MufinMcFlufin

Which season? From what I've heard Seasons 3 and 4 are significantly higher quality than 1 and 2, but I haven't seen them yet myself to vouch for that.

Security theater in action.

Out of the loop

Gen 2 doesn't have running, but it did indeed have a bike. Goldenrod City (the city with the 3rd gym badge) has a bike shop off the beaten path where the owner lends you a bike to advertise for his shop then calls you after you ride it enough to say you can keep it. The shop is on the east side of the city behind the department store.

The original GBC didn't have anything of a backlight. Although the earlier Gameboy Light was the first Nintendo handheld to have a backlight, the feature wasn't standardized until the GBA SP.

In fact, yellow never exists during the entire process.

I feel like you could argue yellow does exist in HSV. I'm not a professional in programming, working with light, or using HSV so I may be wrong but my amateur understanding of HSV is that the hue strongly correlates with the wavelength of the light omitted (with the obvious exception of looping red back around into blue through wavelengths that can't exist), the saturation strongly correlates with the purity of that wavelength compared to every other (uniform distribution across the spectrum means white, then only that one wavelength is the pure expression of that color), and value is the amplitude of the resulting wavelength(s).

In this framework you could set hue to be just yellow, make the saturation very pure (high saturation), then have whatever amplitude you need (whatever value). Of course most of the time in modern computing HSV values are going to be derived from and converted back to RGB values, but for a brief period of time between computations you could argue that the computer has an actual representation of "yellow" itself and not just its Red and Green components.

"People shouldn't be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people." -V for Vendetta

I used to think about governments in terms of the things I had to do for them (pay taxes, jury duty, carry my license while driving) or else what they'd do to me (fines or jail, usually). This quote helped me understand that this transaction is not one-way and that if a government fails its people then the people should hold it accountable.

Whether that's healthy for a given person, realistically possible, or if there's enough people who've been wronged to hold it accountable are different questions, of course.

Man you're making me want to replay New Vegas but I'm not sure I have that sort of time commitment right now. But it is so good tho...

I absolutely refuse to get a Switch 2 considering so much of what Nintendo has been doing especially lately, that being said the mouse controls I felt were potentially huge and I'm surprised to hear they're not catching on. Nintendo's own gimmick game for it obviously looked okay at best but more realistically a tech demo, but I felt like it could have been fantastic for plenty of genres.

FPS games on the S2 now could have much better viewing controls while still having analog movement (primary reason I use gamepad for GTA on PC is because I primarily play with vehicles and I vastly prefer analog movement instead of WASD for driving and flying), games that have occasionally intense menuing can swap between using the joycon and mouse mode quite easily (for instance MH when building armor sets), and games that are almost exclusively menuing (RTS's effectively dead as they may be as a genre) could control much better on console than they historically have before.

I felt like the mouse sensor had a lot of potential for making existing games feel so much better to actually play especially for PC players as opposed to things like the dreaded joystick controlled cursor or slow viewing rotation in comparison to potentially very snappy mouse controls.

In my opinion you really don't have to think to do quite a bit of stuff and enjoy yourself in Factorio. I think if you want to think about what you're doing you can figure out ratios, making nice blueprints, building circuits, and all sorts but I have a few friends who had hundreds of hours of fun in the game never once considering anything like "what would I need to get a full blue belt of green science?"

The anti-thinking approach would be "I need red science to get this tech, so I'll set up machines for red science", "my iron gears going into red science aren't keeping up so I'll build more iron gear assemblers", "my copper going into red science isn't keeping up so I'll build more furnaces", "I have more red science than my labs can use so I'll build more labs", etc.

Personally, I don't mind seeing the exact production numbers and doing a little math to figure out exact numbers of assemblers necessary, but it's just as valid to build more X assemblers until the X belt is full, then when X's ingredients start to run out you can repeat that process for its ingredients.

I could have sworn it went on sale exactly once specifically to raise funds for something, but I can't remember what. I assume for Ukraine, but I'm not seeing anything in their steamdb price change history, anything from their website, or any talk about a one time sale.

The only thing more frustrating to diagnose than a circuit that fails all the time is a circuit that fails some of the time. Trying to correct the issue becomes a lot harder if you don't have a way to reliably reproduce the problem.

With that in mind I think most of the time if a manufacturer cheaped out on making a less reliable component then the engineer designing whatever circuit it was going to be in would probably rather find a more reliable chip, create a different, more reliable alternative to the problem, and/or try to omit that feature entirely. And I think if the manufacturer started cheaping out on those chips after the fact then it would be a stain on their reputation as suppliers of no longer reliable parts.

For every few cents the manufacturer might save on lowering the quality of an existing part they're likely going to lose many more dollars on engineers no longer trusting that manufacturer to continue to provide parts they want to trust will be good when they're producing their second 10,000 unit batch for the same circuit, or when that engineer is 5 projects down the line and needs that chip again.