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  • KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular

    I remember dealing with those in one of the really early versions of DirectX. Such a pain to actually use. The whole point of triangles is that if you take any 3 points they will always form a triangle. Even the degenerate case of the points being colinear doesn't really cause any problems.

    But with a quad that 4th point has to be chosen very carefully to be coplanar with the other 3.

    Yeah. Triangles are much easier since they are always in a plane. The Saturn was so oddball. It could do more graphically than a Playstation, but it didn't have very good full motion video.

  • RonTheDMRonTheDM Yes, yes Registered User regular
    The only way you have a queue is if you're playing as dps. I never waited as a healer. Or you're on the one server without exploding high population.

  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    Brie
    The only way you have a queue is if you're playing as dps. I never waited as a healer. Or you're on the one server without exploding high population.
    yeah but now you're playing as a healer

  • RonTheDMRonTheDM Yes, yes Registered User regular
    Elendil wrote: »
    yeah but now you're playing as a healer

    I enjoy it. And since I took scholar to 80 I have summoner at 80. Also, I just gather and craft and have no interest in raiding. The most combat intensive stuff I do is treasure maps.

  • PhyphorPhyphor Building Planet Busters Tasting FruitRegistered User regular

    All the consoles and home pcs prior to the 6502 cpu (roughly) just aren't any fun to play even with nostalgia. Once you get to the PET or NES or equivalent then you get some stuff which is still interesting.

    It was mostly the introduction of capable graphics chips IMO. The Atari 2600 for example was 6502 based but didn't include either a framebuffer or a sprite chip and nobody cares about 2600 games. The NES added a (quite capable for the time) sprite chip, the C64 added a bit of both and those are considered classics

  • GazingGazing In My Restless Dreams Registered User regular
    edited September 2021
    The only way you have a queue is if you're playing as dps. I never waited as a healer. Or you're on the one server without exploding high population.

    I’m sure it’s easier for healers but I’m not taking my white mage into content I haven’t done before, I’m too scared

    Also in my eternal five minute wait not even any other dps showed up in my queue, so it’s literally impossible to find anyone for it ever

    Gazing on
  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    Cheddar
    If I get the next chat we're going to do a poll.

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  • GazingGazing In My Restless Dreams Registered User regular
    edited September 2021
    If I get the next chat we're going to do a poll.

    If you don’t put an “I love Neco she is the most beautiful and best at everything” option then it’s a total failure of a poll

    Gazing on
  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    Cheddar
    Neco wrote: »

    If you don’t put an “I love Neco she is the most beautiful and best at everything” option then it’s a total failure of a poll

    we'll see what happens.

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  • GazingGazing In My Restless Dreams Registered User regular

    we'll see what happens.

    Oh and it also to win the poll

  • EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    Gruyère
    Best anime/ghibli movie or best song in Zelda (all the bangers from OOT, Majora, Link's Awakening, BOTW)

    "and the morning stars I have seen
    and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
  • RiemannLivesRiemannLives Registered User regular
    Couscous wrote: »
    I assume the Atari 2600 was like "OK, what can we use the two players, two missiles and a ball sprites that we have available at once to make something?" followed by "Hey, we can sort of reuse the sprites as long as no more than two are on the same horizontal scanline so we can do more with that?" followed by "oh god, why is this hell? Why did I choose this job?"

    The hardware for the 2600 was designed to support Pong and Combat. Anything else was a happy accident.

  • KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
    I care about some 2600 games like Pitfall, Frogger, Defender, and Berserk. When they programmed within it's limitations, it was good. The more ambitious games sucked.

  • KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
    Gremlins on the 2600 was actually good. So was Spiderman.

  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    Cheddar
    Props to Atari though even in the 80s for going with Halloween and Texas Chainsaw Massacre games. (I mean not "Atari" but whoever saw the future 40 years too early)

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    I know what I will do if I am asked to chat.

  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Chat, probably

  • kedinikkedinik Registered User regular
    Cheddar
    colinear points? pure degeneracy

  • KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
    There was a Porky's Atari game.

  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    There was also an ET atari game

    Pretty obscure fact, didn't think you'd know that.

  • GazingGazing In My Restless Dreams Registered User regular
    I might make some coffee anyone want some

  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    Cheddar
    Neco wrote: »
    I might make some coffee anyone want some

    I could go for a cup.

    No sugar, half and half, honey.

    honey

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  • KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
    The ET game was horrible. Much of the games are in a landfill.

  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    Cheddar
    Krathoon wrote: »
    The ET game was horrible. Much of the games are in a landfill.

    It amazes me when people talk about the size and scale of the US like we should be this massive population but like "na, there's just a shitton of desert people don't realize and we bury the worlds best electric car, old video games, and hookers there"

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Krathoon wrote: »
    The ET game was horrible. Much of the games are in a landfill.

    Didn't that get excavates a couple of years ago?

  • KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
    Forums need a coffee button.

  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Button needs a coffe forum

  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    Cheddar
    Krathoon wrote: »
    Forums need a coffee button.

    I still click paypal/venmo/whatever "tip jars" on youtube channels I like.

    I used to do it for webcomics back in the day.

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  • SummaryJudgmentSummaryJudgment Grab the hottest iron you can find, stride in the Tower’s front door Registered User regular
    I wikipedia'ed Porky's since I've never seen it and someone actually rendered the word it as capital-P Penis in the text and it links to a wikipedia article about the Human Penis

    the movie was the 5th highest grossing movie of 1980-whatever and made 160M on a 5M budget

    *looks out window*

  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    Cheddar
    We hosted company for a delicious brunch today and then I went for a run. Also it's raining.

  • KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular

    Didn't that get excavates a couple of years ago?

    Yes. They had a documentary.

  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    pacman-illus-150dpi.png

  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    pacmans

  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    Cheddar

    Didn't that get excavates a couple of years ago?
    Button needs a coffe forum

    someone reboot the boat. Starboard Bow has become Port Quarter.

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  • SummaryJudgmentSummaryJudgment Grab the hottest iron you can find, stride in the Tower’s front door Registered User regular
    edited September 2021
    there's a subplot about one of the gym teachers nailing the other, who howls like a dog

    The guy - Boyd Gaines- has won four Tonys and went to Juilliard

    The woman was Kim Cattrall

    What the fuck is going on

    SummaryJudgment on
  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    Cheddar
    I wikipedia'ed Porky's since I've never seen it and someone actually rendered the word it as capital-P Penis in the text and it links to a wikipedia article about the Human Penis

    the movie was the 5th highest grossing movie of 1980-whatever and made 160M on a 5M budget

    *looks out window*

    It's fucking NUTS. I can't remember if it was in response to Caddyshack or if Caddyshack was the OG, but like Bill Murray was in one of them, and one of them had a Mac and Me.

    There's shit from the 80s that will make you think The Matrix is real.

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  • KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
    Bill Murray was in Meatballs.

  • PhyphorPhyphor Building Planet Busters Tasting FruitRegistered User regular
    pacman-illus-150dpi.png

    Because all 2600 graphics were drawn by just changing registers like this there was a minimum width to any given feature, eg by the time the next instruction executed you'd be like 2 pixels ahead. So you draw by counting clock cycles and changing the output register manually after right right number of clocks elapse

  • KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
    The 80s was when they made raunchy comedies. Night Shift and Bachelor Party.

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