squidmaster

Cassette players and chunky buttons are historically linked though. That there's no intrinsic fundamental technological connection and counter-examples exist doesn't change the fact that most people with memories of cassette players will have memories of chunky buttons connected to that. You're hung up on technicalities when the discussion is actually about nostalgia.

In an case, the author specifically cites the example of Ion Fury, a game which ships with a hardware renderer enabled by default but also uses nearest neighbor interpolation, so the premise that the author isn't aware that the aesthetic isn't possible with hardware rendering is mistaken. He knows. He's calling it software rendering because that's what the aesthetic is historically connected to.

We're saying, simply, that the CEO being personally odious doesn't mean the car is fake.

Ah, I see. Maybe: somebody says they love audio cassette players, and start talking about the super tactile mechanical buttons and switches that go chunk in a satisfying way. You could rightly object that that you can put buttons like that on an mp3 player. But it's a historical fact that these things are actually linked, in a way that's meaningful to people, namely in their personal nostalgic experiences.

They have a long history of promising bad dates for future releases, or of exaggerating the capabilities of their ""FSD"", but they haven't rolled cars down hills or built them from styrofoam.

I genuinely didn't believe they'd ever do more than use cold gas thrusters for a lame boost effect, if at all. Happy to admit I was wrong, that was cool.

(still not buying a tesla thooughbeit)

It's still there, though I don't play with it. The characteristic Build mouse look distortion makes me queesy.

No software rendering requires DOS, you could use it with Windows back in the day (how I originally played Half Life) and engines that still support it will run on modern OSes too.

> Ion Fury, a Build engine game from 2019, still ships with a software renderer.

Amazing game BTW, best shooter I've played in many years. I never really got into build engine games back then, so it's not just my rose-tinted glasses, that game is a masterpiece.

How is it not software rendering? These games shipped without hardware renderers. Yes, they also don't have AA, but how does that make it not software rendering?

Would you say a desktop application using lua instead of javascript has less smell? What do you make of something like mpv, which supports both?

No doubt.

> If you're talking about the sideloading restrictions those were intended to stop social engineering and scams

No, those restrictions were intended to keep Android users in the playstore ghetto (which is suffed to the gills with scams.)

They probably didn't arrange for that affair to happen, but they did use it for blackmail nonetheless.

It's America's fault.. for electing a zionist traitor of a president who takes orders from Israel.

If you're so concerned about Israel's reputation, focus less on Ukraine or Russia and turn your attention to what Israel is doing to earn that reputation.

Criticism isn't evidence of persecution. If Israel wants to be criticized less, it should better itself.

Israel has been a nexus of cybercrime for as long as they've been on the internet at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Download_Valley

> A top CBS News editor appointed by editor-in-chief Bari Weiss reportedly threatened staffers with termination during a tense meeting Tuesday morning that erupted into a confrontation over the network’s coverage of Israel and Gaza.

But don't you dare say they control American media!

No worker is safe, its only a matter of time before the revolutionary committees come for you too.

> You're a plumber with years of training? Face the wall, capitalist pig.

> Before injecting this cocktail into your bloodstream, would you want to know that there is at least one human cancer researcher who understands the mechanism behind this cure.

Tao is out of his lane; lots of medicines don't have understood mechanisms. We don't even have the mechanisms behind general anesthesia nailed down; do you want to forgo it when the docs cut you open to remove your tumors?

> Both get pirated but at different rates.

Gabes point is thay the balance of the two is overwhelmingly; yes some pirates will always pirate. Most win prefer to buy the game if the terms are reasonable. Being smart enough to undetstand this and run his business accordingly is why Gabe owns yachts.