Recent content by Renegrade

Yeah, the very first lesson in gun handling is that you don't point a weapon, regardless of it's state (loaded/not, safety on/off, hammer cocked/not), at any person (or critter) that you do not intend to kill. Did these people not consider that, or were they simply not taught that to begin...

Like the command prompt isn't still the faster and simpler way of doing most things in administration these days? One crap temp job I had once was an administrative one, which involved updating software (mostly OS) for managed customer servers (amongst other things). I could patch ALL the...

Wow - a patent on daisy chaining various devices on a serial bus? Like the modified IEEE-488 connector found on C64s? For those that don't recall, the modification turned the parallel bus design of the original IEEE-488 system into a serial bus (still maintaining the ability to daisy-chain...

FPS sensitivity of the eye is a complex issue (BiH-Kira's link goes over some of the issues briefly) - there really isn't a practical upper end to fps sensitivity. I scribbled up a 3D game engine back in the late 90s, and since I have zero art skills, I never bothered to texture anything...

To be honest, Fallout is still on my "to play" list. I heard horrible reports of bugs in an otherwise cool game, so I held off to give 'em time to patch, and um, the procrastination sort of got out of control. I wasn't aware they dumbed it down though :( I'm actually hoping to see a revival...

I like the part around five minutes where he describes the two groups who might be interested in this title. It's spot on. I'm part of the latter "setting the publisher's office on fire" group. I expect a re-imaging of a game to improve it, flesh it out, etc. Not dumb it down. The...

No, they're checking in the "Mojang" way. As in no checking at all, release to community, and someone ELSE points it out. It's like crowd sourced verification! The original translation itself is literally crowd-sourced, from a site called crowdin. Crowd sourcing is the wave of the...

What's with this cloud computing gaming nonsense? If you play fighting games at a high skill level, you'll know that the wireless controllers add too much latency to remain competitive. I can't imagine that the latency added by the wireless controllers is even a fifth of that added by a...

What's this all about? People actually WANT an X-COM shooter? ... We already have one. Did everybody forget about X-COM: Enforcer? I can't believe anybody who played it could have forgotten the horror...