Shawn McDowell

@turboshawn.com

Producer & Editor for Giant Bomb. Producer & Occasional Co-host for Jeff Grubb's Game Mess. Lifelong Pokémon & fighting game nerd. (He/Him) https://www.twitch.tv/turboshawn | https://www.youtube.com/@TurboShawn

@turboshawn.com

Okay, so far I've learned that Soma Cruz is a high school kid who rules over monsters but still gets stuck in a castle with topless spider ladies shooting him with machine gun boobs and literal Death wanting to chop his punk-ass head off, let's see how this plays out:

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@grubb.wtfReposted by @turboshawn.com

this is the face I'm make when Jan, Mike, and Chuck give me three different poses for the one pose I am supposed to pass on to Jerf.

@matpiscatella.bsky.socialReposted by @turboshawn.com

Hey Mat why are fewer younger and less affluent households investing in consoles or buying $80 video games right now? Idk man call Sherlock Holmes cuz it's a real gd mystery.

@sickcombos.bsky.socialReposted by @turboshawn.com

Sega is like your friend who struggles from time to time. yeah they mess up but ultimately you support them and celebrate their success when you can SNK is some stranger who is wearing your friends face. They talk about the good ol' days and try to fit in but deep down you know something is wrong

@philsalv.bsky.socialReposted by @turboshawn.com

If you leave short story-sized comments in your code, it should be to explain something so messed up that you need to leave a message to yourself, Memento-style See: the first half of a comment block I left in the weapon code of Reelism 2

A massive comment block in the Basketball weapon code for Reelism 2. It reads, in part: "Abandon hope, all ye who enter the Splot_BasketballProjectile section! During the Early Excess period for Reelism 2, the Basketball was extremely prone to crashing. This was probably the most frequent piece of feedback that we received. We tried many, many, many times to fix it, and for that reason, I must tell you the story of what happened. The Basketball was originally split between two objects: a projectile actor, which handled the collisions with monsters and geometry, and a WeaponGiver actor with a larger radius, which is what the player picked up and made the ball easier to grab in the air. This configuration ran into an issue where, randomly, GZDoom would crash immediately after the ball was thrown or dunked. The problem stuck around for months, even persisting into the first public release of Reelism 2, much to our frustration. As far as we can tell, the underlying problem was related to how the two Basketball actors would need to constantly reference each other. If one actor was removed from play in the middle of the other actor's script, there was a chance that GZDoom would crash by trying to reference the properties of an object that didn't exist anymore. We could never get the two actors in sync, no matter how many safeguards we added. The obvious solution to this problem was to combine the two Basketball objects into one actor, which is what you'll see below. However, I was reluctant to do this at first, because we would lose the expanded WeaponGiver hitbox. The Basketball is a pretty small object, so I was hestitant to cut that feature. I started to implement the trimmed-down version of the Basketball on the evening of December 2, 2020 when the solution dawned on me: We could still use a hitbox actor, as long as it did NOTHING."
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