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Posted by tomman
Dude, it's time to step away from the computer, for your own good...

Posted by Screwtape
You've been arguing with wertigon for nearly six pages of this twelve-page thread. If you have not yet perceived the broad strokes of your errors, I don't think things will suddenly become clear just by asking one more time.

Stash this conversation in the back of your mind and think about it again in five years' time or so, and see if anything you've learned in the intervening time makes it less confusing.

Posted by sureanem
Of course, I would argue it was the effect of regrettable social policies which never should have been implemented. But their approach to it still appears far more sensible than the West's, which manages to turn it into widespread social disarray, which arguably is worse than poor GDP growth.

Posted by CaptainJistuce
It is a huge problem if your handling of the elderly and infirm is not "leave them to be eaten by wolves", as it continues to skew the population distribution and leaves every young able-bodied individual to support a larger number of elderly and infirm individuals.

And no, "so feed them to the wolves" is not the appropriate response.

Posted by tomman
Just learned about this tragedy (it's doing the rounds around all the news sources I know).

This is terrorism, plain and simple (and of the "not by angry religious zealots" kind that everybody knows). This guy deserves a fate worse than death. No mercy, no sympathy.

Posted by CaptainJistuce

That might solve the asphyxiation issue(or just let the fire's outgassing flood the building more efficiently since it no longer has to work so hard to displace the trapped fresh air), but you're still basically on top of a very large barbecue grill.
Also, they did open the windows. Not for fresh air, though.

I saw someone elsewhere paste a New York Times article that touched on this aspect, and while I will spare people the grisly details... people were jumping out of them, mostly after already suffering severe burns.

Posted by CaptainJistuce
I want Nintendo Co, Ltd to stop insisting the dyslexic labels they put on the Nintendo controller are in any way right, and start putting button labels in the correct order.

Posted by tomman
Huh, for the first time since its inception, Slashdot is blocking anonymous comments.

Yup, Anonymous Cowards are now barred from trolling shitposting spamming commenting - they now need to create an account. Freedom of speech concerns aside, for the first time in YEARS, I can actually browse the comments and grasp a semblance of intellectual discussion!

Really, it was time to do something: most of the anons were the same old tired spam (some guy named "APK" spamming a "hosts list", the usual political trolls, and the typical trend spam), plus a pile of harassing towards a few specific members, infecting EVERY SINGLE STORY, even if none of said memebers actually post there!

Posted by CaptainJistuce

Posted by DonJon
Thinking of watching:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mix_(manga)#Anime

baseball manga/anime. Not familiar with the manga or the anime but I've seen positive feedbacks. though maybe it'd be better to start with
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_(manga)

Read it while listening to
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Touch_(Stan_Bush_song)

Posted by Wowfunhappy

Posted by CaptainJistuce
Why does Microsoft get credit for inventing button labels that read in the right order when Sega's been doing it since the 80s?

Well, within the context of my post, I left out the Genesis and Saturn because it didn't use the now-standard diamond layout. Same reason I'm not considering the Gamecube controller.

I really do like the diamond. You can rest your thumb in the center and hit four different buttons without moving it.

Posted by CaptainJistuce

Hey, the first XBox controller tried that and it was a disaster.
(Seriously, the button slant on the OG XB GP is incredibly steep.)

Posted by byuu

> Also i think the speedup may have broken NS's internet and/or NS... what the?

NS?

Posted by Nicholas Steel


Cool to see you post here Byuu.

Posted by byuu
It's been really greatly appreciated not having to deal with forum drama, but on the downside I tend to forget about the place as a result, sorry ^^;

Posted by CaptainJistuce
Much bulkier, and poorly laid-out(the real problem).

The OG S controller was much nicer(and better laid-out than the 360/One).

Posted by Kawa

Posted by Nicholas Steel
Aaaaah nooo!

OH YES

Donate to my paypal and I'll merge them.

Posted by CaptainJistuce
I'm judging you for inserting a Family Guy clip instead of an actual Kool-Aid commercial.

Because I don't

if we didn't go off on tangents like you just did

Posted by CaptainJistuce
I hope so. I so hope so.

Posted by sureanem
It's noteworthy in the sense that I want to see how Mozilla play this. "Second world dictatorship violates human rights" is about as much news as "Explosion in third world shithole, 100 dead," but their reaction will be interesting either way.

Either they implement an antifeature or directly aid not only a second world dictatorship, but a certain type of second world dictatorship. And unlike in the case of China, which is considered hip and trendy in many circles, this is a former Soviet Union country, closely aligned with one which has been drawing a lot of ire over the past few years in many circles, and not only that but one which tramples on an in many circles adored and beloved security mechanism.

Posted by tomman


But then, it seems that the SM64 ROM hacking community (which for some reason mostly congregates at SMW Central) didn't got the memo and refuse to leave their own ZSNES platform. Most hacks are developed for some pirate N64 knockoff known as "Project 64 v1.x", because they will not run on anything but that emulator. Not on real hardware, not on CEN64, and not even on Mupen64plus (mostly newer versions after the accuracy improvements, but a bunch of older hacks will not run on older, less accurate versions). Very few hacks are actually developed for the N64 - when you open the readme files that ship with hacks and find the chapter on how to setup Project64 to get their hacks to run, you know you're in for a rough time if you happen to be not on a x86 PC running Windows (remember: PJ64 is still Windows-only, even after its revival). ROM hackers usually blame the toolchain: most of the hacking tools of choice (like the famous SM64 Editor) are made by a sole individual that is known to not give importance to compatibility with anything that is not PJ64. In fact, "hardware compatibility" seems to be taboo on places like SMW Central (the usual excuse is something down the lines of "you're getting this for free, stop bitching, you self-entitled brat!", which is a double edged sword: it reminds you that ROM hacks are copyright-infriging works that come with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, but also means that you, the ROM hacker, are intentionally narrowing down your possible audience, which is not good if you actually want to improve your skills, for fun or profit).