Search found 52 matches

by Martin
Mon Aug 17, 2009 7:16 am
Forum: Games
Topic: Mafia Wars on Facebook
Replies: 12
Views: 3294

Re: Mafia Wars on Facebook

Ok, I got bored and started playing mafia wars on facebook. The annoying thing about this game is that I can't get a bunch of stuff without having 5 other people be part of my mafia. If you sign up for the game you get your own mafia and people you know can be in it and you can be in theirs. This g...
by Martin
Sun Aug 10, 2008 7:07 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: free games worth playing
Replies: 1
Views: 1079

Re: free games worth playing

I beat both of these years ago but just in case you missed them: Dwarf Complete zeldalike puzzlegame in flash created by japanese people but what little language there is, is in english http://flashgame.plaync.jp/dwarfcomplete.jsp Guardian of Paradise zelda-ish rpg for windows created by japanese pe...
by Martin
Tue Jun 20, 2006 8:01 am
Forum: The Vault
Topic: Google
Replies: 4
Views: 5366

Hey dude, recall Moore's law. It applies to basically all hardware. Anyone can catch up.
by Martin
Tue Jun 20, 2006 7:59 am
Forum: Bulletin Board
Topic: TV Series Boxed Sets?
Replies: 19
Views: 8349

My top nonexistent box set is Daria. Apparently licensing the pop songs is difficult (despite the fact that they're all like 10 years old now).

A cheap one is The Critic (primarily because the series was so short). Also, I haven't actually gotten it but I vote for Pete & Pete.
by Martin
Sun Feb 12, 2006 7:36 pm
Forum: The Vault
Topic: game benchmarking
Replies: 12
Views: 11186

I think how you'd want it is: for each frame, record the time it took to render it. From this, you can calculate the CDF by inverting the numbers (x := 1/x), then sort them. I guess ideally you would play the entire game this way to get an idea of the big picture. It wouldn't create too much data, a...
by Martin
Wed Jun 15, 2005 5:05 am
Forum: Bulletin Board
Topic: Mr & Mrs Smith
Replies: 8
Views: 2168

Got 62 on rottentomatoes.com and 55 on metacritic.com. Is it really that good? It'll be sad if I have to stop trusting metacritic. A movie that everybody kind of likes is not necessarily a good movie. Similarly, a movie that some people hate but other people love is loved by some people, and I migh...
by Martin
Fri Jun 10, 2005 3:38 am
Forum: The Vault
Topic: URL uniqueness
Replies: 11
Views: 7486

Longest word sounds contrived. Amazon uses something called statistically improbable phrases . I don't know what their algorithm is (it's apparently proprietary), but language log has analyzed it and doesn't like it much. Do you not have any sort of timestamp on these entries? Maybe you could go bac...
by Martin
Tue Jun 07, 2005 8:19 pm
Forum: The Vault
Topic: Linux gaming
Replies: 27
Views: 27189

To a certain extent, yes, it is true. I never crashed X while playing games, though. Nor have I locked up my box. I certainly have never caused a kernel panic under Linux. Just playing video causes the graphics card on my machine to freeze up regularly on this new machine I got and rarely on my lap...
by Martin
Fri May 06, 2005 4:48 am
Forum: Bulletin Board
Topic: Weird furniture assembly instructions
Replies: 2
Views: 1341

Re: Weird furniture assembly instructions

George wrote:This is from a bookshelf I just bought from Target.
All you need is a phillips screwdriver and a hammer. (Or whatever tools are required.)
This follows from A is A.
by Martin
Mon Apr 18, 2005 3:43 am
Forum: Links
Topic: 2005 April Links
Replies: 84
Views: 26520

VLSmooth wrote:Redefined: A Cappella Nintendo Medley ( Page with Streaming Video )
I can't believe I go to the same school as these people. At least I won't for much longer.
by Martin
Fri Apr 15, 2005 3:37 am
Forum: Bulletin Board
Topic: comparison of various automotive energy sources
Replies: 6
Views: 1806

quantus wrote:The van shuttles at the airports here are all required to be hydrogen powered from what I found out. It's kinda annoying since they now charge like $20 or $30 more :cry:
Pretty sure you mean compressed natural gas.
by Martin
Thu Apr 14, 2005 2:54 am
Forum: Links
Topic: 2005 April Links
Replies: 84
Views: 26520

by Martin
Sun Apr 10, 2005 9:50 pm
Forum: Links
Topic: 2005 April Links
Replies: 84
Views: 26520

http://www.mp3shits.com/

Officially, it's "MP3sHits.com". It's a bunch of links to MP3s, nothing noteworthy - probably shouldn't visit at work. I just liked the name.
by Martin
Sun Apr 10, 2005 9:31 pm
Forum: Bulletin Board
Topic: Sahara
Replies: 5
Views: 1655

The ship was in the desert because the Sahara was a vast river 100 years ago. Duh. Actually, the Sahara has been a desert for 4500 years . Oh, wait, sarcasm. Well, it hasn't been a desert forever, anyway. In the board game "Settlers of the Stone Age" (by the creator of Settlers of Catan), you begin...
by Martin
Wed Mar 23, 2005 7:26 am
Forum: The Vault
Topic: Linux gaming
Replies: 27
Views: 27189

Re: free software games

Free Software Games Debian sarge comes with a large selection of what I consider classic Unix-style games: great time-wasters like ... GFingerPoken ... I can't believe people still package that game. I never really finished it. Which reminds me that I've been sitting on an unfinished game for a few...
by Martin
Wed Mar 23, 2005 7:07 am
Forum: Links
Topic: 2005 March links
Replies: 58
Views: 19974

Jonathan, you may like this article about computation in a physical universe.
by Martin
Tue Mar 15, 2005 4:03 am
Forum: Links
Topic: 2005 March links
Replies: 58
Views: 19974

VLSmooth wrote:Todai: Japanese Buffet ( link )
Do you suppose that restaurant is named after Tokyo University?
by Martin
Thu Mar 10, 2005 5:30 pm
Forum: Links
Topic: 2005 March links
Replies: 58
Views: 19974

D&D players don't deserve clearance?

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles//0,734 ... 74,00.html
by Martin
Thu Feb 24, 2005 9:00 am
Forum: Links
Topic: 2005 February Links
Replies: 101
Views: 30860

Bitmap font maker: http://www.pentacom.jp/soft/ex/font/edit.html
Does not have the ability to drag-draw. Clicking builds character.
by Martin
Sat Jan 15, 2005 12:00 am
Forum: Links
Topic: 2005 January Links
Replies: 61
Views: 20337