VindictiveJudge

Nintendo has been the Apple of the video game world since the N64.

I’ll be doing both with Linux as my primary and Win10 as a compatibility fallback.

Multiplayer games and ones that require Uplay or Origin (can’t remember their new names) have issues, but most single player stuff will run fine. You’ll typically have to run them via Wine or Proton, but Steam will handle that for you.

Yes, but you have to shake the cow pretty vigorously.

IIRC, someone got with the author of that bit of code to ask how they came up with it, but they had simply learned it from someone else. So they tracked them down and found that they had also learned it from someone else. They eventually landed on Greg Walsh as the original author, but for a bit the code had no known origin.

Vantablack is a specific chemical product, not a color. If you can get something just as black via a different process they can’t do anything.

Isn’t Vivaldi Chromium? Would make it likely do be hit by the main branch dropping Manifest v2 support.

Ah, so it’s the software equivalent of fusion power development.

Sure, and for home users the backwards compatibility feature only really comes up for people into retro-gaming, but a significant portion of their customer base is government agencies that haven’t updated their software since the '90s. The old hardware is dying, so they need new stuff, and that means something with a new OS to run it, but it also needs to be able to run an ancient program that can only be replaced if some some seventy-something who calls every console a Nintendo can be made to understand why software older than their grandkids isn’t the best thing to have, and they might need to introduce and pass a bill to get it done, not to mention budgeting to commission a company to code the replacement.

Seriously, Microsoft’s absurd level of commitment to backwards compatibility is the entire reason Windows has such staying power. I had to fuck around with things to get a Linux port of a ten year old game running without issues, and it was even the Steam version, but Win10 will install and run most twenty year old games right off of the original CD without the user having to do anything at all.

This kind of thing could actually be really beneficial for prosthetics. If we can make a robot that functions as close as possible to a human body at human size, then we can chunk it up to make prosthetics that work like your original limbs and are easy to adapt to.

Possibly to differentiate from the trans women, who were mentioned immediately prior?

Even 2077 didn’t have ads in your car.

I hope the next Fire Emblem uses this. Of course, they didn’t use the Switch’s touch screen, so I’m not holding my breath.

TOTK makes me wish 3D TVs caught on.

Destroys the brand recognition by renaming it to a letter of the alphabet he personally likes but nobody else gives a crap about

I’m beginning to suspect he only likes that letter because it’s the middle part of a swastika.

Holography, the real kind, not the Star Wars kind, is probably the way forward. The display would be about as flat as current ones, but the image would appear three dimensional from any angle and wouldn’t require glasses. You could even lean side to side to change your perspective. I remember reading ages ago that a lab was working on it, but I think they had a frame rate of one every few minutes and it was monochrome and I haven’t heard anything since.

Back to the Future 2 had 16:9 flat screen TVs that were wall mounted. It’s one of only two things it got right about the future, the other being that Japan would still be using fax.

Huh, I was able to just close the pop-up and play the video as normal.