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by corysama 6y ago
I've heard an insider rumor that there was a plan years ago to make an Apple TV that would compete directly with the PS4. It was shelved because the person in charge of the App Store simply hated games and believed that music is the o
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by corysama 6y ago
Lain does seem quaint when viewed today. But, it was thrilling at the time. A frequent theme was hearing background conversations of random users traveling through the wires. The idea of a couple having a fight and breaking up over “The I
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by corysama 6y ago
Yep. The function would reboot into a new executable without disrupting what was on the screen. I don’t recall which one, but this was used by an FPS to switch between single-player vs. multi-player exes that were developed by two completel
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by corysama 6y ago
> Easy audio communication is bound to induce more audio communication. Alternatively: if you you are going to be hassled with an online meeting, get it over with quickly and with the least stress. It is very slow and stressful to fumble
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by corysama 6y ago
If you posted "I built a pixel art reverse image search for OpenGameArt" over in https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/ they'd love it.
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by corysama 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate There are thousands of video variations of that theme. Someone else here mentioned people cosplaying the characters in creepy ways. I think it started there and evolved rapidly
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by corysama 6y ago
This stuff doesn't require corporate conspiracies. Imagine being a tech-literate person in some very poor country. You discover that if you churn out Flash videos of pregnant Spiderman pulling thorns out of a kitten's paws while
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by corysama 6y ago
Advertising to kids has traditionally been profitable since the invention of cartoons. But, this is pretty much entirely poorly-managed advertising money being sucked up by content farmers. YouTube makes huge profits directing completely
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by corysama 6y ago
You’ve already experienced being dead for 13.8 billion years. And, it wasn’t so bad. Was it? Dying looks like it’s probably not going to be fun. But, I’m not worried about being dead.
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by corysama 6y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/MediaSynthesis/ has a tiny community of people playing with tools like this. A few of my favorite results: https://m.imgur.com/a/bPETAG6 https://m.imgur.co
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by corysama 6y ago
This is a follow-up to a major component of the http://vpri.org/writings.php project that created an self-contained office suite, OS and compiler suite in something like 100-200k lines of code without external dependencies.
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by corysama 6y ago
Radiance fields are basically photographs that you can move around in (within a limited box). They are especially effective in VR. But, they are huge files. NeRF is effectively AI magic compression for radiance fields.
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by corysama 6y ago
MS had a big push to completely deprecate exclusive fullscreen a couple years ago by improving borderless fullscreen to match it.
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by corysama 6y ago
When I was a kid in high school and considering a career in art, Mark Ferrari was kind enough to invite me to hang out in his home studio and chat about making art for games. Apparently he had to fight with the engineers over switching to a
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by corysama 6y ago
https://pulkomandy.tk/projects/GrafX2
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by corysama 6y ago
Agreed. The Alamo in the SF Mission has completely spoiled me and my SO. We are not interested in going out to other theaters but love going specifically to that one.
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by corysama 6y ago
Reminds me of Light Table https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ibdknox/light-table
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by corysama 6y ago
The Displaced Gamers' "Behind the Code" series does stuff like this for NES games. I don't know they exact tech they use. I think it's basically emulators with debugging features. https://www.youtube.co
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by corysama 6y ago
Thanks for the article! Over in https://www.reddit.com/r/ReverseEngineering/ there are a bunch more people who would really appreciate it if you also posted there.
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by corysama 6y ago
> VR? Crypto? Machine Learning? Generative art? Yep. Pretty much. VR done well is straight-up magical. But, being less convenient than seated distant-screen experience is keeping it fringe. I've been glancing back at this image h
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by corysama 6y ago
Waaay back in uni I was taught that eventually computing will have to go reversible because of the mentioned “von Neumann–Landauer limit”. So, your program will run each instruction forward, then again as the stack rewinds (instead of stac
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by corysama 6y ago
Well over ten years ago I read a research report that claimed many dozens of players in Quake III using a variety of techniques including replacing linear dead reckoning with a traditional AI for each player.
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by corysama 6y ago
I bet they were writing Vector Unit assembly in Excel. The VLIW design meant that you literally packed 2 assembly instructions together into a 64-bit word. Each side had it's own subset of execution units it could utilize and would h
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by corysama 6y ago
I find it fun that the essence of the PS2's Vector Unit 1 is reborn in DX12/Vulkan's "Mesh Shaders" https://www.geeks3d.com/20200519/introduction-to-mesh-shader... TLDR: Where the GPU's tr
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by corysama 6y ago
Note this is part of a series: https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/
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by corysama 6y ago
Back in the days of Visual Source Safe you could roll your system clock forward and check something and it wouldn’t go into effect for everyone else until their clocks caught up. For example, 6 months after you leave the company.
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by corysama 6y ago
Missing the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fingerworks_Touchstream_k... After drooling over the idea of this for years, I finally pulled the trigger and bought one. But, my order was cancelled because Apple had ju
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by corysama 6y ago
IIRC, this was originally going to be a commercial product, but is now supported entirely by the https://www.patreon.com/sourcetrail
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by corysama 6y ago
For C++ers, there’s ImTui https://github.com/ggerganov/imtui an ncurses backend for ImGui https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
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by corysama 6y ago
Note that this is part of a series: https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/

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