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Anyone know if there is anything recent that's worth knowing about this topic now? (Like an updated version of this document?)

Cave Story is an incredible game. I'm pretty happy it's becoming more popular now (the 3DS version, the Wii-ware remake) so more people can experience it.

I know around '07 there was a pretty large modding community making some real nice mods. I'm pretty sure it must be around still.

Also, Pixel (the creator of Cave Story) even made this program that lets you compose songs. It's a kind of tracker, but it's real good for some types of video game music, it's called PxTone.

It's kind of gross how that market of games is growing. It's really quite terrible, but at the same time genius, at least in the metric of making money.

At the same time I don't think there is a need to worry about the gaming industry being overtaken with that dirt - indie games have really been keeping my hope up with video games as a creative outlet. Lots of really wonderful stuff and wonderful people behind the works - here are some nice sites for finding such games.

http://indiegames.com/index.html http://gamejolt.com/

I'm guessing games built upon previous ones? I'm wondering to what extent they borrowed from previous prototypes/work. Also, I wonder what the total dev time for the game was.

If you absolutely can't spend money on anything, I'd go with PxTone for bare-bones prototyping. It runs on Wine. It is point-and-click tracker.

http://buzinkai.net/PXTone/tutorial/

It's an incredibly lightweight tracker or whatever, and comes with preloaded instruments (basic chiptune-ish sounds). But when you're prototyping a song or trying to get an idea down really fast, you shouldn't worry too much about the instruments or anything. PxTone is strong in this regard, it's VERY FAST and intuitive to just jot down a melody.

I find PxTone is great if I think of some short melody and want it sort of stored so I can come back to it later and maybe work with it on something more involved than PxTone.

Of course it's mostly useful for the prototyping stage. Any sort of recording with real instruments, or effects more than just panning/volume/reverb/echo/overdrive/portamento, you'll want to look elsewhere.

I really wish there would be some way that schools would stop having to worry about these stupid test scores. Hearing "Education" and "SAT" together makes me cringe.

I can't say I would absolutely need any of these things, but their uses seem like they would work well in special cases, like some with some big company or something. I suppose there is a market for these things, but overall I'm not sure how necessary they really are...I think I may just not be reading about them detailed enough, nor do I want to cut down on the hard work of these developers, but how necessary is the next step in social TV, or something..

Do they only have those stats for "britney spears"? (And if so...why?)

I looked (admittedly not very hard) to see if this was some kind of google lab where you query with some phrase and see the misspellings, but to no avail. That would be interesting - anyone know links?

I think you have a point with the voting. If only it was that easy in practice - there are so many moral and ethical issues when it comes to drawing a line for "intelligent enough to vote".

A standardized test would be hard to impose, since how does one measure someone's ability to make good judgments about something?

Well, I wouldn't generalize everyone living in America into a bucket of "Americans" - although I'll just assume that's not what you meant.

Certainly there is a good portion of Americans unwilling to learn from other nations or change or care about anything else, yes, they exist. But there exist Americans of the other kind, too. And this doesn't just apply to America, it applies to any group of humans, really.

This? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41897-2005Jan...

"Sitting makes you 40% likelier to die within 15 years than someone who sits less than 3"

Same idea with the quote on heart disease - sure, but what was the base percentage of dying within 15 years that they based the 40% off of? If that's at all high, then I'd be worried.

I'm still all for quick breaks of exercise to refresh the mind, though.

This applies to countless run-of-the-mill, crappy, casual and free games. As an example, the "energy" system makes me cringe. Instead of offering a game to pick up and play, it limits you and beckons you to come back for more later, unless you pay $5.99 now! or something.

I think the energy system in this sense is usually typical of a poor game, from what I've experienced. It would be hard to get it to work unless it was auxiliary to the game in some well-implemented sense.

No need to be a jerk and jump to conclusions...I thought I added something with that comment (apparently not!)

Certainly if one is fluent, that's a perfectly reasonable desire - I'm not, but I'm sure there's a significant amount lost in that translation process.

Gee, I hope some high school teachers take this into account - especially the ones that mean well. One of my favorite teachers in high school extensively used physics demonstrations. The AP test scores were pretty high though, so maybe his other excellence balanced that out?

Still, the confusion thing is an interesting statistic to read.

I remember reading a similar thing in a Barnes and Noble. Oh, bookstores...it was a fun read.

Rice + any meat + whatever sauce you want. Can't go wrong there. Very cheap, too...

Sell yourself, but be honest, in case someone calls your shit. The dirt selling guy is pretty honest, I don't think he was yelling.

It really does help to have good communication skills for anything, be it speaking to that interviewer, discussing costs with some sales rep, selling your product etc...maybe even being a little bit aggressive, but not in a bad way, you know?

This is AWESOME. Well, at a naive and fleeting glance it is. I'm sure it has political, environmental, etc. etc. implications. And it got the green light. I'm wondering how big the tunnel is. I would assume it would have to fit many many trains at once, I mean one or two tracks would probably be a waste...

I think part of it might have to do with the fact that a majority of people joined it for the novelty, realized what it was for, and didn't want to put the effort in to contribute anything meaningful. A good number of people in my circles seem to have just joined and said "Yay google+" and not posted a single interesting thing.

Could someone summarize this concept? I found it a little hard to follow. Is he saying that mapping what "intellectual spaces" (or something) you travel through while developing some skill may help you figure out what you could be good at or something?

I see some sort of internship process in the future for this...where they make high schoolers do this for 40 hours a week <___< . I mean, if humans do better on it, why not make it some sort of job, eh

I wonder if this will work all around, or if it has any later negative side effects. It's very interesting.

Always nice to see that friendliness can go a long way for smaller local places, that aren't necessarily restaurants.

Of course, not all dollar stores are created equal. There are some nice ones, but also "soul-less" ones that just sell complete, Toys-R-Us bargain bin junk that no one would enjoy...

Well, imagine if you will you were stalking some person you kind of know but not very well, or someone who is an ex-whatever, etc...and that info gets out, and they know. It could spell disaster. Sure, it's entirely the person's fault for stalking in the first place, but the internet enables that so...

1. This is very cool 2. This is very scary. Someone hacking me then posting the top 10? Social disaster

Well, this script/data now has the increased effect of being very socially detrimental. It would be absolutely awkward as hell if data like this came out to friends.

Well, we certainly won't have to worry about it for now. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't worry about it, of course.

It's a ways off in terms of orders of magnitude for how fast our computers now, and I don't think computers will be growing at that rate in terms of power unless new breakthroughs are found.

I wonder how the assignments will work? Will they all be automated grading (based on some sort of validated output?) If the users gets to thousands, hand-grading is out of the question...