background preloader

Miscellaneous

Facebook Twitter

Dvorak - A Blank-Card Game. Multiple Choice Games | Choice of Games. Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world. Sex_in_games_rezvibrator.html?repost from gamegirladvance.com. Soon after we got our Japanese Playstation2 in beautiful Ocean Blue, we went shopping for games. In the electronic wonderland of Akihabara we came across the game Rez. "Have you ever played it? " Justin asked me. "No," I replied, "it's like a music shooting game, right?

Seems sorta boring. " Ever on the media consumer, Justin insisted, "But this one comes with a trance vibrator! " Excited, we inserted our very first Japanese game into our brand new console. Tron. But god damn, the trance vibrator started thumping like crazy in time with the music. Well, what would you have done? "Oh my GOD! Justin hadn't been paying that much attention to the exact location of the vibrator, since the game is visually quite absorbing, too. Justin got the idea. We sat side my side on our makeshift couch, I with the trance vibrator and Justin with the controller. "Oh, God! " Pretty soon the levels and the images onscreen were just a faint blur to me. We drew the curtains and darkened the room. "Mmm. He smiled. Rubiks Cube Solution.

By Lars Petrus Introduction This is a tutorial for my method of solving Rubik's Cube. It is intended both for beginners and experienced cubers. There is no group theory or written notation involved, I just show you how to move. Using this method, I won the 1981 Swedish championships, and finished 4th in the 1982 world championships in Budapest. I'm very happy to provide this site as a free service to the world! Please take a look at my terminology, so you know the difference between a turn and a twist, for example. If you are a total beginner, look at this description of the basic concepts of Rubiks Cube. The animated Java cubes that are used for illustrations and examples are explained here. The Basic Idea Most people solve the cube layer by layer. In the final of the Swedish championship, 8 of 11 competitors used a vanilla layer-by-layer method. The basic problem with the layer method is a big one, and it's obvious once you realize it.

Click ► for a sample solution in 41 turns. The Method. Four Men in Hats. From Mycoted Shown above are four men buried up to their necks in the ground. They cannot move, so they can only look forward. Between A and B is a brick wall which cannot be seen through. They all know that between them they are wearing four hats--two black and two white--but they do not know what color they are wearing. Each of them know where the other three men are buried. In order to avoid being shot, one of them must call out to the executioner the color of their hat. If they get it wrong, everyone will be shot. After one minute, one of them calls out. Question: Which one of them calls out? This is not a trick question.

Perception puzzles, Visual Perception, Optical illusions and Paradoxes. This page illustrates that our visual perception cannot always be trusted. The components of an object can distort the perception of the complete object. Our mind is the final arbiter of truth. Most optical illusions are the result of 1) incongruent design elements at opposite ends of parallel lines, 2) influence of background patterns on the overall design, 3) adjustment of our perception at the boundaries of areas of high contrast, 4) afterimages resulting from eye movements or from kinetic displays, or 5) inability to interpret the spatial structure of an object from the context provided by the picture.

The Parthenon Optical illusions have been studied for millenia. The ancient Greeks used a technique known as entasis which incorporates a slight convexity in the columns of the Parthenon to compensate for the illusion of concavity created by parallel lines. Perpetually ascending staircase. The red squares are the same color in the upper part and in the lower part of the "X" Afterimage.