National Novel Writing Month: A new Golden Goal!
November is National Novel Writing Month! NaNoWriMo as it’s known is an event organised by The Office of Letters and Light, an organisation dedicated to promoting the literary arts in [...]
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Bastion Review (PC)
Two things attracted me to Bastion. The first was the price, and the second was its reputation. By the time I picked it up on Steam for a safe $5US [...]
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Crash
the Ballad of NZNik I’ve been playing games for as long as I can remember, across a number of platforms but mostly PC. My gaming era began in the [...]
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State of the Notion
From the GB Forums/Site Development/Updates thread Site status update for 1/10/2011: I’ve got just about every feature I’ve thought up working in some form or another now, which means we’re [...]
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Work, Work
I’ve spent the last few days getting a handful of key features to work, most of which can be seen in the new ‘featured user’ sections: Projects, Paragons, and The [...]
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Spit Hit the Fan
Updated a few plugins and the site fragmented violently. I still have a shard of the Achievements plugin lodged in my eyebrow. After performing some amateur server-side surgery the site’s [...]
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Bacon Sushi Has Happened
Seaweed is for seahippies. Bacon’s the new king of rice containment.
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Something Need Doing?
Currently tinkering with some behind-the-scene aspects of GBs, extending the skeletal framework of PHP and fleshing it out with pages, posts and plugins. As a result there haven’t been many [...]
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This (button) Changes Everything
You might have noticed that things are looking a bit different around these parts. Hooray for creative obsession! Apart from the aesthetic, I’ve made a few changes that might affect [...]
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Gone to Eleven
Just wanted to make an eleventh post to see how the site handles it. It’s supposed to show no more than 10 posts on a page, so let’s see what [...]
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What: Now with How
I’ve expanded the What? page to include more detailed descriptions of the site’s features. Cop an eyeful.
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Language Filter Demo
*NOTE: This only works for official site posts at the moment, and not the forums or community sections. Anyhoo, let’s get this train-wreck a’rolling. My test segment will be “The [...]
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Success Is a Four Letter Word
I’ve been tinkering with a censorship plugin. Go here and do what comes natural.
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Use-a-Name
I’m trying to figure out how to change the way usernames are displayed when a community member makes a post or some such. Right now you sign up with a [...]
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20% Off
Reduced the site’s width from 1000px in 3 columns to 800px in 2 columns. As a result I’ll need to butcher some PHP to get the slideshow to fit again…but [...]
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Achievement Unlocked
Achievements. What self-respecting online community would be without them?
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Funkin’ Late
Finally found the ‘funk’ button to change the slideshow style, making its funk match the rest of the site’s funk. It’s also 4am. Changes to the site aesthetic are taking [...]
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Enormous Banner Invades Website
Having some trouble finding a good slideshow plugin, so I’ve reverted to the default one for the theme I’m using – which is sorta broken. I planned to have something [...]
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WordPress Comments Finally Disabled
I can’t believe that bullship took me five fluxing hours.
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