Recent content by Uristqwerty

In my experience, Twitter is at least not as bad. I can read a short discussion on Borderlands between the creators of Minecraft and Antichamber without having to create or log in to an account. The one time I tried reading comments of facebook, all I got was a login page... So, as Twitter at...

In the game engine, a lot of the individual bits of the level will refer to each other by the memory location that the data describing the other part is stored. Depending on the system, they can be up to 2 billion, 4 billion, or perhaps even 18446744073709551615. When the game is saved, it...

Would it really have been too much effort to split characters as "online" and "offline", where offline characters are singleplayer and LAN only, while online characters are multiplayer and one person multiplayer as they have it now? I can see the simplification they get by making the game...

Having XP on my desktop and 7 on a notebook, I am in an excellent position to point out a few things: - XP has some awesome powertoys: TweakUI and Command Line Here are great. Though opening a command window is a default feature in 7, it's hidden behing a *modifier key*, a huge mistake in my...

If I remember correctly, they are only counting people who downloaded from their own site, for example if one person bought the bundle and then gave their download page URL to 100 other people. (Just checked, http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/05/Saving-a-penny----pirating-the-Humble-Indie-Bundle )...

A quick bit of information for anyone worried about pirates altering the log to victimize someone else: There are more ways of storing information than plain text. Splitting a number in such a way that it can be combined back together (XOR, addition, appending, etc), adding bogus data in...