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Microsoft has already lost the console wars, and now it starts to look like they might even lose the PC wars. Is there any future for Microsoft gaming? It feels like the only thing they got going for them is Call of Duty.

Adding to this: if you can’t use a polygon library, it’s quite easy to check if a point is inside a polygon. Just count the number of polygon edges is above the point (have a separate count for each polygon).

If the number is odd, then the point is inside the polygon. If it’s even, then it’s outside.

If there are multiple candidate polygons (which will happen with A in the example), pick the one with the closest edge to the point. Alternatively, pick the smallest polygon.

See ray casting algorithm in this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_in_polygon

Just beware of floating point precision when implementing the algoritm.

But use a polygon library first and foremost.

Then it should be closed for being a duplicate question. I don’t think it makes sense to close any question for having a duplicate answer.

Notably, it refers to answers, not the invalidity or duplication of a question.

I think it’s too much to close a question just because a different question happen to have the same answer. There might be a future answer that might apply to one, but not the other.

Emulating DK’s Jungle Parkway in MK64 goes brrrr

What’s different between Vscode and other editors like Vim is how easy it is to make it a fully fledged IDE. Usually a notification pops up about analyzers being available, and if you click accept it’s done. Just one click of a button.

With Vim it’s not that easy. You need to install many separate plugins just to make it a fraction of an IDE.

His last debate against Trump was awful. He made Trump look sane in comparison.

The problem with the Democrats is that they’re lame. Their entire stick was ”we’re not Trump” and ”more of the same”. Biden wouldn’t change that.

What functionality is Vscode lacking for it to be an IDE?

Not only that. Emulators must often ”cheat” to achieve high speeds. This means emulators doesn’t try to achieve a 1:1 replication of what’s happening inside the hardware, but something that’s gives close enough results and better tailored for modern hardware.

The reason why N64 is particularly difficult is because each game must be optimized individually (due to the heavy reliance on microcode). The emulator must replicate the hardware at a much lower level for an accurate emulation of all games. Emulator developers can apply optimizations on each individual game, but it’s incredibly time consuming to do so for every game in the N64 library.

Well, MVG is an experienced programmer, especially with emulation and homebrews, so he knows what he’s talking about.

The video says that emulation has always worked better on popular games. But if you try to emulate a less popular game, you will run into major issues. This is because the emulation must be tweaked for each game specifically due to how N64 hardware works.

Where’s NumIcrementorFactory?

The catch about Lemmy is that degenerates like me are here

It’s there because someone stupid fuck did it, and the car manufacturer don’t want to be legally responsible next time it happens.

Love the game. It’s a game that deserves more attention.

I agree we don’t generally need think about the technical details. It’s just good to be aware of the exponent and mantissa parts to better understand where the inaccuracies of floating point numbers come from.

I like DS for what it is: the first fully 3D Mario Kart on a handheld console. Played quite a lot of it back in the days. It was also the first one with online play.

I think the missions was a fun addition as well. It’s the only Mario Kart game that features boss battles (to my knowledge).

It’s useful to know that floats don’t have unlimited precision, and why adding a very large number with a very small number isn’t going to work well.

Can’t recall vehicles if all have exploded

I’m not sure. I preferred MK64 back in the day.

I think the specials make the game quite unbalanced. It’s more about picking favorite special rather than favorite character. If you don’t like a particular special, well then you will never play those characters (I’m looking at you Peach and Daisy).

With the other MK games I just pick whatever character I feel like playing today.

I also didn’t like how triple shells became limited to the Koopas only. Those should be accessible by everyone.