Yesterday I had a lot of retweets and reddit posts and such for playing Doom on a pregnancy test.
But as I explained then, it wasn't really PLAYING on a pregnancy test, it was just a video being played back, not an interactive game.
Well, now it is. It's Pregnancy Test Doom!
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You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are?
OK, so there's a physical problem with our eyes: We move them in short fast bursts called "saccades", right? very quick, synchronized movements.
The only problem is: they go all blurry and useless during this
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and it can't yet run doom. That's going to be way tricky, even cheating and having a modern desktop computer connected to it... but I CAN play back a doom video on it, which is kinda close?
(Using a different dithering method here so that you can see anything: doom is dark)
In TNG, Picard has a flute he sometimes plays.
The only problem is that Sir Patrick Stewart cannot play the flute. So they have someone else's hands pretend to play it while he makes silly facial expressions, and they dub in music later.
Once you see it, you can't unsee it.
youtube has literal supercomputers calculating how best to algorithmically get you to watch racism but when you finish watching Control Letsplay Part 4 it's like "hey I know what want to see next..."
me: "Control Letsplay part 5?"
youtube: NO, CYBERPUNK LETSPLAY EPISODE 72! OBV.
friendly reminder since this is going around again: DO NOT EAT THE RICH!
it's called bio-magnification, people! the rich are at the top of the food chain, so they accumulate toxins from their food at a greatly increased rate.
Instead, /compost/ the rich.
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This Is Just to Say
I have eaten
the rich
that were at
the golf club
and which
you were probably
saving
for class war
Forgive me
they were delicious
so white
and so old
hey give me the source code to 3D Movie Maker. You released it in 1995 and I want to expand and extend it. my DMs are open, I'll help you open source it.
oh wow.
They used a neural-network style-transferring techniques to make Doom look like the box art of Doom!
from kingdomakrillic.tumblr.com/post/174799767
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BTW reminded me of a neat trick with saccadic masking: go look in a hand mirror. no matter how close you bring it to your eyes, and how much you look around, you will never see your eyes move.
You're blind during those moments. But you still think you are seeing.
Hey I know that punk
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and you might think "hey wait, wouldn't my vision 'pausing' for half a second have all kinds of weird effects on moving objects? why don't they appear to stutter when moving?"
and the answer is simple! your brain has EVEN MORE UGLY HACKS on top of this to avoid you seeing that
Good news for everyone and especially me! I don't have to finish my project to steal all the NTFS: someone else did it first, and probably better.
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Microsoft open-sourced the code for 1995’s 3D Movie Maker because someone asked arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/0 by @AndrewWrites
so alerted me that PHP has a "Gender" class which has constants for all 109 genders, which are and I quote:
FEMALE
MOSTLY FEMALE
MALE
MOSTLY MALE
UNISEX
COUPLE
NOT FOUND
ERROR
ANY
BRITAIN
IRELAND
USA
SPAIN
PORTUGAL
ITALY
MALTA
