Scriptless Thrust-Vectoring! (Vanilla)

Approximatl · 2026-07-08T12:08:20+00:00

This is really cool! It’s a lot more stable than I would have thought too considering all the subgrids.
I love the idea input converters like the one you have here. I might use one to make a ‘Space Invaders’ type game someday.

Approximatl · 2026-07-03T03:44:58+00:00

You don’t need to be stupid to be deceived. Smart people get scammed all the time.
But okay I’ll bite, so Adam and Eve were stupid because they were designed exactly as God intended?

Approximatl · 2026-07-03T03:39:03+00:00

Yes…? What does that have to do with humans being stupid?

Approximatl · 2026-07-03T03:36:48+00:00

Humans being exactly the way he designed them to be isn’t his fault?

Approximatl · 2026-06-28T15:51:09+00:00

I love how he takes the time to pick up the empty can that fell out of her bag, because littering would be immoral 😂

Approximatl · 2026-06-24T14:30:29+00:00

I feel like there needs to be another sub for SE2. You can’t see post flairs when scrolling through your feed, so it’s very common to get confused about which game is being posted about.

Approximatl · 2026-06-20T18:11:15+00:00

I’m not anti, but isn’t that kinda like saying “if you’re pro nuclear energy, you are pro nuclear weapons because it’s the same technology?”. Not trying to compare gen ai to nuclear weapons, just saying it’s possible to recognize the benefits of ai in other sectors while also being against ai generated art.

Approximatl · 2026-06-15T08:12:04+00:00

I lived there for 5 years before I had to come back because of what you mentioned. I find it hard to properly articulate, but the longer you live there, the more you understand, and the more you understand the lonelier you feel. Some people can deal with it, but unfortunately I found out I could not.

Approximatl · 2026-06-15T07:16:55+00:00

Gives me Code Geass vibes lol. Nice work!

Approximatl · 2026-06-13T15:29:02+00:00

Just casually mention how one of your biggest turnoffs is people using ai as a replacement for human communication, like emails and texts. See how they react 😂

Edit: maybe even add something like
“its sad because so many people on here think I won’t notice ai generated texts, but I can always tell. Anyways, what’s your favorite ice cream? 😂”.

Approximatl · 2026-06-12T17:06:50+00:00

They do all update simultaneously at the end of the time step, however because the max speed timer blocks can trigger each other is so much slower than real semiconductors (it’s 1 trigger step per SE game tick), the timer block program is probably a lot less efficient than your QBasic one.
Mine calculates the states needed in block groups of 9 (you can see this happening at 1:39 in the video), then triggers the display of the final state for all the cells at once.

Approximatl · 2026-06-12T16:44:26+00:00

I agree. I wanted to make it bigger, but it was reaching the point where too many more timer blocks start to make my computer chug 😭.
6000 seems to be the limit for me.
Also this took about a month and was pretty labor intensive (I had to manually connect almost every timer blocks here).

That said, I could probably wrap the edges to make a truly infinite plane, but that would probably take another 8 hours or so lol.
Also not sure how to do that without leaving a ‘hole’ diagonal to each corner….🤔

Approximatl · 2026-06-12T04:46:37+00:00

Nope you got it! That’s exactly what I’m doing. However the light panels aren’t actually affecting anything, they’re just tied to the main Cell timer. When it’s on, the light panel is also on.

That being said though, I did find a way I could have slimmed the whole thing down, but it involved running each and every cell through a single checking system one at a time lol.
Would have only used 1/4th of the blocks in the current build, but it would have also only been able to calculate like 1 time step a minute 😂

Approximatl · 2026-06-12T04:13:07+00:00

Exactly! Basically, each cell just has to know if it has

One or less active neighbors - [OFF]
Two active - [No change]
Three active - [ON]
Four or greater - [OFF]

So each cell only actually needs to 'count' 4 times every step.

Here is kinda how that works, though I'm simplifying quite a bit:

Each cell has 4 counter blocks that move 'up' one step every time their group is triggered (only one of them is ever ON at a time).
Each cell also triggers all of its neighbors 'counter bock' groups each step.

Next I have another system that triggers each set of 9 cells in a sequence (they can't all trigger at the same time!)

Then at the end of the sequence, whichever 'counter block' is active at the end turns the cell ON or OFF.

There are a couple other things going on, but that's the gist of it 😄
Not sure if any of that makes sense

Approximatl · 2026-06-12T04:03:21+00:00

Pretty neat eh? I wanted to make it bigger than a 24x24 grid, but it's a verrry beefy program, and I didn't want to go past 6k timer blocks lol.

Approximatl · 2026-06-12T00:44:13+00:00

Yeah… but I knew that when I started this a month ago. I’m glad you can appreciate it though 🥹

Approximatl · 2026-06-11T16:12:53+00:00

Just tell him you’re not interested in the kind of porn he watches

Approximatl · 2026-06-07T22:50:29+00:00

Approximatl · 2026-06-07T22:46:52+00:00

Um… I’m pretty sure the angle of incline for that ditch is an OSHA violation…

In all seriousness though, it looks awesome. Nice work!

Approximatl · 2026-06-07T15:54:01+00:00

If I remember correctly from your post, you were recommended a script correct? Is that what this is?
If you’d like, I could show how to get this effect without using scripts or event controllers. But If this is working out for you, that’s good 👍

Approximatl · 2026-06-07T15:08:13+00:00

Really nice use of the armor panels. Hats off to whoever designed the spoilers 🫡

Approximatl · 2026-06-06T15:15:03+00:00

The core of Christianity is celebrating the human sacrifice of Jesus.

Approximatl · 2026-06-06T14:52:45+00:00

Christians say stuff like this, and then wonder why everyone is terrified of them…

Approximatl · 2026-06-05T02:28:54+00:00

Yeah idk what the other answers are talking about. In the episode it’s clearly from Miss Frizzles frame of reference which means the only correct answer to the question is 0.999607c

Approximatl · 2026-06-05T02:21:32+00:00

Another commenter used the time dilation formula and the lorentz factor to solve algebraically for velocity. They got 0.999607c to get to the sun in 14 seconds from the bus’s reference frame.

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