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honestly because file explorer's "pixels" are so huge, you cant possibly mess up the hit box, its the optimal competitive game engine
dude im so locked in on file explorer
Waiting for Doom in file explorer to drop😈
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@@patrickt101prob already has
It's so interesting. I also made this game but in unreal engine 5. With RTX on. Ofcourse in my channel though
"We've already solved this by calling it a feature" This line is going to change my life for the better, I can feel it.
It's not a bug. It's a feature you didn't know you wanted.
AAA gaming in a nutshell.
Literally Minecraft
@@Salisaad Todd Howard, is that you?
@@spotishiimy exakt thought lol
ChatGPT not being able to follow basic instructions like "remove the --------" but being able to generate code to play a game in File Explorer is the most ChatGPT move ever.
ChatGPT can’t see what it writes. Therefore, images are fucking beyond it.
ascii art is apparently very hard for an text based ai ig
@@animoun.v2 well yeah try painting with your eyes closed, severe dementia, and only being able to paint a line at a time
But of course, following basic instructions requires something rom it.
Code? It just steals.
@@michasokoowski6651 Is "copy and paste" not an active joke in the programming community? You have a point with AI art, but not programming.
This gives me "everything is a smoke generator is you use it wrong enough" vibes. I love it.
If* ☝️🤓
6:34 "Every time we run it, it seems to fuck up in a unique way" has to be the best and most relatable quote from a programmer I've ever heard.
Yep
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Omg dude. you talking to ChatGPT like an abusive college professor absolutely killed me omfg
I know right had me dying 😂
if you talk to ChatGPT any other way you ain't doin' it right
MOVE THE FUCKING PIPES had me dead
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ChatGPT deserves it.
The premier pro line. "it's got everythning you need. EXCEPT FOR THE ABILITY TO NOT CRASH ALL THE TIME!!!!". I felt that.
81 likes and no replies? Let me fix that.
Use davinci resolve
@@MichaelBelcher-g7t well now my pc is burning
I love that "Tell ChatGPT what to program for me" is just a reoccurring step in this
"So I wrote that from scratch." [Shows him copying from CGPT]
100th like
I’m not sure how I feel about it. But I respect the honesty
In Paint, use the rectangle and circle tools instead of drawing lines. Two clicks for a circle, two clicks for a rectangle.
YEAH I was gonna say, why didn't he just use the circle tool????
lol why use "shapes" to make shapes amirite
But then it wouldn't be creating such beautiful art!
Wouldn't it be 3 click due to changing the shape?
@@Temperansonly have to change shape once or twice per frame
"Trust me to break fucking File Explorer."
Bro, Explorer breaks itself just by existing.
As a Linux user I agree
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@@EEEEEEEE F.
@@realcrazypotatoG
@@TweakinOnColeslaw H
CB: "The games are going to become increasingly stupid".
-Starts with the file editor
Me: "If that is the least stupid, this will be an interesting journey."
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Well, was it.
The first one was the best, the second one was the funniest, and the third one was the worst.
That's because python is where it's program and ran and the file explorer is nothing but the user interface. He simply added a user interface to Python and then tricked you into thinking program languages are running onset program.
I wanted to commentate the exact same
"I didn't change anything, but it works now," is the essential coding experience.
“If you cannot Flap the Bird, Flap the Pipes” goes unironically so hard.
Had me crying so hard from laughter i thought my belly was going to burst. The sheer idiocy of it all, and the fact that most programmers go through this thought process in one way or another had me in a choke hold 🤣
@@IceMcFried I can confirm, there are some really roundabout ways to think in order to code things lmao
I flap my pipes whenever I can’t flap a bird 💀
@@KayJbluecould you flap my pipes? :D 😂
@@KayJbluei got only one but I flap every day.
It’s pretty efficient to skip straight to madness by calling file explorer a game engine, instead of having a gradual implosion to insanity this time around.
The worst thing aabout this is, that the file explorer was actually the smoothest of them. :D
@@Aurirang because it’s a game engine, of course!
Honestly, 20 years ago, I made a plane game in University where moving the environment around the camera was how I managed it.
Or to quote Cubert Farnsworth: "The engines don't move the ship at all. The ship stays where it is, and the engines move the universe around it."
beautiful quote
that's how OpenGL renders things
many games in 8 bit era were done that way.
relative motion when its real
This is also how games like outer wilds were made.
15:28 this bit with the inspirational music, the echoed voice, the passion and the pose of the character. I can't describe the joy this sequence brings me. I have been giggling about it for DAYS. Peak comedy.
trying to work with chatgpt is like trying to work with a child who hates you, but sometimes, his mom comes over and yells at him to stop acting like a child and do what he is supposed to do, but she has to keep going into the other room because she can't miss her shitty reality TV show.
edit: im not some nerd who edits to say thanks for all the likes. go cry about it.
edit: to all those who got upset about my edit joke, you are the problems in society, you get offended too easily and can't take a joke. now, go cry about it.
r/oddlyspecific
@@alezzanders988 lol yea
Use Claude
@@EEEEEEEE truly inspiring
Him forgetting what key to stop/start the auto clicker, and forgetting to turn it off before moving the mouse is the most on brand thing ever.
It even has a setting to hold the mouse in place which of course he didn't use lol
I use a button on my mouse to turn it on and off
I've done this smh 😂
Its very fun when he does it.
I use auto-hotkey and I always put a timeout on my scripts as a escape hatch if the scroll-lock led is off
I don't know about what program he is using but Auto hotkey. If you set the delay to anything less than 50 milliseconds, it just stops processing your input, so you can't turn off the auto clicker...
I like how he treats "move the pipes through the bird" like it's a huge breakthrough when that is literally what he did in every previous version and is exactly how the real game of Flappy Bird works.
"MOVE THE PIPES, THORUGH THE BIRD!".... "Yeah that didn't work" had me rolling 🤣
Flappy bird on Google Sheets. You can attach js scripts to documents and have specific functions executed when an event is triggered (e.g. the document is opened/edited). App scripts can read and modify documents live and the changes are updated instantly, so this would make for a "great" game engine.
Flappy bird on GIMP - it has support for python scripts!
RIP history
microsoft excel would work
@@mossybee yucky microsoft, google sheets better
@@shadoww7301nah
Some day I’m gonna say in the group chat “if you can’t move the bird through the pipes, then move the pipes through the bird” like it’s some insane philosophical shit
Out of context, this reads like sage advice to anally swallow the toilet if you're constipated like Kirby on his worst day.
@@sovthpaw117 pardon me. what the fuck
@@nokti... It's a long way to say "make sure you drink enough water".
I mean, technically this is a very simple application of the theory of relativity...
That "no." to ChatGPT just sent me to the orbit omfg I have tears from laughing
5:29 click it
This is the best video I've ever seen. I got here via algorithm while trying to problem solve an issue with a-star pathfinding. Decided this video would probably be a nice little break from the wretched frustration of my existence. Watching you play Flappy Bird: MS Paint Edition restored my will to live. What a beautiful world this Earth is, with people like you living on it.
"It's pipe time" is both a wonderful bop with a hilarious double meaning.
I agree, but thanks for letting us know that you understood the double entendre
That’s called a double entendre
"lets fill her up" at the beginning
11:52 in the machine’s defense you asked it to remove lines that were 6 hyphens long; whereas the lines you wanted removed were only 5 hyphens long
Obviously it's done for comedic effect here, but I wonder if ChatGPT can be used to emulate flappy bird if you don't speak to it like an overgrown toddler.
@@konayasai and if you used gpt4 instead of 3.5
@@konayasai have you never used chatgpt?
@@konayasai It doesn't make a difference. AI isn't real yet and is still stupid as fuck. None of them can actually "think"
@StevieNockmanbro fix your bot it’s fine and all except the fact that code bullet doesn’t use a camera let alone a professional one
And the idea is if this made up character is inspired by code bullet they probably want to make content similar to his so they probably wouldn’t use a camera or a professional one
"It's kinda different every time we run it but we've already solved this by calling it a feature" is definitely a quote I'm going to use at some point
I almost died of laughter during your use of the ChatGPT 'game engine'.
Tohou fans: if it exists, you can play bad apple in it
Code Bullet: if you can draw on it, it's a game engine
Can’t forget: If it’s hardware, it can play doom
While I'm not entirely sure what you're referencing, can you blame them? That song is great.
@@3DSCarnaje You can try searching for "Bad Apple played on everything"
Literally!!!
@@Stusheep Didnt they manage to play doom on DNA? So its more a: If it can display binary, it can play doom.
3:18 I'm making flappy bird (version 1)
3:54 It's pipe time (version 1)
8:27 I'm making flappy bird (version 2)
14:10 It's pipe time (version 2)
Replying to be able to find this again later.
thanks I was trying to analyze how he did that.
Udio looks like, but stable audio and suno are pretty interesting.
Legend
Can we pin this, thx
Ayo same @@GlitchedAce
This is the coding version of “Tony Stark was able to build this in a cave with a box of scraps!”
^
did you say my name?
@@mr_tony_starkbruh😂
@@lucaipadcraft21 yo
@@mr_tony_stark Didn't you just died in end game?
it has been a long time since i've had to literally bite my hand to stop me from laughing at work. you arguing with chatgpt and asking it to do something and it saying "ok fixed" but nothing changed is such a mood take your like
"Ok, remove the dashes."
"Aight, bet."
"NO NOT THOSE-"
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Is anyone going to tell him that Paint has a shapes feature for quickly drawing perfect circles? No? Me either. For real though, this was impressive, inspiring, and funny. Love the content.
The shapes feature probably doesnt mesh well with the python code
@@normalchannel2185 I think it does, pyautogui can click and drag
Paint has layers now. You could just move the pipe layer around.
5:12 you either die a bird or live long enough to see yourself become the pipe
#relatable #deep #depressionposting #joker #emo #birdepression #/j
hey
14:47 "...the most annoying version of flappy bird I've ever experienced..."
you sure about that?
I think the reason gpt wasn’t moving the [] or “pipes” was it interpreted > as pipe because that symbol is used in some context as a pipe like piping data
maybe redirect, usually | is pipe
No, I think it's more likely that the problem is *GPT can't see what its output looks like*
Can i pipe my data into you
| - this is pipe no??
@@roymustang7031 Ceci n'est une pipe
Two Code Bullet videos in one month?! This is unheard of!
But seriously love your videos and appreciate you💜
Is this the start of a new era of code bullet uploading more
Were you also around for the year of zero uploads?
@@charleswalls4543 I was…. It was a dark year.
and not just in 1 month, within 2 weeks
It's because AI is doing all of his "work" now
13:39 The reason Premiere Pro crashes all the time is because you update it. 2021 version is orders of magnitude more stable than the current version, which is why I use 2019 version
This is the most accurate description of adobe's products that will ever exist.
Man adobe after affects is such a Maya. Premiere works for basic stuff though at least though I forget which version mine it was covered in salt so it is fine either way. I use Davinci mostly now shit is free and does what I needs.
Doesn't Adobe force update apps? Meaning the only way you can have a stable program is through piracy?
@@jleo1 I prefer keeping it salty. Besides adobe earned it fuck em.
@@Grimeaper lol yeah no judgement, the only reason I bought it was coz I was getting sick of searching for torrents… and also because adobe offered me a very good deal to stop pirating it lol
I lost everything with the "If you can't flap the bird then flap the pipes"
Flappy Bird on an oscilloscope would be cool because of how oscilloscopes relate to early games, specifically a game called "Tennis For Two" which was actually made and demonstrated before Pong which is what basically everyone points to as the 'first computer game' - there are a lot of "firsts" depending on how you define it, I had to write a whole essay on this in collage and let me tell ya there's a lot of neat stuff
Flappy Bird is the modern day Bad Apple
Pong is more like the first successful computer game, in the sense that it actually had an existence that expanded beyond being a proof-of-concept sort of thing.
🤓 but also cool
@@bsmith6276 True, which I think is a big part of what they meant by it depending on how you define it
@@Dkgow the Bad Apple meme's still going strong. And it's only like 4 years older than flappy bird.
The sequence from 15:29 to flapping the pipes was the most I've laughted all year
OMFG SAME I DIED FROM LAUGHTER
"If you can't flap the BIRD... 🐦
Then flap... 🗣
The PIPES! 🧠🌌"
14:56 this is exactly why the first thing after reinstalling windows for me allways will be going into the sound mixer and muting system sounds
Because you run a script to move a clip to the play head in Premiere Pro?
System sounds can be useful sometimes
gotta love the consistency of using verticle instead of vertical
13:00 has big "WHY ARE YOU BUYING CLOTHES AT THE SOUP STORE" energy
ah yes, a cultured one i see
You're so right
"WHY ARE YOU SEARCHING FOR THE SUN IN THE ABYSS?!"
in germany you can buy wrenches and bras at a coffee store, so...
@@piranha1337why the fuck would you buy a wrench in a coffee shop??????
This is next level gane development. You draw the game as you play it unlike others who play in a drawn game. Magnificent
You mean like you had to do with the Atari 2600 47 years ago?
Anything can be a game engine if it's doom
if it can run doom*
E. Coli screen goes hard
Didn't Doom get an official port for a lawn mower?
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@hackanimator12 funny you mention that. There is a doom map that has a different doom in it that you can play with a keyboard in the game.
The amount of AI you used in this video is crazy
I only noticed when the music started lol
If you haven’t seen him, Magic the Noah is like, a game design wizard for Google Slides. I started an attempt to copy his format to do my own version for some buddies, and I have to say, we are probably the top 2 Google Slides game designers in the world.
Not that there’s a lot of competition. It’s a pool of 2.
i'm running a ttrpg entirely off google slides. it's a pool of 3. i concede to noah on the top spot, but have no way to judge your work for second place.
na mate 3
The funny thing is, Google slides is definitely a game engine as Noah has proven.
But PowerPoint is low-key a serious game engine.
A few people have made half decent 100% fully functional games in PowerPoint.
@@K41-g6p Tis' a pool of 4.
Well, soon at least.
Since i have to rhyme to speak in ye olden yeast,
I don't know if i'll be coherent-east.
All i know is i'll soon make a D&D in google slideast,
So pool of 4, it shall soon be-ast
I've dabbled in it too!
At first I thought Code Bullet had put real effort into his videos by either making music or hiring someone else to do it. Then I remember this is Code Bullet and it's definitely just AI.
lmao same
The music is too coherent to be ai in my opinion
It's probably ai generated
At first I thought the music was "sono ai" but I think it has too many filters for swearing and stuff.
It only has filters for sexual things, i think@BtaraDev
Code bullet screaming at chatgpt through text is amazing
5:29 Code Bullet rediscovers vector graphics
He just re-invented the vectrex
The MS Paint version is pure art. It's beautiful.
two code bullet uploads in one month? splendid
In one year…
that's about three more than usual! absolutely fantastic!
the harvest is bountiful this year
i was going to say that
that means he is gonna stay away for the next 2 years
Code Bullets coding skills be like 11:10
Code Bullet: "Make Flappy Bird!"
ChatGPT: "Like this?"
Code Bullet: "no"
ChatGPT: "ok"
my flappy bird worked
The Flappy Bird remix hits hard 🤙🏼
The video idea is great a part 2 would be awesome. Also I love your editing !
For the MS paint version, the "secondary color" option represents the back color. Changing that option would also change the color you get from a Contr+A+delete, which might have been a more effective method of screen clear, with less code.
Anyway, impressive work. I always lve the missery you put yourself through for these videos.
i dont know why he didnt use the circle and rectangle tools, would have made his life much easier
how hard would draw a white box as big as the screen be?
@@davidanalyst671 click box tool. Click white. Click top-left pixel. Drag to bottom right pixel. Release.
@@kahlzunyeah. Because paint totally did not even fucked up to change the color in time.
@@kahlzun You'd also need to plan for the async between paint and python, so you'd need to add a few delays between each instruction that gives a good chance of instructions not being ignored.
Idk whether to be more surprised by the “it’s fucking pipe time” song, or that Brilliant still sponsors you despite it.
Having a rough day, and this has given me many many giggles, which helps a lot. I appreciate this.
As someone that consistently swears at chat gpt when using it myself, I laughed so fucking hard starting at around 13:12
15:58 was the funniest joke I've heard all year, not often I actually laugh out loud
5:53 Simone's intro fits here so incredibly well that I'm genuinely impressed
Hell ye! I love this stuff. I’ve made Flappy Bird in Sysmac Studio for Omron PLC’s and it turned out awsome. Almost made a YT video of it but don’t think a lot of people care about Structured Text and industriel controllers and HMIs
I've made a number of games with batch files - Towers of Hanoi, Blackjack, Choose Your Own Adventure. I've figured out how to save high scores by rewriting the last few lines and resaving during operation, but getting framerate past 2fps and getting arrow key functionality has been really difficult. I'd love to see you take a crack at that with this project idea! Have fun with delayed expansion lol.
I find batch files to be a great coding resource since any windows machine can run them, and you don't need install privileges for them.
Oh yeah, and the lack of trig and square root functions are fun. Trig tables and square root approximation algorithms work well.
9:07 “I didn’t change anything but it works”
As a programmer I can confirm this is how computers work
Watching you argue with chatGPT is one of the greatest things I have seen on youtube this year
The Paint one looks like how Flappy Bird would look in my dreams
Holy shit the daddy's got the milk
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𝐇𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬
5:53 Was not expecting a mild NieR Reference in my Code Bullet Video.
God, Evan, I'm so glad you posted, every single upload from you is a full dopamine injection in my veins.
💀
wild bro calls what he does coding when he asks ChatGPT to literally write his code 😆
The Chat-GPT segment gets even funnier if you have enough of an understanding of the internal mechanisms of how an LLM works. The guy is basically screaming his head off at a fish for its inability to fly.
Essentially, Chat-GPT and other LLMs don't "perceive" text in the way that humans do, rather, groups of characters are fed in together as single units of information. Meaning that it's extremely difficult for it to actually judge how well it fulfills the requirements.
If you want to trip up Chat-GPT, asking for ASCII art of basically anything that it hasn't seen often enough to memorize "verbatim" is one of the easiest ways. You can also just ask it close to trivial questions about individual characters in the prompt, like asking it to spell a word backward or count the number of "a"s in a sentence.
16:39 if you forced flappy bird into windowed mode, you could do something like in Rhythm Doctor's 2-X level, where the window can move around to track the pipes and maintain the illusion of a moving player
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"Morale was low, I hit rock bottom." That's relatable.
3:18 we need a 10 hour version of this 🔥🗣
True
The wait was so worth flappy bird in file manager
Music is the best underrated part of this video honestly.
he just typed in what he was going to say, into a AI music generator.
we need an extended version of "pipe time"!!!
I need to be able to reference this song!
@@zelgadisgreywards7872 exactly!
fun fact! the secondary color is used for the background of canvas. so it mightve been possible to rectangle select some pipes and manually move them
I love how he even included a custom song “I’m coding flappy bird.”
Apparently, there are multiple custom songs used in the video.
ai generated
Made by ai. Takes 2 sec
@@tunfugl37 what ai?
Art theft moment
@@hvdhvhdhjI'd say using AI for 5 seconds of essentially meme music is probably still on the moral side
Gotta love the choice of music whenever he is actually working on the game
pretty sure it's ai, at least for the lyrics
Production value with the custom soundtrack damn
It's AI generated
The music that goes with what you are doing is actually great
You can probably use symbolic links to make many "copies" of PNGs without actually needing to copy PNG files around.
The mklink command in Windows exposes this functionality but you probably don't want to run an external app for that, you'd want to make Python call the Windows API directly (and I don't know Python so can't help you there.
As for games in Excel/Powerpoint... those have macros so that's easy mode. It's been done.
Instant upvote for Pipe Time.
Glorious.
10:46 can't wait to see flappy bird in wolfram alpha
Maybe Desmos, Wolframe would be a nightmare
Assembly... Have fun...
@@glitchydemonfairy3171 Probably easier than wolfram alpha tbh
I got my dad into watching Code Bullet
You can probably imagine how awkward I felt at the “Pipe Time” songs-
It is 2:30 am, and I should be asleep since I have school in the morning. But now I am obliged to procrastinate my sleep and watch this wonderful video
Now this is quality content
8:02 Could just do Ctrl+A and Delete if you set the color 2 to be the background, you can also leave that color as whatever it was at the start so you can call your game customizable
A little over 2 minutes into the video and Code Bullet has managed to break file explorer. Marvelous.
CodeBullet: "I'm here to prove that anything is a game engine if you try hard enough."
CodeBullet: "Why?"
Me: Because he loves a challenge as much as he hates himself
The “it’s pipe time” song got me 😂
this is insane, i have never been so happy to see a single upload by a youtuber i thought he was going to be gone for a year again
Bro just fucking destroyed Chat Gpt with lines.
Yo that flappy bird song is 🔥
🎵It’s pipe time, it’s pipe time 🎵
🎵It’s, pipe time, it’s piiipe time🎵
Original sound track is crazy
It's fucking pipe time 😂@@tpd1864blake
no it sucks. Code bullet said its flappy bird song, and then the lyrics of the song were its flappy bird time. Code bullet found an AI music generator. And he prompted it to make terrible music
@@davidanalyst671 of course it's not going to be grammy winner, but it adds an extra layer of uniqueness to his videos and I found it hilarious
broo
u are a legend!!
all your videos all your ideas are so inspiring and unique
even your making flappy bird songs, outro patreon battle
just amazing!
i really love and enjoy watching your videos!
keep it up! 🤟
The interaction shortly after 10:30 is really funny to me! 😂
I kinda want to make the file explorer version of Flappy Bird in the Folders programming language now.
I do love the music that you make for illustrating your work !
I think it is made with suno ai
Yea obviously suno