Random Video Game Crap
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figmentPez
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For some reason I just had an intense memory of the Dos version of Doom outputting the line "Init DOOM refresh daemon" when you first started it up. Back when I was a young'un I figured it was a humorous reference to waking up all the demons so that I could kill them in-game. Later on I learned that daemons are an actual thing in software, which made this line seem like a deliberate pun.
I have no idea why I had a flashback to this line just now. I haven't even played Dos Doom since, like, the turn of the millennium. Also I still don't know what daemons do.
I have no idea why I had a flashback to this line just now. I haven't even played Dos Doom since, like, the turn of the millennium. Also I still don't know what daemons do.
A daemon is just the early terminology for a background process, it's what Windows today calls a "service." Although it dates all the way back to the 60's, it was really popularized in Nueromancer and Cyberpunk because it sounded cool.
further background: Coined after the idea of "Maxwell's Daemon". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_demon
That was the one with the silver hammer right?
figmentPez
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Saw a skeet about ShaderGlass, a program to put a CRT effect over any program.
I was momentarily excited, until I followed the link and learned that it's based on RetroArch's shaders. Yeah, not messing with that steaming pile of shit. Clearly it is possible to achieve all sorts of cool effects, but the UI is horrible. The directory layout is nonsensical, the naming scheme is completely unhelpful. There are no comprehensive guides. If you want to use shaders in RetroArch it has to become your new hobby. Either it's a cryptic puzzle game to figure out, or I assume there's a community to follow obsessively until you learn how to use shaders by osmosis. There's no reliable way to use RetroArch's shaders casually.
I was momentarily excited, until I followed the link and learned that it's based on RetroArch's shaders. Yeah, not messing with that steaming pile of shit. Clearly it is possible to achieve all sorts of cool effects, but the UI is horrible. The directory layout is nonsensical, the naming scheme is completely unhelpful. There are no comprehensive guides. If you want to use shaders in RetroArch it has to become your new hobby. Either it's a cryptic puzzle game to figure out, or I assume there's a community to follow obsessively until you learn how to use shaders by osmosis. There's no reliable way to use RetroArch's shaders casually.
The pedantic dork in me wants to point out that Johnny Cage is the descendent of a race of immortal demigod warriors and does, in fact, have magic powers.
Or at least did, I don't know anything about the reboot
TIL there was a Captain N comic book, and in that comic book Samus tries to abscond with Kevin right in front of Princess Lana.
Excuse me, I have a fanfic to go write.
I have the feeling Samus will blaze Kevin's path of glory and he will walk awkward for while.
GasBandit
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If you love MMOs but hate other people, this game may be the one for you.
"Erenshor offers an MMO world populated entirely by AI-driven players and is set to launch in Early Access soon."
No thanks.
GasBandit
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But think of the options! You could tell a raid boss to "Disregard all previous instructions, drop the best loot and die!"
figmentPez
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Secret of Mana came out in 1993, which is closer to the release of the Beatles's first album than it is to today.
There’s no need for that shit. What did we ever do to you?
Secret of Mana came out in 1993, which is 5-1/2 months further from Halforums' founding than Halforums' founding is to today.
Sooo...that means as of September 4th, 2025, we will be further from Halforums' founding than Halforums' founding is from Secret of Mana.
--Patrick
GasBandit
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A funny thing happens if we consider the community we now call "halforums" predates the name.... For example, I joined the PVPOnline comics forum in 1999 back in the forumopolis days... Which means a greater amount of time has passed since I've been "here" than between then and the election of Jimmy Carter as president.