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I remember playing the Quake 2 demo and being blown away by it about a year before Half-life. id (through Doom) introduced me to computers, gaming, technology, cheatcodes, walkthroughs, programming... everything I held dear for the next decade, basically. They sort of lost the plot around Doom...

Many of the opinions you have will be deeply unpopular here, just a warning! For example, I've heard people laud the end of boss fights as a great improvement for gaming, while I find it retarded. I personally don't play games to live out realistic situations, I want spectacle and fantasy. I...

id is not dead. I was really happy that they pushed the frontiers of technology with Doom 3's unified lighting/shadowing, their Megatextures idea etc. And when they actually nail gameplay, I'll be an id fanboy again.

The latest Death Cab for Cutie - Codes and Keys - is really, really good. I haven't been this hooked to anything since In Rainbows. It's not too similar to their previous work, which IMO is fine. I was miffed that Explosions in the Sky didn't shake up their sound although I do love the tracks on...

They're not far off actually. The PC stems from an era where machines were rooted to physical spots. Laptops changed that a little, but not much. Today I can easily see myself never buying a PC again. I have never said, "I wish I had more power under the hood" in the last 4 years. Most of my...

Back when I first joined I came here for the LOLs, but reddit and hacker news have occupied my time of late. These days I come back here whenever I feel "internet-homesick" or when I'm feeling shitty, which is every other month. Also, I love when people ask a programming question and I can...

Breast cancer is best cancer. I suppose I should post something relevant. Have this man drawn and quartered etc.

I think GLaDOS was bluffing about deleting Caroline. She is not just a personality core, she is deeply tied to GLaDOS's mind. I believe that Caroline is the GL- part of GLaDOS.

http://vulu.net/the-physics-of-portals I'm no theoretical physicist, but as questionable as the science seems (naked singularities? Not in MY universe!) I love the fact that (s)he spent some time thinking about this. Read. Judge. Discuss.

TBH the iPad apps are a proven route to profitability. I hate that it's restricted too, but I can see why. The iPhone app will probably come later.

I think the weights are different for each column. I'd certainly consider reading a more important skill than math or science. Everything follows from being able to read.

To Stern and the others saying that it's a brilliant game, it doesn't deserve such low scores or terrible reviews: Yeah, of course it's a great game! It was made by Valve! But they dropped the ball with the in-game store. It's not so much that it's going to affect my personal enjoyment of the...

The government sending soldiers to "silence" a facility where things went bad? Pretty sure that's a conspiracy. And I'm certain Sierra used that word in some of their marketing blurbs.

Yeah, "coolest" was probably hyperbole... listening to it for an hour skewed my perspective. But it's pretty great, and adding more variety to the sound should be easier than getting the underlying math right IMO. What really excited me was that this is the first time I've listened to something...

I've tried dozens of applets like this. I posted this one because I thought the algorithm was better, it creates more a more colourful (and tolerable) acoustic experience. I didn't post it in music because I knew condescending douches would land to comment on it's lack of musical merit.

It's incredibly beautiful, it's unpredictable, it's entertaining and it's all done using cellular automata! Anyway, check it out here: http://www.earslap.com/projectslab/otomata Here's a tune I've been listening to for, like, an hour now...

Yes. You tried to do a variable substitution in one step and screwed it up (I've done it before.) (ln x)' = 1/x ^This part is true But what does that little apostrophe mean? d(ln x)/dx = 1/x Now, replace all x above by e^x: d(ln e^x)/d(e^x) = 1/e^x => dx/d(e^x) = 1/e^x Now...

By definition, derivative of e^x: = lt dx -> 0: (e^(x+dx) - e^x) / ((x + dx) - x) = lt dx -> 0: (e^x*e^dx - e^x) / dx = e^x * lt dx -> 0: (e^dx - 1) / dx Now, using the power series definition of e: = e^x * lt dx -> 0: ( (1 + dx + dx^2/2! + dx^3/3! + dx^4/4! + ...) - 1) / dx = e^x *...

HL2 was a tad disappointing in it's scope comparing to HL1. Vast government conspiracy + aliens of indeterminate origin > oppressive alien regime (that is essentially the USSR.) And all through my first playthrough I kept missing the weirdness of HL1. A scientist fighting a three-headed...

Actually, Donald Duck may have been responsible for anime and manga.