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- Comment on "My 'Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand' statement isn't aging well" - id Software co-founder John Carmack speaks out after devastating Xbox layoffs 3 hours ago:
Then they shouldn’t have allowed themselves to be bought out.
- Comment on "My 'Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand' statement isn't aging well" - id Software co-founder John Carmack speaks out after devastating Xbox layoffs 3 hours ago:
I was blaming Microsoft for what they became 20 years ago.
- Comment on How do I figure out where flies are entering my house? 4 hours ago:
How close are your outdoor trash cans to your front door? In the hottest summer months it is sometimes hard to keep flies from laying maggots in the trash cans and even though it’s about 15+ feet from my door through a gate they still manage to fly in.
- Comment on "My 'Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand' statement isn't aging well" - id Software co-founder John Carmack speaks out after devastating Xbox layoffs 4 hours ago:
The problem with what you’re saying is that they’ve always bought out other studios and then fucked them up. Going all the way back to their original IP Halo; Halo was a product of Bungie, a Mac exclusive game company at the time. Halo was originally going to be Apple’s big jump into gaming. The release of Halo was delayed to port it to the Xbox and today… today Bungie barely exists and all of their IPs are owned by MS.
Xbox was a passion project, Bill Gates was obsessed with getting Microsoft into the living room. Once Bill Gates left, and later Steve Balmer left, there was nobody left who gave a shit about this passion project and it became a money grab. So Microsoft went back to doing what it does best, buying people out and running their IPs into the ground.
- Comment on In a hearing on data centers, a resident of Tyrone Township, Michigan, asked a simple question: Have you signed a non-disclosure agreement? Officials refused to answer 22 hours ago:
I mean… my people and many other tribes put up a fight and were basically wiped out. That’s before you even start talking about Rainbow Farm, or MOVE, or the general public’s response to things like the Black Panthers. But sure… we just rolled over… yeah…
- Comment on Can anyone confirm accuracy? 1 day ago:
Yeah, but that’s when you also get the weird gummy bear that melted into the bottom of the bag.
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 1 week ago:
I wonder how much longer we’ll be able to buy 4K Blu-rays then…
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 1 week ago:
Yes, but also no… For instance there were definitely bugs in Mario 64 that were corrected in later editions of Mario 64 like Mario 64DD and the one that came out on the DS. One very famous bug that’s been corrected is the ability to backwards long jump up the stairs in the upper section of the castle before having enough stars to climb the stairs.
Obviously these weren’t game breaking bugs in the same way that day one patches are fixing things, but it’s also not exactly correct to say it didn’t happen in the before time.
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 1 week ago:
See, this is the real problem. Anybody with an MBA is going to look at your statement and think about all the money they didn’t get because they’re too fucking stupid to realize that you would not have bought more games if you had to buy multiple copies. It’s the same thing with like pirating music they used to talk about how much money they’ve lost, and I used to think no I just wouldn’t have bought that album. So they’ve spent all this time trying to figure out how to chase down dollars they never would’ve gotten to begin with.
- Comment on What is your favourite gaming console you have played? 2 weeks ago:
By the time the Dreamcast came out the writing was already on the wall. The Sega CD and 32x were both expensive and had little support while still looking barely as good as what the SNES could do with the Super FX chip and similar. Then the Saturn was basically forgotten despite being stupid powerful for its day and given the Osborne effect by the CEO of Sega of America. When the Dreamcast came out mid-cycle in 1998 nobody who had bought a PlayStation or N64 in the previous couple of years was in the market for a new machine and a lot of Sega fans weren’t willing to jump in before seeing how serious Sega was. Sega on the other hand was on the heels of low sales and relative failure and so keen to wait for the Dreamcast to be a hit. That chicken and egg paradox was the death knell. They also weren’t helped by Microsoft who had been their partner on the Dreamcast and who basically threw them under the bus to develop the Xbox based on what they learned (not for the first time, MS also did the same thing to IBM by developing Windows while working on OS/2 with IBM). This is why ‘The Duke’ controller looked so much like a Dreamcast controller and why, according to some reports, the Xbox could play Dreamcast games earlier in its development.
TL;DR Sega killed the Dreamcast before it even came out and Microsoft happily looted the corpse.
- Comment on What do you think about the dead internet theory? 2 weeks ago:
My biggest issue with the ‘dead Internet theory’ is that the Internet is not the World Wide Web. The Internet is the physical network, the Web is one of many software platforms that use the Internet. The Internet isn’t going anywhere, it’s the Web that is dying and really just parts of it. Whether we move our favorite parts over to whatever comes next or the Web can be salvaged remains to be seen.
- Comment on What is Exaptation, Alex? 2 weeks ago:
That makes far more sense than what came up when I searched TCM. Thank you.
- Comment on What is Exaptation, Alex? 2 weeks ago:
Turner Classic Movies?
- Comment on Yay, sponsored emojis! 2 weeks ago:
Haha, by other applications I meant I remember there being some background music systems for elevators and retail stores and some early dictation systems and such that were slower, like in the 10 rpm range.
However… Software used to come on cassette tapes in the days of the C64 and the ZX Spectrum etc. I don’t see why you couldn’t record the same ‘sound’ onto an LP but I imagine the error rate might be far higher. In fact, I would be shocked if it’s never been tried.
- Comment on Yay, sponsored emojis! 2 weeks ago:
Most record players have an adjustable speed and can do 33.3 or 45 rpm and some can do the old 78s. There were also other speeds but they were mostly used for other applications. Otherwise yes, it would sound slow compared to an LP.
- Comment on Supermarkets destroy food if it doesn't sell. We can always feed the world. We just don't. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why do companies require you to submit a resume but also put the same data into their forms? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah but every application like that I have has also has individual questions about meeting the requirements. So why filter by ocr tags? If I’m going to lie on the questions I’m probably fine doing so on my resume too.
- Comment on Why do companies require you to submit a resume but also put the same data into their forms? 3 weeks ago:
I’m asking why the resumes need to be filtered by tag in the first place? Why not just filter them by the job that is being applied for?
- Comment on Why do companies require you to submit a resume but also put the same data into their forms? 3 weeks ago:
Or you could just filter based on the job being applied for?
- Comment on Why are all of the Bananas and Oranges in FL from California? 3 weeks ago:
AFAIK the only US state in which bananas can grow is Hawaii and they don’t grow that many so they are mostly eaten locally.
- Comment on Ladies and gentlemen, we got em. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Foreign workers say they were paid less than $2 an hour to build a new US Consulate in Milan 4 weeks ago:
You mean the fascists who won’t let gay people adopt kids??? I’m surprised you’re surprised.
- Comment on Xbox pulls Gears video featuring a PS5 logo, 24 hours after announcing it as an exclusive 4 weeks ago:
I don’t mostly the surveys will always show that consumers want whatever the CEO was thinking about doing.
That aside though even taking this one at face value I have a really hard time believing that people care. Like how petty do you have to be to not want people on a PlayStation to be able to play the same game as you? It doesn’t make any sense to me just from a human perspective. What the hell
But even more they’re both just PCs with a fucking logo slapped on them, which was done specifically so that they would be easier to develop for and so companies would put their games on multiple consoles. If Xbox wants to be more exclusive then they should go back to having more exclusive hardware like using Power PC processors again.
- Comment on Xbox pulls Gears video featuring a PS5 logo, 24 hours after announcing it as an exclusive 4 weeks ago:
So this is what came of that clearly rigged survey from a few months ago where apparently a whole bunch of people still want exclusives on consoles for some reason? I was wondering why they did that.
- Comment on About bajoran's actors makeup 4 weeks ago:
Only ED-Beta was capable of that and it wasn’t released until after TNG was on the air.
The GameBoy Advance had a 240x160 resolution and they released video carts for that. I wasn’t saying it was too low to see faces, just commenting on the technical details of TNG, etc.
- Comment on About bajoran's actors makeup 4 weeks ago:
TNG and DS9 (and early Voyager) episodes were mastered to Beta tapes which had a best case functional resolution of 280p. This is why the TNG Blu-ray’s took so much effort and why they haven’t done Blu-ray’s of DS9 or Voyager, there aren’t film masters to scan they have to be recreated from the original negatives.
- Comment on Guerrilla plantfare 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Guerrilla plantfare 5 weeks ago:
Wait… translating from English… to English???
- Comment on Tune In 5 weeks ago:
Not to be confused with the much much lesser Fantasia 2000.
- Comment on Anon is incompatible 5 weeks ago:
I guess we forgot how to email…
