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Topicif duckbear was still here we would know about the bridge collapsing and p diddy
adjl
03/27/24 4:04:10 PM
#14
Used that like that, "DEI" just seems to mean "somebody who isn't white has a job and I don't like that," which is... yeah.

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TopicI think I'm gonna make geek necklaces my thing.
adjl
03/27/24 2:11:05 PM
#12
ParanoidObsessive posted...
For a second I thought I remembered something like this existing in a webcomic somewhere, but I think I was confusing two separate things in my head - the magic calculator-bracer the main character of Erfworld wears, and a pop-o-matic weapon in Problem Sleuth.

Well there we go, make a hybrid of the two, and you're golden. If you want to be really fancy, you can make multiple rows of pop-o-matics, each with different types of dice, so you can roll multiple dice of a given type as needed.

Practical? Of course not. But we're not here for practical. We're here for awesome.

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Topicthe legalization of weed in many states has killed the stoner comedy movie genre
adjl
03/27/24 10:55:20 AM
#37
ItIsSoOver posted...
When you were in school, how many fingers were you taught that people have?

I genuinely don't remember any specific lesson on the number of fingers people have. Not sure what kind of weird schools you were going to.

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TopicDoes consciousness, awareness = life? An A.I. question
adjl
03/27/24 10:44:52 AM
#34
OhhhJa posted...
As far as we currently know, consciousness may be exclusive to carbon based lifeforms or it may not be.

I see no reason why it would be. The electrochemical potentials that make up our consciousness are generated primarily by sodium and potassium ions. The membranes across which they're generated, ion channels that generate them, and ligands/receptors that trigger their generation are all carbon-based, but they don't have to be. We've produced plenty of inorganic systems that receive, process, and respond to stimuli using electrical impulses. The only thing really separating those systems from our own system of doing the same thing is that we've got a more complex network.

Even looking more at naturally-occurring life, while carbon is certainly the most viable option for organic-like chemistry (it sits in a particular sweet spot as far as available bonds and bond strength goes, giving it a chemical versatility that no other element can match), there's no reason a similarly complex system couldn't arise using another element as the base. All that's fundamentally needed is ion exchange to create an electrochemical gradient, and no carbon is directly involved in that process.

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TopicMeme Topic 34: Memes aren't real
adjl
03/27/24 9:06:32 AM
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TopicIs an artist 'from' where they were born or where they made their art and lived?
adjl
03/26/24 9:56:38 PM
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MrMelodramatic posted...
It was something like this Japanese artist was nominated for x award in 2020

I considered Mitski but thought she was an American artist. Im not saying I was right, just that it could maybe be argued shes an American artist.

In that case, I agree that that's ambiguous. Just stating somebody's nationality generally suggests you're talking about how they identify now, not what their origins were.

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TopicIs an artist 'from' where they were born or where they made their art and lived?
adjl
03/26/24 9:11:10 PM
#3
If the question is asking where they came from, answering where they've done most of their work is incorrect.

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TopicMeme Topic 34: Memes aren't real
adjl
03/26/24 6:02:34 PM
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TopicDoes consciousness, awareness = life? An A.I. question
adjl
03/26/24 5:35:52 PM
#22
WindMouseHanpan posted...
It's just a computer in the end.

Every aspect of our consciousness boils down to a series of electrochemical reactions in the end. Is a computer really so different from us?

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TopicDoes consciousness, awareness = life? An A.I. question
adjl
03/26/24 12:00:28 PM
#16
Revelation34 posted...
They can have AI rights but not human rights by the definition of the word human.

You'll notice I specifically used the phrase "afforded the same rights as any human" instead of "human rights." That was deliberate, in an effort to head off precisely that avenue of pedantry.

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TopicDoes consciousness, awareness = life? An A.I. question
adjl
03/26/24 10:39:39 AM
#14
Revelation34 posted...
Why would an AI get human rights if they're not human?

What makes humans deserving of rights that aren't afforded to other entities?

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TopicMeme Topic 34: Memes aren't real
adjl
03/25/24 10:11:47 PM
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TopicI'm going to replay all the Zelda games in release order this year
adjl
03/25/24 9:43:37 PM
#51
EvilResident posted...
thats an easy disagree

It's maybe a bit harsher than it needs to be, but Mario 64's camera controls have definitely not aged well and quite severely hold the game back. The level design, platforming, and general movement are all still excellent (though Odyssey stomps all over it in terms of what an absolute joy it is to move Mario around in that one), and it's still certainly a fun game to play, but even Banjo Kazooie had dramatically improved camera controls just two years later. That's not strictly SM64's fault, it's just a consequence of being one of the first forays into 3D platforming ever: Mistakes were always going to be made, which everybody learned from as the genre moved forward.

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TopicI'm going to replay all the Zelda games in release order this year
adjl
03/25/24 5:17:52 PM
#46
It depends a lot on the specific game in question. Mario 64 has aged pretty poorly because we've come to expect so much more from 3D camera controls. OoT and MM have aged reasonably well in that the core mechanics of lock-on based combat haven't changed all that much since then, but exclusively controlling the camera with the Z button is definitely pretty dated and I'm definitely glad for the right stick in BotW/TotK, and a little more complexity in attack/defense options is nice. Starfox 64, however, is exactly as fun today as it was in 1997, simply because the conventions for rail shooters haven't particularly evolved since then.

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Topicthe legalization of weed in many states has killed the stoner comedy movie genre
adjl
03/25/24 9:40:47 AM
#22
Rasmoh posted...
Sure, some modicum of a black market would still exist, but it would be dramatically reduced and significantly less dangerous.

Yes, very much so.

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TopicCan you tell if this laptop has upgradeable storage?
adjl
03/25/24 9:40:02 AM
#7
captpackrat posted...
so it should be a very simple thing to upgrade.

At least, as simple as any other laptop upgrade would be. Modern laptops tend not to be the easiest to swap parts in, with many requiring you to remove the full keyboard assembly to access components. I miss the days of upgrading my 2007 laptop's RAM by just unscrewing one panel on the bottom and swapping in two new sticks. This laptop may not be as inaccessible as others, but without seeing a bottom view, I can't really tell.

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TopicWhen Trump says immigrants are poisoning the country
adjl
03/24/24 10:37:17 PM
#20
But then also being very deeply concerned about antisemitism whenever the subject of Netenyahu being a genocidal maniac comes up, which is certainly a very interesting juxtaposition.

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TopicWhen Trump says immigrants are poisoning the country
adjl
03/24/24 10:33:05 PM
#18
Count_Drachma posted...
I love that you still pretend to know history while making comments that directly refute you knowing any history, often within the same sentence.

It's been a while since we've seen Zeus whine about how Nazis are being treated unfairly. A part of me almost missed it.

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TopicDoes consciousness, awareness = life? An A.I. question
adjl
03/24/24 4:12:49 PM
#12
There's a pretty strong case to be made that a sufficiently advanced AI should be treated as sentient and afforded the same rights as any human. I doubt that will ever actually happen, though, given how long it took humans to recognize other humans as deserving of human rights.

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Topicthe legalization of weed in many states has killed the stoner comedy movie genre
adjl
03/24/24 1:56:14 PM
#9
Oregon just decriminalized simple possession. That's notably different from legalizing and regulating drugs.

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TopicWhy did trickle down economics not work?
adjl
03/24/24 1:52:05 PM
#41
EchoBaz posted...
Wait! Is Count Zeus's alt?

Yep.

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TopicWhen Trump says immigrants are poisoning the country
adjl
03/24/24 1:31:07 PM
#3
He probably doesn't actually mean anything, personally. He's just saying something vague and inflammatory and letting people fill in the blanks by interpreting it in whatever way best aligns with their views (whether that means crime, drugs, economic instability, racial purity, or anything else). It's a fairly common strategy he uses, allowing him to maintain plausible deniability whenever anyone accuses him of being bigoted, while still telling bigoted followers exactly what they want to hear so they rally behind him and vote for/pay him.

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TopicWhy did trickle down economics not work?
adjl
03/24/24 1:26:14 PM
#38
Count_Drachma posted...
The closer you get to perfect income/financial equality, the poorer societies tend to be. Likewise, as nations grow wealthier, inequality tends to increase.

Other way round, dude. If you're measuring a nation's wealth by its GDP, that's looking primarily at the performance of its wealthiest people and companies. That inherently means that as wealth inequality increases and more and more wealth gets tied up in the hands of billionaires who don't keep it liquid, GDP will go up. Conversely, GDP goes down when wealth inequality is lower and more regular people that keep a greater proportion of their assets liquid have a greater share of the pie.

"Wealth inequality is correlated with GDP" ignores the simple reality that GDP pretty much is wealth inequality. Focusing on GDP instead of personal purchasing power and other metrics that measure the economy in terms of everyone's quality of life only makes sense if you're looking for an opportunity to fellate a billionaire.

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Topicthe legalization of weed in many states has killed the stoner comedy movie genre
adjl
03/24/24 12:37:23 PM
#7
Rasmoh posted...
It almost assuredly would. If street drugs were legalized and regulated, much of the things that make them unsafe would simply go away.

They wouldn't go away entirely, since there will almost certainly always be a black market that offers cheaper products by skirting regulations, but offering a safe, legal alternative with a well-documented supply chain can be be consumed in supervised consumption sites instead of alone in a back alley would indeed go a long way to helping save lives and reduce addiction problems.

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TopicAi art looks better than "real" art
adjl
03/23/24 9:48:53 PM
#38
JOExHIGASHI posted...
I don't know how AI learning art works. Does it steal images or parts of images to create art?

Very broadly, the learning process involves looking at a wide variety of images and finding elements that are common to various descriptors. Then when you give it a prompt that includes those descriptors, it regurgitates some amalgamation of all elements it's learned that match those descriptors.

There's a ton more nuance to it than that, but the bottom line is that it has to learn from a set of images, generally getting better results the larger the set is. Those images form the basis for whatever it produces, so in a way it can be said to be copying parts of them, but where it doesn't strictly copy them it falls into a bit of a grey area as far as copyright goes. The legal nuance of that can be expected to play out over the next few years.

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TopicI think I'm gonna make geek necklaces my thing.
adjl
03/23/24 5:17:31 PM
#8
ParanoidObsessive posted...
Someone needs to figure out how to make the bracelets from Quag Keep (the first D&D-themed novel ever written - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quag_Keep ).

Basically, all of the characters have bracelets with dice in them, and every once in a while the dice will roll with various effects. Which is meant to simulate players rolling dice for their characters as an in-universe thing.

The easiest option would be to strap a phone to your wrist and use an app-based solution. That would, however, not be nearly as cool as devising something physical. Maybe a bracer with a series of those dice poppers used in board games like Trouble, each with a different type of die in it.

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Topicwill surface scratches on a phone screen hurt anything? effect touch screen
adjl
03/23/24 5:11:58 PM
#9
pikakaeru posted...
if you scratched up your screen it's already a little too late

It won't fix the existing ones, but it'll prevent further scratches or cracks that might be more consequential. Unless the phone is already so broken as to need a new screen or to be replaced, it's a good idea to get one.

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Topicbroke my arm today
adjl
03/23/24 4:13:11 PM
#2
Depending on how long your arm is out of commission, there are resources out there to 3D print accessories to let you manipulate the controller with one hand. Some of them can be a little pricey, but there's also a network that connects people who need these accommodations but can't afford them with people that are willing to donate their 3D printer time to supply them at a heavy discount. I was looking into this when I broke my elbow last year, though I didn't end up going for anything because I was only out of commission for two weeks (though I did really appreciate the accessibility value of Joycons, since I still had use of my hand and them being separate meant I didn't have to contort myself to line up my good arm with my sling-bound one).

https://thecontrollerproject.com/controllers/playstation/

As for games, no idea. Just thought I'd throw this out there.

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TopicWhy did trickle down economics not work?
adjl
03/23/24 1:51:51 PM
#31
"If we tax them less, they'll probably want to thank society by paying me more!"

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TopicI think I'm gonna make geek necklaces my thing.
adjl
03/23/24 1:36:59 PM
#5
ParanoidObsessive posted...
https://www.amazon.com/Kingdong-DND-Dice-Necklace-Interchangeable/dp/B0CQ82JR2M

Needs a quick-release button so you can roll by just leaning over the table and opening your necklace.

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TopicWhy did trickle down economics not work?
adjl
03/23/24 12:06:01 PM
#27
robbobmur posted...
No, I was quite clear, why are you misinterpreting what I said?

You felt it was an appropriately comparable example to bring it up. That's something you have an onus to justify.

robbobmur posted...
Just because the majority say so , doesn't mean a policy is moral , fair , or just.

If it's not, you can make that point by explaining out how it's immoral, unfair, or unjust to enough of a degree to supersede the will of the people. Saying "lots of people liked slavery" doesn't actually make a point that has any value in this context.

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TopicWhy did trickle down economics not work?
adjl
03/23/24 11:19:01 AM
#23
robbobmur posted...
What policy change is going to get the poor to invest in and practice wealth creating actions instead of spending their funds on necessities and luxuries?

How did you write this sentence and not realize the answer of "paying for necessities"? Like, even acknowledging that there's a lot of economic nuance to consider in order to actually execute that idea optimally, and there may be more effective ways to do it than just throwing money at people, that question just straight-up answers itself. If people's necessities are taken care of, that provides more opportunities to spend their time and the money they make on decisions that can increase their wealth. That's just obvious.

The problem with wealth disparity is not "some people have a lot of money and some people don't." It's "some people have an ever-increasing share of the money, leaving an ever-increasing number of people barely able to survive." There will (and I might even say should) always be people with more money than others, who are able to live in greater luxury than others as a result of their wealth. That's not inherently a bad thing. What's bad is when that spirals out of control to such a point that basic subsistence is beyond many people's reach.

robbobmur posted...
So was slavery , or Japanese internment during WW2, or any other transgression committed by the government of da people.

Just because it's legal by democratic vote ; doesn't mean it's moral, fair , or just.

Did you really just compare the mass imprisonment of thousands of innocent people to "maybe billionaires don't need to be quite so billionairey"?

OhhhJa posted...
Well, for one, if I didn't have to pay out of pocket for health insurance that'd save me some money every paycheck.

This one doesn't even need tax reform. The US already pays significantly more tax dollars per capita on health care than any other country in the world. That it gets such terrible results is purely a consequence of how much the current private insurance system inflates costs, not anything more tax dollars are needed to fix (aside from an initial investment to overhaul it).

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Topichow does the spear trap at the start of Raiders of the Lost Ark work?
adjl
03/23/24 10:54:31 AM
#7
By definition, if light triggered it, it has a photoreactive component. It may not be photoreactive in the sense that we usually use the term (namely, a photoelectric component), but in the strict sense of "it reacts to light," that is true.

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TopicStudent loan/Credit card debt
adjl
03/22/24 9:52:16 PM
#5
I've got about $12k left in student loans, which I'm paying off at about $200 a month with no interest. Credit cards are currently sitting at a combined $2300, but that's because I use them for everything I can. They'll be paid off well before payment is due on them; I think in all the years I've been using credit cards I've paid a grand total of 70 cents in interest because one time I was dumb and forgot to pay a balance of like $150.

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TopicI'm going to replay all the Zelda games in release order this year
adjl
03/22/24 9:45:30 PM
#42
I really liked the idea of the Depths, but the fact that there were basically only 1-2 biomes for a map the size of the whole overworld meant exploring it stopped being interesting pretty quickly. A little more environmental variety would have gone a long way to improving it.

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TopicWhy did trickle down economics not work?
adjl
03/22/24 5:01:29 PM
#7
Ogurisama posted...
It did work as it intended to

That too. It didn't work as advertised, but it worked exactly how those pushing it wanted.

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TopicWhy did trickle down economics not work?
adjl
03/22/24 3:13:33 PM
#5
Because the people who were given the power to decide how much wealth would trickle down like watching their own numbers go up more than watching other people's.

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TopicAMA: I'm back.
adjl
03/22/24 1:30:13 PM
#17
Well that didn't last long.

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TopicAi art looks better than "real" art
adjl
03/22/24 1:26:55 PM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
You could argue to which degree they influence the act of creation, but that's one mother of a slippery slope because every artist uses tools. There is a significant difference between someone who fingerpaints on a cave wall using self-crafted pigments and someone who draws on a computer tablet or manipulates a photograph in Photoshop, but they're all still artists.

That's the thing: Generative AI doesn't influence or facilitate the act of creation. It replaces it. Every other artistic tool simplifies or streamlines part of that act of creation, which may open up creative possibilities that would otherwise be inaccessible (like being able to select a colour from a wheel of 16.7 million of them instead of having to hand-mix pigments), but the actual act of creation still relies on the artist creating what they want no matter how many tools are available to help them express their ideas.

AI, however, does all the creation for you. Conceptually, it's identical to commissioning an artist to create something for you: You come up with an idea of what you want, you take that idea to somebody that has the skills needed to express that idea, and you work with what they've given you to fine-tune it to your needs/desires. The only real difference is that you don't have to pay for the commission because it's not a person doing it for you.

The line blurs a bit when you start talking about photography, but photography's in a weird space as an art form to begin with (the creativity and skill lies not necessarily in creating something new, but rather in figuring out how to capture something that already exists in a way that expresses the desired vision), so I'm fine with putting that aside because it doesn't lend itself to easy analogies.

Blue_Thunder posted...
Its uses for actual artists are limited, and it's more a tool for people for people who don't make art to make okayish images with minimal effort and for corporate entities to cut costs.

Pretty much. If you have the creativity and skill to create your own art, it's largely useless (at least generative stuff, AI-based enhancements can be helpful). If you don't, it saves you from having to pay somebody to shore up your deficiency.

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TopicUgh I want to text the girl who ghosted me so bad.
adjl
03/22/24 9:27:44 AM
#2
If it was real, she wouldn't have ghosted you.

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TopicAre pools usual?
adjl
03/21/24 9:31:15 PM
#6
grimhilde00 posted...
really depends on the area

Pretty much. If you live in an area that never gets super hot or has ready access to beaches? Not so much. If you live in an area that does get really hot and where there aren't many other options for swimming? They become a lot more desirable.

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Topichow to permanently increase testosterone easily?
adjl
03/21/24 6:54:02 PM
#2
Under absolutely no circumstances should you ever attempt to self-medicate a suspected hormonal imbalance without consulting a doctor to at least figure out if you actually have one. If you do have one, they can work with you to medicate and correct it. If you don't have one, you're going to create one if you try taking any sort of hormone supplements.

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TopicWho are we to decide what Dan Schneider fetish is??
adjl
03/21/24 5:58:13 PM
#66
Did you really delete your last bump in an effort to pretend you didn't double bump the topic?

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Topic2024 Video Game Hall of Fame nominees
adjl
03/21/24 4:41:24 PM
#32
Colonel_Lingus posted...
Curious if anyone would've voted Neopets, YDKJ, or Tokimeki Memorial... wish they allowed for expanded polls.

Neopets is a weird one. Its success paved the way for social media games like Farmville and Words with Friends and ultimately laid the groundwork for most mobile gaming and the whole concept of free-to-play live services (including design elements like rewards for checking in daily, time-gated progression, and social FOMO). It's certainly not the only precursor to that model (WoW's success is probably a larger driver of the live service model in premium games), so exactly how much can be attributed to Neopets is debatable, but that's a massive legacy whose presence is still felt very strongly in the modern industry, such that Neopets can definitely be said to have been a majorly influential game (we'll skip the semantic debate over whether or not calling it a "game" is accurate).

It's not, however, necessarily a *good* legacy. The live service gold rush has been a major driving force behind the trend of predatory monetization and design philosophies that focus more on engagement over fun, detracting considerably from the quality of games and causing no small amount of objective harm. To that end, I don't know if it's a legacy that necessarily needs to be honoured in a showcase of history's most influential games, particularly where Neopets was actually fun in its own right and therefore doesn't necessarily deserve to have such an unfortunate legacy attached to it.

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Topic2024 Video Game Hall of Fame nominees
adjl
03/21/24 8:32:02 AM
#29
darkknight109 posted...
Honestly, Minecraft - a.k.a. the best-selling video game in history - taking six attempts to get in is crazy.

That's pretty ridiculous. I don't really hesitate to call Minecraft the most influential game ever, given that it's possible to credit its success for the entire indie market (also popularizing sandboxes, survival crafting, and procedural generation, all of which have been huge since its launch). It should have been almost automatic.

darkknight109 posted...
Also, WTF is Barbie Fashion Designer doing in there? I can understand pretty much every other inductee except that one.

I balked at that one on the first pass, but looking at the blurb, it made more sense. It was one of the first games to be marketed specifically to girls, after decades of gaming being an overt sausage-fest, and it saw enough success to cement "for girls" as a worthwhile market to invest in. It couldn't possibly matter less for the kinds of games you and I play, but I can understand calling it a significant part of gaming history for the market it opened up.

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TopicI feel dirty, PotD...
adjl
03/20/24 8:21:43 PM
#12
ParanoidObsessive posted...
It's generally easy to work with the three dimensions if you remember 3/4/5 for the sides of a triangle (which TVs generally conform to), and only resort to the full a + b = c if you really need to. So I was able to, say, calculate out pretty easily with 44" wide I'd get 33" high and a diagonal/screen size of around 55".

That's an okay approximation, but it's really only accurate for 4:3 screens, so it's not the most reliable now that widescreen has become so standard. For 16:9 ones, using a 4:3 ratio to calculate will result in underestimating the width by ~25% if you start with a known height, or overestimating the height by ~33% if you start with width. That's offset a little in that the screen border tends to be a bit wider on the bottom to fit the controls in, but 3:4:5 is still going to be a pretty rough estimate.

Of course, I'm also the sort of person who routinely uses algebra to help with video games, so perhaps I'm a bit more of a stickler for doing the math than most.

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TopicI feel dirty, PotD...
adjl
03/20/24 6:10:42 PM
#8
I don't remember the exact context, but I ended up doing that in reverse once to figure out how wide a TV was that I didn't have definite dimensions for: Take the known diagonal measurement, substitute 9L/16 for the height, expand everything out and solve the equation. Add a couple extra inches for the screen borders, and I had the size I needed.

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Topic2024 Video Game Hall of Fame nominees
adjl
03/20/24 5:02:02 PM
#19
krazycharlie posted...
I'll go with Guitar Hero. I've had more fun with it than with all of the other nominees combined. Then again, this is just my personal preference.

GH is a weird one to include. It wasn't the first rhythm game, it didn't do anything particularly unique among other rhythm games (it's basically just Beatmania with fewer buttons, stuck on a guitar), and it hasn't really spawned much of a legacy. It's definitely been one of the most popular rhythm game franchises, so it gets some credit for that, but that popularity also got milked to the point of crashing the fad it started, which kind of negates that credit.

I also had a lot of fun with GH (specifically 3 and WT), but I really wouldn't consider it an Important Game in any regard. It was just really popular for a few years, then died out without leaving any lasting impact on the industry. In my mind, that's not the sort of game that a museum exhibit of the most influential games ever should even be considering.

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Topic2024 Video Game Hall of Fame nominees
adjl
03/20/24 3:11:44 PM
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Redfeather posted...
Metroid inspired a whole genre of games.

I was kind of on the fence about Metroid. It inspired the metroidvania genre, obviously, and that's a big deal because of how prominent the genre has become, but it was one of several contemporary games that did (off the top of my head, Kid Icarus was similar in a lot of ways, as was Zelda 2, and I expect I could dig up a few others), and it was Super Metroid (alongside SotN) that really formed the foundation for the genre. It has enough of a legacy to be worth considering, but I don't think it's actually the best game to represent that legacy.

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TopicMeme Topic 34: Memes aren't real
adjl
03/20/24 2:51:03 PM
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