Ooh nice. I'll definitely check it out.
QuantumBamboo
joined 7 months ago
No. Just a reflection of how deep I've gotten into it! 😂
Make the Sun Great Again! The moon is a lefty loser!
I always have a little chuckle at 13:37. It's one of those times that I irrationally feel I see more often than any other time, but it's just that I notice that specific set of numbers more than any other... or maybe I check the time at exactly the same point each day because my body clock is 1337!
Link's Awakening was my first game on my Gameboy, so will always have a special place in my heart! Ocarina was my first N64 game too, and it blew my mind! Nostalgia plays some part in how I feel about those games, but both are still solid games to this day.
BoTW and ToTK both managed to push the boundaries of gaming, and the sheer joy of discovery in both games makes them stand out. I do also love ALttP though, and in its own time it was just as revolutionary I reckon. I didn't play it until the 2000s though.
Very nice. Good video too. I like hearing the origin story if the game. And to your point about not wanting to show your code... ugly code is beautiful code really. Anything I write is akin to modelling with clay... using hammers. But if it does the job (especially any smooth UX bits) and resource availability is not particularly critical then all good. Seeing that process play out through code structure is cool though. Much more interesting than some ultra optimised minimalist code. When it comes to a game, I think a slightly chaotic code base actually lends some artistic effect that bleeds through the actual visual/aural/haptic interfaces. Game looks fun though, is what I'm getting at. Make sure to post a link to the demo when it arrives!
The concern about digital media compatibility and longevity is definitely valid. But even in the unlikely event that all electronics simultaneously went kaput, the knowledge to recreate working systems, as well as the materials, are still going to be there. Also, the average person has more knowledge than even just 200 years ago, not too mention the fact there is still more print media around than then too.
Yes our current global data footprint could take a massive hit, and would feel like a huge step back, but it's still going to be comparatively huge compared to any other time in history. Not so much going back to the stone age as going back to the 1980s.
Information his always degraded over time. Some being lost, some being made obsolete, some evolving (like culture). I think given our short term digital experience as a species we just find it a bit of existential crisis to view our digital data as having a shelf life too.
Snowball throwing was banned because a nephew of a friend of a friend of a teacher was supposedly blinded by one. Same school had an assembly that informed us that listening to heavy metal would make us want to kill our friends.
Fat tube severing Mum tea
Newtonian physics was universal until general relativity. I think it's a bit premature to declare we have fully unravelled how the universe operates.
EDIT: Posted too early due to child attack! That's the real universal law... whenever you're using your phone your kids jump you.
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Tank racing is a fond memory of mine too. A friend had a modded PC copy in which you could increase the speed of vehicles too. The backwards tank shots could make you fly! Handling however was exactly how you would expect a canon powered flying tank to handle though...