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The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Bieeardo posted:

Pff, Hello Vader's been around for yonks.



This makes him look even more like a penis.

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Max Wilco
Jan 23, 2012

I'm just trying to go through life without looking stupid.

It's not working out too well...

I see you Doom on oscilloscope, and raise you with Quake on an oscilloscope. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMli33ornEU


Bieeardo posted:

Pff, Hello Vader's been around for yonks.



This is the first thing I thought of when I saw that Pink Vader mod, and the Hello Kitty one looks much better.

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(

Max Wilco posted:

I see you Doom on oscilloscope, and raise you with Quake on an oscilloscope. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMli33ornEU

That's cool, and so is the other oscilloscope video, but there's a slight missing link. The other one appears to be running the game, and displaying on a digital display. This one is providing the visual display as an oscilloscope readout, but the description seems to indicate the game is actually running on a separate laptop.

What I'm saying is someone needs to hook the two together so you have one oscilloscope running the game and a second oscilloscope playing the output as above.

darthbob88
Oct 13, 2011

YOSPOS

Kikas posted:

I am the inexplicable toaster on the passenger seat.
That's his alternative Doom controller, so he doesn't have to drive around to play Doom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI7tWd7B3iI

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

Reach for the moon!
The car vid is unfortunately fake but boy it sure won't be long before it's real.

Rigged Death Trap
Feb 13, 2012

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

CJacobs posted:

The car vid is unfortunately fake but boy it sure won't be long before it's real.

Considering that a lot of cars have carplay/android auto, it's probably already done.
Also considering how transparent some companies make the rest of the car's systems transparent to the infotainment (Jeep, Nissan, lookin at you) you could use the throttle and steering wheel as controllers, seeing as most new cars have both of those electric.

silentsnack
Mar 19, 2009

Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current President of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality.

Shady Amish Terror posted:

That's cool, and so is the other oscilloscope video, but there's a slight missing link. The other one appears to be running the game, and displaying on a digital display. This one is providing the visual display as an oscilloscope readout, but the description seems to indicate the game is actually running on a separate laptop.

What I'm saying is someone needs to hook the two together so you have one oscilloscope running the game and a second oscilloscope playing the output as above.

Damnit now you've got me wanting to run doom on a particle accelerator beamline. Now I know what my thesis is gonna be.

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

Not keen on keening.


Grimey Drawer

silentsnack posted:

Damnit now you've got me wanting to run doom on a particle accelerator beamline. Now I know what my thesis is gonna be.

You're going to cause a slipgate accident, you know.

Samizdata
May 14, 2007

Bieeardo posted:

You're going to cause a slipgate accident, you know.

What the hell does he care?

Archonex
May 2, 2012

MY OPINION IS SEERS OF THE THRONE PROPAGANDA IGNORE MY GNOSIS-IMPAIRED RAMBLINGS

Bieeardo posted:

You're going to cause a slipgate accident, you know.

Pretty sure people dicking about with science like this is dangerously close to how at least one of the Doom games got started.

Three months after he runs the experiment he'll re-appear with a scarred up body and a strange cube that gives him super powers.

Archonex fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Jan 6, 2018

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

Required by his programming!

ProfessorCirno posted:

The actual best mod(ding) is the modding still being done on Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, because that engine is one of the most unstable pieces of poo poo in the industry, and in fact has it's inventory (and a LOT of other stuff) hard-coded. People are making entire new areas for a game where you can never add a new inventory item ever. It's sheer, unrelenting madness. But at least it's not toxic and garbage madness.

i actually was going to hit up bloodlines again a few months ago and realized to my disappointment that the nexus mostly seemed to be skin replacers and other stupid cosmetic stuff. where is this work going on?

battlepigeon
Aug 3, 2008

Running Doom on a printer (sort of)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG8RAbWs1yo

Proletarian Mango
May 21, 2011

Coolguye posted:

i actually was going to hit up bloodlines again a few months ago and realized to my disappointment that the nexus mostly seemed to be skin replacers and other stupid cosmetic stuff. where is this work going on?

Planet-Vampire

Namely the Unofficial Patch by Wesp adds in the LA Public Library as a new map with quests and voice acting. A crazy thing about Bloodlines modding too is that new meshes cant be added, only existing ones can be duplicated and manipulated into something different, to an extent. Super dedicated people. They even hacked together their own SDK for the game to create the new level.

McSpanky
Jan 16, 2005







LMAO, nice. Though now I want a DOOM text adventure.

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(

McSpanky posted:

LMAO, nice. Though now I want a DOOM text adventure.

Except I'm pretty sure that exists? Let's see here...

Well, there's the official DOOM phone-game RPG.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJBL_dclMcA

Or DoomRL, the Doom Roguelike.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGNJ3nLn5Gc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR8NuwpHCfQ

Here we are. FOOM, the Doom Text Adventure that runs on TADS.

http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/FOOM!

Though a quick google search also turns up someone's Python project to make a Doom text adventure, apparently?

https://github.com/Sinkemlow/DoomTA

Doc Hawkins
Jun 15, 2010

Dashing? But I'm not even moving!



YAWN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNTtR6ZpUOo

Doc Hawkins
Jun 15, 2010

Dashing? But I'm not even moving!


Shady Amish Terror posted:

Except I'm pretty sure that exists? Let's see here...

Well, there's the official DOOM phone-game RPG.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJBL_dclMcA

In retrospect I'm surprised I haven't seen other projects that make Doom into a Wizardry-like; it totally fits.

Neddy Seagoon
Oct 12, 2012

"Hi Everybody!"

The FLOPPOTRON's rendition of Through Fire and Flames is worth watching too, because it starts getting... literal...

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



Archonex posted:

Three months after he runs the experiment he'll re-appear with a scarred up body and a strange cube that plays Doom.
Ftfy

Orv
May 4, 2011

It's weird how close this sounds to the actual thing because of old PC audio tech.

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

by VideoGames
Salad Prong

Orv posted:

It's weird how close this sounds to the actual thing because of old PC audio tech.

All of the devices use contain "voice coil" actuators for movements of the parts. Voice coils, as the name probably implies to you, are also widely used for moving the speaker cone on speakers that use the cone-type style.

Because of the very high similarity, if you dump an audio signal into a "voice coil" style actuator as commonly used for hard drives, floppy drives, scanners, and plotters/printers, it will actually play a sound and usually the motions activated will follow that sound. But even when it doesn't properly activate motions, the other parts of the drive will usually resonate and amplify the sound, with different sized elements in the devices tending to be best for certain frequencies.

So what he's doing with these is he's actually playing the real music through them. And he's carefully choosing to cut certain devices in and out and selectively mix the track a bit differently to achieve effects with visible moving parts. Plus they use a bunch of drives at once for increased volume, they're not all that loud on their own.


There's a bunch of guides out there for how you can build such things yourself with spare old drives and some soldering/test equipment to hand, like this one: http://afrotechmods.com/tutorials/2015/06/25/hard-drive-speakers/

Orv
May 4, 2011
themoreyouknow.gif

That's pretty awesome.

Tumblr of scotch
Mar 13, 2006

Please, don't be my neighbor.

Max Wilco posted:

I'm not familiar with Kerbal Space Program, but isn't the point of the game is to try and emulate space travel and space shuttle construction as accurately as possible? Why make a mod like that? It's not even a, "It's difficult so as to be more realistic" argument, it just sounds like it's making the game more difficult arbitrarily.
Welcome to Flowerchild. The same mod also revamped the KSP tech tree (which in the unmodded and most modded games is very open-ended) so that there is exactly one and only one "correct" progression, and if you unlock a tech in an order that Flowerchild doesn't consider acceptable, there just plain won't be enough science left to collect to unlock another and you basically have to either cheat or start over. This is made apparent nowhere.

Samizdata
May 14, 2007
OMFG, the UplinkOS mod for the old game Uplink is amazing. Yeah, it includes a new executable, but the interface enhancements (like right-clicking to activate some programs, like file deleters and a built-in notepad) makes it a whole new experience. If you still Uplink, then you need it NOW.

Scott Manley approved!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpvTUxBQXc4

(I owned it when it was originally on CD.)

(No drama I can see, and the only porn involved is faux-hacker-OS porn.)

Thefluffy
Sep 7, 2014
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1264754641 :smugdon:

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

Oh no oh god it's all true!

MLKQUOTEMACHINE
Oct 22, 2012

Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice-skate uphill

The Lone Badger posted:

This makes him look even more like a penis.

Oh great, I can't unsee it now.

Kavak
Aug 23, 2009



If someone hasn't done a Lets Play of the Hearts of Iron Fallout Mod they need to.

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

Kavak posted:

If someone hasn't done a Lets Play of the Hearts of Iron Fallout Mod they need to.

I got a copy of HoI IV from a friend of mine for Christmas that I haven't installed yet, and now I can't wait to get home to do so.

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

Oh no oh god it's all true!

Memento posted:

I got a copy of HoI IV from a friend of mine for Christmas that I haven't installed yet, and now I can't wait to get home to do so.

That's Darkest Hour, not HOI4.

Mr.Misfit
Jan 10, 2013

The time for
SkellyBones
has come!
One of the better results coming from Paradox opening up their engine to the community. Also Kaiserreich, but that already got a good LetīsPlay. Also thatīs the fallout mod for Darkest Hour, isnīt it`?

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

corn in the bible posted:

That's Darkest Hour, not HOI4.

Well I thought this might be some fun.

I'll let you know if I ever stop playing it.

Hatastrophe
Sep 28, 2007
NSFW Of course, but this has got to be one of my favorite reasons for quitting modding I've seen.

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/88709

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

Reach for the moon!


Wow, I dunno what the hell happened to this dude but he certainly gained a +1 to maturity from it somehow!

bessantj
Jul 27, 2004


Not being an edgy atheist or anything but

quote:

I also want to strengthen my relationship with Christ.

Made me laugh.

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


CJacobs posted:



Wow, I dunno what the hell happened to this dude but he certainly gained a +1 to maturity from it somehow!

God bless

CommissarMega
Nov 18, 2008

THUNDERDOME LOSER

CJacobs posted:



Wow, I dunno what the hell happened to this dude but he certainly gained a +1 to maturity from it somehow!

Yeah, for serious, this guy's actually doing something with his life, well done!

Leal
Oct 2, 2009

CJacobs posted:



Wow, I dunno what the hell happened to this dude but he certainly gained a +1 to maturity from it somehow!

:unsmith:

MLKQUOTEMACHINE
Oct 22, 2012

Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice-skate uphill

Hatastrophe posted:

NSFW Of course, but this has got to be one of my favorite reasons for quitting modding I've seen.

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/88709

Jesus saves.

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MLKQUOTEMACHINE
Oct 22, 2012

Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice-skate uphill
Tho to be honest, have you seen some of the poo poo Jesus/God has(have??) done with their creation kit?

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