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game review

How To Enjoy Final Fantasy XIII

Final Fantasy XIII is not a great game. But for some reason, I really love it. I think there is a great game here. Whether you agree or not, the core part of the game that I think alone makes Final Fantasy 13 worth some of your time. The combat system.

  • Kyle
    Kyle
11 min read
littlegadget

LittleGadget Update Dec 2017

I take a look back at the progress for my channel over the last year.

  • Kyle
    Kyle
3 min read
littlegadget

What is Cohesion in Video Games?

What is cohesion in a video game? Is this a meaningless, contrived term? Or does it capture some deeper design points of video games that 'graphics' and 'level design' do not?

  • Kyle
    Kyle
6 min read
programming

502 Gateway Error running Flask/uWSGI/NGINX on Ubuntu 16.04

If you followed the DigitalOcean guide on Flask/uWSGI/nginx on Ubuntu, you might be getting a 502 error. Here is what worked for me...

  • Kyle
    Kyle
2 min read
game theory

My Problems With Game Theory (or why you really need to cite your sources)

Ok, this is going to be an ongoing document as I gather research on the topic. For those who don't know, Game Theory (not to be confused with economics or animal behaviour models)

  • Kyle
    Kyle
15 min read
littlegadget

LittleGadget Update Feb 2017

Well, it's been half a year. Figure I might as well reflect on how things have been going. What's been going on? Here is my Youtube video count score of new content in

  • Kyle
    Kyle
5 min read
littlegadget

Why is my two year old video on Metal Gear still viewed?

On August 16, 2015, I released a video about Metal Gear. Since then it has become my most viewed video, currently with 35k views, ~200 comments, and ~400 likes (and ~90 dislikes). It

  • Kyle
    Kyle
10 min read
Zelda

Breath of the Wild DLC

The ongoing saga of Season Passes continues. Nintendo announced today (Feb 14) that they plan to offer what they call an Expansion Pass at launch for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the

  • Kyle
    Kyle
2 min read
Nintendo

Nintendo Switch Toronto Preview Tour

On January 28th, I got a chance to check out the Nintendo Switch at the Preview Tour event in Toronto. It was a fantastic time, and while most of my pictures unfortunately didn't

  • Kyle
    Kyle
4 min read
Science

The Digits Behind Touch: NSERC Science, Action! 2017 contest

NSERC, a major funding agency in Canada, is holding a video contest—and I entered! It's called Science, Action! and we had to create a short 1-minute video about our research. Now I

  • Kyle
    Kyle
1 min read
littlegadget

Dark Souls and Social Interaction - Behind the Scenes Part 2

Part 1 | Conception, Research, Writing Part 2 | Voice Over and Planning Part 3 | Video Editing (coming soon) Well, It's been quite a while since the last behind-the-scenes. Three months, actually—I did that

  • Kyle
    Kyle
6 min read
Science

Berenstein-Mandela Effect Explained from the AVGN video

So the 2016 Angry Video Game Nerd Halloween episode just came out, and it was one of my favourite yet! I wasn't that big a fan of the Beavis and Butt-Head episode, but

  • Kyle
    Kyle
9 min read
white whale

A Brief Flash of Whales

Of course, just as I begin to think that the whole Whale thing was a summer-only event, in comes a new pod of whales and quotes. I still think that we won't be

  • Kyle
    Kyle
4 min read
ember.js

Markdown in an ember.js app

last updated Sept 22/16 I'm trying to build a web app for creating and organizing "cue cards" for research articles. You can find the github repo of my project here:

  • Kyle
    Kyle
3 min read
programming

A Web App for managing research paper notes

Note Apps seem to have become the "Hello World" for web app tutorials. Not sure how long it's been this way, but I think it's a good place to start for

  • Kyle
    Kyle
3 min read
McMaster

The Last of the White Whales

Things seemed to slow down, and then stop. edit: just kidding they're back. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Unfortunately I was off campus most of August and so probably missed a bunch

  • Kyle
    Kyle
4 min read
programming

Piano in CSS and HTML

When I first started working on the Digitizing Bach app, my first task was to create a Piano menu. It's been a while, but I remember this being tricky to get down. Especially

  • Kyle
    Kyle
1 min read
littlegadget

Dark Souls and Social Interaction - Behind the Scenes Part 1

This project has actually been a long time coming. Part 1 | Conception, Research, Writing Part 2 | Voice Over and Planning Part 3 | Video Editing (coming soon) The idea for a Dark Souls video

  • Kyle
    Kyle
3 min read
littlegadget

LittleGadget Production Plan 2016

It has been 5 months since my last video on my Youtube Channel, LittleGadget. I'm sad to say that, as far as the channel is concerned, I've nothing to show for that time.

  • Kyle
    Kyle
5 min read
white whale

McMaster and the White Whale (Part 2!)

This is a continuation of a previous post. You can download all the photos I've taken of these whales here. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 There is an artist that is still

  • Kyle
    Kyle
7 min read
problem

Fixing the Sony Vaio Flip's noisy fan

A few years ago I got the 14" Sony Vaio Flip 14 Laptop. It's a great laptop with a lot of functionality, perfect for work, writing notes, and drawing, and really anything

  • Kyle
    Kyle
3 min read
McMaster

Have you seen McMaster's White Whale?

Have you seen the White Whale? There is an artist going around McMaster campus lately leaving chalk drawings of a White Whale and leaving mysterious notes. This post has been continued here with

  • Kyle
    Kyle
6 min read
Science

Communicating Without Language | Dissociating mentalization and speech

One of the most unique aspects of being Human are our communicative abilities and complex languages. It is a complicated process, and such has a lot of neural dedication towards it. Through this

  • Kyle
    Kyle
4 min read
matlab

Arrays are easy.

Arrays may seem like a daunting task but fear not... that's what matlab does best. A task I've put off tackling in Python for a long long time.... All you need initially is

  • Celsia Adonis
    Celsia Adonis
< 1 min read
matlab

MatLab is Still Puzzling but not Quite as Much

I've figured out the issue of the strange ordering. Apparently, listing strings and hitting enter between them doesn't actually mean the program will continue on as if nothing happened. prompt = {'Enter A', 'Enter

  • Celsia Adonis
    Celsia Adonis
< 1 min read
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