Hmm, I wonder why that could be?....Wait, sarcasm doesn't come across in text. I'll just say it's the Yahtzee avatar :P.I will just shut up about my thoughts on gaming, since people find it trollish or something.
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The important thing about Buzz_Clik is you are wearing his clothes. Not in a sexy, morning after kind of way, but in a "Yo, this guy has single-handedly designed almost every Giant Bomb t-shirt that you have ever bought" kind of way. He does more than visualise space neon lobsters that have to work co-operatively, though that would otherwise be considered enough. He also blogs! Which is why we are here. His latest blogging adventures are titled "SID-licious" - a weekly blog in which the music of Commodore 64 SID tunes are discussed and even reproduced by Mr_Clik:
"Undoubtedly a maestro of the SID, Tel always wrote really catchy tunes that had a great pop sensibility. But then there were times he would add some digital magic through his use of samples, and it'd just turn the songs into something even more special. While there are plenty of his original compositions I enjoy (and will probably feature in future instalments) this week's SID-licious is devoted to his cover of the classic Magical Sound Shower theme for Turbo Outrun. Tel considers his work on Turbo Outrun to be some of his best on the C64, and I couldn't agree more."
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Few people dive into the underlying concepts and design principles of videogames as deeply as Gamer_152, and his understanding of the industry as both a consumer and a programmer make his blogs invaluable to anyone looking for something interesting to read. His blogging spectrum is vast, his knowledge deep. Go and read them, you might actually learn something:
"There seems to be an interesting correlation between how much people know about video games and how much they think the point of a video game is for it to act as a simulation. It’s been a long-held misbelief of people outside of video games that the fun of games comes entirely from them being a simulation of a certain activity, and the idea of gameplay as a source of enjoyment is often forgotten. Surprisingly though, it also appears that even many who do play video games still mistakenly believe that games are primarily simulations and that realism by default makes a game better."
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Have you ever wanted to get into the map-making scene but were too impatient/lazy/fuckingstupid to actually do anything about it? Well, Akrid has been learning the ropes and sharing his experiences with the rest of the world here on Giant Bomb. His blogs have featured many of his 3D modelling shenanigans and he's currently putting his skills to the test in the creation of a TF2 map. Have you ever wondered how that shit actually works? Well, now's your chance to find out:
"Now, obviously it's an awful waste of resources to have all these polygons (as that is what the brushes are as soon as you're in game) serving no purpose on the "negative" side of the map, the side where with any luck no player will see. That's why it's vital to make sure that the computer doesn't even consider those faces. In source engine, this is done through the "Nodraw" tool, a simple way to tell the computer to ignore the existence of any chosen face of a brush. This once again gives you the ability to have a simple plane. Which, in my opinion, makes this whole system seem a bit crazy. "
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