yukichigai

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (11 children)

Which ones and why?

I sense a fun story and I'm here for it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

I just ate a burrito for the glory of the Empire!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

From everything I've read, most of the "devs" haven't done any actual work on the game past the initial brainstorming session. The "demo" video shown was just a mock-up.

I mean I'm not surprised since everything relating to the Amico seems to be lies and vaporware, but it's still disappointing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I loved their first album, listened to it a lot. Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja and The Fake Sound of Progress are both amazing tracks. Unfortunately they're both vocalized by a literal baby rapist, so it's hard to rock out to them now. Asshole wrote the tracks too, so I doubt No Devotion will ever cover them.

As for Guns N' Roses, a friend pointed out something that's been living in my head for months now: Axl Rose is the Starscream of Guns N' Roses.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Who would've thought that making your product more readily available would increase sales? That's so much more counterintuitive than "double down on NFTs and release schedules that require knowledge of calculus to figure out."

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

Seriously. For the same price as McD's I can go to In-n-Out. That's just comparing fast food places. For the price they're charging for a Quarter Pounder I may as well go to a sit-down restaurant.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

If you compare that to the average cost of living in Japan it's a bit closer to $300 in terms of spending power.

Either way it's a lot cheaper than I'd expect to have to pay anyone for sex work, much less something that blatantly illegal.

Oh, as for the age of consent thing that change just made it a national crime. Every prefecture in Japan had already raised the age of consent to 16 (or higher) well before last year. The only places it didn't apply were some remote military bases and IIRC the portion of Antarctica that Japan claims. Still a good move but it's not like Japanese pedos were just having sex with 13-year-olds without consequence before then.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There? Really? There is where you draw the line? Killing a dog is fine, but lying about meeting a dictator is too far? Just trying to keep track here.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Rolled Japanese style, aka tamagoyaki. That is really difficult.

Over easy is as easy as the name though.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

Screw it, go make the actual Starship Troopers game not suck. That thing is in dire need of help.

[–] [email protected] 108 points 5 months ago (19 children)

While 177 countries sounds like a lot, it's not where the majority of players are. PSN operates in the top 15 countries by GDP and the top 4 by population.

Of course there's still the question of why they work in so few countries when literally none of their competitors (that I know of) have those limitations.

 
 

Parent, student, or staff, what's the dumbest damn regulation you've personally come across at an educational institution?

 
 
 

I'm getting rid of an old Hi8 camcorder and figured I'd throw in the tapes with it, but I want to wipe the contents of the tapes before I do. I don't have a huge magnet or anything I can use to quickly erase the tapes, so the only option is to record over them using the camcorder. Instead of being boring and just muting it and leaving the lens cap on I figured I might put something vaguely interesting on there.

The camcorder is one of those fancy units where the audio/video outputs can be used as audio/video inputs when the thing is in tape playback/recording mode (VTR). I do have an HDMI -> Composite converter, so I can actually record video and audio together, albeit at 480i with bleeding colors. Alternatively I can leave the lens cap on and pipe audio directly into the microphone jack, which is stereo.

As for what to record, my spouse and I have come up with a few ideas:

  • Vaporwave (generally)
  • Weather Channel Vaporwave (specifically)
  • ~2 hours of the Lo-fi Girl stream
  • Everywhere at the End of Time (broken across 3 tapes)
  • A public domain serial radio drama (Have Gun Will Travel is my vote)
  • Public domain films (Laurel and Hardy or maybe some Charlie Chaplin)
  • Steven Soderbergh's silent black & white recut of Raiders of the Lost Ark
  • Analog horror of some kind (e.g. Backrooms, Gemini Home Entertainment, Local 58 except it's way too short)

Aside from that, generally anything that might look better with proper analog distortion is an obvious win. The camcorder can only record at full speed, 2.5 hours per tape, so no way to add extra distortion that way.

Also I do have a capture card and can turn around and re-record whatever I put on these tapes, so if you want to see the results I can show you.

Anywho, what's your suggestions Lemmy? What treasures can I leave on these Hi8 tapes?

 
 
 

Just a thread for anyone else out there who prefers the layout of a 6-button controller to the more dominant ABXY layout. What I wouldn't give for a dual stick, dual trigger gamepad that also had six face buttons.

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