Andrex

OK, I didn't know about this. This is cool.

I guess it's hard to stop my originalist tendencies from boiling over into other topics...

What you're saying to me is like someone saying, well, if the piano had more octaves then existing compositions would have been better. But those pieces were composed with the current amount of octaves in mind in the first place...

Maybe there's an analogue with the harpsichord-to-piano transition, but I'm not knowledgeable enough about that yet.

Sony made the SNES sound chip, and the GBA was power-constrained by AA batteries. Those are the two biggest reasons I can think of just off the top of my head.

The idea that sound designers on old games were totally siloed and ignorant of how their compositions would sound on final consumer hardware is completely wrong. Most of these composers were programmers themselves and knew exactly how to get the final hardware to make the sounds they wanted, even when they composed using more advanced tech.

Programmers using devkits (more powerful than the consumer hardware) likewise.

Imagining how sharp and crisp those pixels must have been at that size... Oh man.

If it wasn't so late I'd calculate how big (in inches) an individual pixel is at that size.

Very weird it happened twice! But that's a kind of a cool factoid to tell people haha.

Even with devs and publishers that don't die or are killed, they still lay hundreds off when a game is done. Then the studio limps along in pre-production mode on their next game for 4-5 years it seems like...

Maybe the only job stability in the industry is with indies, and... Nintendo?

Wasn't the last one even caused by Azure?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46861842

Things don't always ramp up after 2-4 years. Sometimes MS just kills the project or company after that period of time.

See also their moves in the gaming industry.

I did have the thought that the SCOTUS ruling against Oracle slightly opened the door to code not being copyrightable (they deliberately tap-danced around the issue). Maybe that's the future: all code is plumbing; no art, no creative intent.

We're gonna enter a new age/type of "lost media" as Discord remains popular year over year. It's a complete black hole unless you're manually backing things up. No possible Wayback Machine.

> The core language of Java is actually super simple, like C.

Not being facetious, but couldn't you say that about almost any language? What makes you say it about Java?

No, it's known as vertical integration, which is legally permitted by default.

AMP was a good technical solution for a short window of time, deliberately tanked by confusing/centralized stewardship.

They kept opening it more and more but by then it was too late.

They ran it through Copilot which gave it the all-clear.

The AI video call feature is kinda neat, even though it's pretty buggy.

It sounds like that's still a step up from Copilot.

I know Gemini has more advanced features in Docs and they rolled something out for Sheets. I would bet GWorkspace keeps gaining ground on the functionality battle.

There were six versions of Windows Mobile before the iPhone hit and they still couldn't do anything.

Stupid question: Why not transfer the heat to some kind of material and then jettison that out to space? Maybe something that can burn itself out and leave little material behind?

I kind of want to play it out though... if someone did do this (for whatever reasons), what would the real benefits even be? Something terrestrial operations wouldn't be able to catch up to in 5-10 years?

"Whoever wins, we lose." - Poster for Aliens vs. Predator

That's surely a feature, not a bug.

From everything I've seen, I doubt it.

A Steam Deck is also X times more powerful.

The decision-making here involved more passion than logic, clearly. And that's good. :)

They're not dead ends per se because their purpose is growing the characters and revealing more of them to the audience. The movie streamlines and speed runs all that, for better or worse.

It got me motivated! I downloaded Godot and I'm gonna do something with all those level designs I made years ago...

Reading OP comment made it clear how little excuse I really have.

It's nice, Linux being an open platform, that if something isn't on Steam you can just install GOG and get it there.

That is indeed an unfortunate personal problem.

> The only hope for fast and reliable Adobe-apps-on-Linux IMO is through a Windows VM with GPU pass-through and a focus on making that as easily and seamless as possible.

I've heard of people doing this, do they?

I'm so desperate for Premiere, even 6+ years after switching OSes. Resolve won't install on Fedora (???), our all-Flatpak future cannot get here soon enough...

> It would be so nice if they just forked a commit from ~2005 and started from there.

I would say 2009. Vista's troubled driver era was necessary, and Windows 7 was pretty awesome.

I'm gonna be 90 and Burger King/Dairy Queen puns are still going to make me laugh.