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Here's a quick summary for anyone who is not familiar with the Mass Effect series. Mass Effect is a 3 part RPG shooter series of blockbuster video games developed by Bioware, which…

Great site. But if you're interested in roguelikes I'd suggest starting with Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup instead ( http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/ ). Nethack's really showing its …

A lot. Much of it isn't really relevant to beginners, but here's a quick list off the top of my head. Maybe broken wasn't the right word, these are just general problems with the g…

I would try playing Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup instead. It's another roguelike that is heavily inspired by nethack but is more modern and more beginner friendly. I love nethack (I'v…

I don't think that's true. There's 51 volumes of 400-450 pages, or ~23,000 pages. Let's say you can read half a page a minute, or 7.5 pages per day (at 15 minutes of reading per da…

Anything from framework features, editors, technologies, hosting, deployment, standards, conventions, whatever. What are the biggest obstacles preventing you from easily writing mo…

Yeah, the same thing happened to me a couple of years ago and at the time I thought I was the coolest guy on the planet when I recovered most of my data. I had accidentally deleted…

The counter is a large image with every possible score ( http://ndruger.lolipop.jp//hatena/20110429/css_game/images/c... ). Initially only the top of the image is shown, but as the…

Clearly any semi-decent programmer can mentally translate 5 * 60 * 1000 into 5 minutes. So what? This is nonetheless a more intuitive and less error prone way to write times. This …

Here are mine (minus the silly time wasting ones): art, askscience, books, buddhism, cfb, coding (it's dead these days though), cooking, fitness, frugal, listentothis, lgbt, longte…

This happens every bundle. Most people in my experience have concluded that 1. Linux users having fewer games to choose from so they are willing to pay more for whatever games do c…

That would be difficult to implement in javascript, I think. Once you zoom in far enough using a float/double doesn't give you enough precision to calculate each pixel accurately. …

These sorts of questions are a popularity contest. Books aren't upvoted based on how influential they are, but based on how many voters have read and liked them. So _because_ it is…

Adelle Beatty?

Here's a direct link to geohot's blog posting: http://geohotgotsued.blogspot.com/2011/02/first-round-of-don...

What maps are you referring to? They've tweaked the map pool a little bit (Shakura's Plateau is not bad) but I still see the same complaints people have been making. The GSL is thi…

I'm not the parent, but lots of people complain that the SC2 maps are too small. You can quickly get to your opponents base on small maps which making early agression powerful, res…

Nope, maybe the domain name "socialcam" triggered it

onomatopoeic -> alliterative? I don't think anything makes a sound like "pizza profitable" :)

If done deliberately, could this be a useful feature so that users can typo a password (say levenshtein distance <= 1 or 2) and still login? Obviously the major downside is that yo…

It's probably requesting "tabs" permissions. The Chrome security permissions aren't fine grained enough so often you need to request permission for a lot more than you actually nee…

> Also, it does this with a high learning curve and without using any kind of reward schedule mechanics that are in vogue now. The game has a reward schedule in the form of hard to…