Richard Feynman describes scientific inquiry as someone observing a game of chess.
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Years ago I was reading A Brief History of Time and I came up with a very similar analogy where I was likening the study of quantum physics to observing a game of billiards. For example, perhaps you can only observe the table between turns, when everything is still. Eventually we’ve come up with a list of rules and observations:
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I had some extra hubris this week, so I thought I’d write an article about how a genius rocket scientist and the sixth richest man in the world are both wrong, and I’m right.
To top this, tomorrow I’ll have a critique of quantum mechanical theory, which I think needs some work.
Honestly. Do I have to do everything around here?
I had this idea that I should do a comic about New Vegas and it seemed like a good idea and so I made the comic and then I sent it in and now it’s up and you can totally read it.
Am I the only one who wonders if the “inkblots” test in new Vegas is some sort of strange shout-out to the “inkspots”, who did the music for previous games? Yes? Okay then. It’s just me.
“A five-minute, non-technical explanation of where the internet comes from, how it works, and what it has to do with nuclear weapons.”
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In an ideal world, I would have posted this a few days ago to assuage our sorrows from lack of Spoiler Warning this week.
This project began last week when my mother asked me about the internet. This is basically the answer I gave her, although I didn’t have a chalkboard on me at the time. It seemed to satisfy her, and I thought others might find it useful or interesting. I know a lot of this stuff will seem remedial to the folks that visit this site, but it’s my hope this will be passed around to those that are a little less tech-savvy. It went over well with my kids, at any rate.
Share and enjoy.
I’ve been forgetting to link to this lately. Here is the entry from last week:
Shamus Plays WoW 5: Another Day, Another Mine
And yesterday:
Shamus Plays WoW 6: Overwhelmed by Kobolds
Next week, Cataclysm launches!
Although…
Am I the only one who is wondering what the selling point of Cataclysm is going to be? I mean, everyone gets the new Azeroth. Everyone gets access to the new class / race combinations. (I think 95% of all players just rolled Human hunters. The other 5% rolled Night Elf mages.) What does the expansion offer, besides the ability to be a Worgen or Goblin. Don’t get me wrong, those are pretty cool. But I don’t know if they’re $40 worth of cool. Especially with so much other new content to explore. Maybe there is other content in the expansion, but Blizzard is doing an uncharacteristically poor job of tantalizing me with them.
If you remember from last time, I’ve got a bug in my program. It’s supposed to look at the terrain and determine which way is downhill, and it’s coming up with the wrong answer. Sometimes.
I’m going to post a block of code directly from the project. This is the top of the file called Hex.cpp:
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Project Hex Part 6 – A Comment on Comments”
You show up in a videogame, you end up in my comic. Those are the rules and there’s no sense crying about it now.
I’ve said before that I find the 3-panel joke to be one of the more challenging. I’m actually toying with the idea of doing a few, just for the sake of variety.
Here is how I'd conquer the game-publishing business. (Hint: NOT by copying EA, 2K, Activision, Take-Two, or Ubisoft.)
It's not a good movie, but it was made with good intentions and if you look closely you can find a few interesting ideas.
My picks for what was important, awesome, or worth talking about in 2011.
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.
Dear people of the internet: Please stop doing these horrible idiotic things when you talk to each other.
Just how big IS No Man's Sky? What if you made a map of all of its landmass? How big would it be?
One of the highest-rated games of all time has some of the least interesting gameplay.
A music lesson for people who know nothing about music, from someone who barely knows anything about music.
Did you anticipate the big plot twist of Batman: Arkham City? Here's all the ways the game hid that secret from you while also rubbing your nose in it.
This Korean title would be the greatest MMO ever made if not for the horrendous monetization system. And the embarrassing translation. And the terrible progression. And the developer's general apathy towards its western audience.
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