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Moonbase Alpha: That time NASA made a meme video game (spacebar.news)
dmoy 26 minutes ago [-]
> which tasked the company with working on updates for "America's Army," the 2002 first-person shooter

30 seconds

Ahhh so they're the ones who made that game less realistic and more modern shooter-y. Which I have no doubt is exactly what they were asked to do, because the original AA game was slow and a lot of people hated it compared to ut or cs1.6

Shame though, it was the only game that kinda had that level of realism, with "rifle from prone while waiting can hit you at 400+ yards, but if you're running around you struggle making hits under 100 yards" that encouraged very methodical play with teamwork and spotting.

Bjartr 2 minutes ago [-]
Doesn't the ARMA series at least support that level of realism?
gundmc 21 minutes ago [-]
I still remember sitting through a legitimate field medic first aid course before unlocking the medic class. That game was something else!
blueflow 4 hours ago [-]
aeiou aeiou

brbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbr

-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv6RbEOlqRo

pimlottc 2 hours ago [-]
Wow, I can see how many people would find this to be a very boring game but it looks amazing to me. Sad that I missed its golden age.
mzajc 3 hours ago [-]
In case anyone wants to play around with DECtalk without downloading the game, there's https://webspeak.terminal.ink/
sdovan1 4 hours ago [-]
Here is my favorite one: https://youtu.be/aFbuSShYKpc
ryan42 3 hours ago [-]
huehuehuehuehuehue john madden john madden
ethagnawl 2 hours ago [-]
I'm not sure why but that is one of the funniest things I've ever seen on the internet.
Aardwolf 2 hours ago [-]
Another one is the Microsoft Sam (& co) speech synthesis, it can also produce funny results, like someone making copter sounds with it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_vNhLYW_e4

4 hours ago [-]
bobsmooth 27 minutes ago [-]
Bad TTS is like an inverse uncanny valley where it's so inhuman it's charming.
nosmokewhereiam 4 days ago [-]
Obligatory John Madden song clip showing off the speech to text engine: https://youtu.be/ovcTKHupdxo?si=Qh_nsYmkGtwcxrMR
kotaKat 5 hours ago [-]
John Madden? John Madden!
dirtyhippiefree 39 minutes ago [-]
Moonbase Alpha was the location where the TV show “Space: 1999” was set.

First episode saw the moon permanently leave Earth orbit.

scudsworth 28 minutes ago [-]
aeiou
nurettin 2 hours ago [-]
Spent years playing this game. It is the closest thing I've seen to real time chess. Also excellent soundtrack that sets the mood.

EDIT: whoops I thought this was moonbase commander, another NASA sponsored game from another time.

p1mrx 2 hours ago [-]
> real time chess

That would describe Crypt of the NecroDancer.

_bent 41 minutes ago [-]
here comes another chinese earthquake ebrrrbrbrrbrrbr
jacknews 5 hours ago [-]
Bah, thought this was related to the classic UK TV series Space:1999.
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