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by skhr0680 2y ago
I'm going to be nice to the net code and say that it has issues because of its age, but multicore CPUs don't cause any issues as far as I know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS0UL9QC2c4
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by skhr0680 2y ago
Fun fact: The real-life inventor of the neutron bomb, Samuel T. Cohen, loved “Repo Man”!
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by skhr0680 2y ago
> I think the only thing they had to cut out for legal reasons was the patented shadowing algorithm in Doom 3. I remember that being somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 LOC to fix, and exactly where to change it was “common knowledge” the
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by skhr0680 2y ago
I feel like the difficulty was in that you couldn’t just Google magic spells to make things work, you either knew how to do things or you didn’t. DOS didn’t even have manpages IIRC
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by skhr0680 2y ago
Macs could boot from BIOS until circa 2017, and had no trouble booting from a FreeDOS live disc.
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by skhr0680 2y ago
What happened? Games from 15-20 years ago thst still look and sound fine now (Crysis, MGS2, HL2, San Andreas off the top of my head) all fit on one DVD
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by skhr0680 2y ago
Dustin Browder was hired by Blizzard to direct StarCraft 2 after directing Generals. That's about as big of an endorsement that I can think of.
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by skhr0680 2y ago
Historically, I think it's akin to when Russia conquered Russia and renamed St. Petersburg to Leningrad
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by skhr0680 2y ago
BOTW and TOTK are clearly influenced by the look of Ghibli movies, especially Nausica and Laputa. I guess it’s meant to look “2d”.
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by skhr0680 2y ago
The Most Dangerous Game walked so Hard Target could run
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by skhr0680 2y ago
It's a great understatement to say that the end of the Eastern Bloc could have been handled a whole lot better, especially from the perspective of people who would have been established or even happy with their lives under Communism: a
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by skhr0680 2y ago
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by skhr0680 2y ago
It’s for liability reasons. The driver is responsible for any damage caused to property or vehicles by passengers opening their door
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by skhr0680 2y ago
You have a to take 1TB of images to be able to take 1GB of images, or something like that (am a semi-retired pro photographer myself).
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by skhr0680 2y ago
It’s funny that you mention that the era of the music. Gen X–Millennials in Japan are likely to associate it with fun but extremely unhip* cafes and restaurants that started disappearing circa 2010 as the women running them hit retirement a
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by skhr0680 2y ago
South Korea stopped murdering their citizens for expressing themselves. China didn’t
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by skhr0680 2y ago
Japanese cameras became popular with pros during the Korean War precisely because they used high-quality materials and had great quality control. A good Leica was still better at the time, but you were much more likely to get a good Nikon.
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by skhr0680 2y ago
AFAIK (remember) Call of Duty was built on a modified Quake 3 engine long before it went open source
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by skhr0680 2y ago
Isn't ping mostly determined by the physical distance between you and the server?
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by skhr0680 2y ago
> a company could actually sue the employee and win. It's difficult and costs money to prove that someone is half-assing their job on purpose , and that cost a company a specific dollar amount of losses. It's why they may th
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by skhr0680 2y ago
> If you have enough paid vacation you could pad that period with your vacation, but it requires pre-acceptance, so cooperation from your employer. It doesn't necessarily need their cooperation. A letter sent by registered mail sayi
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by skhr0680 2y ago
People don't want to deal with the fallout of saying that, hence quitting agents
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by skhr0680 2y ago
> the CD version looking rather more washed out I remember reading somewhere many, many years ago that the graphics were adjusted to have less colors to work in Windows, which reserved 20/256 colors for system use.
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by skhr0680 2y ago
Spqce Quest 5 is the only one I go back to. It’s funny, has well-written and memorable characters (for Space Quest), there are few unwinnable situations, and the puzzles rely mostly on human rather than adventure game logic. On the other ha
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by skhr0680 2y ago
"Other countries have problems too" OK, let's just give up trying to improve then.
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by skhr0680 2y ago
That is exactly what I meant by Galapagos syndrome. I should have written external(= business conducted in English) economic incentive. The elephant in the room is that 6/12 years school here are focused on rote remembering for the nex
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by skhr0680 2y ago
Countries around the world need to bite the bullet and implement that for voting too.
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by skhr0680 2y ago
Hot take: You shouldn't be able to leave a negative review after playing the game for the equivalent of working at a full-time job for four years . Maybe after playing for X hours "Negative" should change to "Positive,
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by skhr0680 2y ago
Until Japanese have an economic reason to learn English, they will continue to participate in the educational equivalent of get-rich-quick schemes instead of actually getting good. It's a great example of the "Galapagos syndrome&q
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by skhr0680 2y ago
Do you dislike sandbox games in general? BOTW’s map felt really designed to have unique, memorable areas and playtested to be “fair” to me, especially the noob area. > The "grade inflation" that Nintendo fans bestow upon every

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