"And I did not chip in ten grand to seed a first investment round to build value for a Facebook acquisition."Â
Notch fleshes out his initial reaction to  OcculousBook in this blog post.  
Even while it is still in pre pre alpha this game is more fun than  many well funded yawnfests that get massive press. Go give it  the alpha a  free try and if you like it give them some money up front to work on the release version. Remember, backer status has its rewards. 
Cosmochoria is a love letter to old-school action / arcade games like Asteroids, Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong. Cosmochoria is a mesmerizing way to kill hours: hopping between planets, unravelling forgotten mysteries, killing aliens and planting seeds to sprout new life across a long-barren galaxy …
Has my house been excited for this all week long? Like duh. First…it is about games and if there is one thing my kids and I love doing it is playing games. Second…Whil Wheaton is involved. The guy is every where…he reads the audio books my kids listen to, he is on the BigBangSomethingOrOther my kids watch in Grandmas room because dad is a TV nazi, he was on Star Trek like OMG and once long long ago he was on Mindvox.. so yea that he is leading the charge is a big deal to the kids. Third…being that we will be at a game shoppe there is a good chance the kids will remember they have allowance due to them and we will buy MORE GAMES to play at home. Â It is truly a win win win sort of day. Â
And then next month is Comic Book Day, a day so sacred to the boys and I we had it included as an official holiday in the legal parenting plan. Yes, yes we did…right here in black and white. Had Tabletop day been back when we drafted that document it would have most likely wound up in it as well.
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TableTop Day is just around the corner! How close around the corner? It’s tomorrow! Visit TableTopDa
If you can not find a place to purchase a CARDIAC there are a couple of places on the intertubes that will help you diy one up. Â Kyle Miller's page not only has all the pages you need to print to do this but also a PDF of the original manual.
One of the nice things about the plain layout is, if  you need to hook the interest of the younglings or even old pheezers, you can customize them with a few simple machinations in GIMP or whatever your image manipulator of choice is. For my younger son, age 8 now, I am planning on a Pokemon skinned CARDIAC.Â
Other mods for the CARDIAC? Yes, yes indeed what the world needs now is CARDIACMODWORKS (tip of the hat to Cyanogen). Post up your mods here. Â
So there you go….print print snip snip paste paste and you are on your way to THE COMPUTER AGE!!!  Sorry about that, it is exciting though. 
Hardware. This page has various things which one could consider existing in the physical world (as opposed to Software). 1. CARDIAC. The CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation was a cardboard computer created by Bell Labs to teach students the basics of computers.
Part two of the unboxing, this time a quick overview and the previously mentioned promise that has now been may years in the not doing..
Having been assembled we now take a quick gander at the woinders that will come of its use. My son a
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