The harsh reality here is that children of privileged parents tend to do better on academic scores than children from the poorer communities, often due to drastically different stress levels and support from their parents. I believe that most kids, given actually equal opportunity to perform in the same activities,…

It’s a typo. is -> into

It’s not just me then? I feel like the shuffle option prefers to play songs by the same artist in groups rather than doing a true random mix; it’s super annoying. I don’t know if it’s supposed to be some smart shuffle feature, but if it is, I want it to do the dumb thing instead.

I mean, they all know what that means. If someone went out, they’re gone. There’s no surviving that.

“I know the trays are usually rectangular, but I wanted to use the lathe tool”

Actually in one of the examples from the full paper, they show the simulations handling moon physics quite well. That’s the key here, these models are trained based on a reference, but they can also adapt and recover from environmental changes. Check out the full paper, it’s got about a 7 minute youtube video with a…

Can we talk about how perfect that lead shot’s arcade is? I don’t know how Taco Time is played, but I *need* to find a roll of quarters and find out.

What’s happening in that Bowling minigame is far more tame. The developers aren’t really intentionally rendering anything in the void. Instead, they’re rendering the scoreboard first, copying the resulting texture somewhere, and then not bothering to clear the framebuffer. There’s no need, as the bowling lane geometry…

How wonderful for Geguri that she was able to make it into the Leagues! I think she is beautiful just the way that she is, and hope she can overcome her anxiety to be in the spotlight and show us all what a real gamer can do. :) There is more to beauty than looks, and she’s got it where it really counts.

Weirdly, that’s not actually his goal, established way back in the first series. Gary Oak is trying to increase his capture count, while Ash is perfectly content to simply *scan* everything he encounters. I remember Prof. Oak complimenting both of them on their differing approaches to the tasks, as Ash ended up with a…

Now you’re playing with POWDER!

The major problem there is technical. Lots of legitimate call centers (like the customer service departments of various companies) spoof their numbers on purpose, so that when an individual employee needs to call out, the caller ID shows the support hotline for the business, not that individual employee’s desk phone.…

Per canon, the babies were delivered by Stork in Yoshi’s Island, and Luigi actually arrived first, so I’m not sure how they’re establishing Luigi as the younger one with that sort of birth mechanic in play. Maybe Mario’s “age” began when the stork dropped him? I think it’s best to just roll with whatever Nintendo…

Agreed, I think Riot has one of the better systems out there. Their loot boxes feel like a nice little bonus thrown my way every level or so, and gives me neat stuff to shoot for with the missions. (Boxes are often a mission reward.) Beyond that, if I’m going to plunk down real money, the loot boxes aren’t a cheaper…

I really wish Earthbound’s unique approach to this had caught on. After your party grows to a certain average level, enemies in the area will actively avoid you. You can still run up to them and fight if you want.

So I was curious as well, and did some research. Assuming it uses the same touch screen controls as the Android version, this shows the battle system in action:

Wait, it was? The controls were mirrored exactly, you used the ABXY buttons to control the top screen, so you could hold the stylus in your left hand and still do everything.

And how do we combat this as regular internet users? For my part, I’ll be using a VPN 100% of the time now. I never trusted my ISP much anyway, and their data throttling rules won’t work when all they see is encrypted VPN traffic. If they decided to throttle VPN traffic on principal, we’ll have a real problem.

I really thought Odyssey was one of the games that handled this quite tastefully. There are so many different control modes in the game that even as an experienced player of many Mario games, I found myself forgetting what a given enemy capture could do. Having my available actions there onscreen, out of my visual…

This is probably it. Unless you’re using a pretty sophisticated physics engine, it’s difficult to do variable frame rate updates without introducing weird, hard to test bugs. Many, many games lock their physics updates to some consistent rate (often 30/60/120 updates per second) and it’s pretty easy from there to just…