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    Why Do We Love Survival Games?

    This indeed took quite a right angle. Actually I was a little disappointed, because I believe that there can be wider speculation about what's up with us liking games, where life and morality (to some degree) as we know it is gone. My intuitive response for example is, that some perceive our...
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    Putting Gamers to Work: DARPA's Grand Design

    They basicly recruit one of the civil team-members (big nerd-steretype) after he solved a stargate-related mathematical problem, coded into a online-videogame. On a sidenote, you didn't miss much at all in my opinion, it doesn't meassure up to the old stargateshows :/ I'm no stranger to...
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    Putting Gamers to Work: DARPA's Grand Design

    Wow. I'm sligthly disturbed. I would hazard the guess that it will actually rather be attack-angles against software (since "fixing windows" was mentioned). From what was described in the dev's blog posting I could very well imagine that in can be used for that. And they are not only saving...
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    The Master

    Since so many people mention skyrim, it's an aweful example of a hard game, because: higher difficulties just change the damage taken, damage done ratio, with adept being both 100% and master being 50% done and 200% taken. The game mechanics themselves are quite simple since the ai works by a...
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    League of Legends Developer Shows How Raging Loses Games

    Neither do they explain how they obtain the numbers for ragers. First guess: by reports... uninvestigated ones... There's still a dark figure of unreported rages. And I'm pretty sure that there is a noteable correlation between won or lost and reported rage and unreported rage. This is an excuse...
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    League of Legends Developer Shows How Raging Loses Games

    I allways perceived HoN (Heroes of Newerth) to be even more toxic then LoL. I'm wondering why it didn't come up yet^^ I would like to see the raw data, too. The conclusions are surprisingly drastic... Though, in my experience many ragers are doing ok'ish up to actually quite good, in their...