Safari, the Mac browser, is now available on Windows. This is great news. I test this site on IE, Firefox, and Opera, but until now I’ve never had any way to test and see how this site would look for Mac users.
It turns out the site looks pretty wonky on Safari. The individual post headers are not arranged properly. Is this the fault of Safari or my wacky CSS “skills”? It’s hard to tell. Still, it would be nice if the site was presentable for everyone.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “DM of the Rings CXVI:
But They Don’t Fit in My Backpack!”
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Easily done.
Posting will be light this week because Vin Diesel and I are going to skydive onto a mountain and ride down on our snowboards while playing though The Ghost Tower of Inverness!!!
This way, the dead space on the blog will be that much more interesting than some lame post about mundane distractions.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “DM of the Rings CXV:
Misunderstandings Compound”
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “DM of the Rings CXIV:
The Book of Exalted Screwups”
Reader Telas sent this link along. It’s a demo of some new software. As a professional software developer myself, I feel I need to add my own unique viewpoint and share my expert opinion: Oh holy crap wow!
That really is cool. The ability to visually cruise through different media and zoom in and out looks like something truly useful. I’ve seen many misguided attempts to visualize a bunch of files, but I’ve never seen any that looked like more than a gimmick. They don’t give the system specs for the machine performing the demo, so I suspect it’s some overpowered monster with a hojillion kabillion megabytes of memory, but if such a thing could ever run that smooth on a machine owned by mortals, I’d get it in a second.
(I will say that things like this make me want to hang up my hat as a programmer. There are some frighteningly brilliant people out there, and if I dedicated the rest of my life to honing my skills I doubt I could come within cruise missile range of something like this.)
For fun, I banged together a new theme for WordPress. You can see a demo of it at my crappy sandbox blog. It doesn’t really suit Twenty Sided, but I’m thinking it might be of use to someone out there. This morning I decide to upload it to wherever themes come from. It turns out that place is themes.wordpress.net. I visit “the official theme directory” of WordPress to upload my work, where I learn that:
See if you can spot the weak link in the chain.
Geeze, this isn’t helping anyone. Yeah, yeah, if you hunt around on the site you’ll eventually stumble on the directions for how to contact the admin and maybe get yourself an account in “three business days”. It took me about four hours to make the theme, and it will now take me three days just to get it onto the server? Lame. I’m not even going to bother.
If anyone digs the theme, you can download it here: Luddite for WordPress. It’s small. Very small. Just 4 modest files. The CSS is small enough that you can open it in a text editor and see the whole thing at once, as opposed to the twenty-page monoliths you see floating around. I like it. Tastes may vary.
How did this game avoid all the usual stupidity that ruins remakes of classic titles?
Yeah, this game is a classic. But the story is idiotic, incoherent, thematically confused, and patronizing.
The Thieves Guild quest in Skyrim is a vortex of disjointed plot-holes, contrivances, and nonsense.
My picks for what was important, awesome, or worth talking about in 2011.
Here is how I'd conquer the game-publishing business. (Hint: NOT by copying EA, 2K, Activision, Take-Two, or Ubisoft.)
No Man's Sky is a game seemingly engineered to create a cycle of anticipation and disappointment.
What does it mean when a program crashes, and why does it happen?
What makes the gameplay of Borderlands so addictive for some, and what does that have to do with slot machines?
My picks for what was important, awesome, or worth talking about in 2015.
Why spend millions on visuals that are just a distraction from the REAL game of hotbar-watching?
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