LucasWaffyWaf

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[–] LucasWaffyWaf 2 points 2 days ago

Nothing published just yet! I saw the E6 documentary this summer and it lit a spark in me and my mates. My biggest influence is from the Olivias, and particularly I take more after Will Hart's style (with my best mate being the Bill Doss of our group.) I'm actually gonna try doing some field recordings to try a Green Typewriters-esque musique concrete piece.

[–] LucasWaffyWaf 7 points 2 days ago

Insert that Numberphile video with Tom Scott being reasonably angry at time zones.

[–] LucasWaffyWaf 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'd have loved it if I could have been there with the Elephant 6 crew in Athens GA during the 90s. The music those folks produced is some of my favorite, and it's totally the music I'm trying to make myself.

[–] LucasWaffyWaf 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

On that note, how the stink do THC drinks work then?

[–] LucasWaffyWaf 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah I'm not the best word smith on the best of days, let alone immediately after waking up with 3 hours of sleep lol

[–] LucasWaffyWaf 2 points 2 days ago

I edited my comment with a poor explanation from memory, alongside a great video explaining that I can't watch to double check my comment as I'm at work currently.

[–] LucasWaffyWaf 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Everything from projectiles to monsters pass through walls, can do no damage to one another, and can't interact with stuff like switches. I edited my comment with a poor explanation from memory, alongside a great video explaining that I can't watch to double check my comment as I'm at work currently.

[–] LucasWaffyWaf 35 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

I know more about the Doom engine than I do interpersonal relations. Did you know you can completely destroy collision physics via writing over memory addresses if you shoot a bullet weapon at a stack of corpses?

Edit to explain: Decino has a great video explaining it in detail. Link is above, tho I'm at work and can't watch it to double check. Poorly explained from my memory:

When you fire a hitscan attack (press button, gun shoots a bullet that instantly hits with no travel time), the engine does a number of checks for collision, range, etc. If you have a stack of actors (decorations, monsters, ammo, etc) and you fire a hitscan attack in the direction of the stack, it makes a call to check collision for each individual actor in that stack. The actors don't have to be all on top of each other, it just matters that the hitscan line crosses over those actors.

If you have a stack of 129 or more actors and fire a hitscan weapon, the game will essentially overwrite parts of the memory address. I don't understand a lick of that stuff myself, admittedly, I'm no programmer. If you have something around ~140ish actors in the line of fire of a hitscan attack, the Blockmap system for checking collision effectively gets erased. Projectiles pass through everything, bullets and melee do no damage, players and monsters walk through walls, and you can't interact with things like switches. You can fix it by saving and loading, though if you're recording demos you can't save.

[–] LucasWaffyWaf 2 points 3 days ago
[–] LucasWaffyWaf 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] LucasWaffyWaf 1 points 5 days ago

Was jamming to old demoscene music on the way to work! Anvil's Path to Nowhere is suuuuch a bop, really makes ya feel the power of a 5 GHz pentium.

Shoutout to the five people who remember that old video.

[–] LucasWaffyWaf 63 points 1 week ago

A friend of mine was feeling ill, but didn't go to the hospital because he couldn't afford it. Once the leukemia started advancing though he only lasted a week.

 

Inspired by the very similar thread about school incidents.

 

Apologies if this post ain't right for this community! I'm admittedly not interested in self-hosting myself, but I've a close buddy who's wanting to get back to streaming, but rightfully hates Amazon. He's wanting to self-host with Owncast to do video streaming with his pals, but lives in a very small flat with very little free space - hence the request for a laptop.

Ideally he's needing something great for video encoding, and Linux friendly to boot. No Windows. Mate's got a budget of ~£1,000.

If there's a better community for this lemme know!

 

After a best mate of mine introduced me to Fela Kuti's works I've been real interested in hearing music from other cultures you don't hear much stuff from. Doesn't have to be traditional music styles (love it when genres and cultures fuse together, like Masayoshi Takanaka taking influence from Brazilian music), but I'd love to hear that as well!

 

(I know Linux is better than Windows, there's a better time and place for that talk)

SPECS: OS: Windows 10 Pro N Motherboard: MSI MPG B550 Gaming Plus CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X GPU: NVidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti RAM: 4x HyperX Fury DDR4 8GB sticks (two rated for one clock speed, the other two rated for another. As I understand it the faster sticks will just run at the speed of the lower two, and it deffo ain't causing issues cause I've tested games with just one pair or the other. Both gave me crashes)

Minidump file: https://www.mediafire.com/file/g34xykxagp29246/050524-8937-01.dmp/file

Simply put, built a custom Windows machine and it gives me BSODs on many more recent games. Deep Rock Galactic, crashes within seconds to minutes of actual gameplay (not including the hub). Remnant: From the Ashes, crashes within minutes on the overworld. Starfield, crashes within minutes to two hours. Blood West, crashes within five minutes of gameplay. Helldivers 2 works fine ingame, but once I quit the game it blue screens within seconds of returning to the desktop.

I've reinstalled drivers. I've disabled sound drivers. I've popped the computer open and reseated everything at least two or three times so far. RAM was tested using MemTest86, no issues at all. CPU temps tend not to exceed anything higher than the 70-75 range ingame (hot, but my processor is rated for up to 90 Celsius). I've reapplied thermal paste four times. I'm on my third install of Windows so far, with this being the Pro N version rather than the Pro version I tried the first two installs. I've had a bit of a go at googling the highlighted files in the Minidump file, but at this point I'm all but giving up. If the Internet can't fix this shit, I'll just sell the components or machine at a loss and stick with an older gaming laptop.

 

One of my favorite things to do while stoned is listen to albums that are really unique, artful, and/or jam packed with soul and energy, as in that head space music just hits completely differently and it just lends to me finding a deep love and appreciation for the art of music. What're some of your favorites?

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