As someone who was a cook for 2 years & mostly cooked breakfast, but does not do that anymore this was delightful. I had no formal training and it was just sort of a sink or swim situation. It's funny how I started off cooking omelets like Adam and gradually transitioned to Traci style just because I wanted to save ingredients. Didn't even know this was a formal way to make a french omelette, I just knew I could save on ingredients & come out with a better tasting egg at the end. If I used less ingredients in the omelette that meant I could do less preparation for the day which was great.

This was a quality conversation as always.

Yeah I have no interest in this device but hearing that it's x-86 gave me a sigh of relief. All this means to me is that there will be a good amount of PC ports of PS4 games in the future.

That said the thing I was most interested in coming out of this presser was that Capcom tech demo of their new engine and Watch_Dogs gameplay trailer. Both those things were far more interesting to me than the rest of this presser.

All I get out of this article is that spoiler culture is asinine. That said, this show is probably my favourite in the last 2 years.

This build is awesome and all but as a ginger myself with the same kind of hair, I want to know how Adam keeps his awesome while working. My shit does not operate in adverse conditions like his consistently does.

This build is awesome and all but as a ginger myself with the same kind of hair, I want to know how Adam keeps his awesome while working. My shit does not operate in adverse conditions like his consistently does.

Focus on general entertainment and not games is exactly the opposite thing they should be doing.

I think I care more about batterylife.

This was a really great lecture.

@norman: @will: Just from the inefficiency of non-utility blocks I have a feeling that you're going to be constrained by inefficiency in the final game.The L'Enfant plan combining grids with diagonal wide roads seems like the most reliable design to make greenfield housing work that I can think of right now off hand. Residential fingers just seems wasteful.

@mewarmo990: The problem with addressing it is that I don't see how they can fix it. The non-utility blocks work this way to compensate for how curvy roads operate. It's not the end of the world it just means that cities will be far less efficient in this game than previously.

SimCity 5 wastes so much space. You need to learn the exact square size for non-utility blocks or else the middle section goes unused. Game generated more housing sizes in SC4 which filled in gaps. You could also shove parks in the middle. You can't in this one.

It's all because you jerks wanted curvy roads.

(I really like the interface and overall aesthetic of the game, this just really rustled my jimmies).

As I'm starting computer science courses at Uni, I'm teaching myself the static discipline to become a better programmer on recommendation of Casey Muratori. Works on the similar principles you brought up with your car from how you describe it. At times I get angry that I didn't know of the this discipline earlier in life, or at least know of it in greater detail. Then again I'm starting to think it's better that I came across it organically, kind of like you did with your car, the information seems more valuable that way. Thanks for the write up Adam.

I bought my family those smart wool socks for christmas, my mother's response is usually ecstatic to anything I get her but I could see she was disappointed. I told her we were going to stop everything until she put them on.

As soon as she put them on her face changed completely and in that moment she knew.

@WesleyFenlon: I'm someone who loved the high framerate of The Hobbit. For much of that film you're basically watching an animated film, a cartoon and I thought the high framerate made those scenes really look great. While I concede they do look a bit odd while they're talking, I would actually say the look of the dwarves is more off-putting to those settings than anything to do with the framerate. They look so weird and there are so many of them that eventually they make the normal human characters look weird because you get used to their absurdity.

That said, I'm someone who enjoyed the world building of The Similarion more than the rest of Tolkien's work so I'm probably a bit of an anomaly.

If it's the price we pay to have more parity with the consoles, then I'm willing to deal with it. Although I game at a computer desk so it's not really an issue of having to get up to go to the other room.

As enticing as this sounds, I'm going to upgrade when I upgrade my PC fully which will be around the time the consoles drop. If I upgrade my monitor at this point I'll probably need a better VGA and that would set me back a grand on top of the monitor. No thanks.

As much as I love Nintendo, I almost wish this is Dreamcast level of failure just so that we could have Mario on PC.

Something not mentioned here is the power draw, it's a good indicator that despite the internal hardware, the machine isn't ever going to blow the roof off the barn in terms of performance.