"What's the purpose of the crystal ball?"
I'm making a 4D puzzle game. You move normally in XYZ space, and use puzzle pieces to move in the fourth spatial dimension, W.
The crystal ball is a direction indicator for the Anchor, which lets you return to its W-coordinate:
Crystal ball upgrades:
- Add translucency & refraction, using Fresnel function to scale them with distance from center (it's glassy)
- Replace normal with reflection vector as UVW source (it's swirlier)
- Give each texture a different speed (it's parallaxy)
- Emissive lighting
@sarah_cone
@sbaileysavoy
There's a huge, exciting, untapped set of business opportunities that all have the fatal flaw of requiring men to ask for advice
@mechanical_monk
En Passant is an exception to an exception to an exception.
The way pawns capture is weird.
The way they double move is weird.
The way they capture following a double move is triple-weird.
En Passant requires uncommon circumstances. Once in dozens of games.
@sodiumPen
I applied for real ID and brought two extra qualifying documents for every category and they still rejected me because my electric bill says "A 1234" instead of "Apt 1234"
@parakeetnebula
In my early 20s I was on call but went to a dinner event a subway ride away and wound up in the same restaurant as my engineering director
that was awkward
oh wait that is not what you were talking about at all, was it
This was one of the most valuable speech therapy exercises I did: Speak, listen to replay of your speech, repeat.
You almost never get to hear yourself except while you're occupied with speaking.
Notice Gallwey’s story about the high-agency business exec who couldn’t seem to control his arm
Notice how he learned more in ten minutes of non-judgemental observation than in 20 hours of pro lessons
Crystal ball:
- Take three cubemap textures (these are Nebula Skyboxes by Spherica Emporium)
- Rotate the normal across three perpendicular axes
- Use rotated normals as UVW coordinates to the textures
- Combine textures with a screen blend (thanks for the tip
@XorDev
)
The 80s/90s were a weird time of extremely heterogenous hardware and software capabilities.
These games came out within 16 months of each other and both were successful:
Here's a request from
@YaekoGames
to make the crystal ball material seamless on non-spherical meshes.
This requires just a little tweak. Explanation in🧵:
Crystal ball upgrades:
- Add translucency & refraction, using Fresnel function to scale them with distance from center (it's glassy)
- Replace normal with reflection vector as UVW source (it's swirlier)
- Give each texture a different speed (it's parallaxy)
- Emissive lighting
@acidshill
They are charging for access to their massive userbase.
Steam itself generates tons of sales for the games on there to the point that it's often legitimately worth directing your prospective players to pay Steam 30% to increase your presence there.
Crystal ball upgrades:
- Add translucency & refraction, using Fresnel function to scale them with distance from center (it's glassy)
- Replace normal with reflection vector as UVW source (it's swirlier)
- Give each texture a different speed (it's parallaxy)
- Emissive lighting
Crystal ball:
- Take three cubemap textures (these are Nebula Skyboxes by Spherica Emporium)
- Rotate the normal across three perpendicular axes
- Use rotated normals as UVW coordinates to the textures
- Combine textures with a screen blend (thanks for the tip
@XorDev
)
@visakanv
There's an entire category of software engineering managers whose origin story is "we liked them but they were abysmal programmers so we had to promote them out of harm's way"
WarCraft 2 is bright, beautiful, stupendously gorgeous. It is oozes high fantasy out the wazoo. It has boats. Aye aye, captain.
Nothing looks and sounds this good. Mmph.
@levelsio
My ChatGPT custom instructions get me pretty terse answers. The relevant bits:
---
I am a human expert in all subjects. I am highly competent and only need your assistance filling in small gaps in my knowledge. I already know you are an AI language model, not a doctor, not a
@jon_bois
I like to keep my volume on maximum while browsing the web because I love surprises. It's like a birthday party every time I open NBC or ESPN
@CanYouNAUT
It's design that's actively disrespectful to the users. We care more about how our mouse looks in photos than we do about what it feels like to use it.
@sarah_cone
@sbaileysavoy
My friend dipped her toe into being a dating consultant and took her first mentees on for free.
"There's a knife sticking out of your face. You're bleeding."
Men: "Yeah that's fine."
@stupidhoroscope
1g feels floaty because characters jump unrealistically high. A typical human has like a 0.5m vertical. Michael Jordan had 1.22m. Most game characters have at least 1m.
Plus many of the times you want to jump you only want to be airborne enough to clear an obstacle.
@SpunkyGal6
@sodiumPen
It was 3 hours, $50 in cab fare and the next one is even further. Hence why I really wanted to nail it on the first try. I'll probably keep going without
@FreyaHolmer
Love C#, love LINQ, but it's the odd duck here. It's a functional programming library that's branded as a database abstraction, so it gets SQLy names.
Then 90% of the time it gets used for things other than databases and the names look extra goofy.
@corg_e
I've only seen one episode. A dad held his daughter's sweet 16 at a strip club. A woman and her husband ate only canned tuna all day then hitchhiked on a private jet.
Both probably fake AF but that was was compelling television.
@ruth_hook_
My mom once climbed out a 10th story window just to see the view
As a toddler I climbed over the boxes that kept me out of the kitchen while she cooked
At six months my daughter climbed a bookshelf
@JackieW75725388
@sodiumPen
I checked and double checked that list abs brought multiple backups and they got me on multiple ticky tack technicalities I did not foresee, and which were out of my control because I don't determine what exact words companies print on their statements.
@mechanical_monk
There's really no other rule in chess even close in terms of rare applicability, outside of clock/tournament rules.
The next-weirdest stuff in chess:
- Castling through check
- Underpromotion
- Queenside castling
- Stalemate
not very weird at all and mostly common.
@zachpogrob
Multiple times I've had a manager that kept trying to limit my professional risk exposure for my own good. They could not accept my insistence that I considered low risk neutral outcomes as far worse than taking risks and failing.
@mbateman
@Gena_I_Gorlin
I go out of my way to give my daughter absurd answers to questions I know she knows the answer to. She's 2.5 and loves it and understands kidding better than I did at 6
@eshear
2020: Started playing CSGO after not really playing shooters before. Clocked about 250-300ms on
Just now, after 470 hours of CSGO: Retook test and got about 190ms
so there's my anecdatum
@alicemazzy
I adore and respect my child, age 2.5. She spent twenty minutes on the train today saying "whee!" and the greatest difficulty she posed in the last 24 hours was eating breakfast slowly.
Every day has challenges but my enjoyment of parenting is uncomplicated.
@TylerGlaiel
1% crit in multiplayer creates the Team Fortress 2 dynamic where players write macros to spam chat when they die to a crit.
Though in TF2 I'd argue that "lucky bullshit" and dumb macros are both core to the aesthetic.
@Austen
Haagen Dazs' basic flavors have entirely reasonable macronutrient profiles. I can eat a pint every day and its caloric density is sufficiently offset by its effect on satiety that my weight is unaffected.
And it's often like $3 for 800 calories which is nice
@zeta_globin
You're not supposed to give babies water until a certain age so it doesn't replace their preference for milk and starve them.
So, +survival points to your hypothetical offspring.
@SwiftOnSecurity
I am perpetually baffled that the basic Windows apps aren't better. Literally the world's most valuable company and the default image editor doesn't zoom in/out properly