I did that with my #Quantel Digital Paint Box and still nobody knows what it is! www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTNs...

What if I take it apart and have no earthly idea of how it works?

Then you fix it until you know how it works

Then you're not done yet but you have taken important first steps

instructions unclear, vivisected my bf on liveleak /j

In one sentence, how much to you love RimWorld?

After 2.4K hours in the game, I now write fic novels of my past colonies.... (Does that count as a fair answer?)

oh, Have you watched Francis John's last play through?

I haven't watched that channel.... My channel of choice is Pete Complete, since the community is amazing.

THAT'S CRAZY (GOOD). The deepest I got was writing a journal for a Skyrim character that wasnt the dragonborn. I play a session & write a session until he settled down.

In my case, I play RW until a playthrough clicks with me. I log the interactions and RP as the pawns would want, not as I usually play. In time it builds a diary up, and then you add the extra detail and main lore the game doesn't expand on, leaving that part to your imagination.

I like this, so I will refrain from posting a gif of Syler from Heroes

Okay there doctor frankenstein

It's too late now, but I'm going to assume this didn't include pets or grandparents?

This man tried to do this www.bbc.com/news/world-e...

I'm doing just that with my favorite computer game. Do you still have an SA account, Foone? Would love to link you the thread I'm posting my discoveries in.

nah, I don't. I have History with that site, so I avoid it. which game are you taking apart?

Star Wars TIE Fighter (1995)!

This reminds me of my kid with ADHD who learns everything he possibly can about a thing. Once he knows all he can he then moves on to another interest.

it's probably pretty telling that I have ADHD too.

No screw left untouched! =]

I thought so. Your post reminded me so much of my son.

I'd rather not take the heatsink off my AlphaServer! I heard you can break the CPU if you torque it too hard!

don't think the cat is going to like that

No disassemble! 😾😥

I've been mostly been in love with 8-bit video digitisers

like the tv remote?

A perfect way to find the Truth.

Apparently I really love SPARCstations lately

Correct

I did! www.hivegeist.us/2025/07/27/t...

If you don't, just take it apart. Maybe recycle the bits.

yeah, like the mysterious screen filter 3dfx cards do that no one ever explained properly (not even 3dfx's own documents) though I want to see some former 3dfx explain it (the purpose and technique) and/or pointOut/correct my mistakes some day. I only had my eyes and some glide src to go by

Do you mean the excessively bright default gamma, mipmap transitions, a PowerVR and Dreamcast-like green hue shift in the signal, or something else entirely?

The smearing that goes after the dithering. It makes things smudgy and the characteristically high gamma just so happens to make that look more pronounced. There's three different methods the 3dfx cards use, this here's the linear 4x1 one Voodoo1/3 does (as approximated by my coding)

Oh, the N64 has a similar function! I think it linearly scales the viewport from 320x240 to 640x240 and back again, to minimize the 15bpp color dithering. Some games (namely Rare's, like Banjo-Kazooie) don't use it, likely bc most people were using composite that blurred it over anyway

ALSO SMALL WORLD OMG... www.vogons.org/viewtopic.ph...

also finding the register defined for the threshold of the filter was fun

What if what you love is the actual act of taking things apart

I mean, that is true

wise words of edward the longshanks.

if you insist- *turns to my gf*

so I can skip the whole trying to put it back together?? yay!

That's the next step. If you can't put it back together again Then you really didn't understand it Or how it works. On the other hand If it's something that has no purpose other than to destroy human beings Maybe you shouldn't put it back together again For example I would never reassemble An AR-15.

What if I can't put back together again?

Then you'll use the knowledge learned for next time