1. What is your name?
My stage name is chromatic. My pen name... varies.
2. What is your quest?
Leaving the world a little more awesome today than yesterday.
3. What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
That depends on many variables. How big is the swallow? How thick is the air? What planet is this? Is there a tail wind? Is the swallow in a box of magnetic…
If you are writing an academic paper to present or develop an argument, it must have certain key elements:
This is a single, clear statement, usually expressed in a single sentence and placed at the end of your first, introductory paragraph, which answers the question presented or implied by the assignment task and presents your position on the topic. For instance if the essay title
U.S. Army Field Manual FM 21-75, "Combat Skills of the Soldier," Appendix G, p.16
Washington, DC: Department of the Army, 1984.
"PUT OUT ROUNDS!"
-Pvt. Joker,…
Classic video games were designed with extremely tight memory constraints, which means that programmers couldn't spare any lines of code for elaborate endgames that very few players would ever see. Unlike the modern style of video game, which either goes on forever -- ramping up the difficulty at constant intervals -- or presents some kind of reward to the talented player in the form of a boss battle or clever credits screen, games from the 1980s would just... end. Stop.
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