video game history lessons

post little did-you-knows about games

the bullet hell genre got its start mostly back in the mid 90s, in retaliation to all of the new 3D games that were coming out by much larger studios. games like it existed prior but they were way easier and more casual, whereas the new curtain fire games were *hard as fuck* since being 2D allowed for more processor power to be utilized on the actual game. the games were also made to be hard as fuck so they could be marketed to more "hardcore" audiences and to make 3D games look like easy shit for kids, and so that they fit into the tiny budgets of the smaller companies (since making a difficult as shit 2D game is way cheaper and easier than a big glimmery lightshow with nexxxt gen teknology like SM64 or whatev)

back in 1948 famed british computer scientist and lover of young man dong alan turing tried to make a computer play chess (which didn't work) and testing it in his head required ~20 minutes per move

"testing it in his head" wat

cis crusher wrote:"testing it in his head" wat

he couldnt 'compile' it with paper and ink and no computer could test it so he had to run through all of its routines mentally and see if it worked

did he suffer from ASD? i'm not trying to be all "LOL AUTISM xD", the whole idea of running a machine through his head sounds seriously aspie-like, speaking from experience

cis crusher wrote:did he suffer from ASD? i'm not trying to be all "LOL AUTISM xD", the whole idea of running a machine through his head sounds seriously aspie-like, speaking from experience

well he was gay

holy fuck does literally every genius/physicist/engineer/scientist HAVE to have le aspbergers holy shit i want some real info not 'umm he was smart in school and probably antisdocial so hes asp like me lol'

i have no idea if he was actually autistic/etc

bobby b wrote:

cis crusher wrote:did he suffer from ASD? i'm not trying to be all "LOL AUTISM xD", the whole idea of running a machine through his head sounds seriously aspie-like, speaking from experience

well he was gay

i know about that much

didnt he get imprisoned for it lol glorious britain amirite

cis crusher wrote:

bobby b wrote:

cis crusher wrote:did he suffer from ASD? i'm not trying to be all "LOL AUTISM xD", the whole idea of running a machine through his head sounds seriously aspie-like, speaking from experience

well he was gay

i know about that much

didnt he get imprisoned for it lol glorious britain amirite

he got arrested and they burned off his testicles with acid and then he committed suicide

bobby b wrote:holy fuck does literally every genius/physicist/engineer/scientist HAVE to have le aspbergers holy shit i want some real info not 'umm he was smart in school and probably antisdocial so hes asp like me lol'

i have no idea if he was actually autistic/etc

a lot of influential people in those fields had asd back in those days because, if you couldn't fit into the social scene, what else was there left to do?

In 2002, Turing was ranked twenty-first on the BBC nationwide poll of the 100 Greatest Britons.[117] In 2006 British writer and mathematician Ioan James chose Turing as one of twenty people to feature in his book about famous historical figures who may have had some of the traits of Asperger syndrome.[118]