A game written in QBASIC, and no it’s nowhere like Gorilla or Nibbles. Just a 12000 line .BAS file.
Author: Aditya
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RPG in Excel
Now, that’s a really powerful Excel macro
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You can now play the full version of Arena.Xlsm!
Official Mirror: Arena.Xlsm hosted on itch.io
Download version 1.3 directly here: Arena.Xlsm
Key Features
- Random enemies: Over 2000 possible enemies with different AI abilities.
- Random items: 39 item modifiers result in over 1000 possible item combinations and attributes.
- An interesting story with 4 different endings depending on how the player has played the game.
- 8 boss encounters, each with their own tactics.
- 12 pre-programmed arenas followed by procedurally generated maps. Each play-through has its own challenges.
- 31 Spells. There are many different strategies for success.
- 20 Unique items. Unique items have special properties and can only drop from specific enemies.
- 100 Achievements.
- This is all in a Microsoft Excel workbook.
You can also access the official Arena.Xlsm wiki here: http://arenaxlsm.wikia.com/
The Arena.Xlsm photo gallery is here: http://carywalkin.wordpress.com/2013/03/24/arena-xlsm-gallery/
FAQ
What are the system requirements for this game?
Arena.Xlsm has been tested to work…View original post 368 more words
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What’s worse than in-game ads?
Ads in school targeting children:
But at least adults have some defences. As the advertising executive Alex Bogusky points out, “children are not small grownups. Their brains are fundamentally different, the big difference being that right-hemisphere brain development doesn’t really kick in until the age of 12. This is important because without the right hemisphere involved, all decisions and concepts are very black and white. If you sit with a child and watch TV commercials, you will notice how vigorously effective the messages are. ‘I want that.’ ‘Can I have that?’ ‘I need that.’ These words come out of their mouths with seemingly every message, and they mean it and they believe it and they are defenceless against it.”
via Hey advertisers, leave our defenceless kids alone | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian.
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Diluting the scientific method: Ars looks at homeopathy again
Debunking at its best for a pseudoscience that relies on “water memory”:
But if the practice of homeopathy turns water into a mechanism for helping individuals feel better via a placebo effect, then the only issue with it becomes ensuring that it doesn’t prevent people who really need medical intervention from getting it.
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Perhaps the clearest theme running through many areas of pseudoscience, however, is the attempt to make a whole that is far, far greater than the sum of its parts. Enlarging a collection of terminally flawed trivia does not somehow strengthen its scientific significance. This is especially true when many of the components of the argument don’t form a coherent whole. For example, quantum entanglement, structured water, and silica are essentially unrelated explanations, and any support for one of them makes no difference to the others. Yet somehow, presenting them all at once is supposed to make the case for water’s memory harder to dismiss.
Diluting the scientific method: Ars looks at homeopathy again | Ars Technica.
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Microsoft’s last stand?
Microsoft is desperately trying to avoid the fate they inflicted on the Mac in the 1990s with Windows 9X:
Office for iPad, launched at the same time as Windows 8/RT, would most likely have killed the market for Windows 8 and RT devices. As it was, that market was already severely diminished and below expectations. But with a viable alternative tablet, it could have been game over. And the ramifications of that decision would have impacted far more than just Windows 8/RT: The PC market could have literally collapsed, much as the video game market did in 1983. The fallout would have included PC makers going out of business/being sold, a serious and potentially permanent hit to Microsoft’s bottom line and the ouster of Steve Ballmer. I’m talking tech Armageddon here.
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Hijacking airplanes with an Android phone
So now the TSA and their ilk have more things to worry about than shoe bombers. Also, this does not make it any easier for those of us who were thinking of being able to use our smart devices on flights:
To make things even more interesting – or easier – Teso showcased an Andorid application that uses SIMON’s powers to remotely control airplanes on the move.
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Raising of Chicago – Wikipedia
One of the most interesting Civil Engineering projects:
During the 1850s and 1860s engineers carried out a piecemeal raising of the level of central Chicago. Streets, sidewalks and buildings were either built up or else physically raised up on jacks.
Raising of Chicago – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
via Quora
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The Death Star could use this
Ever wondered what would happen if a 100 meter diamond travelling at 99.99999999999999999999951% of the speed of light collided with the earth?
The momentum would be enough to knock the Earth into a different orbit—but the Earth is no more. The energy deposited is ten thousand times greater than the planet’s gravitational binding energy, and the planet is blown into an expanding cloud of plasma, with a particularly energetic streamer extending away from the far side of the impact site, out into space.
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Microsoft, Nokia and Oracle moan to EC about Google Android dominance
A case of sour grapes that one could not have imagined happening to Microsoft a decade ago. What goes around…
Microsoft, Nokia and Oracle moan to EC about Google Android dominance – IT News from V3.co.uk.
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Drunk octopus – the aftermath
In case you were wondering what happened to the drunk octopus after its fight
