Chet Faliszek on Valve Culture, why AI Constructs are Depressing, and the Larger World Behind Left 4 Dead

When the schedule is shot and a game needs to ship, programmers may employ some dirty coding tricks to get the game out the door. In an article originally published in Gamasutra sister publication Game Developer magazine earlier this year, here are nine real-life examples of just that.

on Blade Runner, the future, and paper

"Funny, you called it parallels between two movies, when in truth, you just pointed out every single required plot line for every sci-fi/fantasy story out there."

translates an English sentence to Japanese and back to English until it reaches equilibrium

Mhhh... "high quality" image enlarger

"That's not at all creepy."

"SuperF4 kills the currently selected program when you press Ctrl+Alt+F4. This is different from when you press Alt+F4. Alt+F4 only asks the currently selected program to exit, allowing it to decide for itself if it really want to"

"I have acquired 10 million expired threads from 4chan’s history. Roughly half a decade’s worth.

Why? Because it’s part of online history, a study of the human soul when untethered by identity, a way to confirm statements made years ago… any range of reasons which I could not hope to compose out of the air for you. That’s not my job. My job is to save things. And now I’ve saved this."

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"77% of IE6 users can't upgrade or change browsers because of work "