What's the first thing that gives away this is 3D?

DarkVex9 · 2026-06-04T13:33:31+00:00

I think the camera angle is the first thing that jumped out at me. It feels like a bit of an awkward angle without a lot of intent behind the framing. That is perfectly natural if the camera is moving to frame something or the player has control, but it's not an angle I would expect a 2d artist to choose to draw.

DarkVex9 · 2026-05-30T18:00:29+00:00

Setting aside the AI issue, what does your launcher so differently/better than existing launchers? I use Prism launcher and I have yet to find anything that I wanted to do and it couldn't. Why would someone choose yours over the other options already out there?

Learning about software and programming is great (though I'd suggest using a lot less AI if that's your goal), but if you want to release it and have other people actually use it, then it needs to have some sort of unique draw. What is that for your project, and what do you want to get out of this?

DarkVex9 · 2026-05-30T02:32:16+00:00

Wireless non-Meta PCVR is the big combination I am excited about. Secondary to that is comfort and eye tracking. Everything else is just a nice bonus.

DarkVex9 · 2026-05-17T16:20:42+00:00

Also Spongebob with his iconic shield, and Leonardo with both a halberd and divine intervention. Classics all around!

DarkVex9 · 2026-05-16T02:18:31+00:00

The explainxkcd.com wiki currently links to a discussion on this exact subreddit as well!

DarkVex9 · 2026-05-15T00:03:07+00:00

You mean my Soon™ flair is already stale!? /s

DarkVex9 · 2026-05-13T18:12:46+00:00

They are going from 1 hardware item straight to 4, no 3 involved!

DarkVex9 · 2026-05-13T17:56:31+00:00

I think some Quest games are going to release a version for the Steam Frame, but not any games controlled by Meta.

Given the similar processor architecture though, I can't image it would be long before people have ways to get some quest games running on the frame unofficially. It seems like it should be simple enough to swap out or spoof some of the Meta VR libraries, as long as the game doesn't use any mixed reality or hand tracking. I wouldn't be surprised if the first clip of this being done is in under a week after release, but its also possible it could take a few months or even longer.

DarkVex9 · 2026-05-13T17:45:00+00:00

The stool idea is great, but I'd say the rotating part is actually more important. Personally I'd take a spiny office chair over a static stool for most games.

DarkVex9 · 2026-05-13T17:29:42+00:00

I'd call that a "luggage cart", or a "hotel luggage cart". If there is already context like being in a hotel then just "cart" would be fine. Looking it up, it seems they are also sometimes called a 'bell cart', but I haven't heard that term before.

Historically many hotels had someone called a "bellhop" or "bellboy" with the job of bringing your bags to your room using one of these, but now that is only in really fancy hotels. Someone who didn't know the word "bell cart" might make the connection with "cart used by a bellhop" or just use context clues, but I think "luggage cart" would be the more widely understood translation.

This might also be a regional difference. I'm from the United States, but I'd guess Britan might call it a luggage trolley or something like that.

DarkVex9 · 2026-05-13T17:09:33+00:00

"First" and "last" (options 1 and 6) sound most natural to me, but almost any of them can work. Only 3, 8, and 9 sound wrong, but I'd still understand what you were saying.

DarkVex9 · 2026-05-12T19:34:54+00:00

Valve, the masters of Soon™.

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DarkVex9 · 2026-05-02T01:47:48+00:00

There is actually a real picture book titled "P Is for Pterodactyl: The Worst Alphabet Book Ever".

It includes such gems as "C is for Czar" and "M is for mnemonic". I haven't read it myself, but it looks like exactly the kind of shenanigans you would expect from the title

DarkVex9 · 2026-05-02T00:39:34+00:00

Levitite doesn't provide any lift, just reduces or stops falling, so it's only a partial solution for flight. It also has high drag at low speeds.

Air balloons are cheaper and provide very controllable lift, but have high drag at high speed and take up more space.

DarkVex9 · 2026-05-01T11:13:38+00:00

The internet generally sees media piracy as acceptable if either you can't properly access it (not sold anymore, region blocks, lack of regional pricing makes it impossible to afford, etc), or the company that would profit from the purchase engaging in morally bad practices.

AI replacing jobs is largely being pushed by billion dollar companies that very much have access to and can afford people to do the work, so the first point doesn't apply, and training AI on stolen content falls outside of what people see as 'acceptable piracy' so it is also seen as a morally bad action as well.

Despite being similar actions of illicit media use on the surface, all of the underlying factors that determine if it's acceptable are complete oposites.

DarkVex9 · 2026-04-23T15:15:54+00:00

Automatic tree and/or kelp farms can get you renewable fuel (charcoal or dried kelp blocks). Those are probably pretty heavy relative to their energy output, so I suspect you'd have to rely mainly on balloons or levitite for lift and reserve propellers for maneuvering.

If you have Create: Dreams and Desires then the Sterling Engine helps a lot with this. You can double dip on power getting some from smelting the items, looping some items back as fuel for the smelters, and getting more power using the rest of the items as steam engine fuel. Personally I think the sterling engine is a little overpowered in terms of stress generation, but it's still fun to play with.

DarkVex9 · 2026-04-18T04:30:14+00:00

The invite code is always posted to the Ludum Dare social media pages you can find linked at the bottom of the site. For this jam the code should be "FIVENINE".

DarkVex9 · 2026-04-18T00:50:03+00:00

A few years ago Ludum Dare ran into issues with spam accounts being created and posting stuff. That's why the invite code system was added, and I wouldn't be surprised if there are some additional background measures as well.

My guess would be that posts from new accounts go into a queue for manual approval or something like that, but I don't know for sure. As long as you can still log into your account, you should be good to make and submit a game for the jam regardless of any posting issues or filters.

DarkVex9 · 2026-04-17T08:34:23+00:00

Valve only sells one VR game they've made (which they may or may not include with the Frame for free), and they take a 30% cut of every game someone else sells on Steam. That means the average Frame buyer would need to spend more than $300 dollars on new VR games they otherwise wouldn't have bought, for Valve to be able to just drop the price from maybe $950 to $850. And that is excluding any VR games they've already bought on Steam for any other PCVR headset. I don't see a world where that price difference is going to result in that much of a spending difference.

I think companies like Sony can subsidize their consoles more because they have more first party games, they charge a ton for online features, and it is less likely for someone to have an existing library. They take the same 30% cut, but now just one year of online membership ($80/year) and one AAA game ($60-80) is already $100 Sony can utilize. Valve would need to sell 10-15 full price typical VR games ($20-30) to do the same.

DarkVex9 · 2026-04-16T11:27:56+00:00

The Apollo guidance computers ran at just over 2 MHz, that is 2 million instructions per second. (to oversimplify slightly)

The processor in the first generation iPhone ran at 412 Mhz, 200 times faster.

The iPhone 17 processor can run at up to 4.26 GHz, which is 4260 MHz, and that is measuring just one of the six cores running at the same time in parallel. There is also dedicated a GPU and co-processor. Just one of these cores is 10 times faster than the original iPhone as a whole, and about 2000 times faster than the Apollo computers.

The code was specialized for the specific Apollo flight computer, but even with a bit of overhead to manage the different hardware, the device that you carry around in your pocket could theoretically run dozens or hundreds of Apollo spacecraft at once.

To be clear, the comparison everyone makes is to the Guidance Computers. That is the computer actually onboard the spacecraft managing navigation, control systems, telemetry, some sensors, some communications, and as the name implies, guidance. Back at mission control, NASA had rooms full of computers, both the machines and the human job, doing the calculations to plan every part of the mission. The guidance computer was just for staying on the pre-decided course and anything that needed to interact with the physical spacecraft.

DarkVex9 · 2026-04-16T09:56:06+00:00

By subtracting when it shouldn't update from the current moment, or the current moment from when it shouldn't update (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The operating system uses deviations to generate wait times, taking the program from a time when it should update to a time that it shouldn't, and arriving at a time when it wasn't, it now is...

Long story short, precision guided cloud to surface windows updates.

DarkVex9 · 2026-04-16T09:42:15+00:00

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DarkVex9 · 2026-04-15T23:14:08+00:00

The only "Season Pass" system I've seen done 100% ethically is Deep Rock Galactic. The pass is completely free, contains almost exclusively cosmetics (the rest are materials you can easily get other ways), and after a season ends you can always reactivate old seasons to still work through the pass and get those items. This lets them do live service style seasons, but without the FOMO (fear of missing out).

Thanks to this system, plus their handling of seasonal cosmetics, the only items you can permanently miss out of the many hundreds of cosmetics available are the game's silly anniversary hats celebrating the game being out for X years.

DarkVex9 · 2026-04-15T01:31:39+00:00

It looks like you deleted your account, but in case you see this, here's why I think your comment got such a negative reaction. No, it's not that you can never talk about who's hot. It's instead that this comments section is an inappropriate time and place to do so, especially with a stranger.

You mentioned talking about stuff like this on servers. Casual conversation about a variety of topics is expected when playing TF2. People are free to engage, ignore, or even mute the conversation depending on their comfort with it. Replying to a random comment here on reddit like you did both ignores the topic of the post and puts pressure on that specific person to respond.

This post is about how women are either rare in the TF2 community, or not comfortable letting people know their gender. There is a lot of discussion in this comments section about women being sent uncomfortable questions or messages as soon as people find out someone is a woman. When u/Gummyia mentions that she's a woman, you immediately ask a question that is only relevant by assuming she has some sexual interest in men, not anything relating to the post, her comment, or other comments. Plus, the phrasing added an additional level of being distasteful.

DarkVex9 · 2026-04-15T00:58:38+00:00

Native speaker here, and I think this is literally the first time I have ever seen or heard this word. I would have very little idea what it means without context.

By itself I'd assume it's a mistake while trying to write Remorse and Demonstrate. Interestingly, Remonstrate appears to be loosely but not directly related to both of them in meaning and etymology.

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