Checks out; the Captain Toad levels in Super Mario 3D World were some of the game's best.
Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts
Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2020 8:37 pm
by Pocket
Being able to correct mid-jump, or even just choose between second-jumping at the apex or lowest allowable point to maximize height or distance respectively, is what makes double-jumps worth having. Otherwise you might as well just do what Super Mario's done from the beginning and make it so you can jump higher by holding the button down.
The worst is when "double jump" just means you get one jump you can use at any point when you're in mid-air, so you have to account for people just doing a little hop at the last second to negate fall damage. TF2's Scout has this problem; that's why they have to build hard kill triggers into bottomless pits.
Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2020 4:51 am
by RIP Syndrome
double jumps are inherently more satisfying and thus own
18 is a really good age for a cat. Longcat had a long (heh) life.
Godspeed, kitty
Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2020 7:18 pm
by Pocket
There really needs to be a word for "meme templates" that just get used as an excuse to post literally any picture and pretend it's a meme. The "Therapist: X isn't real" meme is maybe the worst offender.
Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts
Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2020 11:09 am
by Fizzbuzz
As I see it, the worst one is the "Nobody: [thing]:" template. It only serves to drag the joke out, which is something you absolutely do not want when you're trying to post something funny. There's even a subreddit for making memes funnier by cutting out parts of them and they have a rule specifically forbidding edits removing that due to it being such an easy, low-effort fix.
Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts
Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2020 11:52 am
by Deffon
The "Nobody: [thing]:" used to be pretty funny I think, but then it got misused.
Like it used to be about people annoyingly saying/doing weird stuff to others unprompted.
Then it became more about the person being unique and quirky, which is fine, but I think it would work better with "me irl" or no template at all.
It doesn't help that the format doesn't make grammatical sense (if the outburst was unprompted then everyone should be silent. If nobody was silent then someone said something).
Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2020 10:51 am
by Soft Snow
I missed a trunk coming to work. The same route I took hundreds of times coming to work. I had to turn around. Am I dying?
Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2020 8:24 pm
by Soft Snow
I have the flu and went to the doctor's to get a note to excuse me from work. They have me three days off and a covid test.
Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2020 2:50 pm
by Soft Snow
There was like 50 geese in this field and I was about to take a picture of it and some lady's dog chased them away before I could. -.-
speaking of having voted, is there a way to tell ad services that I have voted and thus campaign ads are now actively useless?
Specifically youtube. Showing me some extreme amy or ditch mitch thing will do nothing. It's too late.
Hmm, you just bought a fridge? How would you like lots more of them?
Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2020 6:43 am
by Fizzbuzz
You voted, but maybe the ads could get you to regret your vote and think that you need to tell all your friends who didn't vote early to go vote for the other guy! So warm up those eyeballs, citizen, as you've still got weeks of campaigning to endure!
Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts
Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2020 5:33 am
by Pocket
Anyone else remember those fake cardboard computers that office-furniture stores used to put on their display models? I haven't thought about them in ages, but it popped into my head just now. I wonder if anyone ever saved any of those, and if it's possible to get ahold of them. A quick search for "cardboard display computer" yielded nothing relevant. Might be a good topic to write in to LGR about.
Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts
Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2020 1:19 pm
by Soft Snow
I drinking last night and it made me like super tired. Like I fell asleep around 10 and sleep for over twelve hours. Phew.
Anyone else remember those fake cardboard computers that office-furniture stores used to put on their display models? I haven't thought about them in ages, but it popped into my head just now. I wonder if anyone ever saved any of those, and if it's possible to get ahold of them. A quick search for "cardboard display computer" yielded nothing relevant. Might be a good topic to write in to LGR about.
So much leftover work from the week spilling over into the weekend, also need to research and write up a proposal for the company hack a thon, they want me to start helping with the load of interviewing people but as the recipient of so many bad interviews being on the other side of the desk is not exactly appealing.
so much lack of motivation at the moment.
C’mon Cool Science Facts YouTube, what do you have for me?
Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts
Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2020 7:22 pm
by Madeline
this is exactly what I needed to see today
Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2020 1:44 am
by Pocket
I've seen people use vinyl records to store data before, using the same method as a data cassette. If you wrote a program for an '80s computer that just plays chiptune music, I wonder if you can achieve the same runtime as if the album had just held a recording of the music, and if so, how complex it can be before you can't anymore.
Specifically talking about vinyl here, since I figure you'd have to use a lower bitrate or add generous parity checking or something to compensate for the inevitability of nicks and pops on the groove.
Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts
Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2020 2:23 pm
by Sage
Cyberpunk 2077 coming out AND news about Dragon Age 4, all in the same few days?? I must be dreaming.
Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts
Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2020 2:47 pm
by Adiwan
That's too normal. It's a dream when "Beyond Good & Evil 2" has been released. I'm waiting for that game for 17 years.
It's my personal "Duke Nukem Forever" or "Half-Life 3".
Or... It'd be the trippiest dream if there would be a new sequel to my most beloved game series "Simon The Sorcerer" (which bombed haaaard transitioning to 3D and the sequels after that were so-so).
Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts
Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2020 3:01 pm
by SlateSlabrock
Chip Cheezum randomly mentioned during his FF7R LP that he's working on a new Saints Row, which I guess they announced by posting once about it on Twitter a while ago.
Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts
Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2021 10:14 pm
by Pocket
"Homage" is kind of a weird word. The original French pronunciation and the anglicized version are both perfectly cromulent words in the English-speaking world, and they tend to have similar but slightly distinct meanings, leaning more towards "reference" and "tribute" respectively.
Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts
Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2021 3:50 am
by Adiwan
In French it's written "hommage". I translated it to German and used its slightly different meanings to translate further to English and found those two alternatives: "obeisance" or "reverence". They don't sound as nice and noble as "homage".
It's also funny that the fantasy word "cromulent", that was introduced in a Simpsons episode, is now used as a real English word.
"Embiggen" is also used throughout the media, especially in the Ms Marvel comics.
Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts
Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2021 4:31 pm
by Pocket
I'm starting to think that satire is dumb. Like, just fundamentally. It basically all boils down to "I'm going to try to prove that Thing Bad by showing you a version of Thing that I deliberately made even worse." And what almost always happens is that people who already agreed that Thing Bad think it's brilliant and everyone else sees right through it.
If anything, my experience has been the opposite, that there's an awful lot of people who see satire criticizing the thing they like and genuinely think it's agreeing with them. I wonder if it's a product of so much online discourse being based around how you react to the news instead of the events and ideas of the news itself, or if maybe there's just a whole lot of not-great comedians out there on the Internet these days.
Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2021 9:29 am
by Orange Fluffy Sheep
people thought swift actually wanted to eat babies
Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts
Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2021 6:29 pm
by Mr. Big
Part of me chooses to believe that Lauren Faust agreeing to do the character designs in "Fighting Herd" was her way of giving the middle finger to Hasbro
Since it's implied that she left the show on a bad term
Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts
Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2021 7:32 pm
by Scuderia
Designing characters for a fighting game is a neat artistic challenge, and no traditional hand animator wants to see their style reduced to templated flash animation. Fighting Herds is her own style through and through.
and she could be getting points on the backend too, we don’t know, it’s a commercial product available on Steam
Project went from an under the table fan creation to a legit enterprise with staff, Mane 6 inc pays taxes, y’know?
Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts
Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2021 6:15 pm
by Madeline
I hope she does get some points from it, she deserves it. Especially since she ended up on DC Super Hero Girls, which often feels like a somewhat more edgy(?) take on the same ideas as pony. Although it bashes the fuck out of Hal Jordan which is highly entertaining and has Cree Sumner doing an A+ take on Eartha Kitt. Also Nicole Sullivan basically doing a less competent and less intelligent Shego as Supergirl is pretty funny
I am easily entertained, what can I say
2nd season is definitely better than the first tho.
I wish she could get her own ideas on the air but at least she’s working
Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2021 3:35 pm
by Madeline
oh good it’s the day where I resent everyone who’s delirious with happiness right now
I refer of course to it being “Zack Snyder’s Justice League” trailer day
maybe someday we’ll get a fun adaptation of DC characters that isn’t helmed by a mediocre acolyte of the already terrible and overrated Frank Miller or a disgusting abusive misogynist racist who couldn’t be left alone with a teen