JonnieCache

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Comment · 9 years ago

Free access to all past media online caused culture to suddenly halt just after the turn of the century, and turn from a directed timeline, where fashion mimicked the advancement of technology, into a weird swirling self-referential ironic vortex of ahistorical relativity.

This made me extremely anxious for a good while, fortunately the emergence of PC music has basically cured that: https://soundcloud.com/shhsecretsongs/gfoty-my-song https://soundcloud.com/pcmus/wannabe

Comment · 9 years ago

>chaotic nerdy

lol. What would be the opposite I wonder? Lawful preppy?

Comment · 9 years ago

Christ, I'd forgotten how grim these were.

Comment · 9 years ago

I've always wondered about the relationship between america's opiate habit and the afghan poppy harvest. The US army was burning millions (billions?) of dollars worth of poppies every year, to deny profit to the taliban. Could that not have been used to make pain pills? How do the incentives flow here?

Comment · 9 years ago

Really? I got 3148825 back within about two seconds.

Comment · 9 years ago

I wonder what the process is, as a google engineer, to get the artwork done for something like this? Do you just put in a ticket and some time later the SVGs turn up in your repo? Is there an artwork queue, or is it a political fight for access to the illustrators time?

Comment · 9 years ago

Works fine on firefox desktop for me. Its some kind of locale issue I think, as others have suggested.

Comment · 9 years ago

https://www.google.com/search?q=10m+timer

My favourite is still this though: https://www.google.com/search?q=3*cos(sqrt(x*x%2By*y))%2B5

Comment · 9 years ago

To put this in perspective, 60fps == ~16.7ms per frame.

That's 16.7ms to run your WHOLE game engine, you get some fraction of that left over to do rendering.

Comment · 9 years ago

This is indeed what they do. Mario Kart 64 is known for having the most egregious rubberbanding ever.

Comment · 9 years ago

In contrast, here's what is effectively an oracle machine playing mario kart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBNgbJ5hXtQ

(Amazingly detailed) info: http://tasvideos.org/5243S.html

Comment · 9 years ago

It has a user definable order of preference across all SSIDs which you can tweak in network preferences.

Comment · 9 years ago

Hyper Light Drifter, released this year, comes close for me. Imagine a cross between alttp and dark souls, with the art style and music of fez. It's superb.

It's not as expansive or elaborate as the snes marios or zeldas, but the gameplay is very polished and deep, and the plot is... well I won't spoil it ;)