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Posted on 20-06-22, 00:22 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE
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I've never heard of the Aleck64 before.

Arcade N64 with more RAM, looks like. Still uses ROM carts... and has a smutty Qix-em-up?!?! Platform of the year!!!

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Posted on 20-06-23, 01:43 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE (revision 1)
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Posted by Kawa
It's a Gals Panic clone. Only thing that seems to be missing is the opponents.
A Qix clone with no qix? What's even the point?

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Posted on 20-06-23, 23:23 in Computer Hardware News
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I thought Apple made fashion accesories that you can compute with.

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You're completely right, of course.

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Posted on 20-06-24, 11:03 in Cartoons, imported
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And I've decided to watch Crest of the Stars.

I saw part of it roughly a century ago, but all I remember about it is "space elves in spandex".
So far, they seem fond of talking. I might be in for a long and boring ride.

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Posted on 20-06-27, 09:51 in Real VT102 emulation with MAME
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In which I nerdsnipe Screwtape and take control of his free time for a week with my idle contemplation.

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Posted on 20-06-28, 02:51 in Computer Hardware News
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Posted by Covarr
Give it another fifteen years. They'll introduce a brand new architecture that they can control from start to finish, with no license fees of any sort. That'll show everyone.
Ah, the long-awaited iProc.

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Posted on 20-06-28, 09:36 in Real VT102 emulation with MAME
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In seriousness, I'm glad you did it. I WAS highly curious if it'd work, but had no real idea where to start.

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Posted on 20-06-30, 10:01 in Real VT102 emulation with MAME
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That is definitely something!

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Posted on 20-07-01, 02:22 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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I am kinda hoping the next step for the DVD-Video exploit is a DVD-V that installs the traditional memory card hack.

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Posted on 20-07-12, 08:37 in Computer Hardware News
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What about the ZX Spectrum master race?
...
Okay, no one wants to associate with them. Just makes all involved look bad.

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Posted on 20-07-14, 01:08 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Posted by tomman
Virtual Ribbon, the ultimate Virtual Boy fix noone asked for!

Gotta love their motto: ONLY THE BEST HEADACHES™


I might actually need these. My Virtual Boy hasn't been set up in a few years due to lack of space, but...
Figures it would take a Sega fan to fix the Virtual Boy.

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Posted on 20-07-17, 05:25 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 2)
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Posted by tomman
The latest from Planet "You're Doing It Wrong" aka Apple Computers:
Don't close your MacBook, MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro with a cover over the camera

Closing your Mac notebook with a camera cover on it might damage your display. Designed to protect your privacy, Mac notebooks have a camera indicator light to let you know when the camera is on.

Yeah, listen to the kings of proprietary software and disposable hardware, because we can totally trust a software-controlled LED (even if it's actually done on firmware). Because IT HAZ TO BE THEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNN!!!

Only Apple would design a laptop whose display cracks if you tape over the camera cover. And now, you need Apple-certfied® camera covers for your razor-thin Macs. All because Apple can't offer cameraless laptop for the few paranoid nutters and corporations/governments that actually care about security!


I saw this. Was particularly fond of

"If your work environment requires you to cover the camera on your Mac notebook, follow these guidelines to avoid damaging the display:

Make sure the camera cover is not thicker than an average piece of printer paper (0.1mm)."



Apparently closing the laptop on exceptionally thick paper risks damage?



Now if you buy a smartjunk, it comes with not one, but TWO cameras

*flips over his pocket PC to count lenses*
Three cameras. Two on the back(for SOME reason), one on the front for video phones(the future is now!) and nostril photos.

Sometimes many more(Nokia 9 PureView, we will never forget your creepy fly's-eye back and six lenses, try though we might)

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Posted on 20-07-19, 11:11 in Cartoons, imported
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And I've decided to watch Crest of the Stars.

I saw part of it roughly a century ago, but all I remember about it is "space elves in spandex".
So far, they seem fond of talking. I might be in for a long and boring ride.


Most of a month later, I'm actually settling in and WATCHING the show instead of declaring my intent to do so and then watching just the first episode.
Wordswordswordswordswords sums things up nicely so far. But not in a boring way. I'm only a few episodes in and our hero, Jinto, is very much just a fish out of water at this point so they've basically spent three episodes explaining the Abh(and chasing down a purse-snatcher, and doing establishing shots of a space fleet).


The most notable thing, really, is that the animation is a lot less dynamic than I remember. The show is very fond of high-framerate pans or zooms over large static images to create an illusion of high-framerate animation. (Don't get me wrong, this is vastly preferable to stationary shots of frame-size static images)
Combined with a tendency to overlay two images on top of each other or deploying nineties computer image manipulation instead of properly animating a transition, it gives the show a unique look. Not a particularly dynamic look, but one that works well most of the time. And the cheapness of the cinematography does not extend to the actual illustration quality. Characters are well-animated, and backgrounds are consistently well-drawn.

...

Also, the space elf uniforms are not nearly as flattering as I remember. I will blame that on an artifact of the era's viewing technology called "I was a teenager".

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Posted on 20-07-23, 08:57 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Stupid shit I did today:



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Posted on 20-07-28, 00:10 in Cartoons, imported
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Having now finished Crest of the Stars, I actually like it quite a bit. Later episodes mostly eschew the "long pan over a static image" in favor of something actually animated.

What I really enjoy, though, is small details included in the setting. Things like the laser pistols having a low-power wide-angle setting so they can be used as flashlights.
Or when Lafiel tells Jinto that you can't actually dodge a laser in space because by the time you see it firing, you're hit.
It feels grounded in a way most sci-fi doesn't.


Do I like it enough to immediately leap into Banner of the Stars? No, but mostly that's just because I've got a diffrent franchise gnawing at my attention right now. Not one suited for this thread, though.

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Posted on 20-07-30, 11:25 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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https://twitter.com/Wipz/status/1288489280600526849

Some guy learning that land on Earth doesn't just float on top of the ocean, and you can't dig down through the bottom.

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Posted on 20-07-31, 02:26 in Leaked Super Mario 64 Decompiled Source
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I never had reason to use T9 text entry much. Only phone I ever did, the buttons were so stiff and nasty that the actual keyboard was my obstacle more than text-processing.
And I still hate full QWERTY on a pocket display.



Non-paid promotional content: I have actually used MessagEase on my Android devices for a few years. I find it very pleasant, with a remarkably mild learning curve, and an excellent use of limited space on a compact touchscreen.
This is also how I generate utterly alien typos like "e instead of space" sometimes.

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Posted on 20-07-31, 02:46 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Posted by kode54
Same energy, really:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5dkqUy7mUk

Don't homeschool your representatives, bro.

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Posted on 20-07-31, 06:39 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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VIDEO UNAVAILABLE
This video is not available.
I guess it is region-blocked.
It is a video from a decade ago of a congressional representative expressing concerns that building a new military base on Guam will cause the island to capsize.

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