prof-badvibes

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@prof-badvibes

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26, cartoon and video game liker.

Occasional NSFW rechosts, ask me to tag if necessary.

You can find art I made under #bvart!

A low resolution website banner depicting a close-up of Xenia, the Linux Fox's face against a red background. To the right is large, bolded text reading "LINUX" accompanied by smaller text underneath reading "the choice of a GNU generation."

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A deviantART styled stamp containing a photo of an elderly person's face to the right of white text reading "I'm thinking about those beans" with grammar, punctuation, and spelling mistakes. The background is a photo of baked beans.A deviantART styled stamp containing a screenshot of Mario from Super Mario 64, edited to be giving the viewer a realistic middle fingerA deviantART styled stamp containing a photo of a hairless pet rat next to a toy keyboard with rainbow-colored keysA deviantART style animated pixel stamp featuring cropped artwork of femtanyl's mascot. "FEMTANYL" is spelled out in white pixel letters on the mascot's forehead that individually turn red from left to right in a loop
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An 88 by 31 pixel banner of an abstract floating head creature with a liquid eye facing away from the viewer, a closed eye with an eyelash facing towards the viewer, and teardrop-shaped gems coming out of the eyelash. Xhe is accompanied by text reading "Charm will protect you!" and is depicted in front of a purple background.an animated 88 by 31 button. it is a parody of the classic "Netscape NOW! 3.0" button, replacing the Netscape Navigator logo with alternating photos of Laura Les and Dylan Brady's faces screaming, sourced from the back cover of the album "10,000 Gec". The word 'netscape' in 'netscape now' is replaced with a crude scrawling of the word "GECS".an animated 88 by 31 button. along the top is text reading "SPONGEHEAD" in a font from Spongebob Squarepants, colored in black and cohost's plum color. below is smaller Spongebob font text reading "prof-badvibes" in green, with one letter at a time in sequence flashing white. To the sides are Incidental Number 7, a background character from Spongebob, and Eggbug, the cohost mascot, colored to resemble Spongebob.an 88 by 31 button of the transgender pride flag against a gray background next to text reading "trans rights now!"
an 88 by 31 button featuring animated pixel art of Reimu Hakurei from the Touhou series against a gray background. she is pictured next to text reading "powered by Reimu."an 88 by 31 animated button. the button starts showing a blue color, but the point of view zooms out to reveal a blue variant of Tux, the Linux penguin, against a gray background. text reading "Linux powered" appears in the banner to the left of Tux.an 88 by 31 button. it is a parody of the classic "Netscape NOW! 3.0" button, replacing the Netscape Navigator logo with a photo of Weird Al Yankovich's face. The word 'netscape' in 'netscape now' is replaced with the word 'Yankovic'.an 88 by 31 animated button of the Lapfox Trax logo, which is the word 'LAPFOX' in bold serif font with a cartoon fox's head replacing the 'O'. The logo is in front of a rainbow color-shifting grid
A parody of the "Netscape Now!" 88 by 31 pixel button. To the left is a rotating marijuana leaf, and to the right is text reading "Legalize Now!" along with the letters M and J in the bottom right corner.An animated 88 by 31 pixel banner with a yellow-to-green hue-shifting background. To the left is a cropped piece of clipart showing the top half of a newspaper cartoon-styled individual's face looking at the viewer in a goofy way. The clipart is accompanied by text reading "FREE STUFF" in bolded all capital letters to the right.An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting two photographed women looking up and to the right against a white background. Text reading "GAY WOMEN" in bolded all capital letters can be found to the right, with the word "gay" being larger and emphasized.An animated 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting a sprite of a blinking one-eyed green alien from the Commander Keen games. To the alien's right is text reading "Accursed Farms".
An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting a rainbow peace symbol to the left of blue text reading "Peace Now!", both against a gray background.An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting an inverted United States flag with the stars replaced by a 'no' symbol. On top of the flag is black handwritten pixel text reading "ACAB".An animated 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting Super Mario running to the right through a 'window' to the left. To the right is blue text reading "Dave's Videogame Classics".An 88 by 31 pixel banner containing sprites of Kris and Susie from the video game Deltarune. Susie is looking at Kris with a cartoonishly angry expression. Below the two is white text against a black background reading "kris where tf are we."
An animated 88 by 31 pixel banner with a gray background. To the left is a 'window' showing a sprite of a dove against a black background. The dove is shown flying and being covered up by a red X symbol in two alternating frames. To the right is black-and-gray flashing text reading "DEAD DOVE, DO NOT EAT" in all-capital letters.An animated 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting an illustration of Hatsune Miku against a gray background. Miku is blinking her eyes and smiling on alternating frames. To the right is text reading "This site is Miku Approved", with 'Miku' in large, bolded blue letters and 'Approved' flashing rapidly between blue and red.An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting the transgender pride flag, with beveled edges to give the impression of mild three-dimensional depth.An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting the blue Sega logo against a white background.
An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting a screencap of Blender version 1.X, with a classic-styled logo and a wireframe cube in the centerAn 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting the words "download SBURB" next to a logo of a minimalist lime-green house separated into segments. The word "SBURB" is rendered in a bold, cartoony, lime-green font.An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting the lesbian pride flag, with beveled edges to give the impression of mild three-dimensional depth.An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting character art of Sonic from the fangame Sonic Robo Blast 2 against that game's title screen background.
an 88 by 31 button of the blue-and-orange logo of the Doom video game series to the right of the Doomguy's grinning Heads Up Display face against a gray background.

Thanks to @framebuffer for my profile picture, @candiedreptile for the Charm button, @softwareangel for the Spongehead button!

Sources of any other profile graphics that weren't made or commissioned by me can be found here:
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cathoderaydude
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cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

monuments of mars (apogee, 1991) may be one of the first games to ever contain a physics puzzle

p.s.

  1. i have since looked up a video of the solution and it turns out you don't need to do anything more than steal one box and make it to the left side, so it's not nearly as complex as it appears, but it's the last stage in this episode so i wonder if it originally was harder, and then the designer realized most people would never be able to manage it

  2. the color palette here is completely different because i changed it with CHGCOLOR.COM

cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

This game, as well as arctic adventure and pharoah's tomb, are some of the jankiest, most computer-ass games ever to come out for the PC. this is interesting to me for a lot of reasons

cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

feel like i should add a postscript to this: i'm not being snarky, i'm not just L'ing my A O. when I say I like these games, I mean it - they are bad, and broken, and they are also fun partly because they are bad and broken.

had the engine been better, they would have had to design completely different levels to make it a challenge again. as it stands, what they shipped is tuned to the engine's weaknesses, so outside of the absurd ammo softlock I described, they are legitimate, playable games. you can definitely plow through them if you take some time and learn how they work, and the feeling when you complete a level will be a special kind of feeling you haven't gotten from anything else. i can't think of a better compliment for a videogame.

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xinjinmeng
@xinjinmeng

I'm always fascinated when someone plays a retro game and complains that "the jump and run buttons are reversed". There's no ISO standard of what button goes where!

Modern gamers don't often appreciate their own biases. Why should a long fall not kill you? Why should manipulating the joystick or the button have any effect on the jump after you launch yourself — in defiance of all physics and reason?

The original Prince of Persia is one of my favorite games. It's built into the engine that if you're running towards an edge, you can hold the jump button early, and the computer will wait until your avatar is at the last possible pixel before committing to the jump. That might be the first computer-assist in platforming? 🤔 I had started to wonder why modern games don't do that … until I learned that many of them basically let you jump off empty air in the "coyote frames". And that design is now common practice, because "that's what a game is", now. 🙂

P.S. It's Halloween so I'm playing Castlevania NES for the first time, and the jumping ... oh my stars, I'm so spoiled by modern games. 😅

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Janet
@Janet

The jankiness in collission probably stems from low precision in the code handling it. If they even had floats it was single precision. Much rather they relied on fixed point integer physics which has immensely higher errors so some times it rounds to yupp, sometimes it rounds to nah when checking at almost the same distance which results in some judder of things in regards to what the visual cortex tells you about the movements jerk and acceleration but uhm I'm kinda reading the tea leaves over here

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