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by gryson 5y ago
There are many studies that document adult immigrants and language attrition. Those who experience the most attrition are the ones who fully integrate - they entirely cease using their native language and eventually shift their dominant lan
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by gryson 5y ago
It is exceedingly rare for an adult to undergo true attrition of their first language when it is the dominant language throughout childhood. On the other hand, it is very easy for children to completely lose their first language (sometimes
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by gryson 5y ago
The article brings up categorical perception when it says one shouldn't assume they are hearing sounds in another language correctly, since our brains will map those sounds to the nearest English equivalent. What the article is really
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by gryson 5y ago
What do you mean? Why should the reviewer's experience playing the game as a kid influence their seemingly objective review of that game? Wouldn't it be a bit silly to say "I think the first Wing Commander is a better game th
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by gryson 5y ago
Jimmy Maher does a great job documenting the history behind these games, but I think he lets in a bit too much personal bias in the second half of his articles where he reviews the game from a modern perspective. I first started noticing th
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by gryson 5y ago
The "active display area" of a CRT is 224 vertical pixels - all of those pixels are intended for display. The actual number of scanlines is 240. The top 8 and bottom 8 rows of pixels are not intended for display. This is the overs
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by gryson 5y ago
You're referring to differences in individual TV overscan settings. For that reason, developers were told to not use a particular area around the outside of the screen for important information. However, by the 90s, most recent TV mode
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by gryson 5y ago
Jimmy Maher criticizes the gameplay aspects of Full Throttle, saying they pale in comparison to games like Day of the Tentacle. However, I remember Full Throttle's simplified gameplay as one of the reasons I liked it so much when I got
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by gryson 5y ago
Are you familiar with the Yakuza series, Persona series, or Puyo Puyo series of video games (among many others)? Sega is one of the top publishers of video games in the world. In 2020, they were ranked #1 publisher by metacritic based on av
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by gryson 5y ago
The focus here should really be on output signal, not CRT. Specifically, composite vs. RGB output. And yes, at least in some cases, designers very carefully took into consideration how the art would look on a CRT via composite, in contrast
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by gryson 5y ago
Small correction: Hayao Nakayama, the long-time president of Sega Enterprises who is made out to be incompetent in Console Wars, is still alive. He, along with Sega co-founder David Rosen, were interviewed in the excellent 2014 book Sega Me
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Sega’s Financial Troubles: An Analysis of Export Revenue 1991-1998(mdshock.com)
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A Guide to the Graphics of the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis(rasterscroll.com)
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A Guide to the Graphics of the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis(rasterscroll.com)
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by gryson 6y ago
As I recall (I was active on TribalWar then), the images in the original animation were taken from other sites (including SomethingAwful) by Bad_CRC, who made the animation and posted it on TribalWar. It then took off big time after that an
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by gryson 6y ago
A clue as to the origins of the Zero Wing translation in this interview with Masahiro Yuge of Toaplan: >-Toaplan also ported Zero Wing to the Megadrive. Who came up with the broken English “ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US” from the overse
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by gryson 6y ago
Yes, the 'natural approach' to language learning is definitely popular. But in most classroom settings I would be surprised if students weren't exposed to the translated meanings through homework or the textbook. Class would
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by gryson 6y ago
Have you tried more traditional textbooks? I understand there's a desire for an easy-to-use interactive app, but I've never come across anything remotely as good as a textbook like Minna no Nihongo (I used this book 20 years ago w
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by gryson 6y ago
But... why? Translation is not something to be avoided for the adult language learner. We should use every advantage at our disposal. You can spend hours trying to guess the meaning of a word through pictures and context (and not getting an
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by gryson 6y ago
You don't have to look far to see the interest in the article: a pianist with near-profound hearing loss stating that Beethoven's compositions become more interesting to her the later they were composed, coinciding with Beethoven&
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by gryson 6y ago
For the curious: The history between Sega and Microsoft actually goes back further. In 1994, they announced a partnership for an OS on the Sega Saturn, although it was never realized: https://mdshock.com/2020/06/22
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by gryson 6y ago
Setting aside their interpretation of the results, which is a bit heatedly contested (and I believe they were focused more on syntax rather than speech), there are really two questions to ask that I think are relevant to the discussion: 1)
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by gryson 6y ago
Sure, it's somewhat rare but not that uncommon. The Swedish researchers Kenneth Hyltenstam and Niclas Abrahamsson have a series of studies looking at immigrants in Sweden who began learning Swedish as adults and who are judged to be na
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by gryson 6y ago
There is extensive research going back many decades that strongly implicates the role of perception in the difficulty that second language learners have with pronunciation. Basically, learners have a tendency to hear the second language thr
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by gryson 6y ago
The Sonic waterfall is an example of dithering. If you degrade the quality of the signal enough (using a composite video signal, for example) the output will become blurry enough that the dithering blends together, and you can achieve certa
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by gryson 6y ago
Bizarre comment - are you taking the old PNAS = "Passed over by Nature And Science" joke a bit too literally? PNAS is one of the top general-science journals. Yes, there are better field-specific journals, but PNAS is pretty damn
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by gryson 6y ago
Ken Williams' initial comment there: "It does seem obvious that I was fooled by Walter Forbes, but so were most people. He was the Jeff Bezos of his time. He had a big-four accounting firm who signed off on their financials every
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by gryson 6y ago
By the mid- to late-1990s, Sierra's publishing output was far more diversified than just adventure games. They owned a large number of subsidiary development companies (such as Dynamix, Impression, and Papyrus) that were creating games
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by gryson 6y ago
I don't understand your criticism. Foone (a rather famous user of Twitter with 62k followers who posts enormously interesting content in my opinion) is successfully engaging his audience in a casual style that they appreciate. How is t
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by gryson 6y ago
As others have pointed out, the timing of this is a bit suspicious. Another searcher was just found dead in March of this year, and Fenn was also sued in Dec 2019 (links available on the Wikipedia page). Without proof, it's impossible

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