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Deuteranopia and/or Deuteranomaly

Posted on August 6, 2010 by thinsoldier

Deuteranopia (1% of males): Lacking the medium-wavelength cones, those affected are again unable to distinguish between colors in the green-yellow-red section of the spectrum. Their neutral point is at a slightly longer wavelength, 498 nm. The deuteranope suffers the same hue … Continue reading →

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What css3 transitions can’t do

Posted on July 23, 2010 by thinsoldier

Can’t blend between an old background image and a new background image. #topnav li { background-image:url(img/navigation.png); } #topnav li:hover { background-image:url(img/navigation-hover.png); } I was expecting it to either: * fade-in the new image on top * fade-out the old image … Continue reading →

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Re: Do’s and Dont’s (rockpapershotgun)

Posted on July 10, 2010 by thinsoldier

These were my comments on 2 recent do/don’t articles at rockpapershotgun re: do’s and don’ts on rock paper shotgun These should be numbered and anchored to make it easier to refer to specific ones when we send our hate-mail to … Continue reading →

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Open World Game of My Dreams

Posted on July 9, 2010 by thinsoldier

Dream Open World Game I want a game like Just Cause 2 but with some improvements:

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Random – June 4, 2010

Posted on July 4, 2010 by thinsoldier

Over capacity Twitter is Over Capacity. [REC] > Quarantine [REC]2 > Cloverfield (in regards to the “realistic” camera technique) [REC]2 > Anything I’ve seen so far this year Seeing how they chickened out on some of the religious bits at … Continue reading →

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Steam and Refunds

Posted on June 27, 2010 by thinsoldier

All games going forward should be able to track how much time a player actually spends in-game vs. in-menu and how many times the game has crashed. Someone who’s had zero gameplay time, 4 minutes menu time, launched the game … Continue reading →

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Random Thoughts – June 19 2010

Posted on June 19, 2010 by thinsoldier

Random Thoughts – June 19 2010 I think I’m going to buy a used mitsubishi mirage. That car feels nice. A 2d side scroller of God Of War would be great. How about a sky diving or cave jumping game … Continue reading →

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HTML5 layers in Photoshop?

Posted on June 2, 2010 by thinsoldier

http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2010/06/feedback_please_html5_layers_in_photoshop.html I like it. Reasons I like this: Have you ever had a client get stuck on the fact that the text in your design just didn’t look “right” and the only way to satisfy them was to take a … Continue reading →

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Stupid OS X Folder Sorting

Posted on May 26, 2010 by thinsoldier

OS X has an annoying un-customizable default way of sorting files (files mixed with folders). This lead me to hating folders (when using OS X). That lead to just not using folders. I chose instead to use an underscore and … Continue reading →

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Universal Comment Backup

Posted on March 17, 2010 by thinsoldier

I notice more and more people posting a weekly roundup of every tweet they twat  and (like myself) every lengthy comment they left on someone else’s blog. It would be nice if every popular blogging/tweeting platform implemented some kind of … Continue reading →

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