Oh, he never returned, no he never returned, and his fate is still unlearned... Poor old Charlie... He will ride forever, 'neath the streets of Boston, he's the man who never returned.

If only it was only the children who were horrible...

I think you have a very logical point, which is probably why it doesn’t apply. People just want to be on camera, even if it’s just their avatar in the background of some streamer with a bunch of people probably watching. They don’t care about enjoying the game, they care about being “seen”.

[Same] Old World

So, wait, are you upset because you think these reviews are final and can’t be revised or because you don’t think *ahem* Amazon should be criticized for having server issues. In the first is obviously false: you can change your steam review any time you want, and the second... I think it’s fair to alert would-be…

Yes! Thank you! I was wondering if I was the only one. I mean, lots of games are “problematic” but this one just makes me cringe. Every. Single. Time.

Whoa, I have some failed Kickstarter cr... valuable collectables that I will send to you for just $100 shipping and handling if that floats your boat. 

D) all of the above

Seems like you could sideload an emulator onto a Fire Stick (or something similar) and Bluetooth connect one of the retro controllers they sell for switch online. Other than incurring the rath of big N, it's easy. 

You remind me of the professor I once had who demanded I not use the word “proactive” in a paper... after almost half an hour of research I was able to find that, yes, it had once (like 19th century) refered to a perceived mental illness. Literally every other definition I found (including the first one in the source…

Hahaha, I don’t know if that image is amazing or haunting. Anyway, aside from the retro games available on the Nintendo Online membership (I know, I’m basic) I don’t see any reason to play retro on any kind of specialized hardware.

I have been thinking it would be pretty slick to do this with a lightfield display and get a full glasses free 3d experience to go with the haptics.

You might say they are hoping people will bow to Stern.

Yeah, and as a fan (certainly not officionoado or semi-pro by any stretch, but I semi regularly dump $20 into some of the local machines between me and my family) I very much agree with you. Who goes to a pinball arcade to connect digitally? If I want that, I’ll get my kicks some other way. I mean, I would rather take…

Assuming it makes it through, Seattle WA has a similar thing.

Overall, computers, even electronic ones, and even diodes, transistors, and the ideas behind IC’s are mostly over 50 years old. Almost everything else since has been engineering or or smaller areas of computer or material science generally without the systemic impacts of IC miniaturization, which is itself engineering…

These arguably aren't science but engineering. You could make a case for some of the components, or for soaps, but then I think you loose the importance.

There is precisely one comparison that matters: the size of a “good enough” camera. I’m still inclined to go with my original call that electron lithography is more important, in part because it’s really the essential ingredient in making digital cameras smaller and in part because we have understood that diodes can…

I agree. I think the study of and refinement of electron lithography is probably the most important science (and it is science, not engineering, in this case, because it is done by researchers trying to figure out how to do something completely new even if that completely new thing is just the same thing already done…

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