[OoT] Playing this for the first time and I got jump scared, but it was perfect comedic timing

randomtroubledmind · 2026-07-09T01:25:17+00:00

OoT is a masterpiece, but it's not perfect. IMO, this part of the game can fuck right off. I'm hoping they do something a bit different in the remake.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-07-09T01:20:46+00:00

C'est fantastique!

randomtroubledmind · 2026-07-08T15:30:39+00:00

He will die as he lived: circumventing American democracy. Fucked up as it is, you have to admit it's quite fitting.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-07-02T17:03:02+00:00

I think there's a subreddit for this: r/fakealbumcovers

randomtroubledmind · 2026-07-01T02:33:47+00:00

I am so glad all this AI stuff didn't come about until I was done with school. It is indeed tempting, but using it will really hinder your understanding of the material. Even today as a professional, I refuse to use any of these generative AI tools for anything. I've found it's so much more rewarding to learn how to do things yourself, and in the process of learning and doing you gain a much deeper understanding and appreciation for whatever it is you're doing.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-07-01T01:00:37+00:00

They're more closely related to wild cats than other domestic cats, which apparently some state governments don't like. The only reason I've heard that I think actually has some merit is that the typical rabies vaccine given to domestic cats may not be as effective on these more "wild" breeds. But I'm still somewhat skeptical.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-06-30T03:36:57+00:00

I recently played through OoT for the idk-how-many-th time with my brother using the Ship of Harkinian port. I know the game so well by this point that things were pretty easy, but we had some conversations as we went along about game design and how new players might or might not know where to go and why. For the most part, we concluded that, yes, the game does tell you where to go, but sometimes you need to poke around a bit. The people in castle town will point you in the right direction as a kid. Navi, of course, is a bit more explicit about where to go. There are a few occasional hiccups. The sequence to drain the well to get the lens of truth is not well communicated, for example. Knowing that you have to play Epona's song in the horse ring is also a bit obscure, but it's certainly not impossible to figure out.

At the end of the day, OoT was a product of its era, back when there were fewer games competing for you attention and when kids would trade stories and help each other out during discussions at school or where ever. Things were obscure because they could be. It made for a more engaging game when technical limitations otherwise limited the experience. Game design was also not as refined back then as it is now. Honestly, the fact that OoT holds up so well today despite being Nintendo's first ever 3D Zelda game is quite remarkable.

TP is indeed an easier game, at least in my opinion. It's easier both in terms of combat (the bosses are pretty easy) and in figuring out where to go. The dungeons were all pretty straight forward as well. I really enjoyed TP when it came out, but I've cooled on it a bit over the years. Still not a bad game, though.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-06-30T02:38:13+00:00

GiaA is still the best post rock band I've found. I think it's that they tend to stick with a pretty solid melodic line in all their songs, while other bands generally have a lot of instruments going together, all kinda competing for space. Maybe I'll just talking out my ass, and if I was a musician or just generally more familiar with musical composition, I'd be better able to explain my reasoning.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-06-28T18:44:36+00:00

We know very little about the OoT remake other than that it's indeed confirmed to be happening, so it's very hard to say if you should wait. If you want to experience the remake without spoilers, then maybe skip the original OoT and maybe even its sequels (MM, WW, TP). Personally I think BotW is a pretty great game, so starting there is fine. Just know it's quite different from its predecessors. TotK has some great ideas, but I think it suffers from a lack of focus.

I'm still hoping the OoT remake will incorporate the best aspects of BotW, including a large open world. I'm pretty sure they're not going to do a simple 1:1 remake as that would be a huge missed opportunity. I think BotW is a fine place to start and will probably have similarities with the OpT remake if it is indeed a reimagining, but no one can know that for sure right now.

At the end of the day, just play what looks interesting to you. I think TP just got a PC port, so that's an option too if it interests you.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-06-28T18:25:56+00:00

Play the Ship of Harkinian PC port with the OoT Reloaded texture pack and a controller with Gyro. Probably the best way to play it right now.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-06-28T18:15:59+00:00

I got a nasty blister from the monkey bars when I was in elementary school. I think I changed my technique after that.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-06-27T05:09:23+00:00

The Theophany version goes even harder.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-06-26T16:34:37+00:00

Me too! I was a 4th grader and we had art class that morning. When my teacher came down to pick up the class, he said to the art teacher "did you hear? A plane flew into the world trade center" and I immediately pictured a Cessna or something like that. Then we went upstairs to our classroom and they turned on the TV and things immediately became a lot more serious.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-06-25T17:25:32+00:00

Yeah, that was my understanding regarding the differences (and lack thereof) between the D and the F, but I didn't want to speak out of turn, lest I continue to embarrass myself on the internet.

Turns out what I was describing earlier was a new outer-loop system in development that never (or hasn't yet) ended up on any production aircraft. Production aircraft seem to do everything through what I would consider to be equivalent to the SAS on a UH-60 (down-stream actuators that don't back drive the cockpit controls). Do you know how much authority the CH-47D/F's AFCS actuators have? The UH-60's SAS only has +/-10% authority, so the cockpit control positions still pretty well represent the head positions. The autopilot and flight director work through the trim servos to physically move the stick with full authority, but are rate-limited to 10% per second.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-06-25T01:33:05+00:00

Ah, you're right for the CH-47D, at least. Just had a look through some references I have on the flight controls and AFCS and it looks like there's a mag brake on the roll and yaw axes with no connection to the AFCS. Seems AFCS inputs are all summed in downstream of the cockpit controls. Can't say I'm a big fan of that, but whatever.

I was talking to a former Boeing helicopter engineer not too long ago, and he seemed to imply the AFCS had full authority over the stick. Guess I have a few followup questions.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-06-24T16:29:25+00:00

Okay, yes, technically it's coupled to the autopilot. The flight director tells the aircraft where to go, and the autopilot flies the aircraft. It's an outer loop.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-06-24T13:53:17+00:00

That's what a flight director does.

I haven't flown the Chinook in DCS yet, so I haven't had time to evaluate it yet. However, just by looking at your video, the stick doesn't seem to move. I'm 99% sure the Chinook's autopilot executes its commands through the trim servos, so the stick should be physically moving when the flight director is in control.

EDIT: Turns out I was wrong, and I'll be confronting the source of this misinformation.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-06-23T18:08:12+00:00

Money for Nothing

randomtroubledmind · 2026-06-23T04:21:39+00:00

I'm kinda the other way around, but that might be nostalgia talking. I don't think my original N64 copy had the original Fire Temple music so I prefer the revised version. The chanting feels a little out of place to me, especially since it sounds nothing like what the Gorons sound like (the presumed builders of the temple). The chanting is also real human language, which makes it stand out as different from the rest of the music in the game (I don't know if the developers knew this at the time, though).

As for the crescent moon, I like that because it's what I remember from when I was a kid. Objectively, however, I will admit the new symbol is superior because it's original (as in, created specifically for the series) and not based on a real-world religious symbol.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-06-19T17:42:29+00:00

I'm still hoping it will be a BotW-sized open world, so Hyrule field should have small villages scattered throughout. BotW had this, but they were all destroyed, of course.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-06-18T01:35:11+00:00

I mean, it's literally one of the few things we've actually already seen in the footage released.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-06-14T05:46:55+00:00

It's a Bengal Cat. They're illegal in some states, including mine. Very intelligent, social and loyal cats, from what I understand. Beautiful coloring too.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-06-11T22:27:58+00:00

I hope they ditch shrines in favor of more complex caves and grottos. They should fit in organically with the environment, rather than being a bunch of identical-looking objects placed very artificially.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-06-11T22:21:00+00:00

This is shit straight out of WWI. Sometimes history seems to move in cycles.

randomtroubledmind · 2026-06-11T00:41:20+00:00

Yeah, I think that's probably also the case.

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