Tolkien estate usually doesn’t like their words used in random stuff. Sometimes I think they’re bordering on control freaks, but in that particular case, yeah, nuking that shit and forcing them to change their name wouldn’t seem unreasonable to me.

If they’re not aware of it, maybe someone should tip them.

"See, on this diagram, that part of the global population represents the users we can legally identify, because they’re not minors.

_ So, who’s in the rest of the diagram?..

_ This is a mystery to everybody."

X used self-destruct.

Yes, so much yes. I’ve got that on mine too, and it’s a pain. it has very small, close “buttons” too, setting the temperature is an exercise in accuracy, when it reacts at all.

And yes, the tiniest drop of water fucks everything up completely.

Capacitive buttons on anything are annoying, they’re unreliable as fuck. They might trigger with the slightest accidental touch, but then they’ll act like your finger doesn’t exist for a dozen pushes.

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Bright colour on dark background makes sense IMO.

This, however :

https://www.digitalretropark.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cpc-01-1320x990.jpg

My 80’s computer was (by default) bright yellow text over bright blue background.

It probably sounds quite bad. It was. You could change that with a few commands but you’d have to do it each time you boot the thing, and I didn’t bother, it was “normal” to me.

That didn’t prevent young me from spending hours copying lines of BASIC code from magazines, but it was tiring. Nowadays I’m just like, seriously, who thought that colour scheme was a good idea?

[De Beers] stating that the economics of lab-grown diamonds for jewelry were not sustainable.

“That’s cheating, we can’t throttle the market of these shiny rocks! The indistinguishable ones you need are still those we’re killing people for!”

I hope one day you can make a perfect gemstone for the cost of a burger, so people just stop caring about them at all.

The article mentions both. Meta is still complaining about GDPR.

Sounds like it’s working to me.

Zuckbot, comply with GDPR or forget about EU.

That’s the same timeframe as the one used in the article, and sure, they could have made it explicit again, but implicitly it makes sense because it’s the one that’s useful for a direct comparison.

Turns out, the implicit timeframe that should be clear after reading the article was the right one, and it’s pretty damning for bitcoin as is. So again, I am not sure what point you want to make.

In 2023, Microsoft and Google consumed 48 TWh of electricity (24 TWh each).

Your point?

The data in the article was for one year. This is the same unit.

What, you’ve never seen that famous city with two Huawei and one Ericsson buildings, a six-floor Eiffel tower, a dozen random pylons per block, blue neon streets and a castle?

Every time stuff like this is mentioned, I’m just wondering…

Dude, even if you’re put on ice for like 40 years, extremely generous estimate, who’s going to care about bringing you back to life? Grandkids who barely even knew you? Your company shareholders who’d suddenly have to deal with a stupid caveman amongst them?

You’ll literally be better off dead for everyone.

The more time passes, the worst. Guaranteed, someone will pull the plug long before science can resurrect you.

I’m more intrigued by the terrible music and abandoned plot points and glitches and whatever.

Good games are obviously great, but sometimes, you experience something so utterly broken it becomes entertaining, almost endearing. In a “congratulations for going all the way to release that, but what the hell happened” kind of way.

Looks like something like that is happening here, according to the translator.

I… kinda want to play this now to be honest.

Both screens were also just awful about blurring during fast movement. Nintendo wisely avoided it altogether,

While mostly true, they should have told Rare too. Between blurring and bad contrast, Donkey Kong Land was almost unplayable.

(By the way, screens with bad blurring from fast moving stuff were still a thing for a long time after that. Dracula X Chronicles for PSP had the original PC-Engine Rondo of Blood in it. Small, fast black bats on a bright background were almost perfectly invisible)

I’m pretty sure the gamegear lost that war because it couldn’t really be used as a handheld. Not with that battery life.

The game boy may have been a very limited system, but you could bring it with you and play Tetris for hours and hours… or for its second wind, show your pokémon to everyone at school.

I like Minish Cap but my one problem with it is WHY THE FUCK CAN’T I MAKE A HOUSE FOR THE THIRD ORACLE???

I mean, there are clearly a building site for it and dialogue hints for a third house. They obviously shipped the game with an unfinished side quest, I spent hours trying to get it.