@mcc reminded again of my experiences with 16-bit color on Windows 95 back in the mists of prehistory, how when switching modes sometimes it would (apparently?) attempt to display 5-5-5 RGB as 5-6-5 RGB resulting in purplish grays, or that's what i assume was going on
idk if that was a Windows 95 problem or just a problem with my graphics card/driver in retrospect, though
@AlexandraErin as grim a picture as it paints i love the general vibe of "Elon Musk is remembered only as the namesake of a disaster area encompassing what used to be the planets Earth and Mars, with the implication he personally had a hand in its creation"
@AlexandraErin i love everything about this except how horrifyingly plausible it is
OH LOOK another case of magical sentinel pointers.
they just checked to see if a pointer was 0xBADBEEF.
LEARN TO USE NULLS
hot take: if "(int*)(this + 0x56990)" ever appears in the decompiled code, YOUR CLASS IS WAY TOO FUCKING BIG
I changed one register during boot to enable debugging, and it crashed the game and then my emulator.
10 out of 10, would recommend again
@AbandonedAmerica Just thinking that "The Church of the Abandoned Transfiguration" is a really great phrase
Thanks to @unknownoutrider I just learned about Unified Cutlery Theory. Prior to this I'd only really known Spoon Theory
I found this page which describes it pretty well.
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