Rocket League. Without a doubt the great esport of all time. I own over a thousand games but rarely play anything else.

How is this different from LetsEncrypt?

Hope this come to Steam with leaderboards and such. You could make some money as a free to play game with paid (or even custom) skins and such.

Taunts would be nice, too.

VASSAL rules. Board game designers like myself even use it for playtesting. I can't wait for v4.

Yes, if you remove AdBlock (or similar) you'll see them.

Also it has plenty of hidden adds crafted as submissions.

They aren't hidden, the posts that are ads are clearly marked as such

I mean advertisement made by people disguised as some kind of post.

It's a risky business though because if they get caught they get masses of anti-advertisement. Though one would say that best advertisement is anti-advertisement.

As a member of the ad tech community, they're known as native ads and are the hottest thing in the business right now.

And 75%* of the companies that buy ads on Reddit end up with negative comments in the ads and end up turning commenting off.

*Not a fact, just my experience.

I've never understood advertising on Reddit. It's basically a very anti-advertising community, who will very likely be hostile to your product/service.

XX (or is it Dos Equis) and Oldspice would beg to differ, and they didn't even advertise there. I've found reddit to be rather accepting of advertising as long as it is done transparently. IAMAs by celebrities every time they star in a new movie aren't treated with hostility - just put the fact that you're in a new film in the submission text.

There have been many HN posts and comments about successful paid ads in specialized communities.

That seems to vary between subreddits. I've encountered a few quite successful ads (with comments from regular visitors to the sub further supporting the product!). /r/sysadmin comes to mind, but I'm sure there are others.

Well, there you go. When you know the audience, just adjust your advertising to fit. Not that hard. Not every product should be advertised on reddit tho.

I don't understand. If I only advertise in the U.S., why would click farms in Egypt see my ads (and subsequently like my page to avoid detection)?

Off the top of my head, two ways: using proxies and having the fake account artificially listed as having an address or location in the US while the actual owner is not in the US.

Does the fact that this site has "index.php" in all its URLs bother anyone else?

Nope not really. Probably only tards who can't seem to see that most of the successful web runs on PHP, not on their Brogrammer flavour-of-the-week language or framework.

I tend to be rather language agnostic, but URLs should generally be a descriptor of the content, and leak as few technological details as possible.

In general, having the URL include a specific implementation quirk, such as index.php makes it more difficult to have URLs that are stable years into the future, after you may have changed technology stacks.

Actually, it's Basecamp.

Acording to the USPS, the current status is:

"Approved by the examining attorney for publication but has not yet published for opposition. Although rare, withdrawal of approval prior to publication may occur after final review. The opposition period begins on the date of publication."

A trademark is not registered until at least 30 days after it is first published for opposition. DannyBee is right on. These developers should be thanking the idiot lawyer for sending a C&D, as now they can file opposition claims with the US Trademark office and prevent it from being registered.

Fascinating!