What’s most appalling about this situation is we’re not talking about an obscure Japanese MMO that’s been shut down, satellite broadcasts available in only one country for only a few hours a day for four weeks in the 1990s, or some indie game that sold like 73 physical copies in 2002... We’re talking about regular…

There already was a Rock ‘em Sock ‘em Robots movie... It was called Real Steel. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Good. But sometimes these things go too far. It still mildly vexes me that I can’t use any permutation of my handle as my character name in a Dragon Quest game because ‘Baka’ is inappropriate... Even in the English version. I thought maybe this was a recent thing, but just the other day, I started up a…

Oh I can do one better than it being some internet nonsense; Meet the AN-510 Famicom Titler.

Titler? If they’re going to ban the name of one of their own pieces of hardware—the AN-510 Famicom Titler console—maybe start with Virtual Boy or Wii-U instead? 🤔

A nice nod to preservation and the release of lost content would be for them to repackage the additional courses from the Satellaview F-ZERO broadcasts on Super Famicom and the N64's 64DD F-ZERO X addon disk, and add them to their respective NSO emulators. 🤔

ikr? Considering the fact that some years back a dude pulled the same stunt—buying stock just to ask a question at the stockholder meeting—to ask where the hell F-ZERO is. 😂

*sigh* Indeed...

That’s a fair point. Though if that had been a factor—and not that the craft wasn’t engineered for the depths it was diving to and was consequently crushed like an egg—the issue would have been any lack of redundant controls, not the fact that they were using an off-the-shelf gamepad at all.

He was also pretty efficient at dodging journalists’ questions regarding body recovery.

If you say “we made a new Beatles song using old recordings and a computer,” you sound like a cool-ass hacker splitting code in the Matrix. If you say “we made a new Beatles song using A.I.,” you sound like you’re personally tearing up the “Imagine” memorial in Central Park and putting in a Tesla charging station.

Well, NASA also had to fulfill their obligation to the Pentagon to prove they could put spy satellites up on a regular basis... But yeah; hubris, ignorance, and now we don’t get to live in space colonies... The first of which would be reaching completion in the first half of this decade.

I am banging on the walls the moment I hear that harbor freight ratchet tighten the first bolt.

I wonder if GabeN’s submersible has stereoscopic 180º cameras for making immersive VR video... 🤔 That would be cool, and seems like something he would do.

To be fair, there’s nothing wrong with using Commercial off-the-Shelf parts in something so long as they’re still fulfilling the purpose they were designed for—to a point; we all know you get what you pay for! A CotS solution that has been rigorously tested and approved for its application is better than engineering…

You’re certainly right on the safety measures, like what the fuck were they thinking? If the fucking thing can only be opened from the outside even if it surfaces, you better hope you have quadruple redundancy on that transponder and shit so they can find your ass no matter what.

Well obviously, but we’re talking about this from the perspective of him being asked after the event, right? (idk; I don’t care about it enough to know when it is.) Ergo, it would have made more sense for him to just shut the hell up about it, since he’d already fucked up. No point fucking up and then looking like a…

Stellar example, my guy, A+!

That’s what everyone said about iOS...

“Hey! We’re diverse af! It’s just that the one woman we invited wasn’t able to make it.” Geoff... Dude... You ever hear the saying “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt”? Yeah. 🤨