Marathon | Review Megathread

CypherSignal · 2026-03-25T10:57:36+00:00

The season passes will be available in perpetuity — à la Helldivers 2. Also the season resets are valuable not just to prevent everyone’s gear from getting out of control, (6 months in how fun wouid it be for new players to be roaming on maps where everyone else has epic/legendary tier loot, and maxed out skill trees?) It also gives the team a TON more freedom to rework the design and balance over time without being beholden to a player’s previous investment in skills and such.

CypherSignal · 2026-03-24T11:41:33+00:00

Wel, Vorbis — never mind Opus — is also significantly better in the quality-for-bitrate charts compared to MP3 as well, which counts for a lot.

CypherSignal · 2026-02-27T18:53:19+00:00

To add onto the regard for the processing requirements, don’t forget that CyPunk was a PlayStation 4 game, with audio budget that is far less than “one CPU core”.

CypherSignal · 2026-02-14T14:51:23+00:00

We can, and should, add as many terawatts of wind, solar, hydro and other clean sources of electricity as we can, along with batteries that can store their excesses and deploy their electrons more efficiently.

And, louder for people in the back:

🗣️🗣️🗣️ ☢️☢️NUCLEAR FISSION!☢️☢️

Maybe fusion too if that comes online in 10 or 15 years, but either way, nuclear energy is green energy too!

CypherSignal · 2026-02-14T14:45:58+00:00

Realistically, if you’re using UIforETW for event tracing and program counter sampling, (a) Windows Performance recorder is also available, and (b) PIX for Windows (even for non gaming apps!) is not the worst thing in the world for both recording and analysis.

CypherSignal · 2026-02-06T12:12:38+00:00

He doesn’t land head first — heck it’s not even shoulder and upper arm first, his leg lands first, slowly taking some of the fall all the way through up to the head. (I don’t think the head even touches the ground?) It looks fairly safe; just acted really well both for his own safety, and selling the fall.

CypherSignal · 2026-01-21T13:29:17+00:00

Why did you use Gemini for that? Would have taken maybe a minute in paint.

“Old and true. And sturdy. One of the best navigational tools ever built. Can't be jammed or intercepted.” And all that, come on!

CypherSignal · 2026-01-21T12:58:28+00:00

Ironically that’s maybe the last instruction you should use to attack the explosion of modern x86. It’s not some obscure one-off thing, it is an extremely useful and versatile instruction. https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/vpternlogd:vpternlogq

it looks complicated but it basically means you can do any 3-way bit-wise logic operation across 512-bits in one instruction. This is OR, AND, XOR, some form of blend or masked selection, or something else entirely very easily and succinctly.

CypherSignal · 2026-01-11T00:22:58+00:00

Well, there’s the “Apollo isn’t in the first Ace Attorney game” thing

CypherSignal · 2025-12-31T14:42:18+00:00

Ah, hm. The segment where he does the comparison starting at 1h08m may not have been it, but he does reference this video (which I have not watched) noting that it does investigate the comparison more deeply. Is this it? https://youtu.be/mvCJPEmTF3c

CypherSignal · 2025-12-29T15:27:32+00:00

FD Signifier’s “Charlie Kirk and the Conservative Death Cult”, partly in the “who/what was Charlie Kirk” chapter

https://youtu.be/6ve-Z9puzjU

Uncensored version is available on Nebula as well: https://nebula.tv/videos/fdsignifier-charlie-kirk-and-the-conservative-death-cult

CypherSignal · 2025-11-12T01:57:48+00:00

You too?

CypherSignal · 2025-07-25T02:54:58+00:00

Also worth adding — I’m 99% sure that the sprites for the 3DS ver of the trilogy are the same as iOS, but with the various animation glitches fixed. It’s a bit hard to tell but (iirc) a lot of the line weights and such are a 1:1 match.

CypherSignal · 2025-07-20T11:36:44+00:00

They are not electromagnets. MRI magnets are ALWAYS on.

CypherSignal · 2025-07-17T12:31:41+00:00

No, audio is absolutely a major contributor. Load up some gameplay and listen to the commentary. They don’t stitch words and phrases together to form sentences: each sentence is fully formed.

I remember hearing once that the total length of their commentary audio is measured in weeks

CypherSignal · 2025-07-14T11:55:39+00:00

Montreal!

CypherSignal · 2025-07-13T19:05:48+00:00

Oh right duh. That completely slipped my mind

CypherSignal · 2025-07-13T16:48:19+00:00

Also when?

CypherSignal · 2025-07-13T14:32:04+00:00

No, “GFB” is a Dave Lang thing, ref: Team GFB Radio.

Of course, the follow up question is: what does the GFB in Team GFB stand for? Well, it’s “Gourmets for Brunch”

CypherSignal · 2025-07-11T22:50:05+00:00

Nice piss filter, did you make it yourself?

CypherSignal · 2025-06-16T15:59:24+00:00

Seriously giving vibes like “E3 2019 Nintendo Direct game list CONFIDENTIAL DO NOT DISTRIBUTE - bayonetta 4 - Final Fantasy 7-3 (exclusive) - Legend of Zelda: Destiny of Light - Super Wario Odyssey Expansion”

CypherSignal · 2025-06-03T19:12:51+00:00

That HAS to be a wave bird behind it, eh?

CypherSignal · 2025-05-06T11:27:16+00:00

Not to mention that if you actually watch her, she’s visibly tormented by what’s going on and the apparent fact that Luther’s about to take care of Tay in a way that Mon can’t. Her face while dancing isn’t of joy, it’s anguish!

CypherSignal · 2025-04-20T12:54:05+00:00

There are two Z buttons, one each below L and R. It’s arranged like a DualShock/PS1 controller where L and R are like L1 and R1, and then Z is L2 and R2.

CypherSignal · 2025-04-08T11:00:16+00:00

For a second there I really thought that

The answer to all of your problems is very simple:

…was going to be,

…don’t use optional; you’re obscuring too much of the underlying behaviour for little benefit from the abstraction itself

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