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  I had not known that filming of the short German TV show Space Patrol started two months after the first rejected pilot episode for Star Trek in America, and both shows would air their first episodes in their respective countries within only a week of each other over a year later. Which makes it really weird how almost identical the concepts for both shows are. Space Patrol doesn't have the pretense of science exploration, but otherwise it's the same idea. #StarTrek #Raumpatrouille

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  Any space nerds here know about a calculator to estimate the energy requirement for a suborbital flight to travel 10,000 km between two points on the surface of the Earth? #space #scifi #rockets

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  Sci-fi pen and paper RPG people! What are your favorite systems for space combat? I'm particularly interested in anything that has more resemblance with cruiser battles than starfighter battles. #ttrpg

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  @Computer@dice.camp *nontransferable

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  Embrace hypocrisy. Install Blender 4.5.9. 🫤

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  Due to current events, I checked where the funding for #Godot actually comes from and if there's any involvement from nasty technofascist groups that are enabling atrocities around the world. https://fund.godotengine.org And the list of corporate donors is mostly indie developers who share some of the profits they made using Godot. Arm seems to be a full out AI company and Sentry sells an AI debugger. And I have no idea what Copia wealth management software is doing there. But mostly...

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  @jnkrtech - "Comrades! Let us fight against our common enemy!" - "The public servants!" - "NO!!! The Capitalist!!!"

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  So the latest Blender version as of yesterday was 5.1. Might be useful to remember. #Blender

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  @nicklockwood That's not law. That's tyranny.

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  @shanecelis Hey, I actually remember some of my terrible French from 25 years ago (which I was really bad at even then). "There is no more profound solitude than ... Samurai who ... tiger in the jungle. Maybe..."

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  Making low-poly 3D models in Blender, and low-resolution textures in Krita has been relatively easy to learn so far, in that I can Half-Life and Metal Gear Solid as references for how I want the graphics to look in #IridiumMoons and I have a pretty good idea of the visual aesthetic for environments, characters, and machines I am aiming for. Synth music seems like something that one could make by ear with single notes and zero theory. But I don't even have a clue what style I would want....

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  Ha! MobyGames has everything. I finally managed to find out what that game was that I saw once in a bargain bin in 1995. I thought it was called Armada, but wasn't even sure about that. But they do have images of the front and back of the German version for Wing Commander: Armada and it did indeed come without a cardboard box, and the colors and layout on the back do resemble my faint memory from 31 years ago. 😄 #retrogames

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  I've been really surprised and confused all day by all the praise I've seen people having for Pragmata. Because I mixed up Capcom with Konami. Yeah, an ambitious and good Capcom game makes way more sense... 😅

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  Die Siedler II was released 30 years ago in Germany on 17th April 1996 for DOS. Alongside X-Wing and Worms, this was one of the first games that I played for a considerable time and really understood how to play, other than having a turn at platformer or fighting games on a friend's console. #1996InVideoGames #90sGames #VideoGameHistory #videogames #retrogames #retrogaming #strategygames #DieSiedler #DieSiedler2 #TheSettlers #TheSettlers2

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  Do newer game consoles still have the motion controls of their predecessors from the 2000s. The ones that almost no game ever used, and when they used it it never really worked? Does motion control still exist outside of VR? #PS5 #videogames

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  Back in 2023, the then 23 year old game Half-Life: Opposing Force had a massive spike in players playing it on Steam at the same time. Because some Half-Life fans thought that an all-time peak of just over 500 players was way too low and the game deserves much higher. 😅 #HalfLife #retrogames #retrogaming

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  Random idea I spontaneously had and would like to see, but won't try to set up and host myself because I know my ADHD. A site set up like a fanfiction site, but instead of posting stories and having people comment on them, you can post any kind of text about retrogames. Be it reviews, ongoing play reports, or general thoughts about genres. And people can rate them, and you can browse tags for games, series, genres, and so on. #retrogames #retrogaming

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  Deconstruction is actually fun when you do it to something that you love with the purpose of finding new meaning, rather than out of spite to find arguments while it's bad. I get why people habitually sat down to do some recreational philosophy without some personal crisis that needed resolving. 😄 #philosophy #movies #literature #art

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  Back in the early #StarWars Expanded Universe, the fly boys from Rogue Squadron with their flashy X-Wings got a lot of page space (9 novels and 37 comics) and even their own games. I would love to see a series about a Y-Wing squadron, carrying the early Rebellion on their back before all the cool and shiny new hardware trickled in over the years. 😄 #StarWarsEU #RogueSquadron

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  Pondering what actual new innovations in gameplay we have had in the last 15 years, the only thing that I can think of that's genuinely new is wacky climbing mechanics. 😆

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  Sunset at 8, and it's still early April. Do we really get sunset at 11 here in summer? ☀️ (Ha asks, having lived here for 30 years.)

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  If you ever wondered why people reported Venus as a UFO, today is one of the days where you can see it. 🛸 Thing just looks unreal an hour after sunset. 🌟 #space #astronomy

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  I really don't need it for my own game, but I do occasionally wonder what it would take to have game levels with non-unified directions of gravity? Inside a rotating space station would be the most obvious use case. But there's all kinds of weird gravity anomalies that could be done with it.

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  There is a collection of Star War comics about Jabba from 1998 named "Jabba the Hutt: The Art of the Deal". Which will never not be funny. I actually could endlessly make Jabba jokes about Trump, but Jabba is a major part of my favorite hobby and I'm not gonna associate it with that disgusting piece of slime.

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  @fabio Because of EU regulation, we don't live a hellhole country like the USA. If European capitalists were allowed to, they would exploit and abuse us the same way.

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  #Blender noob question: Is it possible to change the default settings for a new texture? I am probably going to do a lot of textures that are almost all going to be 64x64 pixels and have texture interpolation: closest, and likely not going to make anything else (except sometimes 128x128 resolution). Can I tell Blender to always have a new texture set up like that by default? (And maybe a 1px Paint Pixel Art brush as default brush as well?) #b3d

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  I'm not really a platformer player, but the Super Star Wars games on the SNES have an amazing art style. If I could translate those colors into Quake style 3D graphics, it would make the prettiest game I've ever seen.

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  Why is Quake from GOG a 1.5 GB download? I don't think computers had hard drives that big in 1996. 😅

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  DLSS 5 Off/On makes for a very funny meme. #memes #AIslop #slop

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  Apparently, "If this game was made today" is a popular meme now. It's been a meme 15 years ago already. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1ZtBCpo0eU #VideoGames #retrogaming #retrogames #memes #video_game_memes