Tipzntrix

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by Tipzntrix 14y ago
I am personally a fan of another of his games not mentioned here, Yomi. It definitely puts focus in a 1-on-1, competitive aspect where you're not playing time trial and every action you make involves picking the counter to the action your
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by Tipzntrix 14y ago
Can't agree with you more.
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by Tipzntrix 14y ago
It's a lot of standing on the shoulders of giants. People take a new framework or library that abstracts things at such a high level like making a chart just by doing chart ((0.1, 0.2, 0.3), (1, 2, 3)). This work has been done by someone
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by Tipzntrix 14y ago
I would guess they pull from the wiki commons and then use typical JPG or PNG algorithm libraries to stretch or compress the image. There's probably some AI to retrieve images that don't need to be stretched much so that it looks natural.
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by Tipzntrix 14y ago
I'm saying that players have come to expect that issuing "move" will make AI take the shortest path without destruction, and we know that if there is a faster way, we have to tell the AI to attack through the wall if we want to break it. I
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by Tipzntrix 14y ago
I'm interested in knowing how many of you on here are going to read this in one sitting. Not that it would be sufficient to analyze it for bugs, but because you're that interested.
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by Tipzntrix 14y ago
Why is this game so godlike? I think people might have missed it because they are too used to thinking about what could happen on a real board, where arms would get tangled and whatnot. The strategies in place, like leaving your king wide
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by Tipzntrix 14y ago
I think it's pretty standard that if you issue a move command, units will not attack and will go around. Players have come to expect this since Starcraft I. The whole idea of tower defence that was made popular stands a testament to the f
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by Tipzntrix 14y ago
I think you're looking for "straw man" as I didn't attack you personally but you think that I'm attacking a point you didn't make. I brought up one counter-example, but I have seen many more out there. I'll go back to the top again. >J
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by Tipzntrix 14y ago
The actual study seems to be behind a paywall. The article claims that "participants were told they won about half the trials", which I assume would be by blasting them with noise ("fingernails on a chalk board, dentist drills, and sirens"
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by Tipzntrix 14y ago
They also said that the participant won half the trials. How could the experimenters fool the subjects about the game if they didn't get any harsh sounds back?
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by Tipzntrix 14y ago
However, blasting unseen opponents' ears with louder and longer unpleasant noise is reality.
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by Tipzntrix 14y ago
And then we have artists like DJ Kariu ( http://www.youtube.com/user/Kariu ) who have been producing content for years, have ~30k views on their big songs, produce consistently, and are still surviving with a separate shift job because they
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by Tipzntrix 14y ago
Even the technically illiterate hit the black market from time to time to gorge on some shady-looking but insanely cheap DVDs.
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by Tipzntrix 14y ago
Or they delegate the activities to the NSA who work under-the-radar and nobody knows anything except what the whistle-blowers say.
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by Tipzntrix 14y ago
It is the case in a lot of chat programs that you will get Tipzntrix: hi Tipzntrix: ) The closing paren is supposed to be attached to the colon to make a super quick happy face. or sad face. Tipzntrix: (
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by Tipzntrix 14y ago
I would be pretty angry at Vice Magazine if I was McAfee right now.
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by Tipzntrix 14y ago
The old boil a frog slowly metaphor. I think this myth was debunked, interestingly enough
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by Tipzntrix 14y ago
I wonder how much research the marketing team did on setting up their brand with that name, considering their consumers are parents and young children.
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by Tipzntrix 14y ago
Gas mileage and average life of transmission, etc. are benchmarks that do matter to the average consumer. The max horsepower isn't used at all by people purchasing cars for travel on the main roads, but max processor power is probably used
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by Tipzntrix 14y ago
That's mostly fair, but gigantic multiplayer experiences have in general tried to target more modest min. reqs., like Starcraft II on the competitive side, or all of those East asian MMOs on the casual side.
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by Tipzntrix 14y ago
You see with Windows, Microsoft targetted (or at least went WAY out of their way to accommodate) the trailing edge. hell, they even held support for many DOS programs for a long time. This pattern looks like it might be changing with Metr
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by Tipzntrix 14y ago
For laptops, there's Dell, Lenovo, ASUS, Sony, and more...a lot of them don't cost as much as Apple, but their benchmarks match up at a cheaper cost.
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by Tipzntrix 14y ago
The distribution of illegal drugs to greater distances is just a byproduct of public transit or automobile sales.
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by Tipzntrix 14y ago
I believe this article specifically states that it inludes Indian subcontinent, Cambodia, Phillipines, and Vietnam with the typical Orientals.
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by Tipzntrix 14y ago
They state they only covered games with over 100k$
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by Tipzntrix 14y ago
This is what I was thinking myself. What's to stop people from going after such immortality? They might very well give an arm and a leg, those on the outside are going to feel maltreated, and might even start a revolution. As far as the "
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by Tipzntrix 14y ago
I could see this actually working...but not as advertised. And not if advertised. Just as dealers hit street corners and people still buy off them knowing the risk, secret USB ports (not all over Hacker News or advertised on a web page) co
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by Tipzntrix 14y ago
"Increasing human longevity has no meaning, it is ecological nonsense." This is an interesting quote from the article given by another biologist Stefano Piraino, not the main focus of the article. If we did find the secret to immortality, i
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by Tipzntrix 14y ago
I think these biologists are betting on "not yet".

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