06.22.07

Done with AdBrite, permanently

Posted in General Interest at 11:24 am by stonecypher

Don’t ever ask AdBrite for clarifications of their terms of service.  They’ll ignore repeated emails and phone calls for a month, tell you it’s ok on the phone but that they won’t say it in writing, then tell you you’re being abusive by continuing to ask, and that you’re risking getting your account shut down.  (There’s nothing against what I want to do in the TOS; I was just trying to be a good neighbor.)

I just shut my account down.  I will not deal with a company that is offended by a customer wanting to check if their idea is okay before doing it.  Scumbags.

Anyone know of a text ad auction system other than AdBrite?

06.16.07

A side note, about gaming

Posted in Competitions, Gaming, General Interest, Miscellaneous at 11:23 am by stonecypher

Our good friends at DevKitPro want help exposing their project to a wider audience through the SourceForge Community Choice awards. DevKitPro is a deployment of GCC meant to facilitate development for console video game systems, including the Nintendo DS, the GameBoy Advance, Playstation Portable, Sega Saturn, GP2X, GP32, Nintendo GameCube and hopefully soon the Wii.

Some of you may know that I write Nintendo games commercially. DevKitPro and its antecedents were how I got my foot in the door. I’d like other people to know these tools are available, in case they have the passion too.

If you’d like to see other people able to make homebrew gaming happen for their consoles, cast your vote here.