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- Comment on I predict that this post will get approximately 01000011100101100000000000000000 1 day ago:
Each section of the binary number represents a different component needed to construct the number 300. It uses clever math to be able to represent decimals. It’s like asking you whether a number is positive or negative, then the position of the decimal point, then what the digits are.
Specifically…
The first 0 means the number is positive. The number formed by the next eight bits (the exponent) and the number from the remaining bits (the mantissa) multiply to get 300.
The exponent bits choose the value of N in the formula 2^N - 127^. For the mantissa, we start with the number 1, then each “1” bit starting from the left adds to it 0.5, then 0.25, and so on. Specifically, we have 2^8^×1.171875.
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- Comment on Clips from what I'm playing | rRootage: pure, abstract bullet hell 6 days ago:
His pandemic project in 2021 was making 139 games!
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- Comment on Godot Engine – 2024 Showreel 6 days ago:
I wishlisted PVKK. I’m also aware that Buckshot Roulette is well-received but haven’t played it myself.
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- Comment on Day 146 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 1 week ago:
With hindsight, I view this generation of the Pokémon series as an awkward transition to 3D. It’s pretty apparent in the graphics and UI that Diamond/Pearl/Platinum are essentially upgraded GBA games. 3D effects occur only sparingly, and I remember the backpack UI bizarrely having an iPod-style scroll wheel on the touchscreen.
The following generation got more adventurous with the 3D and started using the DS touchscreen more effectively. The “sprite puppet” effect in Black/White looked janky as heck but I honestly loved it anyway. The character sprites in Cassette Beasts worked similarly, which I guess is another reason I liked that game.
Also, man, the pacing of battle animations and UI is so slow in this generation.
- Comment on Day 144 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 1 week ago:
We are always allowed to admire oddly hi-fi graphics. I love shaking the vodka bottles in Half-Life Alyx. The liquid inside waves and bubbles and if you hold it up to a light source, the light glows through!
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- Comment on Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop, a space repair shop game with in-depth repair gameplay (manuals, diagnostic devices, parts and workshop appliances), released on Steam 2 weeks ago:
I played the demo during Next Fest. I found it fun. It reminds me of Keep Talking and Papers Please.
- Comment on Day 142 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 2 weeks ago:
My friend kept pestering me to try the game in 2009. The first thing I did in Alpha was die in overworld lava.
- Comment on Path of Exile II Queue Warning Issued as 1 Million Early Access Redemptions Are Hit - Insider Gaming 2 weeks ago:
This is hardly news. Path of Exile has server queues at the start of every major launch. I think it’ll be great news if absolutely nothing goes wrong with the launch.
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- Comment on 'I want to acknowledge that we messed up': NZXT addresses concerns about its controversial Flex gaming PC rental program and commits to taking action 2 weeks ago:
Back to you, Steve.
- Comment on What are some great games that require you to bust out a notebook and pen? 2 weeks ago:
I’m not familiar with the games you mentioned, so I went to check them out. And look what we have on the Steam store page!
Reviews
“It shares some of the feeling of Her Story, albeit featuring today’s technology and with less of a focus on the crime angle. But it has the same small moments of revelation, all of which come together to form a story in its own neat yet meandering way.” Rock Paper Shotgun
Guess that means you have to play it now.
- Comment on What are some great games that require you to bust out a notebook and pen? 2 weeks ago:
I left my computer to go out with friends to have wings. I was thinking about the puzzle I left behind on the trip there. I was trying to draw the patterns on my phone while we waited. This game gets into your head.
- Comment on What are some great games that require you to bust out a notebook and pen? 2 weeks ago:
Her Story is a detective game that starts with you sitting at a computer, not even knowing what mystery you’re supposed to investigate. You have to search through the computer’s database for police interview footage to figure that out. Then you have to figure out the answer to the mystery you think you need to solve. The interview clips have a lot of details for you to track and link together. I had to make a big chunky note for this game and even had to implement a system to keep track of the likelihood of the statements.
If you want more point and click adventures, try the Submachine series, which was originally in Flash but now remastered as a ten-game compilation called Submachine: Legacy. The developer trained as an architect, so you get to admire intricate, hand-drawn architecture porn. It starts off as a typical 00s Flash room escape, until you realize it was all a… hallucination. You realize that you’re actually going to explore a vast, utterly lonely underground world as you try to track down the only person who seems to know how to get out. Teleportation and parallel universe travel come up a lot in the series, so keeping notes will be useful. Incredible dark ambient soundtrack, too.
- Comment on Day 140 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 2 weeks ago:
About that blood. Valve forgot to remove it before submitting the game for age ratings, and despite multiple updates over the years, they’ve never bothered to address this. Also, I wish Portal 2 had hard-mode remix chambers like 1 did.
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- Comment on Are there games with real collision detection? 2 weeks ago:
There are high-polish VR shooters, like Half-Life Alyx, Boneworks, and Vertigo 2, which obviously care about where your hands and other body parts are. Boneworks attempts melee combat, but it’s pretty janky. In Half-Life Alyx, you use your hands to rummage around junk to find resources. In Vertigo 2, if you get hit by arrows or thrown spears, you have to pull them out of your body, and there’s a section where you steer a boat.
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- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #53 - LocoCycle 2 weeks ago:
FMVs? What a treat.
- Comment on explosions 2 weeks ago:
Blame Banach and Tarski
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- Comment on What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games? 3 weeks ago:
Path of Exile is one of those games where you never stop learning new things and the ceiling is always higher than you think it is.
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- Comment on 2009: Tom Scott cooks salmon in a dishwasher 3 weeks ago:
He’s still around online. He hosts Lateral, a trivia podcast, and messes around with his friends as the Technical Difficulties.
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