As summer deepens and the temperatures climb, the Blog Wyrm staff begins to long for some lazy days outside, around the pool, goofing off, and wasting time. As a result, we will be switching to a more laid-back schedule until early September. During our summer hiatus, only a few of our columns will be posting weekly (About Comics and Pretzel Motion). Others are taking the summer completely off (Aristotle to Digital and Common Cents) and others will be on a irregular schedule (Ball Game, Green Screen, Tidbits, and Under the Hood).
About Comics takes a long hard look at the creative method of the famous EC publication line. The process they used back in the 1950s centered around the creative output of one man – Al Feldstein. Read all about his method.
Is mandatory drug testing a good idea? Using Bayes Theorem, Aristotle to Digital shows that even in the best of circumstances, the probability of a innocent person coming under an unwarranted cloud of suspicion is pretty high.
What do cooking, rocks, Broadway plays, and Marxism all have in common? They are essential ingredients in Common Cents‘s light-hearted exploration of just how the value of a good or service should be determined.
Fighting game fans are in luck, as Pretzel Motion is posting 2 articles this week! The first provides a video example of the concept of rushdown, as demonstrated by Eddie, the infamous top-tier fighter that has reigned supreme over the Guilty Gear series since the early 2000s. The second article introduces aerial combat and explains why it’s such a huge risk compared to staying on the ground while fighting. If you’ve ever wondered why fighting game veterans tell new players not to jump, this is the article for you.
Under the Hood closes out its analysis of Lie series with a numerical analysis of the convergence of the expansion applied to the pendulum to the exact answer.
Enjoy!