What Makes a Game a Good Toy
I recently played through Just Cause 3, and had a lot of fun playing that. - I think, though, that after ‘liberating’ all the towns, collecting all the collectibles, and completing all the missions, there’s not as much innate incentive to play the game as I would’ve thought.
Considering Just Cause 3 is a game where you can fly-like-batman, [...]
Thoughts on Sky Rogue
I recently purchased a cheap flight-stick (a Logitech Extreme 3D Pro) so I could play through some of the old X-Wing games. (Although, supposedly it’s possible to play through these with a controller, and some thought).
Naturally, I then also bought whatever flight games that looked fun on the Steam store. Sky Rogue was one of the stand-out games.
Setting up Mutt with NUS Student Email
This is for setting up NUS student email (hosted with Office 365) for the Mutt Mail User Agent; particularly, using IMAP, and alongside other email accounts. Why you’d want to use Mutt, I’m not entirely sure. Probably Thunderbird will serve your needs as well as need be.
But if you’re wanting to learn something productive while procrastinating, then Mutt [...]
Patapon 3
Sigh.
I recently bought a PS Vita. - A long time ago I has a PSP. I started the first Patapon game on that, but never got very far. And the Singapore PlayStation store isn’t cool enough to have the first two Patapon games. So here I am. Patapon 3 is quite different to the previous games, apparently.
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Custom Ex Command in Yi Editor
This is something I’ve mentioned before, but I see that I wasn’t entirely clear on how to achieve it. In more detail, here are some notes on how to write a “Hello World” Ex-style command for the Yi editor.
– The exciting thing about this is it’s easier to write such commands for Yi than for Vim. The following [...]
In Another's Shoes
As part of a speech in 1928, Churchill gave the following fable: Once upon a time all the animals in the Zoo decided that they would disarm, and they arranged to have a conference to arrange the matter. So the Rhinoceros said when he opened the proceedings that the use of teeth was barbarous and horrible and ought to be [...]
Scala Development for Vim-loving Developers
So, I’ve blogged a bit about Vim.
Again, no, it’s not about “vim vs emacs”, so much as about “which features your text editing has”; and the vi-like modal editing fantastic for manipulating text. Recently I’ve had the fortune of programming in Scala.
The joke is that some programmers are happy to work in Scala because it’s not [...]
Notes on Building a Live Coding Tool for C99
I’ve been invited to talk at NUSHackers Friday Hacks on October 9th, about my FYP of building a ‘worksheet’/‘live coding’ environment for C.
This post is to note down anything pertinent / thinking-out-loud as to what to say. This is a draft. Here is a link to the presentation draft.
(Obviously, the colours need to change.). What is [...]
Black Ops 2
I play CoD for the single player. (Since my computer is usually too bad for the latest, and my internet connection can be sporadic at times). Since CoD 4, (CoD:MW2, CoD:BLOPS, CoD:MW3) the series has really loved its ‘one-trick-pony’ mechanics. Explosions-and-gunfire-everywhere-omg-intense-action (to the point where you can’t tell what’s going on), and way-too-many-helicopters, etc. have also been staples of the [...]
An Exercise in Hate-Reading
I understand ‘Hate-Reading’ to mean reading something prejudicially / with fore-knowledge that you’re going to dislike it.
You’re not reading it to build-bridges, but to bolster your own attitudes; you’re picking an example of what is condemnable about some group/idea you don’t like, and laughing at it in a “hey, look how stupid this is” kind of way.
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