ETA 2: Psychedelic beach ball of doom has gone off to join Xtreme Beach Volleyball, and I have a complete Spore again. So far, I haven’t seen any problems associated with the patch that are similar to what others have reported. However, I’ve only been playing for, like, 25 minutes.

ETA: So, I’m now being subjected to the psychedelic beach ball of doom, and I can’t tell whether the iPatcher is actually hosed and I need to force a quite or every Mac Spore geek in the country is currently getting their rocks off with this patch. The iPatcher froze earlier, then started up again earlier, so I’m tempted to think the latter rather than the former. Although thinking the latter makes me want to pour gasoline on my eyes and set them on fire….

Yuppers, the Mac update has arrived. You get it by just starting the game (while online). I iz downloading it as I type. Download iz slow. Want my update nowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.