/miko comments on old games no one has cared about for over a decade
You're better than me
My avatar is of a character from an old show most people don't even remember and I just pretended to buy a studio most people don't even remember exists
More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
^^ *pat pat*
and I spent a few hours today reading about two decades since defunct video game developers and watching gameplay clips of old, obscure, and in some cases, really crappy shmups. ^_^
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 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
For some reason the fact that almost all of Windows's default drivers are dated 06/21/2006 tends to grate on me after a while
Partly because it's an indication of how little has actually changed under the hood since Vista
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
If you could run Metro apps in a windowed mode, they'd be 26% less useless
I know, I know, that would defeat the purpose of having Metro to begin with, but when we're talking about apps from the Windows Store on an operating system called Windows 8.1 I don't think it's unreasonable of me to want to use them as fucking windows
You know how Windows font rendering is really awful when you're using fonts that didn't come with Windows? It's even worse when you're working over RDP and it fucking has anti-aliasing turned off. X.X
"Real life is becoming indistinguishable from the movies. The sound film, far surpassing the illusion of theatre, leaves no room for imagination or reflection on the part of the audience, who is unable to respond within the structure of the film, yet deviates from its precise detail without losing the thread of the story; hence the film forces its victims to equate it directly with reality. The stunting of the mass-media consumer's powers of imagination and spontaneity does not have to be traced to any psychological mechanisms; he must ascribe the loss of those attributes to the objective nature of the projects themselves, especially to the most characteristic of them, the sound film. They are so designed that quickness, powers of observation, and experience are undeniably needed to apprehend them at all; yet sustained thought is out of the question if the spectator is not to miss the relentless rush of facts.
I'm annoyed at how that Dresden Codak strip about caveman science fiction gets used whenever a film does a "let's be cautious about science and the morality of what we're doing" message.
I mean bad films do a cargo cult "SCIENCE ARE BAD" message sometimes, but that's not what Godzilla or Jurassic Park are trying to get across, really.
It's sort of like how the "scientist who is horrified at the applications of technology meant for peaceful purposes being misused for war" trope doesn't show up that often anymore.
It's sort of like how the "scientist who is horrified at the applications of technology meant for peaceful purposes being misused for war" trope doesn't show up that often anymore.
I loved that trope, and it was such a good one, too. So many brilliant scientists have ended up horrified at how their discoveries have been misused. It's not the scientist's fault, it's the industry, the military, the practical-minded people who are concerned with base crap like "economics" and "politics" and "the situation".
It's sort of like how the "scientist who is horrified at the applications of technology meant for peaceful purposes being misused for war" trope doesn't show up that often anymore.
I loved that trope, and it was such a good one, too. So many brilliant scientists have ended up horrified at how their discoveries have been misused. It's not the scientist's fault, it's the industry, the military, the practical-minded people who are concerned with base crap like "economics" and "politics" and "the situation".
Yeah.
Now it just seems like "give me money military industrial complex omnomnomnomnom"
The screenos and vaudevilles in the movie theatre, the competitions for guessing music, the free books, rewards and gifts offered on certain radio programs, are not mere accidents but a continuation of the practice obtaining with culture products. The symphony becomes a reward for listening to the radio, and – if technology had its way – the film would be delivered to people’s homes as happens with the radio.
Advertising and the culture industry merge technically as well as economically. In both cases the same thing can be seen in innumerable places, and the mechanical repetition of the same culture product has come to be the same as that of the propaganda slogan. In both cases the insistent demand for effectiveness makes technology into psycho-technology, into a procedure for manipulating men. In both cases the standards are the striking yet familiar, the easy yet catchy, the skilful yet simple; the object is to overpower the customer, who is conceived as absent-minded or resistant...
The more completely language is lost in the announcement, the more words are debased as substantial vehicles of meaning and become signs devoid of quality; the more purely and transparently words communicate what is intended, the more impenetrable they become...
The most intimate reactions of human beings have been so thoroughly reified that the idea of anything specific to themselves now persists only as an utterly abstract notion: personality scarcely signifies anything more than shining white teeth and freedom from body odour and emotions. The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through them.
My response: Dude, man. I totally feel you about that shining white teeth and freedom from body odor and emotions. And man, if you could see what advertising would become. I'm sorry, man, we couldn't stop film from being delivered to people's houses. Also, I like how you talk, but I can't really say it's good, because your slightlyobtuse style inspired a buncha uppity twits in places like Lesswrong.
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and I spent a few hours today reading about two decades since defunct video game developers and watching gameplay clips of old, obscure, and in some cases, really crappy shmups. ^_^
oh I also spent a few hours scouring the internet for lost replay videos of two-decade old arcade games by players who have quit gaming...
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
~gained 25 exp, stockings, 100 bitcoins
When did the definition of gentleman become "A crazy stalker"?
"Real life is becoming indistinguishable from the movies. The sound film, far surpassing the illusion of theatre, leaves no room for imagination or reflection on the part of the audience, who is unable to respond within the structure of the film, yet deviates from its precise detail without losing the thread of the story; hence the film forces its victims to equate it directly with reality. The stunting of the mass-media consumer's powers of imagination and spontaneity does not have to be traced to any psychological mechanisms; he must ascribe the loss of those attributes to the objective nature of the projects themselves, especially to the most characteristic of them, the sound film. They are so designed that quickness, powers of observation, and experience are undeniably needed to apprehend them at all; yet sustained thought is out of the question if the spectator is not to miss the relentless rush of facts.
It's sort of like how the "scientist who is horrified at the applications of technology meant for peaceful purposes being misused for war" trope doesn't show up that often anymore.
Now it just seems like "give me money military industrial complex omnomnomnomnom"
The screenos and vaudevilles in the movie
theatre, the competitions for guessing music, the free books, rewards
and gifts offered on certain radio programs, are not mere accidents but a
continuation of the practice obtaining with culture products. The
symphony becomes a reward for listening to the radio, and – if
technology had its way – the film would be delivered to people’s homes
as happens with the radio.
Advertising and the culture industry merge technically as well as
economically. In both cases the same thing can be seen in innumerable
places, and the mechanical repetition of the same culture product has
come to be the same as that of the propaganda slogan. In both cases the
insistent demand for effectiveness makes technology into
psycho-technology, into a procedure for manipulating men. In both cases
the standards are the striking yet familiar, the easy yet catchy, the
skilful yet simple; the object is to overpower the customer, who is
conceived as absent-minded or resistant...
The more completely language is lost in the announcement, the more
words are debased as substantial vehicles of meaning and become signs
devoid of quality; the more purely and transparently words communicate
what is intended, the more impenetrable they become...
The most intimate reactions of human beings have been
so thoroughly reified that the idea of anything specific to themselves
now persists only as an utterly abstract notion: personality scarcely
signifies anything more than shining white teeth and freedom from body
odour and emotions. The triumph of advertising in the culture industry
is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though
they see through them.
My response: Dude, man. I totally feel you about that shining white teeth and freedom from body odor and emotions. And man, if you could see what advertising would become. I'm sorry, man, we couldn't stop film from being delivered to people's houses. Also, I like how you talk, but I can't really say it's good, because your slightlyobtuse style inspired a buncha uppity twits in places like Lesswrong.