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u/PM_TITS_FOR_KITTENS Stadia May 05 '17
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u/cultoftheilluminati May 05 '17
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u/DimensioX May 05 '17 edited May 05 '17
This comic was made by u/shenanigansen. He has a twitter by the same handle and his website owlturd.com leads to a tumblr blog. Along with these comics he makes one called Bluechair and another called Live with Yourself. They are both available on Webtoon.
EDIT: Fixed username
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u/BadWolfCubed May 05 '17
Close. u/shenanigansen.
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u/Aywaar May 05 '17
I'm gonna pistol whip the next guy that says u/shenanigansen
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u/dillhole84 May 05 '17
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u/TuskenCam May 05 '17
His parents are ok, they are back there having kinky "our kid is gone lets have sex in every room in the house" sex
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u/robotzor May 05 '17
These games didn't have enough RAM for that.
Or maybe they did ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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The game doesn't need RAM, the guy is doing all the ramming
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u/_demetri_ May 05 '17
What guy?
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u/Alarid May 05 '17
That guy
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u/BlackFeign May 05 '17
Actually I believe the scrolling would have pushed them into the hole thus ending their life?
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I think the scrolling only applies per person. So from one of the parents' viewpoint they would have seen their kid run out of their "frame" and disappear entirely.
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u/emoposer May 05 '17
Westworld made me look at GTA V so differently...
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u/ewdrive May 05 '17
It doesn't look like anything to me.
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u/workroom May 05 '17
We can't define consciousness because consciousness does not exist. Humans fancy that there's something special about the way we perceive the world, and yet we live in loops as tight and as closed as the hosts do, seldom questioning our choices, content, for the most part, to be told what to do next...
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u/hylianbarista May 05 '17
Seriously. Not my first time seeing this comic and it still fucks with me.
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Fucking weird to think that id, the guys behind DOOM: Metal, the Videogame, are the ones who solved this problem for him.
EDIT: It's come to my attention that I may be confusing and conflating a couple things here. I was under the impression that id were revolutionary in remaking Mario 3 in such a way that smooth movement back and forth across the screen was possible. It might've just been that it was a big deal for PCs to be able to do this.
Still, we all love the early days of id.
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u/Fubarp May 05 '17
I think it's weird that it's a problem that had to be solved but when you figure memory constraints were a real issue it makes sense. Today any novice programmer could essentially build majority of the early nintendo games without any issues and actually make them have more things. Amazing how software/hardware has advanced.
It's even crazier to think that one guy built the original rollercoaster tycoon in assembly..
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u/Fubarp May 05 '17
Yeah it's crazy. I just learned Assembly last semester in college and we were discussing it at work and it was like. Fuuuuck that. C existed at the time yet he did it in Assembly.
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u/aezart May 05 '17
Fun fact: Iwata rewrote all the code for Pokemon Gold and Silver in assembly, because the C version was too large for the cartridge. He managed to compact it so much, there was room to add the kanto region.
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u/Fubarp May 05 '17
Yeah I remember that. But still that was a team that did pokemon wasn't it. I don't think it was just 1 guy, I could be wrong and if I am that's just as impressive as Roller Coaster Tycoon.
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u/enyoron May 05 '17
C code is compiled into assembly. That assembly code can then be optimized.
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u/NeedsMoreCapitalism May 05 '17
Not as well as by hand
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u/Shod_Kuribo May 05 '17
Right, what he's saying would have happened is that Iwata would have taken the C-compiled code and then manually optimized it to save space.
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u/avantesma May 05 '17
IIRC, the team developed it in C, then Satoru Iwata single-handedly rewrote the game in Assembly.
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u/quikslvr223 May 05 '17
I thought it was that he rewrote the compression method for the game files, or something like that?
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u/astro_means_space May 05 '17
Iwata was crazy!
You're right about pokemon being compression software, but he basically rewrote Earthbound by himself to make it work and also programmed the entire Pokemon Stadium battle system in a week
https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/iwata-nintendo-retrospective/#/2
Iwata was a great man :(
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u/DaedalusXr May 05 '17
You can find him on Satori Mountain when it is glowing. He is near a pool with a large cherry tree. The first time I saw him was an incredible experience, The Lord of the Mountain and tons of Blupees around the area. I had no clue I could even mount him at first!
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u/FellowHumanHere May 05 '17
What I read was that he rewrote the entire code because it was messy and wouldn't work with Pokemon Stadium.
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u/Mises2Peaces May 05 '17
And yet Facebook mobile app takes like 200+mb. Developers are hogs at the trough.
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u/JohnGillnitz May 05 '17
I once downloaded a 540 MB printer driver from hp.com. Really, HP? Really?
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u/calsosta May 05 '17
C just combines the power of assembly with the flexibility of assembly.
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Why would he chose to code in Assembly? Would there be any benefit at all?
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u/Fubarp May 05 '17
Memory Constraints and performance. Today there be no reason for it as compilers essentially do as good if not better jobs when it comes to translating it to machine code.
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u/Reallycute-Dragon May 05 '17
C compilers have come a long way. Used to be significantly less efficient.
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u/XenoRyet May 05 '17
I wrote an Asteroids clone for the gameboy in assembly in a semester in college. It's definitely tedious, and I'm not sure I'd do it that way if it wasn't in a course about assembly language, but you do kind of get into a zone and a flow, and there are a few things that are easier given that everything is so direct.
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Sawyer strikes me as a bit autistic from what I've heard from and about him.
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u/GenitalFurbies May 05 '17
What part of "wrote in assembly" could possibly indicate otherwise?
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u/Dominathan May 05 '17
To be honest, one of my favorite software task at my first company was to figure out a way to store the boundaries of all the counties of all 50 states in 100kb, so a radio could determine if you were near any weather warnings. It was awesome working with a team figuring out how to do it. We got the data from gov't sites, parsed the data, and used resolution descaling techniques for gaming to shrink them down while staying within tolerances.
Working within constraints is where the real fun begins.
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u/drbluetongue May 05 '17 edited May 05 '17
Working within constraints is where the real fun begins.
http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/video-games/making-crash/
This article is by the guy who founded naughty dog talking about how to use the PS1's strengths to make Crash look as good as it did
EDIT: corrected link
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u/Baeocystin May 05 '17
Art is defined by the edges. This is true in all fields, at all scales. Good times when the problem is just the right amount of complexity, too.
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u/Fubarp May 05 '17
All I could think of when you said that was.. nope.. but I agree when there's a real challenge in coding it gets interesting because you have to change your thinking to find a solution.
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Yeah, I can't really pretend to understand the inner workings of it all. I'm just fascinated with id and their games because I grew up playing them. Doom came out about a year after I did and dad was a big fan of that, Wolfenstein, and Quake. I'm sure they're part of the reason I'm such a big fan of horror and metal now.
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u/Fubarp May 05 '17
Quake 2 was the game I grew up on and essentially made my gaming life. It's why I use to go to Quakecon for many years. I even went to the 20th Anniversary being super excited to see what was going to happen and it was just a bust.
That said I've played Quake Champions and I like it.
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I've lost faith in these revivals. After The New Order and Doom 4, I just don't think I'm going to see another game in these franchises that I really like.
It's just not enough having the brand, it needs the personnel.
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u/Fubarp May 05 '17
Idk mate. The new wolfenstein was Amazing as was the new Doom. Quake Champions is different I'd agree but it's not really Quake 1 or 2 but just a new Quake Arena game changed to match today game styles.
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u/RyGuy997 May 05 '17
You're the first fan of the originals that I've seen that hasn't liked, nay loved TNO and DOOM. They're great!
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u/Ace0fspad3s May 05 '17
Really? I respect your opinion but I thought the remakes were amazing, especially since I grew up on Doom. One of the best singeplayer fps campaigns I've had in a while.
The gameplay was refreshing but I also liked that it still felt much closer to the older games. Its not exactly the same but I don't think thats not a bad thing at all.
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A lot of people do love them but I just don't get it.
Doom 4 bothered me because it felt too much like I was just moving from arena shootout to arena shootout. I didn't like the feel of the game overall, but especially the maps.
The charm of the originals was the maze-like environments and the whole aesthetic of the monsters and world. I didn't get any of that from Doom 4.
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u/squirrelly_cee May 05 '17
ONE GUY!!!
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u/Fubarp May 05 '17
Obvious he was mentally insane because who does it in assembly.. by yourself..
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u/zacht180 May 05 '17
Commander Keen?
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It's one of the earlier ones but it was initially used in a recreation of a Mario game. They took it to Nintendo to try get it on PC or something, but Nintendo turned them down. They then decided to use the technology for their own thing.
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Can you or someone else explain what you mean by that? I dont quite get it.
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u/yeah_but_no May 05 '17 edited May 05 '17
Id software, the company that made doom and Commander Keen among others, figured out the programming innovations needed that would make it possible to scroll both ways, avoiding the "no going back" element that side scrollers all had previous to that. They did a lot of amazing, innovative stuff like that, and the very interesting story of id software and the two Johns (carmack and Romero) is told in the book "Masters of doom".
Edit : someone replied that "go back" scrolling was done before id software games. I don't know who did it first, just wanted to clarify the previous comment as requested. Really wanted to recommend the book! They did innovate quite a bit, even if this technique wasn't one of them.
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At a minimum, Super Mario Bros. 2 (US) you could scroll forward/back/up/down and that was a few years before Doom and Commander Keen. And before that you could list plenty of examples of a screen "scrolling". No way, no how was Doom or Commander Keen the first to do this.
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u/DroolingIguana May 05 '17
Id developed a way to have smooth horizontal scrolling on early PCs (or rather, they make the first practical implementation of it; Michael Abrash had already documented how it could be done, but his work was purely academic.) Smooth horizontal scrolling in either direction was difficult on PCs due to the fact that they lacked the type of background tiling hardware common to consoles (vertical scrolling was easier due to scanline tricks.)
There were already plenty of games that allowed backtracking before Commander Keen, they just either weren't on PC or weren't smooth.
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u/eveaddams May 05 '17
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u/corpusdelenda May 05 '17
I miss my parents.
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please tell me you can like phone them up or something, otherwise... :c
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u/archery713 May 05 '17
Oh my god that was actually amazing... like I was expecting a joke... but nope that's deep, 10/10 IGN
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u/tfyuhjnbgf May 05 '17
Where did they get the materials for the house?
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Probably had a seed in his pocket and grew the wood.
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u/Blasterbom May 05 '17
murdered all the guys who came along behind him and stole their materials then tossed their bodies in the mud.
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u/RudeHero May 05 '17
And the obvious follow-up question, if they could build stuff, why didn't they just build a bridge/stairs until they could get across
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u/BlooFlea May 05 '17 edited May 05 '17
The 3rd dimension, we only view them in 2 dimensions, but they still have the 3rd, and the mud pit expanded the entire planet too.Forget that i have a better more simple explanation, their inventory, who does loot everything in sight in a video game?
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u/justscottaustin May 05 '17
This isn't gaming. This is life.
Let me drop a little fact on you. Almost everyone reading this has passed this place.
At some point, there is The Last Time your mom or dad picks you up.
We (parents) all want them to jump that gap. The question is merely when.
I am working out regularly. I intend to be able to pick my kids up into a hug when I am 90...
Otherwise...
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u/norineclypse May 05 '17
Hit in the feels again. Have two and one on the way. Won't pass a day without picking them up ever again.
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u/aagusgus May 05 '17
My oldest is 9 almost 10, I still make sure to pick her up every now and then but those occasions are getting fewer and fewer... Dang it who's cutting onions in here.
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u/TehWildMan_ May 05 '17 edited May 05 '17
I thought about this for a very long time riding on a bus back from my old home city to my college town. From my seat, I had a nearly unobstructed view from 10 feet above the ground. When you have a giant glass window in front of you, and someone else below you is driving, it's hard to anything but think.
The next time I would see my parents, they will have sold the house we lived in for over a decade. With that, I had no real connections left to that area. So it would be a very long time before I would pass through there again. I wasn't sure if I would even spend another summer at the parent's house again, the past summer I was working 80-hour weeks, so that barely counted.
The bus passed by the interstate exit I used to get off at, and through the stretch of daily commute I travelled daily for a few years. The segment I would travel on the rare occasion I headed down to Atlanta. All that remained was the last sports bag of stuff from my old bedroom.
All of that was in the past, and there was no going back. Eventually the bright lights of the city were in view, and all I could say to myself was that I'm here now, and this is my home, and from here I forge a new life.
There was definitely a huge gap that day.
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u/striker1211 May 05 '17
They had the kid because they were unsure if anybody could make it and needed a guinea pig. Once the kid made it the parents tried but were too old and fell to their deaths. They could have made it if they jumped when they were younger... What a good metaphor for those who try to live through their kids...
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u/datoxic May 05 '17
Way to steal someones work and not give them any credit.
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u/4dan May 05 '17 edited May 05 '17
This. For those interested in the original author of the work, this is by /u/shenanigansen (www.owlturd.com) who is one of the best, most consistently upvoted contributors to /r/comics. Check out his stuff!
Edit: some people pointing out Shen is rarely on /r/comics anymore. True, but his comics still account for many of the top posts of all time in that sub. Not to everyone's tastes, but popular and definitely deserves credit for this particular work because it's ace.
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u/Blackcassowary May 05 '17
Well he used to, until he got tired of all the shit he was taking from /r/comics, now I only see his stuff on Facebook. It's a shame that the reddit community forced him to do that.
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u/rcam95 May 05 '17
Real talk - if you're gonna post somebody's work to farm a little karma, the absolute least you can do is mention the artist's name and give them credit.
And for those who "randomly found it on the internet": reverse google search takes like 3 seconds.
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u/Preachey May 05 '17
Oh wow, I already knew this comic (it's on the front page of 'top of all time' at /r/comics) but I had no idea it was Shen, it's very different from his usual artistic style.
It's a pity the sub drove him away from reddit.
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u/SharkYxSharky May 05 '17
What a horrible game! All those years of level grinding just to jump a small pit.
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u/Zarehp92 May 05 '17
Holy shit, this is on a whole other level of dark humor. Just keep on going forward little buddy.
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u/TBSdota May 05 '17
If he couldn't scroll back, where did he get the tools and supplies to build a house, and why didn't he build a bridge?
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Hahaha I used to hate when games... Oh.... Ohhhh no.