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How do "Mode 7" 3D-like graphics work? Well, it's all a clever trick using affine transformations that update each scanline to render one slice of the background at a time, creating the illusion of a projective plane in 3D space.

On the left is what the rendered output looks like when the last matrix parameters are left intact, updating each scanline. On the right is what the ACTUAL Mode7 affine transformation looks like during that scanline!

Pretty neat stuff! The SNES cant generate projective transformations without special hardware, so this is how the Psuedo-3D projective plane is generated for #SuperMarioKart

What's interesting about this is that Mode7 isn't actually what's responsible for the projective effect, HDMA is! You could technically do a *similar* effect with other BG modes, and actually Yoshi's Island uses a similar technique for its "3D" objects as well (that's also a super cool method I want to talk about later)

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[frog at an open mic night]
“So I said what’s wrong? Do you have ME in your throat?”

*crickets*

*frogs go wild trying to eat the crickets*

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discord is migrating to universally unique usernames so here’s the proof that I was, in a glorious sunset era, 1337

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I've only had this job for like 2 weeks so far, I can't afford to burn down the HQ yet

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FYI if anyone supports sending Pinkertons over some goddamn cards, we absolutely cannot be besties. Bye.

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Don’t put game trailers with slow intros on your Steam page!!!

Don’t listen to just me; this Reddit thread is full of people who skip over trailers in favor of screenshots when browsing Steam.

I think most of these people are talking about AAA games, but even if they aren’t, a lot of AAA game trailers with lots of logos and slow intros have trained them to assume trailers will not show gameplay until somewhere in the middle.

#gameDev #indiegamedev
reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/12

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you're a cringefail, mr. grinch
a fucked up little guy
you reblog people's callouts and then tell them they should die, mr. gri-inch

blocked and reported, plus you're... on my dniiiiiii

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"But why are you still on Twitter?"

Listen. I am an internet ancient. I stood amidst LiveJournal as it crumbled while I watched the fall of Flickr. I was there both times Tumblr burned down, toasting marshmallows over its smouldering ruin, laughing at the folly of Verizon. The death of Twitter was foretold by the dark prophecies of the forgotten internets. I am there to witness its passing as the old internet is dying and the new internet struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.

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I found another function, it has 129 lines of closing parenthesis

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Think I might fuck around and roll a new XIV Warrior of Light for use exclusively in VR. I need to find exciting new ways to be Small

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I would have so much more hope for humanity if twitter was literally destroyed by virtue of pissing off dril.

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Be the strange little creature that you want to see in the world.

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They finally cracked the Mayan calendar, and the reason they couldn't before is that the 819 days of the calendar have to be viewed across a 45-year time period to fully understand. 🤯

The Mayans were wild, man

popularmechanics.com/science/a

#history

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Someone please give me the power to use thoughts to explode predatory teachers into nothing but dust.

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