It’s laden with AI bugs. In addition to that, Sims 3 diverges from the core gameplay of Sims 1 and 2 pretty substantially. I’d watch some videos and read some pretty rigorous reviews before reaching for the wallet.
In short, it plays a lot more like Harvst Moon/Animal Crossing than like an actual simulator. This is [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Don’t buy Sims 3 yet.
“My XML Data is Dissapearing After URLLoader Completes”
This is a problem I ran into frequently when I started getting into higher end Actionscript 3 programming. The asynchronous event model of AS3 is not particularly compatible with the sort of pristine coding standards one might be used to if coming from a background in .NET or some similar language where data requests and [...]
A brief note on jQuery/Scriptaculous compatability.
If you commonly find yourself using, or rather wanting to use jQuery and other libraries like Scriptaculous simultaneously, but encounter problems due to their warring over the $ variable space, the solution is simple.
The easiest route to take, I find, is to let Scriptaculous win the battle over the dollar sign. I am not as [...]
A long time coming.
I’ve been wanting this domain name since 2004. Whoever had it last was certainly not using it. Since then I’ve been getting by on .NET’s and silly domain hacks. But now, the big stick is mine. There’s a powerful psychological component in having the .COM you’ve always wanted. It’s not like they grow on trees. [...]