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by generj 4y ago
BattleTanx was such a weird game and I loved it. My orthodontist had it running on an N64 in the lobby. Something about the N64/PS1 era delighted in weird and insane weapons. An updated version (with a better plot) would be amazing. I’
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by generj 4y ago
Reminds me a bit of the old Battlefront Galaxy Conquest modes, though the overview mode would need a lot more work. I think the overview position would need complicating factors to make it hard - otherwise they would just be frustrated at t
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by generj 4y ago
Pokémon MMORPG. I know there were a few mods that added online servers to older ROMs. But I would love to see a fully fledged GameFreak version.
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by generj 4y ago
I’ve always thought a game playing as the Fed (but in a sci-do context or something to make it less political) would be interesting. Relatively few options to act upon, lots of data with ambiguous lagging and leading indicators.
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by generj 4y ago
I hope this works. One problem is that it excludes new entrants to the hobby space, on a board which was primarily designed to help children and teens learn about computers. I’m sure Pimoroni carefully considered this. Thee gear is certainl
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by generj 4y ago
Have you met software engineers? I imagine there are plenty who very pedantically explain the difference. In my experience, it’s hard not to take offense when the word being used is frequently used by people who are intending offense. Our
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by generj 5y ago
They will ship much faster if you pay for e.g. DHL but this is cost prohibitive for most people unless ordering in bulk. But yes, it’s totally rational to pay a premium to get parts in 2 days versus 5 weeks.
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by generj 5y ago
Shutting down a protest because it completely shut down a major city center and harassed locals for weeks seems like a totally legitimate use of government power to me. They also blocked a major bridge border crossing and attempted to block
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by generj 5y ago
The community has done some stuff like this (the typewriter conversions especially, though they are rare due to difficulty) and there’s a lot of crossover between the mechanical keyboard crowds and rpi/Arduino crowds. The problem is th
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by generj 5y ago
Theoretically the USSR is the entity which has a permanent veto right, and everyone has just allowed the Russian Federation to take the USSR’s seat. In practice nobody is removing permanent veto power from the second largest nuclear power.
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by generj 5y ago
My understanding is that more extreme measures like this aren’t possible because the city has been left to deal with it, and all they have are towing trucks and towing contractors. The federal government would have to step in to make tanks
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by generj 5y ago
How would that even work? There isn’t a gene for Chinese citizenship that would impact any disease or illness. …I’m unfortunately assuming the poster is making a bad-faith reference to COVID-19. Some conspiracy theorists have been labeling
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by generj 5y ago
The feeling is the most important thing. So long as the core is Halo, it’s OK if they bolt on everything else after release, IMO. Launching with 10 maps is disappointing but understandable given the depth of modeling resources that were req
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by generj 5y ago
They definitely rescued the campaign IMO. Multiplayer is missing quite a few features, though it is a load of fun as is and feels distinctly like Halo.
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by generj 5y ago
The model is wrong because it doesn’t reflect reality. URLs and web search are fundamentally different types of items. All models are wrong, some are useful. We are debating how useful this model is.
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by generj 5y ago
Me too! My dad gave me an old PalmPilot when I was in middle school and as a punk kid I would do things like mute the TV for 5 seconds during in-class videos.
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by generj 5y ago
That’s a fair point, and I hadn’t heard of that Supreme Court ruling. Without being too flippant, I believe the pro-Eugenics society the court came from would have found a way to twist any precedent or lack thereof to justify eugenics. Some
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by generj 5y ago
And sometimes education comes from the rest of society saying “you are welcome to your beliefs, but not welcome to pollute my air at our workplace until you aren’t a danger to me.” We set the precedent for forced vaccination nearly a centur
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by generj 5y ago
Something is horribly wrong with your math. 0.000004 * 320,000,000 = 1,280 deaths for the entire USA. Your higher estimate yields 10,240 deaths. In reality we’ve had at least 700,000 deaths. For those who are infected, the naive Case Fatali
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by generj 5y ago
There were other USSR environmental disasters too like the Aral Sea. Clearly neither unrestrained capitalism or total public ownership of the environment are viable. Thankfully we have a third way, mixed economies that internalize externali
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by generj 5y ago
A great deal of events have also been canceled voluntarily by organizers in this pandemic. Plenty of event organizers believe they have a responsibility to their attendees and the surrounding community and have not planned events even when
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by generj 5y ago
A wonderful read. It was interesting to hear all the ways in which you were put to work. I hadn’t expected reaching NYC to be such an adventure, but have forgotten the zeitgeist of suspicion and uncertainty immediately after the attacks. In
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by generj 5y ago
To ensure the fighters crippled the passenger plane, at least one of the scrambled National Guard pilots ruled out ejecting. The other hoped to eject before impact. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna44459345
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by generj 5y ago
You definitely can if you are driving on the clock.
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by generj 5y ago
Clearly the good of society is more important than some personal choices. We don’t allow people to make personal choices to commit murder, or to drive drunk, or even to drive at all without licenses.
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by generj 5y ago
You have to wonder what the executives thought of this! Sounds like an interesting documentary ready to happen.
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by generj 5y ago
Interesting story. Kinda hard to feel bad for the would be jet owner. He knew it was a joke but wanted to take advantage of the opportunity for arbitrage anyways. The more astounding aspect is that he was able to get investors in on his sch
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by generj 5y ago
I think it’s more intuitive to edit SVG than to edit Gcode for many people. One of the big reasons people like SVG is the support for multiple layers representing multiple pen colors, and most tools dealing with SVG support this. In Gcode t
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by generj 5y ago
I love Saxi. Makes it much easier to run a plot. Even not having to have my computer plugged into the AxiDraw and arrange my room a certain way is a win.
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by generj 5y ago
Axidraw consumes SVG directly via an Inkscape extension and has an API to control at a lower level (presumably the Inkscape extension converts to the lower level API). Axidraw doesn’t use GCode from what I understand. There are a plethora o

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