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Comment Re:Natural Selection at work (Score 1) 489

Thanks to Khan Academy, I did do that in my head in about a second!

I know division, whoa...

Khan Academy has been the absolute bees-knees for myself in MASSIVELY improving my maths skills. All the stuff I'd either forgotten from high school due to not using thus losing it, or even the stuff I never could understand, is now all making a lot of sense. Sites like Khan Academy should reaffirm hope in everyone concerned about the future of education.

Comment I'm not worried... (Score 1) 543

Most of the games that I buy on Gog.com, GamersGate.com & Steam are between $2 - $10, I couldn't care less about trading them or selling them on. In thinking that I spend hours, if not days playing these cheap games, in comparison to a cup of coffee which costs $3.50, I've got nothing to complain about. Further to this, I still have all my games that I've collected as a kid. In that I've never sold any games in the past, why would I start worrying about doing so now?

Further to this, I've noticed lately that I'm finding myself too lazy to rummage through my box of old floppies & CD's, and instead I'm simply repurchasing my favourite games of yesteryear as a download. Total Annihilation, Constructor, Rise of the Triad... The install, the patches, the compatibility hacks are all automated, meaning that once the game's installed I don't have to fuck with it for 2 hours to get it running on Windows 7 64-bit.

TLDR;
I paid the internet $10 to download and install my favourite classic games that I already own cause I'm lazy. But hey, I have games to play, I'm a busy man! I don't have time to rummage through storage boxes!

Comment Re:Obligatory turd in punchbowl (Score 2) 521

A gradual approach can sometimes work against you; have a read about the history of rabbits in Australia;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbits_in_Australia

If the CSIRO had released both Myxomatosis & Calicivirus at the same time, I'm assuming we'd have much less of a rabbit problem here in OZ.
Half doing something can sometimes lead to total failure, as opposed to 100% success rate if done correctly and at full potential.

Comment I remember adventure games when I was a kid! (Score 1) 480

Get her a copy of Zak McKracken & The Alien Mindbenders.. If she can beat that, she's smarter than me, or at least smarter than me when I was at 10 years old. Note, that if you catch her playing Commander Keen because Zak McKracken was too hard, she'll probably end up failing at life... You know you've definitely lost her if she gets into Duke Nukem, as DN1 leads to DN2, and DN2 leads to Duke 3D, then it's all "Shake it, baby!" and the pixelated pornography and the patch to remove the nipple tassels and the whore headshots. Not too sure where I'm going with all of this...

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