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  • Tony hawk pro skater 2, played it often when it first came out and hearing about the 3/4 remake coming out soon reminded me of the games and it's been decades, I wanted to see if it holds up. It's showing some age in the fighter combo style tricks and arcade style levels, but the soundtrack is still good, and progression with unlocking stats and levels through goals is fun and wanting to beat a goal after failing a couple times keeps me coming back.

  • Maybe he should shoot for something more attainable for someone of his capability, like a Darwin award

  • Good stuff, og Gameboy was my first handheld I have a lot of fond memories of those games like Zelda, WrestleMania, Castlevania, etc

    These days I'm less on mobile gaming I have batocera running on a raspberry pi 4 in one of those small acrylic cases and a small fan

  • Valhalla Rising and Beyond the Black Rainbow are both low on exposition and focus a lot on building an ambiance around the wilderness or a false sense of nostalgia

    edit: Unbreakable has some great cinematography and framing with really long holds between cuts by today's standards, slows the visual pacing but makes it feel way more epic and suspenseful

  • Hume had something like the wise apportion their confidence to the evidence, and Carl Sagan's extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence can apply. So if those are true the quality and type of data is going to depend on the claim of fact (friend says they bought a dog vs a dragon), and the amount of evidence depends on the claim and your general standard of evidence. If you're lowering or raising your standards for a specific claim that's usually going to mean there's a bias for or against it.

    tl;dr 42 pieces of data

  • Tricorders, cellphones are already partway there they just need more durable, small sensors like a handheld light spectrometer to tell what things are made of and a handheld interferometer to detect gravity

  • A couple trip highlights I have are drinking with friends watching the sun set on the Arabian Sea in Goa, and hiking around the Grand Canyon with my grandparents after driving across the US with a sibling to get there

  • sl is a classic command line program for something harmlessly pointless

    calibre for digital library software (cataloging books/docs/articles)

    Comic book reader, it's a cbz/CBR comic book archive reader that tries to do the panel/smart auto zoom that used to be a part of comixology until Amazon bought it to kill it as competition to their shitty books app

  • I suspect this is going to be true of pretty much any publicly accessible social media in general, parental controls built into the app or browser user access controls for censoring, time limits, or keeping them on a family friendly instance seems to be the right move

  • It would have been around the time of the EverQuest release I got cable Internet, before that it was dial up shared with a frequently used house phone (11 people in the house). Mostly used dial up for web sites like geocities and forums and instant messenger chats (Yahoo, MSN, icq, etc).

  • Connecting ads masquerading as posts to bot posts shilling the same crap, got it

  • It's a sub problem within the field to try to predict good enough values to default to, search terms like optimizing hyperparameter values minimizing a loss function

  • Redshift, it changes the brightness/color on the display bluer closer to midday and redder at night. Twilight is a similar app on android.

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  • I'm a lumberjack in Antarctica, the pay is mostly commission based

  • j'accuse and pamplemousse are pretty good and fun to say

  • It's just a tool, like a search engine or a guillotine

  • The first level of MegaMan x and good springs in fallout: New Vegas are really good examples of how to convey info to the player about how the game works and what you can do without pulling you out of the game itself into a separate tutorial

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  • Yeah having the emotional content from the dream can change short term emotional and intuition reactions even if you recognize there's no logical, rational reason for it. Best you can do is just be aware of the unfair biases our brains sometimes construct and try not to let it change your behavior.