I feel bad about laughing at this.
zombuey
joined 2 years ago
Whats hilarious to me is that Microsoft wouldn't have done this in the first place lol. They have been porting their own traditionally exclusive titles to PC.
it likely could pretty quickly if all these really bad bugs persist. It seems a huge swath of things were fixed but for like a week it was unusable.
I still think the "saudi's paid elon to nuke it" was a solid conspiracy theory.
That's so cool. I never considered the sort of analog nature of the frame being redrawn being used to create unique effects. If I understand the intent was that on older sets the previous frame would "fade" instead of turning instantly on or off it produced a transparency effect?
I disagree but only because I've seen it showed to me by my friends who are super into this. When games were made for TV and consoles especially in the late 80's and 90's they did things that took advantage of the analog nature Cathode Tubes used to display the image. Not every game took advantage of these techniques but the ones that do are nothing short of amazing when you think about it. They make filters these days that emulate some of these effects but analog is still analog and isn't something a digital display can always emulate regardless of resolution. I would say for most people it just doesn't matter that much but if your a retro gamer you want the OG experience. It's difficult to emulate these analog techniques because they are specific to an era and the techniques can sometimes be unique or trial and error by the devs.
There are other things as well for example light guns which just straight do not work on a newer display. Games that had live action recorded video look hilarious because the same techniques that were used to make things look better were applied in make up form to the actors.
What is a bit sad is the specific techniques these developers used aren't being well recorded and documented which I think would be very useful for future emulation and filtering.
While I do understand your argument. This is a planned effort by insurers. They are all pulling out of these areas in protest in an attempt to persuade the government to increase the amount they pay to insurers to cover these areas. The government already subsidizes insurance sold in these areas and while it does come out of your taxes it does not impact your insurance costs regardless of what you might have been told.
SOURCE: This is second hand from a close friend who is an insurance executive at one of these firms. They are also doing this in California.
Funny enough he apparently started this a while back. What if that movie was produced just to troll Elon.
Its super hard to really even call it an ideology. More less just stupidity.
Working a new format. Thinking about a new sub for ... creative parenting solutions people consider in moments of weakness.
They would just do a daily feed(instead of a megathread). Which could maybe be replicated here through a mastodon link. But as you said it did not restrict ukraine news.