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I make music using old hardware and write about videogame history. I dabble with game development and making cool little web things. Was big on TikTok, apparently!
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complete with the inevitable insulting '[this particular] modern engineer couldn't be accurate with the tools they used so there's no way they could have been accurate either either!'
You're right though in the effect is definitely multiplied if the ancient peeps come from a different culture.
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There's a bit of this with the (inevitable bullshit magnets) the Knights Templar. I can't remember the exact details, but it was something to do with the alignment of some of their French fortresses
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Blockbuster stuff never had that satisfying smell of mould + cigarette smoke we got from the cheap indie place. Did great Megadrive rental deals as well.
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UK TV in the 90s was great for these (not least because, along with questionable writing, the replacement voice actor sounded nothing like the original!) I wish they'd included TV version audio as DVD extras.
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I would also suspect that most of the gamers willing to spend £400 on a console probably already have most of the third party titles already.
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Ha they could be - it looks like they're all generated by AI (which was inevitable with something as shady as this i suppose)
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Yeah the grammar thing always bothered me too as did the sudden change of pronunciation of 'は' to match the Chinese '我'. You can use dictionaries to check individual words and phrases are correct, but I lost all faith that i was learning the languages in a meaningful way as they were actually spoken
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I moved over to Lingo Deer (which is better for East Asian languages) and, despite progressing relatively far with DL, have basically had to start from scratch because there are a lot of relatively simple concepts that the owly one just didn't cover.
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(related Actual quote) "URGH! Why do they even make war films? Who wants to watch something celebrating war?"
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In terms of raw numbers, the number of houses they hit probably wasn't large enough to skew a statistic. However, psychologically it did feel very much like they were omnipresent and getting away with it and the police weren't doing much.
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No Doubt Facebook etc doesn't help. In our village we had a gang turning up a few nights a week using repeaters to unlock and steal from cars. It took the police months to catch them despite them turning up regulalry and appear on multiple video door bells etc.
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(Not minor things either - eg, dad has altercation with some of the kids from the local school, they turn up on halloween a couple of weeks later and put a load of lit fireworks through the letterbox)
It's not just that they don't catch criminals, it takes such effort to get them to even try.
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I've only had to contact the police a few times in my life and a good chunk of those have involved police trying to explain how the crime isn't actually a crime.
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To be fair, it would be hard to organise a referendum in the 3-9 months he has left as PM anyway.
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In PGR2 if you joined a random game there was a 50/50 chance you'd end up in an unofficial game of cat and mouse (one player in a super car, the rest in minis) but you're right - I can't think of anything that has it as as an official game mode.
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there was also none of the modern requiement to keep up with the zeitgeist, so my friends and i were all playing Wipeout 18 months after the playstation launch because you could get a second hand copy for under a tenner.
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(for example in 1993 i picked up a job lot of Master system games for about £20. later that yeari grabbed.EEO Wing on the Megadrivee for a fiver. We had a dodgy rendezvous in a Little Chef car park to get the likes of Ghouls'n'Ghosta and Strider for a couple of quid)
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People also steer clear of Used EV's but that's silly - mechanically there's way less to go wrong than there is on a normal car and the unwarranted level of depreciation means its relatively straightforward to find a really good bargain.
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To be honest it wasn't something I was worried about - Because Nissan have stuck doggedly to the CHADMO fast standard i was less worried about running out of battery and more about running out of places to charge it out and about!
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It was the second and not one of the crap 40kwhs of that vintage either 😆
The leaf is the best and worst car to use for this sort of thing. The best because there are a lot of older ones still driving around so a lot of data, but no active battery heating/cooling.
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We got rid of a ten year old Leaf last year. It Still had about 80% of its new range and - crucially - the range didn't change in the 4 years we owned it. EVs don't have single big batteries, they have battery packs. If some cells fail you can pick them up with a warranty for about £100
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*watches son be taken out by someone who took the damage from half a legendary ammo clip
Epic: "we cant support Linux because of the cheaters"
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"no, we meant we are LITERALLY on your side. Both of them. Applying 500 pounds/square inch"
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In a way it makes it all the more frustrating! You have these companies which have a enough staff to populate a small city and financial resources thar are larger than the GDP of a small country, and they just produce...nothing.
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It's piggy-backed onto my existing home assistant setup so i have it setup with a cloudflare tunnel (which is overkill if you just want to connect to it while logged in at home)
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(Kodi would definitely take all your audio books and probably be a little easier to setup)
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I have all my ebooks saved to a Pi which doubles as a library server. I think you could do the same with audiobooks as calibre will take most formats you chuck at it. For your current library I think you should be able to just use FFMPEG to turns them into MP3s
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Sega never really stopped licensing/PC publishing did they? I mean in Japan licensed PCE ports were releasing at the same time as they were trying to sell the Megadrive.
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I'd say this is quite obviously fake, but the year is 2025 and stranger things have happened tbh
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Oh no, they've created an accidental academia engine!
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The only issue you might have is nVidia's Linux drivers are a bit rubbish (or at least they were - they were updated the other day so they may not be now.) Though having said that, when i moved over last year the only issue i had was a 2017 card
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Hurrah! The beauty of everyone chasing 10,000fps at 24k is that, if you just want to play the games, that's going to be absolutely fine (and if you want to upgrade it, you can get a mighty 1080p Gcard for another £250 or so later)
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I like the way he dances left and right as if saying "Oh god, not again"
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The one i have comes in a green shell with a 1997 copyright, based on the original DDG. You should be able to find it for a couple of quid add it to something else if you;'re importing. I'd love to find one of the ones with the little handle controls.
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Yeah! It literally goes 'bdum-bdum' in your hand as you go over the the sleepers, and speeds up as the train goes faster. I hadn't seen it in an LCD game either - though I haven't exactly played many post-rumble pak LCD games!
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I have the original LCD game and that one definitely looks like they improved the button arrangement a bit! Does the second one give the option of adding a AAA battery for force feedback?