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Tim O'Hearn

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Revisiting the Sinjid Trilogy as Adobe Flash is Discontinued

Tim December 26, 2020 Gaming No Comments
Revisiting the Sinjid Trilogy as Adobe Flash is Discontinued

I’m twenty-six years old. When I was beginning to use a computer without supervision back in 2005, Flash games were one of the most entertaining things one could find on the internet. I still remember the day that we upgraded to broadband internet. The

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Playing Videogames is a Resume-Booster?

Tim February 28, 2019 Gaming No Comments
Playing Videogames is a Resume-Booster?

Says someone who writes for the Wall Street Journal, which is a publication deserving of high praise, though my trial membership just converted to a full-priced one. The article in question is titled When a Passion for Videogames Helps Land That Job,

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Trading Strategies in Runescape in 2007 Part 3

Tim February 11, 2019 Entrepreneurship, Gaming No Comments
Trading Strategies in Runescape in 2007 Part 3

In part 1, I geeked out about what Runescape was. In part 2, I covered some of the most likely strategies for enterprising merchants. In this post, we’ll don our black hats and explore the darker side of Runescape’s markets. Wildly

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Trading Strategies in Runescape in 2007 Part 2

Tim February 10, 2019 Entrepreneurship, Gaming No Comments
Trading Strategies in Runescape in 2007 Part 2

In part 1, I provided historical context. I explained what Runescape was and why Runescape was so great in the mid-aughts. I also provided details pertaining to the machinations of the in-game economy and the player-to-player trading system. In this

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Trading Strategies in Runescape in 2007 Part 1

Tim February 6, 2019 Entrepreneurship, Gaming No Comments
Trading Strategies in Runescape in 2007 Part 1

Back in 2007, Runescape was one of the most popular games on the internet. Today, an “old school” version of the game, released in 2013, that preserves beloved late-2007 mechanics regularly has over 100,000 concurrent players. This warms my heart.      

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The End of Runescape Odds Staking

Tim August 16, 2018 Gaming No Comments
The End of Runescape Odds Staking

I haven’t seriously played Runescape in almost ten years, but one of the first posts I ever made to this blog, An Optimal Runescape Staking Build, remains the most popular article here. It was haphazardly assembled and I never had

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Blood, Sweat, and Pixels Review

Tim October 19, 2017 Books, Gaming, Weekly Review No Comments
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels Review

Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made by Jason Schreier Rating: ★★★★ Date Finished: October 19th, 2017 Reading Time: A week Note: At time of posting this here, this is my most popular

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Was Diablo 2 The Best Game Ever?

Tim October 16, 2017 Gaming No Comments
Was Diablo 2 The Best Game Ever?

I’ve regularly proclaimed Diablo 2 as the greatest video game of all time. Jason Schreier’s Blood, Sweat, and Pixels (my review here), which devotes one section to the disaster that was Diablo 3, revels in the brilliance of Diablo 2,

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Modding Command & Conquer: Generals on OSX

Tim June 17, 2016 Gaming, Technology, Tutorial 4 Comments
Modding Command & Conquer: Generals on OSX

Command & Conquer: Generals is a real-time strategy game released in 2003 on Windows. I remember playing the game at 1/6 speed on my father’s original-model Dell Inspiron laptop, never winning a match until I repurchased the game in a bundle

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An Optimal Runescape Staking Build

Tim June 9, 2016 Gaming, Technology 8 Comments
An Optimal Runescape Staking Build

September 2018 Update: Staking has changed significantly due to recent game updates. I wrote a follow-up article covering that. I will leave this unedited, though I have come to suspect I made an error in my calculations and also dislike the verbosity. If

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  • My 3 Most Worthwhile Purchases of 2020 January 6, 2021
  • Revisiting the Sinjid Trilogy as Adobe Flash is Discontinued December 26, 2020
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My Most Recent Books

Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
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Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
by William Poundstone
Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler
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Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler
by Antony C. Sutton
My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance
it was ok
My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance
by Emanuel Derman
Slaughterhouse-Five
it was amazing
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
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The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
by Benjamin Wallace
Pulphead
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Pulphead
by John Jeremiah Sullivan
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
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The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
by Taylor Larimore

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