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by pezezin 2y ago
While I agree with you, I think that we have reached a local optimum that is difficult to improve anymore. I mean, what else is missing from modern controllers? Unless we move to VR with direct neural control, I don't see a way forward
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by pezezin 2y ago
"Hello my friend, stay awhile and listen!" has to be one of the more iconic phrases in gaming history...
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by pezezin 2y ago
> They are effectively nothing like the first, second, or even third generation consoles that had fairly unique hardware, desirable exclusives and so on. I am not sure how you are counting them, but the second generation were the Atari 2
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by pezezin 2y ago
I was thinking more about consoles. I remember reading some articles about the PSX and the N64 and how they would kill PC gaming, and then the Voodoo happened... But if we are talking about home computers like the Amiga, Ataris and such, th
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by pezezin 2y ago
But they are still using Yahoo.
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by pezezin 2y ago
Not only sprites, but also scrolling backgrounds! There is no question that those machines were much more suited for 2D games, at least until the 486 could brute force them. On the other hand, the simple framebuffer of the VGA was much more
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by pezezin 2y ago
I think it is difficult to pinpoint the turning point, but I would say it was the launch of the 3dfx Voodoo in late 1996, and the release of GLQuake the following year. Up until that point you could argue that consoles were more powerful or
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by pezezin 2y ago
> Japan is world renowned for their hospitality, but Japanese drivers are by far some of the biggest assholes I have ever seen in my life. xD If it is of any consolation, all the gaijin in my office agree with you.
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by pezezin 2y ago
> Eg narrow roads improves safety for motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists alike. Bullshit. Almost 6 years in Aomori, and rare is the month that I don't see a car crashed on the side of the road, even on sunny summer days. Meanwhil
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by pezezin 2y ago
That is true. Still, driving through a dark and narrow street or road, especially at night (coming back from work), with pedestrians wearing dark clothes (some people are smart enough to wear reflecting bands, but they are few and far betwe
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by pezezin 2y ago
They are. Heck, one time I even saw a truck driver just taking a nap! Like, he decided to stop in the middle of the road and sleep! Sure, better than falling asleep and crashing, but come on, all the konbinis around here have parking slots
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by pezezin 2y ago
I live in Aomori, I have been commuting every single day for the last 6 years, and I totally agree with you. There are three more points that make me mad: - Stopping in the middle of the road whenever they feel like it. Just turn on the bli
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by pezezin 2y ago
> Don't believe me go to Europe and Japan Depends where in Japan; I live in a small city, and it is the worst urban sprawl that you could ever imagine. You absolutely need a car for everything, but at the same time the streets are r
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by pezezin 2y ago
Archimedes screws existed way before steam engines.
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by pezezin 2y ago
The square crop used as a test image is just her face, but the original, full-page shot shows all her body, and she is very much nude.
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by pezezin 2y ago
Not to mention that most of the power provided by modern PSUs come from the 12V rails. The 3.3 and 5V rails are almost vestigial at this point, no hardware actually runs directly at those voltages, so removing them would not have any negati
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by pezezin 2y ago
I don't know about older hardware because I started in the early '90s, but the VGA didn't have scanlines the way game consoles played on TVs had. The VGA had a built-in line doubler, and the minimum horizontal scan rate was 3
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by pezezin 2y ago
The acknowledgements are also cool: > The crew thanks the creators and actors of the Star Trek universe for their inspiration for this work.
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by pezezin 2y ago
If we are talking about manned spacecraft, I would expect the interior of the hull to be held at 1 atm.
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by pezezin 2y ago
And then you have nanori, the non-standard readings used for people and places names that are impossible to read without furigana or already knowing the name. One that really surprised me was a village called 愛子 (a common female name read a
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by pezezin 2y ago
> [3] Company that built the GameCube GPU before being bought out by ATI, which is why the Wii had an ATI logo on it The Gamecube also has the ATI logo on it, it features prominently on the bottom right corner of the front side.
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by pezezin 2y ago
> Disagree. Once you get accustomed to reading kanji And how many years does it take to? What about words that you have never seen before? What about ambiguous or uncommon readings that require furigana even for fully educated adults? As
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by pezezin 2y ago
Don't take me wrong, I fully agree with you. I actually live in Japan, I am trying to learn the language, and it is royal PITA. Heck, every single Japanese person I have asked has complained about their language being so ridiculously d
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by pezezin 2y ago
That is what whitespaces are for, which Korean also uses.
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by pezezin 2y ago
> Without Kanji, it severely degrades readability. One has to reconstruct the word from syllables, which introduces another layer of cognitive load. Which is what every language with an alphabetic writing does, and it works just fine. It
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by pezezin 2y ago
If we are being pedantic, the correct romanization is Tōkyō.
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by pezezin 2y ago
I have been hearing about the death of gaming PCs since the launch of the PSX and the N64, yet here we are.
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by pezezin 2y ago
That sounds good, wish more places did like that.
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by pezezin 2y ago
A few years ago, I tried teaching for a couple years. Something that struck me was that to teach at the elementary or high school level you need specific degrees, but to teach at a university you don't. There is this thinking that beca
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by pezezin 2y ago
My experience too, but I live in the inaka.

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