david_otoole

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by david_otoole 13y ago
The computers are already using governments to make decisions about you.
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by david_otoole 13y ago
Don't slave for months producing easily replicable ideas in a market that is mobbed with people who replicate anything successful within days.
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by david_otoole 13y ago
I had the privilege of working at IG for a few years back during the SWAT4 / FFV3R / Bioshock 1 days, when the people who made System Shock 2 were largely still there. It's sad to see the name being retired, but it's bet
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by david_otoole 13y ago
Yes. This. The real problem with Flappy Bird is that it made money and got attention without being blessed by curator types who think it shouldn't be popular. If one of the usual indie darlings had made Flappy Bird, it would be hailed
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by david_otoole 13y ago
Light Table is bigger than Jesus now.
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by david_otoole 13y ago
Please insist on a better script for the next Tron movie.
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by david_otoole 13y ago
Really a better title for this article would be "Simulation backs up theory that universe is a simulation". I find them very curious, the "TheUniverseIsAComputer" people. Suppose there is an experiment proving that the U
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by david_otoole 13y ago
Careful or you will destroy all the social app crap that makes this website profitable.
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by david_otoole 13y ago
I sort of worry about that. As a userspace client Steam could never have hoped to lock out non-approved games, but as an OS it probably could. The HN commentariat probably skew pro-curation, but I for one think it would be bad for the futur
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by david_otoole 13y ago
Can you sideload games that aren't on Steam?
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by david_otoole 13y ago
w00t, one upvote! :)
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An entirely hand-painted Common Lisp game(blocky.io)
2 points by david_otoole 13y ago|1 comments
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by david_otoole 14y ago
Special relevance to Lisp: this game involves procedurally-generated puzzles so that you never play the same level twice. I doubt I would have been able to pull this off the way I did, without a dialect of Lisp to use in generating non-triv
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by david_otoole 14y ago
Also video-reviewed at Indie Impressions. http://indie-impressions.com/?p=1893 I hope there is a bright future for games and other multimedia in Common Lisp---Some folks maintain a lisp games wiki at http://lispgames.org . And it isn't
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My Common Lisp game "2x0ng" was featured on indie gaming site Tigsource today(tigsource.com)
1 points by david_otoole 14y ago|2 comments