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I'm an oldskool gamer, coder, and demoscener. Co-created mobygames. I make videos about vintage computing at http://youtube.com/TheOldskoolPC . Existential nihilist.
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"It's Wizardy 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge".
And it would be nice if you linked back to the source of your screenshots. (This one was sourced from mobygames without attribution.)
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I admit my only reservation about the film is introducing too many Justice League people. It will be quite the trick to pull that off without requiring the audience to be intimately familiar with the DC Comic Universe.
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It's so hard to get nostalgia correct in a game, but I am cautiously optimistic for this one.
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My enthusiasm has actually gone up, because I'm only concentrating on the character work and the acting.
It's almost heresy to admit I enjoyed the Flash movie, despite all the problems with the main actor IRL, truly jank CGI, and deep fanservice. But I liked it for what it was trying to be.
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Which one?
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I don't think Sam could handle the Expanse, but he absolutely loves Pacific Rim.
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Final follow-up: Tai Chi Master and Edge of Tomorrow were shown and both boys (really grown men) loved them :-)
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All already shown. (This exercise gets harder every year!)
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A classic, already shown 🙂
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Already shown 🙂
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He's never seen the show.
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While not entirely in the vein of sci-fi action, I have a feeling he would like the humor, so thanks for the suggestion.
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That's not going to mean anything to him if he hasn't seen the TV series.
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Already seen the Matrix, but I'm not sure I've ever shown him Edge of Tomorrow. Good one!
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That was a previous Father's Day 🙂
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For Max, a coin-toss between Yuen Woo-Ping's best films: Iron Monkey & Tai Chi Master.
For Sam, his only request was "lots of sci-fi fighting"... and I'm drawing a blank. He doesn't like Star Trek; he's already seen the Star Wars films, Aliens, Total Recall, and Starship Troopers.
Any suggestions?
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Can you clarify "twats"? Meaning, are they: Clueless? Rude? Untalented? Overpriced? Pretentious?
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It has always driven me nuts that they shoot their on-camera segments at 30p, and deliver at 30p, when showing footage of film which is 24p. The judder during the film segments is super irritating to watch, and you have to wonder what else they are missing with such an obvious disconnect.
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Stock 6300 graphics were already enhanced; system had 32K VRAM, so it was capable of an additional 640x400 mode in 2 colors (and could also do 2 320x200 CGA graphics pages, but nothing used this).
If you meant the display enhancement board (DEB): I only found one for the first time a few years ago.
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No worries. Not a contest. I was in the right places at the right times.
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I don't think you'll need to implement any sort of queuing or traffic contention. The natural machinations of TCP/IP should handle that just fine. It's not like Reddit is going to slam it or something.
Alternately: Ask reenigne how he implemented the XT server.
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Mike was able to run an HTTP server on his PCjr servicing multiple connections at the same time, and it stayed up for 3+ months. The code is sound, and the speed of the NIC limits the impact. I don't think you have to take any special measures.
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I squandered it badly, and I regretted it.
When my flywheel is stopped, it's so much effort to get it started again...
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Of course, I need to get out of bed in order to do any of that.
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Why rewatch? There are plenty of good sci-fi series to pick from. I took a chance on the first season of altered carbon and was completely blown away ( If you haven't seen it, do not watch the second season. It retroactively ruins the first season.)
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No worries, just thought it might be useful.
I have also used Photoshop with custom palettes and ordered dithering, although I have ideas on writing my own converter.
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One thing I can agree with is that nuance can be very difficult to sense, and communicate, over a text-only medium.
It's possible I am reacting to "nothing has changed since the popularization of the internet and fast bandwidth", which might not be the point @dosnostalgic.bsky.social is making.
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I am arguing against your stance that global instantaneous communication has not affected your life in any way, which can only be said if you lived without any technology.
I think what you're really trying to say is that it hasn't made your life *better*. That's a different conversation.
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Letterboxing and pillarboxing was originally for preventing players and devices from stretching the content incorrectly. The public mindset for stopping that roughly coincides with the rise of Instagram. So it's been only a decade, I think? Sometimes bad practices take longer than that to disappear.
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More calmness driving a vehicle lowers continuous elevated stress levels which extends your lifespan.
Or: More calmness when driving can lead to overconfidence, not paying attention, and lead to a fatal accident.
I would call either of these outcomes a drastic impact to your life (no pun intended)
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Sometimes people never question things they were told. I have lobbied for years for one media archival organization to de-interlace their analog video to 60p at public showings so that the original art is presented properly. They cite outdated info for their 30p behavior and never question it.
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What I originally wrote and then erased is that it might simply be a matter of ignorance: They give these tasks to people with less experience, who just use an export preset.
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The fact that I can meet people with the same similar niche interests as mine, have a conversation with them (sometimes in real time), regardless of where they are located in the world, has absolutely changed my day-to-day life from 30 years ago and affected my life deeply.
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The fact that we can even have this conversation disproves this.
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I completely disagree.
The use of this technology has had meaningful, transformative, assistive impact in people's lives. It has also been used to destroy lives. Both have happened at massive scale.
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You had me until "yet so little had actually changed". The world is nothing like it was 30 years ago because of instantaneous communication to any device and any person in the world (which has had both good and disastrous consequences). *Everything* has changed.
Maybe I misunderstood what you meant?