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"greets" to the Amiga demoscene in a 1996 PlayStation game(32bits.substack.com)
1 points by bbayles 15d ago|0 comments
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by bbayles 1mo ago
Also anorexia by another name in many cases, alas.
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by bbayles 1mo ago
A lot of it is anorexia by another name. There is a subspecies that involves compulsive exercise. Doing lots of athletics without proper nourishment is a good recipe for low performance and injury.
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by bbayles 1mo ago
Well, I knew from looking at a previous game that this development team liked to put Easter eggs on the About menu. That's why I looked there first! https://32bits.substack.com/p/under-the-microscope-three-dir...
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by bbayles 1mo ago
This sort of thing seems to have really fallen off after the Grand Theft Auto "Hot Coffee" scandal. Having hidden stuff in a game went from being a fun thing to a potential liability.
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Unearthing a 31 year old Easter egg in Ecco the Dolphin(32bits.substack.com)
133 points by bbayles 1mo ago|33 comments
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by bbayles 1mo ago
Anecdata, but an acquaintance of mine struggled with lifelong anorexia. Severe enough that he was hospitalized a few times. With great effort he could cling to the bottom of the "normal BMI" range, but his life was generally ruled
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by bbayles 2mo ago
There are short term and long term bonds.
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by bbayles 2mo ago
Debt-to-GDP ratio is useful for comparing the debt loads of two countries, but not terribly useful in assessing the serviceability of debt for a single country. That is, suppose two countries both have $100B in debt. One of them is a small
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by bbayles 2mo ago
Michał Zalewski's article on page 42 is very funny.
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Paged Out #9(pagedout.institute)
2 points by bbayles 2mo ago|1 comments
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The Star Wars-themed Easter eggs hiding in Alone in the Dark 2(32bits.substack.com)
2 points by bbayles 3mo ago|0 comments
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by bbayles 4mo ago
I've reported a few very serious issues to vendors of widely used tools in recent weeks, and it's been even more difficult than usual to get them to be acknowledged - the teams that respond are reportedly swamped.
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by bbayles 5mo ago
The developer of this tech demo also worked on porting Resident Evil 2 to Nintendo 64. This was quite the challenge - two discs worth of content had to be made to fit onto a single cart. In an interview, he describes several engineering her
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An unknown Sega Saturn project has come to light after 29 years(32bits.substack.com)
112 points by bbayles 5mo ago|2 comments
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Censorship on High Score Screen(32bits.substack.com)
1 points by bbayles 6mo ago|0 comments
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Using Ghidra to correct the record on a 24 year old PlayStation game(32bits.substack.com)
5 points by bbayles 8mo ago|0 comments
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by bbayles 8mo ago
LLMs are very good at understanding decompiled code. I don't think people have updated on the fact that almost everything is effectively open source now!
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by bbayles 8mo ago
I'm sympathetic to this view, but I also wonder if this is the same thing that assembly language programmers said about compilers. What do you mean that you never look at the machine code? What if the compiler does something inefficien
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by bbayles 8mo ago
Let's call the person in question Alex. Having to make every new feature Alex-proof made all of the engineers better.
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by bbayles 8mo ago
In order to avoid the endless cycle with the QA person, I started doing this: > This forced me to start making my feature proposals as small as possible. I would defensively document everything, and sprinkle in little summaries to make t
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by bbayles 8mo ago
I used to work with a QA person who really drove me nuts. They would misunderstand the point of a feature, and then write pages and pages of misguided commentary about what they saw when trying to test it. We'd repeat this a few times
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Recovering video game cheat codes from a long-defunct phone hotline service(32bits.substack.com)
4 points by bbayles 8mo ago|0 comments
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by bbayles 10mo ago
There's a typo in the URL here: > If you have a topic in mind but are not sure if it is suitable for Paged Out!, check out the Writing Articles page or contact us It links to `?page=writing.pho` rather than `.php`
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by bbayles 10mo ago
(channeling Patrick McKenzie) If you have an S&P 500 index fund, you're a shareholder in Microsoft. Call their Investor Relations people, or send them a letter with this description. They will probably be of some help!
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Every cheat site has the wrong code for Michelin Rally Masters(32bits.substack.com)
2 points by bbayles 10mo ago|0 comments
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How many video games include a marriage proposal? At least one(32bits.substack.com)
342 points by bbayles 10mo ago|86 comments
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by bbayles 1y ago
Agree on video games! I recently found a "developer photo insert" Easter egg in an old 3DO game: https://32bits.substack.com/p/under-the-microscope-total-ecl...
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Under the microscope: Batman Begins (Playstation 2, GameCube, Xbox) )(32bits.substack.com)
3 points by bbayles 1y ago|0 comments
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Reverse Engineering "DNA Sequences" in the Lost World: Jurassic Park Video Game(32bits.substack.com)
95 points by bbayles 1y ago|5 comments

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