hoverburger
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hoverburger
1mo ago
Assuming you're not asking for expert difficulty, I'll happily take the other side of that bet. Even if you are, I'll still probably take it - Through the Fire and the Flames is not a required song to beat the game. I think you're underselling the difficulty of older games, and I'm somebody who has cleared TtFatF on expert (barely - Rock Band 3 has much tighter timing and sells the song as DLC I can't do it there, so I'm not a god or anything). Battletoads is mean. Turbo Tunnel is called out as impossible even though it really doesn't take more than 10 minutes of practice if that (the final stretch literally just alternates up and down rapidly), but it gets so much worse later.
I'm highly confident that the average difficulty of reaching the end credits without modifying difficulty settings of a popular game from the 90s was higher than the same in the 2010s, though I can't find any studies saying so.
hoverburger
1mo ago
Neither left nor right nor black nor white nor lyrics nor beat shall move me - your essay has no impact on the likes of me.
I ask of music but one thing: give me a pleasing and memorable melody or leave my ears in peace. Hip hop seems disinclined to provide, so into the trash it goes.
hoverburger
1mo ago
It will blow over, because it is missing the primary ingredient that caused GG to explode: topic ban. GG got huge because there was a scandal (rightly or wrongly, not weighing the original spark) and people who wanted to talk about it were not allowed to - even on 4chan. This lent an air of "what else are they hiding" to the whole game journalism industry, and then it all snowballed. It always confuses me when people don't understand that part, or that phenomenon in general. This time, no dice. There's no undercurrent of hidden misdeeds, it's just a discussion about a disliked group doing disliked things in the (relatively) open.
hoverburger
3mo ago
A warrant lets specific authorities in to a specific place for a specific period of time. Unencrypted data doesn't know or care about the who or the when - it can be copied infinitely, in perpetuity. The risk profile is not the same. One single unscrupulous copy operation, or even a short residence on a machine that has a security hole and a curious onlooker, is all it takes for the genie to get out of the bottle.
hoverburger
9mo ago
Don't count Intel out yet. Institutional inertia at enterprise scale is a hell of a thing, and all it takes is one big breakthrough to get most/all of the performance- or value-conscious people to switch sides. They can coast for quite a few more years while they try to pull a miracle out of somewhere.
hoverburger
10mo ago
If this "nerd leer -> possible rape" behavior set is genetic, and if we shut down the rape with bullying early in the line, then how does the gene continue to propagate? Certainly bullying is now a much lesser force, but there were several decades with prominent bullying and yet the nerd behavior set remained ever present, if not growing.
Join the Federation, circa ~2360. Excellent fit, and a good measuring stick besides. Would somebody be uncomfortable as a member of Picard's crew? If so, they're not likely to be an ally to you or me.
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