Oh, you thought he was dead? What if he decided to...

DIE ANOTHER DAY?

With Q played by John de Lancie.

I remember this in meme form from years ago.

Yep, I had folks in Europe who couldn't back me on Kickstarter because they didn't have a payment method the site would accept.

30 what?

The gap between "I've won this" and "the game has noticed" is the issue. A long slog until you build The Amazing Thing/conquer the world/go to space while no-one else is in a position to challenge you.

Hexahedra is all delta, but it's a programming set-up-and-run game, so the factory is entirely deterministic and there's no need to worry about physics updates messing things up.

It also means if you supply negative deltas, the factory can run backwards if the player wants to rewind.

401113 at the bottom doesn't look terribly wounded. Is he trying to pull a sickie to get off the front lines?

I once knocked down a tree driving an armoured personnel carrier round the Jagex car park, and that wasn't even for work.

Incredible!

I'd have bailed out at the mention of AI on line 2.

Teeth are overrated

"Hello, yes, I'd like to order one Egyptian Rubble-glazed cinnamon swirl."

I discovered the hard way that it was actually possible to kill Shub-Niggurath with weapon damage, at which point the game played you the usual telefrag cutscene. Apparently later versions patched this.

That was how I finally worked out what the little spiky ball was for...

(Since the quoted post has no alt text - it's a huge stack of VHS copies of Titanic, with the film split across two tapes.)

We had one of these when I was a kid.

As far as I can tell, my earliest memory is of me "helping" my dad to play Elite on one of these when I was a toddler. I got to press "M" to fire missiles.

Pariahs and old Wraiths 😍