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The Week In Games: Sure, More Werewolves!
15.2.2021
WolfTeam: Classic is coming to Steam, to let others and myself relive the bygone era of free-to-play PC shooters like Combat Arms. Read more
I Killed A Very Big Deer In Valheim, And It Was Metal As Hell
12.2.2021
My time with Valheim so far can be summed up thusly: I killed a fuckton of deer. They screamed in fear and died in agony. It made me sad. Then I killed the biggest, meanest deer ever conceived, and it was metal as hell.Read more
World’s Largest Hedge Fund Bridgewater Has Crypto Plans — Founder Ray Dalio Calls Bitcoin ‘One Hell of an Invention’
31.1.2021
The founder and chief investment officer of Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund firm, has clarified his view on bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Ray Dalio also reveals that he and his colleagues at Bridgewater “are intently focusing on alternative storehold of wealth...
Ray Dalio does 180 on Bitcoin, calls it ‘one hell of an invention’
28.1.2021
The founder of Bridgewater Associates admits Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies could be a viable hedge against inflation
Why secure data tokenization should scare the hell out of Big Data
21.1.2021
With secure data tokenization, we will see a mass migration of both applications and users from existing power infrastructures to blockchain
Controlling Mario Kart And Smash Bros. With An Exercise Bike Looks Like Fun/Hell
15.1.2021
Look, man, I get the idea here, but I am playing video games to not exercise, not to exercise.Read more
Hades Is Life
11.1.2021
While playing through Supergiant Games’ Hades I kept asking myself, why is this game so freaking good?Read more
Would You Put These Bizarre Funko Pops on Your Shelf?
5.1.2021
As someone who doesn’t pay any attention to Funko Pops, I’m always a little concerned by the staggering amount of products the company has. The seemingly infinite line of collectibles spans multiple decades of media, turning some of our favorite nerd properties into plastic figures with oversized...
What to Do If You've Let Your Animal Crossing Island Go to Hell
29.12.2020
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is one of the games that saved our sanity in 2020, but not everyone plays it every day. Maybe you found something else to play on your Switch or just got tired of the daily grind—and that’s okay! But you may notice your island looks a bit different when you come...
Goals For 2021
29.12.2020
Every year I write a blog post about my goals for the year but I won’t pretend this year’s post is the same. I mean how the hell do I create realistic goals knowing what 2020 was and what 2021 inherits?! Pandemic, drastic political churn, social unrest…and none of that is related...
Cyberpunk 2077 On Ultra Low Settings Looks Like Pixel Hell
17.12.2020
Continuing the fine work he’s done on previous games like The Witcher 3, the LowSpecGamer has picked up Cyberpunk, dropped all the settings to low and then gone further, poking around in the game’s code to turn one of the year’s most visually demanding titles into a blurry shitstain.Read more
Hell Yes! CSS!
15.12.2020
Speaking of cool CSS stuff you can buy, Julia Evans’ zine Hell Yes! CSS! is hot off the presses. A “zine” being 28 pages of “short, informative, and fun comics which will quickly teach you something useful.” Some parts of it are like cheat sheets. Some parts of it...
What The Hell Is Going On In That Mass Effect Trailer?
11.12.2020
I have not been able to stop thinking about the Mass Effect trailer from last night’s Game Awards. After the seemingly definitive end of the Shepard trilogy and the personally unsatisfying Mass Effect: Andromeda, I had given up hope that BioWare could create a new Mass Effect game that I could...
Making Battle For Middle Earth Sounded Terrible
9.12.2020
If you think the conditions developers are working under now are bad, imagine what they were like 16 years ago. Actually, don’t imagine it, you could just read this account of what it was like making the classic Battle For Middle Earth instead.Read more
WoW’s Revendreth Makes Me Question If Bad People Deserve To Go To Hell
7.12.2020
I really didn’t want to have to think about my country’s carceral state while playing a video game and yet, while strolling through Revendreth, learning about its vampiric venthyr denizens and where they fit into the bureaucracy of Death that is the Shadowlands, my mind couldn’t help but make...
2020 Year in Review
4.12.2020
Looking back on an entire year of one’s professional life is difficult, but when you consider everything that 2020 threw at us, where the hell do you even start? Forget just surviving the professional aspect of 2020, we all deserve a medal, both literally and figuratively, for surviving...
Why one Bitcoin analyst expects sudden 'hell's candle' plunge to $11.3K
27.10.2020
An abrupt U-turn in liquidity is apt to take the Bitcoin spot price almost $2,000 lower, on-chain analyst Cole Garner predicts
Exploring Hell: NASA hledala ideální design roveru pro výzkum Venuše
6.8.2020
NASA představila vítěze soutěže „Exploring Hell“, jejíž účastníci navrhovali design roveru pro průzkum planety Venuše. Informoval o tom server Popular Mechanics.
Nutno dodat, že název této soutěže byl velmi výstižný – Venuše je nejteplejší planetou ve Sluneční soustavě a prší tam kyselina sírová.
Modern CSS Solutions for Old CSS Problems
11.5.2020
This is a hell of a series by Stephanie Eckles. It’s a real pleasure watching CSS evolve and solve problems in clear and elegant ways.
Just today I ran across this little jab at CSS in a StackOverflow answer from 2013.
This particular jab was about CSS lacking a way to pause between...
A Book Apart Turning 10
30.4.2020
Early congratulations, A Book Apart! That’s a hell of a milestone. I’m quite sure I’ve read more A Book Apart books than any other tech book publisher.
Katel LeDu runs the ship over there, and she’s given me very special pack of discount codes that will get you my book...