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Ken Levine announced sudden shutdown of Irrational Games

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:O IDKAMWTS! A Message From Ken Levine When Jon Chey, Rob Fermier and I founded Irrational Games seventeen years ago, our mission was to make visually unique worlds and populate them with singular characters. We built Rapture and Columbia, the Von Braun and The Rickenbacker, the Freedom Fortress and some of the nastiest basements a SWAT team ever set foot into.  We created Booker and Elizabeth, the Big Daddy and the Little Sister, MidWives and ManBot. In that time, Irrational has grown larger and more successful than we could have …

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The end of soon-ish is near!

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We did it. To be precise you did it.

End of the dawn. Returning from the darkness. The time has come, welcome to maintenance and server moving. At the end of february we are going to replace this blog step by step. First we move all stuff to a new server including all other domains and some projects. We need more space and did I already mentioned more space and more performance? So far we are preparing everything to move.

Expect for this blog. It’s about 3 years ago that I have posted somehow reliable on a daily base. As I said this will change – yes I said this quite often and nothing so far happened – and I made quite a good progress over the last three weeks.

Now ←————– Very Soon ——– Soon ——– Soon-ish —————→ End of Time

Now we are at very soon to now. Not tomorrow! At last very soowish! That’s great don’t you think so?

After we moved everything around for the project pages and my other domains we are going to replenish this blog. Finally I have some awesome studs and gurls in the portfolio who will help me and blog with to give you a good time.

Craig. Melli and 2 TBA ppl. Maybe there will be another one. A dear friend who is writing short storys and working on his own book. Follow this link and read a short story. Should you be intersted in more go for his book. Sadly but it’s only in German language available.

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a very f** merry x-mas :-)

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*we WISH you all the best for x-mas and the new years eve! finally all updates are done and will be released soon-ish after new year. we will expect a smooth rollout of the new site and we hope you will enjoy the board. did we also mentioned that the comments are available again? expect great things… soonish! 🙂 -craig -jan -lars -melli Oh.. the site looks terrible right now? Right! Don’t expect anything before the update… and yes it’s lurking around the next corner. PS: looking for 3d artist …

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Stunning images from Alexa Meade that blur the line between paint and photograph

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“If I want to paint your portrait, I’m painting it on you — physically on you. That also means you’re probably going to end up with an ear full of paint because I need to paint your ear on your ear,” says Meade in this extremely fun talk, given at TEDGlobal 2013. “The mask of paint mimics what is directly below it. In this way, I am able to take a three-dimensional scene and make it look like a two-dimensional painting.” “I could envision starting with a scene that Liu Bolin created, …

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Cosplay 2013 – NO BlizzCON COVER :(

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Sorry! The BlizzCon 2013 coverage will be lost forever between space and time. I can’t bring the post back to life and there is no way for me to get the data back. At least enjoy the cosplay video from the blizzcon 2013. Thanks for your patiences and understanding. @bubblechew301 – No. Absolutely not, i don’t aprove any sort of comment section anymore. There will be no possible way to write your comment. If someone have feedback, criticism or just chitchat – E-Mail / contact form.

The Design of Everyday Things & Link Summary #04

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Just finished reading “The Design of Everyday Things” again – this book will get you to think about your everyday interfaces and the things in your environment – elevators, machines, doors, gadgets, locks, software interfaces, etc. A classic book which offers endless amount of amusement if you’re thinking twice about things you will find in there. Adopt the principles and apply them equally well to API structuring, game design, software UI and usability of things who are used everyday. Get the book here and apply it in your production process …

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The LEGO® Movie – Official Main Trailer

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  I don’t want to exaggerate… but the first full trailer for The Lego Movie makes it look like the best movie I’ve ever seen. Ever. The Lego Movie! With an all-star voice cast that includes Will Ferrell, Morgan Freeman, Elizabeth Banks, and more, the animated family flick hits theaters February 7, 2014 (USA).

About the role of credit in the economy

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How the Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio The economy works like a simple machine. But many people don’t understand it— or they don’t agree on how it works — and this has led to a lot of needless economic suffering. I feel a deep sense of responsibility to share my simple but practical economic template. Though it’s unconventional, it has helped me to anticipate and sidestep the global financial crisis, and has worked well for me for over 30 years. An economy is simply the sum of the transactions that …

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Xbox One: Invitation

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Update 28.10.2013: We will contact the winners shortly-ish! Make sure to check your emails! This is an invitation to a new generation. Where your games and entertainment are no longer separated, but together in one. This is an invitation from the all-in-one, Xbox One. Jump ahead. You like to play your games with friends? Already waiting for the Next-Generation XBOX? Get your invitation here and play with us some games on the brand new XBOX ONE! Click here and get your invitation! (Germany, Austria ONLY!) Watch the trailer above and …

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The Concept of Time – End of Time!

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I hope this will help you to understand the concept of time. The gallery, portfolio and other stuff will arrive soon, mayhaps at the end of the year? It might be of help if you are familiar to the concept of time in Blizzard or Valve terms. 🙂 “Soon” does not imply any particular date, time, decade, century, or millennia in the past, present, and certainly not the future. “Soon” will arrive some day, there is no guarantee that “soon” will be here before the end of time. Maybe. Do not make …

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Removing Personal Data From The Internet

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Time consumption so far ‘3 Days 2 Hours 05 Minutes’ Facebook RESET – DONE Twitter RESET – DONE Google+ RESET – DONE XING RESET – DONE Linkedin RESET – DONE YouTube reorganized/cleaned – DONE Searchable Web Data – Around 93% Personalized Web Data – Around 96% Removing Data (Avatar, Nicknames, Clan Tags, Profiles) = 92% Forum Data = 70% Data from old websites = DONE Backtracks/Pingbacks/Refr = unknown Cross references = DONE old weblinks = almost done Personal Name Data = in progress Blog posts & Forum posts/Accounts = in …

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RSA Animate – Re-Imagining Work

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Despite the fact that most people today have a far richer experience of technology in their personal lives, we still tend to use technology at work in a way that hasn’t greatly changed in over 30 years. At home, we are surrounded by a multitude of powerful, connected devices, we have adopted an entirely new perspective around openness and sharing and, for the most part, we continue to search out new and different ways of putting technology in a place where it can enable us to become greater than the …

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