Computers as IQ shredders

Instead of furthering human knowledge, many of our brightest are addicted to intellectual computer games

I have just spent the last few days programming. This took one of the days:

This is a screenshot of a working wallhack for classic Star Wars Battlefront II. I created it yesterday after getting carried away with reversing the game. It was a fun puzzle, an intellectual challenge, made more interesting by the fact that I couldn’t find any information about the internals of the game online due to its old age. It turns out that everything is stored in huge global arrays, instead of there being a pointer to a to a dynamically allocated address which points to a dynamically allocated list of pointers that each point to one dynamically allocated game entity.