Wait, (from the first link) the hiking emoji isn’t real either? Could have sworn there was one with a guy (and a girl one) taking a step while holding a walking stick/staff.

How do the emojis get selected/assigned? It feels like tugging on that thread might help resolve this. They don’t just randomly show up; someone decides to assign a unicode value, artists create the images for many platforms and emoji packs/fonts, code interprets the unicode and replaces it with the associated image.

One time, when I was tripping on a psychedelic, I unlocked a memory that is kinda like that but without the big lead in. It must have been a dream that was weird enough for my brain to record it but without any kind of reference point that probably would have never been recalled without the drugs.

But the memory was of hanging out with my friend at his old place and he wanted me to check out this David Blaine video (though it was the parody David Blaine that was messing with those two gay guys with the Cheez-its).

He’s doing some illusion that was cool on its own, but then it escapes the video frame and I realize this is something different, he’s not fucking with the people in the video, he’s fucking with the people watching the video. “Woah,” I say, and my friend replies with a knowing “yeah.”

Then it escapes the screen I’m watching it on and I can’t tell where the video ends and reality begins and then it hits me: my reality itself was just a part of this illusion (which has by then taken over my entire field of view). “Woah!” I say again with more emphasis. The “yeah” my friend replied with was dripping with finality. Then the memory just ends.

I didn’t know what to make of it when it came back to me. Or maybe it was made up in that moment. But even the memory alone was profound enough that I obsessed with it for a while. Reality can be weird in dreams but that’s the only time I can recall it actually breaking in a dream. The way his dream ended reminded me of that.

Though I have experienced something like that while awake. It was a salvia trip, actually with that same friend. Though in that one, our reality was folded into a single plane (like 2d surface) in a layer of planes that looked like a shelf of drawers made up of primary colours and basic shapes. Instant ego loss on that trip, too, so I had no points of reference. Then a voice (maybe my mom, maybe just a general idea of a mother figure) said it was time to go back, I said ok, and I became aware of the couch and room I had been sitting on and in the whole time.

Does he actually like that crap? I thought it was a show because he thought his base would eat up him liking that crap as well as making the elites who are used to 5 star chefs eat that cheap shit at white house events.

Unless this is also part of that act and they’ll make a show of ordering and sending some intern to pick it up and verbally abuse the workers, and then maybe make the interns eat it while he actually eats good food.

So the “many people” who say things are saying them sarcaatically?

However, since you have effectively ultimate power in that system, you’re able to wish for survival and even prevention of the complete collapse of your suddenly confined world. You have fun playing god for a while, maybe even a few centuries, but eventually it gets boring. You’re probing at the limits of your genie-entity’s power one year when it tells you that while it does not have the power to let you out of this little pocket universe, it is able to communicate with an entity that does have the power, but it comes with conditions.

You tell him to fuck off when you find the conditions are that you can only exit when someone rubs a vessel that contains a portal, that you must exit when they do so, and that you are obligated to fulfill 3 (and only 3, even if they request more) requests they make, though you are free to be creative in how you interpret those requests.

Of course, you end up accepting the deal before you later come to be at peace with just existing quietly, at which point being pulled out of your peaceful contemplative existence to serve some selfish twat annoys you as much as anything can annoy a transcendent being, which honestly isn’t that much but is enough that you bring maximum “I’m just going to fuck with you” energy, though you do have a strange appreciation for those who can specify a request sufficiently to limit opportunities to fuck with them.

I haven’t even watched 20 minutes about it and already know about as much as I want to know about it.

Microsoft is looking for it and it wouldn’t surprise me if they are paying a decent penny for it to try to stop the Linux gaming momentum the deck is driving.

It’s entirely irrelevant to me. I don’t care what the specs are if it’s just running Windows.

Could be that their audio playback is done by hardware reading from a low address buffer in parallel to the rest of the logic and just relies on that logic to update pointers otherwise it will run through the entire address space.

Or it could be their way of implementing a full address space dump on a crash without large amounts of storage available and that just includes the ROM because it’s a part of that address space. But in the video, they were able to get a 100% match for the ROM using an emulator, so this isn’t it unless they didn’t mention chopping off a RAM section.

It’s all data, whether that data is text, an image, audio, or a binary containing computer code.

Raw audio data is just a series of amplitudes. It has a bit depth (which says how many bits are in each amplitude sample) and a frequency (what is the change in time going from one amplitude to the next). Using those, you can convert it to an analog signal that can be played on a speaker. And if you use the same values to convert that signal back to digital, you end up with the same input signal (though with some random noise added and if you get unlucky and your sample phase lines up with the player’s transition phase, you won’t be able to extract the original signal, though it might sound similar). The multiple recordings help mitigate these issues.

Given that data format, any arbitrary file can be treated as raw sound that can be transmitted as analog audio.

The only real difference between this and other transfer methods we use to transfer files is that this involves a less reliable conversion from digital to analog back to digital because it wasn’t designed to do that like USB, COM, wifi, etc connections are.

I just hit the little up arrow. It was pretty easy, actually.

Even with good internet infrastructure that can handle the bandwidth, I’m not really interested in cloud gaming because of the latency.

Though I do think that it’s a better way to handle anti-cheat than allowing the companies to install rootkits in your kernel. And you can’t really get around the latency issue with online shooters, either you run the game locally and have cases where it looks like you hit on your end but didn’t on the server’s end, or you have a case where you hit the trigger on your controller when the shot was lined up but don’t see the shot go off until it’s no longer lined up. Ultimately, I think the latter is a bit better because then you at least see reality on your screen, even if it’s more frustrating to interact with. Better than a more interactive reality that is more like a hallucination.

I believe PlayStations tend to become profitable a few years into the cycle.

Being able to pivot is an important part of being a software developer. Technologies come and go faster than careers do.

Sometimes they do, but they usually have a golden parachute that makes it still a win for them.

It’s on game pass if you want a (potentially) cheaper way to try it.

Not only that, but most people who wanted to get Diablo 4 already got it through Blizzard’s store/launcher. Despite their drop in popularity over the last decade or so, they are still very visible, so it’s not like going on Steam exposed the game to many people who wouldn’t have been aware of it if they pay any attention to gaming news.

I only get mine from browsing Lemmy and formerly Reddit. I haven’t been paying any specific attention to Blizzard but I still knew when Diablo 4 was released and that the Overwatch I paid for has been replaced with a f2p Overwatch 2.

I usually read it as R2D2 at first.

His kid is doing really well, too! He’s in high school now, his English isn’t that great but he’s very assertive and confident. Harambe is raising him well. Even that brutal murder of the zoo employee didn’t cause so much trauma that Harambe couldn’t counsel him through it. They never did catch the killer…

What specifically about this post triggered your hatred?

On the other hand, I saw it on gamepass when looking for interesting looking games to try this weekend and passed it over. So even though I didn’t have to pay anything to try it, I didn’t. Maybe that’s a trend they are seeing on that platform, that interest is low even though it’s free access. Though it’s also competing with starfield and lies of P on there.