#xabintheotter

[captainsblogsupplemental]

I vaguely remember, a long time ago, there was a fad where Trekkies would insult those they don't like with an upside-down, palm-away version of the Vulcan salute while saying "Wither and die soon". Was this ever made official in any mainstream or expanded canon series, or is this just a fan creation?

I have never heard of this, personally. I did a bit of googling, and I can’t find any info on it. Anyone know about it?

[itrunsdoom]

It's not Doom, but I've been collecting various FPS onto my android tablet. I managed to get an old app for Duke Nukem 3D running on it, but it only has the first chapter unlocked. I can't seem to root my tablet to install the crack that opens the others, so as the guru of "Will it run?", I ask you: is there any other programs available on Android that can run Duke Nukem 3D?

Sadly, no. The old official port by Machineworks (which is probably what you have) was an abomination to man that should be ignored. A better port was in the works using eDuke32 as a base, but it died a loud and public death for a variety of complicated reasons.

I suppose you could use DOSbox, but ehh...

[itrunsdoom]

Yeah, it's the old Machineworks port. Why is that one so bad? And I didn't know that Dosbox was available as an app on Android; my boyfriend uses the PC version for playing his old games, so...

I’ll quote the author of EDuke32 on this one, since he’s intimate with the inner workings of the game and engine:

It appears Machineworks NorthWest farmed them out to some guy who developed a renderer used in a lot of mobile shovelware games, and he pretty much got the game barely rendering and decided he was done. All of the sound effects are converted into .wav files at the wrong sample rates so nothing in the game sounds correct (they also sound like they get played one at a time through system sound APIs meant for notification sounds), none of the on-screen sprite rendering is hooked up correctly (there's not even a health or ammo display correctly implemented, just a cheap indicator bar that appears to draw a pixel or two for every point of health the player has), the controls are unworkable to the point of being nearly completely unplayable, tile animation speeds are screwed up and animating tiles frequently just vanish, the weapon firing rates are all wrong because the actual weapon firing occurs from a callback from the input thread rather than from the main thread and dictated by the game timer, etc.

[itrunsdoom]

I've been seeing an android app that supposedly lets you play base Doom 3 on your tablet (produced by the same guy who does the Quake 1-3 apps), so I'm curious if you've heard of it, and if so, what you think of it. Is it a good way of playing Doom 3 on the go?

I think I’ve mentioned it in the past. I don’t have any Android things, though, so I can’t really check it out for myself.

Trying to play FPSes more complex than the 2.5D stuff on a touchscreen is always a painful proposition, though, so I suspect it wouldn’t be great.

[wolfbunsart]

I love your Big the Cat and Rotor pics. I noticed that you do the occasional adult pic, so I was wondering if there was a chance we'll get to see adult Rotor (either version) from you?

maybe i dunno, like i said last time someone asked me to draw adult fanart, i dont get on the mood to draw nsfw too often sothats why i dont do it a lot, so theres a possibility? but i dunno

[apochedgie]

Hey. Saw your stuff, and I rather like it. I'd like to ask about your progress with the Deadly Six models; I only see Zavok and Zazz, so far; when will the other ones be done?

Before summer, is my aim.