As opposed to say sports?
Why is it OK to watch men beat each other up, or tackle one another, yet a (video) game is not OK? Do board games have your blessing??
How about you Grow The Fuck Up.
The _medium_ of entertainment is NOT the issue.
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Yes I know it wasn't a good joke
/Oblg.George Shaw quote
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world:
the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
Each web tab runs in its own process; you can see the CPU, Memory, per tab. Use: More tools > Task Manager
Looks like Chrome removed the FPS column
There are still a few of us left
Reddit? Please. While it has some fantastic sub-reddits, Reddit is the Dig of Slashdot. The majority is full of whiny emo teens who down vote anything "Just Because". It's moderation system sucks -- it provides no context for why something was up/down voted.
As an OpenGL and UI/UX expert "Preaching to the choir!"
Fads go in ~20 year cycles. Hopefully the latest UI fad to flatten everything will start to change.
http://charlie.amigaspirit.hu/...
Your fallacy is assuming consciousness is dependent on a physical body.
It is yet-another-tech Microsoft bailed on after it failed to get significant market from Flash and/or HTML5. It is on life support.
> Microsoft announced the end of life of Silverlight 5 in 2021
Reference:
* http://support2.microsoft.com/...
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
Chess is "easy" compared to Go. While Chess requires more bits to store the board the search space for Go is **exponentially* larger. i.e. A a single state of the go board is 2^(19*19) = 2^361 positions = 46 bytes.
Links of interest:
* http://codegolf.stackexchange....
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
... of the PC & PS4 frame rate drops.
AC: Unity's Frame Rate Issues Resolved By This Embarrassingly Simple Fix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Because you missed the point about _good_ UI.
*Good* UI doesn't conflate the issue between Signal and Noise.
if your brain wastes time trying to figure out WHAT you can and can't click on the UI designer has fucked up.
We use color, textures, drop-shadows, and skeuomorphism to all help provide _visual clues_ for the user.
/sarcasm But, but, but, then I can't brag to my online gamer friends about how I'm stupid enough to spent $60 for the ePenis bragging rights of owning the latest Ubisuck's game.
A sudden outbreak of common sense? Color me shocked !
As an ex hard core gamer, I now wait a ~year for when the game is discounted for < $10. That way I get all the patches and know I'm buying a game that doesn't suck.
i.e.
After pre-ordering Tomb Raider for full price in Feb last year, only to have it be available for $5 on Steam's sales in December, I swore I'll never pay full price again.
Elliptic paraboloids for sale.
