Why485

@why485.bsky.social

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Former modder turned washed up former gamedev. This is not a serious account. Do not follow me here for gamedev hot takes or progressposting.

Windows right click context menu from inside a folder. The important thing to note is that there is no scroll bar and you are looking at every option at once.
Another F-100D in broad daylight, this time with 8 Rockeyes.
F-100D in DCS World
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F-100 gun camera of strafing a line of targets.
The CBU-87 in DCS World has historically been one of the most useless bombs in DCS because the cluster bomblets just literally did nothing. You could drop these on a bunch of unarmored trucks, covering the entire area is cool sparkles, and then find that one of the trucks might have taken 15% damage.
F-16 in DCS World with 2 AIM-120s, 2 Mk84s, 2 AGM-65s. I'm not even flying a particularly fancy loadout and this is already insanely capable.
Is it any surprise, then, that Capcom's currently enjoying a multi-year hit streak after avoiding mass layoffs since 2018? Or that Larian, a studio with a strong history of employee retention, pulled off a generational breakout hit like Baldur's Gate 3?
Dropping UGBL (Mk84) from an F-15C in Ace Combat Zero. The bombs drop straight down the way that they would in real life.
Dropping UGBL (Mk84) bombs in Ace Combat 04. The bombs shoot forward and then explode on the ground in front of the player before the player flies over the target.
A blond twintail anime girl furiously slapping a desk repeatedly with the caption "That makes me hit the desk!"
The original(?) photo that appeared in a reddit post from 2007. https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/cvt8md/tokyo_game_show_2001/ It's also appeared in a few other dated memes I can find making similar Avatar the Last Airbender references that the OP was making.
Feel good millenialcore AI sloppost that fooled me for a couple minutes.
MiG-29 with the Ace Combat special.
DCS World screenshot from the MiG-29 cockpit at night during a full moon.
Fuddlore Boomer Apology Form Reason for Behavior: [ ] Commie Twitter Posters convinced me The West was done [ ] I didn't fly the actual MiG-29 [ ] I only looked at the sick LERX and huge engines [ ] I don't know how much solid-state electronics matter [ ] I was jealous of a working RWR [ ] Mercy was in retrograde [ ] I will hereby respect John Boyd and the Fighter Mafia and I will NOT talk down on the future Western Military Might
M1 Tank Platoon 2 screenshot of a Hind hovering over a field with a "wall" of forest trees in the background. Look at these crunchy textures oh my God.
Hitori Bocchi (the real one!) laying in bed sobbing with the narrator saying "The world is a tough place." Bocchi is thinking "Such a touch place."
Bunch of Navy carrier deck crew smiling in front of a Hornet with the caption AH GOOD, YOU'RE FINALLY AWAKE, YOU HIT YOUR HEAD ON THAT BULKHEAD PRETTY HARD! ONLY 3 SEAWOLF CLASS? PEACE DIVIDEND? DECOMMISSIONING THE FORRESTALS? GET YOUR A-12E SUPER AVENGER, THE ULYANOVSK PUT TO SEA THIS MORNING!
Clumsy's demo video showing scrolling text and then turning off and messing with packets.
Painting of a Harrier doing a rocket run during the Falklands.
A computer hopping from a sign labelled "MS-DOS", over a bridge labelled "SMOOTH BRIDGE" and to another sign labelled "UNIX". The entire thing looks like it was filmed in the 90s, and is all actually little toys that are being moved around by somebody with their hand.
George Lucas saying "It's stylistically designed to be that way and you can't undo that, but we can diminish the effects of it."
Two batch files. One called "RepairDCS.bat" the other "UpdateDCS.bat"
I'm pretty sure this is what's called the Zodiacal light? They mentioned this on the stream too, where it wasn't clear (at the time anyway) what was zodiacal light and what was corona from the sun. It's pretty incredible how bright the zodiacal light can be though when there isn't an atmosphere in the way.
Half-Life edit
Custom Unity 3D lighting based on Unreal and Quake.
The right click context menu on Windows with "Sort By -> Name" highlighted.
The old meme of John Boyd and his F-4 Phantom, F-14 Tomcat, F-15 Eagle, and F-16 Falcon vs Artem Mikoyan's MiG-21, MiG-23, MiG-25, and MiG-29 where the kill ratios the western jets are exceptionally higher than the MiGs. Boyd is holding an AMRAAM.
"It's revisionist history that nobody liked this part of the game—I did, for one, and plenty of reviewers did too. Are we meant to take this as Ubi retconning this series as nothing more than historical action games? Assassin's Creed is a sci-fi world, damn it!" From: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/assassins-creed/assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced-review/
Sparrow proximity fuzing on the trailing (i.e. tanking) planes.
F-15C landing gear coming down in a cutscene from Ace Combat Zero
AIM-120 AMRAAM diagram by www.redstar.gr.
F-16 in Unity flying around with a little radar on the bottom right.
The F-14's Jester wheel but the picture in picture live view of Jester has been replaced with a faux SNES pixel AI slop image.
The Falcon 4.0 binder. Genuinely one of my most prized possessions.
More screenshot's from X2, which had really cool base design (not pictured) and was the last of the X games to have station interiors for a long time. X-Tension went even further with how cool the interiors were, but X2 had to tone it down because you could both fly inside them yourself they had to be fully 3D.
Screenshot from X-Tension which took the whole external camera thing very literally by having it be represented by a little camera drone that physically flew around and while this was really neat it was also really annoying and this was removed from later games.
Screenshot of the Chuck's Guides website.
Hud of the Viggen, which doesn't look like anything else.
MiG-29, F-5, and F-14 all taxiing to takeoff in DCS World.
Slapping an F-15 with an R-73 and the helmet sight. It's kind of funny because all your dogfight modes are worse and less reliable than just using the helmet to cue the FLIR. The radar based dogfight modes are basically useless and the FLIR ones don't work as well as you want unless you already on a hot target's six.
"I just need to get the merge", said the frazzled MiG-29 pilot. "I just need to get to the merge", thought the dejected MiG-29 pilot. An F-15 tosses an AIM-7 Sparrow the Fulcrum's way, asking him, "Are u okay bro?" "Yes, I just need to get to the merge", replied the Fulcrum pilot. I just need to get the merge.
This thing feels like cheating, especially when paired with the R-73 which can do a 180 and hit something after you've flown past it.
The little bulbous thing in front of the cockpit is the IRST (Infrared Search and Track) and it's where the magic happens. The majority of your modes actually use the IRST as the primary sensor because at close range the radar just isn't responsive enough to be useful. Unless you are engaging a known target from BVR (>10 miles at least) you're basically always cuing the radar off what the FLIR sees.
I was so busy I didn't take any screenshots, so here's an official promo image of the DCS World MiG-29A Fulcrum.
Raylib starter project rabbit eats burgers
F-100 intercepting a Chinese something bomber at high altitude. I was carrying Rockeyes at the time so I had to gun them down.
Set of pilot images that are just photos of random fighter pilots for the player to select as their portrait for their profile. A lot of Marines.
Removed obsolete GameObject and Component APIs A set of obsolete GameObject and Component APIs that previously reported obsolete errors was removed and some remaining obsolete warnings were promoted to errors. This includes the old component accessor properties such as GameObject.rigidbody, GameObject.camera, and Component.renderer, and the string-based GameObject.AddComponent(string). Use the GetComponent<T> and AddComponent<T> methods instead. For the list of removed members and their replacements, refer to Upgrade to Unity 6.5.
Blood Eagle Heavy from Tribes Ascend sitting on a bench smoking while a pigeon picks at scraps. Parody of the Keanu Reeves bench image.
Path3D points can now snap to colliders Anchor up! Ever wondered why Path3D points never seemed to snap where you wanted them to? That’s because they snap to the camera plane by default, which is essentially an imaginary flat plane at a fixed distance from the camera. We now added an option to snap path points on colliders instead.
Vintage Hunter fan with reversing option that's literally a collective right out of a helicopter