Random Screenshots Thread

[Phytotron]

Back on topic, and calling back to the first post:

[sinewav]

There is something that seems a little deliberate and composed about that. I'd consider it ArmagetronART. Either way, it looks totally kick-ass and I wouldn't mind it hanging on my wall.

[LucK]

Yea Phytotron something about that just looks really cool

[Phytotron]

Nothing composed, just a product of settings that methinks would(/will?) make a neato server. And happening to catch the smart cam as it panned overhead.

[Phytotron]

Relating to this: http://forums3.armagetronad.net/viewtop ... 60#p218360

Arma ported to Nintendo Virtual Boy, sorta

[sinewav]

Well, aren't you clever!

[Phytotron]

This happened in Bebop in Harlem last night. Orange (sinewav) first beats Green's (me) grind, but then passes right trough the corner of Green's wall on the next turn. While the first time I've caught it in a screenshot, this and similar has been happening occasionally for some time now. Another variation occurs when, for example, I beat someone's grind on the rim, but end up crashing on the inside corner of their earlier turn, if you get what I mean—I've apparently jumped to the inner side of their wall.

I have no idea how to reproduce either case deliberately.

As far as the image, I exaggerated the colors and drew in some directional arrows to make the moves a bit clearer, not that it was entirely necessary. Orange begins from the bottom of the screen, Green from the top (then comes back later for the screenshot, and subsequently crashedup).

[Word]

Escheresque

[Z-Man]

A bug like this has been fixed on 0.2.8 mid-2009. BiH is running some ct+sty, no clue whether the bugfix has propagated to there. Edit: though that bug required infinite tail length.

[sinewav]

Edit: though that bug required infinite tail length.

Here is a similar interaction using the most recent 0.2x with infinite trail length. Now, this case is surely not because of a bug, but because the spawn points on this map are perfectly in-line with each other. Sometimes (lot of times) you can not split at the start and drive "inside" your opponent's trail.

In the case below, the player "driveLock" entered my trail, then split immediately, placing itself between me and my teammate.

I kind of like when cycles pass through each other once in a while because it happens so rarely, and it's such a fun surprise. It also reminds me of the weirdness of the quantum world; it's kind of like "crossing symmetry" or something (like I really understand what that is).

Not a bug. Not even a cool screen shot either. Just thought I'd share.

[Phytotron]

BiH is running some ct+sty, no clue whether the bugfix has propagated to there.

Yeah, which is why I've asked Gene to make both BiH and Shrunkland (and 'goshdarn) the latest official/stable version when they migrate over to the new datacenter. Then we'll see if this kind of stuff continues.

In the meantime, like sinewav, I too find it amusing, so long as it's not persistent or frequent. Things do behave very oddly on the quantum level. Now, if we could have a single lightcycle unpredictably appear in two places at once.

[Nelhybel]

Random screenie: Nobama party on CTWF-USA

[Mkay1]

Edit: not randomly insulting anymore

[Z-Man]

You want to edit that post to be less randomly insulting. Trust me.

[Titanoboa]

I think it was 9v9 or 10v10. I was sorta amazed by the score ...

... but ...

the next match, Your_mom ended up with 24 or 26, and the rest on single digits.

Thanks for ruining my happiness your_mom