Note: If you just want to know the cost of Episode 2 and not our justification behind it, scroll to the bold part at the bottom. Nothing seems to divide our users more than the issue of cost. Last week I put up a poll asking how much you would pay for Episode 2, and as of right now it’s split almost 50/50 between those who say $0 and those who picked a cost. ...

In this thread you can vote to retire your least favorite ForumBuildr forum! If there’s one you think is particularaly bad, now’s your chance to kill it!

I finished Braid over the weekend. It’s a very hard game. I say that because I couldn’t play for more than 45-60 minutes at a time, without shutting off my Xbox in frustration. If you read the official Braid walkthrough, which is in fact a statement by the author that you should not use a walkthrough, you are told: Some of the puzzles will be hard. But when you manage to solve those hard puzzles, you will feel very good about it. The game will feel very rewarding. ...

It’s something that other forums have had forever but we never did: polling! Anyone can attach a poll to any thread they make. You can have up to 10 choices for now which I think should be enough for most polls. It’s not very pretty, but the base is there for future upgrades. I’ll probably throw in some nice looking bar or pie charts. If you want to try it out, check out the How much would you pay for Episode 2? thread. ...

I can’t believe I just wrote “galore” but it’s late at night and I’m exhausted. Without further ado: Stumped for ideas for your next doomsday device? Can’t figure out the formula behind the Penis-Snatcher™? Idolise Dr. Strangelove? Then unite with your fellow rejected members of the scientific community and plot the world’s downfall over the internet! You’ll be amazed at just how many ways we have of enacting revenge on those physicists who rejected your ideas, falsely stating that they “defied all moral standards of society”! ...

We got tired of always missing the deadline for creating new E-Peen(tm) when launching every fourth forum, so Jalapeno and I went nuts and created all the E-Peen(tm) for the forums you can pwn in a row through 100 as well as medals through 100. This should last you guys a while :) If you pwned 44 forums in a row and did not receive your E-Peen(tm) for it yet, please tubmail Evil Trout! Thanks! ...

It’s been a while since we’ve run a contest, so today I’d like to announce The Forumwarz Comics contest. For those too lazy to click that underlined text above, it’s a contest where our users create comics featuring NPCs from Episode 1. We are rewarding funniest comic and best art, so you can enter even if you suck at drawing!

Not everything in Episode 2 is related to new content. We’re using the development time to streamline some other things, such as the battle interface. Check out a new screenshot! The biggest difference is that we’ve re-claimed the top part of the screen. While in battle, normally the only links from the top menu you’d want are to Leave Battle or to Report a Bug. Instead of wasting inches of screen real estate on the logo and tabs, we’ve come up with a one-line version takes up a lot less room! The text “Emi” in the screenshot is the name of the test character I’m using. ...

Our own [Jalapeno Bootyhole](http://www.forumwarz.com/profiles/Jalapeno Bootyhole) has painstakingly renamed and modified about 45 of our word types for easier use! The full list would be too long to list in this blog entry, so you can view it here as a spreadsheet. Other Bugfixes and Enhancements Searching for Word Types is much better. It can now find partial searches (like xbo for Xbox) or even words in the middle of other words. If you were frustrated with it before, give it another shot! ...

We have two New Forum builds since I last posted about them: Don’t have time to write your thesis? Forgot about that paper due tomorrow? Is your boss going to fire you if you don’t turn in that ad copy soon? Search the internet for things other people wrote and “borrow” their ideas… and then post them here for the rest of us to steal! Throw ethics out the window and spend your time on more enjoyable pursuits (like fapping). ...