WhiskyTangoFoxtrot

@WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world

Founder and lead developer at Overclocked Abacus Games

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WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

John wouldn’t learn that trick until 2029.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

Right on the Japanese Prime Minister.

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Nah, Wotan will be eaten by Fenrir at Ragnarok. Any day now.

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Albany is in New York.

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Another castle.

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The desks in Skyrim are just clouds embedded in the ground and recoloured.

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That and the fact that the desks in Skyrim are bookshelves embedded in the ground.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

You will be surprised by a headless upside-down cat.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

Ligma balls!

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The only time this meme has ever been funny.

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And a beer, in a tree.

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In the original series we often saw Thing’s arm when it turned the pages on Lurch’s music. It wasn’t depicted as being cut off at the wrist until the movie.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

Does it really need a reason?

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The Lord works in mysterious ways.

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www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/11/23/delicioso

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youtu.be/Zk-x_tBPzzM

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

That’s her lawyer.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=mobXdCclM40

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

It’s treason, then.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

Are you pondering what I’m pondering?

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

Too recent and hasn’t been in any (theatrically-released) movies. Plus, before he became the Red Hood he was most well-known for wearing green shorts and getting his head bashed in with a crowbar, which spoils the power fantasy a bit.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

Technically it was the bomb that killed him, not the crowbar.

Of course, from a more meta perspective it was the readers who killed him via phone-vote.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

Nah, he’s been back since 2005, but that’s still a lot more recent than the Punisher. There’s also the problem that the most mainstream DC adaptations won’t even touch Robin, and when they do it tends to be Dick Grayson. To get to Red hood, they’d have to introduce Dick, have him grow out of the Robin role, introduce a replacement Robin, kill him, then bring him back.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

The language of chocolate, vanilla and strawberry ice cream?

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She’s got a blank space on her hit-list and she’ll write your name.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

Sounds like a giant robot from a Japanese anime.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

Patrick Warburton?

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Tony?

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

It’s actually the bear’s house and the picture is being taken by a girl who broke in to eat his porridge.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

Some stay dry and others feel the boom.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

It’s a bird! It’s a plane!

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

I also know that he was a drunken fart.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

Let them fight.

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All of them.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

Was this posted from Abu Dhabi?

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It wasn’t all of their demo discs. Their early issues didn’t have him.

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It’s an interesting video, I suppose more so if you didn’t experience game history in real time like those of us who did. No one ever thought Half-Life looked real. But wow, if you experienced games starting with text only and colored squares like I did, each new capability was incredible.

Nobody thought that it looked real, but people were impressed that it could represent reality. Five years before Half Life the most cutting-edge FPS couldn’t do slanted floors or have one room on top of another, and every enemy was a 2D sprite shown from eight different angles. Two years before Half Life the cutting edge was the muddy brown abstract fantasy environments of Quake. There’d been attempts to represent realistic environments in Build-engine games, but they had their own sets of limitations. Half Life was one of the first times that we had a 3D game where things just looked like the things they looked like. You’d never mistake them for the real thing, but you could easily tell at a glance what they were supposed to be, which wasn’t the case only a short time before.

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Yeah, the GBA really should be on top. The other systems just had lower-quality versions of what was available on consoles, but the GBA was the only source of high-quality 2D games for its time. The style pretty much died out during the late '90s and early 2000s, and wouldn’t really return until online marketplaces and indie games rose to prominence int he late 2000s and early 2010s, but in the meantime the GBA kept a lot of genres alive.

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I just skip the roulette games. If you know how to get stars on the end-of-level cards every time (be running with a full P-meter when the card comes on-screen and hit it on the left-hand side) you’ll be drowning in extra lives anyway.

Playing TMNT 2 on 3:2 monitor (lemmy.ml)

Discovered this video from RetroGameCorps and decided to try it. The monitor is great, it’s quite nice to play with tiny borders. I more of a NES fan and trying to finish TMNT 2 right now. But it looks even more amazing for GameBoy Advance games, which have exactly 3:2 resolution....

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I wish people would make full-sized desktop monitors with taller aspect ratios. Sure, 16:9 is great for movies and modern video games, but even outside of retro stuff taller aspect ratios like 3:2 and 4:3 are much better for reading/coding/etc. but nobody makes them anymore.

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The problem is that interest rates have gone up after being extremely low ever since the 2008 crash, so investors lost their endless supply of debt-fuelled free money. They can’t pump money into companies operating at a loss anymore, so suddenly those companies have to find a way to turn a profit.

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Also announcing that if you’ve ever used Unity they can just suddenly decide that you owe them more money.

The New 8bitdo Retro Keyboard shipped early. Small-ish Male Hand for scale. (midwest.social)

I can try to answer any questions, but it doesn’t seem like the 8bitdo Ultimate software is availible for download yet. Im not big into mechanical keyboards, this is actually my first, so I don’t have much direct comparison experience to other keyboards....

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

If they were going to put an A and B button on the keyboard then they should’ve put A on Ctrl and B on Alt. That way it would have the correct layout for Commander Keen, Duke Nukum and a million other DOS platformers.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

It’s Microsoft® Pitfall™ now.

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The Ace Combat games used them for throttle, rudder and radar zoom level.

You Can Work for and Even Betray Jabba the Hutt in Star Wars Outlaws - IGN (www.ign.com)

Developers from Ubisoft Massive and their compatriots over at LucasFilm shared a number of new details today with IGN at San Diego Comic-Con regarding Star Wars: Outlaws and the two locations revealed for the game thus far: the new moon Toshara, and Tatooine. Including, yes, that you can both work for and betray (if you want)...

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And then your account is deleted and you don’t have the game at all anymore.

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I just hope that the actors, writers and studios completely destroy the Hollywood machine. We can catch up on our DVDs for a year or two and then hopefully something new will come up with no affiliation with the existing studios and unions. Let the whole thing burn.

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Remember when forums would let you put unsanitized HTML in your signature and people exploited it to flood them with pop ups and redirects? Lemmy’s bringing that back, too!

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