This is actually why a lot of games have separate categories. Many (perhaps even most) speedrunners don’t enjoy doing runs like this - they’re gamers, they’re here to game. Runs like this get pushed by the sort of programmery nerds that treat the game as a software puzzle to solve, rather than a sport to get good at.…

For Ocarina of Time specifically, Japanese and (American) English have the same glitches - while there is a 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 version (each revision fixing more bugs), the Japanese and North American builds of each are the same, save for a single byte to tell it which localization to use. There’s also the 1.0 and 1.1 PA…

Practical uses will depend on the properties. We’ve made it (maybe), that doesn’t mean we know what it does. But there’s a lot of predictions that it might be a superconductor, a superfluid, or both at once. Possibly even at room temperature. If those properties exist, and can be taken advantage of in non-lab…

United States Space Command has confirmed by radar that there was no collision, both satellites remain in their current orbit, and no debris has been generated. This is in line with amateur ground observations which saw no signs of impact, and an optical observation of IRAS at its normal orbit and magnitude.

Integer scaling would be useful for consoles, which generally ran at 240p or 360p (or interlaced equivalents). 360p->1440p is a simple 4x, 240p->1440p is 6x. Old PC games are another possibility - 640x480, original VGA standard, is a 5x upscale (and 4:3->16:9sidebars) to 1440p.

Black is getting answers to enchantments now. Not the best (definitely behind green+white), and so far fairly few, but it’s getting them. So far it’s been in the form of forced sacrifice - they don’t want Black getting targeted removal, because they like making deal-with-a-devil enchantments that would be too good if…

Look, if you’re going to be a pedantic twit about something, at least make sure you’re correct.

Falcon is equipped with a flight termination system, which can trigger a vehicle destruction either autonomously (if it leaves the defined flight corridor) or remotely by the Range Safety Officer. This did happen with the last F9R test flight back in 2014 - they were testing it to the limits of its controllability,…

You could still fake that by inserting a delay. The Moon is just over a light-second away, easily simulated by audio gear (like the echo pedals used by guitarists), some acoustic delay lines (as used on early computers), or even just a big spool of wire, all of which existed at the time. (Well, the guitar stuff was in…

The question of “are Tesla shares worth $500+?” depends on how long you plan to hold them.

Oh ffs, even here I can’t get away from this bullshit “GDQ is full of *drama*” narrative?

I wonder what the oldest game of mine that has any surviving copy is?

The niche for hydrogen is probably mass transport - city buses, cargo trucks, trains (that for whatever reason can’t be externally powered electric).

From a technical perspective, I’m more concerned about the severe pressure than the hydrogen’s flammability. A 700bar (10KPSI) tank is a bomb waiting to go off, even with an inert gas. The flammability is a risk mostly during fueling - I don’t know if I trust consumer-facing, low-budget fueling stations to keep…

Each vendor included a testing regime in their bid. SpaceX has boosters to spare, and they love doing real-world tests, so they bid a physical IFA test. Boeing’s bid included a pad abort test, and computer simulations to NASA standards to ensure the abort would still work in flight. This is actually more in line with…

Addendum on the “unknown exotic chemistry” bit, because it’s really interesting.

Meanwhile, SpaceX is planning to perform an in-flight abort test of its Crew Dragon early next year, possibly in January. The Elon Musk-led company would then have to conduct an uncrewed test followed by a crewed test, assuming no more setbacks, such as the testing anomaly that happened earlier this year.

I wouldn’t say “full of shit” so much as “savvy”.

More likely, it’s a tour to raise PR for the final sale. Costs them more up-front, but they’ll easily make it back at the auction. And doing it gratis widens how far it will be shown, increasing the pool of potential buyers.

Normally, I’m opposed to fandom gatekeeping. Let people enjoy things the way they want, even if it’s different from how you do. No “prove you’re a true fan” litmus tests, no holy wars over which series is better, just have fun. And if coming together with other fans is fun to you, come together with other fans and…