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ThomW··on Shader-like holographic effects with CSS
I didn't see it on my iPhone's iOS Safari either. :/
ThomW··on Abolish Zoning
lol no thanks. The author has obviously never been to Houston.
ThomW··on New 3D FPS released for 1979 Atari 800
I had their follow up game Capture the Flag on my Atari 800. Same engine, but slightly upgraded graphics. Fun game!

https://moegamer.net/2019/03/05/atari-a-to-z-capture-the-fla...

ThomW··on Intergalactic jump inspired by science-fiction movies
This is my attempt at a straight-up Star Wars one: http://lmnopc.com/mf/

I made this dumb thing like seven years ago based on a CSS starfield codepen that was floating around: https://codepen.io/noahblon/pen/GKflw

ThomW··on Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies
Screw that web site. Nags you to turn off your content blocker, and as soon as you do a giant full-phone height banner ad is the first thing you see, then a few seconds later a full-screen modal pop up appears. GTFO.
ThomW··on How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%
Load times is absolutely the primary reason I quit playing.
ThomW··on Frustrated with Parler deplatforming, I am building a service no one can silence
I loved the early Internet, and initially stoked when more and more people got onto it. I thought we'd enter an enlightened age of education and everyone could live up to their potential. Obviously, that's not what happened at all, and the current-day internet is a cess pool of people profiting off misinformation and encouraging these stupid bubbles where people are fed a feedback loop of bullshit.
ThomW··on Frustrated with Parler deplatforming, I am building a service no one can silence
If the same folks who believe that building a bulletproof Parler is a good idea think I'm a moron, I think I'm in a pretty good position morally.
ThomW··on Frustrated with Parler deplatforming, I am building a service no one can silence
Parler is a shit hole, and at this point I’m not sure we need another social network anything. The major ones do a lousy job of policing fake news and misinformation, and from your tone it sounds like you support that garbage.

I’m pretty sure giving every moron on earth a globally-accessible soapbox is about the stupidest idea humankind has ever had.

ThomW··on Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory
Yeah. I have a "launch" Pro, and it's been noisy as heck since day one. haha

As others have said, they fixed it in later revisions of the hardware. :)

ThomW··on Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory
I can't imagine how it could be improved upon...

When my PS4 Pro is playing stuff like TLOU2, it sounds like it's going to start hovering off my TV cabinet.

ThomW··on Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says
Name your insurer.
ThomW··on Video Game Keyboard Diagrams
Haha Gunship was totally the first thing that popped into my head when I saw the headline. What a great game that was. :)
ThomW··on Perfectly Cropped
My god this has been confusing me for weeks.
ThomW··on I don't want to be a full-fullstack developer
Front- and back-end are very different things. I’ve worked with some brilliant engineers who couldn’t make a serviceable UI to save their lives, never mind the intricacies of overall user experience.

I’ll balk at UI/UX people who can’t code, but I’ll stand by the value they can add to a project.

ThomW··on GitHub's game jam returns next month
Glad you dig it! :)
ThomW··on GitHub's game jam returns next month
Watch the demo at the beginning of the game — you don’t want to click on the ball as your pivot point for the swing — use the upper right part of the window. That’s part of the reason I made the demo — to show the best place to start your swings. :)
ThomW··on GitHub's game jam returns next month
I went from knowing nothing about Phaser to a working game in about two weeks for a game jam earlier this year. Really enjoyed working with it.

http://www.lmnopc.com/air-sea-golf/

The jam was "genre shift", where participants were supposed to take an existing game and shift it to another genre. I chose the Atari 2600 classic Air Sea Battle and turned it into a simple golfing game.

I liked the idea of using the 2600 as a starting point so I could worry less about the graphics and more about the physics and gameplay.

It's simple but it works. It's almost much more fun on a phone - the touch screen is more fun than a mouse for this one. :)

ThomW··on An Oral History of ‘GoldenEye 007’ on the N64
Oh I’m aware. I wanted those insane frame rates. I lived in bumfuck Pennsylvania where high speed Internet wasn’t going to arrive for a decade, so I wanted something to make the game cooler. Haha
ThomW··on An Oral History of ‘GoldenEye 007’ on the N64
I had the original 3dfx card just to play Quake, but there were a number of things that still impressed me about Goldeneye.

- It ran on a console and not a $1000 PC.

- The game managed to go beyond what had been done in Doom and Quake, and actually have cutscenes that tell a story. Some of the cutscenes were super cinematic — especially for their time.

- Four player splitscreen was a hoot.

ThomW··on Thank You, Robert Voit, Creator of Paint Shop Pro
I love PSP. It was one of the few applications worth the money the author charged for it. Up until recently I was using PSP5 for all of my taster image editing, but I reinstalled my OS drive and I don’t know where I stashed my setup.exe for it and the much-needed patch. Great stuff.
ThomW··on Apple Music on Track to Overtake Spotify in U.S. Subscribers
I love Spotify, but it bugs me that I can't use Siri to launch music from it. It's the only thing Apple Music has over Spotify imo.
ThomW··on Google and Paint.NET need to stop misleading users (2013)
I was going to say - obviously the author of this post hasn't looked for Minecraft mods, because there the problem is far worse.
ThomW··on Amazon launches same day delivery for Prime customers
I passed on ordering it. Figured I could grab Airplane! on DVD just about anywhere. lol
ThomW··on Amazon launches same day delivery for Prime customers
Meanwhile, the DVD I attempted to order this morning using Prime's two-day-shipping delivery date was estimated to be Tuesday (five days away).

I get delivery issues, but the item was advertised by being sold by Amazon using Prime.

ThomW··on Can Rap Genius Annotate the World?
The Rap Genius site is a clever idea, but the interesting and insightful annotations are completely drowned out by the lousy comments and dumb pictures people decided to upload for base topics like money, or someone's appearance.
ThomW··on A day in the life of a stackoverflow moderator...
What kind of jerk has his question answered by the Stackoverflow community, then insist it be pulled so others don't benefit?
ThomW··on Outlook.com DNS records disappeared
Who's scroogled now?

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/cat/Scroogle...

This is so embarrassing.

ThomW··on Sprite Lamp
Legend of Dungeon was released a few months ago after a successful Kickstarter using a similar technique for lighting its 2d sprites.

http://robotloveskitty.tumblr.com/post/33164532086/legend-of...

Unity just put up a story about the game yesterday as well: http://unity3d.com/gallery/made-with-unity/profiles/legend-o...

ThomW··on Interactive Resume
The Foxnews pie chart should add up to more than 100%. :D
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