I had no idea about a lot of these. Wild stuff.
Blood Warrior looks amazing
Time-linked to Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
coincidentally I’m releasing a video about the WonderSwan Sen-Know on Sunday
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I’ve waited 7 years for this
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the emotional cocktail of awe + existential dread I get from these videos, bravo
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this was good but also incredibly frustrating when he’d explain a thing like angles for 3 minutes. like I understand youtube videos have to be baby proof but holy shit it adds a lot of time to videos.
like it felt like being bored in elementary school math kind of
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the most annoying part of that video is that, for all of its over-explanation, it never actually explains why converting a sufficiently large floating point number crashes the game
(to my knowledge, the reason is the operation triggers a CPU interrupt that the programmers never got around to properly defining or supressing (which means it should be trivially fixable))
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WHY DIDNT THEY OVER EXPLAIN THAT EXACTLY
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these videos are designed to annoy game programmers
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I like the punchline of explaining every variable in minute detail then deducing to the exact second when the game will crash because The Number Was Too Big, like explaining the sieve of eratosthenes to a class then using that to prove the goldbach conjecture
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II - cutscenes
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You ever think about how this was the most significant live action star wars content filmed between episodes 6 and 1 because I sure do
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Yeah this was back when there weren’t a million billion SW movies and TV shows coming out all the time. I wonder if it took some guts to make this; but it kinda feels like they just did it and didn’t worry too much, good for them. : D
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this is the thing about these kinds of videos. they’re interesting as an exploration of a very esoteric space inside games from Some Internet Person who is obviously not a professional (which is part of the appeal) that are like a different angle on reality. but a lot of them are weirdly fixated on details that don’t matter that much and are like heavily steeped in the jargon of various online communities. which means they’re often unable to present things in a straightforward/big picture way that contextualize why things are done like that very well at all. like an extreme knowledge of details with a complete lack of context to them. which is just, like, a larger problem with fandom in general.
maybe because the answer is not always that interesting, and the suspension of disbelief is more interesting? which i could see, because the mystery of a phrase like “parallel universes” and the general absurdity of it all is a big part of the appeal. or maybe that’s just giving it too much credit. because maybe it’s a larger failure to make the bigger picture more interesting. we have to fixate on Mario 64 endlessly because we can’t interrogate why these cultural objects from the 90’s have superseded so many other things for people. but maybe that’s not being very fair and missing part of the appeal of this stuff, too. because there is something more going on there that has clearly stuck in people’s consciousness, even if it’s rarely explicitly stated in any kind of coherent way. or even if it’s expressed in a kind of sometimes obnoxious online jargon.
i do wonder if speedrunning culture growing has something to do with this particular kind of fixation being prominent now tho.
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