Not only common sense, it says so in the user's manual (if anybody reads those things).

Yeah, me neither - in fact, I repeatedly insulted a friend of mine who was playing the beta that he's playing "kids games" and told him to log-off and come play real games with me :D But then he mentioned Knights of Pen and Paper and something clicked... fast-forward a couple of weeks and I'm buying an iPad Air just…

I bought mine as soon as the iOS version was announced. I would have never bought an Apple product if it wasn't for HS (their business strategy is pure, unadulterated evil... I still feel bad that I supported the guys that are trying to f**k any standardization effort in sight).

Not only possible, but also fun. It doesn't matter if you have sucky cards when you're only mathed against other players with sucky cards.

A Hearthstone game takes maybe 10 or 15 minutes max. You can actually play it BETWEEN playing other games, which is how a friend of mine found out about it (a League of Legends streamer played it live on stream while looking for a game and relaxing). But you're right to be afraid of getting hooked, even though a…

I'm writing a game for tablets and I think I nailed the touch controlls thing - it's a one-on-one football (soccer) game where your entire screen is the field and you just hit the ball with your finger like you would with your foot. It feels very natural and physical, especially on an iPad Air where the sound of the…

I recently bought Duke Nukem 3D on Steam, very happy about the release - it even has Steam Workshop and community hub integration :D If this is how today's games will be preserved in the future, we have NOTHING to fear :)

Like other people said, leave it in gear - there are several other advantages except potentially avoiding collisions, though. You can use your engine to slow you down when going downhill, thus sparing your brake pads, and if your car is a front-wheel drive you can use the gas pedal to straighten it out if you…

I have SimCity 2000 installed in a DosBox *right now* :P And you forgot DooM! This one I have with a shiny new OpenGL engine with dynamic lights and what not :) But I gotta find Heretic, I remember it was a fun game.

Boy, I hope you're right. Valve has been pretty cool, so it's not impossible, but let's hope they have time to think about this if the situation gets really bad for them for some reason.

Let's just call it "filtering" or "curating". I bet DooM II or StarCraft I still have tons of seeders :)

Breaking the system and knowing how to write scripts are more impressive accomplishments than just playing a game, IMHO. There was a Super Mario glitchrun that actually modified the logic flow of the program by spamming in-game actions, making it jump to the end credits memory address. Way more impressive than knowing…

Oculus Rift-based space dog-fighting game

There was some version of VMWare, I think, that could do 3D graphics :) No idea about performance, though - probably created just so you can use Vista's Aero and the Linux compositing window managers. By the way, if you're looking for a distribution, I was surprised by how good Linux Mint was. If you haven't used it,…

There's an ancient plant that produces some interesting chemicals (from a neurophysiological perspective). Inhaling its smoke will make you realize that there are more important things than the external world, that you should focus on your own development, thoughts and actions. That there's a world inside your head…

I've had the exact opposite experience, kindness has opened all sorts of doors and windows I didn't know even existed. But you have to have the body language and intonation of a strong person, people have to subconsciously know that there's another side of you they don't really want to mess with.

Around here the standard definition of a drink is 100 grams (3.5 oz) of liquor. The 50 gram (1.75 oz) drink is called a "small drink" and is what you order when you just want to talk to somebody :) I don't know if this is good or bad, but it will definitely throw off the search query :)

But it's wrong, you might very well have to pay for Linux and there are multiple commercial distributions. It's still Free Software (you are allowed to modify the source code and even rebuild it, rebrand it and offer it without a cost), but it costs money. What you're thinking of is Freeware, which is a totally…

Coincidentally when they released the Steam client my library was mostly indie stuff anyway :D But, even though you're mostly right, you'll see some big titles even in my library. I didn't buy Metro: Last Night because my computer is not powerful enough to run it.

I have like 70 games with Linux support in my Steam backlog, so I'm not suffering that much about not being able to run LoL :D Thanks, Valve!