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- Comment on I've Wanted to Play That 'Killer Shark' Arcade Game Briefly Seen in 'Jaws' 5 days ago:
Very cool, but is anything as cool as that Space Wars cabinet in the same scene?
- Comment on Fact 6 days ago:
I doubt I’m saying anything novel here, but good lord Kilmer stole that movie for himself, and he’s therefore a big part of the reason nobody gives a shit about the Costner one, the rest being that anything “epic” that Costner did after Dances with Wolves was a self-indulgent and overlong toboggan-ride over the top-most surface of whatever theme he claimed to be exploring.
Not that the rest of the Tombstone cast didn’t have their moments, but they were all dancing to Doc’s tune. Without him, it’s a B-movie that punches slightly above its weight and gets filed away with the likes of Young Guns 2.
- Comment on Punt: an ancient civilization rediscovered 6 days ago:
I don’t think it’s particularly controversial to posit that Punt is in or near the horn of Africa, and while DNA analysis is rock solid for recent genealogy and can be carefully used to provide limited but valuable historical insights, this blog feels weird, like it’s pushing an agenda way beyond what the research supports. It seems desperate to tie things together specifically and neatly, and I just get the sense information is being cherry picked, science is probably being misunderstood, and its constant rolling out of photos of modern people (including Rocco Siffredi, LOL) to confirm physiognomy with ancient art makes me think it’s got some crackpot neo-phrenology creepiness going on. The fact that the authors refuse to identify themselves and talk about “private research” in their 54-question FAQ is not confidence-inspiring.
- Comment on The MP944 was the ‘real’ world’s first microprocessor, but it was top secret for nearly 30 years — F-14 Tomcat's chip lived in the shadow of the Intel 4004, but was eight times faster 1 week ago:
- Comment on You can do anything at Zombocom 1 week ago:
Yeah, not the best angle. The PS/2 port is that little silver box. The USB-C port is on the PCB. This was assembled to go inside a vintage keyboard to semi-permanently convert it, but I’ve been using it to test other boards. If a board is fully intact, I’ll just use an external converter, but there used to be a practice of snipping the cables on hardware that businesses retired for accounting purposes if they were written off, which can be a good, if risky, way to get an eBay buy for cheap.
- Comment on You can do anything at Zombocom 1 week ago:
You’ve been warned.
- Comment on You can do anything at Zombocom 1 week ago:
Well, I feel pretty deep into that rabbit hole, where I’ve even designed a couple of primitive circuit boards and hand-wired a bunch of keyboards. I also mess stains worth vintage stuff a bit.
This particular converter is programmable and meant to be used with a not mechanical 122-key terminal keyboard made by the company that took over IBM’s US keyboard factory, but it’s been hanging out with several DuPont wires shoved into it to connect it to a molex connector to test a different old board.
- Comment on You can do anything at Zombocom 1 week ago:
I would really appreciate it if nobody looked at the PS/2 to USB adapter currently on my workbench, kplzandthx.
- Comment on 3D design software for 3d printing? 2 weeks ago:
My summary of MCAD suites is getting pretty long in the tooth these days, and IIRC one or two of the niche ones are simply not available anymore, but it still might be useful.
For what it’s worth, I use Alibre Design in Windows, and do STEP touchups and smaller projects in Linux (where I spend most of my time) on FreeCAD. I just really like the timeline and workflow in Alibre, and it very rarely crashes.
- Comment on Poetry is like a set of compression tools for meaning 2 weeks ago:
I like that, though I might consider that rhyme, alliteration, and especially repetition also aid retention by requiring less data to be committed to memory as-is. References to other works are also very much a shorthand for cramming pre-existing memes (in the Dawkins sense) into less “word-doing.”
I dunno. The whole thing breaks down pretty quickly, as most analogies between mental and computational process do, but it’s fun to think about.
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- Comment on I wonder if K-pop Demon Hunters is so popular because it's a ready allegory for the fight against fascism and authoritarianism... 2 weeks ago:
Adults also make a face with how much it’s a copy of Frozen’s premise.
Definitely very similar, but it’s different enough, I’d say. It sort of makes explicit that there are cultural repercussions to imposing Elsa’s burden on everyone, that embracing individuality can ironically create a stronger sense of community, and then, in splitting Elsa into Rumi and Jinu, it allows for parallel redemptive tracks, one who never had a “Let it Go” first act moment at all and suffered because of it, and one who really thoroughly bought into the anti-social aspects of it but is then gaslit into thinking they can never be anything better.
If we can do the Hero’s Journey a thousand times, we can do Elsa’s every few years, especially when the rest of it is changed up and fun. I do think there’s a world where K-Pop Demon Hunters comes and goes without making any waves, but the songs are all earworms and it hit at just the right moment, apparently.
- Comment on Michael 3 weeks ago:
LOL, are you trying to keep me from derailing a shitpost thread by rehashing boring the online debate that inspired it! How dare you!!! What are you? Some kind of Michael?
- Comment on Michael 3 weeks ago:
Huh. Not much a part of my identity these days, but in a yes/no sense, yeah I guess so, LOL. Of course, these days most gym bros are doing some gaming too.
- Comment on Michael 3 weeks ago:
You provide physical inputs, which are sensitive to timing and agility, to a rule-based competition. It’s at least as much a sport as golf or curling or bowling. And I say that as someone who doesn’t find eSports particularly compelling. It requires a sophisticated technal infrastructure and doesn’t require superhuman levels of strength or endurance (though the latter in particular could be helpful), but those are merely “sliders on the configuration screen” for whether a certain sport is to your interest.
- Comment on Ernest is alive 3 weeks ago:
Sounds like he’s made peace with its living on in forks as well. Nice to see he’s doing okay.
- Comment on Designed & printed a bracket to mount wheels on my hammock! 3 weeks ago:
For your edit, you don’t want the direction of shear forces right along the layer lines. This is less pretty but will be much stronger for the intended purpose.
- Comment on The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds 4 weeks ago:
HTC had quite a run there. I still miss my HTC One X, back when it was actually interesting to get a new phone. These days I routinely forget which iPhone it is that I have.
- Comment on Why was Newgrounds like this in the 2000s? 4 weeks ago:
I haven’t, but it looks interesting and even more bonkers than the movie.
- Comment on Why was Newgrounds like this in the 2000s? 4 weeks ago:
Because it’s mildly transgressive to a certain demographic, and tools and internet speeds of the day allowed for visuals that were close enough to the inspirations for people to find them interesting. Subverting “innocent” characters has been a trope since at least Tijuana bibles of the 1920s and I assume much longer. Specifically portraying beloved animated characters as adult and jaded would also have been directly evocative of Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).
Eventually, most of that demographic comes to realize that the transgressiveness itself is only so interesting and there is usually something of value in the interesting property that distance lets them appreciate, so a spoof needs to have other things going for it to hold an audience’s interest (e.g. Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which is still brilliant). That said, there is a certain durability to the low-hanging fruit when the subjects of the satire remain popular to continually cycling cohorts of kids who have the unmitigated gall to begin growing up. :-)
- Comment on I made a F1-style steering wheel for VR sim-racing from scratch 5 weeks ago:
I haven’t really thought about anything remotely in spitting distance of sim racing since I was playing XBox One Forza games (mostly the Horizon one that is set in the Riviera-ish region) with a Thrustmaster TMX (I think?) clamped to a Home Depot Fliptop table.
This looks really cool. May I assume the Moza drive unit was the priciest component?
- Comment on Relieve him for he needs it 5 weeks ago:
Slurm is still better.
- Comment on paint job 1 month ago:
99.99% sure it is. That looks like the old classic: Lasso Select, Adjust Hue.
- Comment on Vectrex Mini 1 month ago:
While I’m glad they aren’t entirely ignoring the elephant in the room, what I’m humbly suggesting is that they’re wrong. It’s a rather inadequate compromise, and you might as well just use RetroArch on a tablet, which could get closer to the original screen size anyway.
- Comment on Vectrex Mini 1 month ago:
If the gameplay itself hits your nostalgia feels, then okay, modern gear can make it playable and… fine. But vector CRT games were just so deeply tied to the way the CRT worked that you can never properly capture their spirit in raster form, especially on a tiny and so-so panel.
- Comment on Vectrex Mini 1 month ago:
Experience the spirit of the original Vectrex
AMOLED display with a resolution of 800×600
These two thoughts are not compatible.
- Comment on Which one and why? 1 month ago:
One. It already looks like the sugar spoon my kid always picks first for her meals anyway.
- Comment on What are some of your favorite Master System memories? 1 month ago:
I’m not Brazilian or French, so my main memory is walking past the boxes on the store’s video games aisle. The graph paper pattern on the labels was cool.
- Comment on Trekmovie.com: Scott Bakula-Led ‘Star Trek: United’ Pitch Explores Archer’s Family, Romulan War Aftermath 1 month ago:
They need to make one episode in which they retcon Trip’s death in that stupid Holodeck finale, air it so it’s canon, and then immediately cancel the show because this sounds mid AF, and Archer was an ass, and Bakula has all the presidential gravitas of a single neutron.
- Comment on We need a Thomas the Tank Engine horror game 1 month ago:
Peak Thomas horror has already been achieved…
