AdmiralAsshat

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by AdmiralAsshat 6d ago
What's playable here is pretty much exactly what was shown in the Rare documentary video of the game from ten years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w72kj20YNA0&pp=ygUNcHJvamVjd... It strongly suggests what we
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"Project Dream" SNES Prototype Uploaded to Internet Archive(archive.org)
30 points by AdmiralAsshat 7d ago|4 comments
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by AdmiralAsshat 7d ago
Surprised Valve didn't try to step in. There was a comment from a former Valve employee that they had tried to recruit Kojima for an earlier project (probably Death Stranding) but got outbid.
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by AdmiralAsshat 7d ago
> Yes, it's like an seeing an issue of "Space Jam" from the original treatment Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QeG-noRMPs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsQZ9_NPWww
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by AdmiralAsshat 11d ago
"Millennials are killing diamond mines!"
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Cities are suing residents who try to take action against data centers(independent.co.uk)
7 points by AdmiralAsshat 15d ago|1 comments
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Insider: Red Hat is capping devs' bot budgets(theregister.com)
3 points by AdmiralAsshat 16d ago|0 comments
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by AdmiralAsshat 17d ago
Mac Mini's were really nice HTPC candidates, too, before the AI boom. Like all things genuinely useful and affordable, they were snatched from the hands of normal consumers by a bunch of schmucks chasing the latest gold rush.
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by AdmiralAsshat 26d ago
There's a contingent of enthusiasts who, once they find out a device runs Linux or can run Linux, seems determined to expose a terminal on it. I don't know why someone needs to SSH into their toaster, but damned if they're
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by AdmiralAsshat 27d ago
"In a browser" is always an option: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Sid_Meiers_Pirates_1987 https://archive.org/details/PiratesMacintosh There are probably others, but Archive.org is m
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by AdmiralAsshat 27d ago
Did you know about the CIA's DECADES-LONG FUNDING of Coca-Cola? I have a hot tip from my good friend the soda machine technician that the CIA regularly funnels THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS a month into the pockets of BIG SODA when they restock
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by AdmiralAsshat 28d ago
Didn't VCDs do the same thing? IIRC the Sega Saturn could play them.
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by AdmiralAsshat 29d ago
My engagement ring contains meteorite, supposedly from the Gibeon Meteorite, although the fact that a single meteorite is a component advertised in so many rings makes me somewhat suspicious as to the quantity or authenticity. But it look
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by AdmiralAsshat 29d ago
Article is missing the urban legend about "Bite the wax tadpole"
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by AdmiralAsshat 1mo ago
No Verizon support. :(
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by AdmiralAsshat 1mo ago
Introducing: Hepatitis C++
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Why your Amazon order confirmation emails have become so unhelpful(theverge.com)
4 points by AdmiralAsshat 1mo ago|1 comments
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by AdmiralAsshat 1mo ago
The UI has been a huge impediment in my getting into Squeak development. Every couple years I decide I will try it again, and then see that very little has changed. It's a shame. Smalltalk/Squeak/Pharo was supposed to be the
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by AdmiralAsshat 2mo ago
By that construction, it seems like "hard sci-fi" would allow little to no creativity to push the envelope unless the author is also a theoretical physicist.
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by AdmiralAsshat 2mo ago
Half of Star Trek would basically be "magic" by that rubric. I think she reasoned through a problem and conceived of a solution, even if she didn't have the implementation details figured out.
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by AdmiralAsshat 2mo ago
To wit, LeGuin is the one who originally coined the term "ansible," which is about as hard sci-fi as you can get.
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Winamp aims for a comeback with a new music player powered by Deezer(techcrunch.com)
4 points by AdmiralAsshat 2mo ago|0 comments
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by AdmiralAsshat 2mo ago
Of course, if Rebecca is to be believed (per the above interview)...that's not at all why they cancelled it. They cancelled it because Valve was pissed off with Apple for lying to them about the size of their userbase, and then unilate
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by AdmiralAsshat 2mo ago
I sure wasn't expecting to see multi-level-marketing company Cutco on the list of "Approved" vendors. I guess it depends on which moral failing you're monitoring.
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Nintendo says users voluntarily paid prices, have no right to tariff refunds(arstechnica.com)
8 points by AdmiralAsshat 2mo ago|5 comments
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by AdmiralAsshat 2mo ago
Don't worry, Microsoft is still leading: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-ju...
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by AdmiralAsshat 2mo ago
> Now here we are 7-and-a-half years later, and it's the #1 FLOSS media server Source? How does its install base compare to Kodi's?
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Democratizing Abandonware(geopjr.dev)
5 points by AdmiralAsshat 2mo ago|0 comments
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by AdmiralAsshat 2mo ago
Sounds like a great candidate to watch a LongPlay instead!
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by AdmiralAsshat 2mo ago
The article should add the excellent Marvel Graphic Novel adaptation of Neuromancer: https://archive.org/details/william-gibson-s-neuromancer-vol... It was a shame it never finished covering the entirety of the first n

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