tuckerm

@tuckerm@supermeter.social

Here to talk about fighting games, self hosting web apps, and easy weeknight recipes.

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tuckerm,

I mean, I'm no Trump apologist, but "let he who did not try looking at the eclipse cast the first stone."

tuckerm,

MK9 is also the start of the modern game mechanics, in addition to the story. They established the current gameplay formula in MK9, and have been iterating on it since then.

Unless you really want to play the classic games, I think MK9 is the best starting point.

edit: Wait wtf am I talking about you obviously start with the movie from 1995.

tuckerm,

I remember thinking that it was the pinnacle of graphics. I mean, it was photos of real people, that had to be as realistic as games could possibly look.

AND I WAS RIGHT.

tuckerm,

When I was maybe five years old, I was with my parents at the grocery store, and there was an advertisement for Reba (a TV show starring Reba McEntire) on those little plastic sticks that you place on the conveyor belt to separate your items from the other person's items.

I have absolutely no idea why I have remembered this fact for so long, or even why it stuck out to me as a five year old. But there was an INCH of space available, and someone had the business idea to slap an advertisement on it.

tuckerm,

I agree with your point, but I also agree with the parent post as well. Advertising and tracking can be considered separate issues while also both being bad. I'd also say tracking is almost always bad, whereas there are advertisements that I think are perfectly fine.

People have been talking about how manipulative advertising can be long before targeting individuals was possible. (Like Joe Camel.)

But I also think that there is a whole new level of maliciousness to these highly-targeted ad services that can show you specific content based on a personality profile, formed about you by aggregating data across many different areas of your life. It's related to advertising in general, but takes it to such an invasive extreme that it's worth singling out on its own.

tuckerm,

Basketball courts too, newly added in the last couple years. There's one sponsor logo physically printed on the court, and one that's digitally added for the TV broadcast (tailored to your location, of course).

I was watching a game a few weeks ago and the superimposed logo kept screwing up. It was moving with the camera instead of being fixed on the ground, and sometimes it wouldn't be cropped around the players, it would just go on top of them. It was kind of amusing. They removed it after a few minutes.

tuckerm,

The progress bar screen during an AMD driver update. Cycles between ads for video games, ads for CPUs, and a "how are we doing" survey.

tuckerm,

Still some of the best pixel art and animations ever, in my opinion.

tuckerm,

Wasn't Border Down the very last Dreamcast game? I think it might have been. (Well, the last official one, anyway. Homebrew games are still coming out.) I bet a lot of people missed it for that reason. I hadn't heard of it until a couple years ago. I hear it's good, though.

tuckerm,

I like the fact that there are games that are still best played on the Dreamcast, or only played on the Dreamcast, since there was no follow-up console after it, or because the ports were not great. Today there's always a remaster, backwards compatibility with the next console, or at the very least a sequel, so games just move along with the hardware. But the Dreamcast had some games that just lived and died on that system.

Weirdly, most of these turned out to be fighting games. Probably because Capcom liked the Dreamcast.

My favorites that are still best (or only) played on that system:

  • Crazy Taxi (the ports don't have the original soundtrack, an absolute sin)
  • Power Stone and Power Stone 2
  • Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (literally one of the best fighting games ever, and it can't be purchased on any systems today)
  • Cannon Spike
  • JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
  • Project Justice
tuckerm, (edited )

For sure. Plus, I'm a sucker for fighting games where the characters are 2D sprites instead of 3D models. The DC probably had the best lineup for that, ever.

tuckerm,

The original video already had a bunch of quotes (like that one) that have lived in my head for years. This remake just added, "Mum pisses in jars!" to the list. :D

tuckerm,

grabbing some Zilents V2’s

Those are my favorite switches, I think you're going to love them. In fact, all other tactile switches don't feel "tactile" enough for me after using those.

I can't see any issues with your plan. Don't forget to buy a switch puller if you don't already have one.

tuckerm,

Geez, no authenticity from these guys. Hard pass!

Although, if it did support QMK, I bet you could recreate PETSCII. I'm pretty sure QMK lets you bind a key to any unicode character, and I'm assuming all of the PETSCII characters have a unicode equivalent.

tuckerm,

Oh nice, that's good to know. I wonder if it's possible to run their remapping program in a Windows virtual machine. If it works, it still wouldn't be convenient, but you wouldn't have to do it often, either.

tuckerm,

The first distro I used would be CentOS, followed closely by Gentoo. CentOS was installed on the computers in the computer lab in college, and Gentoo was on the computers in the library. I think I went to the computer lab first. I'm probably biased against those two now, since every time I was using them I was banging my head against the keyboard trying to get some programming assignment to work, or desperately finishing a paper before midnight. :P

The first I installed and used myself was Ubuntu, which I still use. I just bought a System76 laptop, though, and I'm debating if I'll just go with Pop OS or switch to Debian.

tuckerm,

Actions like this create such a huge problem when trying to convince conservatives that Donald Trump is a unique and unprecedented danger.

It's one thing when I, a progressive, say that I did not like the most recent Republican president. My conservative neighbors expect me to say that, and therefore ignore the criticism. But it's not just me saying that; it's also Mike Pence, John Bolton, John Kelly, Bill Barr, and Chris Christie. That is a unique level of criticism leveled at their own party's president. But my conservative neighbors don't know that.

Trump has been called "dangerous" by his own:

  • Vice President,
  • Secretary of Defense,
  • Chief of Staff,
  • Attorney General,
  • and other advisors,

yet your typical Republican voter will insist that it's just people on the left disliking a Republican president, just like any other Republican president.

Someone may comment that we all live in our own echo chambers, but the damn near impenetrable conservative bubble has no equivalence on the left. If conservative media doesn't want their audience to know something, conservatives will not know it.

tuckerm,

Disagreement is completely different from what I was talking about. People on the left are aware of the fact that those individuals claimed self defense; most disagree that it should have counted as self-defense. The fact that you saw their opinions in the first place -- and they saw yours -- shows that. If you think their opinion is wrong, or if they are too unwelcoming to your opinion, that's a separate issue. I'm not even talking about the merits of either argument here, I'm talking about the fact that people on the left at least tend to know what point they are disagreeing with. Non-conservative news outlets will at least report "George Zimmerman Claims Self-Defense," or "Popular Progressive Politician Receives Criticism from Own Party." Right-leaning news outlets outright shelter their audiences from such information.

In my experience of trying to reach out to conservatives, as our culture of respectful disagreement expects me to, I am constantly blown away by the fact that a typical conservative has no idea what the objection to their worldview even is. Trump got elected almost eight years ago at this point, and they will still drop something like, "So what exactly do you people not like about him?"

There are levels to echo chambers. America's Republican voters are sheltered in an iron dome, where dissenting ideas don't even get in at all.

Now i'm definitely cheering for Rulestein (lemmy.ml)

alt text: A “xit” from user @ChrpngBrd in which he responds to another “xit” from @BlueBoxDave that says “If Israel falls then America falls. It’s that simple.” @ChrpngBrd’s response is a thumbs up emoji, and two stills from The Simpsons S02E19 “Lisa’s Substitute.” In which, the first image is Martin Prince...

tuckerm,

How in the hell does anyone think that America's safety is dependent on Israel?

The broken housing market is merging with America’s polarized political culture (fortune.com)

It’s no secret that America is an increasingly polarized nation. It stands to follow that our places of residence would also be divided. But instead of a donkey and an elephant, the new emblems of each party might as well be an unowned apartment in a big city and a home in the suburbs. Just consider what Aziz Sunderji has...

tuckerm,

I think this is just some more urban rural divide stuff.

I'm guessing that "homeowner vs. renter" is actually serving as shortcut for some other demographic differences. (To be fair, the author mentions that in the last paragraph, and says that his next posts will dig deeper into that.)

Like you said, it's easier to afford a home in rural areas. So, a homeowner is more likely rural.

Also, owning a home was much easier 20 years ago. So, a homeowner is more likely older as well.

tuckerm,

They're late to the party anyway. The first 25-tuple-A game was released in 2009, and it's an indie gem. Got a remaster just a couple months ago, even. https://store.steampowered.com/app/15520/AaAaAA__A_Reckless_Disregard_for_Gravity/

tuckerm,

Yeah, it came out in January! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1372460/AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA_Remastered/

I'm not sure what the development process was like -- they were calling it a sequel for a while before then changing it to a remaster. The reviews suggest that a lot was changed from the original. I kind of want to get it anyway.

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