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Off Topic / Re: national coming out day [maxwell intervention]
« on: October 11, 2016, 07:35:19 PM »I came.Welcome
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Off Topic / Re: is "the earth is flat"
« on: October 11, 2016, 04:22:03 PM »
yes it is, i got a really long ruler (really really long) and put it on the ground and it sat flat
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Off Topic / Re: Anyone remember cartoon network flash games?
« on: October 11, 2016, 04:19:09 PM »anyone remember big fat awesome house party?i still remember the music from that game
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Off Topic / Re: 2016 USA Presidential Race News & Discussion: Who won the October 9 debate?
« on: October 11, 2016, 04:09:18 PM »http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-25/politifact-apparently-even-facts-are-subjective-and-based-party-affiliationthe article is a bit weird but they're right, the two writers here found the same problem in both cases and assigned the rating differently. hard to know how often it could happen that two writers write about two different candidates that made the same mistake, i think this ultimately comes down to them having different ideas about how incorrect this particular error is
the content of the articles still describes the problems with the statements at the very least; if you actually read the articles rather than looking exclusively at the truth-o-meter, you would get the picture. i would've probably rated both of those at a "half-true"
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Creativity / Re: Game Design Megathread
« on: October 11, 2016, 03:47:28 PM »
cool thoughts my dude, pretty helpful
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Forum Games / Re: YOU CRINGE YOU LOSE
« on: October 10, 2016, 11:53:17 PM »what in the ever living forget is going on in this pictureseems to be from a satirical facebook page, which could probably be inferred by how ridiculous it is lol
also this is some real liberal stuff right here
https://www.facebook.com/MMYVofficial/
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Off Topic / Re: So i recently recieved 7 desktop computers from 1996-2005
« on: October 10, 2016, 09:43:57 PM »Okay I'm not 100% sure on the specifics on how the PS2 exactly handles PS1 games, but I'm fairly sure it plays it natively through the PS1 hardware inside of the the PS2 and not through normal software emulation. The PS2PSXe homebrew emulator is closer to what you were describing.this is correct, PS2 (excluding some models i think) actually has some original PS1 hardware, so it's able to achieve more proper hardware emulation rather than pure software emulation.
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Off Topic / Re: So i recently recieved 7 desktop computers from 1996-2005
« on: October 10, 2016, 09:33:10 PM »Sure, if you've got money to burn, buy an 'authentic retro DOS gaming computer'. But I seriously doubt there's a booming market for this, and OP would be much better off scrapping those computers.yeah i was mostly referring to consoles, i wouldn't consider it worthwhile to buy an old DOS machine as anything other than a neat collector's item
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Off Topic / Re: So i recently recieved 7 desktop computers from 1996-2005
« on: October 10, 2016, 09:24:59 PM »
master is right, emulation will generally struggle to balance accuracy and performance in at least one area. if you're an absolute purist, the original hardware will always offer the most "genuine" experience. but for older consoles at this point, the emulation gets so close these days it's practically identical on well-supported games.
But it's literally just a computer program. This isn't like playing digital recordings versus brown townog vinyl ones. Your console is a computer running lines of code and printing graphical data to a screen.this gets into technical aspects that can get a bit complicated, but yes, it ultimately comes down to the fact that console games are made for the hardware they know it'll be running on, and that makes it difficult for software to work across generations. software doesn't necessarily use a universal language on the lowest levels, and not all hardware works the same and produces the same output given the same inputs.
If the PS1 runs games better than a PS2 for whatever reason, then it's probably an issue of software compatibility. But I can emulate ROMs on my computer that run equally as well as their native consoles. Nobody is going to pay more for obsolete hardware when a newer computer can run a program that lets you play older games.
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Off Topic / Re: So i recently recieved 7 desktop computers from 1996-2005
« on: October 10, 2016, 09:11:52 PM »
sell them on craigslist or ebay or something for profit
watyeah pretty sure he's right, but nobody's really trying to enforce any kinds of rules on this stuff as it stands so it effectively doesn't matter
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General Discussion / Re: In what language was Blockland written in?
« on: October 10, 2016, 09:09:54 PM »Torquescript
C++ and Torquescript.He's right
The engine itself is written in C++, and then all the game scripts are written in TorqueScript.
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Off Topic / Re: I'm Back! and I have a story.
« on: October 10, 2016, 07:30:46 PM »
despicabel...
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Off Topic / Re: 2016 USA Presidential Race News & Discussion: Who won the October 9 debate?
« on: October 10, 2016, 07:21:57 PM »The only grassroots of either the GOP or Democratic party were Ron Paul in 2012 and Bernie in 2016. They're grassroots in history only, and even so the presidency is only one arm of control, controlling the house and/or senate is easily as effective as controlling the executive. See the majority of Obama's presidency, house and senate were practically Republican and our government has done very little relative to what it could do.sorry, i should have clarified that i meant party control is mostly grassroots. party control on a national level is fairly weak because they hold no power over individual members, local party leaders are the ones who are ultimately always more powerful within the party structure. representatives and senators in congress and state legislatures, as well as officials of municipal governments, all have much more real power compared to the national committee. it's a bottom-up structure rather than a top-down one, and Annoying Orange being a bad candidate just means they'll lose favorability by some margin this election and likely gain back lost ground at midterm. this structure means that there doesn't need to be any direction from the top for change to happen, if the majority of party members change, the party will naturally change as well. it's a unit that's characterized by its composition. the goal of a party is just to get people into office, and as long as the GOP can form coalitions that pull lots of votes across the nation, they'll remain powerful.
I definitely look forward to more parties though, what people label the GOP to be today cannot win in the future as younger voters are coming up and older voters die off or stop caring (I'm talking of the more religious types and borderline extremist types in the party, e.g. Ted Cruz, etc.). I can only hope that at least this election will serve to pave the way for the other parties to gain some more momentum.
i do definitely expect that younger conservatives (and honestly liberals too) who go into politics will take with them a much more libertarian ideology, and so the ideological compositions of the parties will shift accordingly as these people start getting into office.