On review bombing

So your favorite game or the game you're investigating prior to a purchase is suddenly dropping in user review score on Steam? Or maybe you didn't notice the drop because... this was the first time you were looking into the game and decided to skip this one because of the bad review score?

Steam is implementing a review bombing graph which enables the customer to see when exceptionally good or bad reviews have been posted.This as a response to the Pewdiepie controversy where Campo Santo issued an DMCA takedown notice against his Firewatch videos. Apparently a lot of Pewdiepie fans went mad and review bombed tons of bad scores on Steam, and by that lowered the overall score of Firewatch. With the new graph, customers can see if bad scores have been posted in a short period of time and make their own opinion on why this is. If a game gets bad (or even good) reviews in a short period of time, something can be fishy. In this way Steam adds a layer of "caution" for the customer to consider before pushing - or refraining from - that lovely purchase button.

Celebrating a secret mining operation

In case you missed Kyle's hilarious fail the other day. Here's Steve's response to why Kyle popped the bottle. Secrets... secrets...

Just for the fun [pain] of it

Kyle just released a silly video on building a high end PC in a yacht on the choppy ocean waters of SoCal. For a pc hardware enthusiast this is pure torture.

SFO

Leaving for Copenhagen today at 5.35 pm. Sarah already left for Hong Kong at 1.30 pm and I have 4 hours to kill. Well I ventured outside the terminal building but guess what, it was almost empty. It is CRAZEEE HOT! No one with their sanity intact wants to be outside. Not even a sun lover like me. Sorry SF, I'm leaving you for a fall-like Europe...

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Good night, Bay Area

The sun is going down over Cleveland Heights in Oakland this freakishly hot Friday. And tomorrow is forecast to be even hotter... We're spending the night here in our rental instead of our house in Sausalito as we had to leave the car back home. Now we simply just Uber our way to SFO tomorrow. Convenient!

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104 degrees [EDIT: 106 degrees]

104 degrees (40 C) in San Francisco today September 1st. We're melting away even at the Bay shoreline...

[EDIT: actually 106 (41 C) according to NWS. All-time record]

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Ice cream to beat the heat

Bay Area is extremely hot at the moment. And in Sausalito Lappert's Ice Cream is doing great!

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All those photos

Smile, you're in Sausalito!

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