Those are isotopes of Deusexmachinite aren’t they?

A dumb hack but works well enough. Things like this is why I put a lot of thought into the camera controls I work with. It has to be engineered along with the game to really work well and test cases that are extreme compared to the game should be examined. A good set of control functions really opens the doors on what…

It goes to show that if you take pride in the world you create and the challenges toward your players. You don’t need a lot of animations, fanciful effects, high texture detail or meshes with dense polygons. Writing can fill in what the visuals can’t. The EQ developers seem to have realized they only need good enough…

Not so sure they are pulling 500k players per night per server. Even during the hay days before other MMORPGs were worth playing long term where every major zone was so packed you could barely hold 20-30FPS on a gaming computer (the game was incredibly wasteful with draw calls). When it was a once every night or two…

I honestly didn’t think the game would last much longer than when I quit a few years ago. It was looking like gates of discord all over again, very few raid guilds still active and the ones that were either were low member count or training the influx of new players. Unlike gates it wasn’t due to developers being…

This reminds me of a write up on a hypothetical FF themed MTG pack. It was simply the concepts of MTG translated into FF concepts. An entire deck that was somewhat balanced was drafted in full ASCII art glory. I’ve seen it reposted many times on different walkthrough, guide and FAQ website out there for games. Rarely…

Every Tales of cutesy animal ever. Miue was perhaps the most annoying of all of them, so much so that I developed a hack to wipe it’s voice from the game (overwrote with a silent wave). Never properly thanked the people that developed the tools which allowed for replacing those voices, I believe they were originally…

Unfortunately not all of the now random non-sense websites were always like that. Every few years my choice of websites for each category of news I enjoy reading about changes due to shifts in the website’s focus. So far Kotaku is one of the longer running ones.

I’m dirt poor myself but can still find a matching set. Just takes a little more time and convincing tire yard owners you wont cause a problem if they let you into their yard. Hilarious he didn’t unscrew the studs though. Takes a bit of work for a full set but when your poor that’s not so bad.

I pulled a lot of AWD cars out of ditches when I had my RWD sports car equipped with snow tires. So many that I wound up bolting heavy steel U bolts to the frame to make it easier to slap on a chain and get it done. I also helped a lot of RWD cars with my AWD car last winter.

Algorithmically generated worlds have been a thing for games for a very long time. It doesn’t matter how good the algorithm is though. It can create a beautiful world to some form of specification you give it but you still have to go in and give that world character. That’s kind of what makes Minecraft what it is,…

Same pick for me as well. The world just feels alive despite the game lacking a lot of things that typically give you that impression. When we got Planes of Power I would spend hours on end just reading through lore books in the library. Lead me to take an interest in the libraries of each city and actually hunt down…

Did something like that before in EverQuest. It was for a resource that mobs just outside of Shar`vahl dropped. I found that by using a specific sequence of abilities I could reliably repeat the same button presses on my keyboard to form a complete circle as the mobs respawned. So I took to using rubber bands and…

I’ve said as much to her about the situation. Funny you mention Pizza Hut because that’s where that particular example came from. Min wage is $8.50/h.

How exactly is this sexual harassment? This sounds like he made a pass and it failed. I’m not seeing where he did anything to push things further. Is flirting sexual harassment now?

Yeah, that’s how I seen it until I learned these things were really a thing people did. It’s bizarre that with all of the easy to use livestreaming software and easy to configure cameras that these guys don’t just take to some porn website specializing in this sort of thing.

What about all the women that go around stating how much they want a country boy? Sorry but it’s not a one gender thing. It’s just somehow excusable when women do it for some bizarre reason.

Milk, specifically the lactic acid in milk builds up in your muscles. This is what causes the burning sensation when your working out. You might think that is good but how much more exercise do you think you would get if you didn’t feel that deterrent?

Still pays better than a waitress job at a major franchise. My fiancee’s wage after factoring in tips was around $6/h for a good week, for a bad week it was much closer to $4.5/h. Due to this nonsense I will never work a position where lower pay is justified by “you get tips”. Unfortunately these animators don’t even…

This! Seriously I once worked on a cheat program for a popular MMO precisely because the game had no minimap at the time and I got tired of dealing with stacks of paper maps when I know my computer is fully capable of rendering a minimap. Even after the game implemented horrendously bad minimaps I still used my cheat…