Recent content by LuminaryJanitor

First time I was here, the site was just a pile of .pdfs...

No, theoretically, they're exactly the same. And they're both the same as the number of points in (0, 0.000000001). Similarly, the number of integers is equal to the number of rationals (fractions). But they're both strictly less than the number of points in the real line.

You're putting things that aren't numbers into equations. 1/INF is not a number, and neither is INF. 0.000...1 is not a number; it's a meaningless piece of notation you invented yourself. "Infinitely small numbers" don't exist. If it's a number, then I can name a smaller one.

They are. Right-click on a game -> Properties -> Updates -> "Do not update this game". Too late for you now, though. I don't know how that's even possible... Even Telstra will give you 50GB for that price these days.

I can't stand traditional RTSs any more. I had a blast with Dune II, and I put more hours into Warcraft II and C&C than I care to admit. But then, around the late '90s, they'd refined the formula about as far as they could, innovation came to a halt, and every traditional (base-building...

Man, that drove me mad when I was in the US... You can never get the right amount ready beforehand, and rather than fucking around with all that barely-distinguishable low-denomination currency at the register, I tended to just hand over notes. The end result was a half-kilo sack of change at...

Rome: Total War. Had a seriously overpopulated and underdefended city in Sicily, on the verge of revolt. Demolished the barracks, stables, etc. and pulled out the garrison of 216 cataphracts; promptly sent them back in and slaughtered 4000 revolting peasants, down to the last man, with around...