T w e n t y S i d e d
Battle begins soon. The entire D&D group is meeting here today, where we will watch the game while more or less holding our breath for four hours.
They have to win. They just have to.
The Plot-Driven Door
You know how videogames sometimes do that thing where it's preposterously hard to go through a simple door? This one is really bad.
Good to be the King?
Which would you rather be: A king in the middle ages, or a lower-income laborer in the 21st century?
The Best of 2018
I called 2018 "The Year of Good News". Here is a list of the games I thought were interesting or worth talking about that year.
Project Frontier
A programming project where I set out to make a gigantic and complex world from simple data.
id Software Coding Style
When the source code for Doom 3 was released, we got a look at some of the style conventions used by the developers. Here I analyze this style and explain what it all means.
It’s funny. You mentioned in an earlier post about how you didn’t really get into football until only a couple years before this. It was a bit similar for me; I had no clue how football worked until somebody explained it. But in 2006, for this very same Super Bowl, my whole family (who normally could care less about sports) was huddled in front of the TV. You see, I grew up in western Washinton. My whole life the Seahawks had been some of the biggest losers in football. But now we had done it: for the first time we had made it to the Super Bowl. Not only that, but we were facing the Steelers. They had 4 Super Bowl victories to their name, and were one of the “Big Teams,” the ones that you hear about. The underdog, the ragtag team of misfits, was about to face the big, slick, muscular, award winning superteam. Every sports film in existance had prepared me for this kind of scenario.
They just had to win. They just had to.
All this to say, I love your work and I’m one of your biggest fans, but I think I’ll need a moment to just hate you with the passion of a million suns. Just a moment.