Tag: Games
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Links van 30 maart 2014 tot 6 april 2014
Jimmy Carter is ‘radioactive,’ and NYT makes sure of it!Jimmy Carter has been exiled from mainstream political life, and the Democratic Party, because of his position on one subject, Palestine. When he said that Israel practices apartheid, back in 2006, he was paddled by Wolf Blitzer, Al Franken and Terry Gross. Now Israeli officials use the…
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Links van 12 januari 2014 tot 13 januari 2014
Google stabs Wikipedia in the front • The RegisterHowever, since Google rolled out Knowledge Graph, something interesting happened. Visits to Wikipedia had previously risen steadily year-on-year for a decade. Towards the end of the 2012 this trend not only stalled, but went into an unprecedented decline. According to Wikipedia's own stats, the page views for…
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Links van 24 december 2013 tot 25 december 2013
Why I won’t be using Google In January — MediumThe story's all over the Internet— and if you’re the type of person to read a Medium article explaining why someone’s boycotting Google, you’re probably already familiar with it. The gist is as follows: RapGenius offers incentives to blog-posters to add links about Justin Bieber to…
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Links van 15 december 2013 tot 16 december 2013
nsa-backdoor/nsa-backdoor.php at master · aaronjorbin/nsa-backdoorGrin. "Description: Make it easy for the NSA to have admin access to your site" A Great Old-Timey Game-Programming Hack – Tom Moertel’s BlogThis was in the 8-bit PC era, so the gaming hardware was almost impossibly slow by today’s standards. It might not surprise you, then, to learn that, back…
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Links van 9 december 2013 tot 13 december 2013
Grunt for People Who Think Things Like Grunt are Weird and Hard via reddit.comGrunt is one of those fancy newfangled things that all the cool kids seem to be using but at first glance feels strange and intimidating. I hear you. This article is for you. YouTube – Elite: Dangerous Progress Diary 09 Alpha Phase…
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Links van 3 december 2013 tot 5 december 2013
Twitter Is About To Officially Launch Retargeted Ads | TechCrunchThe secret sauce of Twitter’s retargeting is the use of your account as a cross-device identity layer, allowing it to target ads on mobile based on where you’ve been on the web. King James ProgrammingPosts generated by a Markov chain trained on the King James Bible…
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Links van 5 november 2013 tot 7 november 2013
www.gootechnologies.comWhether you're a designer who likes creative freedom, or a hardcore coder pushing the limits of the web, Goo gives you the tools to create amazing web visuals in your own way and without limitations. Goo Create and Goo Engine are specially designed to make your creation process as simple and smooth as possible without…
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Links van 1 november 2013 tot 2 november 2013
fabiensanglard.net/doom3_documentation/DOOM-3-BFG-Technical-Note.pdfThis technical note describes some of the performance issues encountered during the development of DOOM 3 BFG. The Strange and Mysterious History of the Ouija Board | History & Archaeology | Smithsonian MagazineThe real history of the Ouija board is just about as mysterious as how the “game” works. Ouija historian Robert Murch has been…
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Spelletjes
Alles klasseren en bijhouden, dat leidt soms tot fijne herontdekkingen. Zoals kijk: Een volledige originele doos van Elite, van bijna 29 jaar geleden. Ik wou dat ik kon zeggen dat het een fantastisch spel was, maar dat was het vrees ik niet echt: minuscuul klein van wereld (zelfs al was het onvoorstelbaar enorm voor die…
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Elite: Dangerous
Yes. Het zag er heel lang niet zo goed uit, maar Dave Braben heeft het voor mekaar gekregen: er komt een nieuwe versie van Elite, met geld van Kickstarter. Als alles goed gaat, kan ik ergens in 2014 in een Cobra Mk III op zoek gaan naar Lave en Zaonce. For old times’ sake. Drie…
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Links van 30 november 2012 tot 22 december 2012
48fps: how we accidentally invented Impressionist filmmaking | The Verge ForumsWatching Journey, it's clear that widespread adoption of High Frame Rate filmmaking would cause even greater issues. This isn't simply a matter of relearning how to do wardrobe, how to build a set, and how to light a scene. Acting is an entirely different matter…
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Links van 5 september 2012 tot 29 november 2012
corsix-th – Open source clone of Theme Hospital – Google Project HostingThis project aims to reimplement the game engine of Theme Hospital, with the capability of loading assets including graphics and levels from the original game. Revenge of the Reality-Based Community | The American ConservativeI know that it’s unattractive and bad form to say “I told…
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Games die *ik* wil spelen
De kinderen zijn tegenwoordig Skyrim aan het spelen, en nog altijd Minecraft, en ook wel Singstar. Ik heb het al járen gehad met switch shoppers twitch shooters [autocorrect, een gemak als het werkt] en dingen, en eigenlijk ook wel met dingen mij teveel doen nadenken. Wat mij wreed content maakt van XCOM Enemy Unknown: turn by…
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Links van 31 juli 2012 tot 8 augustus 2012
No-Hook Nation: Why Is It So Hard to Find a Place to Hang Our Stuff? – Karen Loew – The AtlanticWhen planning rooms, designers often overlook or choose to omit the simple amenity that would keep coats, purses, and laptop bags from ending up on the floor. Why? Gamasutra – Features – 1500 Archers on…
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Gezelschap
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