You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Ok, seriously, if you're serious enough about photography to want to use a tripod, get yourself a real damn camera.
I was in the shower and I started thinking about my Nintendo-fanboyishness and how I would justify it. I kind of want to write editorials, but I suck at critical writing.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You know
Sometimes I feel weird for preferring the appearance of Super Nintendo games to that of Genesis games (despite the former being objectively more advanced) because it feels like I'm "betraying" my childhood
For me it's mainly the fact that Nintendo has been doing new stuff when they come out with new consoles. The 360 and PS3 are very good consoles, but they're just updates, not overhauls.
Poems with a well-defined overall metric pattern often have a few lines that violate that pattern. A common variation is the inversion of a foot, which turns an iamb ("da-DUM") into a trochee ("DUM-da"). Another common variation is a headless verse, which lacks the first syllable of the first foot. Yet a third variation is catalexis, where the end of a line is shortened by a foot, or two or part thereof - an example of this is at the end of each verse in Keats' 'La Belle Dame sans Merci':
If there is one foot, it's called monometer; two feet, dimeter; three is trimeter; four is tetrameter; five is pentameter; six is hexameter, seven is heptameter and eight is octameter. For example, if the feet are iambs, and if there are five feet to a line, then it's called iambic pentameter.[1] If the feet are primarily dactyls and there are six to a line, then it's dactylic hexameter.[1]
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
As far as consoles go, the Sega Genesis was one of the most tossed-together designs I can think of. Everything about it is off-the-shelf as far as components go. Not to say it's a bad system, but a little more thought should have been put into its design.
The Super Nintendo, on the other hand, was a brilliant custom design as was the Turbografx-16.
Also, the design of Nintendo's consoles are all a lot more aesthetically appealing than the competition. I don't know how to explain it, but the small, compact design, and the soft pastel colors are a lot more... the only word I can think of is "welcoming."
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
I dunno. That Sarah Lee cookie cutter design on the bottom of the SNES was always ridiculous, I thought. They should have stuck with the original Super Famicom design.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I dunno, the Super Famicom design is definitely better than the North American SNES's design, but I think the SNES's design was still more aesthetically pleasing than the Genesis, or at least the first model of Genesis.
Also, sometimes I want to buy an SNES, but then I realize this would require buying games to go with it. So I figure that's another one to go on the "eventually" list.
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
speaking of console design, I just recently realized that the Turbografx:
is damn near the exact same design as the PC Engine, except the left sideis extended like 2x its original size:
The reason for this is because NEC feared that Americans would equate a smaller-sized console with a weaker one. Ironically, it was the American gaming media at the time that really hurt the Turbografx the most, after its shoddy advertising campaign and poor software selection.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
So...what did they fill the extra space with? Because personally, my natural inclination would be to assume that larger but more lightweight console is weaker than a smaller but decently heavy one.
(Yeah, I know that's not always true, but for some reason I have the association that hefty electronics = good)
Just air, I think. There's also the attachment at the rear for the "Turbo Booster" accessory that's custom to the system -- the "booster" being a device that allows you to attach the system to your TV using RCA cables instead of RF which is really, really stupid because RF modulation is always the more expensive and hardware-dependent part (and shittiest quality) of a console hookup. It also had a memory and a battery for saving games instead of having to use the password feature, which was actually pretty clever for the time.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
The Colecovision, now there's an interesting hardware. It's basically the same hardware as the first MSX computer, and you could easily swap games between the two. The first Sega console was also this exact same hardware. The Sega Master System was the final evolution of this hardware design.
And the the first 16-bit home video game console was....
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Okay, yeah, my actual childhood was filled with books and little else.
It wasn't until I was about 12 that I got a PSone (those who know my age will notice this is long after the PS2 came out) but I'm still fond of it.
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
I wonder what Sega was thinking whenever they decided to put a stereo headphone and volume control on the front of the machine, but make the AV output in the rear be monaural sound only.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
The fact that it had a headphone jack to begin with strikes me as bizarre. I get that TVs were smaller in 1989, but not that much smaller. Who wants to sit close enough to a 26" TV to use headphones??
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
Well, it looks kind of ugly, too. On my current setup, my Genesis has an RCA Y-connector hooked into that front jack and into my home theater system. Having an extra wire running in front of the machine just makes it look messier.
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
One of the console warrior arguments I've always found more amusing than the school lunchroom battles of nintendo vs sega was the whole Playstation vs. Saturn argument, and the silly notions bandied around back then are still around nowadays.
My favorite is the argument of how well the Saturn handles 2D compared to the PS1. To a degree, this is true. The Saturn has hardware in the video processor that's specifically for manipulating sprites and backgrounds, and the PS1 doesn't. The reason for this is: by the time the 32-bit console era rolled about, there was no need for specific onboard 2D hardware anymore. 2D graphics and sprite/tile manipulation are the most basic things you can expect out of any sort of graphics system nowadays, and even the most stripped-down video chipset paired with a fairly powerful CPU and enough RAM (which the PS1 had) could be expected to hold its own in that department. What stifled the PS1 was its inability to upgrade its RAM like the Saturn could do, so the fighting game ports (Street Fighter vs. Marvel, King of Fighters) really suffered for it -- but that's about it.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I feel like playing SimCity but I don't want to build my own city
So I was looking for info on my rental Hyundai's drivetrain, and I found an article about a slightly older Sonata. The manual transmission is a bit odd:
6-speed manual
Gear ratios
First 3.27:1
Second 1.93:1
Third 1.70:1
Fourth 1.28:1
Fifth 1.03:1
Sixth 0.83:1
Reverse 3.59:1
Final drive 4.33:1 (1,2,R) / 3.25:1 (3-6)
The final drive is a split-shifter. You usually only see that on medium-duty trucks!
The automatic is less odd, but look how steep that 1st gear is:
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Poems with a well-defined overall metric pattern often have a few lines that violate that pattern. A common variation is the inversion of a foot, which turns an iamb ("da-DUM") into a trochee ("DUM-da"). Another common variation is a headless verse, which lacks the first syllable of the first foot. Yet a third variation is catalexis, where the end of a line is shortened by a foot, or two or part thereof - an example of this is at the end of each verse in Keats' 'La Belle Dame sans Merci':
Source: Cummings Study Guides[1]
If there is one foot, it's called monometer; two feet, dimeter; three is trimeter; four is tetrameter; five is pentameter; six is hexameter, seven is heptameter and eight is octameter. For example, if the feet are iambs, and if there are five feet to a line, then it's called iambic pentameter.[1] If the feet are primarily dactyls and there are six to a line, then it's dactylic hexameter.[1]
^I agree with that
^freakin' Colecovision