qwertyuiop924

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ROBOT9000 and #xkcd-signal: Attacking Noise in Chat (2008)(blog.xkcd.com)
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Am I? Huh. Also, does that invalidate my point? I mean, I don't think it does, but I figured I might as well ask...
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
To be clear, I (like many of you) have poured countless hours into John Carmack's games, and stand in awe of his work. I also have considerably less capability than most HN users in programming, etc. So I may have a large pro-Carmack
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
I play my games through steam, but often buy through Humble or GOG when I can. Mind, I can't always do that (and will buy through Steam when there's a sale on), but it's insurance when I can. For really old games, I usually j
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
If I could find a good one, I just might buy it, too. My AGS-101 isn't exactly an ideal system. But then, a GBASP might be cheaper...
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Indeed: Not everybody is the kind of person who pays for Jonathan Coulton's music instead of downloading it for free.
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
C3 never ceases to surprise me. Thanks!
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
And Descent, because that's GPLed too.
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
I didn't learn this in kindergarten, but I did learn about Duff's Device in the 7th grade (as it turns out, the Jargon File makes for pretty good reading during boring classes). Never had cause to implement it, though, and never s
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
It works, all right, but they bind game logic to framerate, and then don't lock the framerate , so you have to go in and set a framrate lock or the whole thing will be unplayable.
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
I did mention that...
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
I've been reading about the gameboy's architecture and internals (in the hopes of making a game with it), and it's pretty amazing how much specialized hardware there was in earlier generations of consoles, especially compared
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Yeah. Compare this to the 90s games I've been playing: I can still take a copy of Q3A or UT from '99 and install it on my computer (although why you wouldn't use the IOQ3/UTPG patches is beyond me). Ditto for Doom and De
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
I never did the column layout, but I knew about the bit flips for control and shift from both Tom Scott's video on reading ASCII, and from reading about the Meta key.
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
I was a kid in the early 2000s, so my perspective is somewhat different to many here. I was a CP member, and played fairly religiously for a few years. It was one of the first things I got an account for on the internet. Farewell CP. We wil
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
If he was anything like me, mess about, and occaisionally build something simple.
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Not even possible. CP didn't allow for player collision, IIRC.
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
You know, I'm starting to think that multithreading may not be the best idea in an environment explicitly not designed for it, and we should be using other approaches, it the latency requirements of the application make that possible.
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
That's true. However, people were sent to concentration camps for their actions and beliefs, and we all think that's wrong...
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Okay, but then the question becomes: why use Godot over UE4?
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
I haven't gotten into Godot, but it looks interesting. At the very least, their blog is interesting. And their annual April Fools posts ( https://godotengine.org/article/godot-aims-mainstream , https://go
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Most of these are by design. Is there anybody else here who thinks that DSSSL was a nicer language than XSLT? Mind, it couldn't do most of these things either, but it was basically functional Scheme. And I'll take Scheme over... w
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
There are still a few (emulated) ITS systems running online. In particular, there's UP, which you can SUPDUP into from your home machine, and even get an account on, if you ask nicely. Also, if you're interested in fiddling with I
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Actually, as I understand it, the BSDs will now PCLSR some calls. Might be wrong though, so don't quote me.
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
>Also, I wouldn't be surprised if a reasonable bit of the exploration everyone did was motivated by the fact that they were "hacking" the platform :P Nor would I. Even at the age of 8, before I was really able to understan
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
I've heard the BBC BASIC was quite a lot better, but I've never worked in it myself...
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
This is just what we've come to expect from them at this point. I'll still complain, but I can't really work up the energy to get seriously mad about it.
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
...What dev board? The GreenArrays one?
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Yes.
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
When I used Scratch 1.4, I don't recall the UI being too bad, and it ran pretty fast: Smalltalk is pretty good at that. But I'm generally pretty good at picking up these sorts of things, and my computer wasn't particularly sl

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