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| tomman |
Posted on 20-11-13, 23:10 in Upcoming game announcements/news
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Dinosaur
 Post: #821 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 14 days Last view: 1 hour |
Hence, the ridiculous "IT WON'T FIIIIIT!" complaints from many people. My Sega Genesis was all the time on the floor, aside of the TV on the same table, or over a cardboard box, not inside an impossibly small cubbyhole (plus, only the original NES was a frontloader among all the cart-based consoles). Expecting POWER to fit on tiny TINY boxes is unrealistic, but I guess we're living in stupid times. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-11-15, 21:08 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #822 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 14 days Last view: 1 hour |
The latest in the RGB-everything craze: the gamer-grade microwave oven: https://github.com/dekuNukem/pimp_my_microwave/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25093704 It even has mechanical switches! GOD DAMMIT, I WANT ONE (sans the RGB) - one of the many things broken in this house is the microwave oven, as mine has a faulty keypad (only the Start/+30s and Stop buttons work, and only sometimes). But if you think the next step is shoehorning an Arduino/RPi inside, you've came 7 years too late: https://madebynathan.com/2013/07/10/raspberry-pi-powered-microwave/ (Silly Valley and chaebols have already cornered the barcode/smartdevice integration/monetization bits, sorry) Apparently both guys managed to keep their balls away from the microwaves during the pursuit of such potentially hazardous experiments (high voltages? high powered radio waves? How about OH HELL NO?!) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-11-17, 14:21 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #823 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 14 days Last view: 1 hour |
Ever wanted to own your very own jumbo jet but were juuuuuuuuust a little bit tight on funds? Well, wait no more and take advantage of Iran Air's firesale, where you can get 747s starting at the low, LOW price of $4000: https://simpleflying.com/iran-air-boeing-747-sale/ Of course, there are so many catches on this: - The planes are in freakin' Iran! - Your bank will certainly deny any transaction between you and nuke maniacs, so all sales must be strictly cash only. Get yer' wads'o'cash ready then! - Most likely it's illegal for you to give money to terrorists anyway, so you could land in jail the very minute you try to fly your new fat bird back to home. - Even if you're cleared to give Iran money, those planes were among the earliest 747s ever made (the oldest were assembled in 1976!), so it's also likely you wouldn't be able to land those grandpas at your local airport. - Those birds haven't flown since 2014 at latest, so they might not even be airworthy anymore! You would be bidding for an oversized rust bucket. - Oh, and even if for whatever reason those things can still be allowed to fly, operating one won't be cheap: if you thought gas was expensive, you would be spending in the vicinity of $30K PER HOUR just to go around! And those first-gen 747s are gas guzzlers by design. - Don't ask me how you would be able to move one of those if you can't get them in the air, or how much it would cost! But hey, they're absolutely cheaper than a Mac Pro! If you were looking for a less shady deal, too late: Thai Airways firesale just ended last Friday - too bad, as you could have a crate of fine (and very expensive!) booze with your Jumbo Jet order :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-11-17, 20:05 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #824 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 14 days Last view: 1 hour |
Posted by CaptainJistuce You don't want to know what they're doing with the early A380s ever made then (don't look for the fates of 9V-SKA/SKB, the first ones in commercial service. And the future for -SKC aka 9H-MIP is hazy) These planes were barely over 10 years old, but it seems the A380 will live much less than the 747 (which managed to spawn a few generations). There isn't even a second hand market, so once those leases expire, it's straight to the scrapyard :/ In other news, to complete an horrible 2020 in aviation, the 737 MAX is about to be cleared to go back to the skies. $DEITY help us all... Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-11-18, 19:21 in Mozilla, *sigh* (revision 6)
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Dinosaur
Post: #825 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 14 days Last view: 1 hour |
On this episode of "Death and Agony of Moz://a": - The HTTPS-only madness is becoming a core feature! Nevermind the fact that intranets exist (I'm NOT installing a cert on my print server, sorry), or that webhosts who still don't let you use anything but expired, hardcoded, selfsigned junk are still a dime a dozen (or in the case of my country, the one and only option if you don't want to rely on resellers who can get their shit cut should the next commie have a tantrum and another pseudo-commie retaliates). Not every site needs HTTPS, people! First of all, there are plenty of circumstances in which root is not required to trust a CA. But that's not really the point here: this is all just handwaving away the earlier whining about how governments and ISPs are molesting HTTP traffic. If your government is actively hostile to your communications, overthrow it. If you think J. Random User is going to give a single shit (or even notice) when the telco provider ships a phone update that adds trust to MITM certs, you're completely delusional. So, yes. TLS proxies do break the "guarantees" of HTTPS. It's just software. It can't fix your society. Fortunately, none of that affects me, because my site does not need HTTPS (emphasis mine) UPDATE: Gotta love how Hackernews' reaction is split on this: half of them want to chop Mozilla's CEO head for forcing them to trust all their DNS queries to Cloudflare and disrupting their home network content filtering, while the other half considers routing around other persons' home network content filtering "reclaiming their basic human rights". So much for MY HOUSE, MY NETWORK, MY RULES :/ (D'OH! is still persona non grata in this house 'til the cold death of the universe) - Servo just got another kiss of death, being punted to News from the Seamonkey team! Hi everyone, I have faith in you, guys - you're the last shining beacon of hope in this world of pure raw insanity we call "2020" :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-11-18, 22:31 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #826 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 14 days Last view: 1 hour |
For those of us using good ol' BIND as a caching DNS server WITH custom RPZ zones for adblocking (what we had before PiHoles and friends, and you can other stuff you can't do with it, like having your own local domain or whatever), if what you want is to secure your outbound DNS queries (as it should be - you can even use D'OH! if you insist) while preserving your https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DNS_over_HTTPS_servers (I insist: the Arch Linux wiki is THE Linux manual, period!) Your D'OH! resolver can be something else, like the python "stub" resolver suggested on that wiki page, Cloudflare's This, however, does not take in account that D'OH! is a trojan horse, an attack on your privacy, and a stealthy way to get computers disobey you. Sure, the "NXDOMAIN use-application-dns.net" stuff is the "official" way to disable D'OH! on most D'OH!-enabled applications, but just like our good friends at Mozilla have demonstrated us over and over, we're to be treated like morons and all opt-outs have to be taken away. My point is: get ready to engage in a cat-and-mouse war, deploying IP blocks on your routers and the like just to enforce the law that there is only ONE DNS resolver in your house, and that's yours! Having said that, it's time to secure my DNS because CANTV belongs to actual communists, while keeping the ad drones away. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-11-19, 17:57 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #827 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 14 days Last view: 1 hour |
If Microsucks declared war on your computer silently shoehorned Chredge on your no-longer-supported Win7 sanity box...It really rustles my jimmies when I reboot for the second or third time this year to my long-unused Win7 partition to find a Chredge fullscreen window waiting for "let's get started!" approval. I OWN MY GODDAMNED COMPUTER, YOU FUCKERS! There is room for only ONE browser on this thing, and that one is neither a Chrome derivative nor mainline Moz://a. That browser is SeaMonkey, and oh dear, what's this, an update just released a few hours ago? HOT HOT HOT GOD DAMN IT IT BURNS! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-11-20, 21:05 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #828 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 14 days Last view: 1 hour |
Well, fuck. I've been unable to open ANY Oracle page in the last few days. No Java downloads, no product catalogs, not even the documentation is available to me anymore: turns out that Orrible® laywers are in "overcompliance" with the US sanctions to the motherfucking commies, but since Orrible (just like Adobe) doesn't give a fuck over small countries where no money is to be had anymore, they just shitlisted us (the sanctions are OVER the top dogs at the regime, and state-owned institutions - not towards the private sector - this is not freakin' Cuba... yet!) I've been seeing this instead of downloads/marketing fluff/whatever: <ORACLE® LOGO> At first I thought it was a temporary failure, yet I find nothing useful on the news (if Orrible were to be down worldwide, it certainly would have been a global disaster for most, and a moment of joy for me). Then, I tried checking the network transactions on the browser developer tools, and found everything (but the ORACLE® LOGO) returning 403 errors! Then, a quick search led me to this Reddit thread which made me face the facts: we're now an Orrible-less land from now on. Unlike Adobe, this REALLY hurts big enterprises over here: banks, large chain stores (supermarkets, pharmacies, department stores), telcos, etc. Orrible IS that deeply ingrained on our IT, sadly. This also means that we can't download Java anymore, not even the end-user (still adware-laden?) JRE, much less JDKs, unless you resort to VPNs or proxies :/ Oh, and as a (mainly) Java developer, having no access to up-to-date docs means I'm in a special class of "fucked". Not that I care as I can just use whatever it's at the Debian repos, but for things like J2EE... ouch. What still works: - "Oracle Linux" YUM repository (yum.oracle.com) - OpenJDK reference builds (jdk.java.net) Everything else is 403 Forbidden for us. No, I have no hopes for the situation to improve as Trump leaves power (and I don't want to continue this specific topic, as I don't talk about politics - all I have to say is that nobody in the Americas can choose sane leaders anymore - it's always the turd sandwich vs. the big douche) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-11-21, 12:44 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #829 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 14 days Last view: 1 hour |
Posted by kode54 This time I only needed an updated JRE for Windows (I do all my Java dev stuff from Linux anyway), and someone else already had told me about AdoptOpenJDK, so I ended going for that one. Win7 is officially not supported anymore, but it still seems to work fine. As a bonus, the installer doesn't ship with crapware or "Over 3 Billion Served" ads, plus it installs in a breeze! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-11-24, 03:33 in Mozilla, *sigh* (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #830 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 14 days Last view: 1 hour |
To unfuck (kinda) GiggityHub and other places using Google WebComponents junk on Seamonkey: dom.webcomponents.enabled = true For whatever reason it ships disabled by default (maybe because it's not easy to support a proprietary moving target properly) but enabling it was good enough for getting GiggityHub's UI actually mostly working There are more hidden switches to enable more HTML5/JS modern junk on Seamonkey, but YMMV, and if shit breaks, you get to keep all the pieces! UPDATE: Even with Google's webshit enabled, GiggityHub still breaks at times (for example: failure to render commit info on file/directory listing being the most obvious one to spot). They went full retard with their latest frontend update, but that's to be expected from the brave new Chrome world. Semirelated: after reading some old posts, it seems that people at some circles (mainly GH/HN, so basically the people behind the webshit you and me hate the most) really want to see alternate browsers dead and buried. They still FUD their way to discourage people from using Waterfox/Seamonkey/Pale Moon/<insert non-Chrome product here>, and to also discourage web developers from making sensible sites that don't require dozens of megabytes of Javascript bloat that won't work on anything but Chrome and (if you're lucky) latest Firefox. In the case of Pale Moon, their lead devs/contributors (so basically Matt Tobin) don't help with their demented PR toxicity :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-11-24, 16:22 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 2)
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Dinosaur
Post: #831 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 14 days Last view: 1 hour |
JWZ vs. PSX emulation Spoilers: the guy is a moron, in true Zawinski fashion: - Ignoring completely emulation setup guides (like: every PSX emulator ever requires a native BIOS dump if you want good compatibility) - Can't even $SEARCHENGINE the basics! - Trying to rip PS2 discs from a freakin' Mac the dumb way! - Asking for obvious copyright infringements ("hai I can haz RAWMz?") - Trying to emulate PS2 (a notoriously difficult console to emulate on anything but hi-end x86_64) on an ARM toy (RPi) - Trying to emulate the PSX link cable (how well is that thing supported?) on an ARM toy (which most likely can't cope with the overhead of running two consoles at the same time PLUS all the hell that involves emulating a link cable AND keeping things properly synchronized) UPDATE: looks like you can't do that on ARM anyway, as the existing SIO plugins are x86-only? - It's JWZ asking people how to do something, which means most of his answers will be him being a dick tl;dr: he failed to do his homework, and now he's not happy. He should lay off the ROMz, and go back selling beer... if his nightclub doesn't get COVID'd for good first! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-11-25, 22:28 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #832 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 14 days Last view: 1 hour |
Ooooh, there is a second part: JWZ meets MAME... on an ARM toy! This is not going to end well~~~ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-11-30, 15:08 in Computer Hardware News (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #833 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 14 days Last view: 1 hour |
Posted by kode54 Apparently nearly everyone at Silly Valley, because the orgasms are yet to end. Long short story: Someone finally made an ARM CPU that genuinely does NOT suck. Unfortunately, it's on an Apple device :/ To recap: - Benchmarks are absolutely mindblowing. The M1 not only is on par with the old Intel Macs, it can even give a decent show against Ryzens! - Rosetta 2 has managed to achieve what Microsoft/Qualcomm are still struggling: good performance on a x86-on-ARM emulator! If benchmarks are to be believed, emulated AMD64 binaries have almost native performance most of the times, and in some corner cases Rosetta 2 can mop the floor with those Intels. Unbelievable. All at a fraction of the power envelope! - Speaking of power, M1 MacBook Air is fanless, all other M1 machines have smallish fans. Unlike Intel Macs (where performance is compromised by design due to shitty thermals), those ARMacs don't seem to downthrottle that much when pushed to the max. - The M1 has been dubbed "Black Magic Fuckery" for that "alien tech like" performance. - CPU and RAM are soldered on the same multi-chip module, as expected. This guarantees crazy-fast performance at the cost of giving up memory expansions of any kind (and current specimens are limited to 8 and 16GB of RAM, so choose wisely when purchasing!). Nothing yet on iMacs (last Intel iMacs had to be completely disassembled just to upgrade RAM!), or cheesegrater towers (I hope Apple have learned their lesson from the trashcan Mac Pro... AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA who am I kidding?!) - While those ARMacs still have Thunderbolt ports, forget about plugging external GPUs for now. No ARM AMD exist yet, and it's very very VERY unlikely nVidia is going to port their blob to ARMacs, and I don't know what kind of security theater you would go through just to install potentially unsigned 3rd-party drivers on those (remember: ARMacs won't run unsigned software AT ALL - it must be self-signed at the very least for userspace apps) - People have already gotten Windows for ARM64 and current flavors of Ubuntu running under QEMU. No word yet on "wipe macOS and install Debian", although supposedly the bootloader is unlocked on those computer-like devices, and even Torvalds himself is on record saying that he personally wants an ARMac running Linux. Driver development would be a new dimension in hell considering that I don't see Apple releasing documentations over the gory bits of their silicon - good luck coming up with GPU drivers for this thing, for example. But then, who buys a Mac just to run Linux? "macOS is Unix", they say... - "Virtualization" you say? Current virtualization products won't work under Rosetta 2 due to the latter not supporting their kernel mode bits (and even if it worked, performance would suck because Rosetta is an ahead-of-time translator - JIT workloads are its Achiles' heel due to its very nature). For ARM-on-ARM, expect usable QEMU soon. Parallels and VMWare already have announced that their strategy is Work In Progress, although I'm not sure if those will be ARM-on-ARM only or emulated x86. As for VirtualBox... well, Orrible® does not care for now, as expected. The product is x86-only by design, so it seems the Mac port will die the day Apple sells the last Intel Mac. Sadly, Virtualbox is already doomed anyway no matter the platform :/ - On the FOSS camp, a lot of people is hard at work with ARMac ports. Moz://a already has announced that Firefux for Apple Silicon is coming Soon™. The Javascript frat boys are also working hard to bring their bloatfest too! I'm unable to find information about things like VLC, or emulators (Dolphin already has an ARM64 JIT, so half the work is already done there, at least) Nice computerizers, but calling them "a game-changer"? Too far fetched for now, IMO. x86 is here to stay, despite Intel attempts to kill it. On the flip side, maybe an ARM Ryzen would not be a bad idea... For as long as there are no PC-like defacto standards for ARM computers (yes, there are ACPI and UEFI for ARM, but no market forces mandating their use), there will be no x86 killer. Leave the lockdown for appliances, please. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-12-03, 00:30 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #834 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 14 days Last view: 1 hour |
My SM theme of choice (GNOMErunner) has been broken for the 2.53 line: - Media player controls are broken. There is a very hacky workaround (just swap the media player stuff with a working set from another SM theme), but you lose native widgets :/ - Checkboxes are missing from preferences dialog, leading to missing options and prefs corruption (this just bite me hard today on Chatzilla, where after changing something trivial, I ended having to reset everything to defaults. YUCK!). Since Mozilla Suite / Seamonkey theme formats are largely undocumented (the official way on how to make themes is "just copy the default theme and hack it as needed, good luck!"), this is something I can't really fix without the help of Expecting an update for GNOMErunner is not happening as the developer abandoned it and the source repo got archived, just like pretty much every other Seamonkey-compatible addon that isn't the pdf.js fork. So I guess it means embracing the same fate I already met under Windows: to hell with native, and use whatever pseudo-native lookalike is shipped with the product. Under Linux, SM default leverages on GTK+ to do most of the job, but there are quite few of non-native stuff, like tabs or icons. Speaking of tabs, the sole reason I choose to stick to an unsupported theme was the tab bar height: for whatever reason on the default theme tabs were ridiculously tall (like 40px or something), which somehow triggered OCD on me. But after my disaster with Chatzilla today, I had enough: Put this on your userChrome.css: Dunno if I had to target all those classes, but at least my tabs now have a sane height. I can live with the Windows-esque red X close button. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-12-03, 18:39 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #835 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 14 days Last view: 1 hour |
Someone made this addon to fix GiggityHub's Google WebComponents®™ shenanigans on non-Chrome, non-Chrome-lookalike browsers, namely Seamonkey and The fact we now need browser addons to unfuck single websites speak for itself about the sick sad state of the current web. If you're a opensource dev and have your code hosted with GiggityHub, consider defecting to something else (preferably selfhosted, if you can afford or get someone else to pay for it). But then, from what I've heard, all GH "clones" are going down the same deep rabbit hole of sucking the Google dick HARD. And yes, for maximum irony, the addon in question is hosted at GH, because life is hard :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-12-08, 23:35 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #836 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 14 days Last view: 1 hour |
If you thought the A380 was the fattest human-transporting flying tube ever made, that's because Soviets ran out of money (and bad ideas) after the fall of the USSR in the '90s, otherwise we would be flying on this... winged devil ray?! The Tupolev Tu-404 - Six of the finest screaming Soviet turbofans at the rear. - Double deck design, but most of the passengers won't ever get to see a window! - Literally a flying wing like those stealth bombers, but in Aeroflot livery instead of anti-radar paint. - Capacity? ~1200 passengers (single class) + crew. Plus amenities like a theater and plenty of space for other cool stuff (just imagine one of these with a Emirates-tier cabin!). - The landing gear architecture looks insanely complex, as this thing needs several sets of wheels! Too bad there is no airport in the world where this overweight flying devil ray could ever land (and we thought poor ol' A380 had it rough!). Fortunately for us, the years of glory of the Soviet aviation are long gone, and the best they can do nowadays is the SuperJet 100, which noone wants to buy anymore (not even Aeroflot themselves!), so the Tu-404 is as missing as the thousands of web pages that vanish every day... Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-12-10, 16:13 in (Mis)adventures on Debian ((old)stable|testing|aghmyballs) (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #837 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 14 days Last view: 1 hour |
Not Debian-related news, except that they should get ready for a sudden influx of CentOS/Red Hat refugees these days (some of them even former Debian defectors coming back to home!), because someone at IBM lost their fucking reason: https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-December/048208.html https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=CentOS-8-Ending-For-Stream https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25345428 CentOS 8 (the current stable) is being suddenly EOL'd in late 2021 instead of having the usual long-lived 10 year LTS, as Red Hat (which now operates CentOS instead of being upstream, something I wasn't aware) decided to switch to a weird rolling release model, CentOS Stream (which resembles more like an outdated Debian Testing - where Fedora is more like proper Testing, and Rawhide would be Sid) to please the hipster container and Javascript frat boys crowd that can't get their abominations running on CentOS stable without recompiling the universe (which clearly defeats the purpose of running a Linux distro in first place). This doesn't affect CentOS 7, whose support ends in 2024. Needless to say, graybeard sysadmins of the world (who either run stuff at home or work for non-profits or whose employers are too cheap to pay for legit RH) are rising in arms, loudly claiming that CentOS committed suicide, that RH/IBM is dead for them, and threatening to defect to any of the following: - Orrible® Linux (it's yet another RH clone, albeit with a custom kernel, and of course those guys are being irrational to suggest migrating to a product controlled by One Raging Asshole Called Larry Ellison) - Debian, which is ironic because a lot of (now former) CentOS users had left Debian years/decades ago! - Ubuntu, because the irrational knee-jerk reactions have no bounds! (you would be pretty lunatic to run Ubuntu on a server - just run Debian, people!) - Surprisingly I haven't heard votes of confidence towards Linux defectors' camp (the *BSDs) during this crisis. - Vanilla RH (!!!), because it's now free as long as you don't want support. - Since this is FOSS, the natural way out is a fork (and there is already a project for that, Rocky Linux). Good Luck With That™ (yay more fragmentation~) 2020 just keeps giving on and on and on... and it's still not over yet! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-12-12, 14:48 in Cartoons, imported
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Dinosaur
Post: #838 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 14 days Last view: 1 hour |
The train of suck what we call "year 2020" has no brakes, and no rails either: Sega and Netflix have announced a new animated Sonic series: https://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?threads/sonic-netflix-series.39810/ https://gbatemp.net/threads/netflix-announces-new-sonic-animated-series.578684/ (Netflix tweet was promptly deleted, but the cat is now out of the bag) I... have strong opinions against this newest project: - 3DCG, because the Western animation industry is still hellbent on murdering, killing and burying 2D animation, then setting the tombstone on fire. Seriously, if I wanted to watch Sonic in 3D, I would play Generations instead. - The series will be directed/created/composed/whatever by Man of Action... the same dude that came up with Ben 10 (among another pile of forgettable animations). I still have a special hate for the Ben 10 franchise, because that one alone triggered one of the longest dork ages on Cartoon Network (seriously: I was there for when the first episode premiered on Latam, and the young me just said "uh-oh... CHANGE IT!") - Sega's track on recent Sonic animations has been not great: Sonic X was OK at best (it didn't managed to hook me up; having 4Kids added to the mix for American distribution didn't helped matters at all), while Sonic Boom was a snoozefest (I managed to watch a couple episodes and quickly dismissed it). I get it, I'm clearly not the target audience, Sega's animation arm only wants to sell toys and games to little kids nowadays, but man... stop pissing on my childhood! - Netflix, because we have to get little kids hooked onto walled gardens, forced binge watching, and heavy DRM as young as possible! Well, at least it will get a (hopefully decent) LA Spanish dub on release day, as it is the standard for them. So yeah, not for me, sorry. This is the second most disgusting animation-related news I read this week: by far the COVIDiots Award of the Week goes to Crunchyroll, which managed to get absorbed into the $ON¥ empire of evil! This is real bad for oh so many reasons: - Suddenly there is a monopoly in the building for anime distribution, at least in the Americas - remember that $ON¥ tentacles had already swallowed Funimation (which from what I've heard, only THIS YEAR they're actually slowly expanding into Latin America... one country at a time!). Now they control two of the largest anime streaming services worldwide - their competition now is basically Netflix only! - The Animax fiasco is a wound that never healed for us Latam fans. A textbook example on how NOT to run a niche TV channel, and how to poison the local dub market with piss-poor quick jobs because "quality costs money". Now this move is akin to pouring more salt at that bloody open wound. I haven't used CR in years (for obvious reasons) so I can't vouch for their current sub/dub quality, but expect a sharp quality drop on those. Oh, and actual heavy DRM because it's $ON¥, of course! - Also expect more censorship to come, if the California SJW-run SIE division (the PlayStation guys) is a sign of how things could quickly turn to bad. Remember, these are the guys that decide how much clothing your DoA girls and patissiere nekos have to wear in order to sell their games in frickin' Japan! (and in a extreme twist of irony, if you want your uncensored versions, you have now to turn out to the kid-friendly Switch) - Seriously people, after CD rootkits, TV dork ages, constant data leaks, censorship and other anti-consumer moves, would you still keep giving your money to $ON¥!? Well, I guess that if you already own a PlayStation, all bets are off :/ Yes, I'm really pissed off. I have my own axe to grind against this megacorp, but I'm not the only one. Remember: $ON¥ = EVIL! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-12-16, 23:12 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #839 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 14 days Last view: 1 hour |
SuperRT - real time raytracing on a SNES/SFC: https://www.shironekolabs.com/posts/superrt/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25431203 So, how you achieve real time raytracing on a very anemic consumer hardware designed in the late '80s? By This guy managed to SuperRT emulation on bsnes fucking when!? Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-12-18, 15:36 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE (revision 4)
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Dinosaur
Post: #840 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 14 days Last view: 1 hour |
Posted by Nicholas Steel And now, they recognized they're getting https://twitter.com/GOGcom/status/1339227388438306817 https://gbatemp.net/threads/devotion-announced-for-gog-then-gets-blacklisted-from-the-storefront-hours-later.579008/ https://www.gog.com/forum/general/devotion_is_coming_to_gog_on_dec_18th/page1 The week in recap: https://www.pcgamer.com/cd-projekts-very-bad-week-a-breakdown/ As much as it would hurt me to say this, I'll go and say it: FUCK GOG/CD PROJEKT RED. You have just become another Steam/Ubilol, folks. I could have expected this from American corporations, but from Poles?! Eh, guess that stupid is worldwide :/ Releasing broken shit because gamers are self-entitled miscreants, THEN bowing down to Winnie The Pooh!? This is just pathetic, guys. Also: to all those "gamers" threatening to "defect" from GOG to Steam over the latter: go fuck yourselves, guys. You're trading a now-enemy being seduced by the CCP, to another enemy deeply invested in DRM and with the CCP's slimy tentacles all over the place? Give me a fucking break, people! It's like those the now CentOS refugees switching in droves to Oracle Linux, completely ignoring that Orrible® is like 100 IBMs in one, and who can (and will) pull the rug under them at any moment with bloody consequences. 2020, can you go to hell already!? Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
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