If you want to get technical... the US _is_ a metric country (we signed the treaty and have the standard kilos at NIST and the military/engineers use it and all that) but civilians and businesses have an annoying, hard-to-kick habit of using imperial units all the damn time.

The criticism of blackface in Japan is that they are emulating the minstrel show tropes that the west has abandoned, which currently exist in Japan for many of the same reasons and in the same spirit that westerners had a century ago, fueled by an undercurrent of ethnic xenophobia.

It’s completely justified.

The speedruns that get mentioned in the gaming press are for the most active/competitive titles, and historically those have been popular N64 titles or old PC games (GoldenEye, Ocarina of Time, SM64, Quake) because a lot of the runners played them as kids, and they were some of the first games to be covered online…

I understand where you’re coming from, but I find it more problematic when people are just driving all different speeds on the same highway. Can we please stay within 10MPH of each other? That includes you, guy passing me on the right, don’t overtake a group at reckless speeds because “why not?”, having already used a…

The reason why dozens sounds correct is because, like hundreds and thousands, it has more than one syllable. Also, tens sounds too much like tons when read out loud, making it more awkward-sounding.

Earlier in the story he mentions that the road passed through an “aangan” (courtyard) which is a feature of traditional, large households (in that it would be rarer for them to be open on both ends like that).

It occurs to me that scenes like this may be the reason why the game is relatively easy. It’s not the random encounters that cause you to bite your fingernails. Rather, it’s those moments in the RPG proper where you think to yourself, is that it? Did I screw up and now Celes is permadead, like Shadow? If it was just…

The Toy Story movies didn’t use global illumination because it would have taken even longer to render; and in the case of the first movie the tooling didn’t even exist. They used very scene-specific lighting and shader setups to achieve similar effects since, at least for cinema, “realistic” lighting is not what you…

Niantic should know better. Have they learned nothing from what happened when they first tried this kind of thing at Gettysburg (Interitus)?

This has a real BeOS feel to me. This is a good thing and is tickling my nostalgia button something fierce.

From what I understood in the Ez video, Rogers claims to have fooled the game into letting him start the race in 2nd gear, and it has been confirmed with some emulation trickery that if this were possible, scores as low as 5.4 seconds can be reached. But the game as-is with the original ROM does not allow starting the…

...and the Ds?

Well then this hip-hop-head is gonna have to jump on the Pearl bandwagon on principle.