Ben Lubar (any pronouns)
ben@lubar.me
youtube recommended me a video about how the portal gun in portal test chamber 02 can miss the spot it's supposed to open a portal at and NO IT CAN'T IT'S NOT SIMULATED IN A WAY THAT WOULD EVER ALLOW THAT TO HAPPEN
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Ben Lubar (any pronouns)
ben@lubar.memaybe the video is about that but I'm not wasting my time watching a video that opens with a complete lie about how something I already understand works
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I did briefly scroll down to the comments before closing it and most of them were along the lines of "I can't believe Valve would be so brazen as to make Dropship Bloodhound in Deima Surface Bridge out of an invisible train rather than something that would perform an exactly identical function but be called something different in the map editor"
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Ben Lubar (any pronouns)
ben@lubar.melike, if you want to talk about weird tricks Valve had to do to make stuff work in the game engine that don't make as much sense outside of that context, that scene where Barney pulls the crowbar out of the winch and hands it to Gordon in EP1 contains three different crowbars
the one in the winch cannot be held but is physically simulated, then the one that barney is holding is a weapon, and when he hands it to you it's a different instance of the weapon because unequipping it would have spawned it in the wrong place so it's easier to just kill it and spawn a new one
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Ben Lubar (any pronouns)
ben@lubar.methere's all kinds of stuff like this in games - any time two characters hug in any game with any art style there's usually something ridiculous going on
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Ben Lubar (any pronouns)
ben@lubar.medid you know that in alien swarm the npc for the pilot (which never appears on-screen and shares a model with the most common enemy in the game but has to physically exist for technical reasons) is stored in a box hidden somewhere within the bounds of the level?
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Ben Lubar (any pronouns)
ben@lubar.me@PetraOleum there's the kind of person who thinks the fallout train being a hat is ridiculous and the wildest thing that has ever happened on a computer and the kind of person who thinks the fallout train hat is uninteresting and they're both very wrong
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Elias Mårtenson
loke@functional.cafe@ben wasn't it Half Life where a train moving on a track is actually an enemy walking around under the floor with the train being a hat?
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Elias Mårtenson
loke@functional.cafe@ben @charlotte there is something about game development that is so alien to anyone doing regular software development. 😀
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Charlotte 
/Cinny 
charlotte
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Elias Mårtenson
loke@functional.cafe@charlotte @ben yes, but taken even further. If it is broke, but nobody notices (unless they look real hard), don't fix it.
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