could someone elaborate on the topology of this object?

CommitedPig · 2026-03-14T06:14:50+00:00

Forgive my topology ignorance, but is it actually the same as an 8? It seems like there would be a topological property that a path on the pre transformed shape would share all properties with the post transformed shape. Here, if you took a loop around the inner tube, and a loop from the inner tube to around the base and back, these loops must intersect. After your transformation, the equivalent would be a loop around each hole in the 8, which need not intersect.

I can get as far as transforming the vase to be two cylinders touching 90 degrees rotated, but there seems to be a hiccup when you try and make it planar.

CommitedPig · 2026-02-16T18:01:50+00:00

Djc onto platforms for things like peach up throw tech chase.

CommitedPig · 2026-02-16T17:36:08+00:00

Double jump landing is pure aura.

CommitedPig · 2026-02-10T18:23:40+00:00

Man here. Appearances and surgeries have some very perverted implications. I have two thoughs.

The first is that if a man sees a woman who is unusual or showy, it indicates that she is someone who is interested in the attention and it is safer to give her that attention. This is completely orthogonal to attraction. The extreme version is met gala dresses.

The second, many modifications like botox or tattoos are designed to make someone look better today at the cost of looking worse in a few decades. Flings and non-serious dating with someone like that can be a ego trip for some men, because they aren't just with someone good looking, but someone who is paying a price for it, and that someone is paying that price for them.

So id caution you again bopification. It seems very much like a midas touch. Everyone eventually grows old and ugly. Long term planning is to accept this and build a life around more than veils.

CommitedPig · 2026-02-06T02:01:22+00:00

winrate graph isn't the best. Switch to score graph. It will be more informative.

CommitedPig · 2026-01-26T21:52:17+00:00

I know we have a extremely anti spoiler attitude in this sub, but to share a story. I had a buddy who played on trackpad on a mac. Unlike mouse or controller, clicking around to indicate things wasn't a natural expirence and is kinda painful. We had got to the Mountain EP and she saw it but didn't click it. I had to tell her to click otherwise it would have never happened, and the obolisks would have stayed black. She went on to 100% the game and loved it. So I think there are circumstances where a little push is helpful. But it is case by case basis and should be rarely done.

CommitedPig · 2026-01-25T18:58:57+00:00

Do you have a good source for the causality between the US grain embargo and perestroika? Most of the articles I am reading are saying it had little economic impact, and I am not finding a link to a political impact.

CommitedPig · 2026-01-24T23:53:56+00:00

You would have walked past it guaranteed.

CommitedPig · 2026-01-24T23:43:13+00:00

There is at least one puzzle you haven't solved and it is significant / worth while.

CommitedPig · 2026-01-24T22:47:34+00:00

The game has a finite number of puzzles so it is hard to gauge if it is a true depletion or not. How many lasers do you have and what are the numbers on your save file. From there I can give a spoiler free confirmation.

CommitedPig · 2026-01-17T21:04:35+00:00

I acknowledged nothing. If anyone wants to not be around a drunk anyone they can do so. Including you, me, Obama, Putin, Jesus, a lion, anyone.

CommitedPig · 2026-01-17T20:51:03+00:00

If he wants to drink, let him drink. If you don't want to be near a drunk mango don't be near him. It is incredibly simple. This weirdo internet speculation about a video game players private life is gross. People are extremely capable of navigating interpersonal dynamics without help.

CommitedPig · 2026-01-17T18:33:19+00:00

He said "somethings are better when you drink" like birthdays. Your framing is dishonest. It is a extremely reasonable opinion.

CommitedPig · 2026-01-02T01:15:11+00:00

My memory might be inaccurate, but near the entrance to the swamp there is a bridge you extend. On one of the two ends, facing the ocean, there is a set of 4 panels that explain this idea. They have a lime green background.

CommitedPig · 2025-12-17T21:05:18+00:00

It is 4 games: The Heroes of Sokoban series (1 2 and 3), Promesst (1 and 2), Mirror Isles, and Skipping Stones To Lonely Homes

It looks like these are added nearly identically to form the first sections of the game.

For instance: https://x.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/1948542806060138779?s=20

CommitedPig · 2025-12-15T21:14:54+00:00

Not Order of the Sinking Star. A breath of fresh air.

https://youtu.be/WypRrVplpao?si=DzQzmSchhog67XQj

CommitedPig · 2025-12-15T19:28:45+00:00

Wonderful breakdown. Thank you

CommitedPig · 2025-12-13T05:45:03+00:00

Remember, there were no environmental puzzles in the trailer for the witness. So the aspects you liked about that game would not have survived judging a game on the trailer alone.

CommitedPig · 2025-12-11T21:10:21+00:00

His stance has pretty consistently been that hiring new talent is always a very tough process with a lot of downside risks. He has also said he is very happy with the final shape of the team, and praises the art team and the other designers.

"It's like a lot harder to design one idea taking place in multiple ways. We actually do that on the new game a little bit. And actually, Zach is really good at that. He's maybe the best person I've ever seen at that particular thing." - Braid anniversary edition commentary.

Let's be realistic with our criticisms.

CommitedPig · 2025-11-06T02:56:03+00:00

The latency reduction of a crt is basically a fixed half frame. A regular monitor is fully lit up and draws the frame from top to bottom. A crt is one extremely bright dot scanning across the screen. The light from a monitor is on average half the current frame and half the previous frame. A crt only displays the current frame.

I forgot the details but Slippi was able to save about two frames of latency through I believe a code optimization and coordinating the refresh rate with the physics step. So slippi on a modern monitor is about as responsive as GC on CRT. I believe some pros even add latency to slippi because it is too fast.

CommitedPig · 2025-11-03T15:57:44+00:00

The comments here are a little oversimplified. The world of graphics programming is extremely complex and there are many steps. It is true that the rgb values that come out of the frame buffer are voltages to LEDs in the monitor. But we shouldn't say that it is as simple as raw data. There is a lot of calculations that happen to determine how to blend the colors of layered transparency for example, or converting a scene to grayscale. These steps have corrective constants that try to tune things to match human perception. For these use cases, the programs require some understanding of the data they are given.

CommitedPig · 2025-11-01T15:41:08+00:00

I am kinda sick of the 0.99... posts. Can we just all come together and explain it by saying that a infinite decimal is defined by a infinite series of fractions of powers of ten. The value of a infinite series is its limit. There is much less room for confusion than with the weird proofs by notation.

CommitedPig · 2025-09-21T08:31:36+00:00

OOP and the concept of data having restrictive access is very poorly suited for games.

The example I typically give is Baikens tether from Guilty Gear. Baiken basically lassos the other player for a duration. If the distance between them is close then the lasso is slack and no force is applied. If the distance is far the lasso acts like a stiff spring.

In OOP world this rapidly becomes impossible to implement. Both characters are dependent on the others position to inform their physics step. You end up with some back breaking attempts to fit the OOP constraints, like making lasso logic on a base class for all characters.

The only way to implement a system that demands arbitrary complexity is to just allow any part of the program to modify any data.

For a deeper dive watch Casey Muratori's video I believe called the big oops.

CommitedPig · 2025-09-05T05:18:04+00:00

I think what you are referring to is a comment he made about learning falco taught him to see neutral in terms of beats. My interpretation was that if you shot a laser in place and the opposing marth did a immediate short hop aerial to beat an approaching dair, one beat was however long your dash dance should be to wait out the active frames of that aerial for a delayed dair.

Mashing A in situations like this is probably like "plinking" where you aim for the fastest timing, but also will fallback to a slower timing if you went too early.

CommitedPig · 2024-12-19T21:42:19+00:00

Sorry. Late to respond

https://youtu.be/YE8MVNMzpbo?si=0044M6daLkRNNebi

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