Yes, folks, welcome to August, one of the best months of the year . . . the month of beach time, PAX, and (most importantly) my birthday. Let’s see how the month has treated us so far . . .

Talk to Me Softly 02; 84

ASCII ninja JTaylor has put together a Mibbit widgit, for all those who took issue joining the LRR-Talk IRC chat via a dedicated client. It’s browser-based, and only needs javascript, so jump on in and join the party :).

LRR-Talk widget

Shirtstorm 126; 79

Tensen01 has apparently gone insane (in a good way), and turned his own thread about a hypothetical Zod T-shirt into veritable explosion of hypothetical LRR-wear. His ideas cover ground from season one to the present, and they just keep coming!

Have a look at the thread here – I wish we did have a catalog this extensive!

The Blog Prince 84; 32

After lats week’s running of the blogs, I’m happy to say that Graham, Matt and James have done a fantastic job of blogging consistently. How long this trend will continue before getting bucked–like a sultry doe–is difficult to say, but for now I’m certainly enjoying the updates. Meanwhile, Allen! has started a thread to try and suss out your blogs. While I don’t promise to read them all, what I have seen so far has taught me a lot about you folks. According to Wraith’s, for example, he’s decided that he hates Vista, and plans on using OS X and Red Hat on his mac mini from now on. Tru story, dat . . .

Check out Allen!’s thread here.

The Last Guy . . . 73; 82

. . . on the crew to know about LRR projects is often me, because school prevents me from attending meetings. However, I am not the star of Sony’s new Playstation Network game The Last Guy, which appears to be a zombie-survival game of sorts.

D-Darsh pointed out this week that using the web-based “demo”, The Last Guy Everywhere, you can play the game using any website as a level layout. If you’ve not tried it, loadingreadyrun.com makes a pretty decent introductory stage. It’s not fantastic but it’s a great way to kill a few minutes!

try The Last Guy Everywhere

Grand Theft LRR 67; 73

Earlier this week, Graham and Matt were accosted by Victoria’s finest on suspicion of car theft. They were not arrested, as their apprehension turned out to be the result of a computer error, but they did get to spend some time cuffed on the asphalt in front of angry dobermans. You can a better account of the story on their blogs.

Graham’s blog
Matt’s blog

Loading Time 75; 68

Are you sad because Proudfoot’s Community Profiles only appear on alternate weeks? Then maybe you missed the debut of his new project, Loading Time – an honest-to-goodness behind the scenes feature, showing the process behind Emergency Situation. Sure, we’ve done blooper reals before, and of course there was The Process from very early in season two . . . but seriously, this is bonus content on a whole new strata of quality. Also, it shows off LRR’s Orbiting Underground Moon Bunker for the first time ev(a)r.

If you’ve not seen it yet, you should.

New Digs (but not DIGGs, Unfortunately) 69; 69

I guess there is a chance that some of you are reading this via RSS, and if that’s the case, go load up LRR RIGHT NOW because today marks the debut of our brand spanking new site design! Paul’s been working on this for a long time now, and it’s fantastic to finally get to show the rest of you :). The new site features a lot of improvements to both the front and back ends to make your LRR-browsing experience as tight and feature-rich as possible.

There are still some bugs remaining to be squashed, and if you find one we want to hear about it. Just remember to try clearing out your cache and reloading (shift-refresh on most browsers) before making a report, and remember to tell us the browser and version number you are using to view the site.

If you have any constructive criticism, please let us know about that too :).

bug report thread
general comments thread

Desert Bus 2 News: Is Forthcoming 84; 126

Many of you have asked to know the whens, wheres and whatfores of Desert Bus 2, and while we want to spill everything, now is not yet the time. While DB2 is a go, a lot of our plans are still very much up in the air. While there may be a trickle of information over the next few weeks, don’t expect to know everything until at least September. We’re excited; we’re glad you’re excited; we just don’t want to make any promises until the details are set in stone

And Finally . . . 32; 03

I’ve decided that (after only two of these posts) I can no longer fit them into my Monday schedule. Beyond the fact that Monday is already a big day for us, you folks do a lot of talking on the weekends, and it’s all I can to to keep up. Thus, expect to hear from me again on Friday, and Fridays thereafter :).

Cheers!

–Jer out