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Batman: Arkham Asylum Shelf Point

Batman: Arkham Asylum is a great game.  It has made me feel like a brutal martial arts expert, a stealth-killer, an elite techno-hacker - all the things that Batman is.  To my mind, that's what a game is for: it makes you feel like you're another person, in another universe so you can experience their story. However, the game has reached a shelf-point for me.  I hate rage-quitting, but that's what it made me do.  I'm not sure if I'll go back to complete it.  I'll explain why. Two types of battle which work really well: Firstly, fighting off a mob of henchmen, with the combo and counter moves.  It makes me feel like Batman: I feel anxious to avoid being hit, I weigh up the individual opponents and choose which to take out first, I spread my attacks between multiple opponents and choose a variety of special moves to help.  I also like that it slows down time a bit when you need to counter, so you have time to realise it and press the appropriate b...

Exception when starting OpenTK application in .NET 4.0

Seriously annoying exception in WinDeviceDriver constructor because of 'transparent' code accessing 'security critical...' yada yada yada.  Turns out .Net 4.0 has some trumped up security code so Microsoft can break everything. Anyway, the workaround is this: In the AssemblyInfo.cs file of the assembly containing the offending class (OpenTK in this case), add: [ assembly: SecurityRules ( SecurityRuleSet. Level1 ) ] et voila!