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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Madeline (?) » Tue May 18, 2021 3:52 am

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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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Tue May 18, 2021 5:37 am

i was refering to the not being online comment
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

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god i wish that was me
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Tue May 18, 2021 7:53 am

the people who don't have facebook, twitter, tumblr, instagram, tiktok or whatever
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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Tue May 18, 2021 7:54 am

who are completly oblivious to the internets sheer depths of stupidity
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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Tue May 18, 2021 7:54 am

i envy them
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Fri May 21, 2021 5:24 am

game devs really like towers of hanoi, don't they
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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Fri May 21, 2021 5:27 am

i've encountered two games in the last few days that had that puzzle
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Post by Adiwan (?) » Fri May 21, 2021 5:36 am

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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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Fri May 21, 2021 7:25 am

i cheat by looking up the solution
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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Fri May 21, 2021 7:26 am

well, the other game i wans't playing, it was a stream
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

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the people who don't have facebook, twitter, tumblr, instagram, tiktok or whatever
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 :-I), and that's it. I am of course extremely active on Discord, but Discord's different.
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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Fri May 21, 2021 8:28 am

alas on discord i am exposed to supernatural against my will :fluttersmith:
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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Fri May 21, 2021 8:28 am

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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Fri May 21, 2021 8:33 am

it's ok, i get my revenge my posting mr sausage's videos
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Post by Soft Snow (?) » Sun May 23, 2021 9:42 pm

Started a new job. A twelve hour over night shift. Good to be working again but I needs lots of sleep for this.
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Post by Mechanical Ape (?) » Sun May 23, 2021 11:01 pm

Glad you're working, sorry it's challenging. Take care of yourself.
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Pocket (?) » Mon May 24, 2021 1:31 am

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.
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Soft Snow (?) » Wed May 26, 2021 5:19 am

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.
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Post by Octavia (?) » Wed May 26, 2021 5:30 pm

Soft Snow wrote:
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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.
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It's ok to eat it off the floor if no one saw you drop it :fluttersmirk:
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Thu May 27, 2021 4:27 am

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
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Thu May 27, 2021 4:28 am

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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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Thu May 27, 2021 4:31 am

in the time star citizen hasn't been released rebel galaxy and rebel galaxy: outlaw, both inspired by freelancer, released
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Madeline (?) » Thu May 27, 2021 11:13 am



my random thought is that nothing will prepare you for this

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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Thu May 27, 2021 12:49 pm

yesssss :amazing:
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Soft Snow (?) » Thu May 27, 2021 10:12 pm

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?
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Post by Adiwan (?) » Mon May 31, 2021 3:24 am

My latest brainfart:
Are people, who do not want to be displayed at Madame Tussauds, anti-waxers?
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Post by Octavia (?) » Mon May 31, 2021 9:56 am

Adiwan wrote:
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My latest brainfart:
Are people, who do not want to be displayed at Madame Tussauds, anti-waxers?
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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Mon May 31, 2021 6:59 pm

lol
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Pocket (?) » Mon May 31, 2021 10:42 pm

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Lately 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.
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.
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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Fri Jun 11, 2021 9:44 am

i wonder when the trend started of game demos being labled "prologue"
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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Fri Jun 11, 2021 9:46 am

my estimate would be 2018 or 2019, because by 2020-21 it's already widespread
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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Fri Jun 11, 2021 9:47 am

demo is still in use, but there is a noticable uptick of games avoiding "demo" and being labeled "prologue"
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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Fri Jun 11, 2021 9:50 am

it is strange :ponder:
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Post by Adiwan (?) » Fri Jun 11, 2021 9:53 am

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
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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Sat Jun 12, 2021 7:33 pm

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
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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Sat Jun 12, 2021 7:47 pm

when it started i dunno, but it did grow into prominence by 2020
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Wed Jun 16, 2021 1:55 am

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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Post by Adiwan (?) » Wed Jun 16, 2021 2:49 am

:twonk: But the boat sinks when all of them are inside!
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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Wed Jun 16, 2021 5:17 am

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