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Posted on 22-06-15, 04:03 in Computer Hardware News
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Also the PACMAN attack.

http://pacmanattack.com/

The most surprising part is that the URL wasn't taken.

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Posted on 22-06-17, 06:14 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Be glad that corporate/accounting don't let arcade folks design consoles anymore, or MS and Sony would be rehashing the 32X over and over and over...

At least it would be more interesting than "IBM-compatible PC in the 2001 monolith" or "IBM-compatible PC in a very large router shell"

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Posted on 22-06-18, 03:41 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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The 32x wasn't marketed or priced as a budget option.

That the Saturn and PlayStation both launched in Japan at ludicrously expensive prices made it look like one, but those initial prices were halved for the US launch, and then halved again during the price wars of the next several months.

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Posted on 22-06-19, 06:24 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Posted by desudesu
Yeah, the 32X was supposed to compete with the Jaguar of all things. (lol)

To be fair though, I doubt the 32X would even have made sense from the start now that I think about it, even if it actually was priced/marketed as a 'budget 32-bit' system... as cartridges are more expensive to produce anyways than discs.

Oh well, it gave us the Neptune, and consequently Hyperdimension Neptunia came out of that, so I'm seriously not complaining because I fucking love Nep-Nep so much. Oh, and not to mention, Virtua Racing DX and Kolibri. Yes.

I mean, the idea was sound at some point. I know the origin was because americans were all "Look, we LIKE our Genesis, can we move forward into the 21st century with something affordable and backwards-compatible?". The project just kept going after it STOPPED making sense.
It definitely didn't make sense once the Saturn was announced, as no company wants to split their market between two systems. One will always be the orphan(as the 32x was, with literally zero games available for a week after launch).


Had it become Sega's actual "next-gen" platform, I think 32x CD games and the 6-button controller would've become the standard at some point.


In truth, something between the 32x and Saturn would've been ideal. More powerful than the 32x, cheaper to make than the Saturn, and Genesis-compatible.
Truthfully, Genesis compatibility alone would've given the Saturn as it exists in reality a huge leg up in the fight against Sony. Sega Japan didn't understand that their american customers were serious about the Genesis.

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Posted on 22-06-20, 19:21 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Posted by tomman
Also I guess someday I'll have to try Rez... but then 1) they would need to make a PC port first, 2) buy a computer that can run it, and 3) find some time to play videogames.


Point 1, at least, is cleared.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/636450/Rez_Infinite/

It is also playable in VR, which makes it Rezzier than it has ever been.

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Posted on 22-06-21, 18:58 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Also I guess someday I'll have to try Rez... but then 1) they would need to make a PC port first, 2) buy a computer that can run it, and 3) find some time to play videogames.


Point 1, at least, is cleared.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/636450/Rez_Infinite/

It is also playable in VR, which makes it Rezzier than it has ever been.

Oh, nice~! Does the Trance Vibrator works with PCs? :D


I don't believe it supports it. What it does support is using xinput devices as vibrators.
You can strap them to your body while playing, and if you're using VR controllers you have 4 pads for tactile feedback instead of 3.

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Posted on 22-06-27, 22:58 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Man, that is a roller-coaster ride of dramatic reveals.

Apparently, Volkswagen hired a Texas firm to arrange the shipping. And they hired a mexican firm, who hired ... a shell company owned by terrorists?

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The appropriate time to use GIF has long been "never", but people refuse to let go of the sins of the past.

The same refusal to let go of those sins is what killed MNG, as it was starting to see uptake when Mozilla ripped out all support in favor of an ugly hack that attempted to recreate all the flaws of animated GIFs in PNG (while describing these flaws as features).


That said, I think Google's biggest mistake here is that their primary target is actually JPEG. JPEG is one of those formats that was weirdly ahead of its time, and you need to bring a LOT to the table to dethrone it(ask JPEG2000).

Taking swings at GIF is a lot easier, though "just serve a video file and advertise it as a GIF so the user gets an auto-looping animation with no controls" is the worst solution.

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Posted on 22-07-02, 01:27 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Next time kids want cash for season gifts, give them what they want. Like this dude did:
https://nitter.nl/TwoClawsMedia/status/1210030954485633025

Now I want to do that, but with hyperinflationary money :D


That's amazing.
My favorite is the Masters of the Universe box.

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Posted on 22-07-02, 07:16 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Next time kids want cash for season gifts, give them what they want. Like this dude did:
https://nitter.nl/TwoClawsMedia/status/1210030954485633025

Now I want to do that, but with hyperinflationary money :D

This is honestly a pretty original concept, not gonna lie. 2nd one is my favourite, reminds me of the PS3 Mega Drive compilation box art :P

It reminds me of the original Transformers boxes. Because that's what it's homaging, and I tore more than one of 'em open in my day. Though grid patterns were also a staple of Sega package design in the 80s and early 90s.

I did love the change of the original catchphrase from "more than meets the eye" to "exactly what it seems".

...

There's an interesting discussion to be had around the fact that it is specifically a Decepticon box. They DO say money is the root of all evil...

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Posted on 22-07-02, 12:24 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Posted by desudesu
Yeah, the Master System and Mega Drive box art both had that grid-like backdrop on them ^-^ I'm not too well versed in pop culture from that time, probably because it's not high on my radar of things to be interested in (only really games, PCs, internet culture, anime and music, sorry!) so yeah...
They're (almost) all quite good replicas of vintage toy cards.

Clockwise from top-left:
Star Wars, Transformers, X-Men, Masters of the Universe(popularly known simply as "He-Man"), and GI Joe.

Center is a tiredly-modern Funko.

Now you know. And knowing is half the battle!


...

I'm suddenly sad he didn't do Ninja Turtles, for no good reason.

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Posted on 22-07-03, 00:41 in Furnace - a multi system tracker by tildearrow
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"TI SN76489"

Aww yeah! Get your MSX ColecoVision 99/4a on, baby!

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Posted on 22-07-05, 02:37 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Now you know. And knowing is half the battle!

G.. I.. JOEEEE!!! Lol
Anytime anyone mentions that line, I'm always compelled to finish it with their signature yell :D

Intentional in this case.


Related to ye olde cartoons:
The First Transformers Theme Was WILDLY Confusing
Not a music person myself, but I found the breakdown of it was pretty educational. Some comments remarked it was probably just an editor being pressed for time and had to fit the intro/outro to the time slot :P
I think humans just don't understand cybertronian music.

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Posted on 22-07-05, 05:45 in Cartoons, imported
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Today I learned that RWBY - Hyousetsu Teikoku by Shaft already has the first 3 episodes out.

It's available on YT for free, or on torrent sites like nyaa.si if you want to download it.

I just want to note that this is the best way to settle toe long-running "is RWBY anime?" argument. It is now definitively "yes"

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Posted on 22-07-06, 09:52 in Cartoons, imported
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So I just learned there's an anime coming out in April titled "Fuuto PI".

As the name might imply, it is the latest sequel to Kamen Rider Doubleā€š and the first in quite a while. And they appear to have gotten everyone back, including Philip. So it'll actually have Double in it instead of Joker!

I'm pretty excited for more Double, but not near as excited as Shotaro's actor is. He's made no secret of the fact that being a Kamen Rider was basically his dream job. Apparently part of the reason Double's had so many sequels is he's been running a one-man campaign to get him in Kamen Rider again ever since the series ended.

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Posted on 22-07-07, 22:51 in Furnace - a multi system tracker by tildearrow
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Posted by desudesu
How did you miss 'Master System' in that list? ;P
Because I wasn't making a comprehensive list. The strikethrough entries are my self-deprecating mockery of the idea anyone is using this for 99/4a nostalgia.

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Posted on 22-07-08, 01:38 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Presumably Microsoft will keep him on a shorter leash than Red Hat, but the damage is done already.

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Posted on 22-07-09, 09:13 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Canada just got Roger'ed.

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Taking swings at GIF is a lot easier, though "just serve a video file and advertise it as a GIF so the user gets an auto-looping animation with no controls" is the worst solution.

Often you can force the browsers native video player UI to appear, making it better than GIF since you can now pause on any frame you want!

"You can probably trick the browser into treating a video file like a video instead of a still image"

Computers were a mistake.

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Posted on 22-07-11, 11:02 in Computer Hardware News
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Posted by desudesu
The first thing that popped into my head when I read A380 was one of the Dingoo handhelds, funny enough, which was inferior to the original A320 (and in itself not even produced by the original people afaik), so that's something else heh.

>only available in China because of neverending hardware shortages
I'm not sure that translates to 'shipping shortages'. Intel are just talking shit. :P
I read A380 and thought of jets from Airbus. I am pretty sure this is because of tomman.

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