April 2007 - Posts

• Cannot ... resist ... snark ...

  WANTED! Academic joint-effort blog seeks guest authors for one month . We're Curious Erudite Learned Often dull Usually irrelevant You're Capable of stringing quite a lot of buzzwords into a paragraph Nobody anyone has heard of Overexcited Not a gamer Read More... Posted Monday, April 30, 2007 4:48 PM by Rich Bryant | 4 Comments

• Okay, sorry, that's enough

  Registration is now by invitation only. I cleared out better than 30 spambots over the last week, mostly a variety of addresses from mail.ru and 16girlshogtied.info. Neither encourages me to think that these registrants were anything other than scumware. Read More... Posted Sunday, April 29, 2007 8:27 PM by Rich Bryant | 1 Comments Filed under: Website

• A Crap Cutting Exercise.

  I'm sick of my own opinions. I'm also sick of everybody else's opinions. This blog goes entirely technical as of now. I'll do tutorials, examples, interesting snippets of code and occassional reviews. Sometimes, i may ask you for opinions on Faith 's Read More... Posted Thursday, April 26, 2007 11:00 PM by Rich Bryant | 3 Comments

• Oh crud.

  I knew using my real name would buy me trouble. See, two days per month, i lecture in AI at a local university. And now, one of my colleagues has found this blog. Hi Stuart. That's just about bearable, but if the students come across rants like this one Read More... Posted Friday, April 20, 2007 11:54 AM by Rich Bryant | 4 Comments Filed under: Life

• Richard Bartle pwns All

  Not that i needed reminding this time . There's a really great article over at Terra Nova concerning real reactions to virtual communities and events. And the discussion was equally interesting. But that, as with all good things, came to an end when it Read More... Posted Thursday, April 19, 2007 8:54 AM by Rich Bryant | 2 Comments

• Timely reminders of very smart people

  It's tempting, especially in the field of graphics, to completely ignore stuff from before 2000 or so. It's also really stupid. What we do now is just a faster version of what we did then (with the partial exception of shader language programming) - the Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 18, 2007 10:40 AM by Rich Bryant | 1 Comments Filed under: Technodrivel, Procedural Graphics

• Alexei, privyet!

  But seriously, dude, if you're not a spambot, then don't try to sign up with a *mail.ru address because i delete all of those on principle. Remember. I'm Rich Bryant and this is edgecase.net. My email address is initial + surname @ domain. If you're a Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 17, 2007 4:07 PM by Rich Bryant | 0 Comments

• The hive-mind explains Web 2.0

  Click the link and see the tag-cloud! Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 17, 2007 12:16 AM by Rich Bryant | 2 Comments Filed under: Dumb

• We need a Dangerous Dorks Act, pronto

  Serious content for a change. It has come to the attention of those at this website that there is a conspiracy to stalk the following people and ruin their careers and lives because of a dumb game. Please read. Read More... Posted Thursday, April 12, 2007 7:17 PM by Rich Bryant | 20 Comments

• Unarmed and Dangerously Unbalanced

  Time has come around again for me to do some of that funky blogosphere thing and reference other people in a pathetic attempt to seem cool and interesting. So, what can I turn my unwanted and irrelevant opinion on this week that you might bypass without Read More... Posted Thursday, April 12, 2007 11:55 AM by Rich Bryant | 5 Comments Filed under: Design, MMORPGy, Dumb

• Send me Spam!

  Please send me spam! Send loads of it! You can find the addresses to send it to on this page right here! Remember folks, if you want to be added to the Send Me Spam list, all you have to do is a) send me spam or b) attempt to register a spambot on this Read More... Posted Monday, April 09, 2007 10:14 PM by Rich Bryant | 280 Comments

• It's close, but I'm still winning

  As you may or may not remember, Steve "PlayNoEvil" Davis and I have a small bet running at the princely sum of $1US (almost enough for a mug of coffee from the machine at work, in fact) concerning which console will sell the most by January 31st 2008. Read More... Posted Monday, April 02, 2007 12:16 PM by Rich Bryant | 3 Comments Filed under: Technodrivel, XNA, Hardware