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1:33 PM

@MartinEnder It's not really a 2D side-scroller, and it's not really a full 3D game. I guess it's closer to a 2D game, but the fixed camera gives it an illusion of depth.

Also, I shouldn't have to read a Reddit post to understand the story :-/

Martin Ender

@AdmBorkBork well of course you could do the same kind of interpretation and analysis yourself :P

I guess it depends on what kind of storytelling you like

ASCII-only

@AdmBorkBork idea: read finnegan's wake then

Martin Ender

@AdmBorkBork I think 2.5D normally refers to 3D graphics and 2D gameplay. I'd consider HLD and stuff like Zelda just 2D (just that the two dimensions are both horizontal instead of having one vertical dimension like in a platformer).

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2.5D

Two and a half dimensional (shortened to 2.5D, known alternatively as three-quarter perspective and pseudo-3D) is a term used to describe either 2D graphical projections and similar techniques used to cause images or scenes to simulate the appearance of being three-dimensional (3D) when in fact they are not, or gameplay in an otherwise three-dimensional video game that is restricted to a two-dimensional plane or has a virtual camera with a fixed angle. By contrast, games using 3D computer graphics without such restrictions are said to use true 3D. Common in video games, these projections have also...

IIRC Castle Crashers is one?

Apparently there are two different types of games referred to as 2.5D

AdmBorkBork

@ASCII-only Never heard of it, but reading the Wikipedia for it, it sounds kinda interesting. Sounds like it would be similar to reading House of Leaves.

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1:46 PM

@AdmBorkBork maybe. if 70% of the words in house of leaves were either made up or (intentionally) misspelt

AdmBorkBork

Oh dear, I'd probably have problems reading it, then. I get hung up trying to parse Internet-speak.

Eric Tressler

2:10 PM

it's not internet speak, it's pretentious writer gibberish

Eric Tressler

2:51 PM

I may be biased, though; I really dislike James Joyce's work

El'endia Starman

3:33 PM

I had to read a page and a half of Ulysses for English class once. Ugh.

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Martin Ender

4:41 PM

@AdmBorkBork I'm currently reading "S." that one is quite comparable to HoL

AdmBorkBork

@MartinEnder That looks cool. Thanks for the mention; I've added it to my Amazon cart.

I really enjoyed House of Leaves, both for the story and the artistic presentation.

Martin Ender

5:18 PM

@AdmBorkBork Yeah, I binged through that one in a week or so.

I've also read The Fifty Year Sword and the first part of The Familiar, but the last time I tried my English vocabulary wasn't quite enough for the poetic language of Only Revolutions.

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moonheart08

9:33 PM

I've been playing Cookie Clicker out of boredom. I totally didn't get the "uncanny clicker" achievement legitimately just now

El'endia Starman

What achievement is that again?

moonheart08

The one where you have to click 150 times in 10 seconds

(It's possible)

Pavel

The world record actions per minute in StarCraft II is 818

That's 136 actions in 10 seconds

Now, I understand clicks aren't the same as actions

But still

moonheart08

9:50 PM

I'm not even going to bother reproducing it

Because seriously, that's a lot of clicks

Nathan Merrill

10:09 PM

I haven't played cookie clicker, but my best strategy for lots of clicks is to use a touchpad, and use your 4 fingers

or 8 if you're really aiming high :P

Martin Ender

10:31 PM

Hyper Light Drifter has a pretty insane achievement where you need to press a button with a very precise frequency 800 times. It's not super fast, but the time frame for each button press is super tight.

Pavel

I've never heard of this game, what's it like?

Martin Ender

And if you do it with a gamepad instead of KBM you also need to navigate your character and avoid walls in a fairly narrow space while doing so.

@Pavel Hmm, nonlinear top-down hack-and-slash with a very cryptic story, I guess. And pretty tough boss battles.

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11:42 PM

@MartinEnder :/

that sounds impossible

@NathanMerrill *use JS

Martin Ender

@ASCII-only I have no clue how people do it with a gamepad. I managed it after a while with a keyboard, where you can abuse the controls in a way so you don't have to worry about the characters movement, but it was pretty stressful.

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