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    Coconut Monkey Cornerclub

    You keep saying TMI! TMI is an image format I invented! Well... 'format' is pushing it. It's just a .JPG with a comment set in such a way that my programs can read it, then lay it on top of a map with the same location/rotation/opacity that it was saved with. Outside of work, it's just a...
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    General Game Discussion thread for April 2026

    Playing BattleTech advanced and I've been getting bigger and stronger. I'm dropping 9 mechs onto the field, plus a couple of vehicles. A couple of nights ago, I dropped into a city and started trudging toward my targets and along come a tank with a lot of armor and a special kind of gun: a...
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    Save-Scumming: Good or Bad?

    If the chest contents are randomized and you keep opening the same one over and over until you get something good, yeah. If you stay at just two lock picks for a long time, I suppose this could amount to the same thing, but I'm betting you got more pretty quickly.
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    General Game Discussion thread for April 2026

    What if it's something that is very small, like a gnat? Will it make just one pixel or will it make a giant gnat?
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    YT channels and random interests.

    I just watched all of this. I feel I am now ready for retirement life. View: https://youtu.be/kH_bSvf7EVA?si=MKSsnDZJBjgWtjTw
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    General Game Discussion thread for April 2026

    Yeah, the melee thing is in the main game, too, though I still don't understand why it affects all angles of attack when just one is blocked. <shrug> It has changed since that writing and automatically picks 'kick' most of the time now. Also, mechs with no arms and 4 legs kick with both front...
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    Do you like it when games have a "High Score" system?

    A high score system!? I haven't seen one of those in years and years! <ahem> I haven't seen one of those in weeks and weeks! (Come to think of it, BattleTech has one, too. I just haven't ever thought about trying to beat my first score.) Oh jeez, I remember one for... was it an early...
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    Save-Scumming: Good or Bad?

    I think it's a difficulty level thing, isn't it? Higher difficulties tell you the truth, lower difficulties lie and tell you that you have less chance of hitting than you really do. See this hour'ish talk at GDC in 2010. The probability psychology bit is about 20 minutes in. Lying to the...
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    Coconut Monkey Cornerclub

    At the rate I drive, it would take me over 50 years to get a car to 240,000 miles!
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    YT channels and random interests.

    And I just made a Cena Longbow in Battletech a few days ago! (Stealthy, so you can't see it.)
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    YT channels and random interests.

    This one is going to be on the 'one in a million' videos for a long, long time... View: https://youtube.com/shorts/P1YmzWDGQNo?si=L_bCFmhqvXhvvJiT
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    Save-Scumming: Good or Bad?

    I prefer the term: Aggressive Saving Technique! I even remember when I first really felt I was doing it: the original Tomb Raider. There's a series of jumps near the end with tight timings. I don't remember how many jumps there were, maybe 5 of them? I could make any one of them half of the...
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    General Game Discussion thread for April 2026

    Yep, a mod. It changes the game so that it takes place 50'ish years after when the vanilla game took place, allowing some of the rarer technologies to be more common. There's a whole BattleTech ecosystem of mods now. Mods like this one include several built-in mods, plus there's a lot of work...
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    General Game Discussion thread for April 2026

    BattleTech Advanced is still cruising along. I've been getting frustrated with the melee, though. If an enemy unit is next to a hill of some kind, the game seems to get confused when you try to select the option to kick/punch them, making it impossible. I've got a couple of mechwarriors that...
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    What are your top 3 (or more if you want) puzzle games of all time?

    You've got to learn about the history of Aperture Science!
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