would you say that you've been waiting for godot

Sad lofi Nintendo music plays their coders just got REKT

P H Y S I C S B A S E D R E N D E R I N G

woah this looks pretty rad

ctrl h int -> BigInteger

I never even considered time in a server or the whole mess of floats in emulators. I hope to dink nobody is using floats for time.

I also haven't considered about probabilities getting outside the bound of 1, but I still reserve my right to be angery at floats here. grrr floats.

I also have not considered rational numbers, because, wow, they sound very satisfying, and also even less supported, and I want to be their friends, where can I use them,

but they didn't account for the human element

They represent real limitations for games (not really, but let's pretend)

They do, actually, if they're used for tracking time. If the game runs long enough (very possible in server-based online games), the physics increasingly start to go wonkier as the simulation becomes less and less fine-grained.

They're susceptible to flaws (different hardware might do different fast float maths - bad for speedruns, maybe? but also not a big deal at all)

It makes things more difficult for emulators, also in subtler ways like different kinds of conventions for rounding. I do wonder if these could be accounted for somehow, there are computations for which accuracy, reproducibility, making sense on a semantic level and so on are importanter than the pursuit of SPEED.

Other places we see floating points where fixed points could work just as well:

• Anything dealing with percentages (likely bounded 0 to 1, or 0 to 100.)

I do wonder how well that actually works. While for probabilities it is always the case that for any event X, 0 ≤ P(X) ≤ 1, you can have steps in calculations that go out of these bounds. For example, 0 ≤ P(A∪B) = P(A) + P(B) - P(A∩B) ≤ 1, but if P(A) = P(B) = 1 then we'll have P(A∪B) = 1 + 1 - 1 = 2 - 1 = 1, where of course 2 > 1.

Also my shout out to humble rational numbers: the opportunities for using them are rare, too rare perhaps, but you feel clean like after having a bath when you do get to use them.

Convincing argument;;;

All numbers in PICO-8 are fixed precision. Yet another reason all games should be made in PICO-8.

I love it!

Oh yeah, I know exactly how I'd do these! The only problem is free time (plus my excuse of "I'm waiting for Godot 3.0 to come out!").

I've also got some levels in mind :D

There's no reason you couldn't do this. It would really only be marginal more complicated than programming a normal game I think. Designing levels that make good use of it would be hard though.

Ugh I had a comment mostly written and then I replied to toasthaste and it got deleted ;v;

Basically, yeah there has to be some mechanic to adjust or change the rates, else it's logically equivalent to one clock. They can take on any real value >= 0 (and, tbh they could go backwards too just as easily). In my platforming idea you'd probably just switch between the two clocks.

gonna wait for godot 3.0 to come out, and then do that over spring break ;0

I think i get it but this feels like the type of thing that would be more grokkable with a prototype 👀 do it do it do it

the new one is so cute! I really like the swooshy curly style of fur and such I've seen from modern WoW stuff

this is a cool idea. would both time streams tick at different (adjustable) rates continuously or would you be able to switch back and forth?

I think once people learn you gotta run towards the orb to escape it, she'll be Weak;;;

i'm way better with mercy and anna than moira so this is perfect evidence that she's not op and that you're just good with her

there's no escaping the DEATH ORB

sometime life is not fair

you may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

she's awesome and if you have a team that works with her you can do Super Well

its only natural that the character that shoots piss out of their hands like the aliens + gwb in that one scary movie is the most powerful. that's just biology. that's just reason and logic.