His Dark Majesty

this blog is dying faster than an aborted fetus

Good job Mr. Internet. You win at The Internet.
The grand prize is that you're a dick.

Maybe some of us are just finding out about this stuff. Maybe it's news to us. Maybe TIGsource is where we come for information, not news. Maybe I am really interested in the game that this post is about. Maybe I would not have heard about this game otherwise. If we tell people about the things we find out about, the indie game scene will expand as more people know about it. Would you not recommend cave story to a friend just because it is old? I like posts like this.

Stop obsessing about me and leaving passive-aggressive comments on TIGSource. I'm serious, you need to move on already.

I got an idea. You should just ban him. He obviously isn't going to move on any time soon, so why not do something to help him keep his mind off of this site for a while?

ignore podunkian. he won't be satisfied until every post is a glowing review about something he made. in fact, he once had not one but two websites that were exactly that.

and yes your game is still a cave story ripoff. cry harder about it. nobody cares.

This game is wonderful. While 'retro' is so prevalent amongst indie games, they rarely go as far as using the hardware itself, which seems like the natural conclusion of the trend. There is something really satisfying about fabricating a little piece of history like this.

If it was such a shitty blog you wouldn't be reading it, posting on it, trying so hard to get other people not to read it, creating websites/music videos about it, etc.

bro, all i'm suggesting is for people is that they keep their minds open to other sites. i'm really sorry if it goes against your indie games agenda, but if you read my last post the only thing i really said was “this was posted earlier on another site; another writer does a much thorough job of posting more comprehensive news; you should always keep an open mind. maybe you're against keeping an open mind? put a hyperlink block on your site. problem solved.

MrPodunkian!
You are certainly entitled to have an opinion as much as anyone else and you give great advice (even though to most of us here indiegames.com is not a revolutionary find).
Allow me to reciprocate your advice!

If you don't like a certain blog, simple stop subscribing to it.
Trying to change it in a way that's more akin to picking a fight then giving constructive feedback is futile (and may I say a bit naive and/or infantile) and will only end up in you getting burnt. Great success if that's what you're after
(one can not help but to begin to wonder).

Also, as many have already eloquently pointed out, this is not a news-service (nor is indiegames.com) – rendering your argument invalid. But I guess you already figured that out.

Then again, I virtually feed on indie-drama, so please, do go on!
I'm not being ironic. I'm just a humble admirer of your determination and bullheadedness.
/Kinten

my mistake for practicing common courtesy then:

your site does a really terrible job of reporting independent games news.

people here have commented that they had not heard of the game being referred to in this post, and that's nobody's fault but your own (considering INDIEGAMES.COM had posted about it a week earlier). on the flip side, timw's readers were quick to point out that STREEMERZ (my latest game, written about two days ago) was a part of the ACTION 52 OWNS event — a fairly large event that involved a lot of prominent indie game developers, that originated from your own site's community (that you somehow failed to mention). maybe this shows an irregularity in posting habits.

you can continue to pretend like i'm being passive aggressive, but that's not the case. i've been hyper-agressive, like i've said, to the point that people think i'm obsessive about my criticism of you and how you run your site. i've made a site directly parodying yours (and to my surprise, it was successful to a very large degree). i've made plenty of parody songs about you/your colleagues/your treatment of the indie games community. my songs found a large market despite your unwillingness to report about them. but ou can keep pretending like i'm sort of jilted, obsessed fan who wants your attention, despite the fact that i've been so un-passive-aggressive of my criticism of you that it's sort of a thing on your own wiki (were you aware it existed?).

We all know how this is going to end. So can the two of you just hurry up and go on a date, already?

I got served.
Or as my drama-loving alter ego Pedro would say: “FUCK YES! Tell me I'm a dirty little bitch!”

Seriously though, I still don't view this as a news service as in daily news. More like indie-weekly – sometimes fresh stuff, mostly just posts of mutual interest. And in this particular case you have to agree that your initial comment – “old news from ages ago” is a bit over the top.
My recommendation still stands. Just stop subscribing.
If you still want things to change I suggest you ask that that one sentence “indie news” be removed.
Your urgent problem solved and you can continue reading this blog without the constant need of analyzing the contents freshness and then sharing your sharpminded, much needed conclusions.

Any who, I suggest we continue this in the forums where it belongs.
To Derek: I'm sorry for keeping this silly conversation alive.

a fine contribution to a reasonable discussion

“Unlike master morality which is sentiment, slave morality is literally re-sentiment–revaluing that which the master values. This strays from the valuation of actions based on consequences to the valuation of actions based on “intention”.[5] As master morality originates in the strong, slave morality originates in the weak. Because slave morality is a reaction to oppression, it villainizes its oppressors. Slave morality is the inverse of master morality.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master-slave_morality

Judging from your answer I apparently stepped on your toes and I apologize for that. I admit I wrote in a way that might be interpreted as ironic, but my intentions were honest.
You're fighting windmills here, focus your energy on something else.
I mean we're talking games here and trying to enjoy each other's company.
I know that sometimes we're a bit biased and brown nosed, but I sincerely feel we're allowed to be. Our opinions might differ there, but come on. ITS GAMES.

I truly mean it when I say your passion is admirable, but try to focus it on something more important in life.

Holy christ, that's a lot of wasted comment space. First I heard about this, thanks!

seriously, though. You're obviously in love with him. Stop sublimating it into hate. Ask him out, he'll probably say yes.

Mr Podunkian does have a point, why hasn't TIGSource reported on the Action 52 OWNS compo? I think it's a great idea, and I'm sure it'd benefit from the added traffic.

Can you please answer this, Derek Yu?

Cheers.

Wow, these boxes are getting small.

Podunkian, how about stop being a dick for once? Open your own indie games community, write news, or just follow another one, I'm kinda sick of reading your bullshit on the comment section when it should be used to comment the game itself. Have you played it or are you here just to say how old the news people post are?

I was thinking the same thing.

Well, Spelunky does suck (and yes, I've played it). You're going to punish me for pointing out the truth?

I read and follow other indie news websites. I'm sure most people here do as well. Telling us about indiegames.com/blog isn't nearly necessary, especially because it's already linked in the sidebar of this very website.

I've never understood how some people can spend so much time and attention on something they loathe. If you don't like TIGsource, and think it's a shitty blog, then don't read it.

Are you being merely altruistic, trying to save us all from the mindless ignorance of sycophancy? Or are you just plain sick of seeing this blog treated like the only source of indie news? No need to worry, I assure you: Almost every person who reads this blog also follows indie-game news elsewhere. The people who are really interested, follow lots of gaming blogs. The people who only read this blog aren't really all that interested in “indie games”, and so you shouldn't worry too much about them.

For once, without feeling the need to defend yourself from an insult or clarify “what you meant” in an earlier comment, just consider (and tell us) what you're possibly accomplishing by prowling this blog's comment section being vitriolic. (If what I just said is a misrepresentation of what you're doing, then what are you doing?

I think Podunkian just killed it with his bitching.