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Re: Doom scale

Eevee — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:55:43 -0000

i don't think it's usually done to quite this extreme, though i haven't exactly done a ton of measurements

and everything in doom is an axis-aligned square cuboid yeah

Re: Doom scale

Nate — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:13:56 -0000

From some earlier research on this topic, its due to ease of movement and field of view. Human vision is actually hard to replicate so you tend to get either tunnel vision or a weird fisheye thing, and in both cases proportions end up feeling wrong. Almost every game does this and the ones that dont feel really clumsy and cramped. Especially id you lose your proprioception and fine motor movements due to your character fundamentally being a capsule collider dressed up with meshes and animations for show--or a plane in doom it looks like above? I bet doom guy is a box under the hood though, otherwise he could strafe into all kinds of sticky situations

Re: Doom scale

Nate — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:08:54 -0000

There is something wrong with me. This is the most interesting thing ive read in some time

Re: P.A.D.D. - fuzzy notepad

Name — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:01:57 -0000

i know this post is 15 years old but it still applies. i stopped using my phone because the only usecase i have for it is scrolling social media, and that's not something i want to be spending my time on. there are very few usable feature phones though, (the one i tried constantly showed me ads) and you can't use older ones since the 3G networks have been shut down, so i can't make calls at all anymore. really i just want to be able to use my laptop and some terminal interface to make calls and texts but nobody makes anything like that either.

Re: Physics cheats

foo — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:38:24 -0000

you're confusing the terms "fluid" and "liquid". "liquid" is a state of matter; it would be correct to say that air is a gas and not a liquid. "fluid" basically means anything that flows around, which includes liquids and gasses; it would be correct to say that air is a fluid.

Re: The rise of Whatever

orang_utan — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:17:58 -0000

1. Your post touches on various philosophical issues – the "true value" of a work, and how it can differ from its "financial value" (which, unfortunately, is a more visible metric). In turn, both of these are not necessarily correlated with the technical quality of a work.

2. In regards to AI slop, you might be interested in this critique by Cory Doctorow: https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-03-25-communicative-intent-diluted-a160eada1daa

In my view, it's the most cogent critique of AI art that I've come across – that a GenAI work has lower communicative intent embedded in the work (in fact, it may even distort the communicative intent of the human prompter).

As a broader principle, an individual's self and communicative intent is only reflected in the contributions he makes to a work (via the decisions he makes in the creation of a work). A GenAI work is teeming with random elements with no communicative intent, and therefore not worth engaging with.

Re: I am thirty-eight years old

Eevee — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:33:52 -0000

hey, thank you.

and yeah my parents didn't tell me anything about sex lol. even the microscopic amount of sex ed i got was completely incomprehensible with no context. i had to learn it all from the internet!

Re: I am thirty-eight years old

Zore — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:22:05 -0000

Maybe I'm a bit late but just wanted to say that I think you are admirable for telling your story. It's never easy to talk about traumatic stuff.

It is never the victim's fault. And it is incredible that some people still don't understand it. I keep trying to wrap my head about it to, at least, find an explanation, even if it doesn't justify anything. And I think the source of the problem may be a general denial of adolescence. It appears that society expects you to be little more than a baby up until 18 when you suddently and instanlty become a full adult. Like if adolescence, that period where you aren't fully a kid but you aren't fully an adult neither, didn't exist.

That's the only reason that fits in my head that explains why the policemen found so funny the idea two "kids" having sex. That's also the only reason I find for why the male karen started yelling "predator" to a girl the same age of his son, because he can't accept the reality that his son isn't a baby anymore. That's probably why the con organizer blamed you, because blaming the male karen would mean accepting that sex between two teenagers is ok, and that's a taboo. That's also probably why so many parents don't have that conversation with their sons and daughters about what is sex, and when they do they focus in the dangers of unwanted pregnancy and STI, and never talk about the emotional side of it. Helping the adolescent to tell apart when it is love, when it is fun and when it is abuse.

Re: Something is wrong with American culture

Daniel N. — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 08:33:38 -0000

This much we from Europe have known about US for a very long time. Just competition, no time for losers

Re: I stared into the fontconfig, and the fontconfig stared back at me

Tom Smeding — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 07:49:54 -0000

fc-cache will force fontconfig to pick up any changes. There’s a -f, but in all my fighting with fontconfig it never once made a difference.

It turns out that it does make a difference if you have <match target="scan"> statements; I found that out the hard way. Apparently fc-cache -f rescans fonts as well as configuration, whereas fc-cache rereads configuration only.

Re: Rowling is dangerously wrong

Eevee — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:17:56 -0000

fuck off

Re: I am thirty-eight years old

Eevee — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:16:32 -0000

i, uh, don't think it was.

Re: I am thirty-eight years old

exeunt — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 05:14:02 -0000

This is a good reminder of Jonathan Heidt's thesis on childhood protection: parents have become overprotective of children outside, while letting them run free on the internet. Sadly, cutting the wire on your keyboard was probably the correct move. Although far, far too late.

Re: I am thirty-eight years old

Nex — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 01:23:37 -0000

Leaving a shortie here to say the same. I wouldn't really say I was in "contact" though be I was..... in an internet relay chat channel with Eevee for A GROUP. (Heh, bold vagueness!)

The bottom line is this. Yelling at children is just no longer accepted as accepted, and THAT, is very much, appreciated. More and more people are properly being introduced to the concept of, 'No, not everyone is going to hurt you, but please, be careful," even without having to be subjected to all levels of objective lack of valuation of an individual as an individual, before they're even fully developed into their individualness.

Re: I am thirty-eight years old

Nex — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 01:17:42 -0000

Random person....popping back into the Eevee's life. Because this heartfelt is from last year.

I seriously seriously cannot express this enough how glad I am that I REFUSED to believe anything but the words from the Vee themself.

I know the place, I was even on it myself. For obvious settled reason I won't say the name I know. But canid interaction, that one I know that one.

I am finally given the full story.

This.... brings back a feeling.

My own words, on that form. But it was attached to it.

Those words.... they echoed what was also in my head.

"Well, everyone else is talking about this, so it's probably normal, right?"

I was wrong. It was not normal.

The topic SPECIFICALLY also was about sex, and asexuality.

The main thing here is..... I am absolutely shocked that we met during the exact times described during the post 18 phase.

I'm comfortable aging myself, because only four specifically knows these details I'm entering besides Eevee.

These dates. 2004-2014. 2013-2017,

Shifted exactly two years in the first half due to an exact age difference.

The second half is the beginning of freedom and an escape into being able to grasp what normal is.

Unfortunately......................I didn't learn until normal was until 2023. Thankfully no jail or destroyed lives though!

----early internet sendoff style username entry. "K"

Re: I am thirty-eight years old

anon — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 17:29:30 -0000

The editor messed up. I meant to add the following:

While the experiences you're describing feel completely alien to me, I find it disturbing that there was nobody for you to fall back on, and help you process things. Even if your parents were less abusive, strangers will be completely absent and not touch issues like this. I think the taboo might've helped society in the past, but it's really doing people a disservice at this point.

Re: I am thirty-eight years old

anon — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 17:26:50 -0000

This is a post that deeply rattles me, but not due to any similar experiences. The whole taboo surrounding sex may have "saved" me from horrifying experiences like this, but I've grown up emotionally repressed as a result, and as a 27 year old I'm still wrestling with the idea of sex being a real thing at all, beyond the fantastical, other-worldly depictions in porn. It's made it difficult to connect with other people, and form bonds that aren't fueled by irony.

I thinile the way it's

Re: The rise of Whatever

adrian — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 01:33:18 -0000

did your magic 8 ball tell you that?

Re: I am thirty-eight years old

Eevee — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:26:48 -0000

ah... good luck

Re: I am thirty-eight years old

heather — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 11:14:12 -0000

this gave me some hope that I'll maybe someday be able to talk about my own issues

thank you vee

Re: The rise of Whatever

Gbr — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:31:19 -0000

Hi. I liked your rant a lot.
I was pointed to it after writing a rant on LLMs of my own. Mine is a lot shorter and a bit more optimistic. :-)
You can read it here, if you like:
https://github.com/gbrdead/slop/blob/master/LLMs.md

(BTW, the comments section does not appear at all (even the noscript part) in my Firefox 140.5.0 running under GNU/Linux.)

Re: Copyright is broken

Stefan — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 07:36:06 -0000

Those are the only things Steam contributes to this game

And discussion forums, and place to host guides and advertising on the frontpage which millions of people see daily, and tools for finding games to buy and tools to play games on linux, and distributing patches, and bunch of other community features like emotes from game and trading cards, and achievements. and selling and distributing additional products like soundtracks

but yeah, aside from that steam just takes money for nothing

Re: The rise of Whatever

Janus Troelsen — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 11:29:38 -0000

Thanks for contributing to Hackage! Hackage is interesting because the trustee system makes every package community owned by default. On lots of other package repositories, packages are namespaced by user and can not be modified by others.

Re: The rise of Whatever

Enrico Maria De Angelis — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 09:30:29 -0000

Do things. Make things. And then put them on your website so I can see them.

I did this https://hackage.haskell.org/package/xnobar-1.0.0.0

And once I spent quite some time trying to make a spider diagram in CSS: https://aster89.github.io/#projects

I don't think AI would have been particularly helpful with that.

Re: You should make a Doom level, part 2: design

David Becker — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:48:32 -0000

Hey this is a great writeup. I wrote a bit about the history of doom as well, and I did reference your site, here as one of my sources. There is so much rich history of doom, it is good to learn something new. Thanks for this.