I read this post and my first thought was “oh, it’s like how fans post videos of fun glitches in video games and then speedrunners sometimes end up finding a use for them in order to beat the game faster.”

Scientific progress is just glitch-hunting and speed/challenge-running.

People who work night shifts already experience this. It’s not as disorienting as it seems.

“I killed Mufasa.”

Recently, there came out a way of recompiling N64 games for PC without a decompilation and with mostly working results. It is technically possible to apply the hack patch and then recompile it for PC. I don’t know if there’s a way to apply HD texture packs on top of that though.

Also watch the video on Team APS’s channel featuring Prof. They convert Yu-Gi-Oh cards into Magic cards.

Ah yes, my bad. I thought that timeframe felt weird. I was only 7 or 8 when the PS2 released, and only remember watching movies on my older cousin’s system. I Should have double-checked that.

Good point on the Wii. Maybe, by then, enough other devices played DVDs for cheap that it wasn’t as much of a selling point. At the time the Wii released even dedicated portable DVD players were relatively cheap. And many other devices were combo DVD players, even SUVs started to sell with gimmicky built-in theater system upgrades.

Additionally, as successful as the Wii was with a general audience, it didn’t grab as much of the “core-gamer” audience (in my opinion) because of the gimmicky control scheme which was mandatory in most games. It also didn’t have as robust online multiplayer support as the Xbox 360 or PS3. It was also comparatively underpowered and so didn’t get ports of many popular titles.

I think appealing to both general and core audiences is key, especially now with how mainstream gaming has become. If the Wii had functional multiplayer, feature-complete ports of popular titles, and enforced a traditional control-scheme as a fallback, I think it would have outsold the PS2.

The theory I’ve read about the PS2’s success is that a lot of non-gamers bought one because it could play Blu-rays for cheaper than a dedicated Blu-ray player because Sony sold the PS2 either at cost or at a slight loss unlike their other Blu-ray players.

I think for a console to surpass that success, it would need to do something with popular appeal and do it as good as a dedicated device for a similar price. The Steam Deck might have been that if laptops were in higher demand at its release (e.g. if it released just before the pandemic when students needed computers for remote learning.)

In my opinion, a future console would have to basically be a smart phone and a mini-Switch. It would have to run Android or iOS because few people would migrate without support for their current apps.

If said device could run games with at least a 3DS-level of fidelity, it might be appealing enough to draw developers and players. But it would have to support more than just the current mobile game slop.

Me epilating my body hair

These coding bootcamps get weirder and weirder every year.

I may be remembering this video essay from Shaun a little inaccurately, but I recall that Japan was preparing a surrender anyway, and was in talks with the USA, but the argument was whether the surrender would be unconditional or conditional (Japan wanted to keep the Emporer in power). The US was worried about an impending Soviet invasion of Japan because they didn’t want the Soviet Union to have influence in post-war negotiaions (i.e. landgrabs). The US didn’t want to send in troops for a land invasion, so they decided to hasten Japan’s surrender with the atomic bombings of major cities (terrorism tactics, in my opinion, just like the much deadlier firebombings).

Americans (including me) are commonly taught that the bombs were the only choice in order to prevent lost lives of American troops, but the impression I remember getting from the video is that (my opinion) there was never a risk of an American ground troop invasion, and not a risk of another Japanese attack. Japan would have either surrendered or been invaded by the Soviets.

The kicker is that Japan surrendered unconditionally to the US, but in the end, the US decided that the emporer should stay in power anyway, so those civilian deaths to the atomic bombs were always unnecessary.

My lack of dating sucess is suddenly making a lot more sense to me.

“I’m gonna Dipsy my Tinky Winky in your Po until you Laa-Laa”

The red flag, black flag, and bisected flag are common leftist and anarchist symbols.

I remember someone porting Mario 64 movement to Minecraft a few years ago. The original is outdated, but here are a few mods I just found for version 1.20.1. Note that I haven’t tested these yet.

Obviously vanilla Minecraft wasn’t balanced around these movement techniques, but they certainly can’t be any more overpowered than elytra+rockets.

Super Mario 64 movement in Minecraft

Quake movement in Minecraft

I would rarely choose to fast travel if I had engaging and interesting means of travel like bunny hopping and strafe jumping in Quake, or wall-riding like Lucio in Overwatch. This assumes the world was built to facilitate this kind of movement and there were challenging obsticles, enemies, treasures, secrets, and other points of interest scattered among a variety of paths for the player to choose. Obviously much easier said than done; Super Mario Oddessy and Sonic Frontiers tried to do something like this on a smaller scale (relative to the large open worlds of other games) with varying levels of success.

Exploration was fun in the BotW and TotK Zelda games, but I found myself relying on fast travel by the midpoint of each of those entries because the enemy camps and treasures just weren’t worth the time nor effort. Dashing on horses wasn’t mechanically deep enough and Ultra Handing vehicles was either too inconvient or resulted in “path of least resistance” designs that led me to hoverbike to new locations very cheaply and easily.

My dryer has a couple different presets which all adjust the remaining time dynamically according to a predetermind dryness level. To get around this, I just use the “custom” setting and change the temperature and timer manually.

I don’t think they were being sarcastic. What you provided was genuinely important context. It changed my perspective of the headline and OP’s ammendment. I would also consider it essential knowledge. Thanks

I think they might be confusing Karl with RWhiteGoose (now Goose’s Gaming Folklore), who is another Goldeneye speedrunner that does videos featuring speedruning accomplishments across the community. Goose is a neo-nazi.

This is worded better than what I said. The second round isn’t 1/2 because the door you initially picked was 1/100.

I was stubborn about this for so long, and I’m still not entirely sure I understand it, but here is a perspective that made me doubt my belief.

Imagine the Monty Hall Problem, but with 100 doors and only one grand prize. You pick one; it obviously has a 1/100 chance of being a grand prize. Then Monty reveals 98 doors without grand prizes in them such that the only doors left are the one you chose and one that Monty left unopened. Monty obviously arranged for one of those two doors to have the grand prize behind it. The “choice to switch” is really just a second round of the game, but with a 1/2 chance of winning (wrong, your odds change only if you “participate” in round two).

If you stick with your door, you are relying on your initial 1/100 chance of winning. If you switch, you are getting the 1/2 odds of the “second round”.

Apparently with three doors, switching gives you a 2/3 chance of winning, but I don’t understand the math of how to get that answer and I wouldn’t be able to calculate the odds of the 100 door version. I just know intuitivey that switching is better.