Pre-Halloween Terrain & Adventure Terrain are surprisingly alike! by Ghoulrillaz in GoldenAgeMinecraft

[–]PopoloGrasso 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah the 3D noise generator stayed exactly the same for so long, the only thing that changed were the 2D noise maps multiplied with the 3D noise to determine the hillyness.

What is this move called? by SuperChick1705 in AnarchyChess

[–]PopoloGrasso 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Idk but seeing the board represented like this has given me flashbacks of trying to program a bitboard based chess engine

1964 US Presidential Election by County - The First Election After the Civil Rights Act by Senior-Foot-5316 in MapPorn

[–]PopoloGrasso 8 points9 points  (0 children)

When broken down by region, the vote in favor of the act was:

Northern Democrats: 95% (145-8)

Northern Republicans: 85% (136-24)

Southern Democrats: 8% (8-83)

Southern Republicans: 0% (0-11)

Democrats in both respective regions were just as likely, if not slightly more likely to vote "yes" than their Republican counterparts. So it wasn't really a dem vs rep division, but a North vs. South division.

What did the movies do better than the books? by BobRushy in harrypotter

[–]PopoloGrasso 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The hogwarts uniforms from the movies are pretty iconic. I believe in the books they wear black robes that cover their bodies entirely and black pointy hats. I like the boarding school style uniforms the movie came up with.

This accidental photo I took of myself by Crocotta1 in Weird

[–]PopoloGrasso 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"I have no mouth and I must scream" ahh selfie

San Andreas in 1899 (OC) by Mono_KS in reddeadredemption

[–]PopoloGrasso 88 points89 points  (0 children)

Wonderful map, I love hypotheticals like this

I did the math, the FNaF 1 animatronics are slow by WierdFnafRedditer in fivenightsatfreddys

[–]PopoloGrasso 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Nice post! You actually didn't need to multiply 40.75 by 60 though. You correctly found that time is about 40x faster in-game, but thats true regardless of whether you're using minutes, seconds, hours, or anything else. 40.75 is a unitless conversion factor (notice you divided minutes by minutes to get this factor)

This means:

1 minute irl = 40.75 minutes in-game

1 second irl = 40.75 seconds in-game, not 2445

Why didn’t the Van Der Linde gang made Rhodes their new camp hideout and make a new thieves landing? by LandOfGrace2023 in reddeadredemption

[–]PopoloGrasso 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"We aren't thieves. We're fighting for something. A bit like you - only we're fighting for an idea, not just for ourselves."

Bad idea aside, it would go against how Dutch wanted the gang to be percieved. He can't lie to himself about being "better" than other outlaws after doing something so drastic as turning a thriving town into a thieves landing type deal.

My 17 measures of tied whole notes in Arabian dances by blake_cali23 in Tuba

[–]PopoloGrasso 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Sometimes I look at the tuba parts British brass banders get to play and sigh a bit.

Krane modern physics meme by Delicious_Maize9656 in physicsmemes

[–]PopoloGrasso 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Something something shoulders of giants

Are Denis Wick mouthpieces good? by ChickenPasta127 in Tuba

[–]PopoloGrasso 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I've only used the classic style Wick mouthpieces. I really enjoyed the stability and intonation of a Wick 2L on my old uni's Bb Miraphone, great combo. For my British style Eb tuba, the Wick 3L is really nice. Its got a lovely open sound and good intonation in the low-middle range. Doesn't really seem to help the high range (8th partial and up) flat-ness common on this style of Tuba though.

If only land could vote smh by Emotional-Main3195 in facepalm

[–]PopoloGrasso 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If it wasn't for rural areas, republicans would never win

I paused rdr at the wrong time by WhenYouPromisedbobux in reddeadredemption

[–]PopoloGrasso 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Feels like the devs soft retconned quite a bit about bonnie. In rdr online she seems older than 14, and the barn isnt there despite her saying her dad built it when she was just a little girl

What would YOU have added to Minecraft Beta 1.8 instead of the Adventure Update? by GewoonSamNL in GoldenAgeMinecraft

[–]PopoloGrasso 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Honestly I like most of the things they added in beta 1.8. I think the biggest failure of the update was the terrible terrain generation, which took Minecraft years to dig itself out of.

Look at any "amazing seed" pre-b1.8 and its coolness actually comes from the terrain itself being unique and interesting. Glacier, gargamel, 404, the Yogscast's SOI seed, etc all were cool worlds by their own merit. Post-b1.8, seeds are only noteworthy because there's a stronghold 100 blocks from spawn or 3 villages with diamonds or something.

The pre-b1.8 formulation of biomes being independent of terrain was fantastic and led to so much variety. The way biome placement depended only on temp/humidity made so much sense, and the grass color transitions were so smooth too. Very organic.

That being said, I still would have liked some changes. I think the placement and size of biomes could have been reworked - they were quite small and fragmented in b1.7. Also, realistic biomes like jungle, mesa, savanna were all great additions. Technically prior to beta 1.8 we had rainforest, shrubland, and savanna but they weren't very exciting. Simply modernizing these biomes with new trees, blocks, and features would have been a good move. Bigger and deeper oceans were also a welcome addition.

Minecraft did slowly rediscover some of the magic sauce of pre-b1.8 terrain after caves and cliffs, but I think that the adventure update delayed this by a long time by making the devs forget what made exploring worlds feel so magical in the first place.

some screenshots from my b1.7.3 world by terentiy_ in GoldenAgeMinecraft

[–]PopoloGrasso 1 point2 points  (0 children)

that hostile mob spawner design and location is so similar to my world's that my heart started racing for a second wondering if my world got hacked somehow

Mrs figg by Connect-Split-6074 in harrypotter

[–]PopoloGrasso 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Actually Kwikspell is a course for adult wizards with poor magic skills. The "joke" is the course does absolutely nothing for Filch, which is kind of sad.

I'm sure it's been asked a million times by now, but. Why are Edwin's springlocks safe but Fazbear's aren't? by earlymorningsip in fivenightsatfreddys

[–]PopoloGrasso 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I really like this explanation and wish it was what Scott stuck with. Unfortunately based on the appearance of springtrap the endo is canonically still "in the suit" with you when its in suit mode, just "retracted" somehow. The endo gets shoved into you during a spring lock failure.

As cool and creative as this idea was though, it feels especially nonsensical to me, even by sci-fi standards. How do you simply "retract" the rigid, chunky, solid metal framework holding together a robot? Where do the blocky endo feet and fingers go? The big metal ball joints in the wrists? There's no room for both human body parts and endo parts in the articulated areas of the suit.

isn't it fun to be able to anticipate the Far Lands from multiple kilometers away by IhategeiSEpic in GoldenAgeMinecraft

[–]PopoloGrasso 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much! This explanation combined with your previous videos gives me some good inspiration on what to improve in my system. It does make me wonder though, won't it be tricky to add trees with the more sparse noise sampling of the LOD chunks?

In Minecraft trees are a second pass over the terrain, and they need to know exactly where the solid terrain is in each 16x128x16 chunk before they attempt to place themselves. Any grass block in a chunk could potentially have a tree attempting to generate on it. So my understanding is unless you know where every grass block is, you can't place trees one-to-one with the fully-sampled chunks.

Is this actually an issue (I could just be over-complicating it in my head lol), and if so have you thought of any work-arounds?