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Sep 2, 2023 15:29
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remember dead pixels? and how you couldn't return your lovely 4:3 lcd monitor with a 10hz refresh rate unless it had like 5 of them and they were all roughly in the same spot and it wasn't close to the edges? that owned, because it meant that crt was still the dominant tech and those had a degauss button
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Sep 2, 2023 20:33
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bah, how often do you need to move your monitor, i say as my desk cracks and splits in two and my gigantic sony trinitron turns my legs into gibs that perfectly match the models used in the original half-life
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Sep 2, 2023 22:02
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i will admit to being one of those people who was very unhappy when games started tracking what you're doing in-game and sending that data back to developers. in hindsight, this might not have been the most important issue to be mad about at the time also, having been on the other side of that and looking at reports generated from tracking data has allowed me to gain a newfound appreciation for how incredibly stupid the average video game player is. how the gently caress are you morons not able to clear the goddamn tutorial? no it's not game design's fault; 80% of people do just fine and spend less than 10 seconds there so i can only assume that the remaining 20% have the brainpower of a bag of doorknobs. well whatever they already paid for the game; i don't care as long as they don't ask for a refund
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Sep 4, 2023 17:26
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the ones i'm thinking of were for games localized in many languages, including full voice acting for major ones. they weren't games that really required you to understand that much either so i really doubt it'd account for that by itself. as for kids, that's no excuse; if anything these days i'd expect the average 8 years old to be better at games than the average adult. full disclosure though, i never did any work that required me to look at that kind of data, that was just something i was shown a couple times so there's likely some self-selection bias at work here i also had the "don't speak english" thing as a kid, but a steady stream of doom, command and conquer, and warcraft 2 and so on ended up being a pretty good way to learn the language
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Sep 4, 2023 23:08
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the immediate jump from "you got a couple MBs of storage" to "you get 700MBs (but i hope you like having to deal with seek times)" was huge, yeah. i'm trying to think of other instances of performance jumps on the same order of magnitude and there aren't many. the switch from 56K to broadband would probably be comparable. usb replacing parallel/serial ports could be one too, though frankly they should've made the usb connectors have screws like parallel/serial. no cables accidentally getting unplugged that way, and it feels cooler imo
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Sep 7, 2023 18:55
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well-read undead posted:i strongly suspect someone with that opinion never spent much time connecting serial and parallel devices it build character and the calluses eventually make your fingertips immune to masonry drill bits
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Sep 8, 2023 14:32
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