My grandparents have had a pool table for as long as I can remember. When I was little I used to sit on top of it and concoct my very own billiard games and play for hours. This hasn’t contributed to me being some phenomenal pool shark or anything, but I can [...]
I mentioned a few posts back that I had been hacking on a ‘game’ that Mike and I had been discussing. After writing some code, the conversation deviated into three dimensions for a while. After a few days of no activity because of that distraction, I regained some momentum this morning and threw [...]
Are you a PC gamer who can’t get into console FPS games because you don’t have keyboard and mouse? Check out the Max Shooter Console PS/2 Adapter. Look out Luke, Mike might get one and come after you…
(Via Gizmodo.)
With E3 over, the buzz about the next generation consoles from all the usual suspects is relenting to hard information.
Today Ars Technica posted an inside look at the XBox 360. I find this sort of information incredibly interesting, as I like to pretend I am smarter than I really am. n-way associative caches [...]
My subscription to World of Warcraft officially runs out today. I ended my recurring billing about two weeks ago, and have moved my attention to Forza Motorsport and WarHammer 40,000: Dawn of War.
Thanks Blizzard, it was a good six months of gaming. Hopefully you can add some content so that level 60 doesn’t [...]
So here I am. First, on my kitty:
Finally, just me standing:
My profile on thottbot can be gotten here.
I managed to duplicate the archaic system we use to fulfill orders this week. It probably doesn’t work yet, but it’s progress. I got a big pile of unit tests written today, but they were all low-hanging fruit.
We got our campaign stuff running pretty well today. My connection pool seems to [...]
WoW consumed about 8 hours of my weekend. These were accumulated while my daughter was napping, or after her mom got her on Sunday evening.
Blizzard hasn’t done anything revolutionary, AFAICT. What they HAVE done is take all the little good ideas from all the other titles and rolled them into the Warcraft universe. [...]
I finally got to play World of Warcraft today. My cable internet is now working, after I went to Comcast’s office and swapped out my modem. I had to power cycle it 5 or 6 times, but it finally stayed up and downloaded WoW overnight. Good lookin’
The game feels like a Blizzard [...]
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