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CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

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reductio ad adsurdum

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CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

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"Reductio Ad Absurdum!" Hermione shouted, and just like that, Crabbe was transmogrified into a chicken in front of Harry's own eyes.

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

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poptart_fairy posted:

Reductio is already a spell and can only be cast on objects, not people, nerd.

make a skyrim mod about it, nerd

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

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Holy poo poo, the Nuclear Throne update that just dropped adds raw mouse input (among the ton of other fixes). As in, no more mouse lag, at all. It's literally the only thing I wanted. Thank god.

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

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m2pt5 posted:

Really, people believed that? After the SimCity "can't be played offline" bullshit?

Obviously nobody believed it, no. That's why that mod exists

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

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Learning art and programming isn't enough. You have to make porn. The more non-standard, the more you'll make.

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

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It doesn't even have to be good art or stable programming. People are so starved for entertainment that caters to their fetishes that they will pay you money to make just the most low-effort poo poo as long as it has foreverial tied up and loving it JC Denton or whatever

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

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I like the new layout a lot better personally.

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

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Deathclaw By Snu Snu

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

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Max Wilco posted:



:kimchi:

Althought for some reason, when I try to visit the Nexus page for Pugmeat, it says that it's 'adult content,' which is disconcerting.

It's because they modeled the wiener

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

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Zamboni Apocalypse posted:

Well, there *is* one that sets Dogmeat as a beddable companion, so you can get the Lover's Embrace buff...

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/16611/

quote:

Makes Dogmeat Female (because in Fallout 3 it was a she, or else how would he have puppies >:(

Why in the world would it be the same dog, what kind of justification is that. just say you want to gently caress the dog, at least be honest with yourself

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

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That was pretty much true of Dogmeat in Fallout 3 because if it did die it'd just respawn back where you found it after some time, completely identical in every way except for the name. Somewhere there's a Dogmeat cloning factory where the dog from Mad Max provided the genome and it just cell divides into a new one whenever there's a new Fallout game.

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

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Neddy Seagoon posted:

That was a perk (Puppies!) from one of the DLC expansions, it wasn't in the base game.

A necessary perk imo

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

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Man's most tortured soul best friend

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

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nthing that Inigo is drat good.

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

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The Bee posted:

Was this shittily done, just breaking the game? Or was it something hilarious like the bee apocalypse?

It'd just crash your game after giving you a whiny error about mod drm. However, the game would be made to crash during loading whatever world you'd selected, because that's when mods are initialized, so it had a pretty high chance of immediately and irreversibly corrupting your save.

CJacobs fucked around with this message at 23:28 on Dec 24, 2017

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

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The beepocalypse thing was the original drm, exactly as you'd imagine (the game would very quickly spawn infinite bees whenever one would spawn and it'd hard lock your game), but it was changed out for the much shittier drm pretty shortly after. The infinite bees caused the same end problem though, the user couldn't load their world ever again because the game would have to try and spawn the bees.

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106040.4740

quote:

SirSengir implemented a function inside Forestry that would query what directory it was inside, and if it was inside the directories used by the Technic Launcher, the mod would proceed to spawn bees that destroyed your world. He did this because the Technic Pack at the time had included Forestry without asking him, and he didn't even bother to ask for it to be removed, just decided "gently caress the user!".

edit: Also the bees would explode

CJacobs fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Dec 24, 2017

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

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Cup Runneth Over posted:

You've programmed your game horribly wrong if a save that's being loaded can be corrupted. That poo poo should be read-only.

Minecraft is coded so terribly that when you start up a save, the game starts simulating things like npc movement, plants/crops growing etc before the save actually finishes loading. If the game exits while this is happening by say some fuckhead entitled baby modder forcing it to hard crash it can pretty much turn all the data in the save file into unreadable mush. At least, that's my understanding of it.

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

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Cup Runneth Over posted:

That shouldn't matter unless the game is CHANGING THINGS IN THE SAVE FILE WHILE IT IS READING FROM IT

It is doing that- my implication was that the game was updating these positions and saving them as it would when you're actually playing. Minecraft writes inventory, item, npc and block positions to the save file very very frequently so that everything is always synced properly. When you actually get to gameplay that's not... so bad... but when you're loading up the game it can have pretty catastrophic side effects if something interrupts it.

edit: I guess the process is that it pulls the location of everything from the save file when it starts loading, and then it sets all those things in motion before it's finished but after it's done using that information. Said information then updates while the rest of the save file is being combed through while the game loads.

CJacobs fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Dec 25, 2017

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

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I mean it only goes on for maybe two or three seconds at the most, but as it turns out two or three seconds is all you need for exploding infinite bees to destroy your save file

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

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MohShuvuu posted:

Jesus Christ.

There's no use calling for him, he abandoned us long ago

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

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To be fair, they do call it the "atomic beauty", presumably because you'd have to be irradiated to look like that

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

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I imagine it's probably a case of "I don't like this because it doesn't require any strategy, you just do it and it works". Which is not necessarily true, but compared to some of the wild poo poo you can pull in that game a realistic maneuver done by real spacecraft is pretty plain jane.

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5LyEjLfP8

Thermostat is still my favorite

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

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

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

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

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I wonder how many tri's that has compared to the rest of the model, because boy does that look like one intricately modeled vagina

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

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Or greasy.

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

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He also has a habit of plopping utterly massive bridges you can't go on everywhere for no real reason.















Bridges are like this guy's Oblivion Gates

CJacobs fucked around with this message at 19:37 on Jan 13, 2018

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

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Methylethylaldehyde posted:

I don't believe you.

very start of this strange person's video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP0ziNVUc9A

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

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Yeah it adds a lot of fuckin weird low quality hentai stencil graffiti everywhere in addition to some actually-offensive stuff.



All of these are varying shades of :nws: for porn and hentai and 'gently caress whores' with penis doodles and stuff

https://imgur.com/mfvib9y
https://imgur.com/S0ZncPS
https://imgur.com/MEEzxYM

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

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Here's the source for what pseudorandom name has said by the way because I like hearing kleiner tiptoe around telling the resistance to bone down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUUgqkyvy50&t=107s

Alyx's response upon seeing this broadcast is "uhhhhh is doctor kleiner telling people to 'get busy' lol"

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

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corn in the bible posted:

"What if Lara Croft got breast cancer"

Really every mod could use a nice pair of front-loaded anvils when you think about it :downsgun:

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

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https://www.isthereanydeal.com/
https://www.cheapassgamer.com/

Always browse Is There Any Deal before making a pc game purchase, always browse Cheap rear end Gamer before making a console purchase.

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

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For thread related content, here is a mod that is awesome (I promise). It adds actual properly working and animated diagonal player movement to Fallout New Vegas, something that hasn't been included in a single gamebryo engine game in over a decade.

https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/64333

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1OiJ1Htyjs

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

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Furia posted:

I don't know how to feel about this

Fallout 4 by comparison got around the issue of "wait having the player walk forwards even though they're moving sideways looks stupid" by just making the player animate facing whatever direction the stick/kb button is held. It took them 15 years to come up with this solution.

CJacobs fucked around with this message at 21:30 on Jan 14, 2018

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

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Orv posted:

One day people will be free to admit that HL2 is a poo poo shooter with good tech and people won't act like it's blasphemy.

Hasn't this been the general opinion since Valve fell out of fashion as a game development company?

edit: There also have been complaints about HL2's wimpy-rear end weapons since the day it came out. I recall the pistol specifically got a lot of flak because it sounds real weak and is immediately useless once you get the smg.

CJacobs fucked around with this message at 07:15 on Jan 15, 2018

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

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Yeah in total HL2 is like 1/3 driving and boating which felt a bit like filler.

For content (please god post more content) here is an oldie but a goodie that's relevant to the current discussion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwxN8sCIOOE

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0WqAmuSXEQ

Granted it was vastly, vastly improved with the update that brought it to the Orange Box version of the engine but still pretty lol

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CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

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The turret-wielding ai is programmed so that it only shoots you when it can see you and there's nothing in the way, otherwise it'd just be firing into the wall endlessly. Holding up the jar of providence breaks that ai because it's extremely simple "if can see Freeman, shoot gun" code. Notice that the enemy starts shooting at him just fine even with the thing in the way once it gets off the turret.

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