Ugly

• “How about we give every large creature the exact same strategy to beat? That will make things a lot easier for the players don’t you think? It’s not like they want to use their skills in unexpected ways or something like that.”

This is kind of odd and maybe a turgid look into my psyche, but it made me smirk.

The beta for Swiftkey X is available for Android smartphones. It is a soft keyboard replacement that employs a word-prediction engine based upon your writings on Twitter, Gmail and Facebook. Which has an amusing side-effect.

Swiftkey X starts predicting the words even if there isn’t anything written yet. And then suggests a word after that, and after that… So what would happen if I let Swiftkey X ‘create’ an SMS based on its suggestions? This:

I am a beautiful person. The creator of the most fun board games, boeken, tijdschriften, boeken, tijdschriften, boeken, tijdschriften, boeken, tijdschriften, boeken, tijdschriften, boeken, tijdschriften… (it continues in this ‘loop’ for ever)

For those not proficient in Dutch, ‘boeken’ means ‘books’ and ‘tijdschriften’ magazines. I wonder if this is just an easter egg or a true analysis of my texts. In case of the latter, I think I might need some help…

Ugly

• “People are sick of using all their skills once they’ve finally unlocked them at the end. It’s better to make them constantly dodge projectiles as we turn it into a bullet-hell platformer during the final bits. I mean, just imagine having an advantage! We can’t have that!”