The Official Status Thread
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Status: I've done been reddit'd
Isn't Reddit just free for everybody? So you could have posted that at literally any moment?
I don't use the site, so I guess I don't know what "been reddit'd" implies.
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People are independently discussing him indirectly because they like his AI.
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If I ever go anywhere with this beyond just learning Doom's rendering algorithm, I want an engine that looks and feels like Doom but has the more advanced features from Build and Dark Forces, and with modern TCP/IP networking, scriptable events, huge worlds, and such. Maybe people would play a modern retro-style MMOFPS (Doom meets PlanetSide?).
I'm currently treating this like a puzzle. I read up just enough to have a very vague understanding of Doom's rendering but left out a lot of details to see if I could come up with something passable on my own. I'll probably have to cheat on some of it, like the flood fill algorithm for floors and ceilings, but that's a ways off. Binary space partitioning is also way over my head but modern PCs might be fast enough that it's not really needed anymore.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
When you find one, post a picture.
Of what? Krang?
I don't know why, but ok:
Ugh...make sure the current occupants plan to take that with them before you move in.
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If I ever go anywhere with this beyond just learning Doom's rendering algorithm, I want an engine that looks and feels like Doom but has the more advanced features from Build and Dark Forces, and with modern TCP/IP networking, scriptable events, huge worlds, and such. Maybe people would play a modern retro-style MMOFPS (Doom meets PlanetSide?).
At least tell me you've played Marathon.
It's free now.
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make sure the current occupants plan to take that with them before you move in.
Think about who you're talking to. He might find that a congenial roommate.
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Status****status status
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I've never played Marathon. Looks like it was a Mac game? I've never owned Apple anything before.
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Status: why do you even ask me?
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Preferred:
Remind me to get a pest control condition if I ever buy a house from you.
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Didn't install VBox, it simply said the SDK wouldn't work properly... and sure it didn't. And I have no idea how a standard Eclipse Helios install can be wrapped into a 700MB download.
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I've never played Marathon.
Shame. Possibly the most innovative FPS in history, and hardly anybody knows about it because it came out on an unpopular platform. (Unpopular for games at least; at the time it came out Mac had like a 25% market share.)
I've never owned Apple anything before.
Well fortunately, it's been ported to Windows (as part of that open source project I just linked you-- they got Bungie to release the data files even) and Xbox game store for years.
It came out a couple of years behind Doom, but it blows it away in terms of feature, story, art design, even engine efficiency. (Remember: Marathon was rendering this in 256 colors on a fucking 68020. Look up how slow that shit was.) It had networking, it had like 6 different game modes, it had that insane multiplayer map where rooms overlapped each other, it had a great story that people still talk about to this day, it had GODDAMNED BUILT-IN VOICE CHAT during network play.
You wouldn't see that level of innovation in FPS games until Tribes came out (another sadly neglected game which changed EVERYTHING.)
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(Continuing to reply to some of your less than lucid posts with an equally unintelligible picture. Because. So there!)
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unicorn! unicorn unicorn, unicorn unicorn unicorn.
unicorn, unicorn unicorn.
uni-uinicorn.
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Status: rizenfrmtheashes has arrived. A Twitch administrator. Now you will know why you fear the night.
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Wow... Bungie? 1994? Go figure those guys were around at that time. Sad that by then I have already given up on Apple... but I did play this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCkbp4wurW0
Damn I still hear those ghosts at night "ñañañañaña"
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Status: Interruption overflow today. I can handle getting interrupted during an interruption, barely, but if it nests any further than that stuff flows up, and someone will come over later this week wondering why something didn't get done. At which point I'll shove that back on them saying they should've sent it in written form (email or bug) and business will proceed as normal.
I detest verbal "Could you please file a bug for X, and fix it with highest priority" requests.
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Status: Booyah!!!
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Off
with your headto the cupcake thread with you!
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It came out a couple of years behind Doom, but it blows it away in terms of feature, story, art design, even engine efficiency. (Remember: Marathon was rendering this in 256 colors on a fucking 68020. Look up how slow that shit was.) It had networking, it had like 6 different game modes, it had that insane multiplayer map where rooms overlapped each other, it had a great story that people still talk about to this day, it had GODDAMNED BUILT-IN VOICE CHAT during network play.
What does it have that Doom, Build, and Jedi don't have? They have all that covered already, except for voice chat.
Not that I'm denying any innovation, but Doom/Build/Jedi are kind of like my holy trinity of 90's FPS game engines and I can't think of much I'd add to them.
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Off
with your headto the cupcake thread with you!https://what.thedailywtf.com/t/the-cupcake-thread-of-celebrations/3025/2580?u=abarker
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@abarker said:
Status: Booyah!!!
Doesn't seem worth all that much celebration to me.I refuse to use such lowly buttons.
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What does it have that Doom, Build, and Jedi don't have?
Play it and find out. Although I lot of it is based on how superior Marathon is AS A GAME, not just the features of its engine. (Which are also impressive.)
Look, think what you want, but if you've never played Marathon, you're not qualified to form a "holy trinity of 90's FPS game engines" because you've never tried the BEST ONE EVER.
... also Tribes came out in the 90s. So there's that.
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uni-uinicorn.
This seems like a good time to reprise the GW2 pic I took a while ago.
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Status: Trying to create a minimal image of Lubuntu for network booting usage in a secured lab. Somehow, uninstalling the BitTorrent client makes the operating system unbootable.
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Go, DF, dhrome and Alien Swarm, I believe.
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LXDE instead of Unity. The GUI is like 25438924045q8903452345236357 times faster as a result.
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Hmm. Let's see if this gets you going on Kipling...
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TIL:
Dwarf Fortress, despite having virtually no graphics, simulates individual teeth and organ tissues, as well as liquid physics and pathfinding, on a single CPU thread, and at least one of the devs has stated "Losing is fun". Every time I learn more about this game, I'm glad that I've never thought it would be a good idea to try this game.
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and at least one of the devs
It's just one guy and his brother.
Losing is fun
See, that's the best part about words. You can change them to mean whatever you want. They put that into a help file and it just exploded from there as a meme in the Dwarf Fortress community. Other memes include "!!SCIENCE!!" (which means science that is on fire) and "It was inevitable."
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#include <signal.h>
#include <wtdwtf.h>int main(int argc, char** argv) { return kill(getProcessId(@accalia), 15); }
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It's just one guy and his brother.
They put that into a help file and it just exploded from there as a meme in the Dwarf Fortress community. Other memes include "!!SCIENCE!!" (which means science that is on fire) and "It was inevitable."
TIL more things about DF that I didn't need to know. Okay, !!SCIENCE!! actually sounds like something that I needed to know. But as for the rest... well,
@Fox said:oh god why am I learning more about this game
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Status: got a promotion. I'm a business operations manager now. Second in command here.
Plus, I have an interview for a position as an actuary. Either way, I'll be making 200,000 by the end of the year.
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This feels more appropriate for One Post than this thread.
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Status:
I learned something today. Dwarf Fortress is a game which I have nearly zero desire to play.
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#include <signal.h>
#include <wtdwtf.h>int main(int argc, char** argv) { return kill(getProcessId(@accalia), 9); }
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[/bin/bash ~] $ gcc killProcess.c -Wall [/bin/bash ~] $ chmod +x a.out [/bin/bash ~] $ ./a.out [/bin/bash ~] $ ./accalia --no-yes-command &
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@Lorne_Kates said:
There's an implied 1800 degrees Fahrenheit
I leaned to far into a gas turbine exhaust once and now have a very stylish hard shell that was once a fleece coat. Apart from pretending to be a turtle it has limited applications...