Random side post: It matters! I started this in the middle of a game development post, and it grew a bit. This post is (more or less) about SEO, but it crosses over. One of my favourite quotes, which I have to constantly remind myself of, is: “You don’t see the world as it is, […]
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Intro BSOD (Blue Screen of Death), the infamous sight of windows crashing, perhaps taking your work with it, perhaps taking everything with it, as the crash corrupts the file allocation tables beyond repair! (This is why we do back-ups, people!) The problem with the BSOD, and Microsoft’s cryptic messages, is they can be a sod
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This post: circa 5,1250 words, estimated reading time, excluding video content: 25 minutes. Intro Speechelo makes bold claims, does it deliver? { Speechelo text to speech conversion } Firstly, while initially interested, I have not, nor am I likely to use this particular product. This is looking at their marketing, rather than their product. Secondly,
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Unity and Pixels per unit No, I don’t have the answer – yet – but I will. I’m still new to Unity and trying to get my head round this one aspect, the rest is simple, in comparison. PPU is not straight forward, at all. I wouldn’t say it’s complicated, but it is. If you
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The Lie Behind Plastic Pollution Is That We’re Responsible This posts was a reply to an article by Gizmodo, with the above title. Citing the article, it was written by Michaela Barnett, a PhD Fellow at the University of Virginia, where she researches the perceptions and politics that drive waste management solutions. In makes sombre
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Clarification While I have – on and off – played with programming for decades, have worked on Circle MUD based MMOs and have designed board games, I am not a ‘developer’, I am, as far as you are concerned, a complete and utterly clueless noob. This is not a “How to guide”, this is a
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Singularity, a working title Somewhere around 2012, I started writing a conspiracy theory novel, one set around the year 2022. Had the start, the end, some of the middle, the characters fleshed out, the research was solid, but it missed ‘something’, a spark. Might finish it one day, or not. The premise was a global
Intro I recently played a ‘free to play, pay to win’ game, liked the PvE element, hated the PvP element and quit in part because of it. As far as I’m concerned the game (Chaos and Conquest) was practically a text book check list of every possible devious and unethical psychological and marketing trick you
A word on DLC and loot boxes. Acceptable, or not? Read More »