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The computers are already using governments to make decisions about you.

Don't slave for months producing easily replicable ideas in a market that is mobbed with people who replicate anything successful within days.

I had the privilege of working at IG for a few years back during the SWAT4 / FFV3R / Bioshock 1 days, when the people who made System Shock 2 were largely still there. It's sad to …

Yes. This. The real problem with Flappy Bird is that it made money and got attention without being blessed by curator types who think it shouldn't be popular. If one of the usual i…

Light Table is bigger than Jesus now.

Please insist on a better script for the next Tron movie.

Really a better title for this article would be "Simulation backs up theory that universe is a simulation". I find them very curious, the "TheUniverseIsAComputer" people. Suppose t…

Careful or you will destroy all the social app crap that makes this website profitable.

I sort of worry about that. As a userspace client Steam could never have hoped to lock out non-approved games, but as an OS it probably could. The HN commentariat probably skew pro…

Can you sideload games that aren't on Steam?

w00t, one upvote! :)

Special relevance to Lisp: this game involves procedurally-generated puzzles so that you never play the same level twice. I doubt I would have been able to pull this off the way I …

Also video-reviewed at Indie Impressions. http://indie-impressions.com/?p=1893 I hope there is a bright future for games and other multimedia in Common Lisp---Some folks maintain a…