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quote:What was "Turtle" in the options for that game?
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From memory it was game speed.
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Mar 23, 2019 21:30
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END ME SCOOB posted:From memory it was game speed. Yeah a lot of old games just tied game speed directly to processor speed so if your PC was too fast the game was unplayable. In-game speed settings would allow you to just insert sleep(some number of cycles) commands to artificially slow things down.
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Mar 23, 2019 22:02
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The Cheshire Cat posted:Yeah a lot of old games just tied game speed directly to processor speed so if your PC was too fast the game was unplayable. In-game speed settings would allow you to just insert sleep(some number of cycles) commands to artificially slow things down. I think they just ended up liking giving people the option of making the game slower, because Jazz still had it years later.
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Mar 24, 2019 00:55
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Slo-mo owned in Goldeneye 007 and Perfect Dark so maybe they were on to something.
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Mar 24, 2019 01:09
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The Cheshire Cat posted:Yeah a lot of old games just tied game speed directly to processor speed so if your PC was too fast the game was unplayable. In-game speed settings would allow you to just insert sleep(some number of cycles) commands to artificially slow things down.
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Mar 24, 2019 01:57
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Back in the early 90s every pc game had a slow-mo button
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Mar 24, 2019 04:26
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Flannelette posted:Back in the early 90s every pc game had a slow-mo button The funny thing about that is that the name is really misleading. You turned turbo ON when you wanted things to slow down. A lot of people left it on all the time because it made their PC faster, right?
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Mar 24, 2019 04:56
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The Cheshire Cat posted:The funny thing about that is that the name is really misleading. You turned turbo ON when you wanted things to slow down. A lot of people left it on all the time because it made their PC faster, right?
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Mar 24, 2019 05:31
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Threep posted:Actually there were just no hard rules about what the light was indicating so on some PCs it would mean slow, on some it would mean fast And some it meant nothing.
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Mar 24, 2019 06:57
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The old "bypass half the ram chip in the budget model" trick, I see
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Mar 24, 2019 09:22
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Ghost Leviathan posted:And some it meant nothing. True story in America at least, the “close door” button in elevators often isn’t wired up to anything. This is not true for every part of the world, however.
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Mar 24, 2019 14:52
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Be Depressive posted:True story in America at least, the “close door” button in elevators often isn’t wired up to anything. This is not true for every part of the world, however. It does seem to have an effect here in Australia, I get the feeling it maybe disconnected in particularly busy buildings with not enough lifts.
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Mar 24, 2019 15:53
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Same with most crosswalk buttons in major cities.
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Mar 24, 2019 17:43
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 I just noticed this on GOG: "Unlike some companies, we actually look at games before we put them in our store"
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Mar 25, 2019 00:11
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Be Depressive posted:True story in America at least, the “close door” button in elevators often isn’t wired up to anything. This is not true for every part of the world, however. Disability law requires elevator doors remain open for a minimum set amount of time. The close door button normally only does something when the elevator is in repair mode or fireman mode.
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Mar 25, 2019 01:06
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Elevators should not have close doors buttons, because I always mistakenly press them instead of the open doors button when somebody's running up. I'm not a dick, I'm just an unobservant idiot, please believe me
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Mar 25, 2019 01:09
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I dont know posted:Disability law requires elevator doors remain open for a minimum set amount of time. The close door button normally only does something when the elevator is in repair mode or fireman mode. Yeah if you've ever moved stuff out of an office building and borrowed the elevator key, you open and close the doors manually with those buttons (so you can keep the elevator open indefinitely while moving stuff in) , which is why they're there.
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Mar 25, 2019 01:36
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It's strangely fascinating to look through the various weird Chinese games with often poorly-translated English descriptions, like Sprites. 
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Mar 25, 2019 10:18
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An insane mind posted:Who doesn't? It's not my thing but the Bible or faith itself can bring comfort in th-... 
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Mar 25, 2019 12:34
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I feel like you left out the actually-better part.
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Mar 25, 2019 12:35
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Truga posted:this never gets old Actually happened to a very religious friend of mine. We gave him too much poo poo over it.
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Mar 25, 2019 13:36
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Ranks right up there with first-time anime watchers being recommended Boku no Pico 
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Mar 25, 2019 13:47
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Dareon posted:Actually happened to a very religious friend of mine. We gave him too much poo poo over it. From what little I understand, so did Bible Black.
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Mar 25, 2019 15:12
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The artist/scenario writer of Bible Black went on to a bright career of working on even more messed up VNs like Starless, semi-infamous for its dick guillotine and feces tubes amongst other things. I guess... it's important to find your niche?
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Mar 25, 2019 15:47
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Kanfy posted:The artist/scenario writer of Bible Black went on to a bright career of working on even more messed up VNs like Starless, semi-infamous for its dick guillotine and feces tubes amongst other things. Now I'm just imagining some poor dude working at the hentai factory and the boss is just like MORE WEIRD, WE HAVE TO GO FARTHER and just throwing hands up "i dunno poo poo tubes i guess??"
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Mar 25, 2019 15:59
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poo poo tubes are natural. We all have them
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Mar 25, 2019 16:00
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Foo Diddley posted:
As much as I prefer GoG's storefront, this has definitely bitten them in the rear end before. Opus Magnum didn't get a release on GoG until like a month after the Steam version because it "looked like a phone game".
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Mar 25, 2019 16:09
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They turned down Underworld Ascension, though, so their hearts are in the right place.
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Mar 25, 2019 16:13
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Light Gun Man posted:Now I'm just imagining some poor dude working at the hentai factory and the boss is just like MORE WEIRD, WE HAVE TO GO FARTHER and just throwing hands up "i dunno poo poo tubes i guess??" honestly, most people in Japanese media who do completely bonkers hosed up poo poo like that are actively trolling and just trying to get amusing reactions out of people the market of people with actual poo poo-fetishes is much, much smaller than the market of people who'll gawk at weird porn and go "man what the hell is this poo poo"
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Mar 25, 2019 17:53
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:the market of people with actual poo poo-fetishes is much, much smaller than the market of people who'll gawk at weird porn and go "man what the hell is this poo poo" reposting this https://local.theonion.com/ironic-porn-purchase-leads-to-unironic-ejaculation-1819565403
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Mar 25, 2019 18:01
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food court bailiff posted:As much as I prefer GoG's storefront, this has definitely bitten them in the rear end before. Opus Magnum didn't get a release on GoG until like a month after the Steam version because it "looked like a phone game". Still, better than burying it under a mountain of garbage that people wouldn't even play on their phones
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Mar 25, 2019 18:42
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lol if you look at weird rear end scat porno it doens't matter how much you try to say that you only did it "for the lulz" you're still a guy who looks at weird rear end scat porno
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Mar 25, 2019 20:31
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sunken fleet posted:lol if you look at weird rear end scat porno it doens't matter how much you try to say that you only did it "for the lulz" you're still a guy who looks at weird rear end scat porno If you say racist poo poo ironically, you're still saying racist poo poo. So, too, with watching scat porn.
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Mar 25, 2019 22:50
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observing something terrible is somewhat different from doing something terrible if it weren't for the common cultural practice of digging up horrible poo poo to point and laugh at, none of us would be here
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Mar 25, 2019 23:02
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i was really surprised to turn on steam and see rage 2 listed for pre-order, and apparently beth has announced all their other titles going that way as well? i wonder if valve blew them behind the scenes or something. they probably have the clout/brand recognition to go all in on their bethesda launcher. losing them along with all of EA's games, maybe all of Ubi's future games (based on how happy they were with their uplay pre-order sales figures for div 2), whatever other random ace poo poo epic store is going to steal with their chinese money, would have conceivably turned steam into an oddball platform for AA releases and toilet bowl indie poo poo.
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Mar 26, 2019 02:49
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Fallout 76 was the first Bethesda launcher exclusive and it barely worked (the launcher, though I guess the game too). So that may have colored things somewhat, but it's still surprising They may be doing the Uplay thing and just letting Valve sell their games for them
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Mar 26, 2019 03:08
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The bethesda launcher was an unbelievable failure on basically every level (not surprising for bethesda tbh) so them deciding to go back to steam isn't surprising at all. I'm also starting to think that we'll see Epic in court soon over GDPR violations.
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Mar 26, 2019 03:18
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Grapplejack posted:The bethesda launcher was an unbelievable failure on basically every level (not surprising for bethesda tbh) so them deciding to go back to steam isn't surprising at all. what's so bad about it? i only ever used it for quake champions and thought it was serviceable. it launched my game.
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the nucas posted:what's so bad about it? i only ever used it for quake champions and thought it was serviceable. it launched my game. Security and service issues, server issues, the launcher basically randomly deciding how patches work, etc etc
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