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My PS1 worked fine till I played Digimon World on it. Numemon!
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Even considering the living PS1's I have now, I'd say my experience with Sony consoles is overall negative when it comes to their long livedness. I've had a bunch of dead PS1s growing up, 3 or 4 dead PS2s thanks to lovely disc drives. I had the old only works upside down PS1 too, naturally. The only PS2 I still have is a slim and it has a very, very finicky memory card slot 1 and very bizarre issue where it refuses to read dual layer DVDs unless I push above the memory card slot area with a fair degree of force. After it boots doing that, it reads without issue until it's powered off. Both fat PS3s I had sounded like wind turbines and eventually got dead blu-ray drives. The slim (not the ugly rear end final slim revision) I have now works fine and runs silent. The PS4 I used to have in the house before it moved out with my brother works fine and runs very quietly, which I'm lead to believe is kinda rare for a launch PS4. I just put it down to planned obsolescence.
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Dec 19, 2016 21:21
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Josuke Higashikata posted:I have two fully working fat PS1's, one that is a Frankenstein made from dead friends that works fully*, a slim that is fine and the 2 dead friends hanging about so I can donate their organs to Frank if he needs them. And people wonder why my WiFi is called "LANOfTheDead". 
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Dec 19, 2016 21:44
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Nintendo products, meanwhile, survive bomb strikes.
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Dec 19, 2016 22:33
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I've gotten over a decade of use out of my ancient PS1. It's been packed away for a while now but as far as I know it still works- the controller certainly does. Been through two secondhand slim PS2s in six years though, neither of them with fully functioning controllers
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Dec 20, 2016 03:23
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Bruceski posted:Nintendo products, meanwhile, survive bomb strikes. Nope. I have an n64 that only boots when the moon is in the right house. I hope, someday, to find out what house that is.
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Dec 20, 2016 03:52
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my anecdote is that I have a launch model PS2 that never had any disc read errors and still works fine today with the original DS2s my PS1 definitely only worked sideways though, but to be fair I also tripped on one of the cables once.
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Dec 20, 2016 04:42
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Samizdata posted:Nope. I have an n64 that only boots when the moon is in the right house. I hope, someday, to find out what house that is. Alternatively: N64s can also survive getting shot by a shotgun
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Dec 20, 2016 04:48
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People seem to forget that Nintendo has been one of the most, if not the most prolific first party hardware companies for decades.
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Dec 20, 2016 06:24
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Samizdata posted:Nope. I have an n64 that only boots when the moon is in the right house. I hope, someday, to find out what house that is. My original NES sat in a pool of stagnant water for two years and still works perfectly (excepting the standard needing to blow into a cartridge every sixth game change or so). My SNES got stepped on so hard there's a 4cm hole in the case covered by packing tape, and also still works perfectly. Nothing really happened to my N64 besides getting an expansion thingy from a friend, but nonetheless, works perfectly. ...My fifth (at least) Gamecube stopped working 7 years ago. Moral of the story: cartridges forever. 
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Dec 20, 2016 06:57
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Mighty Dicktron posted:Alternatively: N64s can also survive getting shot by a shotgun Maybe that's the solution? 
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Dec 20, 2016 08:29
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Nintendium is impervious to all known materials except Mario Party, so you may want to test for that. Your local hardware store should have a kit to let you take samples of the air and paint around the Nintendo, check for exposure.
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Dec 20, 2016 09:17
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You know what else takes a beating and keeps running? These segues! Podbean / RSS / iTunes / Stitcher / Google Play Music Episode 16: The Battle of Michigan Avenue In 1968, the Democratic Party nominated a loyal member of the party leadership that did not reflect their members' views and could not present a compelling vision of the future. Meanwhile, prophesies of civil unrest became self-fulfilling as protests provoked a police riot miles away from the convention itself. What sort of protest makes the most change? How do you make leaders listen? Does democracy end on election day?
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Dec 20, 2016 14:20
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I can finally post this without it being a spoiler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSs4tGK7yvY
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Dec 20, 2016 17:16
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I'm so happy you decided to share this with us.
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Dec 20, 2016 18:16
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The timing of that was INCREDIBLE.
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Dec 20, 2016 19:08
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So, you would say that would be the Stretch of Us?
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Dec 20, 2016 20:05
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Samizdata posted:Nope. I have an n64 that only boots when the moon is in the right house. I hope, someday, to find out what house that is. That would be once a century, when the moon is in the Eighth House of Aquarius, by means of a secret rite. But whatever you do, don't let the dim-witted servant mistakenly grab the ketchup bottle instead of the bottle of blood.
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Dec 20, 2016 20:09
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SorataYuy posted:That would be once a century, when the moon is in the Eighth House of Aquarius, by means of a secret rite. But whatever you do, don't let the dim-witted servant mistakenly grab the ketchup bottle instead of the bottle of blood. drat it! That was the problem! I guess I know where the next batch of blood is coming from then.
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Dec 20, 2016 20:23
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Kurieg posted:I can finally post this without it being a spoiler oh my god Gumby Nate.  They should have made this a wacky cheat option.
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Dec 20, 2016 23:19
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I would argue that that is a feature of the game, and not a glitch. It's what replaced Doughnut Drake.
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Dec 21, 2016 06:37
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The magic of inverse kinematics continues to amaze.
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Dec 21, 2016 10:42
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so does this mean that the player is effectively the hands and the rest of the body is generated from there or?
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Dec 21, 2016 11:09
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double nine posted:so does this mean that the player is effectively the hands and the rest of the body is generated from there or? It seems like Drake's body is animated to dynamically react to the environment, like his legs taking position on different parts of the ground's surface instead of having one foot floating in the air somewhere. So when you reach for something to grab, Drake's body actually does dynamically stretch toward it from wherever you are to take hold (rather than using canned animations or strict scripting or railroaded paths so only one thing has to be animated). So when the game glitches and thinks Drake can grab something that's really too far for him, his body makes it work.
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Dec 21, 2016 15:22
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^^ I think problem isn't that the jump is too far, it's that Drake's legs get caught up in a piece of scenery. Namely the hanging pirate. If it wasn't for that the jump would work just fine. So the hands make the jump just fine, but the legs get left behind. The game doesn't really know how to handle that, so we get gumby drake until his legs are freed.
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Dec 21, 2016 15:36
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double nine posted:so does this mean that the player is effectively the hands and the rest of the body is generated from there or? Kind of, but not quite. It means that the hands and feet are the main ways in which the whole body is positioned: they attach to various points on the ground or on ledges, and the arm, leg, and body position is adjusted to match. This is the whole point of “inverse kinematics”: you calculate backwards from those connection points and derive the character's stance from that, rather than have fixed positions and animations for everything. It's only the fine positioning that depends on any of that, and exactly what model is used can be changed depending on the situation. So you have one set of rules for when the character is standing and walking; one for when it's running; one for climbing; and an additional layer for interactions like shooting guns and the like. But the full body is still the full body, and it's still relevant for all other kinds of interactions.
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Dec 21, 2016 16:02
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Please invest in Sullivan's Skin Solution, my entire life's savings is running on how well this business venture succeeds. Episode 18: Skin Care.....Cut Commentary.....Baldurdash
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Dec 21, 2016 19:14
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Seeing Libertalia kinda makes me wish we got to see more of the ancient village in 2, since that part is mostly all action without much time to rest.
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Dec 21, 2016 20:04
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Who's a good gun? Who's a good gun? You! YOU'RE A GOOD GUN! Yes, you are! Yes, you are!
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Dec 21, 2016 20:05
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That was a smooth as hell cut at 18:45!
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Dec 21, 2016 20:07
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Lots of people/countries eat horses. Not good if they slip it in your value brand lasagna without telling you though...
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Dec 21, 2016 20:19
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Josuke Higashikata posted:Lots of people/countries eat horses. It's called hamburger meat around here. Still unsure if that's just to trick the tourists, though… 
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Dec 21, 2016 20:33
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Chip Cheezum posted:Please invest in Sullivan's Skin Solution, my entire life's savings is running on how well this business venture succeeds. how do you make these gorgeous drawing-like screengrabs?
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Dec 21, 2016 23:04
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I'd buy Sullivan's Skin Solution. I also do not make sound financial decisions.
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Dec 21, 2016 23:05
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okay if you're gonna throw in random dutch(south african) in the goons chatter the least you can do is not glue two separate words together (Pasop instead of Pas Op)
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Dec 21, 2016 23:09
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DeafNote posted:okay if you're gonna throw in random dutch(south african) in the goons chatter Raygereio fucked around with this message at 23:22 on Dec 21, 2016 |
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Dec 21, 2016 23:19
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... Was that a kookaburra off in the distance? I didn't realise Libertalia was actually in Australia all along. (Oh - or New Guinea; apparently they're found there too.) Man, this part of the game is gorgeous. Like every other part of the game, yeah - but it looks like it would be great to explore. It sort of makes me wish Naughty Dog were making... I don't know, some kind of open-world games, maybe. They're obviously masters at what they do, but I'm just not into relatively straightforward third-person action games.
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Dec 21, 2016 23:21
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the random rules spread around remind me of Blackthorne's Virtues in Ultima V.
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Dec 21, 2016 23:48
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Raygereio posted:"Pasop" is an actual word in Afrikaans. Afrikaans may sound a lot like Dutch (and it evolved from it), but it has become a distinct language with its own vocabulary, grammar rules, etc. then I blame the south africans instead (then again, I think they had a hard enough time. except now they keep turning into villain henchmen)
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Man, I was halfway through a post Jewsplaining kosher laws, and then you went and looked it up. Recognizing a place of misunderstanding and correcting it on your own? You're not allowed to do that!
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