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dynamics is the study of the effects of forces on the motion of objects [moving pictures]

“TIS-100” Journal

Here’s a series of posts about my solutions for puzzles in the parallel architecture assembly code game TIS-100 by Zachtronics. This isn’t a walkthrough: there are surely better places you can go for help than here. And it’s certainly not me showing off how I’m the best programmer alive: most of these are just the […]

Best video game songs of 2015

Every year I usually have a reasonably strong preference for my favorite soundtrack from a video game that came out that year, but that wasn’t really the case for 2015. So instead, here’s a list of the five songs I’ve probably listened to the most from games released in 2015.

Obtuseness: “The Legend of Legacy” and “L-ZONE”

I played through the demo of The Legend of Legacy for the 3DS. It was fun, but I probably won’t pick up the game. The thing I’ve been thinking about the most is how obtuse the game is. I don’t mean its systems, although those are also opaque: skill awakening is never explained, elemental effects […]

“The Deep Shell Well”

I wrote almost all of this piece in late 2010, right after I finished playing Super Mario Galaxy 2. I never quite finished it, though, and soon it found its way into a folder, which eventually was put into another folder, which thereafter was dropped into some other folder inside a folder. This is not […]

Solatorobo: Red the Hunter

Quickish thoughts: Solatorobo: Red the Hunter is a decent enough game, but not quite good enough to make me want to run through a New Game + any time soon. I guess I’d lightly recommend it? The game is very pretty and charming. Those are the only unqualified compliments I can pay it, so I’ll […]

999

I just finished Nine Hours Nine Persons Nine Doors (999), a Nintendo DS game by CHUNSOFT. It’s an intriguing little gem, one which probably isn’t quite like anything you’ve played before. I don’t really feel like writing a tome about it, but it deserves a few words at least. 999 uses restarting after a game […]

Christopher Nolan & JRPGs

Here’s a trailer for the film Inception, directed by Christopher Nolan and set to be released on July 16, 2010. It’s short, so feel free to watch it all if you want to, but the specific scene I’d like to bring your attention to starts at 0:42.

LOVE SQUIDS

I recently got on a kick of old educational games: The Learning Company‘s Super Solvers series, MECC‘s DinoPark Tycoon, etc. One game I started playing is Sierra‘s The Island of Dr. Brain, the only of the four Sierra-developed Dr. Brain titles that I never played while growing up. The first two games in the series, […]

Observation while briefly watching a censored version of The Longest Yard (2005 remake)

Words that you cannot say on TNT: “shit” (including but not limited to the derivation “bullshit”) “goddamn” Words that you can say on TNT: “nigger” Now, I’m not going to say that this is related to the fact that TNT is headquartered in Georgia, but [redacted]

nostrangerstolove.java

Submission to the practice problem of the 17th Annual University of Evansville High School Programming Contest: