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Duntada Man

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It was glorious
« on: May 22, 2011, 05:01:19 pm »
I was watching a friend's house for the week. And important thing to note about this house is that it has a 72 inch flatscreen HD TV.

I hooked my computer up to it and played dwarf fortress for an entire day in all its unmodded, eye gouging, monstrous glory with a dwarf adventurer almost the size of my fist.

This is what is good in life.
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Re: It was glorious
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2011, 06:32:08 pm »
That sounds like the fast track to an almighty headache to me...
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Re: It was glorious
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2011, 06:48:49 pm »
Next time, change the settings so that everything remains roughly the same size. So many thousands of tiles displayed on the same screen... Headache almost guaranteed. A glorious, dwarven headache.
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metime00

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Re: It was glorious
« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2011, 06:51:24 pm »
Besides, at that resolution, ninety percent of the tiles would be out of your range of vision and useless.
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Re: It was glorious
« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2011, 09:54:40 pm »
Unless you stand back from the screen, then you can see them all.
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Re: It was glorious
« Reply #5 on: May 22, 2011, 11:13:34 pm »
Game with no graphics on a big screen TV. I love it.
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Re: It was glorious
« Reply #6 on: May 22, 2011, 11:52:54 pm »
Quote from: metime00 on May 22, 2011, 06:51:24 pm
Besides, at that resolution, ninety percent of the tiles would be out of your range of vision and useless.

Note: A 72" flat screen still has a resolution of either 1366x1768 or 1920x1080. Most likely the latter. But still, there seems to be the unspoken assumption that the screen having larger physical dimensions gives it a larger resolution, which isn't true.
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Soralin

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Re: It was glorious
« Reply #7 on: May 23, 2011, 12:40:30 am »
You just need to get one of these for that: http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/19/sharp-shows-off-the-worlds-first-super-hi-vision-lcd-with-16x-m/

85 inch lcd, 7680x4320 resolution. :)
« Last Edit: May 23, 2011, 12:43:16 am by Soralin »
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Re: It was glorious
« Reply #8 on: May 23, 2011, 06:21:52 am »
I'd like a screen that displays three or four z-layers at once.
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Azated

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Re: It was glorious
« Reply #9 on: May 23, 2011, 11:03:56 pm »
That sucker is as tall as me. I WANT ONE!

Quote from: BronzeElemental on May 23, 2011, 06:21:52 am
I'd like a screen that displays three or four z-layers at once.

Seeing more than one layer at a time? What sorcery is this?
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Re: It was glorious
« Reply #10 on: May 23, 2011, 11:08:57 pm »
Quote from: Azated on May 23, 2011, 11:03:56 pm
That sucker is as tall as me. I WANT ONE!

Quote from: BronzeElemental on May 23, 2011, 06:21:52 am
I'd like a screen that displays three or four z-layers at once.

Seeing more than one layer at a time? What sorcery is this?

Well, if you look in the top-right corner while you're playing adventurer...

Also, from from that article Soralin posted:
If estimates are correct, we'll still be waiting until around 2020 for that 33MP video and 22.2 channel sound to actually be broadcast

lol, estimations. They estimated the human genome project would take, what, 50 years at best? It's been done for 6.
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Re: It was glorious
« Reply #11 on: May 24, 2011, 07:27:22 am »
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He he he.  Yeah, it almost looks done...  alas...  those who are in your teens, hold on until your twenties...  those in your twenties, your thirties...  others, cling to life as you are able...It should be pretty fun though.