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A Bad King posted:voxel graphics were real treats for the eyes when done right. I really liked the game... whose name instantly forgot as soo as I started typing this  the one with the portals and ugly aliens and voxels.
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laserghost posted:The Build engine is interesting not only because it was basically made by a teenager who was mostly working on his own, without much understanding how such a project should be directed, but also it was weirdly prolific in a various odd projects, like said paintball game, a duology of jingoistic war games made by a right-wing shithead, a pirate-themed FPS made by the same fuckhead, an ambitious quasi-religious game that was never finished, another duo of war games made by teenagers from Scandinavia, that was sold in stores and finally a very neat and stylish vaporwave walking simulator that used to be on Steam before the publisher got banned for scamming Valve ken silverman has one of those web pages that's straight from the 90s still up http://advsys.net/ken/
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 laserghost posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw5Ya2IdDKU I believe it was prevalent because by 1998, it was cheap to license. You could go with Quake II, for a princely $550k with id's support, or maybe even Lithtech for a couple grand and make something fun. Or, hear me out, throw Ken and Co $50 and a keg. Suddenly you're free to make Biscuit Shooter 2000AD, sold for $12 at the Kmart bin. This is an oversimplification but by '00, Build was being put into games because Ken was giving it away, I remember. Edit:Maximum PC would even review your little hobby game and trounce it for its graphics or whatnot, and we all know negative attention is still attention. A Bad King fucked around with this message at 23:04 on Jul 15, 2023 |
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Beve Stuscemi posted:do they even make tn panels anymore? you bet. either that, or there are just so many surplus panels that they're still getting into new monitors. don't discount how goddamn cheap most people are. when i started my current job about two years ago, they gave me a pair of 1080p, 27", curved, TN panel monitors and i couldn't stand it. as soon as i got a company credit card i expensed some IPS monitors. somehow, all my coworkers seem not to mind the curved TNs with abysmal pixel density and massive screendoor effect. i guess it's the modern version of your friend who kept his 21" CRT at 60Hz all the time without noticing anything was wrong.
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The_Franz posted:ken silverman has one of those web pages that's straight from the 90s still up yeah, and he posted there some very interesting projects, of which none are finished or even documented properly. he even made Build2 engine, which after all these years has found use in precisely zero games, even the tiniest hobby projects. sucks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qtmkkdND6M
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laserghost posted:yeah, and he posted there some very interesting projects, of which none are finished or even documented properly. he even made Build2 engine, which after all these years has found use in precisely zero games, even the tiniest hobby projects. sucks By the time they started talking about features for Build 2, I was just getting sad for this guy. Sector over sector support! Actual dynamic lighting! Turn sprites into 3d objects! Six degrees of freedom movement! It seems like he's just desperately hoping to make an offer for Duke3D 2 appear out of thin air.
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Volmarias posted:By the time they started talking about features for Build 2, I was just getting sad for this guy. forget duke3d, make ken's labyrinth 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JH2kezTnRg ken silverman is basically a programming one-hit-wunderkind, as after the build engine, it seems like he just sat in his parents' attic playing with experimental voxel stuff or trying to make png files a few bytes smaller. nothing that really went anywhere The_Franz fucked around with this message at 17:53 on Jul 16, 2023 |
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Meanwhile Carmack continued to be a major backbone for gamedev engines until he was snapped up to do VR. Both of them are still assholes though.
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nudgenudgetilt posted:i recently saved our office from getting a bunch of 4k 60hz monitors with built in netflix. congratulations on forcing your coworkers to use stupid pieces of low-resolution garbage I bet your coworkers are going to love you so much for it
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eschaton posted:congratulations on forcing your coworkers to use stupid pieces of low-resolution garbage yeah those extra 400 pixels really make all the difference 
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those 400 pixels could have held the cure to cancer, sargebush.
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rotor posted:those 400 pixels could have held the cure to cancer, sargebush. something to think about, rotor
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totse looking back half of that must have been an fbi "incorrect by design" op other people posted:what if I'm checking my email in emacs? turn your monitor off, sigh, and go outside
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:totse lol wikipedia says of totse "It has also been compared to shock sites such as Rotten.com, Stile Project and Something Awful."
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The_Franz posted:ken silverman has one of those web pages that's straight from the 90s still up I like that has a download for a qbasic number guessing game he wrote when he was 14 with accurate file dates.
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Carthag Tuek posted:I biked 2km home from I was 5 years old same, i used to bike around all over our small town as a 5 year old, including to and from school also me and my buddies would leave the house in the morning and just spaz around all day long biking around together without adults, doing whatever tf we wanted then come home for dinner or whatever. this was the mid 80s so not that long ago. my mum was solo and working night shift, dad long gone that just would not happen now. i think my 6 year old could actually handle it but it’s just not how kids do these days
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git apologist posted:the mid 80s so not that long ago. closing in on 40 years lol
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I still have a few books I got in the 1980s that I haven't read yet. (Although fewer than a few years ago when I noticed it and started to correct the situation.)
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git apologist posted:same, i used to bike around all over our small town as a 5 year old, including to and from school My friends and I threw leftover asphalt roofing shingles at each other at that age, because they flew like frisbees, and were sharp and painful if they hit you, so it was fun. The 80s were a different time.
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it's all relative, my dad played with his friends in a bog 20km from any houses
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Carthag Tuek posted:it's all relative, my dad played with his friends in a bog 20km from any houses lol, my mom and her siblings and friends would go into big drainage pipes by a huge retention pond when there was a dry spell and wander way down and yell at people from openings we merely biked there and didn't antagonize the local population that which is dead can never die 
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rotor posted:used old palmpilots were the rpis of their day  i found my old backups for my t|e and visor and i'm tempted to find the dock for the visor first because it runs on AAAs and i want a universal remote again. never mind the turning sideways thing
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Beeftweeter posted:i said it in the images thread and i'll say it again, the palm m series was garbage this is the rare exception to the rules that i will allow, because its true
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rotor posted:this is the rare exception to the rules that i will allow, because its true err i mean m1xx. i loved my m515 but the 505 sucked rear end. the m series is a land of (poor) contrasts
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Carthag Tuek posted:it's all relative, my dad played with his friends in a bog 20km from any houses there was one summer in about 1992 where I spent the week with everyone else in the local area hurling chunks of dried earth at each other from either side of a nearby field in some sort of team fortress type war
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Carthag Tuek posted:it's all relative, my dad played with his friends in a bog 20km from any houses is that how he met your mother?
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quick snog in the bog
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nudgenudgetilt posted:snog in the bog title of the porno remake of shrek
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Agile Vector posted:lol, my mom and her siblings and friends would go into big drainage pipes by a huge retention pond when there was a dry spell and wander way down and yell at people from openings Congrats to your mom on being the clown from IT
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Volmarias posted:The clown from IT That's what half this subforum is called at work.
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