Friday, June 22, 2012
Is there a word for this feeling?
"Is there a name for the psychological cozy feeling when you're finally not the last person in a long line?"
Thursday, June 21, 2012
"he's built a network of gamers who help him farm the best gear to arm his superpowered characters"
Kotaku:
It's one thing to beat Diablo III's Skeleton King boss. It's quite another thing to beat Diablo III's Skeleton King boss on Inferno, the game's highest difficulty setting. And it's quite another thing to defeat Diablo III's Skeleton King boss on Inferno… in less than a frickin' second.
Behold, the greatest hits of Athene, a power gamer who makes it a habit of increasing his damage per second until he can cut through Diablo III's most difficult bosses in a matter of seconds.
Since watching this video, I've taken to watching Athene's livestream, and have been transfixed. I'd heard of him before, related to his shenanigans in World of Warcraft. He's a cocky dude, and something of a controversial figure, since he's built a network of gamers who help him farm the best gear to arm his superpowered characters. (Though it must be said, he also raises huge amounts of money for charity.)
The Guardian profiles The Oatmeal
The Guardian profiles The Oatmeal:
Dig a little deeper, and you discover quite why Inman is protective of his online comics. He says that the three-year-old business makes him about $500,000 (£318,000) annually, of which 25% is from advertising, and the remainder from merchandising. Inman monetises his content via mugs, T-shirts, posters and bumper stickers. Family members work for him, dutifully shipping his wares to dolphin haters across the globe.
(Is that revenue figure feasible? The product prices range from $5 to $45; the average is about $20. To get $375,000, or 75% of the total, in merchandise revenues requires selling 18,750 products (375,000/20) each year. That's 1,530 products per month, or 51 products every day. Given a reader base of about 7m, he only needs convert 0.02% of visitors to buy a product. The advertising revenues, of $175,000 per year, are reasonable given the visitor numbers.)
"a decentralized network of information nodes that are linked using hypertext"
"If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was unlikely that they would have said that a decentralized network of information nodes that are linked using hypertext."
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