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  1. A philosophy of game balancing and several ways to make it unworthy

    First of all: why posting this in a blog instead of in the forum? Well, probably because it's just some loud thinking that i'm making, and i don't think it has to be so 'interactive' as a forum thread.

    Why such a subject? Mainly because i am a bit fed up with posts criticizing the work we have done in XTC, posts which bottom line can be translated into: I like what you made but you could have done it better, because i was expecting it to be different, so, since it is not exactly how ...
  2. Rant against TV drug dealers (i.e. Mediaset channels)

    Ok folks...

    Probably many of you know Fringe, the TV Sci-fi series... I got hooked onto it since the pilot and really love it. But i'm here talking about a different issue, something related to it but in a very sad way:

    The "public" TV channel Italia1 of the Mediaset 'cartel' has been airing all the first season of Fringe, getting apparently a good public response. Now their plan is finally revealed: they are really acting like a drug cartel: first they give ...
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  3. A theory of conservation

    Most of us has heard about the theory of conservation: nothing is created or destroyed, all changes. (That is just a brutally summarized version of what the laws of conservation state).

    I think that law can be applied also to chaos and order. In this sense: for any struggling step you'll make towards order, you'll inevitably cause an opposite step towards chaos somewhere else. (Postulate: you will cause also a proportional increment in someone else's rage).

    For now i have ...
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  4. You like... X-treme sports?

    Just thought i had to add something with an X in the title

    I just founded the first X-treme checkers club.
    The rules of Xtreme checkers are the same of the classic board game, but - the xtreme ingredient is: you must be playing against a towering, short-tempered, rather unexperienced guy, and mock him constantly at any good move you make or bad move he makes...
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  5. A kick-off blog entry

    A) So... just my first nonsense here, only to see how this new feature works...

    B) Finally a blog! Finally my voice will be heard all over TXU! Finally... hey, wait... in space no one can hear you!

    C) [deleted for excessive use of words beginning with 'Y']

    D) Haha! You are thinking 'What the hell could have he written at C)?'

    E) Yeah, right... now tell me you were not...

    F) Hey, did you read what I wrote at A)?
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