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[redwallzyl]

its snowing. wat.

[Solifuge]

I friggin' know! Learn to Spring, weather. 9_9

On the plus side, I went for a walk in the snow and really enjoyed it. Might be the last one of the season, so I'm enjoying it while it lasts.

[Amperzand]

Where I live, it's unseasonably warm and dry, being usually expected to basically rain until july and then start again on september first.

[Putnam]

Super Metroid uses 32-bit fixed point numbers to represent Samus's velocity. Here's the preliminary (I haven't had time to experiment on how direction works, whether the whole shebang is signed or I'll have to look at another flag to determine) implementation of that in SMHack:

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{x=(memory.read_u16_le(0xB42)+(memory.read_u16_le(0xB44)/0x10000)),y=memory.read_u16_le(0xB2E)+(memory.read_u16_le(0xB2C)/0x10000)}
Now, you may notice something.

These aren't actually a 32-bit number. They're each a pair of 16-bit numbers. Now, this is completely expected from a fixed-point number; 16 bits are the part after the decimal point and 16 are the port before.

But what's actually odd about it is the fact that which one is which is different for each dimension. For x, the number 32.125 in the x dimension would be this in binary:

0000000000100000 0010000000000000

And in the y dimension like this:

0010000000000000 0000000000100000

why.

[Orange Wizard]

Wooooot

[Bauglir]

-snop-

what the actual fuck

[Furtuka]

miitomo is the greatest shitpost simulator of all time

[Tiruin]

-snop-

what the actual fuck

I wish I understood that as well as it was written because that looks pretty amazing! ;_;
And now I'm on a tangent remembering the paradoxes of the philosophers of old <_< My memory is silly and fun.
The only way to stop me is to give me a puzzle on the same level of the Gordian knot. I:

[hector13]

-snop-

what the actual fuck

I wish I understood that as well as it was written because that looks pretty amazing! ;_;
And now I'm on a tangent remembering the paradoxes of the philosophers of old <_< My memory is silly and fun.
The only way to stop me is to give me a puzzle on the same level of the Gordian knot. I:

4096

[Putnam]

well that only really teaches you about powers of 2 when the problem i'm describing is really more one of endianness... well, not really endianness as much as getting which pair of bytes is the more significant inconsistent due I guess to working in assembly on a system where floating points are slow as hell and you don't want to use them for the movement of your player character in a 60FPS game, but it bears some slight resemblance to endian issues

[hector13]

It was more for Tiruin's mention of asking for a complex game. I have no idea about anything you just said

[Eric Blank]

I am so goddamn confused i swear computers just make less sense the more I actually read about their function.
Clearly Putnam is a literal wizard. This coding bullshit is just a bunch of magic mumbo-jumbo.

[Descan]

computers are just electrified math

i guess that's technically magic

i mean a lot of magic systems in fiction use language, and math's another language

and electricity figures a lot in them too

so yeah, computers are magic

[SalmonGod]

computers are just electrified math

i guess that's technically magic

i mean a lot of magic systems in fiction use language, and math's another language

and electricity figures a lot in them too

so yeah, computers are magic

Descan... your logic is magic.  Have an internet.

[Sergarr]

I don't like using floating points at all, especially in chaotic situations. My experience tells me that, despite some claims to the contrary, they do not tend to do the same thing when they run. There's always some stochastic component. And that can fuck up way too many things for it to be worth it. If you really need it, you can just simulate it with integers, which are almost completely reliable and ain't prone to randomness.