DoctaMario

Oh yeah, I almost feel bad for those folks that were "born too late" to enjoy certain things when new... Actraiser and then Streets of Rage soundtracks were game-changers so to speak, when it came to videogame music.  Nothing else was on such a level at the time so it was amazing.
 
I still have that music on CDs and saved as mp3s now; it's still in my regular playlists.

short thread of Koshiro responding to musician who has never heard SoR 2 before
The video in question is Charles Cornell who is another pretty good musician youtuber who sometimes dabbles in analysing VG music.  He found out about SoR 2 through people responding about "Slickback/Jubi Slide" chords
As far as I can tell this is the first time he's actually listened to anything from the 16 bit era so it really is great hearing people's thoughts on music that they never grew up with and realizing "How the fuck does this shit slap this hard?

Bernie Stolar, now that's a name that will live in infamy. I still remember the shenanigans he pulled at Sega. Bringing him in the first place is a prime example of why Sega had to go 3rd party. Most mismanaged company in gaming history. If Sega had competent management they'd still be in the game and excelling. 

IIRC he denied like 90% of Saturn's games from being released on USA for similar reasons to his no 2d games policy.
That and also for being too japanese.
 
Also, I think he was the reason why the Dreamcast didn't use DVD's and instead used a proprietary format. But I could be wrong about this.

Casual matches @DoctaMario@Reticentlyand me had on saturday
 
 
 

The only thing about this that sucks is giving him water. Unless you got gallons, that ain't gonna work. Give the eyes a milk bath and you'll be right as rain. I (unfortunately) had to do this the a couple weeks ago. I was cutting jalapenos and rubbed my eyes. The sting wasnt immediate, but you could feel it build. Tried water and it was laughable relief. Soaked a paper towel with milk and laid it across my eyes for a few seconds and problem solved. 
 
Another Kitchen story - Today, I earned my stripes as the Mandolin finally tasted blood. Doing a quick slice with cucumber and went into autopilot. Took a nice piece of the skin off. While it wasn't super deep, we've hit the max out of pocket for the year so, leveraged the $0 co pay. The wife and I went to urgent care and they got it taken care of. The only good thing was my BP. I've been running at least one mile every day since my bday in Oct. The reading was 109/70. Hasn't been that low since grade school. 

DIE HARD
-A civilian, racially ambiguous lesbian, Joan McClain takes down literal Nazi Hans Gruber in this classic reimagined for modern audiences.  👀

The current generation of Hollywood writers is largely incapable of seeing a movie without trying to reboot it.

The author doubling down
 

MEME MONDAY: drugs are bad edition
 
 

I'm a couple hours into Last Faith and really enjoying it so far. The art style and design is incredible; I always wanted a game like this to have this kind of vibe. The combat is well done and the character feels real snappy and responsive so moving around as well as fighting feels really good. There rpg elements, but thus far they're not overbearing, which I like.
 
 
 

This was the only reaction. And I got in trouble because my daughter pointed at me and said, "Daddy's laughing!"

🤘Metal Monday🤘
for Nirvana fans
 
 


 

Chad's outside reaction

 
Chad's internal reaction

My daughter called my wife's mom fat 😬

So it does 😂

It took them almost a year.
And like Darc said it was super expensive since they basically had to make the game twice to have a tailored for the game netcode instead of brute forcing it.
 
They were also working on it months prior the games release iirc.
 
Also, mkx has less whack on screen movement that reduces the amount of states to store for predictions due possible interactions.

From my brief Google search. MKX dropped 4/15 and KP2 with rollback dropped on 2/16. So that's about a 10 month gap. From my recollection, it was very expensive and they basically had to rebuild the game from the ground up.

It is way harder than you think.
Specially when you have a lot of mechanics and potential game states to store and make possible predictions.
 
This has nothing to do with "japan internet engineering" being dog shit, but that each game has its own rules that need to be taken in consideration.
 
And this is without adding the hardware optimizations needed to be done.
 
Just as an example, my potato 2012 hp omni can handle ggac, but once the rollback is in the equation that shit not only struggles but is impossible to play due the hardware requirements because the rollback implementation was brute forced.
 
The fact that so far the dbfz update is only for ps5 and the ggxrd rollback has stayed only on pc shows is complex issue with many moving parts specially for games with more movement options, mechanics, interactions, etc.
 
I bet that a great problem they have been dealing with is random teleportation and dash interactions like what you see on many racing games that use rollback netccode.
 
Also the great amount of western games with dogshit internet netcode even to this day say hi, like destiny.
 
Netcodes are very hard to make and usually you see games with supposed good netcode being designed around it from the start for a reason.
 
 
 

^ "We're working on it, the game isn't canceled, CTFO"
 
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Bloober Team Offers Silent Hill 2 Remake Update
 

 

Not much on chesscom anymore. On lichessorg mostly.

Needs good ol' JR and King commentary

Probably up on social media now but the incident lasted 2 hours before security got him out. He may have had some mental issues or was under the influence of some drugs. Either way it was wild. 🤣