No, you’re quite right, but not following the solution to its conclusion. You count in this system by raising or lowering each finger, and then read off the total as the SUM of all fingers. So, when all fingers are raised, each value is added to the sum:

Right, exactly. It’s technically quite feasible to do, but no companies actually did it because stuffing an extra processor in a $30 cartridge just didn’t make economic sense at the time.

I find it amazing that to make this work at all, he had to rig up a custom cartridge with an *entire extra processor* that’s actually doing the graphics. Even with that, the Gameboy can’t do bitmap graphics, so he still has to translate those graphics into tiles and work with the limitations of its weird palette…

The game plays and feels like a love letter to the Harvest Moon and Rune Factory series of games. I really enjoyed those games, so I find myself coming back to Stardew Valley off and on to play through another month or so.

A correction is in order: *all* of these baby Pokemon, including Togepi, are 2nd generation Pokemon, introduced with Gold and Silver in the games. The phrasing in the article suggests that Togepi is a first generation ‘mon, which is not true. (At least, as far as the games are concerned, I don’t know where the 2nd…

I’ve been overwhelmed by the SOS mechanic on more than one occasion. But I still don’t think this game holds a candle to Goldenrod City’s gym leader, and her ridiculously overpowered (at that point in the game) Miltank. I wiped to her Rollout just a ridiculous number of times casually.

You know, I’m really tired of being attacked for being a white male. I’m sorry I was born that way. I really can’t help it.

There very likely are. Done properly, the encryption type malware is just as cryptographically secure as it claims to be. But there are some simpler variants of the malware floating around that either a static key or pull from a pool of possible keys, rather than generating a new one on the fly. In these instances,…

I’m appy to hear that Japanese audio is included in the game, even if the English subtitles are more localized than I might like. That’s awesome, I’ll definitely be picking this game up sometime this month.

I can respect that though. Their primary criticism wasn’t so much that the game released with not enough content to justify the price point, it was that their development team had a *bad* habit of showing off features that weren’t fully baked, and didn’t make it into the final game.

I think it’s at the point where the run can’t be performed by a human being using official controllers. If it meets that criteria, it’s a run. But lots of people disagree, and so there are a ton of different categories, including ones that ban glitches entirely, or require the player to correct 100% of the items.

I think the bigger issue is that along the path of development, many assets, including lines of dialog, get cut from the game, but never actually removed from the source files. (Text isn’t very big.) 

I think you misspelled 9, but I’ll forgive you.

As nice as the idea of sleeping naked is on paper, I have to compromise for practical reasons that mostly involve possessing male anatomy. It’s simply wildly uncomfortable for me to sleep without support from my briefs. So I tend to sleep in a light t-shirt and underwear, but no pants or socks. This allows my body to…

If anyone says Pineapple I may throw something

I think the whole concept of “loading” is blurred in this game, since so much of it is being generated on the fly anyway. It’s not so much that the game has to read things from disk, it’s simply that it can only handle so much going on around the player and remain performant.

No ads in the comments here. I disabled my adblocker and see just the usual two banners up top and over on the side. Check for any suspicious apps, you may have malware on your phone. (Yes that’s a thing.)

If the NX is really going to be a handheld, then it’s not competing with the Xbox or the PS4.

Nope. I suddenly care a LOT less about trying to collect things in this game. This is my very, very least favorite practice of a lot of companies offering collectibles right now. If I can’t collect everything, and I *know* I’ll never be able to collect everything, I’m sorry but I’m just not interested.

I don’t think the game’s on-screen display is tied to the server pings. It updates your position visually as often as it can, based on your phone’s local GPS coordinates. But it doesn’t actually transmit the position you see to the server that often. This is a common UI trick to make an app feel more responsive when…