> username checks the fuck out

Can't see the forest for the trees, or, more accurately for [$CURRENT YEAR], the fire for the flames I guess.

Did Climate Central grind out their flooding projections on a Beowulf cluster or something?

The sad thing about coming across a nugget of sense while reading through pages and pages of psychoposting on your user page is the realisation that sometimes, you are not like this. I can't imagine how depressing it must be for you to face the evidence of your illness (assuming you're self concious enough to backread from time to time) only to be drawn back into it before you can do anything about it.

I hope you get help, life must be exhausting for you.

The comments on that video are terrifying.. "OMG so smart".. "I never knew chimps were so smart!c etc etc.

Jesus fucking christ.

Yeah, that's fair, didn't really consider it like that. If you're demonstrating a technology, it's generally a good idea to at least provide the base functionality of the technology you're trying to improve was my point I guess. Maybe the AI renderer it can't keep up with a 180* whip around like you can do with mouse *shrugs*

When we're talking about Wolf3D, Hexen, Duke Nukem or Rise of the Triad, you go ahead, take a sip of water, clear your throat and prepare to chime in. Quake 2 was always point and shoot, and this sloppy AI fart doesn't even get that basic mechanic right.. Or get it at all.

Can't even use the mouse to drive, a fundamental of FPS games.

Large chunk of functionality missing? On brand for microshafts I guess.

> as it left the factory = no repairs?
Assuming the repair used OEM, or functionally identical aftermarket parts, repairs are fine. Replacing an OEM 4 way joystick with an aftermarket 8 way joystick (not functionally equivalent) like old mate Billy did, is not as it allows movements not intended by the game designers, thus making the game play different to the stock commercial cabinet. If they had a category specifically for DK with 8 way joysticks, he would be golden.

> The rules allow repairs.
Of course they do.

> As for coin slots being changed to differnt coins / tokens?
> card system?
> DBA?
> CC reader?
> free play button?
Do any of these have an impact on the function of the the game ROMs? How the sprites move on screen? The timings of the mainboard logic or how the play field is rendered? No. No they don't.

> What about official from the factory rom updates? That in some cases are installed in later runs of an game?
> factory official conversion kits?
There would be categories for each revision. The rules are available online, rev up that search engine my dude.

The whole premise of how Twin Galaxies operate their high score ranking is that the score must be done on original hardware, as it left the factory. Those are the rules you play by. Using a better stick is not using factory hardware, therefore the run was invalidated. You're in their house, you play by their rules.

> who really uses their ISP's DNS servers at this point?

90% of the population. Remember, you're on a tech site. Most people would be phones out, opening instagram from sheer boredom before you even finished the sentence "..numbers to a human friendly and readable format". This is why the internet is the cluster fuck that it is. Those who know are an unprofitable minority, their voices easily drowned out by the majority who will not only pay for shit on a plate and say "thank you", but they'll call you a paranoid freak for daring to suggest privacy, opsec and freedom of information are things worth fighting for.

Thylacine - Wiped out by humans because they were perceived as a threat to livestock.
Dodo - Wiped out by human introduced livestock and companion animals.
Mammoths - Hunted heavily by human, not helped by climate changes.

If our ongoing impact on this biosphere is anything to go by, nature isn't taking care of shit all.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.404media.co%2Finstag...

I would say this place has become a joke, but I don't see anyone laughing.

FPV is basically a standard feature on most respectable quads nowdays. There is absolutely no need for navigation lights when you have screens strapped over your eyes full of live feed from the drone (which would also block your views of the lights of course)

So again, why cover them in blinkenleds and make their presence so obvious? I'd be far more inclined to think it was someone trying to force the hand of government into much stricter regulation. Same vibe I got from all the activity around Heathrow Airport.. Whenever that was. Make them enough of a nuisance that regulators are forced to drop an even heavier banhammer.

Of course it is. The speaker shell is sealed to the body of the phone, and the speaker membrane is sealed to the shell. The thing would not be waterproof if not.