Vintor @ Vintor @lemm.ee

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Wow, there is so much misinformation in this thread... I'm not going to include references for the following statements, but just as a couple of pointers for further research:

• Pong came out in 1972, not 1978.
• Hunt the Wumpus was created in 1973, after Pong.
• There is no "the first video game" as it is almost impossible to find the definitive first example. Turing had written a chess algorithm before there even was a computer that could run it.
• Tennis for Two was not the first video game, whichever way you see it: there were several graphical games for the Whirlwind project that came out at least 3-4 years before TfT.
• Tennis for Two was also not Pong's precursor. That would be Computer Space, which came out in 1971, a year before Pong, and was created by the creator of Pong, Nolan Bushnell. (Edit: yes, well, it was a precursor, but not "the precursor to Pong".)

I'm not blaming anyone here: it is very hard to keep up with new research at the moment. Many things people thought were true even one or two years ago might quickly be superseded by current findings. But please don't just quote things from memory when trying to correct statements.

Incidentally, the first rage quit did have something to do with Pong: There is a fantastic video of Ralph Baer, the creator of the Brown Box and therefore the spiritual predecessor to Pong, rage quitting in 1969 at a demonstration he had organised himself.

I've found that the easiest and most effective way to backup is with an rsync cron job. It's super easy to setup (I had no prior experience with either rsync or cron and it took me 10 minutes) and to configure. The only drawback is that it doesn't create differential backups, but the full task takes less than a minute every day so I don't consider that a problem. But do note that I only backup my home folder, not the full system.

For reference, this is the full line I use: sync -rau --delete --exclude-from='/home/

<myusername>

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".rsync-exclude" is a file that lists all files and directories I don't want to backup, such as temp or cache folders.

(Edit: two stupid errors.)

For me, the best part of Below Zero by far was seeing it grow and change over its development cycle. One day I would discover a new feature and then a week later it would be much more polished, and another two weeks later it would have moved to a different place and be revised again.

That was a once in a lifetime experience, too, and to me it was much more fun than the finished game. I'm glad I did it this way, and I hope it will be a similar experience with Subnautica 2. But of course I can see that there's a good chance it will just be an unfinished game with lots of spoilers.

I'd say Halo should have a Haloween event.

I don't think "weasel words" is the right term here.

You own the GOG games like you own a book you bought, and like you don't own a DRM-crippled book, even though you might be entitled to read it under certain circumstances. The difference between downloading an installer and downloading a game on Steam is, the installer will continue to work even if GOG folds or decides they don't like you anymore. But if Steam blocks your account, all the games you bought are gone, and Steam is fully in the right to do so since you don't own their games.

Well, we do distinguish between land shield toads and water shield toads.