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:
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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.
Part 2 of Michael Goodfellow’s game-building series is now available. He’s tweaking the site in response to feedback, adding RSS feed, making clear the goals of the project, and generally learning to blog while making a game.
This week he’s working on collision detection, one of my weak areas. (My other major weakness is animating skeletal meshes – making characters walk and such. Hate that stuff. It’s one of those jobs that is hard to break down into manageable bits of complexity.) It’s difficult to get it working, and even harder to get it really, truly right. A slight misstep can burn a ton of precious CPU time, and no matter how long I work on it or how well it works I’m always left with the nagging impression that I’m probably missing something.
This is why shopping for graphics cards is so stupid and miserable.
Fidget spinners are ruining education! We need to... oh, never mind the fad is over. This is not the first time we've had a dumb moral panic.
It seems like a simple question, but it turns out everyone has a different idea of right and wrong in the digital world.
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.
What is this Vulkan stuff? A graphics engine? A game engine? A new flavor of breakfast cereal? And how is it supposed to make PC games better?
Why killing you might be the least scary thing a game can do.
Who is this imbecile and why is he wandering around Europe unsupervised?
Here is a 13 part series where I talk about programming games, programming languages, and programming problems.
Why Google sucks, and what made me switch to crowdfunding for this site.
Here is a long look at a game that tries to live up to a big legacy and fails hilariously.
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