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by s_m_t 8y ago
I recall the waiting times for Battlegrounds being so long (sometimes an hour and a half...) that there was constant battle around the barrens, stone talon, and ashenvale. Back then you actually had to show up to warsong gultch to get into
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by s_m_t 8y ago
I don't think "power fantasy" is central at all to the appeal of videogames. Rather, the things that can really easily be modeled by computers happen to be... casting rays from point a to point b, changing an objects position
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by s_m_t 8y ago
Ignoring things like democracy, capitalism, socialism, "communism", etc for the moment. China is an ethnostate. Unless you are Han Chinese you will never ever be represented by the Chinese government.
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by s_m_t 8y ago
I'd pay for a good school shooter game. Pico's School was the game that practically put newgrounds on the map. One of the most popular Starcraft UMS RPG's was Highschool RPG, the school shooter was a popular character.
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by s_m_t 8y ago
+1, maybe it is because I'm not programming the most complicated things in the world, but almost all of my data structures are fixed size arrays (or are stored in them). In my experience, dynamic memory management simply isn't nee
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by s_m_t 8y ago
How dumb of an idea is it to attach the camera/lidar/what have you to a 2 axis rail and move it around at a high speed to introduce some parallax movement to the scene?
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by s_m_t 8y ago
What does learning to think mean? People who haven't gone to college can't think?
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by s_m_t 8y ago
It also isn't so well determined that authoritarianism and democracy are so opposite... Part of the idea of two houses was to limit what was seen as the eventual authoritarian endgame of unfettered democracy. Liberal democracy is liber
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by s_m_t 8y ago
Digital capitalism is "attacking" leisure but per the articles first source the decline in young male labor participation is supposed to be due to advances in leisure technology... and the people taking advantage of this are self-
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by s_m_t 8y ago
Bigger drone
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by s_m_t 8y ago
Someone must have been going against best practices and remaking the wheel because I see different types of wheels everywhere I look. Shopping carts have a certain type of wheel, skateboards have a certain type of wheel, longboards have a c
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by s_m_t 8y ago
Awesome, thanks
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by s_m_t 8y ago
Very cool. Do you know if you can "mark" spaces in time to jump back to like you can spatially in vim? Sometimes I change a bunch of random stuff at once to try and get something to work, and perhaps this use case would be better
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by s_m_t 8y ago
"kicking" is an interesting euphemism. Even if it were true that fascism "kicked" downwards and socialism "kicked" upwards, what the egregious socialist and fascist governments of the 20th century did wasn&#x27
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by s_m_t 8y ago
Yep, always funny when protesters think they are somehow rebelling against the interests of power. Protest is primarily an expression of power. Once I understood this things made a lot more sense. The authentic protest is almost always met
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by s_m_t 8y ago
I remember reading about "inflammatory cytokins" and depression from an article linked on hackernews some years ago. Can't remember the specifics but I do seem to recall talk about being able to test for them in the blood. Th
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by s_m_t 8y ago
And leads to "toxic" behavior. If you behaved poorly in a dedicated server environment you could be banned from multiple servers in one go as each clan might host multiple servers. Eventually all that would be left for those peopl
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by s_m_t 8y ago
Odd, we don't let adults do "anything" but somehow we don't place all of them under virtual house arrest
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by s_m_t 8y ago
I think body language might be more important, and seems to me should be harder to detect. Eye's are pretty easy to detect because of the contrast between the whites and iris, and, of course they reflect light. Detecting the difference
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by s_m_t 8y ago
It didn't? The only potential adversary that mattered, the soviet union, knew what was going on the entire time and essentially had full access to the oak ridge facility
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by s_m_t 8y ago
Is that actually true? Surely they'd encounter some problems but why would they absolutely be doomed?
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by s_m_t 9y ago
Sorry, a bit of ambiguity here, I was talking about SC:BW, as the paper is also concerned. I think that SC2 and BW differ in this respect because SC2 has been constantly updated throughout its competitions to make more strategies and units
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by s_m_t 9y ago
So what does that have to do with Somalia
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by s_m_t 9y ago
How can this be so? In my experience playing Starcraft the decision space for macro is very, very, very limited. You are essentially locked into a handful of viable build orders for the early game, a handful of timing attack opportunities i
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by s_m_t 9y ago
A failed socialist state that actually saw many improvements during its collapse into anarchy doesn't seem to help your point.
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by s_m_t 9y ago
That strikes me as some sort of backwards reasoning, people had to literally break into FBI offices and steal documents so that those things would come to be known. You can't really fault the news for not reporting on something they ha
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by s_m_t 9y ago
The core of the esp-idf is like a wrapper + a tiny bit of logic over the registers, there is a ton of extra stuff packed in there but you don't need to use it if you don't want to and it is pretty clearly separated in the source d
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by s_m_t 9y ago
Anything can be difficult to understand if you don't try in good faith
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by s_m_t 9y ago
I don't even care if this is arm chair psychology, from a literary standpoint this really ties the piece together. The Santa example doesn't make much sense otherwise.
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by s_m_t 9y ago
In certain cities in the United States going to jail for shooting and killing someone is something of a networking retreat for criminals. You plead down to manslaughter and may serve less than 3 years. Great way to jumpstart your career and

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