#Star Splitscreen

[stardestroyer81]

yo congrats on that P rank :D

⭐ STAR P-RANK SCREEN REAL??? ⭐

Oh my gosh, thank you!!! For context, last night I completed the Noise Update and absolutely refused to take down Pizzahead until I P-Ranked him— it took a little over an hour of nonstop attempts, and I only ended up making it to phase three two or three times, though I'm pleased to announce that I've P-Ranked all bosses as both Peppino and The Noise!

I thought I'd doodle a quick something to go along with the superb P-Rank screen you drew! While I've still yet to conceptualize Star Tower's P-Rank screen (I have a general gist of how it's going to look and I've only drawn complete art for the D-Rank screen), I'm absolutely going to reference facets of your own if I may, especially the star spotlight; that's probably my favorite detail!!! ⭐👾✨

[bee4078]

how the fuck is my mal du pays drawing still getting likes and reblogs

[the-90s-music-colosseum]

let's talk about SUGAR WATER BY CIBO MATTO DIRECTED BY MICHEL GONDRY because not nearly enough of you are voting for it. its combination of lo-fi aesthetic and mind-bending dreamlike high-concept trickery is a perfect encapsulation of what makes gondry such a great music video director and great fit for for cibo matto’s whole vibe. when i first encountered it it took multiple times viewing it to wrap my brain around what i was even seeing. it's a classic one-take video and not only that it's TWO one-take tracking shots shown in splitscreen that had to be shot simultaneously because they intersect in the middle and also one of them is backwards. it’s a delightful puzzle box of a video that rewards endless re-viewings because it's full of funky lil details that had to have taken an enormous amount of coordination. is all star an iconic song? yeah obviously. does it have a better music video the thing we’re voting on here? no way in hell

Excellent writeup! That video is incredible - highly recommend that everyone here give it a good watch (or several).

Sugar Water vs All Star

[kieuecaprie]

So, after 34 hours of playing Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers on the Deck, I think I can give a somewhat decent performance report for the handheld PC.

So, let's get the positive stuff out of the way first:

The game, while it does boot into a smaller resolution than expected, supports the Deck's standard resolution. In fact, I believe all the 16:10 resolutions are supported.

All text is clearly legible, although pretty much every piece of text in the game is large and chat is definitely readable.

The default graphics settings work well on the Deck out of the box*.

Both Windows via Proton and Linux Flatpak work.

All fields can be filled in using the Deck's default controls.

And now, the not-so-good:

The game may fail to maintain 60 FPS in most cases, oftentimes losing frames for seemingly no reason. Turning off the frame limiter and switching to Legacy GL helped.

This point becomes incredibly obvious once you start the second cup and play on Emerald Coast. After the first few turns and as you pass over the bridge, you get a good look at the rest of the map. HOWEVER, on Software, it appears that the framerate tanks heavily during this time, dropping to as low as 45. Below, I have some screenshots to explain this:

(1280x800, running Windows version via Proton, Software rendering mode, note the 44FPS next to GAMESCOPE)

Lowering the resolution, expectedly, mitigates this somewhat at the cost of the game becoming crusty.

(640x400, running Windows version via Proton, Software rendering mode, the 44 FPS has increased to be just above the 60 FPS threshold)

There is one solution for this and that's playing in Legacy GL, which enables model support among other things and resolves the above-mentioned issue:

(1280x800, running Windows version via Proton, Legacy GL rendering mode, models have negligable impact on performance, the lack of character models is just a preference.)

Of course, this introduces another issue where special stages (pardon, Sealed Stars) tend to have lag upon start-up and lag when the game state changes after claiming the emerald:

But, it's worth mentioning that: since this is an issue happening on the legacy GL renderer, this won't be fixed due to the fact that legacy GL is planned to be replaced sometime in the future.

So, both versions have their tradeoffs, personally, I kind of prefer to keep to Legacy GL simply because the framerate is more consistent across the board and the special stages have initial lag spikes at the start is a small price to pay. Here's hoping the replacement performs better.

This does give me some insight as to how I should've been playing with a different renderer when I played SRB2 and SRB2 Kart, as both of those tended to have a bit of frame issues when playing under Software.

While the game supports the default controller configurations, the controller glyphs do not represent the controller layout, instead opting for a Sega Saturn-like controller. This can be a tad confusing for people who haven't looked inside the controller settings when they see "C" when the game wants "Y" and it still trips me up when it wants me to press "Y" in Match Race's options to change item drops when it actually wanted "Left Bumper". I do sorta understand the artistic choice to go for a Saturn controller layout but it's definitely tripping me up lmao.

And with that, the performance report has concluded. I couldn't find any worst-case scenarios outside of a 16-man race and even then it ran fine and I have yet to try online and splitscreen, but as it stands, game runs good, as it should.

TL;DR - Game runs fine out of the box. Swap to Legacy GL in the video options if framedrops in courses are beginning to get you down. I have not tested online or splitscreen.

[acaplaya-musings]

Voiceplay-adjacent Visuals: Saddle Up

From one Thurl song to another!

This song is so old and obscure that if you google "Thurl Ravenscroft Saddle Up" or something similar, Geoff's cover and stuff about Geoff's cover are some of the first/top things to appear in the search results!

Saddle Up (sung by Thurl Ravenscroft) originally featured on a very old album (idk what year) called "Walt Disney Presents: This Was The West (The Story and The Songs by Stan Jones)". (Fun fact: Stan Jones was the original writer of Ghost Riders In The Sky!) It then later featured on the album "Walt Disney Records Archive Collection: Volume 1". This isn't a video I watch all that often (though I've listened to the cover a fair few times via my Spotify playlist), but I would've felt bad for not doing a post about it, even if it only ends up being a short one, so here we go!

Oh, and starring Layne as Slightly Tired Best Friend 😝 (or as Geoff says in the description: "Layne Stein played by Layne Stein (as only Layne Stein can)" 😁)

"Scoot over, my show's on!"

I'm assuming this is just a prop/fake TV?

Pfft

(Also a bit of a role reversal from the Aca Top 10 videos on Voiceplay's channel, where typically it's Layne being the silly one and Geoff being more of the "straight man", as opposed to here, where it's vice versa!)

Appreciation for the editing!

Layne: *moves a little further away from Geoff on the couch*

Geoff, like 6 seconds later: *moves closer to Layne on the couch* 😂😂😂

(Who needs personal space when you've known each other for 25+ years? 😋)

Time for the actual "show"/cover! Got some fun transitions and split-screen styles (and the blue flannel is kinda nice too!)

Split-screen example! (Also necklace spotted!)

"the list is long, you'll hear the names" (Layne's reaction is perfect 😆👌)

There are 6 buttons on that polo shirt, but Geoff only has one (1) of them actually done up 😝 (never change, Geoff, never change)

(Also I only just noticed that the shots of the song performance are in a different aspect ratio to the shots of Geoff and Layne on the couch!)

Different shirt, same button situation! (This one you can see the pendant of the necklace just peeking out!)

Boy this must have been fun to film 😂

I like this splitscreen! Very creative! (But also very brief!)

Geoff never does anything by half, does he? Why stick to simple stuff when you apparently have better ideas?

Oh that was a clever little added touch! 👀

Geoff: "So what did you think?" :D

Layne: "Wasn't that just you in four different shirts?"

Pfft, well what can I say; the song is a bop and a jam, and the video is just good silly fun! And of course shoutout to Layne for being involved with this one, and him and Geoff being an accurate representation of my friends and I when I show them Voiceplay/Geoff videos 😝 (I'm joking - they think Geoff and Voiceplay are really fantastic too, and why wouldn't they? 😁)

[short-and-ugly]

thing titles stuff:

Blind Follower : 7088

Cannon Fodder : 2324

Nubby Replacements (No not really, Gir) : 10356

KILL SWITCH : 2950 -> 4300~ -> 5640

Nope! Never Happened! : 33832

Stars Passed : 1199 -> 2200~ -> 2138

Invader to Intruder : 15297

Sidekicks : 1653

The Burrito... of DOOM! : 7665

Dead Weight : 32723 -> 42000~ -> 45817 Chest-Wormsters and Poultry Mishaps Carry Me Way Back

Meat-Cute... Ugly? : 6512 -> 20000~ -> 21556 Strange Intricate Rituals MRE

WHY IS THE RAIN ACID?! : 7424 -> 17000~ From Bad To Worse To Normal

Zim Changes Jobs Because Professor Membrane sees him Beat up his son : 1242 -> 4000~

At-CHOO! Curse You! : 6276 -> 50000~ More Slime Than Usual?! A Doctor’s Note Won’t Cut It Forking Paths Splitscreen

[OUT OF MEMORY] : 45000~ Past the Rose Tinted Ocular Implants There's a Faint Red Glow

RETURN OF KEEF : 843 -> 6000~

Fair Enough, I Guess! : 215 -> 3000~

Home Invader : 2984 -> 12000~

Service With A Smile : 227 -> 3000~

Smeet On Board : 8967 -> 40000~ Tiny Scientist Hostage Diplomacy Homebase Just A Smidge Bit Googoo Eyes

Ick! “Row-mance!” : 1684 -> 5000~

PROGRAMMATIC [EXECUTION] : 39590 -> 100000~ To The Point of No Return DOOM ARENA Jam/Berries Flash Drive : [TRANSCRIPT START] [ACT I: ALIGN, FINE LINE] [ACT II: BRAMBLES] [ACT III: DON’T WORRY DISAPPOINT WORRY DISAPPOINT WORRY DISAPPOINT WORRY DISAPPOINT WORRY DISAPPOINT DISAPPOINT DISAPPOINT DISAPPOINT D I S A P P O I N T D I S A P P O I N T D I [ACT IV: THORNS] [ACT V: ORDER(LESS)] [TRANSCRIPT END] : Red Alert Override Breakdown Meltdown Settle down

TOTAL ESTIMATED WORD COUNT : 423000~

TOTAL WORD COUNT BY DATE : - 10/07/2024 ; 235725 - 10/15/2024 ; 240134

[millenniumdueled]

Shooting Star: If you could bring back one thing, what would it be? 

splitscreen multi-player!!!! i know it's not gone gone, but there aren't enough new games that allow in-person multiplayer anymore.....

[straightyuri]

Super star Ultra is cool and has good bonus content (revenge of the king is incredibly important I feel. And meta knightmare ultra is fun) but super star is slightly more charming to me and you don't have to deal with the splitscreen awkwardness if you don't have a 3ds. Either are good though

[watching-pictures-move]

Movie Review | The Return of Bruno (Yukich, 1987)

Gave this a look to celebrate the birthday of the great Bruce Willis. I’d always known of this as a weird vanity project from the pre Die Hard part of his career to promote his musical projects, but if anything it turns out at least in its first half to be a parody of that very idea. The joke here is that Willis’ character, Bruno Radolini, being behind every single significant development in popular music since the ‘60s. It’s something which gets funnier every single time the movie repeats it through totally straightfaced testimonials from all the music legends ropes into appearing in this, peaking with Graham Nash deadpanning, “They weren’t shouting ’boo’ at all, they were shouting ‘Bruno’.”

If anything, this is something of an anti star vehicle, as we don’t get much time with Willis outside of his musical performances, captured in footage that nicely apes the visual aesthetics of the periods depicted (B&W and mop wigs for the Dick Clark era, hippie hair and splitscreen for Woodstock) but whose musical production marks this as a product of the ‘80s. Which means that this gets a lot less interesting in the second half when it has an extended musical performance by present day Bruno and his band, doing serviceable blues rock that evokes Huey Lewis with less swagger. Not a knock on Lewis, I like Sports quite a bit, but I liked this better when it was more tongue in cheek about this music’s supposed coolness.

[sanjipussyindulgence]

hey jsyk that one jayvik fic you wrote had me in complete shambles. it's like you psychically knew exactly my exact tastes and created a 3star michelin dish for my personal enjoyment. 11/10 out of this world.

(also when i found out you named yourself after tanner smallant minecraft i audibly gasped bc i genuinely had one of his vods running in splitscreen as i found your poll. stars aligned again)

thank you sm <3

also its extremely funny to me that i said i named myself after a streamer and instantly EVERYONE knew it was smallant. is that guy seriously the only other man on earth named tanner

[stardestroyer81]

The Steam banner for Pizza Tower has been something I've always wanted to redraw for Star Tower, and while my first post of 2023 attempted something similar, this time I went all-in and included as much of Star Tower's cast as I possibly could all in one stylish banner! ⭐👾✨

[maximuswolf]

Splitscreen Multiplayer games ?

Splitscreen Multiplayer games ? Anyone got more info about other games where you can splitscreen multiplayer ?Like 4 Player in PC-A , join another 4 Player in PC-B, so you get total 8 players.I only know these 2 games got which are Sonic all Star Transforming and Rocket League.Anyone know other games similar to these games ?Thanks. Submitted October 19, 2024 at 07:15PM by royal_steed https://ift.tt/6th7v2z via /r/gaming

[keefiswhoiam]

June 22 - 2024 Saturday

11:53pm

6.5/10

I forgot to journal yesterday and frankly I dont remember what I did. Today I woke up and took a shower and headed straight to JD's. He cooked breakfast for his whole family on the outdoor grittle and I brought a can of turkey spam to contribute. It was the largest and most delicious breakfast I've had in a long time. Unlike in the past, I didn't feel awkward or anything. I was chill. We chilled on the deck to let breakfast settle and then fought with lightsabers in the yard with his daughter. He showed me around the property and where he is going to build his house. I got to give his daughter her very late Christmas gift and then we played Star Wars Battlefront splitscreen on the Switch. Then he took me home.

At home I got to see DS's fantastic attempt at blond hair, but she needs to make more passes to get it truly blond. We watched the new Helluva Boss which was extremely lame and the next 2 episode of Smiling Friends. Then she left for a party she got invited to.

I prepared for book club and then got in VR for it. It went very well, I think I got into the groove of how to conduct book club in general even if it is rather late since we only have 1 more chapter of this book. Afterwards I took ZZ and GT to a gay furry party that we didn't really interact with, we mainly chatted together. This lowkey autistic guy joined on me for some reason and he joined in too. I got off when DS got home from the party in a bad mood.

We talked some and I had to wake her up for puzzles which we didn't get through completely before she passed out. I spent the rest of my night watching an episode of the boys. I was able to find season 2 on Dailymotion with ads.

Today I learned again that I operate well after I've been tuckered out. My social battery was drained spending time with JD's family which was a good thing. I find it easier to be myself when I'm too tired to overthink things. My heart was totally open tonight for book club and and DS and it felt good.

[theaceofskulls]

I will never not associate him with the Firefall bus. In fact here it is again:

But it's also important to note that he continues to cling onto his time at Blizzard, which was almost 20 years ago.

While he was there during Diablo 2 and had a middle management job at Vanilla WoW, I want to point at the scape of video games that have changed since then.

The fundamental landscape of MMOs have changed completely and plenty of Diablo clones have come and gone.

3 generations of consoles have gone by, seeing the end of handheld only games, the rise of online games, like 10 monetization practices dominate the landscape, the entire rise of the indie sphere to something that's a household fixture, the death of LAN, the death of splitscreen, multiple retro waves of various sorts, the shift from MMORPGs to MMO shooters/live service, and so much more.

Kern has one game since he left in 2005 and several people have squarely put his management of it as the blame for its failure. Meanwhile the only other game he's noted on has basically been called "another Star Citizen". His company doesn't even have it's own wikipedia page, sharing it with Firefall.

So whenever I hear him referred to as an ex-Blizzard dev to give him credence to whatever awful shit he's shouting on twitter, usually riding the coattails of other reactionaries, I remember that's because other than this bus

he's done nothing of note while continuing to act like he's got an insider perspective, usually to take potshots at Blizzard or some other dev who put a rainbow in their game.

this literally never stops being funny like dog they made starship troopers with the Baby's First Satire cranked up to 11 and these people are still fucking dumbfounded that the creators don't share their politics

[3starjammies]

Lucky Star is an ideal 4 koma adaptation.

It knows how to expand upon the manga in a way that feels natural and makes the final punchline of a scene funnier. Expanding some scenes and leavings others the same as the manga also helps vary up the timing of the show so things don't start to feel too repetitive.

And it also adds a lot more to the visual element that's not in the manga, like the scene in episode 2 where it uses a splitscreen to compare how Tsukasa and Kagami, and Tsukasa and Konata, spent their vacation.

Not to mention the addition of Lucky Channel, which is the funniest part of the show. And having the characters sing karoke for the ED was a stroke of genius!

I'm only on episode 4 on this rewatch but I gotta say Lucky Star really holds up, it's great.

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

the sound of a gonk droid is so comforting to me