Saying that a forum thread has definitively been ended by a hyper ideal post has become a bad meme, but, shit. Are those screenshots from Devil May Cry 2
@"captain"#p59634 I took a screenshot of Time.is saying I posted this 22 seconds after the minute struck, but like a stupid idiot I overwrote my clipboard history with the next screenshot I posted (I did not have clipboard history turned on)
i will probably be up all night, since [I am severely caffeinated](https://forums.insertcredit.com/d/1255-drink-check-thread/168). i convinced myself in that [other thread](https://forums.insertcredit.com/d/1343-ep-224-video-game-history-pope/31) that i should learn to program nes games (the one skill that will never be obsolete), so i am currently working through [these tutorials](https://nesdoug.com/).
(posted significantly after 22:22 because it took me forever to copy and paste all the links)
This seems like the more appropriate thread for neurotic save file numerology…
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@“Syzygy”#p59076 I made good on downloading Dark Souls 3 to test the new laptop but now . . . heck, I can never play it again
I have had the same problem with Super Mario 3D Land, due to the Nintendo 3DS keeping track of not only the total playtime (which was something like 12 or 13 hours to complete everything) but also the average playtime per session. And since I completed the game (both loops) in a single Saturday, the average playtime was exactly the same as the total playtime, and that gave Super Mario 3D Land an insane lead in my console’s average playtime rankings with a "score" of 12+ hours per session.
Even opening the game once would have divided this average by two(!), so even though I often entertained the idea to play the game again, I never dared blemish that holy average score…
I had more recently a similar issue with Animal Crossing New Horizons. It felt so perfect to stop playing the game after exactly one year with exactly 600 hours playtime that I did not dare check out the big update and expansion.
in a recent episode, tim made a joke about nier 1.42069. i then got it in my head that the game was titled nier square root of 2 but it's actually the square root of 1.5. in any event, it got me wondering at what digit past the decimal point the sequence “42069” first appears in the square root of 2. the answer is 45567. use this information for your arcane rites, you number wizards.
I find it disconcerting that numbers like 2, 10, 1000 do not have whole or attractive square roots. These are such important numbers in our day to day lives especially if you use the metric system. I sometimes wonder if there's something fundamentally wrong with our number systems.
Also have you ever tried to think about the square root operation? [Hell on Earth.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_computing_square_roots)
division isn‘t a simple operation either, and just like how square root can lead from nice integers to irrational numbers, division can lead from nice integers to rational numbers, that is to say every fourth grader’s nightmare: fractions.
but you're taught and practice the operation of division as a child, and it gets naturalized. that probably never happens for most people with square root.
You may well already be aware of it, but if not if you are interested in the above then you may also be interested in the amazing fast inverse square root operation.
@“rejj”#p61670 always love a comment like, “what the fuck?”
i once made some network multiplayer code work by overwriting byte 11 of a buffer with 0x25 before sending it out. i helpfully commented the line, "this makes it work."