ITT Post Your Random Thoughts
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There’s no such thing as a “normal” person. some people are just better at hiding their messes and conforming to societal expectations than others
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the people who don't have facebook, twitter, tumblr, instagram, tiktok or whatever
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who are completly oblivious to the internets sheer depths of stupidity
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i've encountered two games in the last few days that had that puzzle
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It's the low hanging fruit for difficult puzzles with easy rules. Also it's a fairly known problem for computer scientists when they learn about computation complexity (time and memory space). It has been proven that solving it takes exponential time with n = number of discs whereas the memory space requirement scales linearly.
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That's me, pretty much. I barely use my Twitter account, technically have an ancient Tumblr account that I made to send a question or two to some pony ask blogs back in the glory days (before I would've joined TRS ), and that's it. I am of course extremely active on Discord, but Discord's different.DaikatunaRevengeance wrote: ↑Tue May 18, 2021 7:53 amthe people who don't have facebook, twitter, tumblr, instagram, tiktok or whatever
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Started a new job. A twelve hour over night shift. Good to be working again but I needs lots of sleep for this.
If I had a bit for every time you made me feel worthless I'd be worth something by now.
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Glad you're working, sorry it's challenging. Take care of yourself.
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I think the gnome in the new Travelocity commercial is voiced by the Stanley Parable guy. It wasn't noticeable until after he went over the waterfall. I did some digging and he has done voiceovers for commercials before.
Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of...
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I brought a breakfast brisket for lunch and half a cookie fell on the floor. I'll never get that cookie back. My life is terrible forever now.
If I had a bit for every time you made me feel worthless I'd be worth something by now.
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long before star citizen roberts headed development of freelancer
he promised all kinds of shit he couldn't deliver and the game was stuck in perpetual development until they ran out of money and microsoft bought the studio
MS forced them to complete it
he promised all kinds of shit he couldn't deliver and the game was stuck in perpetual development until they ran out of money and microsoft bought the studio
MS forced them to complete it
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without MS the studio would've gone under and the game would just be forgotten instead of being released regarded well and even years later influencing other space games
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in the time star citizen hasn't been released rebel galaxy and rebel galaxy: outlaw, both inspired by freelancer, released
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my random thought is that nothing will prepare you for this
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Why can't I just be a normal person for once? Why do I ruin all the good relationships in my life? Why do I want attention so badly? Why can't I learn to be better?
If I had a bit for every time you made me feel worthless I'd be worth something by now.
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My latest brainfart:
Are people, who do not want to be displayed at Madame Tussauds, anti-waxers?
Are people, who do not want to be displayed at Madame Tussauds, anti-waxers?
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Following up on this, if I had any pull with the Unicode people, I'd ask them to add those split-in-half asterisk things that comics use to surround sound effects. (Is there a term for those?) I've only ever seen one comic lettering font include them, and it uses the { } slots for them since cartoonists have no use for those.Pocket wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 2:38 amLately I've been learning that Unicode is weird. Like, there are some accented Latin characters that virtually every font renders incorrectly because Unicode prioritized supporting similar but distinct versions that only exist in dead languages (e.g. D with a cedilla under it, which was only used in Livonian) over the ones still in common use (e.g. D with a comma under it, which is used in Romanian), so the font makers were like "screw that" and hijacked the slot. And there are dedicated character codes for the ohm symbol (which is literally an omega) and the summation symbol (which is literally a sigma) that are separate from the actual Greek alphabet set, but not one for mathematical pi (which is frustrating for me, as I'm developing a font that for stylistic reasons lacks lowercase letters—subbing in duplicates of the capitals instead for ease of use—and mathematical pi is always lowercase). There's also a whole set for including all the special characters on old computers like the Commodore 64 and the Atari ST that didn't already have equivalents elsewhere.
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i wonder when the trend started of game demos being labled "prologue"
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my estimate would be 2018 or 2019, because by 2020-21 it's already widespread
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demo is still in use, but there is a noticable uptick of games avoiding "demo" and being labeled "prologue"
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Demos are one thing as they are usually free. It's more atrocious when it costs almost as much as a full game.
Gran Turismo 4 Prologue was one of the earlier examples on how to squeeze out money from crazy gamers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Turismo_4#Prologue
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is also a hit in the face
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Gea ... und_Zeroes
Gran Turismo 4 Prologue was one of the earlier examples on how to squeeze out money from crazy gamers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Turismo_4#Prologue
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is also a hit in the face
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Gea ... und_Zeroes
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apparently the answer is:
making a "prologue" instead of a "demo" means the game will be treated as a game by steam and put on the front page and stuff making it visible
making a "prologue" instead of a "demo" means the game will be treated as a game by steam and put on the front page and stuff making it visible
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tower of hanoi is obnoxious but my least favorite puzzle lots of games liked to throw in was the darn chicken and the grain and the fox like come on let's just take them all across the river at once, put one of them on your head.
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But the boat sinks when all of them are inside!
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