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[PA Comic] Monday, November 18, 2013 - Exponential Decay
Geth
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The rest was pretty funny too though, and I agree with Tycho, I don't need other people watching me be terrible.
I proceeded to get stuck on a wall, faceplant into multiple easily avoidable AOEs, and then finishing everything off afterburnered straight into my own tricobalt torpedo, killing myself. All things I'm usually pretty good about.
Not one positive thing was said about me in the comments. Closest I got was another fleet member saying, "lol his keyboard must be broken no way he'd let Goldy get that far ahead of him"
Also, there was a long time without Fruit Fucker and Mike has recently been putting him back in there. I like to think it was partly because I mentioned he really should bring it back when I met him at Comic-Con awhile back. (Me and probably hundreds of others, but shhh)
I dunno. I think it's pretty cool. I'm already a loon who likes to watch LPs and people apparently like watching me play games sometimes. I'd say that if you can withstand having comments on your YouTube uploads or random asshat comments via Twitter, then whatever, go for it and stream.
The thing about watching videos of games is you can do it while you're doing something else. I can't play most games while cleaning my office.
Now that I'm recording other games though, it's back to the standard routine of "yeah this was a boring match, time for take five".
I'm a sucker for when Jerry writes in gamer speak.
When I first saw that name my mind thought "continuity?!" as I had at first misread it as Bludsukr.
Turns out that poor fucker might still be stuck in the hell that is Home though and not experiencing the PS4.
Edit: And that could be KillerPiez from todays comic in the first panel if he finally disabled caps lock when entering his username this time. Are these names just coincidences? I think not!
That's one of my favorite comics ever.
Gamer Dater - My Video Game Dating Website full of Faygo
Strip Search Wastebasket of Broken Dreams App I made
http://csedweek.org/learn2
It has some programming puzzles that will be taught to kids the week of December 9th. It's called Computer Science Education Week, and it's organized by a couple of groups that try to foster CS learning for grade school, junior high, and high school.
I have volunteered to help teach a class or two of this.
The idea is the same as the Cloudboard without the hardware peripheral. It looks like it has support from Rovio and PopCap since they are using graphics and sound assets from Angry Birds and Plants vs. Zombies. (As well as support from Zuckerberg and Gates since they have appeared in the instructional videos accompanying the tutorials.)
I found it to be a great introduction to programming concepts.
If you have kids in middle school and their school isn't participating, you might want to ask the school if they will consider it, or at least sit your own kids down and give it a try. It's really solid.
When I'd read about that streaming feature in the PS4, I thought it was a cool idea. Not something that I will use personally when I eventually move to the PS4. But, hey, at least it's there. Also, if anyone watched me play, it'd be the most boring thing ever because I usually play RPGs and tend to sniff through every nook and cranny in the world. Slowly. LOL.
Probably the same one I played/wrote with. When it's 1989 and all you have to work with is some ancient IBM's with a couple of 5.25 floppies for storage you kind have to use your imagination.
Gotta say Mike's post has done quite a bit more to figure out what I'm buying next year.
The earliest LOGO programs available in the 80s were so severely limited in graphical fidelity that a triangle was pretty much the best cursor you could muster because it had to be drawn geometrically instead of as a sprite so that it could rotate to the appropriate compass position indicated by the commands. Early computers available in schools could not muster the power to draw a sprite and rotate it. And it was important that you knew if the cursor was pointing at 95° or 110°.
Steam: adamjnet
Yeah, ours was pretty much a triangle, too, back in the mid to late '80s. We called it a turtle, though, since that's what the teacher called it, and we were nothing if not impressionable.
Were there versions of LOGO made where you could actually identify that it was a turtle without prompting?
It's called a Turtle because the graphics of Logo was based on a similar robotics platform that started in the 40s. And it's not too hard to guess why you might call a small slow robot with a hemispherical shell a "turtle".
I can - appropriately enough, it was the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.
Actually, yes. In the 90s they updated the software. With higher resolutions and more processing power they replaced the triangle with a turtle sprite. http://img.brothersoft.com/screenshots/softimage/t/turtle_graphics-327845-1263274613.jpeg
This is approximately what it looked like. It was definitely not as large and detailed as the one in wormspeaker's link, nor was it running as a Windows application.