Originally posted by Xkeeper

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4fdd16c Fix and add thread meta tags
If you ever linked a thread on something like Telegram, you'd probably see something like this:

Needless to say, that's... not quite right.

It turns out that there's code to put in the first post of a thread into the meta description tag, but the availability of that was checked by filter_bool(), which... filtered it to a bool, which prints as 1. Oops.

Now it just (properly) checks if it's set.

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I was like "I know that worked when I originally programmed it" ...



You doof.

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Still trying to figure out why getting wedged against this spring incidentally can kill you.

Anyway, lots of thoughts:

• Act 1 bosses should not exist. It's a dumb pattern from S3K and I hate it.
  
• Most bosses have downright terrible design. CP2 is the worst offender because to be frank, sudden genre changes are bad in so many ways.
  
• I got frustrated and annoyed by the above and actually stopped playing for a while. Turns out things get better after CPZ, it just has a bit of a rough start.
  
• I admit, I chuckled and smiled at HC1's boss. But one of the pitfalls it has is that the controls for that section are not obvious at all; I missed out on some things until after the fight ended.
  
• HC2 boss: Why do I not hear claims of rehashing for the second half? Oh, because the Sonic community is full of hypocritical bastards, that's why.
  
• The original levels are a lot more fun than the levels that are taken from other games, but unfortunately there's fewer of them.
  
• PG1's presses lead to cheap deaths if you aren't expecting them though. The first one I encountered caught me totally off guard and I was in exactly the wrong position.
  
• Tails' flight has ... problems. Brushing up against a wall that's not at a right angle causes you to drop like a rock for no good reason, for one major one.
  
• Blue Spheres does not belong as a bonus stage. If the completionist in me didn't demand it to unlock everything I'd never play them.
  
• The special stages have some really dodgy controls; they feel very unresponsive. As Xk stated the cutscene ending is a massive letdown, too. Someone in the SRB2 community made a mockup of how it should've been, and it's much better.
  
• for gods sake please fix the home button not working half the time
  

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You keep your rings and shield, but otherwise yes. It's the only bonus stage. It never gives any tangible benefits to the game you're playing either, only unlocking extras and such.

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So, that two week PC delay to "optimize" the game?

It was actually to add Denuvo DRM to the package. With such a setup that requires you to be online to play the game.

Requires you to be online. To play a single-player game with no online functionality beyond leaderboards.

lol

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Eh, whatever. I still have my way of making ridiculously large posts if I ever need to, and I'm totally comfortable with it.

View the full post: https://jul.rustedlogic.net/thread.php?pid=449705

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Nobody sells arrows anymore. :<

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I cannot ignore news and current events with my current line of work. I wind up finding about things one way or another.

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Originally posted by Tarale

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Originally posted by 2Tie

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where i grew up, we had a window on the wall the tub was on, like, taking a shower you were standing right in front of it needless to say that curtain was always closed

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Wait what it isn’t even frosted/bubbly glass or anything?!!!

My bathrooms have always had windows, but it’s not the kind of glass you can see anything through.

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The master bathroom in my parents' place had a non-privacy window right above the jacuzzi/bathtub, such that standing up to get out would put you on full display to our next door neighbors.

I can't remember that bathtub ever getting used. Everyone just used the shower.

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I've had a few times now where blood moons trigger when they shouldn't, most recently in Kakariko twice back to back, at 8:50PM and 1:30AM. I remember hearing that this is sort of an out of memory handler, since the blood moon cutscene resets all objects.

I'm like 99% sure it has to do with having the finder set on treasure chests, since that causes them to be loaded when they're farther away than normal, combined with being in an already busy place like Kakariko...

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having over 100 arrows or something makes shops stop restocking arrows

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I was down to ~50 at one point and they still weren't restocking.

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My Christmas present to myself arrived yesterday. Haven't gotten to test it yet because I had a killer headache when I got home from work last night.

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I run my own instance at @KS@is.a.qute.dog.

I've also done minor contributions to Mastodon and glitch.social's fork of it, as well as add in several special things on my server because I can

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Originally posted by dotUser

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Isn't social.tchncs the one that got itself pretty much blocked everywhere for the admin protecting a literal full-on bigot? Then trying to 'joke' his way out of it?

Or am I confusing that with another tech one.

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I thought that was targaryen.house or something like that.

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My main issue with the Z1 randomizer is that it's closed source, unlike basically every other randomizer out there.

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Originally posted by Xkeeper

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It's a raging debate in this household because two of us like oatmeal raisin and one of us calls it "disgusting fake chocolate chip"

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I stand by what I say. Raisins are bad.

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Um, what the heck option would I even pick?

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If I ever get a syndrome, that's a clear sign that the world is ending.

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I've been trying to snuggle devin for years but it just never works out

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