I can and do, but my wife refuses to learn, which is really aggravating in instances where we need to swap cars for whatever reason. Because of this my next car will probably be an automatic.
I finished Dark Souls last week, so I'm taking a break from gaming (so I say). I always try out the games with gold on the 360 (that Elysian tale game seems ok). Otherwise I'll just chill until I get my new gaming pc, probably at the end of the month. Then it's steam backlog time.
Well, this is all interesting to me. I thought Destiny was just Bungie's take on Halo. I watched some of that gameplay video and that's the impression I got. I guess I'll have to pay more attention to the details as they come out.
The nook e-reader has a decent curation system (like best-sellers, by genre, etc) and every book has a sample you can download. So you can just troll through a bunch of sample until something strikes your fancy. I assume the kindle has something similar.
Back in my youth when I was an avid reader I would : go to the many bookstores around (harder now). Go to the library. Join a book club like the the Science Fiction Book Club (which is excellent).
I think I've changed my mind on this during the course of the thread. If Carmack developed graphics engine software for use with the Rift, he can't just walk that to another company for free. As he says, the code belongs to Zenimax.
I don't understand how are games that just came out on your backlog?
For games that don't have a definite ending, I'd say just playing them for 5-10 hours should count. If you don't like it or they are too much of a time investment, hey at least you gave them a shot.
Also, I hate myself for saying this because he seems like a truly lovely guy, and someone who I would appreciate as a friend, but Drew adds nothing, indeed takes away from the podcast.
Some interesting claims made about "an algorithm to keep things close". So first the Hearthstone servers have to be able to calculate the state of the game to see whose winning. Just looking at life totals is easy enough, but anything else would get pretty complicated quickly. It'd be like running an ai player in every game, but that was taking into account both players and everything yet to be played in their decks.
Then you have to make the un-random decisions for the "random" cards being played. Do you pick the absolute worse outcomes for the player in the lead, or sometimes choose a better but still sub-optimal outcome? Maybe randomize among that? Maybe actually throw in a good result every now and then to keep people from being suspicious?
This all seems like a lot of work. I'm not saying it's impossible, it's not. But if I were Blizzard I'd just go with the RNG.
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