The Mind Of OverlordTomala

Valve hires a Economy errrrrr, Manconomy expert.

Not fooling. Valve has hired an economist. Yes, a REAL economist.

It was late at night in October of last year when the strange email arrived. In fact, I only read it by accident and did not delete it by some miracle of fate.

Before the Euro Crisis erupted in 2009, I was just another economics professor, minding my own little theoretical endeavours, writing obscure papers and esoteric books that only a few hundred nutcases around the world (like myself) would ever read, terribly satisfied in my very own academic cocoon. Back then, I would never even imagine not answering an incoming email.

Valve seems to be slightly concerned about a possible imbalance in the Mannconomy for Team Fortress 2. Either way this isn’t something you see everyday. Then again this is Valve we’re talking about.

More nerding out.

So instead of playing anything tonight or working on any videos I ended up playing around in dreamweaver with a template for the main site. Much better than before. Trellian was a nice start, but Dreamweaver is more like working with a pen. I like the feel of it better.

I still think the site looks a tad empty, but I’m sure I’ll add more later.

A picture is worth a thousand words. But was it really worth $3999.95?

Being that I am a gamer, I get double lolz out of this post over at balloon-juice.

In memory of Andrew Breitbart who passed away not long ago. Patriot Depot had this picture up for sale. Oil painted on a canvas for a nice low price of $3999.95 each:

Majestic. I mean, he looks like he has baby hands but majestic. A few people did manage to purchase these too. But then it seems someone recognized the armor from a particular game.

So not only is it an expensive piece of photoshop, it’s also a copyright violation.  People recognized the bit of armor and contacted Ubisoft. Not long after that the websites that promoted the picture were eventually taken down. Who would have guessed?

 

Update

It seems the news has broken over at Kotaku.