brsrklf

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[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Rival Stan Helsing robbed Simon of fame by killing Count Dracula first! Reclaim your glory by resurrecting Dracula piece by piece and slaying the dark count yourself!

You know what, this actually makes more sense than the plot of the real Castlevania 2.

Beyond that, it looks fun.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 8 points 10 months ago

A funeral wreath and a book on surviving the death of a spouse.

Fuck these assholes, that's vile.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 2 points 10 months ago

Sure, that's a motivation too, but they were also talking about random people who'd find a reference and were curious about their work, not just other researchers who may quote them. It's not all about h-index.

When a guy literally makes, among other things, regular paleontology news reports and whole videos of his own university course material during summer breaks, and puts all that to youtube it's safe to assume he just likes popularizing his subject.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah, kinda. Genesis (or rather, Megadrive) was very bad at that, but SNES and N64 had their share of bad conversions.

There's a story about developers from Rare who went at Nintendo Japan to teach them how a correct PAL/NTSC or NTSC/PAL conversion should be done. Of course, the subject was very familiar to them, being British and all.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I follow a few researchers with interesting youtube channels, and they often mention that if you ask them or their colleagues for a publication of theirs, chances are they'll be glad to send it to you.

A lot of them love sharing their work, and don't care at all for science journal paywalls.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

PAL could do 60Hz, a few GameCube games let you switch.

But the real problem with 50Hz anyway was badly converted games that were just slowed down instead of actually adapted to it (like, just make frames that were supposed to last 1/60th of a second last 1/50 of second instead and call it a day). Including slowed down music and sound effects, along with gameplay, in some cases.Terrible shit.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Be careful, Steamboat Willie may be public domain, but I don't know if Steamboat MscMahion Ysarai is.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 5 points 10 months ago

I am sure Microsoft will just keep nagging them to take an Office 365 subscription.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That really doesn't work for me, because I love a good part of Fire Emblem (7, 8, Radiance, Echoes, Three Houses) and I really, really hate the other way the series has evolved (Awakening, Fates, Heroes).

I haven't got Engage because, frankly, it seems very much on the wrong side of the series to me.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

C'est pas qu'une question de génération. Je suis pas beaucoup plus jeune que Macron, et les manifestations de soutien au vieux pervers me dégoutent.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well, a trademark wouldn't have that consequence, I think at most it could just prevent someone else calling a similar system a "constitution".

Now a patent would be different. If they somehow registered one preventing anyone to use similar safety measures, yeah, that'd be evil. If they can have it enforced, of course.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 27 points 10 months ago (4 children)

What? No. They tried to do something that's outright illegal and only stopped because enough people called them out on it.

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