silverchase

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is it 10 gig?

I genuinely believe this is a post that would be appreciated in this community. I don't see what's meme-ish about the video other than that it's entertaining in addition to being generally interesting, even to those outside the RCT niche. I've licked boot before and reported posts here for rule 4 violations, but this seems in line with other non-"gaming news" videos here:

[Ahoy] What genre is DOOM?
"I made a website to revive dead multiplayer games (GameDate)" by batty
Portal, but the portal surfaces are inverted (I shared this one)
and various occasional videos about speedrunning achievements

My personal motivations to post to !games@lemmy.world are to share things that are interesting with at least some level of intellectual stimulation, to contribute my original effort in magazine-like content from time to time (as Atticus, PerfectDark, and CobySev also do), and to share news that gaming news sites don't cover. From my own perspective, I think I've demonstrated appropriate discretion in posting things here; I don't bring in every headline and video I see pop up that has something to do with games. This channel has plenty of videos about RCT but I chose to share this one because it's not so deep that it would belong in a game-specific community and not so shallow that it's gaming lifestyle/humour content, but it is in a range where the topic is reasonably appreciable by a general core gaming audience.

r/games is so uptight that it's pretty much a gaming news RSS feed with a comment section and the "gaming" communities are upvote farms with only marginal connections to games themselves. I like here because I like the mix of high-profile news, low-profile news, and original discussion. If you don't think videos like this belong here, I'm okay with that, but rule 4 will probably need a revision to better match what you want here to be. I thought this post was adequately within the spirit of that rule, as were those other videos I cited.

Anyway, let's discuss this video.

Marcel Vos makes a lot of deep, technical videos about RollerCoaster Tycoon. This is actually a follow-up to his previous video where he goes into how he updated the longest ride ever to be even longer. That video was pretty deep and it's also a mind-numbing 41 minutes long. Compared to his usual fare, this demonstration of very short rides is much more accessible! And short!

In my opinion, what makes this not meme-ish is that he doesn't add humorous music or other embellishments to his demos, and he shares (AFAIK) his own knowledge and work in figuring out how to make very short rides, including some creative and contrived ways to reduce the length of a ride. It's not a mere clip compilation or just reading from a wiki or subreddit, so there is an informative, intellectual element. I find it really fascinating to see people optimize the hell out of a game purely out of curiosity and appreciation of it, especially when the game is long past its trendy phase.

Silverchase @sh.itjust.works 1w ago

Hot on the outside and the inside!

Silverchase @sh.itjust.works 2w ago

Glorious omegachad of mathematics

Silverchase @sh.itjust.works 2w ago

Yeah, that's very typical of the math articles.

The gamma function then is defined in the complex plane as the analytic continuation of this integral function: it is a meromorphic function which is holomorphic except at zero and the negative integers, where it has simple poles.

Silverchase @sh.itjust.works 2w ago

Cloud

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Silverchase @sh.itjust.works 2w ago

Fun fact: if the learning curve is steep, then it's rising up a lot in a small amount of time. In order words, a steep learning curve means a lot of learning happens quickly!

Silverchase @sh.itjust.works 2w ago

Fedora's key selling point is being up to date and extremely boring. It's mainly just off-the-shelf software, with minimal niche custom software. Flathub and Steam are available from the setup process. It's the most Linux Linux that Linuxes today.

Edit: the bonus is that Red Hat being a sponsor means that the biggest improvements to the Linux desktop come to Fedora first. That's what happened with PipeWire.

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Silverchase @sh.itjust.works 2w ago

Portal 2's level editor

Silverchase @sh.itjust.works 2w ago

This comment is going to delete itself twelve months from now and I expect everything to be alright by then!

Silverchase @sh.itjust.works 2w ago

Nice and floofy.

Silverchase @sh.itjust.works 2w ago

I think the video I linked in the post would demonstrate the benefits better than me writing here. I agree that the look of Portal 2 has long-lasting appeal, but P2CE introduces improved lighting and graphics rendering inspired by Source 2 while still being Source 1. Otherwise, the improvements are mainly technical, like removing signature "Source spaghetti" engine limitations.

The real killer feature is that it reorganizes Portal 2 under the hood to be very mod- and custom campaign-friendly, so it will be the Portal enthusiast's dream platform.

Here's a video from the P2CE channel that shows the lighting changes in a bit more detail.

Silverchase @sh.itjust.works 2w ago

You'll miss out on the plot of 1 that sets up for 2, but for gameplay, you would be fine. But if 1 crashes, you better hope 2 works well.

Silverchase @sh.itjust.works 3w ago

How do i stop my son from looking at picachu porn

Silverchase @sh.itjust.works 3w ago

!blurrypicturesofcats@lemmy.world

Silverchase @sh.itjust.works 3w ago

In Dicey Dungeons, you do turn-based battles by rolling dice and assigning them to your moves, which are tiles that fit on a grid. There's a set of storylines about a bunch of characters who have been turned into anthropomorphic dice.

Just Shapes and Beats is a rhythm-bullet hell hybrid where you dodge graphical patterns set to electronic music. You play through a campaign, including boss fights and goofy animated cutscenes, to unlock more tracks in free-play mode. There's also co-op!

Ash & Adam's GOBSMACKED is a single-player arena FPS. You battle robots in a series of arenas with a set of wacky weapons, with shops in between. At the start of each run, you have to buy yourself a starting loadout using the money you got from previous runs, but you can't choose the same items as your last run. Buying an item for the first time at a shop unlocks it so you can choose it as a starter in a future run.

If you're willing to stretch your definition of arcade-style, Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop has you repairing spacecraft with the help of an old manual but plenty of things kill you, including not making enough money to pay rent. You go through a time loop story where you take what you learned in the previous loop to make it further next time. There are different endings based on what you did in a loop.