I just say "well, since you _want_ me to bullshit you, it'll take 10 minutes". The truth is that software is ready when it's ready - the only people that can give reasonable estimates are exceptionally good programmers _that have worked on the same thing before_, provided they don't stumble on some obscure bug that…

Pirated games to Steam sales: at around the same price (=free), you get the warm, fuzzy feeling of having donated to the developers of the game, a way to download the game at full speed, even if it wouldn't have had seeders on a torrent site, and often additional features (online multiplayer, centralized mod and…

Even in modern engines dynamic lights (=moving light sources) are best avoided. Still, they mix-and-match, using pre-baked lighting for almost everything and adding dynamic lights for things like flames, light bulbs on a cord that dangle from the ceiling, etc.

The ten minutes is about pre-computing the lighting, not about rendering. At least one of the videos on YouTube mentions it runs on 50-60 fps once the lighting data has been "baked" (a one-time operation). So, yeah, it's real time :)

That's why you need two elements on a sorc :) Fire + Lightning = OMG :)

Yep, especially the "increase visibility" part is really effective - when you're getting killed, ward more, because there's a chance they'll get over-confident and start wandering alone... Even if you can't win teamfights, you can surely win a 5 vs 1 and then a 5 vs 4 :)

That Left 4 Dead thing was awesome, I couldn't believe it when I fist activated it :D

In LoL you have 3 pauses per game, after that you can't pause anymore. And if you don't explain why you're leaving and what is happening people will probably just unpause, so after a couple of seconds you won't be able to do this anymore. In custom games you can pause however and whenever you want (but it's assumed…

We have to "give a shit" - this is part of our role. It's natural to be deeply moved by such events. But it's also deeply reassuring to know that no life is lost if it has affected other life - because this is what it was made for, and has completed its purpose.

"The most emotional moments happen when we're all in the car," he told me over the phone at one point a few weeks after Josh's Games for Change presentation. In the middle of running errands or dropping his kids off somewhere, one of his other children would ask a pointed question about why God would let this happen…

Some philosophies are much more useful than others. Christianity, along with most other mainstream religions, are a pretty bad example of something that is supposed to give you the axioms of life - if you believe in a disconnect between a God and everything else in the world, you get all sorts of weird paradoxes and…

Nothing is ever lost, it just changes form.

Apparently there's a 2GB size limit for apps, so...

The distribution is broken - the source code is missing.

If you completed the installation, you probably don't need the course lol :D

Mint, because we are grumpy old people that like their desktop metaphors :P

Same here, my fighting game experience is limited to getting the crap beaten out of me on MK4 (when that was a thing), but holy shit...

They have these like every week :D

Probably, I haven't tried it on a 140 Hz monitor or anything, but doubling the refresh rate would mean halving the penalties if a rendered frame misses the scan... But the true solution is adaptive sync, there the monitor gets synchronized to the GPU, starting the scan whenever the GPU says a new frame is ready. Zero…

Also old inkjet printers (that you bought just because the printer was cheap, but have no intention to buy ink for) are treasure troves for robotics enthusiasts - stepper motors, control circuits, all kinds of sensors, belt drives... All high-precision, high-quality components that would cost hundreds if you bought…