Please don’t do that in headlines. It’s ugly to be distinct, and then that becomes the dominant strategy for attention, and then it’s ugly and also indistinct.

Right? It’s like calling all e-mail “spam.”

Relevant Tom Scott.

Using the spray tool isn’t much better. I’ve sent people PMs of their de-censored faces to show them how leaving 50% of pixels untouched is plenty of information.

This project has such a weird niche now that Bazzite is catching on.

The number of places you’d consider an XP VM - or god help you, actual 32-bit hardware - is steadily shrinking. If this project Just Works for programs with hideous picky installers, hey great, but that seems untenable. Sometimes even era-correct hardware won’t satisfy the wizard. Like this EXE knows it’s not not 2003 anymore, because the stars are misaligned, and your WinRAR trial has expired.

We ruined everything for Hollywood accounting and sportsball.

There’s DRM in your goddamn video cables.

Well, figuratively.

“Ice Weasel. Love is the everchanging spectrum of a lie.”

Mozilla has been kinda stupid since the browser was also called Mozilla.

Nooo don’t you know this is fundamentally different from manually photoshopping the same joke?!

Confused, full of cheese, unsure of the day of the week

I guarantee you’ve been unironically smug about “only a sith deals in absolutes.”

Mask on, mask off.

An anime called Chargeman Ken where “animation” is a generous compliment. Some action shots are three frames long. Most shots are static - with one alternating mouth motion, when characters aren’t just framed, positioned, or turned to avoid animating them at all. But it works. You are watching a clear story take place. It’s not a radio drama or narration. The story is terrible, because these broke fools were animating every first draft that could fill twenty minutes, but events occur onscreen in a sequence that you can follow with your eyeballs.

And the result is some dramatic presentation. One episode starts with characters watching a Godzilla knockoff. Buildings take time to draw, so you get two frames of an upward angle conveying Cheapogodzilla’s size. When the hero bursts into a room for an accusation, they’re framed at a distance, to avoid animating their face. The show is rife with all this dynamic perspective and foreshortening that even cheap CGI today won’t do, because they think they have to fill the entire frame with someone’s head. Cartoons with budgets get flat presentation because they’re trying to be sitcoms and clearly show off nuance and subtlety. Making absolute garbage for a fraction of the price takes so much more creativity.

The Playstation started as an SNES add-on.

It’s object-oriented; you can assign this to a named variable.

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Javascript straddling the middle as usual.

“Use the torrents, damn!”

I’ve gotta be one of six people on Earth who learned about it from Clerks: The Animated series.