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Back in 2010, when I was still in the midst of university, I was at a friend’s house doing some work for the University of Toronto Game Design and Development Club. I was the Vice President of the club that year, and as a member of a completely new team of executives, we had our work cut out for us in handling the responsibilities that our club demanded of us.

So we worked through the afternoon, discussing ideas and directions and plans and requirements. And then the evening hit, and we were done.

And then, my friend turns to me and asks me to try out this cool little game called Minecraft.

Someone’s finally done it!

A big congratulations to Alex Biggs, for being the first person (other than the developer) to beat Lucky Shot! You are truly a man amongst men.

Want to try your own luck? Why not give it a shot yourself? Be warned: it ain’t easy.

If you’re not new to this website, you may notice that it’s looking quite a bit different than it did a few weeks ago.

I spend a good deal of time keeping up with the latest news in the world of computer games. They’re one of my bigger interests, and they’re a big reason why I chose to major in Computer Engineering. Despite that, I don’t usually talk about topical news much in this website — it generally has too short a shelf-life to be useful. But today something came up that spurred me to break this silence — Nintendo released a trailer for the new Pokémon games.

About a year or two ago, I stumbled across an interesting question asked by a user named 32koala on Reddit’s AskScience board: “Is light made of particles, or waves?” With my quantum physics course still in recent memory, and having thoroughly enjoyed Eliezer Yudkowsky’s excellent quantum physics sequence (on which this post is heavily based), I found that the answers the commenters had given didn’t quite elaborate or clarify things enough for my liking. I asked people if they wanted a more thorough explanation, and after receiving several comments from people expressing their interest, I gave it to them. In my perennial tradition of not wanting to half-ass things, it ended up being even longer than I expected and I spent a lot of time afterwards answering questions to the best of my ability at the time. It got a reasonable amount of attention for the day, and I got comments saying that it deserved a better home than a comment buried in the depths of a Reddit thread.

It took over a year, but I’ve finally followed through that suggestion. I’ve cleaned it up slightly from its initial version, but for the most part the content is similar to the original Reddit comment.