mindbleach @ mindbleach @sh.itjust.works

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Yeah sometimes that neuron hasn't fired in a while.

There's an Ahoy video about tracker music, and when it played the first three notes of "Foregone Destruction," that fucker released aaall the good chemicals.

Wackiki Wabbit. Set on Humuhumunukunukuapua'a'a'a Island.

We had the second Care Bears movie on the same VHS tape as A Wish For Wings That Work, the Bloom County adaptation briefly featuring Robin Williams as "Sudy Nim."

Dark Heart might've been a bisexual awakening.

Bill Hicks was right.

It was fine, if it ran.

Windows XP wasn't even secure and reliable, at the time. At this point it's indistinguishable from keeping Windows 95 on a full tower from Gateway because nothing else supports your vintage scanner. You're one step from the tech-priests waving incense as a ritual against crashing.

Yeah, adoption's not a feature you can design.

The general idea may show up in any extensible format. Like a PNG encoder that only does Sub filter can encounter each pixel once.

... wait, PNG filtering is byte-level? It doesn't change with bit depth? Christ.

Minecraft but better
Minecraft but not Java

Cautionary tales demonstrated by Minecraft itself.

Possibly the final version. Quite Okay Imaging (QOI) achieved similar compression with none of the complexity. Lossy + difference = lossless formats are surely the better option where performance is not crucial. Even the fact they fffucking finally made APNG official is decades late to replace GIF, since several image formats are now literally video formats.

The future is webp. And telling software patents to burn in hell.

Lady Marshmallow travels like a Wooloo.

To include standing there, menacingly.

Dead skin mask capitalism.

Would we say a megahertz-pulsed laser fires a million rounds per minute?

Because if that drum is full of bullets it has less staying power than Juicy Fruit gum.

Less "electric rifle," more "optical flamethrower."

Or you could eat vegetables.

A game with that title shipped. I don't think it was, in any sense, the same project. Not even as a ship-of-Theseus situation. A different studio started from scratch.

Moreover: changes that big go in the next game.

If you decide to roll your own engine, from the start... awesome. Especially when content-creation tools aren't a huge deal, like if your game world is procedurally generated. Understand your scope, steal freely from existing libraries, avoid wasting your artists' time.

If you try to switch engines mid-development, you are fucked. John Romero couldn't make that shit work, just going from Quake to Quake II. Daikatana could have shipped before Half-Life and only missed colored lighting. Instead it's a cautionary tale. Duke Nukem Forever didn't even ship. They had a nearly-complete game, several times, but threw those out and started over.

You don't have to throw anything out, to start a new project from scratch. Ship the damn game. Put different tech in the next one. If you don't ship, there won't be a next one.

"Achoo!"

"Gesundheit."

Troll harder.

It's not a coincidence. I know DN2 began with a talk-show cutscene promoting his book, Why I'm So Great. It's a narrative self-awareness where the character is not in on the joke. DNF referenced that, but really whiffed on the tone.

The oft-forgotten origin of the character is as a beeftank dipshit who nevertheless does save the Earth. DN3D's immutable extension of that was crass humor and lurid sensibilities - but that doesn't require manosphere bigots would celebrate the end result. Duke, the character, can be just as intolerant of any human fuckboy who disrespects "our chicks."