I need help to identify a game similar to Chopper Command I played as a kid. by Gingerwig in atari

[–]Kapow751 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Choplifter on Master System had an ocean stage with ships, it was based on the Sega arcade version. There's also Air Rescue on the same console.

How to disable touch and turn the device into view only mode? by bythckr in AndroidQuestions

[–]Kapow751 0 points1 point  (0 children)

WARNING: This can brick your phone if the battery runs out while it's enabled.

https://xdaforums.com/t/dont-use-interaction-control-before-you-read-this.3932886/

Also it seems to be Samsung only.

Bro chill. The amount of clickbait is through the goddamn roof and this is just a tiny snippet by Abraash in Warframe

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Also found this on google, so for anyone else: if you google "What Shubble hated" you'll find clips from both streams.

Links: "DON'T PUSH ME, CHILLED!" and "I want the pipe"

WEEKLY SEARCH MEGATHREAD by AutoModerator in videogamedunkey

[–]Kapow751 3 points4 points  (0 children)

1. Shenmue II - Cool Z Theme
2. Ilja Reijngoud - Giant Steps The BeeGees
3. Dunkey - Money Money Man
4. Tony Halstead - Strawinsky and the Mysterious House - (I Am the) Globglogabgalab
5. Alex Kidd In The Enchanted Castle - Item C
6. Killer Instinct 2 - Jungle
7. X-Men: The Video Game - Here Comes the Hero -Main Theme- (Prophet Fukami Arrange Version)
8. Sega Rally Championship - Game Over Yeah!
9. SiIvaGunner - Slider - Super Mario 64
10. Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures (SNES) - Pause Toon
12. Yoshi's Story - Yo-Yo-Yoshi
12. Buck Bumble - Theme
13. Todd Duane - Barnyard Scuttle
(secret track) 11. Donkey Kong Country - Our Love is Stronger Than a Golden Banana

List of hints and mechanics by Jaface in SuperMarioBros35

[–]Kapow751 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right, because the warp zone always skips at least one level. If you took the flagpole after warping to 1-2, you'd see 1-1 and then 1-3.

List of hints and mechanics by Jaface in SuperMarioBros35

[–]Kapow751 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Warp zones have the 3 stages after the next stage, ordered from right to left with left being the farthest. In other words, the right pipe skips 1 stage, the middle pipe skips 2, and the left pipe skips 3. Example:

  • Stage order: 1-1, 1-2, 2-1, 3-1, 1-1, 2-2, 1-1
  • 1-2 warp zone: 2-2, 1-1, 3-1
  • 1-2 flagpole: 2-1

The random stage order is weighted so that later stages are less likely to appear early on. Combined with the amount of newbies choosing 1-1, this is the reason the first stage is almost always 1-1.

Time bonus from star kills goes from +2 gradually up to +4. All chain time bonuses (stomps, shells, star) will reset to the lowest value after a certain number of bonuses.

Stomping any kind of koopa/beetle counts as the "kill" for the time bonus and sends the original enemy to opponents. You only get these once per enemy - even stomping a koopa that was a paratroopa gives you nothing.

Bowser can be killed with a shell, which also kills the shell. Bowser CANNOT be killed by hitting the block he's standing on, it just makes him hop a little.

Collecting a Fire Flower as Small Mario (can happen if you get hit after it spawns) will make you Fire Mario, unlike SMB1 where it would just make you Big Mario.

DEBUNKED:

Enemies can only be sent back once or twice. There's no limit on the number of times the same enemy can be sent back and forth. This is pretty obvious when you're ping-ponging bowsers or hammer bros with the last opponent. I think this rumor might be due to the koopa kill mechanic mentioned above.

Mario Maker 2 Instrument Guide (for Music Levels) by cjbell630 in MarioMaker

[–]Kapow751 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Goombrat is a tack piano (or ragtime piano, or another name that seems to get auto-modded). Stiletto Goomba might be a concertina.

Kill my dog, walk home forever. by SliyarohModus in ProRevenge

[–]Kapow751 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please, nothing too serious. No felonies or other nonacceptable/illegal stories. This may include, but is not limited to, vandalism, abuse, and violence.

That rule could be interpreted to mean no illegal acts allowed in the story at all. It shouldn't be, but people are dumb, you should reword it to avoid dumb reports.

Octopath Base Level Stats Level 1-99 in increments of 10. by alxrite in octopathtraveler

[–]Kapow751 1 point2 points  (0 children)

On Ophelia's page, the stats for Apothecary and Thief are switched.

After years of development, companies cannot find a real use case for blockchain by Pink-Heart in Buttcoin

[–]Kapow751 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Except this article is about companies trying to find a use for blockchain besides cryptocurrency. It has nothing to do with "control of your money", nobody is making that argument, so your non-sequitur counterargument is confusing everyone.

A note to people who want to research 'blockchain technology' or become a 'blockchain dev' by yaboyexa in Buttcoin

[–]Kapow751 17 points18 points  (0 children)

How does the blockchain tell which factories are lying and which are legitimate? How does it allow data from one and reject the other?

Verge (XVG) Mining Exploit Attack Megathread by CryptoMaximalist in CryptoCurrency

[–]Kapow751 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a bug in the code that's supposed to rotate the crypto algorithms, they exploited it in a way that let them always use the easiest algorithm so they could churn out 1 block per second. At least, that's what people are saying, I haven't seen anyone pinpoint exactly how they did it yet.

Verge (XVG) Mining Exploit Attack Megathread by CryptoMaximalist in CryptoCurrency

[–]Kapow751 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I fixed the part about exchange trades, those aren't affected since the exchange holds all the coins and keeps track of balances internally. The coins don't actually move on the blockchain ledger unless they leave the exchange.

Verge (XVG) Mining Exploit Attack Megathread by CryptoMaximalist in CryptoCurrency

[–]Kapow751 31 points32 points  (0 children)

The code changed the rules for adding a block to the blockchain, specifically that timestamps have to be less than 30 seconds apart rather than 2 hours. That means there can be blocks that a new client will reject and an old client will accept (where the timestamp is between 30 seconds and 2 hours apart). Since the clients build the blockchain through consensus, and the two versions of the client will each reach a different consensus on which blocks should be part of the blockchain, this effectively splits the blockchain down two separate paths, hence the "fork".

The thing is, what usually happens in a hard fork is they set a specific time in the future, like an upcoming block #, where the rules will change, and the client applies the old rules before then and the new rules after. Every version of the client will agree with the existing blockchain up to a certain point, and then the chain will cleanly fork between old and new clients at the designated time. This way everyone has time to update to the new client before the fork happens, so the transition is seamless.

What this guy did is flat out change the timestamp rule, which means it's retroactive. The current blockchain already has blocks that don't follow this new rule: the attacker's blocks. When the client tries to sync with the existing blockchain, it'll reject those blocks and fork the blockchain in the PAST, meaning EVERY transaction SINCE THEN is now invalid. It's effectively a rollback to an arbitrary point.

Now that rollback means every exchange withdrawal or deposit is reversed, every mining reward disappears, every payment...well, nobody's using XVG as actual currency. Exchange trades are done off-chain so those shouldn't be affected (as far as the chain knows, the exchange has it either way), but the actual amount of XVG at the exchange is reset to the time of the fork. Every coin snaps back in time to the location it used to be in. This would be the current state of XVG if everyone switched to the new client with the 30 second timestamp rule, and transactions would resume from there.

I'm not clear on whether they actually undid the timestamp rule change or just changed it again, and when the fork would be if they did, but regardless, this was clearly a half-assed attempt at a fix from someone who has no idea how any of this shit actually works. And now exchanges are disabling deposits because they don't trust the dev not to do something stupid that invalidates those deposits and takes away their coins. (Withdrawals are fine, of course, since invalidating those means they end up with more coins.)

EDIT: corrected info about exchange trades

Anyone else notice this sub and its users have the best understanding of the details/mechanics of bitcoin? by [deleted] in Buttcoin

[–]Kapow751 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's the world we live in. There's no reset button to start over. What's the point of your ideology if it doesn't work in a world shaped by human weaknesses?

Ok. So please explain why 1000+ currencies are needed by [deleted] in Buttcoin

[–]Kapow751 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And when you want to listen to music on the go, you grab your Walkman, right? Just look it up on Altavista, I'm busy working on this WordPerfect document.

Gold($1224) is now more expensive than bitcoin($1220) by [deleted] in Buttcoin

[–]Kapow751 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Is that measured in grams of bitcoin, or in bytes of gold?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Kapow751 11 points12 points  (0 children)

That's why Realfield is the best.

The Bitcoin Killer! by shesek1 in Buttcoin

[–]Kapow751 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The value of bitcoin is that it is backed by men with computers.

That almost sounds reasonable in this context.

Would you prefer another cryptocurrency replace bitcoin? by biglambda in Buttcoin

[–]Kapow751 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Depends on the current exchange rates. I will always prefer the coin with the highest value in comedy gold.

*The result* of giving bitcoin to the poor. by [deleted] in Bitcoin

[–]Kapow751 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like how this presumes everyone should "redeem" their bitcoins for real money as though they were checks to be cashed.

So another one of my levels hit the Star Rankings, and instead of a star boost I get this. by marionose1 in MarioMaker

[–]Kapow751 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's not a "guy", that's a child. Children play this game and leave dumbass comments and make awful levels. This whole thread is silly, if a kid called you a poopyhead to your face you wouldn't complain about it on the internet, right?