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Oh joyous day! I finnaly found out how to resize that horribly overgrown disqus box at the bottom pf the page. I took 2 min. It’s funny that I didn’t find the solutin when I actively searched for it a while ago but found it today while searching for something else.

The short story is:

add

#disqus_thread {
padding:30px 45px 0pt;
width: 500px;
}

between the <style>…</style> tags at the beginning of the theme.

Here’s the thread where I found the answer.

Ha-Ha! Thanks to   

Povestea Gastelor de George Cosbuc

pentru ca am gasit carticica pe-acasa si m-a apucat nostalgia.

unele pagini sunt mazgalite. trebuia sa incerc pe ceva creioanele colorate.

e pe undeva pe sus si un buton de download daca e prea greu de citit din cauza dimensiunii. imaginile au fost scanate la rezolutie destul de mare.

i’m counting the habits you made me break
i’m counting the drugs you won’t let me take
i’m counting my friends you won’t let me see

i’ve had enough, you never give me anything.
don’t you know love goes home to paris in the spring?

adding up the odds, i’ve waited for you
i’m counting the calls that never came through
i’m counting my friends you melted away
i’m counting the times you came for a day

i’ve had enough, you never give me anything
don’t you know love goes home to paris in the spring?

It takes about 30s-1min to finish the game. Without any special skills. And if it weren’t for the song at the end it would have been a mediocre game at best.

It boasts a game manual, four walkthroughs (including one YouTube walkthrough and one in German), a speedrun posted on YouTube, a Spanish Wikipedia page, a text-adventure version, a novelization, and a fan-comic. (jayisgames)

And a dedicated last.fm group I stumbled upon. Not to mention numerous mentions on gaming blogs. I’m surprised I didn’t come across this sooner.

You can play the game here (and download the credits song, you’ll want to listen to it again).

The game is also playable on Kongregate (you get 5 points for finishing it too).

And here’s what the author (Kian Bashiri) has to say about the game:

Can you explain YHTBTR in your own words?

Well, it is a joke. And I don’t want to say too much about it, because dissecting a joke always makes it unfunny. Part of it is this really silly idea, and part of it is this statement about how games are too hard and complicated. It’s also a subtle reference to how some games are kind of patronizing toward the player, like too easy.

But I never set out to make it this way, it kind of turned into this with time. It started out as an attempt to make a game that spoiled the whole experience for you before you played it. Funnily enough, people really don’t read instructions…

A lot of people that I saw playing the game live actually went through the tunnel without reading the instructions or thinking about the name of the game and realized that you have to burn the rope first when they saw it themselves. I think this is what has happened when I read comments like “it wuz so easy.”, these people went right through it and didn’t realize that the joke was on them. (indiegames)

Ni No Kuni is an upcoming game for the Nindendo DS. What’s giving me goosebumps is the fact that it’s a collaboration between Level 5 and … Studio Gibli! And there’s always more room for Gibli cuteness in the world. And fantastic character designs on the DS.

I can imagine it now…it will be like watching a Gibli cartoon only you’ll have a say in the development of the main character (‘cause it’s an RPG). Not to mention that it will be waaaay longer than 2 hours. Oh, and every game comes with it’s own SPELLBOOK.

That’s not just for show. It’s needed to cast spells in the game. Sweet!

Here’s the game trailer:

It is a Role-Playing Game (Studio Level 5’s forte) about a 13-year old boy who blames himself for his mother’s death. But one day he gets a chance to enter a parallel universe inhabited by alternate versions of people he knows in the “real” world, and working from this strange place he just might be able to save her… (twitchfilm)

And here is where you can find more info and pictures:

DSFanboy: Level5 and Studio Gibli team-up, First Footage and A Closer Look

IGN: Character designs and other images

Of course each of those articles link to other sites as the sources but trying to find where the original content originates is like trying to find a needle in a haystack.

Motaneeel graaaas ^_^ !!!

If only I had the knowledge and time to make one :(.

Screenshot from a wikibook on speedreading. (click for larger image)