mindbleach @ mindbleach @lemmy.world

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"How to" is an explanation. "How do I" is a question.

Cheese, Harry!

Much nicer.

IIRC the original Xbox has even worse emulation, to this day, despite being infamously close to a stock PC.

What makes RDR's emulation struggles noteworthy is that it's a highly desirable game that still took ages to unfuck. Most nightmare cases for emulators seem to be random D-list titles. Pinball Fantasies on Game Boy had incomprehensible crashes, early and reliably, for no discernible reason. True Crime New York on Gamecube was a white whale for Dolphin despite being absolute garbage.

RDR was a huge deal for its own sake - and it ran bad, looked worse, and stayed that way for a while. Back in the day it was common for emulators to only work properly for big-name games. NESticle and SNES9X absolutely cheated to run major titles. Early N64 development was nothing but. So having this killer app refuse to work, year after year, was a lingering presence in people's minds.

Finally getting it working, only to have a nearly painless alternative drop, is pretty goddang funny.

Anyway it's something like data:text/html,{script} ac = new AudioContext(); wn = ac.createScriptProcessor( 4096, 1, 1 ); wn.onaudioprocess = (e) => e.outputBuffer.getChannelData(0).forEach( (v,i,a) => a[i] = Math.random() ); wn.connect( ac.destination ); {/script} except with whatever dark wizardry makes output reach a speaker.

Also I'm not sure .forEach works on whichever array-like type was chosen for audio channels. This stupid language has so many incompatible and incomplete array implementations.

edit: And angle brackets on script and /script, because this stupid website fucked up its Markdown. Preventing random HTML strings in comments: excellent, necessary, obvious; it is not 1999 anymore. Doing so by deleting the entire goddamn thing as if you parsed it before removing it: DEEPLY TROUBLING.

I'd have a Javascript one-liner producing white noise, except web audio is a Gordian knot of inscrutable identical-sounding types and contexts and maps and whateverthefuck. Documentation reads like they forgot to implement it and hoped nobody would notice.

How do you generate noise? Well you need a sink. How do I get a sink? Well you need an event. How do you get an event? Well you need a processor. How do you get a processor? Well you need a context. How do you get a context? Well you need a node. How do you get a node? Well you need a sink. I'm going to stab you now. Understandable.

Hilarious, after the tortuously long road Xenia took to get there.

White noise is literally random numbers. Your machine can do it using approximately zero percent of its available resources.

In a very real sense, any single transistor can do it, and computer engineering is an effort to keep them from doing it.

Rio is a pinwheel!

Famously compressible white noise.

Doesn't need to be hot, if you swing hard enough.

That's why you do your friend's. Teamwork makes the dream work.

And you gotta get that mid-sack seam ironed out. It's unbecoming.

Yeah why tell kids about puberty until they're done with it?

Applying logic to bigotry is a waste of time. It's just ingroup loyalty. The rest is mouth noises. They won't be clever noises, and they won't be consistent noises.

Suspension of disbelief doesn't mean Harry Potter gets a lightsaber. There are rules.

Reality is a team sport, to some people.

So why is Harland Williams watching Chris Evans do pottery?

"Yet you participate in society. Curious."

The root issue with centralized forums is that they work.

Homer: "It's just a little fascist! It's still good, it's still good!"