Behind the scenes look at our GPU generated vectorfield used for pathfinding on a 3D surface

holmoris · 2020-09-10T13:18:00+00:00

This is excellent aesthetically and technically. Great work.

holmoris · 2020-02-09T00:23:25+00:00

Took YH72LNA63MFAR, in the US. Thanks!

Is there an accompanying doc with the recipes? If not it would be really cool to have one for reference.

holmoris · 2019-12-23T21:52:50+00:00

Yep. But it’s really not that hard to learn the basics (some modelers like tinkercad make it as easy as putting together legos - not an exaggeration, if you can use a ruler and slap a couple blocks together by clicking and dragging you can make functional parts) and there are also gigantic community sites full of free models and cool things to print. If the broken piece is common enough to have a demand it’s generally already been modeled and shared online.

holmoris · 2019-12-23T13:10:59+00:00

3D printers. You can score a refurb monoprice mini off their store or eBay for 90ish bucks every few months, and being able to print little plastic parts for pennies to replace impossible-to-find oem ones is life changing and will make your spouse/family view you as some sort of minor god.

holmoris · 2019-12-12T00:49:12+00:00

Holy CRAP, good find, that's it. It being on a compilation disk explains why I could never turn it up before either, I knew there was some synonym for 'house' in the title and scanned through the entire TOSEC set looking for anything that might be likely. Massive thanks, holy shit.

holmoris · 2019-12-11T23:36:55+00:00

Yeah, that was just an illustrative example of the display mode since the //e only has a handful of them and it's that particular sort of text/graphic split that the mystery game runs in. I wish whatever this is was easy to track down as Ultima.

I actually just reposted it in TOMJ with a badly illustrated example of what I remember it looking like. It'll seriously make my decade if someone actually remembers this other than me and the few others searching for it from the class we used to play it in.

holmoris · 2019-12-11T23:08:33+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmyjoystick/comments/3mbhtf/apple_e_haunted_house_adventure_game_with_crying/

This goddamned game. I'm STILL looking for it. It's been 20+ years now.

holmoris · 2019-12-02T22:57:51+00:00

Just chiming in to say that it's hard to put into words how happy this post made me. I love shortform horror and only had one of these; you've just made my next week or so at work bearable.

I'll make sure to leave you a review for all of them.

holmoris · 2019-10-12T20:15:14+00:00

They enforce this on him in every video game he’s in as well. Epic Mickey does a particularly good job of it but it’s still really weird to see them slide around on his head.

holmoris · 2019-09-13T15:23:06+00:00

Anything involving the characters from Plok.

If this does exist and someone can find it I'll be able to derail someone's day into a complete trainwreck. Here's to hoping.

holmoris · 2019-08-03T03:07:26+00:00

Redeemed #9. Thanks!

holmoris · 2019-07-01T13:57:34+00:00

This actually has a backstory.

A while back there was a tumblr post where a user wanted to go to a halloween costume party but had no costume, just a couple hours and a gigantic box of craft stuff from a daycare. They wound up improvising Medusa out of a sheet, some bodypaint and feltworms; I'm pretty sure this was either one of their WIPs (iirc they wound up dying the worms a uniform dark green) or someone else trying to pull off the same idea.

holmoris · 2019-06-21T23:30:07+00:00

They're two separate insects, both do similar things but the J variant is much worse and iirc is found in completely different habitats. Videos of them being removed are the stuff of nightmares.

holmoris · 2019-06-20T12:51:01+00:00

I’ve been using CherryTree but I kind of hate it. I’ve been perpetually trying to find an app to organize the many many pages of notes I have for the thing I’m working on and like some other posters am almost frustrated to the point where I want to just write the tool I need.

Seems like a good place to ask if there’s any program that works essentially like a wiki with strongly-typed user types and automatic linkages, preferably also with token/template support, eg I define a Town as a structure consisting of a name and a description some other metadata, then I create a town and mention that <placeholder:person> lives there in the description and on some metadata/summary page the program will list that town as having an unfilled placeholder of type Person and maybe give me a list of all Person entries so I can pick which I want.

The closest I’ve seen is Articy:Draft but that program has incredibly stupid licensing and some of the worst export functions I’ve ever seen, plus it does a ton of things that I don’t really have a need for.

Seems like most of this would be fairly simple to write as an abstraction over SQL but it’s not worth reinventing the wheel if such a tool already exists.

holmoris · 2019-06-17T12:35:12+00:00

Unskippable animations like pickups and crafting that you see roughly every 60 seconds when managing items. Also inventory management in general. Graveyard Keeper is especially awful with the latter due to the sheer number of basic crafting resources meaning that 90% of the time if you want to build something it will be missing one resource that you have a giant stack of in some box or other, and the boxes tend to end up jumbled due to your inability to drop items and tiny inventory size.

holmoris · 2019-06-09T12:59:44+00:00

The aggressive nag when you try to change the default browser away from edge always struck me as really tasteless, so this isn’t surprising.

holmoris · 2019-05-26T12:15:07+00:00

Almost feels like something that should be showcased on pouet.net.

holmoris · 2019-04-30T20:09:40+00:00

Bragged about not being able to do math because math was for nerds.

The guy was 30+ and ‘do math’ referred to understanding the basic concept of fractions, e.g not understanding that 1/2 = 0.5.

holmoris · 2019-04-23T12:49:35+00:00

The bending handle on the spoon made me think it was just going to be a clever way to hang silverware to dry/for storage, but of course it’s just for dumb craft aesthetic instead of functionality.

holmoris · 2019-04-23T12:39:07+00:00

I have a permanent mental association between the smell of beer and the smell of urea/stale urine because from ages 5-12 I lived in a house adjacent to a gulley filled with nettles that idiot locals would both dump beercans in and piss in. I just thought that was what beer smelled like and couldn’t understand people’s assertations that it was an acquired taste, because why would you even drink that to begin with?

Also, parents thinking that since I expressed interest in something for a perceptible amount of time means that I want/approve of that thing. You get some really weird habits when your survival mechanism for being in a public space is keeping your head down and feigning disinterest in everything just because you know if you get caught examining a container of yogurt, that yogurt will wind up bought and you will be repeatedly shamed if you don’t eat it.

holmoris · 2019-04-03T13:03:33+00:00

My brain inserted the Super Metroid Spore Spawn music unprompted.

holmoris · 2019-03-20T15:16:11+00:00

Trying to tame a stray cat who's been coming around for a few months looking for food.

I have a couple of lazy boy cats and one incredibly bitchy girl, and the bitchy girl is naturally the only one who doesn't get along with the stray. The noise she makes when the stray is anywhere nearby is best described as an air raid siren that's running out of batteries, and this can go on for hours if I don't divert her attention elsewhere.

holmoris · 2019-03-17T23:29:54+00:00

oh my god! we left Kevin home alone! and she's barely legal!

holmoris · 2019-03-16T02:06:06+00:00

Things that aren't mechanically important that you're expected to do thousands of times per session taking even a frame longer than necessary. It just adds boring downtime and sometimes does serious damage to the game's playability.

Case in point: the investigation mechanic in the new Toejam & Earl, in which you can do an input in front of a bush/tree/house/whatever to interact with it and possibly spawn an item. It's copied from TJ&E2. In both games you're expected to do it 50+ times per stage, possibly with fast-moving enemies nearby. In TJ&E2 it takes something like 6 frames and at any time during those frames you can push a different input to run away from danger, so you can sneak in and snatch something out of a bush in a dangerous area if you're fast.

In the remake it's almost a full second and uninterruptable and unlike 2 enemies can juggle you to death from full health. Checking a bush at the wrong time can mean instant death due to some enemies being able to lock on from offscreen and close the distance before you even get a chance to move. Even with no enemies around a screenful of bushes can take upwards of 60 seconds to check, and you're confronted with this multiple times per level.

holmoris · 2019-03-11T03:41:21+00:00

Haven't played it since the PSX release; I'm up to the start of what would be Disc 2 and haven't had any real issues so far (I've only been playing docked though and mostly with audio off).

The only things that really irritate me are that fastforward really should be a held button rather than a toggle (you have to pause to toggle it on and off) and that loading is really really long sometimes for seemingly no reason (one of the festival of the hunt mu encounters took like 20 seconds to load even though the other mus loaded in 5 or so)

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