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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
There's something about the image quality of Cyberpunk that looks off to me, and I can't quite put my finger on it. Maybe the hair rendering? Shadowing? It's clearly going for photo realism, but it somehow looks worse to me t
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
At one point, your Counter-Strike guns.
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
One significant difference between WW1 and WW2, at least in the US -- the country realigned itself for wartime in a way it did not the first time around. You had women entering the workforce in ways they did not during WW1, which meant you
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
Speak of, it's been wild over the past 12-18 months to start seeing full-fat modern console games starting to hit phones.
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
I'd say the pendulum is swinging in the other direction -- Fortnite is bigger than most everything on Steam, and everything in that game feels like it's designed around you making progress through its battle pass in some increment
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
That's my point -- the onward march of technology means that not only can I continue playing U7, the work of passionate fans has made it so that I can play an improved version (higher perceptual frame rate, higher resolution, better an
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
Games are now infinitely more complex -- I can run an improved version of Ultima VII (1992) on a device that fits in my pocket, while the original wouldn't have run on this (it required a 486 and even the latest possible Tandy systems
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
I ended up running coax to my network cabinet and put the HDHR there, because my attic gets significantly hotter than the maximum rated operating temperature of the HDHR. I'm also long-term concerned about how Plex as a company is movi
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
I agree, it was the right call to make -- a temporarily-impaired device is always better than a temporarily-failed device, especially when you're talking about something you may need in an emergency situation. That said, Apple _signifi
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
What about "it could be a good idea, but when it's done haphazardly it's bad"? Both sentences describe the situation accurately.
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
I was talking about this with a friend recently -- Romans flaunted their wealth by improving shared social infrastructure (open market spaces, parks, etc), and the robber barons of the 19th century flaunted their wealth by building cultural
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
> Many US soldiers returned home from war and they needed a job It was a combination of US soldiers returning home after drawing government pay while fighting abroad, rationing limiting what could be purchased by those who remained home,
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
> If I were Trump, I instead would have pushed congress to take away the power of tariffs back from the presidency and make something like the Fed to manage them instead, with some checks added in. I normally don't like unelected of
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
> I might agree with that, although part of me is glad that there's at least one major platform that Chrome hasn't taken over. > Five years ago, I'd have agreed. Today Chrome seems like the King of Dark Patterns because
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
It's open-source in the same way TiVo was "open-source" back in the day: yeah, you get the code, but you can't do anything with it in a practical sense. Also, that article was published in 2013 and only received light up
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by ascagnel_ 1y ago
It was -- and it's so blatantly anti-competitive and letter-of-the-law (at least in the US) abuse of a monopoly position that Microsoft stopped it almost as soon as they were challenged on it.
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by ascagnel_ 2y ago
"Blade Runner" was taken from a 1974 Alan E. Nourse novel called "The Bladerunner"; the name's relation to PKD is tangential at best.
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by ascagnel_ 2y ago
Even people that know how to manage a network may not want to manage their home network.
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I would also argue, regardless of what mobile OS you're on, quieting, delaying, or disabling notifications on a regular basis (and taking stock of what you let through) is prudent.
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by ascagnel_ 2y ago
You need fiber for that -- I have a pair of them (100' to my desk, 30' to my TV), and they've been rock-solid for 4 years.
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by ascagnel_ 2y ago
It's the same if you go west -- Hudson County, NJ, is mostly neighborhoods that were designed as streetcar suburbs if you measure by land area.
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by ascagnel_ 2y ago
While it's not a direct continuation, the Yakuza (and later Like a Dragon) series is a spiritual successor in some ways.
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by ascagnel_ 2y ago
It's only a short stretch, running the length of I-495, but the XBL in the Lincoln Tunnel is a huge reason why people bother with the bus in northern NJ. When I was commuting by bus, the inbound morning trip (with XBL) was 20-30 minute
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by ascagnel_ 2y ago
The NHL[0] and NBA[1] have already done officially-sanctioned cartoonified simulcasts. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCupuTnNmQ0 [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE68Q4oPcPs
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by ascagnel_ 2y ago
They do, at least in the US, as viewership has dropped and leagues have struggled to attract younger viewers. - The NFL provided a SpongeBob-themed alt-cast for a game last weekend -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcHIfPER
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by ascagnel_ 2y ago
I think Ebert didn't grasp what Lynch was going for with the Dorothy character, because I don't think anyone else in Hollywood was thinking like Lynch at the time. Blue Velvet challenges you as a viewer to look at the abuse Doroth
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by ascagnel_ 2y ago
Just start with the pilot first -- as it is, the US pilot is basically a feature-length film (it runs 1h25m), and features enough of Lynch's trademark juxtaposition of horrible and mundane, and piles on the warmth and love for his char
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by ascagnel_ 2y ago
It's a jump scare that works incredibly well, yet it's shot in slow-motion and lit to full daylight, two things anathema to jump scares.
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by ascagnel_ 2y ago
YouTube is a private entity; as long as they comply with the DMCA, they're under no obligation to take content down or even make content available (outside of contracts they enter into voluntarily). The DMCA doesn't provide strict
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by ascagnel_ 2y ago
It makes me wonder, is it possible to write something this complex in assembly today, given modern security features. Not that you'd want to, given that OpenTTD has networked features and you'd want something that makes it easy to

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