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- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 14 hours ago:
“Apparently there’s never the money to do it right, but somehow there’s always the money to do it twice.”
Management never likes to have this brought to their attention, especially in a Told You So tone of voice. One thinks if this bothered pointy-haired types so much, maybe they could learn from their mistakes once in a while.
- Comment on wish 15 hours ago:
Or Delhi.
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 16 hours ago:
Not with no ammunition in it he won’t. Look closely.
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Video projectors used to be ridiculously cool [34:39] 1 day ago:
The micromirror arrays are the wildest of the bunch to me. That is just such a prima facie batshit insane idea and it’s astonishing that it actually works.
“Yeah, we need to be able to individually display and shut off these pixels, so we’re going to go ahead and design a chip with 6,220,800 tiny mirrors that physically tilt when you poke them with electricity. Rather than, I don’t know, literally any other solution that presents itself.”
- Comment on Update 1 day ago:
It’s worth it to name Barrett “T” in the original PSX translation of Final Fantasy 7 as well, only for the singular scene in which this makes him refer to himself as “Mr. T.”
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 2 days ago:
I miss my N900 every day.
- Comment on Update 2 days ago:
Mine name is Glenn! Cyrus’s hopes and dreams… And now the Masamune… Forthwith I shall slay Magus and restore honor!
As an aside and since I’ll never get to talk about this in context again, every time I play through Chrono Trigger I am exactly the asshole who names Marle as Nadia, Frog as Glenn, Robo as R-66Y, and Magus as Janus. Because being a time traveler, I already know.
It is kind of weird that so many of the main cast canonically go by pseudonyms in the story. Kind of a four nickels situation, I guess.
- Comment on It would have been really funny if a video game ejected the disk if you lost too many times 2 days ago:
And the PS2 slim.
Based on my limited understanding, Sony didn’t make the drive ejection controls available to game developers. Maybe clever hackers could do it nowadays since the PS2 in particular has had its system architecture analyzed down to the molecular level. It’s probably not a good idea to tie the progress if your program execution to it, though, because of the above. Hardware revisions could change at any time.
- Comment on It would have been really funny if a video game ejected the disk if you lost too many times 2 days ago:
Given that the PS1 didn’t have a powered drive tray and the lid release was fully mechanical, he’d have to develop telekinesis first.
- Comment on It would have been really funny if a video game ejected the disk if you lost too many times 2 days ago:
The whole Fission Mailed sequence near the end of MGS2 leaps to mind, also.
- Comment on Hospitallers - crusading the Levant since 1113 CE 2 days ago:
I like this ancient and crusty airsoft version better:
At least we only pretend to blow up hospitals.
(Pop quiz! Let’s how your client handles images that are a thousand feet tall.)
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 3 days ago:
Her, and him, and whoever!
- Comment on Meh, I'm more of an Aragorn fan... 3 days ago:
They meet Legolas, an Elven warrior who can’t hold his drink. He’s taking the place of his older brother, Armolas, who can’t hold his bow. Their younger brother, Arseolas, has already lost his seat on the council…
- Comment on kya 3 days ago:
His is a bit higher quality than that one, and I have no idea where he got it. It’s made of closed cell foam and is indeed printed on both sides.
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 3 days ago:
I was not aware it was released in that packaging, but I’m pretty sure that’s still a Playstation 1 disk dressed up in a PS2 style DVD case, meant to be used with the PS2’s backwards compatibility mode. To my knowledge SotN was never rereleased as a native PS2 title and wasn’t rereleased at all until the PSP version. (And then later the Xbox 360 and PS4 as downloadable titles, and also the ghastly mobile phone versions.) If you have a PS1 kicking around you can try it and see, I suppose.
For what it’s worth my copy is the green-stripe “Greatest Hits” reprinting, so what it’s worth is alas not much.
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 3 days ago:
I’m just being that guy on the internet as usual, but Symphony Of The Night is a PS1 title, not PS2. I’m sure OP can run a PS1 emulator on his Deck if he wants to, though. It is a great game.
- Comment on kya 3 days ago:
My dad had a college friend who did this back in the 70s, using all electromechanical components. Relays and solenoids and so forth. Hey, they were engineering students, what do you expect? From what he described it didn’t use a drum to display the messages, but rather had an array of six or seven of them that popped up from below, like bread from a toaster. It fit on the platform between the back seat and rear window of his car.
As the story was recounted to me, he did get hassled by the cops for this at one point due to flipping up one of the more expletive laden signboards at an unmarked patrol car. Ultimately they couldn’t find anything to nail him for over it, though.
Meanwhile, my brother in law keeps one of these in the door pocket in his truck:
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 4 days ago:
Re: Final Fantasy games not tying together or having continuities.
Yes. Except, ironically, specifically Final Fantasy X, which had a direct sequel in X-2. Final Fantasy XIII also managed to have a direct sequel in Lightning Returns. Thankfully, if you care to think of it that way, it was crap and can be safely ignored.
Anyway, have an upvote for not blithely suggesting that everyone start with VII.
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 4 days ago:
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 was pretty close to the peak of the series if you ask me, and the PS2 version was the superior one. THPS4 also came out on the Playstation 2. I see you already have Underground on there.
If you’d like something you can handily use to consume the rest of your entire life, Disgaea and/or its sequel will probably do you.
Ico and Shadow of the Colossus are also legendary. I haven’t tried in ages, I have no idea if modern emulators can get the latter to run at a non-crap frame rate. It’d be a lot nicer if so.
Odin Sphere is an often overlooked 2D action sidescrolling fighting thing wherein you Norse In The North and beat the shit out of absolutely everyone. Its sequel, Muramasa: The Demon Blade is much the same thing except therein you Ninja In The Night instead. The latter stayed locked to the Wii to my knowledge but the former was on the PS2.
The PS2’s library is quite vast. I’m not going to go looking this up to prove it right now, but I’m pretty sure it’s got the most titles ever released for a home video game console (i.e. not the PC) in history. Even just trying out unknown games at complete random, it’s likely to be able to keep you entertained in one way or another basically forever.
- Comment on Whoa! Windows 7's market share surged, tripling in users last month 5 days ago:
I don’t know, but I find myself mentioning it often enough I feel like somebody ought to be paying me for it.
- Comment on Whoa! Windows 7's market share surged, tripling in users last month 6 days ago:
This already exists, and it doesn’t cost $60. What you want is the Windows 10 IoT LTSC Edition.
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- Comment on I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying 6 days ago:
I load my commas into a 10 gauge shotgun and fire them at the page.
- Comment on I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying 6 days ago:
Web browsers collapse whitespace by default which means that sans any trickery or deliberately using nonbreaking spaces causes any amount of spaces between words to be reduced into one. Since apparently every single thing in the modern world is displayed via some kind of encapsulated little browser engine nowadays, the majority of double spaces left in the universe that are not already firmly nailed down into print now appear as singles. And thus the convention is almost totally lost.
- Comment on Maxwell House to rebrand as Maxwell Apartment 1 week ago:
Is this going to be another one of those things where a bunch of online bots try to incite a manufactured outrage?
- Comment on whatever happened to in-store coffee grinders? 1 week ago:
The coffee grinders hung on at several of the grocery stores near me, but got relocated to behind one of the checkout counters. They hung on there for a number of years but finally these got removed as well, along with the option to buy coffee beans loose and by weight. The majority of shoppers probably just bought pre-ground. For what it’s worth, myself and my parents were the only people I ever saw buying whole beans or using the grinders, over the span of decades.
One of the froofy high end grocery stores near me does still offer bulk beans (along with their other bulk products like dried fruit, lentils, trail mix, etc.) but there are no grinders in the store. They probably assume anyone who’s enough of a coffee nut these days would rather grind their own beans at home, and they’re probably right.
- Comment on Lara Croft is a Sociopath 1 week ago:
I think the implication is supposed to be that when you beat Bowser they’ll be turned back.
- Comment on Lara Croft is a Sociopath 1 week ago:
The synopsis in the manual also states that Bowser turned the residents of the Mushroom Kingdom into “stones, bricks, and field horse-hair plants.” In a given playthrough, most players probably smash a lot of bricks. Bricks which used to be Mushroom Kingdom people, who are now dead. Because Mario killed them.
It’s a big maybe on Mario being the hero because he may or may not actually succeed in reaching Bowser and rescuing the princess depending on how much the player happens to suck, and/or of Luigi winds up being the victor instead.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I can make it weirder.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Nintendo Switch 2 Version Delayed Indefinitely 2 weeks ago:
With the best will in the world, given the dire performance of Borderlands 4 even on much more powerful hardware, the notion that it was ever going to work on the Switch 2… how should we phrase this… was never realistic.
Randy seems more interested in running his mouth than getting anything done about the game’s performance issues on any platform, so this decision is hardly unsurprising at this juncture. The fact that they were able to pull the plug this close to the alleged release date also points to the fact that this was to be yet another one of those game-not-actually-on-the-cartridge deals, if they were even planning to make cartridges for it at all, so that would have been yet another nonstarter for many potential buyers. This whole thing was dead on arrival. The only difference is, now we know it’s official.
Borderlands as a whole doesn’t have a great track record on portable platforms anyway. The OG Switch version also had less than stellar performance, and the best that can be said about the PS Vita version of BL2 is that even with all the cuts and downgrades its frame rate is probably better measured in seconds-per-frame rather than frames-per-second. (I have direct experience with that one, being one of the six people on Earth dumb enough to actually own the Vita version of Borderlands 2. But in my defense, it was literally cheaper to buy the BL2+Vita bundle than to buy a Vita on its own. That’s right: It’s so bad, the Vita release had a negative retail value.)
- Comment on The 3DMakerpro Toucan Is a Game-Changer for 3D Scanning 2 weeks ago:
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