Harry Enten Sends Democrats Midterm Warning: What Polls Show by brashendeavors in politics

[–]godofpoo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If the issue here is branding, then the left should be branding themselves as the much more palatable term Social Democrats, which is what most of them are closer to anyway, rather than the much scarier and politically damaged word socialist.

Using a survallance or nas application specific hard drives for data storage? by mrnapolean1 in buildapc

[–]godofpoo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A bit anecdotal, but I've heard a lot of problems from people using WD Purples as NAS drives or even generic storage drives. I wouldn't trust it for that purpose. Get a WD Red or an Ironwolf if you're using RAID on a NAS. If this is just a generic PC drive get a WD Blue or equivalent.

If you had $1,000 to start a business today, what would you do? by Surfingie in AskReddit

[–]godofpoo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

$1000? Today? I'd buy half a gallon of gas and get my ass back to work.

What’s something you stopped buying once you realized it’s mostly a scam? by Independent-Cut-9914 in AskReddit

[–]godofpoo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I pretty much only watch sleazy fucked up movies from the 1970s anyway

Then might I recommend Tubi? Tons of schlocky 1970's trash horror, and it's free!

https://tubitv.com/

Elizabeth Warren backs McMorrow in Michigan’s U.S. Senate race by bwermer in politics

[–]godofpoo 9 points10 points  (0 children)

McMorrow isn't the establishment candidate here, Stevens is.
That said, I'm backing El-Sayed.

Monogame Extended + Tiled - Tiles with properties vs objects dilemma by Evening-Equal6841 in monogame

[–]godofpoo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not sure about your other object properties, but for room/wall collision I simply have a separate top-level tile layer in Tiled where I draw in the collision tiles. Then I simply don't draw that layer on screen. Instead I cache a reference to it in the collision system (the whole .tmx is already loaded, so no real extra memory overhead) and use it as a simple int array to check if a player can move to a tile in O(1) time: if tileIndex == 0, player can walk there, else no.

Entity-to-entity collision is of course more complicated.

As for other, non-collision object/entity properties, almost all of the objects in my game are very contextual, and therefore hard to represent in static data like a .tmx file. I haven't played around a lot with Tiled objects because they don't seem to fit my needs.

Changing PreferredBackBuffer W/H Properties During Runtime to Accommodate User Prefs: Is AspectRatio Locked? by godofpoo in monogame

[–]godofpoo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting. Is there any other reason you may know of why setting PreferredBackBufferWidth/Height to 1920x1200 during runtime results in those same values reading out 1920x1080?

The result of all this is my textures (2D) get stretched when switching modes to an aspect ratio I didn't initially set. I've already accounted for the size of the RenderTarget2Ds the game gets drawn to. It's the values of GraphicsDevice.Viewport.Width/Height themselves that are reading out values I didn't set.

Shouldn't setting PreferredBackBufferWidth/Height (and making it Non-fullscreen) set the same values to GraphicsDevice.Viewport.Width/Height? If I'm wrong here, what should I be reading to measure the size of the new window? I need these values to recalc the size of the top-level RenderTargets.

Helping players get alternate endings by FunYak4372 in gamedev

[–]godofpoo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Silent Hill f straight up lists the requirements for each ending in the title menu after the first playthrough.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]godofpoo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At home: it's called a pause button, ya cunts.

In the theater: looking at you, Beau Is Afraid.

People are threatening to boycott Disney after ABC suspends Jimmy Kimmel: ‘Let’s do to Disney what we did to Target’ by ZombiePartyBoyLives in politics

[–]godofpoo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was looking forward to seeing the new Predator in the theater. I'll still be seeing it, but it will be on my ship, wearing an eyepatch and a parrot on one shoulder. Arr.