game. This is when shit gets real. You think you know, but you have no idea. Real World: Developer Edition.
I’d watch it.
Doubt it would be as entertaining as the Jersey Shore (but then, can anything even be as entertaining as that?), but I’d still watch it.
Screw Jersey Shore, Steven Seagal Lawman is where it’s at!
Problem is watching The Soup gives me all I need to see of Lawman, while every moment of the Jersey Shore is TV gold.
I’ve not seen it at all but I’m pretty sure it will just make me real fuckin angry. Is The Soup still hosted by that Jon guy who is also a host of that Wipeout show (which is one of my favorite shows)?
It’s Joel McHale now, Jon Henson left a while ago. Why watch all that junk TV when you can see all the best parts every week. Brilliant formula.
lol, instant gratification IRL, you’re such a wow player
I clicked on the link to Psychochild’s blog in Google Reader and got sent to a Viagra spam ad. I come to your blog directly and the link works fine.
Weird.
I think that’s a new feature Brian has added to his site. I told him that ‘get rich quick’ scheme was going to backfire though…
(odd indeed, anyone else get this issue?)
Happened to me, and while he has some really good posts… it’s the reason I don’t usually go to his blog.
Er, could someone who had this happen paste the URL they followed and where they landed? In Google Reader the link shows up just fine, and I certainly didn’t intend there to be Viagra spam…. It’s not happening to me so I can’t isolate the problem if it is on my end.
Lying only makes it worse…
(I had no problem with it either fyi)
It did the same thing to me as well. Some viagra site.
I just clicked the site here and through Google Reader and both brought up the correct page.
Same thing happened to me. When I clicked the link from within Google Reader, I get sent to the spam page. When I click the link here, it works as expected.
Don’t think it’s your blog, as the URL link is the same. But for some reason, Psychchild’s blog is sometimes forwarding the http request inappropriately.
What link does it display in your Google reader, and is that the same URL you end up at?
I’m trying to figure out if someone has maliciously altered my site or if it’s a problem with the way Google Reader handles links.
It displays the same link in Google Reader – http://www.psychochild.org/?p=876
And it does seem to go there. But, once it hits that URL, it pauses for a second on a blank screen, and then forwards me along to the spam page.
Does it do that every time you visit the link? Or just occasionally?
Thanks for the info.
I clicked the link from Google Reader 3 or 4 times and it forwarded me every time. I’ve since marked this article as read, so it no longer appears in my Reader for any further testing.
If you go to the top of a subscription and click “all items” next to “N new items” and you can see old articles.
Seems like the problem was intermittent. I never had the problem happen. Someone else only had it happen the first time they followed the link. I went through and cleared out some suspicious stuff, so hopefully the problem was solved.
Thanks for the help, Tholal. Drop me a line if you do test it again, or reply to here.
And thanks for letting me get info, Syncaine.
[...] done a bit of maintenance to the blog. According to some commenters at Hardcore Casual, some people were being redirected away from my blog to a drug spam [...]
Actually, if people could post about problems with my blog on my own site as linked above, that’d be appreciated. Keep the cruft off of here.
Thanks!