In the reserved TCP/IP port range, port 666 is reserved for Doom.
Does it allow daemons through?
…does Doom use it for anything?
Multiplayer obviously, Doom has had multiplayer since the first one
Doom also invented recording demos, because there was no chance to record or share videos at that time
Oh yah… duh. That’s pretty neat.
Doom also invented the idea of only transferring deltas rather than the whole state of the game on every frame. This is the base idea behind H.264 video compression, which is what makes internet video streaming work.
I’m not sure what you mean. Do you have a source for more complete explanation?
H.261 is way older than Doom and already uses motion compensation and inter-picture prediction.
The aformentioned demos work by recording all input control states for every tic and then replaying them later in-engine. But I don’t think that parallels video encoding.
EDIT: Sorry, I misread. But yeah, Doom does not send deltas but the multiplayer also works by sending those same input states every tic that demo recording saves.
I am probably misremembering details, as this was something we learned about in my algorithms class in college about a decade ago. I’ll see if I can dig up more details after work today.
I found an Easter egg in Elden Ring that I never really see pointed out by anyone else.
The description for the Graven Mass talisman says,
The primeval current is a forbidden tradition of glintstone sorcery. To those who cleave to its teachings, the act of collecting sorcerers to fashion them into the seeds of stars is but another path of scientific inquiry.
The Graven Mass being a big ball of stone heads. The description above along with what a graven mass is and looks like is a reference to Katamari Damacy. In that game, the King of All Cosmos lost the stars and has his son the Prince make new ones by rolling up random things into a ball.
It’s one of my favorites because it’s an odd game to see a reference to Katamari in, but also the fact I think I might have been the first one to notice it and link them together.
You are smart.
(Katamari reference)
If it is a Katamari reference, it’s kinda on theme with some of the extreme horror that comes out of FromSoft games (a barely perceptible alien causes minor inconvenience by rolling up your paperclips, suddenly causes total global extinction and sacrifices everyone and everything on the planet to the cosmos).
Maybe it’s not considered to be an easter egg, but Earthbound’s DRM didn’t prevent you from playing, but rather made the game extremely grindy and obnoxious. And during the final fight, the game crashes.
I was subject to this. Looking at playthroughs afterwards made me facepalm. I had been grinding each area for maybe 1-2 hours extra just to be able to proceed. And people were walking to the first boss after basically no grinding.
Jokes on them, since I still loved the game.
Giygas is pretty scary, I think it would’ve fucked me up as a kid if the game crashed in that fight
One of the GTA games (I think it was 4) made you random drunk. No way to driving/walking/flying in a straight line.
That’s hilarious.
666 hidden in the waveform of DOOM (2016)'s music
Perhaps not the waveform but it’s hidden in the music somehow
Edit: it’s in the Spectrograph of the song “Cyberdemon”
Don’t know in which ones, but if you play a song backwards you hear it say “Jesus loves you”.
In the game Dragon Age: Origins there is a tombstone in a random graveyard that reads “Multiplayer Support”
Definitely a result of recency bias here, but in a couple of scenes in Tears of the Kingdom, Ganondorf is flanked by two female Gerudo with unique outfits. If you translate the Hylian text on these outfits, they say Koume and Koutake.
For a movie music easter egg, the triumphant festival song at the end of Star Wars: Episode I is a major key version of the Emperor’s March.
Very similarly, Across the Stars from Episode II is a slightly inverted minor version of the Star Wars main theme
I love Android easter eggs, some custom ROMs even add their own easter eggs.
Seeing references to the Hyperion Cantos in Deus Ex Mankind Divided.
Found one yesterday: in one of the cache boxes in Firewatch, there’s a copy of the book The Accidental Savior from Gone Home.
Bilmuri song THICC THICCLY had a really hyped up feature/collab with Caleb Shomo (from famous song Stick Stickly) and it’s at the end of the song just a sample from a voicemail “Hey I’m Caleb Shomo and this is my feature”
Fantastic song, love me some Bilmuri!
Hadn’t heard of Bilmuri before. Thanks for mentioning them.
I’ve always appreciated the ship captain in the god of war games.
In the game Hunt: Showdown there is a spot in one map that is Shreks house. It even has a tiny sized horse.
Donkey?
I liked the Interlac alphabet Easter egg in the Legion of Super-Heroes TV series DVD. I also really like the cat game in certain versions of Android. Accidentally stumbled across it when looking through the Android code.
Keanu Reeves in John Wick
He’s a treasure, not an egg.
