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Poll Yes, there's a reason.
I know, I know, according to my dictionary (OS X's built in, fwiw) "overlook" archaically means the same thing as "oversee", but it also means bewitch with the evil eye. I'm talking about something that's unnoticed. -
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Another example of Inform 7 source. (See previous entry for context.) The first part is somewhat contrived, but the second part is the lyrics to That's Amore. And yes, it compiles and does something. -
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So there's this very new programming language called Inform 7, which allows people to write interactive fiction in something that looks vaguely like natural language, using a powerful rule/relationship-based system. Haven't actually tried using it for anything yet except for just poking at the compiler, but it kind of makes me want to. It's still a ( Read more... ) -
A winner is me!
So, um, got a Cryptex thingy from the aformentioned Da Vinci Code thingy. 'Twas the prize for the 10,000 finalists who were the fastest to, um, watch a video. Admittedly, I'd already watched the video (The ones for previous iterations of that challenge were all on Google Video and started with "The Da Vinci Code: Meet", so a search was sufficient ( Read more... ) -
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Once upon a time there was a sandwich shop that decided to start using a new brand of mayonnaise that had several advantages over the old brand of mayonnaise, replacing the old brand overnight. Unfortunately, the mayonnaise needed to be tweaked a little to work with the particular features of the sandwich shop's sandwiches, and there were a few ( Read more... ) -
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Another puzzley thing, this one as a promotion for the The Da Vinci Code movie, and with fabulous prizes at the end for residents of certain nations. The 9/24s of it that have been released so far haven't been so bad, and I'm of course hoping they'll pick up to scare off the mainstream people who are interested in it because Da Vinci Code and not ( Read more... ) -
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Content is a root cause behind The Great Problem of the modern gaming industry, whatever you think that is.
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I suppose I need to be keeping better tabs on Introversion, because I only just now found out about Defcon, which should be coming out fairly soon. Didn't really catch on to Darwinia, due to controls being annoying and jerky, but since they seem to be focusing more on game design than sheer technical complexity (Which is probably a Good Thing), ( Read more... ) -
Braaaains!
Dear brain,
Please to avoid being distracted by the Internets. Thank you for waiting until everything urgent needed to be done, but the intent was to do something nonurgent. kthbye