I always thought that the masonry layout looked good but made it harder to get a good overview of the images.
Readit Newsemilbratt commented on You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser dos.zone/grand-theft-auto... · Posted by u/Alifatisk
This works amazing well. I started playing and just 5 minutes in, I was completely hooked and ended up playing for almost half hour.
It could be that I'm a bit old-school, but this really seemed to confirm that ready to play fun gameplay trumps realistic graphics any day!
Pushing the nostalgic effect aside, I agree. The gameplay is the important part and is why I can still play snes games to this day.
emilbratt commented on 30 years of <br> tags artmann.co/articles/30-ye... · Posted by u/FragrantRiver
Im only half way through, but just wanted to share that I love this kind of write up
emilbratt commented on Common Rust Lifetime Misconceptions github.com/pretzelhammer/... · Posted by u/CafeRacer
I don't think anyone believes the “if it compile it works” phrase literally.
It's just that once it compiles Rust code will work more often than most languages, but that doesn't mean Rust code will automatically be bug free and I don't think anyone believes that.
Yeah, even the official Rust book points it out and if my memory serves me right (not punintended) also gives an example in the form of creating a memory leak (not to be confused with memory unsafe).
emilbratt commented on XBMC 4.0 for the Original Xbox xbox-scene.info/articles/... · Posted by u/zdw
I remember modding my Xbox and putting XBMC on it.
One of my fondest memories is actually playing games directly off the hard-drive.
One of the great "side-effects" of that was basically cutting loading times almost in half.
I especially remember the loading animation in the game Crash Bandicoot - Wrath of Cortex. Crash Bandicoot himself would keep falling during the loading screen. (note: PS2 version had another looking version). The game loading screen for Xbox was designed so that the camera movement nicely panned throughout it during the time the loading took, but due to the loading time being shorter the "animation" was cut short.
..just a fun little thing that stuck with me. :)
EDIT: Oh! I found videos on youtube demonstrating the "difference".
Here is the original experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1327&v=jLf9EZWLins
Here is the experience when cut short: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1157&v=Vk8AuLhnu58
It definitely has a bit of a learning curve! In playtesting it sometimes took a bit for the rotation to “click” for people.
Yeah that was it for me, the rotation really threw me off.
I recently launched a daily word puzzle!
It’s inspired by tile placement board games like Patchwork and crosswords. You rotate and move tiles to rebuild a broken crossword.
It’s free, web based, and responsive.
I currently have several hundred daily players and growing. My wife and I create the puzzles and I’m continuing to fix bugs and add new features.
I just launched a ”community puzzle” feature to let players help build new puzzles.
I’d love to know what you think!
I love it. I struggle more than I want to admit, but super fun nonetheless.
emilbratt commented on Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python (2023) vgel.me/posts/c500/... · Posted by u/ofou
That is not a compiler. That is called a wrapper script.
But funny none the less.
Here is an example of the layout of a photostream that I was satisfied with.
https://frifoto.emilbratt.no/?view_mode=photo-stream&tag=All...