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New comment by komodo99 in "Factorio that you can touch"

komodo99 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:02:39 +0000

The most potato i've run it on was a CB131 chromebook, (which was about a hundred bucks in 2017) and even then, even though video was chugging at 20fps, the main update loop was locked at 60TPS. very impressive. (and helpful for a 9 hour layover on christmas eve, anecdotally)

New comment by komodo99 in "Factorio that you can touch"

komodo99 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:57:37 +0000

With actual (virtual) drills!

New comment by komodo99 in "4D Doom"

komodo99 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:18:57 +0000

interesting, very cool demo, but its not the 4d that hurts my brain and/or soul, its an FPS with an inverted X mouse axis... its like the backwards bike, sure it can be done, but my wiring isn't rigged for that!

New comment by komodo99 in "Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years"

komodo99 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:53:20 +0000

> introverts can hang with cats all day

There are certain personalities that are often attributed to modern sources, but haven't we always had that weird eccentric dude(tte) living in a shack that has a predilection to collect herbs/mine rocks/watch the skies/you name it, that isn't thought much of or seems productive until someone gets sick/needs ore/wants to know the weather/etc?

All that said, what did crazy cat people do before cats???

New comment by komodo99 in "Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years"

komodo99 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:43:51 +0000

I've always been partial to the notion that wolves domesticated human ancestors, honestly.

We like to say that dogs are wired to understand human language patterns, but who's not to say that we're not wired to emit canine 'linguistics'?

New comment by komodo99 in "LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop"

komodo99 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:40:55 +0000

Of course it was fast with that much ram, you'd just cache the entire interwebs. /s

New comment by komodo99 in "enclose.horse"

komodo99 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 20:38:00 +0000

Usability, i'd like either a 'save/restore state' button, or a 'restore current best'. Right now, experimenting after finding a solution seems like a punishment if I can't recall exactly what I did to hit my rolling 'best'. Good game though!

New comment by komodo99 in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

komodo99 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 17:14:20 +0000

I can attest to this one, 6 months ago I had a vintage pc I needed to rehab due to the curse of the proprietary ISA card. Imaged the failing drive to an ssd, sata->IDE adapter. P3 733MHz, 128 mb ram, W98SE, its astonishingly fast and responsive. Boots nearer to my memories of MSDOS 6.22 firing up than anything else.

Acrobat reader still performs like a lead balloon though, even a miracle can't fix that one.