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> <channel><title>Comments on: Pondering Pinatas</title> <atom:link href="http://www.raphkoster.com/2007/01/27/pondering-pinatas/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.raphkoster.com/2007/01/27/pondering-pinatas/</link> <description>Raph Koster&#039;s personal website: MMOs, gaming, writing, art, music, books</description> <lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:02:55 +0000</lastBuildDate> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator> <item><title>By: GameSetWatch</title><link>http://www.raphkoster.com/2007/01/27/pondering-pinatas/comment-page-1/#comment-121043</link> <dc:creator>GameSetWatch</dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 06:03:34 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.raphkoster.com/2007/01/27/pondering-pinatas/#comment-121043</guid> <description>&lt;!--%kramer-ref-pre%--&gt;[...] post&#039;s title, but Raph Koster, one would imagine, isn&#039;t a Bruce Dickinson fan - he is, however, slightly disturbed by Viva Pinata, which is a touch more interesting than being obsessed by Lord Iffy Boatrace or [...]&lt;!--%kramer-ref-post%--&gt;</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div
style="padding:15px; border-left:1px solid #dedede; border-bottom:3px solid #CCEBF7; background-color:#fcfeff"><p>[...] post&#8217;s title, but Raph Koster, one would imagine, isn&#8217;t a Bruce Dickinson fan &#8211; he is, however, slightly disturbed by Viva Pinata, which is a touch more interesting than being obsessed by Lord Iffy Boatrace or [...]</p></div> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: crazy-games.net</title><link>http://www.raphkoster.com/2007/01/27/pondering-pinatas/comment-page-1/#comment-105942</link> <dc:creator>crazy-games.net</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2007 21:35:08 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.raphkoster.com/2007/01/27/pondering-pinatas/#comment-105942</guid> <description>[...] title, but Raph Koster, one would imagine, isn&#8217;t a Bruce Dickinson fan - he is, however, slightly disturbed by Viva Pinata, which is a touch more interesting than being obsessed by Lord Iffy Boatrace or [...]</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div
style="padding:15px; border-left:1px solid #dedede; border-bottom:3px solid #CCEBF7; background-color:#fcfeff"><p>[...] title, but Raph Koster, one would imagine, isn&#8217;t a Bruce Dickinson fan &#8211; he is, however, slightly disturbed by Viva Pinata, which is a touch more interesting than being obsessed by Lord Iffy Boatrace or [...]</p></div> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: crazy-games.net</title><link>http://www.raphkoster.com/2007/01/27/pondering-pinatas/comment-page-1/#comment-105941</link> <dc:creator>crazy-games.net</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2007 21:35:08 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.raphkoster.com/2007/01/27/pondering-pinatas/#comment-105941</guid> <description>[...] title, but Raph Koster, one would imagine, isn&#8217;t a Bruce Dickinson fan - he is, however, slightly disturbed by Viva Pinata, which is a touch more interesting than being obsessed by Lord Iffy Boatrace or [...]</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div
style="padding:15px; border-left:1px solid #dedede; border-bottom:3px solid #CCEBF7; background-color:#fcfeff"><p>[...] title, but Raph Koster, one would imagine, isn&#8217;t a Bruce Dickinson fan &#8211; he is, however, slightly disturbed by Viva Pinata, which is a touch more interesting than being obsessed by Lord Iffy Boatrace or [...]</p></div> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: electricpirate</title><link>http://www.raphkoster.com/2007/01/27/pondering-pinatas/comment-page-1/#comment-104842</link> <dc:creator>electricpirate</dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2007 18:48:11 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.raphkoster.com/2007/01/27/pondering-pinatas/#comment-104842</guid> <description>I find I have to compromise with myself.  I name my initial pinatas, and I only sacrifice their children, who I don&#039;t name.
Then I feel guilty for selling off/sacrificing my quackberries children :(</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I find I have to compromise with myself.  I name my initial pinatas, and I only sacrifice their children, who I don&#8217;t name.</p><p>Then I feel guilty for selling off/sacrificing my quackberries children <img
src='http://www.raphkoster.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' /></p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Amanda/Tinkergirl</title><link>http://www.raphkoster.com/2007/01/27/pondering-pinatas/comment-page-1/#comment-104776</link> <dc:creator>Amanda/Tinkergirl</dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2007 15:50:07 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.raphkoster.com/2007/01/27/pondering-pinatas/#comment-104776</guid> <description>Not knowing too much about the earlier versions of Red Riding Hood, I looked it up on Wikipedia.  I was surprised to see that two of the earlier versions were quite different - one with RRH escaping on her own by her wits (after eating her grandmother&#039;s flesh), and another where both granny and RRH are eaten and never saved.
&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Red_Riding_Hood&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Red_Riding_Hood&lt;/a&gt;
I&#039;m sure others here know loads more than I on such things, but I found it interesting.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not knowing too much about the earlier versions of Red Riding Hood, I looked it up on Wikipedia.  I was surprised to see that two of the earlier versions were quite different &#8211; one with RRH escaping on her own by her wits (after eating her grandmother&#8217;s flesh), and another where both granny and RRH are eaten and never saved.</p><p><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Red_Riding_Hood" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Red_Riding_Hood</a></p><p>I&#8217;m sure others here know loads more than I on such things, but I found it interesting.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Tami "Cuppycake"</title><link>http://www.raphkoster.com/2007/01/27/pondering-pinatas/comment-page-1/#comment-103990</link> <dc:creator>Tami "Cuppycake"</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:13:51 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.raphkoster.com/2007/01/27/pondering-pinatas/#comment-103990</guid> <description>The best thing about Viva Pinata is watching the worm looking pinatas do the &#039;mating dance.&#039;  That is sooo cute =)</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The best thing about Viva Pinata is watching the worm looking pinatas do the &#8216;mating dance.&#8217;  That is sooo cute =)</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Poor Mojo Newswire: Raph Koster on the brutal lessons of Viva Pinata</title><link>http://www.raphkoster.com/2007/01/27/pondering-pinatas/comment-page-1/#comment-103734</link> <dc:creator>Poor Mojo Newswire: Raph Koster on the brutal lessons of Viva Pinata</dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:23:40 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.raphkoster.com/2007/01/27/pondering-pinatas/#comment-103734</guid> <description>&lt;!--%kramer-ref-pre%--&gt;[...] Raph’s Website � Pondering Pinatas   Not that pinatas taste good. No. But you do have to breed them. You entice a few wild ones to your plot. You get the right things in place to domesticate them (simple little goals like having the right trees or food around). Sometimes the food they need is other animals you have. So the first hour’s cute Whirlms are just food for your birds later, and eventually the multi-hour process of getting a Syrupent means nothing because he’s just a gambit to get something else. [...]&lt;!--%kramer-ref-post%--&gt;</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div
style="padding:15px; border-left:1px solid #dedede; border-bottom:3px solid #CCEBF7; background-color:#fcfeff"><p>[...] Raph’s Website � Pondering Pinatas   Not that pinatas taste good. No. But you do have to breed them. You entice a few wild ones to your plot. You get the right things in place to domesticate them (simple little goals like having the right trees or food around). Sometimes the food they need is other animals you have. So the first hour’s cute Whirlms are just food for your birds later, and eventually the multi-hour process of getting a Syrupent means nothing because he’s just a gambit to get something else. [...]</p></div> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Bloggers &#124; The Cesspit.</title><link>http://www.raphkoster.com/2007/01/27/pondering-pinatas/comment-page-1/#comment-103719</link> <dc:creator>Bloggers &#124; The Cesspit.</dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2007 06:08:19 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.raphkoster.com/2007/01/27/pondering-pinatas/#comment-103719</guid> <description>&lt;!--%kramer-ref-pre%--&gt;[...] up a rough translation after the break. Source: MMODIG - unbeliever Categories: Bloggers    01:42  Pondering Pinatas Viva Pinata As my stalkers know, my Xbox Live profile has come to be dominated by pinatas — not [...]&lt;!--%kramer-ref-post%--&gt;</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div
style="padding:15px; border-left:1px solid #dedede; border-bottom:3px solid #CCEBF7; background-color:#fcfeff"><p>[...] up a rough translation after the break. Source: MMODIG &#8211; unbeliever Categories: Bloggers    01:42  Pondering Pinatas Viva Pinata As my stalkers know, my Xbox Live profile has come to be dominated by pinatas — not [...]</p></div> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Matt Mihaly</title><link>http://www.raphkoster.com/2007/01/27/pondering-pinatas/comment-page-1/#comment-103632</link> <dc:creator>Matt Mihaly</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2007 22:04:51 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.raphkoster.com/2007/01/27/pondering-pinatas/#comment-103632</guid> <description>Incidentally, get yourself a rainbow in the garden (from Ivor Bargain). It&#039;ll help calm down angry ones that pick fights. Feeding them joy candy keeps them from wanting to fight too.
--matt</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Incidentally, get yourself a rainbow in the garden (from Ivor Bargain). It&#8217;ll help calm down angry ones that pick fights. Feeding them joy candy keeps them from wanting to fight too.</p><p>&#8211;matt</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Matt Mihaly</title><link>http://www.raphkoster.com/2007/01/27/pondering-pinatas/comment-page-1/#comment-103617</link> <dc:creator>Matt Mihaly</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:02:13 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.raphkoster.com/2007/01/27/pondering-pinatas/#comment-103617</guid> <description>Do not take away my vivid colors and fun music, goddam it. I watch the opening video every time I fire it up (every weekend...I&#039;m not permitted to play during the week for fear of sucking up too much work time) just to watch the Fizzlybear go &quot;Shakey shakey shakey shakey shake shake shake&quot; as he dances. Mmm, Fizzlybear.
--matt, currently ranked #58 in the world in Garden Value.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do not take away my vivid colors and fun music, goddam it. I watch the opening video every time I fire it up (every weekend&#8230;I&#8217;m not permitted to play during the week for fear of sucking up too much work time) just to watch the Fizzlybear go &#8220;Shakey shakey shakey shakey shake shake shake&#8221; as he dances. Mmm, Fizzlybear.</p><p>&#8211;matt, currently ranked #58 in the world in Garden Value.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> </channel> </rss>
