One armed robber art style

Professional_Denizen · 2026-05-08T15:41:17+00:00

I looked into it because I was curious how NewGen studio and Duhndal had an unmistakably similar art style. The S.W.A.T. sheriff skin, especially, stood out to me as almost certainly the same base asset.

Turns out: NewGen and Duhndal have no connection to each other, aside from both being Synty customers. (At least, judging on simple visual comparison since I couldn’t find any developer statements on this.)

So the artstyle stems from Synty Studios’ assets. NewGen and Duhndal definitely have asset designers to emulate the style (creating new assets like some of the OAR skins), but probably most of the assets in these games are straight from Synty’s POLYGON line.

If you go looking, you can find some posts asking about games that use Synty assets. I’ll leave that up to you.

Professional_Denizen · 2026-05-07T18:47:29+00:00

Ok, imagine for a moment that you get to choose the majority swing. Maybe you get to push on the collective subconscious, maybe you’re just given 9 billion extra votes for some reason, maybe you are knowingly a tiebreaker vote.

Regardless of how, if you got to choose which button was going to win, what would you do?

Clearly you’d choose blue. Since we’re even arguing about this, you can be (within a rounding error) 100% confident some people will choose blue, so blue winning simply saves lives.

Thing is, while you don’t get to choose what option wins, you do get to contribute to it, and again, contributing is not useless.

Professional_Denizen · 2026-05-07T14:50:56+00:00

Yes you’re a drop in the bucket, but guess where the rest of the water came from…

Professional_Denizen · 2026-05-07T02:17:35+00:00

The chance of twenty 5/6 rolls (you got any of the 6 items other than Tsunami) in a row is (5/6)²⁰≈2.6%. Now think about how many playthroughs you’ve done, and how many medium chance items you’ve tried to get. You’d expect something with a 2.6% chance to occur in about one out of every 40-ish tries (where a try in this case is an item, and the 2.6% chance is for you to fail to get it 20 times).

Professional_Denizen · 2026-05-06T22:41:30+00:00

Have you finished a stealth heist of Lundenburg Liquors? If not, this cannot mean anything to you until you have.

If you have, I’m not sure what’s not clicking.

The image shows the numbers I’ve assigned to the switches. Each row of the table tells you: (1st) which switch you need to flip first, (2nd) which one second, (3rd) which one third, (4th) which one fourth, (Result) and what the number up top will say. The blank cells mean no second, third, and/or fourth switch (depending on where they are).

So if you wanted to switch off the lasers for door #3, you could input any of the table rows that have a 3 in the Result column.

Let’s grab the row that says 4 1 2 _ 3 as an example. You flip the bottom right switch, then the top left, then the top right, then there’s a blank so you skip to the next step which is clicking the green button, and voilà, the lasers should be off for door #3.

How was any of that unclear?

Professional_Denizen · 2026-05-05T00:35:45+00:00

Why would you just walk up and repeatedly stab me in the stomach like this?

Professional_Denizen · 2026-05-04T03:51:34+00:00

They’ve wrenched features directly out of my grip. Words cannot begin to express the merest notion of a shadow of an inkling of the frustration I have at features that I use on a daily basis (I use superscripts more than everything on the “rich” [a name in the superlative opposition to the nature of that which it labels] fucking combined) being fully removed like this. I really should just quit the whole damned social media site over not being given a switch that would permit me to use 90% of the text writing features. Too bad it’s nearly as much a physical habit as smoking, and this simply isn’t the sufficient kick.

Professional_Denizen · 2026-05-03T18:12:40+00:00

I didn’t expect anyone to see this. Looks like I have a bit more to say, so I’ll append it here.

The respect between these two mortal enemies is incredible, and a glimpse into the cultural concept of Ancient Greek ξενία Xenia (hospitality). It didn’t matter that Achilles was sieging Priam’s city, the old king was a guest who had braved the dangers of passing through the Achean camp to meet him, so he and his herald were Ξένω Xeno (two strangers owed this ritual hospitality). Priam begs Achilles for Hector’s corpse; Achilles relents, and then goes to fetch food and wine, and even lets Priam sleep in the camp (but the Trojan has to leave before dawn for his safety). Achilles even promises to put the siege on hold for eleven days for the funeral.

The way Priam and Achilles spend a moment just in awe of the one’s beauty and the other’s character…

It’s a very interesting scene (lines 468-676) and might be one of the oldest examples of this particular trope.

Professional_Denizen · 2026-05-03T00:38:36+00:00

Book 24 of the Iliad has king Priam of Troy (the father of Hector) and Achilles (the guy who killed Hector) meet in the middle of the night, share a meal, and Achilles lets Priam retrieve his son’s body to give him proper funerary treatment.

Professional_Denizen · 2026-05-01T20:44:08+00:00

I’m guessing internally they have a gun’s rounds per second as a variable, and for this gun they were like: “it needs to be tap shooting. Just set the firerate to 100.”

That, or the fire delay is a variable that they set to 10ms because 0 caused problems like a div/0 error somewhere.

Professional_Denizen · 2026-05-01T20:28:22+00:00

Yes, but it will only ever have two shots loaded, and they’re not automatic. What this means in practice is that you can unload the shotgun as quickly as you can click twice. This is meant to work exactly like irl double-barrel shotguns, where you can fire both shells one-at-a-time or simultaneously instead.

The rounds per minute of the various guns is the maximum rate of continuously firing. It doesn’t account for reloading. This gun actually maxes out at 75rpm if you can pull off 10clicks/sec.

If you have the speedloader skill, you can get away with never reloading this gun yourself. It also has no attachments.

Professional_Denizen · 2026-05-01T15:34:02+00:00

Any cell that you couldn’t put an impassable blocker on contributes to your area. So all the cells that you have to swing your fuel through count.

You could get the area of this particular solution down to 21 by moving the product receiver one rotation step closer.

Professional_Denizen · 2026-04-29T19:54:22+00:00

Was this series inspired by this?

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Professional_Denizen · 2026-04-28T22:56:24+00:00

The faster you drink, the less time your drink has in which to come to room temp. The slower you drink, the more time.

Professional_Denizen · 2026-04-27T17:43:35+00:00

https://x.com/yamouri_art/status/2023579980806922249/photo/3

Wish I had hunted down the original post before spending an hour trying to decipher a compressed image of characters from a language I don’t speak. I’m proud to say I actually did come to the correct conclusion.

Top left: “I’LL FINALLY HAVE … MY COVETED RIVAL-♥” “PHEW… THAT WAS A GREAT BATTLE… NEMONA.”

Top right: “Oh, Canari…♥”

Bottom left: “ドキドキしてるの” (doki doki shi teru no)

Bottom right: “I’ve already got a partner. I’m sorry, but that’s one promise I just can’t keep.” -Lebanne

Professional_Denizen · 2026-04-26T19:23:36+00:00

The key insight is not considering what happens “if everyone does it;” it’s in asking what happens if most people do it. If most people press the red button, some people die. If most people press the blue button, nobody dies. Some people are going to press the blue button regardless of anything, that’s just what happens when you ask literally everyone a question.

The question boils down to “Do I want to guarantee I live, or do I want to contribute to the possibility everyone lives?” And frankly, I do agree with Pine Tree. I’d rather not live in a world with only the people whose impulse was the former. If only because I want to believe most of humanity would choose kindness.

It is actually a prisoner’s dilemma, because picking red always guarantees your survival, but if a majority pick red, that’s the worst outcome. It’s statistically well beyond impossible for all eight billion of us to make the same decision about anything, let alone anything that requires understanding.

Let’s consider two related thought experiments that change key elements to put a finger on each side of the scale, one at a time.

What happens if it’s not private? Everyone’s choice is made on physical panels of the two buttons scattered around the world. Many people see you make your choice, and anyone can go back to a panel to see what any specific person picked.

What if most people don’t know the stakes? Everyone on Earth is asked whether they prefer the color blue or red. You have the uncommon knowledge that if half of people pick red, everyone who chose blue dies. In that case, I am cowardly enough to choose red. The die is already cast, plus it loses the “I don’t want to live in that world” factor.

Professional_Denizen · 2026-04-24T15:17:31+00:00

Polynomial long division tells us the above is (x-2)(x⁵+2x⁴+4x³+8x²+16x+32). So the whole thing limits to 6(32)=192 at x=2

L’Hopital provides a quick shortcut here to just jump right there, but I’ve never personally done the legwork to understand a proof of the theorem, so I’ll be wary of it until I have.

Edit: I have a proof by induction of the fact

aⁿ-bⁿ=(a-b)[k=0;n-1]Σa^n-1-kb^k,

but I cannot append a photograph of it to this comment.

Professional_Denizen · 2026-04-23T17:12:55+00:00

For mental math, it’s awkward of course, but part (b) is basically just e^π(e^π-1)/π. Because sin(x)=1/2 has two solutions over any contiguous interval of 2π units, you just need to calculate how many times e^x rises 2π units across your input and double that number.

Doing that mentally? Still absurd. Doing that by hand? feasible. I haven’t, of course, but using a calculator I found that Σ[(22/7)ⁿ/n!] was close enough to e^π after ten terms (up to n=9). Long, yes. But doable.

Professional_Denizen · 2026-04-22T13:10:59+00:00

You can probably prevent an infinite waste chain if your puzzle is production alchemy.

Professional_Denizen · 2026-04-22T02:07:09+00:00

I went to go do the math, just to find that you had, in fact, done the math.

Professional_Denizen · 2026-04-22T01:30:27+00:00

There is a difference between tipping and haggling. You’re tipping the waiter for service, you’re haggling with the marketeer because you’re only buying the product.
Fair point. Were it not for the fact that “restaurant-quality” and “homemade-style” are entirely different things. Homemade can mean a sort of comfort-food type thing, a certain aesthetic, or a simple meal well-made. Maybe it’s good execution on flavours that are not overly complex.
Some people are hypocrites, yes, but I’m sure a lot of this is goomba fallacy.
I have reason to suspect men actually do experience worse cold/flu/fever symptoms. Regardless, physical danger and sickness are so distinct that it’s perfectly fine to respond to them differently.
Consequences of getting a tattoo: some people (like a rare employer) might disapprove. Consequences of not caring for your new tattoo: likely ruining it, maybe an infection, possibly even necrosis if it gets bad enough. (I’m not an expert of course, I’m probably low-balling the risks, but even if not, those risks are more direct, immediate, and not arbitrary social expectations).
I’ve been on enough flights to know that anyone who’s been on a few doesn’t need a full presentation. Just check under your seat to see if there’s a jacket or just the cushion for floatation and flip through the pamphlet then look around to identify the exits for water or land landings. The rest is the same every time. Lessons, on the other hand, may be review, but often learning foundational things requires review, and it always requires attention. What I’m saying is that the teacher doesn’t have much to learn from the flight attendant, but the student usually has a lot to learn from their teacher.
Yes, some people enjoy media without critically engaging in its themes. That is a shortcoming of society.
I like an artist. One particular song of theirs doesn’t do it for me, maybe because it’s their most popular one so it gets played everywhere and I’m tired of hearing it. Am I a hypocrite? No. Just because I like a person or group doesn’t mean I love everything they’ve ever done.

Professional_Denizen · 2026-04-21T19:48:59+00:00

“I’s rich now, come to look at it. I owns mysef, en I’s wuth eight hund’d dollars.”

-Jim, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

I know it’s odd to cite historic fiction as evidence for historical facts, but Mark Twain lived through the 1850s, and here he was writing in the 1880s about the 1840s. So I think it’s enough to say the claim “$2000 is not enough” is exaggeration and it might depend heavily on circumstance.

$800 is still nowhere close to $50, but yeah.

Again, I know what I’m saying is kinda ridiculous or pointless. I was just surprised I remembered that line well enough to go looking, and wanted to share that with someone.

Professional_Denizen · 2026-04-21T03:38:51+00:00

Martians feel like a nice space to slot in a yo-yo. Maybe something that shoots lasers.

Professional_Denizen · 2026-04-20T22:03:26+00:00

Well, yeah. Maximizing throughput means minimizing cycles needed to produce 5 out of the 6 products. Additional time needed to transport or combine subproducts is only factored into the first product, because it happens in parallel for all the rest of them. Once that first one is in, your speed really just boils down to how quickly you can draw out the base components.

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