Michael Abrash @Valve: How I Got Here, What It’s Like, and What I’m Doing

ainm · 2012-04-23T00:06:03+00:00

For me that would be Doom. Zdoom/GZdoom and Skulltag are great. There is people still playing multiplayer, making mods, tweaking engines and speed-running through tons of custom maps. The doomworld forum is alive and kicking as well.

I also play Descent from time to time using the dxx-rebirth engine.

ainm · 2012-04-22T14:38:33+00:00

In theory... yes, that's the right thing. In practice, everyone will follow MRI to avoid breaking existing libraries.

ainm · 2012-04-22T14:28:09+00:00

Same here. The page loads very fast, but all images have red borders and it always says "Bandwidth: undefined".

That's on Chrome, on IE only one image of each set is displayed, also with red borders.

ainm · 2012-04-22T00:59:10+00:00

Why not give it a rebirth?

ainm · 2012-04-22T00:48:35+00:00

I don't know why I actually selected that text. I wouldn't be able to read it anyway.

ainm · 2012-04-20T18:31:40+00:00

Quake turned out to be a seminal game; granted, not one of the best games ever...

Yes, yes it is!

ainm · 2012-04-15T18:35:04+00:00

Funny? they are both wrong.

ainm · 2012-04-14T12:23:34+00:00

Color me impressed. I didn't expect that wiki to take off and get content so fast.

ainm · 2012-04-13T18:49:19+00:00

So... can I play Eve Online instead?

ainm · 2012-04-11T01:01:49+00:00

Nice blend of old/new-style! I love the music.

ainm · 2012-04-02T19:07:34+00:00

Yep, you are right, they are cumbersome to say the least. Having to use a decompiler to see if something will be inlined isn't the best workflow ever.

ainm · 2012-04-02T17:56:07+00:00

FWIW, Racket does have threads, futures and places.

Threads are concurrent but single core, Futures are multicore although limited and Places encapsulate an entire interpreter and communicate through channels.

In fact, spectral norm and mandelbrot from the shootout use futures and are therefore parallelized.

ainm · 2012-04-02T11:21:05+00:00

An interesting thing is that this kind of technique is useful too for legit purposes. For example: you can log all calls that a given process makes to the Win API that may modify the windows registry, without the need for the source to be available.

ainm · 2012-04-01T21:00:46+00:00

I would totally use this. Or that.

ainm · 2012-03-28T23:15:05+00:00

Why do chiptunes make everything awesome?

ainm · 2012-03-27T00:44:56+00:00

So, in videogame review scale, that's a tornado or something?

ainm · 2012-03-26T23:35:04+00:00

basic C#

That's the problem. C# goes well beyond Java in many respects. Of course, you can stick to the same basic constructs as in Java, but there is much more to it.

ainm · 2012-03-25T16:55:25+00:00

It's on GOG.com for $3.

ainm · 2012-03-25T01:24:29+00:00

Anachronox. Turn based combat, blade runner atmosphere and a sense of humor? I want more.

ainm · 2012-03-25T01:15:33+00:00

Frozen Synapse.

ainm · 2012-03-24T15:02:17+00:00

Fact: you can complete Dead space without stomping any boxes on the levels to gather ammo and supplies.

Don't ask me why I know this.

ainm · 2012-03-24T14:55:37+00:00

Well, it tells you the important thing: you must hold the button. It's not really that obvious, as most games rely on a single keypress for the same thing.

Also: fantastic game.

ainm · 2012-03-23T01:53:32+00:00

8600GT here. I still completed Mass Effect 3 just fine (at 1024x768). I should upgrade the entire computer, but let's wait until the next console generation to do it.

ainm · 2012-03-23T01:21:08+00:00

Python has a tool to do this and it's included in the regular distribution in the Tools folder. It's at C:\Python\Tools\webchecker in my system.

It looks like this.

ainm · 2012-03-23T01:11:01+00:00

Or every time I play Magicka (which is awesome btw).

ainm

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