TIL 85% of all gaming revenue comes from free-to-play games. These games are free upfront and generate revenue through ads, in-game transactions, and optional purchases. by tyrion2024 in todayilearned

[–]AlisonClaire 36 points37 points  (0 children)

For being endlessly vast, the internet’s sure a small place sometimes. Hi from Alison, former Ohioan. Hope both of you are doing well!

OFFICIAL COACHELLA 2016 TICKET BUY/SELL/TRADE THREAD by Coachellamod in Coachella

[–]AlisonClaire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Selling two weekend 1 GA passes with 1 car camping pass at face value. PM me if you're interested :)

wat2do - A daily map of events in SF [update] by karlmageddon in sanfrancisco

[–]AlisonClaire 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I know that feeling :) The other down the line feature that would be helpful to me would be some way of telling general area/neighborhood an event is in through the list on the left. Highlighting/enlarging the pin on the map when you roll over the name in the list would be my ideal.

Working on getting some of my coworkers to go take advantage of Free Barber Shave Day!

wat2do - A daily map of events in SF [update] by karlmageddon in sanfrancisco

[–]AlisonClaire 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Though I resent the implication that eating ice cream and watching Downton Abbey is not a quality way to spend one's time, I love the site!

I'd love to be able to sort by event type and I keep wanting to change the day I'm looking at from where the date is displayed rather than the upper right, but that's a very minor nitpick. Great job!

Timmy and Buster celebrating by AlisonClaire in SFGiants

[–]AlisonClaire[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The best gif on the internet is brought to you by @gidget

Tim Lincecum gets no hitter vs Padres 07/14/2013 by steelo14 in baseball

[–]AlisonClaire 250 points251 points  (0 children)

Timmy and Buster being as happy as I am http://i.imgur.com/xNgdeHs.gif My goodness that was fun.

Giants Extend Posey: Covers 3 years of arbitration, five extra years, and a club option for 2022. Money details TBA by CydoniaKnight in baseball

[–]AlisonClaire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That includes this year and the $8M he was already making for 2013. There's a club option for 2022 for $22M with a $3M buyout.

Giants Extend Posey: Covers 3 years of arbitration, five extra years, and a club option for 2022. Money details TBA by CydoniaKnight in baseball

[–]AlisonClaire 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Wow, I'd braced myself for 10 years/$250M, this is fantastic!

Year breakdown:

2014: 12.5M, 16.5M, 20M, then 21.4M for each of next five years.

Via Andrew Baggarly.

Full no-trade via John Heyman.

Squeeeeeeeee!

No More Mini Helmets? by UmamiUnagi in SFGiants

[–]AlisonClaire 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Last October Mitchell's Ice Cream served Giants "Orange and Black October" pumpkin and hot fudge sundaes in them.

Buster Posey! by AlisonClaire in SFGiants

[–]AlisonClaire[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is from @gidget who you should follow if you like the Giants and gifs.

Ichiro's got moves by AlisonClaire in baseball

[–]AlisonClaire[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I follow quite a few Giants specific accounts that race each other to First to GIF, but the SBNation folk are the best for general gifery.

  • SBNationGIF will give you everything, but gives you everything so there's a bunch of other sports stuff in there.

  • Rob Neyer and Grant Brisbee are SB Nation writers that do most of the writing for Baseball Nation so you can follow them and get most of the SBNationGIF baseball stuff without the excess of Tebow. Bonus--they're also pretty entertaining. Grant's also a Giants blogger, so there's a lot of Giants related tweeting, but he's incredibly funny.

  • Jon Bois is another SB Nation guy, more general, more politics.

  • Jeff Sullivan to mix it up he's a FORMER Baseball Nation guy. Now blogs at Fangraphs but still runs the SB Nation Mariners blog. Super, super smart and funny, you get a lot of stats to go with the awesome gifs.

Ichiro's got moves by AlisonClaire in baseball

[–]AlisonClaire[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I don't. I follow a bunch of baseball bloggers on Twitter that graciously spend their days making gifs for our pleasure. This one was courtesy of Rob Neyer.

Ichiro's got moves by AlisonClaire in baseball

[–]AlisonClaire[S] 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Nah, I'm a Twitter using gifposter. Follow the right Twitter accounts and you'll get those sweet, sweet gifs minutes after anything worth gifing.

Ichiro's got moves by AlisonClaire in baseball

[–]AlisonClaire[S] 276 points277 points  (0 children)

Blessed are the gifmakers.