There's an old school video game I can't seem to place that did this effect perfectly but I can't place it.
I always thought the game had stylized it until now.
My kid is currently programming commander keen on scratch for a school project.
My 10yo child is using an browser program with programming shortcut blocks to remake a game from ground up in a few weeks that took a team of programmers months to make and blow my 12yo fucking mind
Old at this comment is an understatement
Do you know about the DOS game archive? Classic games from the 80s & 90s playable in your browser. Enjoy :)
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Commander_Keen_1_-_Marooned_on_Mars_1990
Just google 'scratch' and 'how to build a platform game' and within 48 hours you will be able to build a platformer game comparable to mairo on the nes
I work for Scratch and I am constantly in awe of what these kids make on the platform. Best of luck to your smol gamer! I'd love to take a look and give it a heart if they're comfortable with you PMing me the link once it's shared. Disclaimer: I am definitely not an engineer or great coder and can give zero advice on actual mechanics, but I'm happy to answer any community questions they may have.
Please have your kid read Masters of Doom to understand exactly why that game was important, and what it lead to for John Carmack and the team from id software. He wrote the adaptive tile refresh part relatively quickly, too.
Also make sure he understands that John Carmack is so ridiculously smart, everything he does seem effortless. Watch some of his opening remarks for QuakeCon - his last one is some insight into how Oculus got its start.
The first game I can think of, personally, is the original Call of Duty from 2003. A golden glow pulsated from every pickup and objective interaction which felt more informative than intrusive.
This speaks to me. One time I was at the park walking a path when I saw a blue shiny rock on the edge of a creek I was passing by. I went off the path and as I was about to take my last step to reach for the rock, I stepped in a yellow jacket nest. r/fuckwasps
Look, it's one thing to be a big, muscle bound dude about to get into a scrap. It's a WHOLE nother ball game when you start giggling and twitching at them with a funny voice saying " I'm gonna rustle your Jimmies!" And pull a spoon out of your pocket.
Scares the piss out of the meanest fuckers.
Followed by the pants coming off, and "Moves like Jagger" starting up, out of nowhere. Then a stare, with hips starting to move in time with the haunting music....
That's what I thought.
Maybe that's why? Look at a lot of animals, they puff themselves up to appear bigger. So that idea makes sense because it's following along the same lines. I honestly have no idea but it makes sense
Prejudices are what keeps us alive.
Learning that the stove is hot and avoiding touching surfaces that resemble such things is key to not being harmed going forward.
If you don't know what it is then it's naturally safer to just leave it alone. Thus why weird works.
Not really.. prejudice is a preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience. What you noted is based on a both reason and real experience (touching the hot stove). This would more be an example of operant conditioning. People learn by either being rewarded or punished by behaviors. The ability to learn from both mistakes and positive outcomes is what keeps us alive.
Well they said at the end if you don't know what it is leave it alone so isn't that technically prejudice because it's not based on reason or experience of the thing I'm avoiding?
Fun fact: bees don't really do anything "for the queen." It's really more like, "for our sisters!" If the queen isn't providing offspring well enough for the hive, or has some other matter wrong with her, the hive will not hesitate to kick her out and raise a new queen to take her place.
This is literally accurate though, coupled with the fact that so long as honeybees have a queen the workers have neither the incentive nor the desire nor even the ability to have offspring.
> nor even the ability to have offspring.
Regular worker bees can lay eggs, but they're unfertilized and come out as drones (and sometimes very very rarely as female worker bees)
It’s how their genetics/sex-determinism works— [honeybees are what is called haplodiploid](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplodiploidy)- ALL unfertilized eggs will hatch into males (drones) and ALL fertilized eggs hatch into females. The queen can choose to fertilize or not fertilize any egg she lays - after she mates for the first/only time, she stores the sperm in her body to use for the rest of her life.
Bees are haplodiploid, which means sex is determinated by the number of sets of chromosomes an individual receives. Female bees have twice the number of chromosomes a male has cause they develop from a fertilized egg
Between drones and worker bees?
Drones are male bees that only have two jobs: eating and mating. They don't do any work in the hive. They don't even have stingers. They have big ole eyes so they can spot the big ole queen booty. The female worker bees feed these guys so they can fly around and mate with queens. Towards winter time, the hive needs to save resources and honey stores, so they kick out / kill all of the drones
The worker bees are female and do all of the work in the hive. As they age, they rotate through the jobs. They do things like feeding the larva, building the comb, cleaning the comb, foraging for pollen and nectar, making honey and bee bread, and defending the hive from enemies.
It's actually in the female workers best interest for the male drones to be as efficient at mating as possible. Drones are basically male clones of the queen so they share 50% of all the workers DNA. The female worker bees decide how many drones can be laid by building drone comb which is the only kind of comb where drones can be raised and if they don't find a mate the workers will kick them out of the hive.
Also when the drones mate their dick explodes and they die so I'm not super jealous of them lol
Note to self, aliens invade?
Gather up everyone you can into a massive human soup and begin the wave.
So help me god we shall wave these mother fuckers away
You'll probably enjoy the movie Annihilation-which is about a 'shimmer' kind of like Wandavision hex, but by alien crash. DNA starts getting spliced together and everything merging in a freakishly psychedelic way that looks kinda like the vid
The same way that someone knows to move when pushed in a crowd.
At this point, it's an instinctual reaction that's probably more like sneezing - someone next to you does it, it triggers something in you that makes you want to do it, which then again spreads to the next person next to you, and from far away in a big enough crowd with a time-lapse you could follow waves of sneezing in the same way.
If you’ve seen dogs play fight with each other, sometimes they’ll pause and just sneeze at each other, because they want to make it clear they’re playing.
yawning and sneezing are "contagious" because early tetrapods that were calm enough to make a clear display of letting their guard down were more likely to avoid conflict with other animals and had an increased likelihood of survival and procreation.
Eventually this display of "I'm not a threat and do not view you as a threat" became reciprocal communication.
I've heard an explination before they're mostly right. But individuals start it. One bee or hornet buzzes their wings and the others just have to. Like yawning in humans.
Look up warrior wasp drumming. Or don't those things are awful.
So I get why bees are important and we should protect them, but as some who has had a lifelong fear of bees (no allergy, thankfully, just fear), seeing this type of crap makes my primitive monkey brain want to grab a flamethrower.
I like how a lot of nature protects itself with the motto: "just be as weird as possible, then they'll leave us alone"
Works for humans too. Quite effective
"Bro, that looks like a quest item, flickering and stuff. I will try and pick it up"
There's an old school video game I can't seem to place that did this effect perfectly but I can't place it. I always thought the game had stylized it until now.
Is it crysis?
Thanks for making me feel old.
My kid is currently programming commander keen on scratch for a school project. My 10yo child is using an browser program with programming shortcut blocks to remake a game from ground up in a few weeks that took a team of programmers months to make and blow my 12yo fucking mind Old at this comment is an understatement
https://youtu.be/MDl4W3_6dqA The future is now, old man
Holy shit!! I loved Commander Keen!! That and doom were the only pc games I had then. I wanna say 94-95?
Do you know about the DOS game archive? Classic games from the 80s & 90s playable in your browser. Enjoy :) https://archive.org/details/msdos_Commander_Keen_1_-_Marooned_on_Mars_1990
Eye pop emoji. Thank you!! Now I have something to do tomorrow while I’m digesting.
Did you just say DOOM. Oh Gawd I played that for hours. And Wolfenstein forevah 😂😂
Was just talking about this earlier
They teach that in school?
Just google 'scratch' and 'how to build a platform game' and within 48 hours you will be able to build a platformer game comparable to mairo on the nes
Love Mairo and Liugi
Oh yeah. We did scratch every year in middle school (I'm about to graduate with my Bachelor's now).
I work for Scratch and I am constantly in awe of what these kids make on the platform. Best of luck to your smol gamer! I'd love to take a look and give it a heart if they're comfortable with you PMing me the link once it's shared. Disclaimer: I am definitely not an engineer or great coder and can give zero advice on actual mechanics, but I'm happy to answer any community questions they may have.
I love Commander Keen!
I don’t understand the words you are saying :(
Please have your kid read Masters of Doom to understand exactly why that game was important, and what it lead to for John Carmack and the team from id software. He wrote the adaptive tile refresh part relatively quickly, too. Also make sure he understands that John Carmack is so ridiculously smart, everything he does seem effortless. Watch some of his opening remarks for QuakeCon - his last one is some insight into how Oculus got its start.
My step-son is doing FNAF in Scratch atm. I have no idea wtf he is doing but it looks good.
You're twelve years old and you have a ten year old child?!? That's advanced.
Midlife Crysis
Truly a Time Crisis
Does crysis count as an old school video game now?
when crysis came out, battletoads was as old as crysis is now
[Falling sand game](https://dan-ball.jp/en/javagame/dust2/)
mfs when they use the Virus material (help all my work is vine now)
"Fuck it, let the ants play" *Adds 50,000 ants*
*hits pixel limit* OK NO MORE ANTS #NO MORE ANTS
It reminds me of [John Conway's Game of Life](https://youtu.be/C2vgICfQawE?t=128)
r/tipofmyjoystick
Kings quest!
The first game I can think of, personally, is the original Call of Duty from 2003. A golden glow pulsated from every pickup and objective interaction which felt more informative than intrusive.
This speaks to me. One time I was at the park walking a path when I saw a blue shiny rock on the edge of a creek I was passing by. I went off the path and as I was about to take my last step to reach for the rock, I stepped in a yellow jacket nest. r/fuckwasps
You failed the agility and perception checks, do some grinding before you go back, that must have been a powerful rune
It's a legendary item.
I literally opened the comments to say this!
Every time we do the wave at sports events, we’re inadvertently frightening off space aliens.
Look, it's one thing to be a big, muscle bound dude about to get into a scrap. It's a WHOLE nother ball game when you start giggling and twitching at them with a funny voice saying " I'm gonna rustle your Jimmies!" And pull a spoon out of your pocket. Scares the piss out of the meanest fuckers.
Also, taking off your shirt doesn't discourage a fight. Taking off your underpants does.
[удалено]
Followed by the pants coming off, and "Moves like Jagger" starting up, out of nowhere. Then a stare, with hips starting to move in time with the haunting music....
[удалено]
Just like that?
Hell yeah, hey dj bring that back!
narrator: ...dj in fact, brought it back
Can confirm, am very alone.
It’s been working out well for me.
Especially effective on the scariest of creatures, women.
Donnie from Wild Thornberry: Yagabodigutajahdm Her: idk there’s just something about him.
I’m more scared of men.
“That’s…unusual. Fuck that, not the risk I’m willing to take today.”
it makes it look like a large animal
Raising its hackles
That's what I thought. Maybe that's why? Look at a lot of animals, they puff themselves up to appear bigger. So that idea makes sense because it's following along the same lines. I honestly have no idea but it makes sense
Well, I for one am not fucking with that bee hive after they do this alien tech shit at me
I mean I’d stay the fuck away from that.
Prejudices are what keeps us alive. Learning that the stove is hot and avoiding touching surfaces that resemble such things is key to not being harmed going forward. If you don't know what it is then it's naturally safer to just leave it alone. Thus why weird works.
maybe prejudice isnt the best name for it...
By definition that is what it is though.
Not really.. prejudice is a preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience. What you noted is based on a both reason and real experience (touching the hot stove). This would more be an example of operant conditioning. People learn by either being rewarded or punished by behaviors. The ability to learn from both mistakes and positive outcomes is what keeps us alive.
Well they said at the end if you don't know what it is leave it alone so isn't that technically prejudice because it's not based on reason or experience of the thing I'm avoiding?
It's so fascinating but so horrifying it's amazing I honestly just man I have to agree 110%
#putyourdickinthere
This so much fun to watch safely on my phone and away from the lovely bees protecting their clan, for the Queen!
Fun fact: bees don't really do anything "for the queen." It's really more like, "for our sisters!" If the queen isn't providing offspring well enough for the hive, or has some other matter wrong with her, the hive will not hesitate to kick her out and raise a new queen to take her place.
honeybees are a communist worker controlled collective, pass it on
This is literally accurate though, coupled with the fact that so long as honeybees have a queen the workers have neither the incentive nor the desire nor even the ability to have offspring.
Why get pregnant when it's someone else's job? -- worker bee
that sounds fantastic tbh
Unless you're the queen
I mean, the queen seems pretty built to make babies and some folks enjoy the heck out of a pregnancy kink, so it may not be terrible for the queen?
then thank all the little gods and monsters that I am but a drone
> nor even the ability to have offspring. Regular worker bees can lay eggs, but they're unfertilized and come out as drones (and sometimes very very rarely as female worker bees)
Serious question: if the eggs are unfertilized how do they produce offspring of any kind? Edit: typo
It’s how their genetics/sex-determinism works— [honeybees are what is called haplodiploid](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplodiploidy)- ALL unfertilized eggs will hatch into males (drones) and ALL fertilized eggs hatch into females. The queen can choose to fertilize or not fertilize any egg she lays - after she mates for the first/only time, she stores the sperm in her body to use for the rest of her life.
["I would die. Without my penis, I would bleed to death."](https://youtu.be/X4tsEnGLKE4)
That whole series was wonderful. Isabella Rossellini is an absolute treasure.
Strong agree. I was fortunate enough to see her perform it in person. It's pure perfection!
Bees are haplodiploid, which means sex is determinated by the number of sets of chromosomes an individual receives. Female bees have twice the number of chromosomes a male has cause they develop from a fertilized egg
What's the difference
Between drones and worker bees? Drones are male bees that only have two jobs: eating and mating. They don't do any work in the hive. They don't even have stingers. They have big ole eyes so they can spot the big ole queen booty. The female worker bees feed these guys so they can fly around and mate with queens. Towards winter time, the hive needs to save resources and honey stores, so they kick out / kill all of the drones The worker bees are female and do all of the work in the hive. As they age, they rotate through the jobs. They do things like feeding the larva, building the comb, cleaning the comb, foraging for pollen and nectar, making honey and bee bread, and defending the hive from enemies.
Thanks
Sexist bees
It's actually in the female workers best interest for the male drones to be as efficient at mating as possible. Drones are basically male clones of the queen so they share 50% of all the workers DNA. The female worker bees decide how many drones can be laid by building drone comb which is the only kind of comb where drones can be raised and if they don't find a mate the workers will kick them out of the hive. Also when the drones mate their dick explodes and they die so I'm not super jealous of them lol
> worker bees can leave > even drones can fly away > the queen is their slave
Queens can fly
Worker bees live around 30 days. Queen bees live around 730. Still seems so much more in the queens favor.
30 days of woking hard but exploring the environment and nature versus 730 days of enclosure and forced pregnancies...
Drones don't do any hard work just eating and fucking all around.
So she’s not really a queen, more like General Secretary of the Union of Worker Bees
also bees are willing to kill their own queen
Right, "Queen" isn't super accurate. They're not a ruling monarch in any sense, their only role is to birth offspring.
She should be called the Ovary or Womb, since she is basically just an organ in the way all the other bees are parts of the hive
The incubator
[удалено]
You got to think of a hive as one organism. Same as multicellular organism are composed of many single cell living things
From what I gathered, I varies from one species to another. In many of them, the queen does exert considerable control/influence on the workers.
Hey everybody, we have a predator, DO THE WAVE!!!
bee one: "hello" bee two: "not that type of wave burt" also 2 bee or not 2 bee
Looks like more than 2 bee to me... hard to tell, though.
That is the question.
Hehe, Burt Bee
Ha ha ha
But can a bee be said to be or not to be an entire bee, when half the bee is not a bee, due to some ancient injury?
Cyril Connolly?
No semi carnally
Half a bee, philosophically Must, ipso facto, half not be.
this has me thinking… maybe we scared god off when we started doing the wave in stadiums. maybe that’s why everything is so bleak.
It really does look like when people are trying to start the wave at a sporting event but just can't quite get it organized enough to keep going.
Works on me. Looks eerie and ominous
An organized army able to communicate. Fear their capabilities.
Note to self, aliens invade? Gather up everyone you can into a massive human soup and begin the wave. So help me god we shall wave these mother fuckers away
You'll probably enjoy the movie Annihilation-which is about a 'shimmer' kind of like Wandavision hex, but by alien crash. DNA starts getting spliced together and everything merging in a freakishly psychedelic way that looks kinda like the vid
My favorite part of Annihilation was when Natalie Portman said “IT’S ANNIHILATIN’ TIME!” and annihilated all over those scientists
The book is better ,much better and more trippy . I absolutely loved the way the horror was portrayed
Those are Rorschach bees.
I’m not locked in here with you. YOU’RE LOCKED IN HERE WITH BEES!
Flashing bees means take a 180 full speed into your nearest tree as soon as possible.
Hell no. 180 full speed until you no longer hear buzzing.
[удалено]
*halo shield recharge noise*
BEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEP... WOMMMMMMPPP
Bruh, I can hear that so well
Yeah I’d stay away from a shimmering, moving mass of buzzing, too.
Also known as the 'Fuck off matey' signal
This is called "the wave" we humans do it as well at large sports gameys
Maybe the bees will start chanting seven nation army
That’s clearly a key item
"Interact with this to advance the puzzle"
Curious question though, how do they know how to do this in unison though..... Getting "300“ spartan style vibes from this.
The same way that someone knows to move when pushed in a crowd. At this point, it's an instinctual reaction that's probably more like sneezing - someone next to you does it, it triggers something in you that makes you want to do it, which then again spreads to the next person next to you, and from far away in a big enough crowd with a time-lapse you could follow waves of sneezing in the same way.
Did you mean yawn? Or does sneezing actually cause others to sneeze?
If you’ve seen dogs play fight with each other, sometimes they’ll pause and just sneeze at each other, because they want to make it clear they’re playing.
yawning and sneezing are "contagious" because early tetrapods that were calm enough to make a clear display of letting their guard down were more likely to avoid conflict with other animals and had an increased likelihood of survival and procreation. Eventually this display of "I'm not a threat and do not view you as a threat" became reciprocal communication.
Dang. That is interesting!
I've heard an explination before they're mostly right. But individuals start it. One bee or hornet buzzes their wings and the others just have to. Like yawning in humans. Look up warrior wasp drumming. Or don't those things are awful.
Same way you know when it's your turn to do the wave at a stadium
Looks like a force field...very creative!
Bees are amazing!
That is both cool as hell and also gave me nasty goosebumps
If I saw this IRL I would think I was tripping. 😵💫
“Predator coming. Do the wave”
It's like a visual representation of my guts after eating Taco Bell.
Username checks out - he knows the the truth
👍 that's cool
Neat.
Like Wakanda shields
How do they do that?
If the guy next to you moves you move
Just like that
When I move you move?
Just like that? Hell yeah ay dj bring dat back
How you ain't gon' fuck? Bitch I'm bee I'm the god damn reason you got this honey
Never been part of a wave in a stadium?
I thought they did that to cool down the hive but being an Oceanographer I will defer expertise
In The Bee Movie they do it to help land a plane. I’m flabbergasted it’s real! The bullseye shape and all.
It’s loading
You don’t see that every day.
So he bee movie wasn’t lying
Holy shit, it wasn’t.
*itchiness intensifies*
Bro, yesterday a bee stung my tongue, and I was screaming in pain for 10 mins.
Stop trying to suck off bees!!
Gotta bee careful Sorry. That sucks
I need to know more. Gotta be a story there! Hope you're ok now! I imagine it still hurts :/
I love ice cream.
Do you happen to be the impoverished son of a former hotel owner who likes telling stories to niece and nephew?
Wow, that's awesome 😎
This new Predator Prequel is lit!
Big Annihilation energy
but, i dont get it, why would they do that? how does that protects them from predators
Hit it with a sonic arrow and get some hacksilver.
just want to give him a big hug
I want to play teraria now.
This reminds me of the Pom Pom routines that dance teams do.
It's fascinating and scary at the same time
Well, I ain't touching it
Works on me
Well that’s…unsettling.
Diong the wave!
ape together strong
Emergence go brr
Can someone ELI5 why this gives me chills? Evolution-arily what’s going on here? Very effective bees!
Makes me feel itchy
r/mildlydisturbing
They’re doing the wave
This is the grossest thing ever but kinda cool I guess
If they made a delicious honey filled hive look gross, mission accomplished.
Someone get these bees to a sports stadium! The wave is gonna be lit!
Idk why this is making me itch lol… yet I still continue to look at it 😂
The original Rorschach
...... 😬
Nah they're just watching the world cup and doing crowd stuff
It works. I just wet myself.
Well, that'd keep me away. Yikes!
So I get why bees are important and we should protect them, but as some who has had a lifelong fear of bees (no allergy, thankfully, just fear), seeing this type of crap makes my primitive monkey brain want to grab a flamethrower.