I was able to get a GameCube (a little beat up but works great) at a gaming convention. They sold some games in good condition too. You can also find this stuff at small local gaming stores. I’ve had some luck with ordering from Etsy but it’s much better if you can inspect the goods in person.
You can also find GameCube controllers at those stores, but the ones I’ve been using are the modern reproductions Nintendo has made the last couple times a Smash Bros has come out. You can find these on Amazon. They are brand new authentic controllers, so much better than you can find even at the best local game shop.
Nice hot take haha. Tbh I like being under-leveled in Pokemon because it’s way too easy most of the time. There definitely is some backtracking in Emerald, although I personally really liked the varied environments. I think it has a lot more variation than gens 1,2 and 4.
We don’t really detect direction of light exactly. Instead we detect the location in the eye where the light landed, and have lenses to focus the light onto our retina. That relationship does imply some of the directionality of the light, by ignoring light that goes in certain directions and relating the direction of light that does get detected to the location it ends up.
I looked into building my own keyboard, and then realized there are some excellent hobbyist tier keyboards that are 99% of what I would have wanted from building myself for like 30% of the cost.
I’m using the Hexgears Gemini Dawn right now, and I’m quite happy with it, but if I were to get a new one today I might go with something that supports QMK like the Massdrop CTRL.
The main 2 features I look for are hot-swappable switches and programmable firmware. Personally I like an aluminum frame and look for that as well.
You’ll pay about $100 for a prebuilt vs like $500 for building it yourself
CRF is the video equivalent of VBR music. The music equivalent of two-pass video encoding is ABR music.
When tuned for a specific file, CRF and two-pass video will give similar results. They both result in a variable bitrate encoding.
When using the same config on different files, you might find that two-pass encoding produces unnecessarily large files for something with little movement like anime, or has quality issues for something with a lot of movement like a lot of shaky camera or film grain. Meanwhile the same CRF setting will work well in just about any scenario, using more bitrate for files that need it, and less bitrate for files that don’t.
2 pass encoding is only to get the benefits of variable bit rate when targeting a specific file size. If you don’t have a specific file size in mind, that’s what CRF is for.
Using a song as an alarm sound only works if it’s locally downloaded in Music and there are some codec and bitrate restrictions as well, but this is never explained anywhere. I’ve had to figure it out by trial and error.
At the very least there should be a warning in the Alarm app when you choose a song as an alarm that isn’t going to work.
To add to this, iOS (and macOS) are very sensitive about what a file needs to have to be recognized as HDR. A lot of 3rd party HDR files just won’t render as HDR even though the data is all there.
This is the plot of Horizon Zero Dawn