Io, Io, Io!
For great justice!
2010-09-06 22:37:08 Double post!!!1!!oneone
The last weekend, during one of our wandering, we went to one of the local mighty game stores - usually for trying with my GF to put together a good 3x2 offer.
Years ago we talked about the "onion price trick" (Link). This is the time of "Suggested is lowest" practice. A photo is just enough:

The yellow bullet suggests a price of 24.99 euros for the game - is not a random price since is the same price I've paid for Wipeout HD and the Fury addon downloadable on the PSN. But why don't charge the price a bit? Effective price is 29.98 euros, 4.99 more than the suggested price. Everything happens on the cover.
I'm wondering why for this overprice, since most of the times they sell games in already opened boxes or uses a cutter for leaving cellophan, ruining the cover. Instead of being cheaper, the game is more expansive!
But, as Farenz says (Link) "I believe that the relation between me and these evil game shops is like the relation between a drug addict and a drug dealers. I'm not proud to get stuff from them but I already know that I'll come back there." ~ . ~ Nerdmode on!
2010-09-06 22:24:53 Someone thinks that life is a cycle. I agree: after a cycle of coding during spare time, usually follows up a period of being user of software. Particularly video games, comic drawing softwares (Bought Manga Studio Debut on sale, in these days), video players (for anime and game trailers) and cyclette stopwatch. Yes...

Watching the full DVD box of Excel Saga (one of my favourite anime - now I can watch all the episodes. Yum!), playing the stack of unfinished games in living room, wandering for bargain bin and... the evil lands of Gamestop! ~ . ~ Meltingbot
2010-09-03 23:00:06 What is Meltingbot?
Excited by the way of gathering and showing content of Flipboard (Link) on iPad, I've decided to put together a little experiment: mix some REST calls to some well known services, a bunch of DIVs, an open-sourced rectangle packing algorithm in JS (Link) and a bit of CSS transformations to see what happens. This is the result, best viewed on Safari, Safari Mobile and Google Chrome - but still works with Firefox and Opera - is Meltingbot, a (confused) magazine about anything - and without any aggregation server ;).

As usual, bigger is here (Link). Try this while is still working! (Link) ~ . ~ « Pagina precedente | Pagina successiva » |