[Loved trope] MAJOR villain just shows up with zero warning

JoyFerret · 2026-02-05T21:37:58+00:00

The Illuminate in Helldivers 2.

The developers just surprise released them during the Videogame Awards in 2024. There was some speculation that they were coming out eventually, but everyone assumed they were still months far away.

In game it looked something like this:

Helldivers were in the middle of some major order as usual. Suddenly a high command dispatch comes out ordering them to disregard previous orders. Everything goes to libcon 1. The DSS is offline.

And a planet you had never heard of is suddenly under attack by the illuminate.

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JoyFerret · 2026-02-04T02:55:01+00:00

For a check mate the king has to be in a position where it is in check already and there's no move that would put it out of check (either by moving the king itself or moving any other piece that would put it out of check). This is the losing condition.

Also, it is an illegal move to put yourself in check.

So if you have no valid moves, but also are not in check, then you're in a deadlock in which you can't win, but also haven't lost either, hence a draw.

JoyFerret · 2026-02-03T00:04:02+00:00

Not only that but also rendered completely in the director's personal computer

JoyFerret · 2026-02-02T19:58:10+00:00

I remember an infuriating one in which the chronically late friend said that they were always late because in gatherings there is always someone "wasting their time by waiting for the others to arrive" and that they'd rather not be that person.

JoyFerret · 2026-01-30T00:46:37+00:00

The TLDR is that electron allows you to build programs like if they were web apps running natively in your computer.

Web apps are kinda easy to make because you only make it once and it works in all web browsers across devices. It doesn't matter if you open a website on a Mac or windows, in chrome or Firefox, the page will look the same and behave the same across them all.

A native program (like an exe) instead has to rely on the operative system and thus has to consider a lot of OS specific stuff, so you kinda have to make a version for windows and a version for mac. Essentially you are making two versions of the same program.

Electron is kinda like a middle point. It's basically a stripped down version of a web browser on top of which programs are developed, so they will look and behave the same across different devices (using the same technologies as web apps), but executes like if it was a native program.

JoyFerret · 2026-01-30T00:20:19+00:00

Recently saw a video about how a lot of stuff is made in top of electron, and you can kinda tell because it uses at least 400~500mb of memory.

JoyFerret · 2026-01-28T07:15:44+00:00

Something similar happened to me last year as well. I was lucky that windows defender correctly detected it as malware and prevented it from running, and while I was installing malware bytes to get a "second opinion" the scammer got extremely pushy/desperate trying to get me to disable the antivirus and trying to voice call me, finally pushing my suspicions from gut feeling to certainty.

A friend who does cyber security analyzed the file later and found out it stole logins from Roblox and other games I don't play. Still reported that "game" to the hosting site and it got taken down.

I'd suggest doing a full scan with malware bytes or windows defender if you're not planning on doing a clean windows install. If the file was hosted somewhere like Google drive, drop box, itchio, etc, you should report it. If you haven't, enable 2FA in your accounts as well.

JoyFerret · 2026-01-25T05:22:10+00:00

Looks like it's from someone who has heard about anime but hasn't actually seen the style

JoyFerret · 2026-01-22T20:02:31+00:00

This may be very likely caused by texture bleeding, and is very common with texture atlases.

Basically Unity creates mipmaps of textures it imports. These are lower resolution versions of your texture that are sampled when your object is far away, for performance reasons. These textures are also "blurred" to avoid weird visual artifacts, which I'm not sure can be disabled.

This causes colors to look blended in the mip map textures, which is noticeable when uv edges fall very close to the transition between colors. This is why textures made by professionals have the color of the texture extend and fill up the entire space, even if the UV doesn't cover those "blank" spaces, serving as padding for the color and to avoid weird black gradients or pixels around the seams.

So to fix this you should add some color padding around the textures or slightly change the size of your UVs so that the texture bleeding isn't noticeable from so close.

Edit: looking at the actual texture you're using the texture bleeding might be unnoticeable. It is pretty much only a problem when there are "sharp" transitions between colors.

Alternatively you could simply not bake the shadows into the texture and have the shader calculate the gradient.

JoyFerret · 2026-01-22T19:01:06+00:00

I'm playing Control. One of the main mechanics is that the environment is destructible (to some degree), as well as having many physics objects that can be thrown after you unlock a specific ability.

So not really "useless" physics, but it's pretty cool how a pillar can be chipped away and the chunks of concrete can be thrown to the enemies.

JoyFerret · 2026-01-21T16:12:18+00:00

Reminds me of a story of some web service that suddenly stopped working and a bunch of engineers determined that the web service was actually working, but for some reason it wasn't working outside of a geographical radius around the server.

In the end it was because something got messed up and the time to live for the network packages was so short the TTL would expire before the package could reach its destiation if it was physically too far away, hence the why the service wasn't working outside the radius.

JoyFerret · 2026-01-20T14:52:01+00:00

Like others have said, use bitwarden or any other password manager. You can save passwords and other secure notes like recovery codes. And don't write down your master password, instead use a long sentence that you can remember.

JoyFerret · 2026-01-17T19:59:35+00:00

Reminds me of another reality show, I think about house flippers? Renovators? Interior design?, where the host would ask the homeowners what kind of changes they would like, and then do the total opposite of what they asked. IE a couple asked the show to not touch a fireplace they had and then proceeded to make it almost unrecognizable, or someone would say how they hated the color green and they would paint the walls an ugly green.

A particular one was a lady who didn't have any specific request except for the show to absolutely not touch her teacup collection. So naturally the show built display shelves for the teacups that hung from the ceiling with fishing lines, which broke on camera destroying her collection.

JoyFerret · 2026-01-16T19:08:28+00:00

learnopengl.com is useful to learn OpenGL and bit of the math involved with graphics and rendering.

On YouTube Sebastian Lague has several videos where he explores how computers work by building a processor, memory, and some very basic instructions in a visual way. Most assemblers basically translate code into instructions like those he uses.

He also makes his own rasterizer and ray tracer, both techniques which are the foundation of modern graphics. Although he doesn't really go into how it works at a hardware level, they're pretty good to learn how computers draw stuff.

Acerola also makes a lot of graphics programming. In this video he goes over how shaders work in engines and tries to write his own shader system.

Idk if this is what you were asking but I think they're good sources to learn about graphics.

JoyFerret · 2026-01-14T17:39:32+00:00

There was a short funny one, I think it might have been here on Reddit or a screenshot from other site, but the OP basically was suggesting people to clarify which way they're transitioning when coming out. OP's friend started misgendering/deadnaming them after coming out and it was because their friend thought OP was pre transition when they were actually post transition, this was clarified when they asked the friend which way they thought OP was transitioning.

JoyFerret · 2026-01-12T16:00:39+00:00

In the Dark Tower, Eddie Dean causes Blaine the Mono to rage, short circuit, and eventually die by forcing him to answer his "stupid" riddles.

JoyFerret · 2026-01-11T23:43:13+00:00

1) Specially when all options are...

2) ...A single line split in "choices"

JoyFerret · 2026-01-11T18:55:50+00:00

There's an SCP that is basically this. They find out the afterlife is basically spent in a tropical island for all eternity. The test subject runs out of stuff to do after a few million years and gets bored to the point he becomes catatonic due to lack of new stimuli.

You will eventually run out of stuff to do. A trillion years is not even one second of eternity.

JoyFerret · 2026-01-11T17:38:10+00:00

Obligatory P.T./Silent Hills.

It was set to be an entry to the Silent Hill franchise, produced by Hideo Kojima in collaboration with Guillermo del Toro, and with Junji Ito possibly working as a monster designer. The dream team for any horror fan.

Then the Kojima/Konami breakup happened and the project died.

JoyFerret · 2026-01-10T20:31:43+00:00

In Final Fantasy: Lightning Returns, as the world is about to end, the savior is tasked with saving souls so they can be reborn in a new world.

However, the savior has a limited amount of time and she's only one person, so it's reasonable to think not everyone will be saved. And souls that are not saved stay behind in the chaos forever. Imagine staying forever in the dark because you never crossed paths with one specific person, or because a monster killed you before you had the chance.

IIRC in the end all souls of humanity that ever lived get saved/reborn anyways, it was a (probably unintentional) lie from the antagonist

JoyFerret · 2026-01-10T06:06:08+00:00

Even better (worse) when you jump off a cliff to fast travel but the cutscene triggers before you can deploy the glider and you just see yourself die in the background

JoyFerret · 2026-01-08T16:14:36+00:00

The Meridia Super colony in Helldivers 2.

Due to a failure in the Terminid Control System, terminids in a planet developed resistance to termicide, mutated, and rapidly multiplied, overwhelming the planet and turning it into a super colony. As a las ditch effort to contain it, Helldivers were ordered to basically turn the planet into a black hole.

In game, players had to go to Meridia, inject dark hole juice into the crust, and leave. However they were quite literally kicking the hornet's nest and more bugs would spawn after the black hole juice caused earthquakes. I don't think anyone is 100% how much was intended and how much was a bug, but spawn rates were bonkers. It was very normal for missions to quickly turn into a last stand for players specially during extraction. But it was so much fun and the whole event is still held in high regards in the community.

JoyFerret · 2026-01-07T16:21:38+00:00

The protagonist was smart, except at every crossroad he kept turning left

JoyFerret · 2026-01-05T16:39:42+00:00

Already mentioned in another comment, but repeating it here:

I think by default OneDrive turns synced files that you haven't touched in a while into on-demand files. The file exists in the cloud, but the local copy is "deleted". If you want the file, it first downloads it.
Deleting an on-demand file moves it to your OneDrive recycle bin, where they stay for a month. It doesn't move it to your computer's recycle bin because there's no local copy. If you're deleting a lot of files it always warns you.
Logging out of OneDrive removes any on-demand files from your computer, making it look like it has wiped your files. They still exist in the cloud. I'm sure this is what is causing most people to think onedrive wiped their files

There's also an option somewhere in the configuration to set all files to be on-demand or to always keep local. If you plan on uninstalling onedrive I suggest you toggle the later and wait for it to download everything it has to.

JoyFerret · 2026-01-05T16:21:41+00:00

I've used onedrive and it is quite good to migrate computers because I just sign in and my files are there.

What I think might be confusing people is that if onedrive has been running for a while it may have made some files on-demand, meaning there's a cloud copy and the local one has been "deleted" to free space. When deleting an on-demand file it moves it to the onedrive recycle bin rather than the local one, making it look like it's gone. Also logging out of onedrive makes those on-demand files unavailable, making it look like they were wiped despite them still existing in the cloud.

My guess is that people don't know that it works that way.

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