Michael Cook’s Place

I put of the first public release of a Java simulation I’ve been working on, called Gravitoids.
Download and try it, it’s surprisingly fun to watch.

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I just finished Half-Life 2: Episode One. I enjoyed it. I thought from the reviews I remember reading that it had a vehicle sequence, I guess I’m confusing Episode One and Episode Two. It was very well done. I miss having the saw blades that you got in Ravenholm in HL2. There are a few [...]

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For various reasons, I recently got a hankering to mess with a Rubik’s Cube. Now I’ve owned them in the past, but can’t find any of them. My brother had them too, but he can’t find his. The only cube I could find was a little keychain model that is extremely hard to rotate and [...]

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I just finished playing The Simpsons Game on the 360. Overall, I enjoyed it.
Good Points
The graphics are very good, there are a few times when you could mistake some of the real-time cutscenes for animation. A few more polygons to smooth out the lines and things would work very well. A few of the large [...]

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So my mini-odyssey continues with the 360 and it continues to amaze me… in not so great ways. The demo for the next Burnout was released today. I’d like to play that. I know it will take a while to download (it’s 900MB) but I’ll wait.
But then, I’m already waiting.
You see, I had to update [...]

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