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"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:
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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
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@JoePostingg How long should I microwave my ice cream
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@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
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@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.
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@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"
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@corg_e I once received a Christmas card that was addressed to someone else and scratched out before being addressed to me
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@ZeroSuitCamus skin it to win it
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@Carnage4Life Half my employees aren't doing anything; I just don't know which half
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@terronk That's an absolute classic Chesterton Fence.
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@samswoora Call me when ChatGPT can open a pickle jar
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@dieworkwear @urban_comp You have cursed us with taste and ruined millions of dollars of perfectly almost good jackets Too powerful
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@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
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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.
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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
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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 )
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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:
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@nickgraynews Counting dates is only necessary if you can't hear your heart
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@Phantom_TheGame Perfect place to grill my rectangular hot dogs
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@edzitron I'll take three
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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🧵:
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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
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@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.
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@TylerGlaiel On the next episode of Dragon Ball Z
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@michaelcurzi You do. You have simply not yet unlocked your full potential.
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Dan Gant ⚡ 4D puzzle game TETRAFECTA in the works
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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
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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 )
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@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"
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@gf_256 canonical "can" vs "should"
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@SamNChiet how can i turn down an offer like that?!
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@shakoistsLog Reddit has its virtues but the average politics there is worse than sampling the US population at random
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@ROShoyoola @sodiumPen In Seinfeld there'd turn out to be a real scam with someone illegally living in Closet A 1234
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@michaelcurzi Look sometimes you just wanna smash some buildings. Cozy smashing game.
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@MorlockP Same phenomenon:
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@michaelcurzi Is it still "nursing" if you're pumping for later?
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@SwiftOnSecurity At least this is an ad and not organic content ...for now
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@SwiftOnSecurity The boring reason is nobody visits websites anymore. The gardens admit none to the fields.
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@Noahpinion Can't reason people out of opinions they weren't reasoned into.
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@prerationalist @autumnpard This is an infohazard
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@Evil_Mog you need to delete this this is a mind virus and we will never be able to discuss numbers again without indicating a base using our fingers
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@caesararum i want my sexbot-inflated vanity follower count back sadness in bio
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@bryancsk TAILPIPE IN BIO
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@csmith03 Step 1: Build monolith Step 2: Baffle locals
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@ipsumkyle Sounds like you want to mix part time data science and part time gig work FlaskRabbit
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@yacineMTB Honestly LinkedIn is untapped alpha for anyone actually posting interesting shit because the competition is terrible
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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.
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@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
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@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
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@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.
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@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."
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@Phantom_TheGame Close but needs a realistic "Boioioioioing" sound
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@nikitabier There's gonna be a huge slice of the audience that has no idea anything is going on anyway.
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@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.
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@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
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@jon_bois I think someone spilled a coffee on the seat
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@amazingmap Amazing that the Pacific Northwest, notorious in the US for being cloudy and rainy, is beachy by European standards.
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@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.
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@SwannMarcus89 Look, all I'll say is I did NOT play 1000 hours of that game BEFORE getting married
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@jon_bois The Knicks have only ever scored on accident for 20 years. Zero points.
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@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.
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@gantisdant Twitter decided I should see this post and I'm afraid to ask if we have the same name
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@Anthony_Bonato Hard to relax until you know you've secured your $300,000 proof of purchase
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@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
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@exizstad My dad was 45 and my mom was 38 and I'm very happy to exist
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Of course, the answer to "which game's developer went on to develop the world's biggest FPS and 3D engine" is "both"
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@m3chamage @eigenrobot Please insert disk 14 of 20
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@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.
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@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.
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@eigenrobot I refuse to accept your innocuous logical sounding but factually ungrounded proposition
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@nickgraynews My first date with my wife lasted seven hours. We were just going to meet for tea.
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@seanw_m Sautéing en route to surveying is strictly optional
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@atroyn @OpenAI Protest art, I'd guess
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@eigenrobot I have found that kids don't really engage with "for the purposes of this game, my friend will temporarily be my enemy" until like age 6-7
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@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.
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@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
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@TylerGlaiel Just put it all on one line. If rugs weren't meant to be swept under then why can they hold so much dust?
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@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
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@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.
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@_its_not_real_ I'd bet on it being a measure of increased laser capital.
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god this feels good a return to the heady days of the 90s when two years was a generational change in computing
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@___frye Both luck and skill can determine a lot. Careers diverge wildly Also this entire genre of chart has been ruined for me
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@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.
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@skooookum If you can't handle me at my worst vagina you don't deserve me at my best vagina
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@adogadogadog I didn't understand pointers until I saw "int*" formatted as such. OH IT'S A DIFFERENT TYPE
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@Acerola__t People feel personally injured when a game is almost for them but not quite
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@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
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@MrGemezl The camera angle is impersonal, detached. It's workable but feels like picking an uphill battle
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@prerationalist I spent 50 calories understanding this question
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@Duderichy This meme is so specific yet every week there's another perfect reason to post it. It's evergreen
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@remisramosc We could feed ourselves without torturing animals and yet most of us don't (including me)
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@Austen Your enemy is everyone who calls first (many such people)
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@Acerola__t Flappy Bird created an archetype
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@arctanno It's okay but have you seen Whitespace C++?
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@Austen uhhh ehhhhh hmmmm
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@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.
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@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
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@amandawtwong It's beautiful, perfect, don't change a thing
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@StefanFSchubert proof is left as an exercise to be neglected by the reader
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@busterbuck123 @Carnage4Life I am the CEO of a publicly traded company and I have laid off Dunbar's Number times ten. I am adapting this ol quote:
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@emollick Unauthorized low-effort AI biography is the sincerest form of flattery
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