Recently I've been playing through Doom 2016 again, this time on Nightmare difficulty. Perhaps I was a touch foolish to jump into the game after a few months of not playing on the hardest sane difficult, but I have been able to get very intimate with the checkpoint system, and …
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The Thoughtfulness of Windows Phone 8.1
In my previous post, I mentioned that the best phone I had ever owned was the Nokia Lumia 920. While the hardware was excellent, a large part of my fondness for the device is due to its operating system: Windows 8.1 Mobile. Windows phone is the butt of many …
read moreThe Android Problem
I have a somewhat mixed history with smartphones. Initially, I didn't see the point in them at all and stuck with my flip-phone until sometime around 2011, my hesitation being mostly due to power concerns and not wanting my GPS, phone, calendar, and audio player running out of battery all …
read moreGeForce Experience
The NVidia vs. AMD competition is less of a debate, and more of a fact of life at this point. AMD will continue to play second fiddle and make better value graphics cards, but if you value performance over all else you will always buy NVidia. This unchanging market has …
read moreFixing Vim Color Errors in Tmux
As it is for many, tmux is an irreplaceable part of my workflow, however, anyone who has a 256color color scheme in vim is familiar with this picture:
Thankfully, this is easily fixed with a simple modification to your vimrc.
I'm not exactly sure why the following snippet fixes this …
read moreMaking Smarter Ads
Advertisements make the world wide web as we know it possible. This is a truth that most don't like to hear, however, don't mistake this sentiment as judgement for using an ad-blocker. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to use one, ranging from protecting your system from malicious code, to …
read moreYouTube Heroes
I'll admit this is low-hanging fruit, but, this needs to be said: YouTube Heroes is proof that YouTube both doesn't understand and can act without fear of failure due to it's position in the market. I may not be a content creator, but I spend a lot of time on …
read moreBalancing Snipers in Video Games
Ah sniping, The most romanticised form of gunplay in many videogames. I can certainly understand the allure, sitting back, stalking your prey, deciding who to take out in a single, well-placed, shot. Good snipers are respected and feared, picking of priority targets, and making the enemy team fear poking their …
read moreEffectively Editing Markdown Files in Vim
Writing markdown is not like writing code, or even HTML at times. Markdown is almost exclusively plain English and has very few tags and very little syntax, unlike HTML and all other programming languages. This puts Markdown in a very strange place, since it cannot be edited effectively in a …
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