Bombard me with interesting articles!

[Sjonsson]

Hello there 'peeps!

So to stay alive I recently picked up a evening job at a telephone operator as a salesman and thus I have (as all telephone salesmen do) a lot of idle time where people are not answering - and it is on this time I've started reading a lot of articles.

Your favorite article(s) of all time, no matter if it's gonzo journalism, science, occultism, game development, politics, first world problems, wars - whatever!

I just want more high-quality reading.

That said, BOMBARD ME!

Thanks!

Edit: I'll make sure to list all of them in this post too.

-=-=-=-=- List of Amazing Articles -=-=-=-=-

GAME DEVELOPMENT

• Is F2P at a Turning Point?
• If you're not in the service economy, games are not a service - Fireproof
• Making Decisions in Games Interesting (Thanks Puddy)
• The Magic Constant 0x5f3759df in Quake III's src code (Thanks Deathy)
• Realistic Level Design, Max Payne (Thanks HP)

CARD GAMES

• Mistakes? I've Made a Few, Magic the Gathering. (Thanks 0Kelvin

CULTURE

• http://www.cvltnation.com/fed-to-the-vultures-tibetan-sky-burial/
   

MOVIES

• This Dark Knight Fan Theory Redefines the Whole Damn Movie  (Thanks Deathy)

SPACE

• Earth is being protected by a 'Star Trek-style invisible shield
  
   

   http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2850566/Earth-protected-Star-Trek-style-invisible-shield-Scientists-probe-mysterious-barrier-blocking-killer-electrons.html

 

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Edited February 22, 2015 by Sjonsson

[Deathy]

I can generally suggest BBC articles, they stand for quality (imo).

But on a more game related look, have fun with this.

 

The magic constant 0x5f3759df in Quake III's src code:

http://h14s.p5r.org/2012/09/0x5f3759df.html

[Pampers]

reddit

stay out of the default subreddits, if you want more in-depth and quality

[Sjonsson]

I can generally suggest BBC articles, they stand for quality (imo).

But on a more game related look, have fun with this.

 

The magic constant 0x5f3759df in Quake III's src code:

http://h14s.p5r.org/2012/09/0x5f3759df.html

Will make sure to check that out! Never heard of that magic constant, totally gonna read dat' stuff.

 

reddit

stay out of the default subreddits, if you want more in-depth and quality

Hmm, is reddit really SFW enough? At home there's always some obnoxious stuff coming up, not often but often enough.

[Puddy]

I've come across very few design articles that actually have any applicable wisdom to offer.

 

This is one of those rare articles which actually opened my eyes quite a bit and it helped me design a clever system in one of our latest PAYDAY 2 levels. The article is about interesting decisions.

 

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/174832/the_more_you_know_making_.php?print=1

[Pampers]

 

I can generally suggest BBC articles, they stand for quality (imo).

But on a more game related look, have fun with this.

 

The magic constant 0x5f3759df in Quake III's src code:

http://h14s.p5r.org/2012/09/0x5f3759df.html

Will make sure to check that out! Never heard of that magic constant, totally gonna read dat' stuff.

 

reddit

stay out of the default subreddits, if you want more in-depth and quality

Hmm, is reddit really SFW enough? At home there's always some obnoxious stuff coming up, not often but often enough.

 

thats like asking if internet is SFW, if you search for porn you will find it, if you want to read about science you go to those subreddits

[Deathy]

http://moviepilot.com/posts/2014/11/24/this-dark-knight-rises-fan-theory-redefines-the-whole-damn-movie-2459188

[ZZZ]

http://archive.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr46

 

Mistakes in M:TG.

[Sjonsson]

Thanks for all the nice articles!

[Sentura]

You can find a lot of good stuff on ted.com as well. Not necessarily games related, but interesting inspiration nonetheless

[Deh0lise]

One essay of Bertrand Russell I really like, On Youthful Cynicism: http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/Russell/on_youthful_cynicism.html

 

You may feel like it is outdated and that it will only serve to understand the in between WWs period, but it goes beyond that. If you're into power lectures this one is quite interesting nowadays and can open your eyes.

 

And here a video suited for everybody, funny and interesting about the relations of patronage when helping third world countries: http://www.ted.com/talks/ernesto_sirolli_want_to_help_someone_shut_up_and_listen Helping others is worth and admirable, but sometimes it is done plainly wrong, this video shows the receivers point of view in those cases.

[Em']

Check out "Every Frame a Painting" :

Same for that french tv show : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfE1oQ47oqyJNzM-nFy_gjA Blow Up, wich gives you a good retrospective of well known movie, even for a non frenchspeaker

[Sentura]

pretty cool

[SuperDuperYeah]

HEYY ! 

 

Here's some stuff to occupy yer mind. Been reading a lot of stuff related to Bioshock for one of my projects and found this interesting piece of read. I knew they modified UE3 but... at this point. Makes me appreciate the work of graphics programmer: 

http://kotaku.com/the-science-behind-bioshock-infinites-beautiful-world-1537743502

 

Another thing that I'm about to read is something one of my programmer friend sent me... If you fancy tech stuff : 

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/BartlomiejWronski/20141208/226295/Atmospheric_scattering_and_volumetric_fog_algorithm__part_1.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GamasutraNews+%28Gamasutra+News%29&utm_content=FeedBurner

 

Been watching some of those while working at home: 

ID software history

 

Blizzard Retrospective

 

Enjoy men Hope that can distract you a bit.

[Sjonsson]

HEYY ! 

 

Here's some stuff to occupy yer mind.....

....

 

Enjoy men Hope that can distract you a bit.

Heey man I forgot to say thanks! THANKS!

Also here's a super cool article on Tibetian Carrion Burials!

http://www.cvltnation.com/fed-to-the-vultures-tibetan-sky-burial/