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smazga commented on Unreal Tournament 2004 is back   old.reddit.com/r/unrealto... · Posted by u/keithoffer
bitwize · 17 days ago
Camp out in the upper chamber, wait for Redeemer to spawn, grab it and nuke 'em all. Great for taking out snipers posted on the opposing tower who are preventing your guys from crossing.

Fuck, CTF-Face was a vibe.

smazga · 17 days ago
UT99 was the first real FPS experience I had. My friend invited me to a LAN party (also first time), and the whole thing was mind blowing.

People all over the house shouting and laughing.

I have a distinct memory of someone attempting what you just described, but my friend just happened to be ready and he sniped the redeemer right as it was shot. Big explosion and nothing left of the player but a scorch mark on the building. I laughed myself to tears. Good times.

smazga commented on Unreal Tournament 2004 is back   old.reddit.com/r/unrealto... · Posted by u/keithoffer
superxpro12 · 17 days ago
those ant-sized man in house maps were the best. i dont think ive ever seen anything like it since.
smazga · 17 days ago
The game Grounded almost has that feel, but it's open world.

There's another game called Hypercharge:Unboxed that is definitely giving me the feeling of those old UT maps, but I haven't actually played it.

smazga commented on Why children perceive time slower than adults   bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/andsoitis
User23 · a year ago
There’s clearly a relationship between the perception of time and memory formation. For example when undergoing heavy sedation, such as for surgery, the time between going under and coming to feels instant. Of course you’re a bit loopy thereafter, but the time when you’re forming absolutely no memories at all is a skip.
smazga · a year ago
This is also my theory. For children, lots of stuff in their lives is new and noteworthy, so they're making new memories all the time. Therefore, time seems slower because they have so many data points to refer back to. I'm nearly 50 and so much of my daily life is routine and definitely _not _ noteworthy. The memories I form are much more sparse. Therefore, time seems to fly by, because there are much fewer data points to reference.
smazga commented on Jujutsu: A Next Generation Replacement for Git   vincentschmalbach.com/juj... · Posted by u/vincent_s
3523582908 · a year ago
I use Jiujitsu, and my personal experience is that the basic "write code, git add what specifically I want to history" flow is the same. The working commit is the effective staging area and it doesn't get forever committed to public history. Without going too much in detail, the working commit can't be pushed to your remote, similar to how the staging area can't be pushed.
smazga · a year ago
Could you explain that just a bit more? I'm trying to figure out how to adapt my personal workflow to jujutsu and this is the part that confuses me.

I think it's me not understanding the difference between "jj new" and "jj commit", but I'm not sure.

I'm a big fan of the staging area for crafting clean commits, so this would be super useful for me to understand.

smazga commented on Full $71M breakdown for The Village by M. Night Shyamalan (2003) [pdf]   wlmager.com/wp-content/up... · Posted by u/cocacola1
echelon · 2 years ago
"Signs" was one of my favorite films of the 2000s, if you don't nitpick about the water. Suspenseful, well acted, leaves you guessing, eager for more.

Suffice to say, I eagerly anticipated "The Village" from the moment the first trailer dropped. The costumes looked cool. The colors, the creatures, the mood and the mystery.

I don't think I've ever left a theater quite so disappointed. The twist ruined what had been a magical experience for the better half of the film. I wanted the magic to endure, but I got slapped with a bad episode of "The Outer Limits".

Shyamalan remains a fantastic filmmaker for his hits, but this one hurt me. I don't wait for films anymore.

smazga · 2 years ago
I'm a fan of the "aliens are demons" and "the water is holy" (you know, because he's a priest) interpretation.

It's a stretch, but makes the water fit into the story better (in my opinion).

smazga commented on Thanks to Don Bateman, airplanes don't crash into mountains anymore (2016)   bloomberg.com/features/20... · Posted by u/walterbell
epolanski · 2 years ago
Commercial airliners crash into mountains even with the ground proximity warning actually.

Out of my memory, in Nepal alone all of the following happened despite ground proximity warning Tara Air 197 in 2022, Paki 268 and Thai 311 are some I can think of but I'm sure there's more.

Problem is: even if GPW is activated pilots may not be trained correctly to handle the warning, they may distrust the warning due to it being active concurrently with other malfunctions, lack of spacial awareness, puzzlement/stress, etc.

smazga · 2 years ago
I flew from Ramichaap to Lukla (Nepal on Tara Air) earlier this year and GND PROX was flashing on the screen the entire time. I thought it was funny and took a photo. The terrain and flight path don't really get you to a safe altitude above the ground.
smazga commented on The story of titanium   construction-physics.com/... · Posted by u/weird_user
BobaFloutist · 2 years ago
Can you 3D print metals yet? That sounds quite difficult.
smazga · 2 years ago
Sort of! https://thevirtualfoundry.com

Not directly extruding it, but the end result is metal.

smazga commented on The Timer in WatchOS 10   furbo.org/2023/09/28/the-... · Posted by u/zdw
sgentle · 2 years ago
I absolutely hate the list-of-custom-timer UIs on both iOS and Android. I can only assume that both companies have separately gone through the cycle of "people want favourite/recurring alarms" -> "timers are just alarms for relative time" -> "people want favourite/recurring timers".

The thing is, there just aren't that many times I want a timer for. Nobody's out here with a carefully curated gallery of artisanal durations. It takes me more time and effort to scroll to my 15-minute timer than it would to hit 1-5-enter on a numeric keypad.

Hell, even just a +1,+5,+10,+15 grid that starts immediately or adds to the current timer would cover everything I've ever needed within four taps. But, nope, gotta gallivant through my menagerie of exotic timers to pick out the perfect one. Infuriating.

smazga · 2 years ago
It's a little embarrassing to admit, but timers ("hey siri, set a timer for 10 minutes") is the most common thing I use a voice assistant for. Works great, though.
smazga commented on How many medical studies are faked or flawed?   web.archive.org/web/20230... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
goosinmouse · 2 years ago
I can relate. I never drank anything with caffeine and would get headaches fairly often. Headaches were never too bad or too often to need medical attention but was just normal part of life. I started drinking coffee on road trips and drives over 3 hours long and noticed that my headache coming on would go away right after. Now i drink coffee twice daily and i'll get a headache once a month at most.
smazga · 2 years ago
Yerba mate is my caffeine of choice and I suggested it to my Dad who gets bad migraines. He claims that when he feels a migraine coming on, he can drink a can and it will result in a mild headache instead of forcing him to lie down in a dark room for hours.
smazga commented on How the World’s Most Famous Scream Was Recovered   youtube.com/watch?v=6x0xm... · Posted by u/robinhouston
LeonM · 2 years ago
There is also a commonly used sound effect of crowd cheering. I don't know what it is called, but it is used everywhere. I can't find is easily on YT, so my guess it is copyrighted.

First time I heard it was in the original Tony Hawk Pro Skater game, every time you did a neat trick, you'd hear the same crowd cheer clip. I thought it was really annoying (I must have been ~14 yo at the time). Later as I got older, I started to recognise the same clip everywhere, with the same effect as you describe (immediately snapping you out from suspension of disbelief).

It is also used a lot in 'live' audience reactions, such as talent shows, stand up comedy, sitcoms, etc.

smazga · 2 years ago
I don't know if they were stock sounds, or just lifted from the game, but so many bad shows use the police radio and fire engine siren from SimCity 3000.

u/smazga

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