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by pezezin 9mo ago
I first started with big LAN/Demoscene parties. Between 2003 (when I finished high school) and 2008 (when I finished university) I attended Euskal Encounter ( https://ee33.euskalencounter.org/ ) every summer. LAN partie
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by pezezin 9mo ago
I am a bit younger (my first PC was a 486), but much like you I and most of my friends grew up with PCs. My happiest memories are endless evenings playing Counter Strike and Diablo 2 at Internet cafés. So yeah, PC gaming is growing... back
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by pezezin 9mo ago
On the other hand the Japanese economy has been quite stagnant since 1990, and the yen is right now on a downwards spiral, so I don't think it is such a good solution. And as a gaijin living in Japan, I usually get extremely pissed off
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by pezezin 9mo ago
Why curved? We didn't like the CRT curvature back then and manufacturers struggled to make them as flat as possible, finally reaching "virtually flat" screens towards the end of the CRT era. I have one right here on my desk,
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by pezezin 9mo ago
PC monitors were already HD. If you have the chance, watch a HD video on a big enough PC monitor, the picture quality is quite impressive.
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by pezezin 9mo ago
I used to think like you, but in the last few years I have become tired of American-dominated spaces that ignore other world views and push their narratives endlessly, so I am very much in favour of European-focused forums and social media.
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by pezezin 9mo ago
I have seen some rare Pokémon cards going for the price of a small car...
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by pezezin 9mo ago
The Nintendo 64 will be 30 years old this summer. Yes, 30, you can feel bad now :(
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by pezezin 9mo ago
> NASA did this using customary units The Apollo Guidance Computer performed all internal calculations in SI units, and only converted to US customary units for display: https://ukma.org.uk/why-metric/myths/metr
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by pezezin 9mo ago
> No, it is not easier to deal with meters if you're talking about physical spaces that humans inhabit. And it's not easier to deal with C when talking about the temperature of a room, because an F degree is just about the smal
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by pezezin 9mo ago
Chocolate is native to the Americas and started to spread around the world in the 17th century, so it makes sense that most languages use the same word, as it is a quite recent addition.
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by pezezin 9mo ago
I have been living in Japan for years and I would like to know where you can find a lunch bowl for 600 yen which is not a company cantine or industrial konbini shit.
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by pezezin 9mo ago
This is a big misconception. The core neighborhoods of the big Japanese cities are dense, mixed-use, and have good mass transit. But as soon as you move a bit further away, they degenerate into endless urban sprawl like American cities. I k
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by pezezin 9mo ago
What does your comment has to do with the topic of this thread? Why do you guys always need to insert US politics into everything?
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by pezezin 9mo ago
Most arcade monitors operate at the usual 15 kHz, although some later games operated at 24 kHz (medium resolution) and 31 kHz (high resolution).
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by pezezin 10mo ago
By that logic, everything is a cultural difference...
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by pezezin 10mo ago
VGA monitors had a minimum horizontal frequency of 31 kHz (480p at 60Hz), way outside the human hearing range.
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by pezezin 10mo ago
That only applies to TV sets, computer monitors operated at much higher frequencies outside the human hearing range.
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by pezezin 10mo ago
Have you tried BFI (black frame insertion)? Many people swear by it because it improves the "motion clarity", but it has the side effect of significantly increasing flicker.
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by pezezin 10mo ago
Most of these CRT shaders seem to emulate the lowest possible quality CRTs you could find back in the day. I have a nice Trinitron monitor on my desk and it looks nothing like these shaders. The only pleasant shader I have found is the one
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by pezezin 10mo ago
In any modern OS with CoW forking/paging, multiple worker processes of the same app will share code segments by default.
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by pezezin 10mo ago
That sounds like the Taito Station on the right side of the street. On the other side there is a Gigo with a whole floor for retro games, and Hey! that is focused almost only on retro games.
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by pezezin 10mo ago
Nowadays' Japanese arcades are not like the ones GP is describing, most players don't interact with each other directly anymore. Notable exceptions are places like Mikado centers that organize tournaments and keep the old flame al
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by pezezin 10mo ago
No, the reason why 13.5 MHz was chosen is because it was desirable to have the same sampling rate for both PAL and NTSC, and 13.5 happens to be an integer multiple of both line frequecuencies. You can read the full history in this article:
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by pezezin 10mo ago
The repo being a single commit doesn't mean it's AI. It is quite common to first develop on a private repo and then clean up the commit history for the first public release.
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by pezezin 10mo ago
That's interesting. I have heard many people complaining about the sound mix in modern Spanish productions, but I never have problems understanding them. Shows from LATAM are another topic though, some accents are really difficult for
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by pezezin 10mo ago
That is exactly my point, the diction in modern movies sucks.
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by pezezin 10mo ago
Yes, I forgot to mention that by "old movies" I mean things like Back to the Future. After a lifetime of watching it dubbed, I watched it with the original audio around a year ago, and I was surprised how clear the dialogues are c
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by pezezin 10mo ago
English is my second language and I always though my lack of understanding was a skill issue. Then I noticed that native speakers also complain. Then I started to watch YouTube channels, live TV and old movies, and I found out I could under
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by pezezin 10mo ago
I don't know about other DE, but at least with Plasma there is a "overscan" option to compensate for hidden borders.

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