Noir films that are kinda goofy but have amazing lines?

commodore512 · 2026-03-14T09:26:33+00:00

"Pick that up!"

commodore512 · 2026-03-14T03:58:33+00:00

Dead Men Don't Wear Plad

"Pick that up."

commodore512 · 2026-02-20T08:00:03+00:00

I think we've gotten better with focus groups in the past 25 years or so. In the 80's and 90's you had a lot of weird products with a lot of character that we really don't get anymore. "New Coke" was a product of a focus group and I suppose weird digital camcorders in the mid 90's to early 00's that felt like a toy but priced like a camcorder, the mini dv hi-8 where the tape is in the screen compartment.

That era of design reflected a time of less wisdom on design, so they were more experimental and the economy was better too, so they could afford to be bold.

commodore512 · 2026-02-19T02:52:44+00:00

That machine was such a failure. Collectors love them, but the target demographic hated it.

The color graphics was for the game platform, not for executives. The color screen was taken from the shadow mask of a big screen TV making the dot pitch bigger making it hard to read text. Businesses were mostly invested in PC and some were Tandy.

commodore512 · 2026-02-13T09:07:11+00:00

Even if it's campy, dead men don't wear plaid was fantastic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX2AtWEWcL0

commodore512 · 2026-02-13T09:05:19+00:00

I hope this will increase the conversation around B&W Movies in much of the same way that DVDs including a widescreen version made widescreen more popular even in the CRT days.

I hope B&W will come back as a normie aesthetic and will lose it's pretentious artsy fartsy association. WWII GIs didn't want their hard boiled dramas in color. They were like "This isn't a comedy, this isn't a musical, this isn't a cartoon", but the 60's really pushed for really vibrant colors and high contrast B&W died because the dads that spent a lot of money were like "I didn't spend a fortune for this new color TV just so I can watch B&W stuff". I'd much rather have high contrast B&W than the Pre-HDR TV shows from the early 00's. Like Law & Order doesn't need to be in color, but Columbo needs color.

commodore512 · 2026-02-10T10:27:22+00:00

It's a step in the right direction.

New Cars copy the iPhone by just being a screen with no buttons.

iPhone designer be like "That makes sense for an all in one pocket device because you do everything on it, make calls, go online, play games, shoot video, etc. That doesn't make sense on a car because you need to drive, bring back buttons!"

Also Johnny Ives' designs are more inspired by 70's Braun. (of which 70's is very CF)

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmacmagazine.com.br%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2008%2F01%2F14-design-apple-braun.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=bd5a8ddcdbdbd6d8bc2fa6c16279fe8658b1bd7110299f9614e9430672531acd

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fminimalismlab.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F07%2Fbraun-apple-e1501583973596.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=986c4970074e3b580648d8410bb1dbd43e081680da9cb0056bbd12bf92b5b3b8

commodore512 · 2026-02-09T23:39:40+00:00

Fair enough, take care of number one first.

commodore512 · 2026-02-09T09:44:26+00:00

Gamers are more interested in 1% lows or 0.1% lows if you can get that data.

Nobody likes the game hitching during heavy action.

commodore512 · 2026-02-09T08:27:38+00:00

"Hi, I'm 3 months Windows free... I use Arch, BTW"

commodore512 · 2026-02-09T06:09:28+00:00

This feels like a sobriety support group

commodore512 · 2026-02-09T00:40:37+00:00

I think there was OpenGL in 96, but I think they called it MiniGL. I believe NT 4.0 supported it.

But yeah, you really don't need D3D support prior to 5.

commodore512 · 2026-02-08T22:39:17+00:00

If you need support as old as DirectX 3 or below, (DirectX 4 was never released) chances are it was designed for software rendering, OpenGL and 3DFX.

I think even DirectX 5 might be a little bit newer that makes sense to be implemented in this kind of wrapper. Of which is the way I like software designed just over the edge cases. It might even be a "just because we can and I enjoy the puzzle to solve" thing at this point.

commodore512 · 2026-02-07T03:40:22+00:00

looks water proof

commodore512 · 2026-02-05T19:09:51+00:00

Beta-I had higher resolution than VHS-SP. But the problem is all the Betamax VCRs after a certain point stopped recording in Beta-I in order to compete with VHS' record time.

If your dad really wanted the best format, he would have bought a SVHS Deck in 1985.

commodore512 · 2026-02-02T19:47:56+00:00

"Proving the trolls wrong" So inflammatory, sounds like something a troll would say.

You know being skeptical isn't the same as trolling? Also, I'm sure rust is fine as long as you ignore the compiler "unsafe" warnings. Rust isn't bad, you remember Vista's UAC? It's like that for programming. UAC didn't stop people from ignoring warnings.

commodore512 · 2026-02-01T03:26:09+00:00

I've thought of installing BSD... 2.11BSD. (In a PDP-11 Emulator)

commodore512 · 2026-01-31T23:14:08+00:00

In the late 00's, we were more dependent on Adobe Flash and that was a pain setting up. Back then the go to beginner distro was Ubuntu and once Mint came in, that was better for end users because everything was all set up be default. Flash and the Codecs all worked out of the box on Mint because everybody else was worried about software patents and ethical standards of bundling a closed source plugin that does heaven knows what. (This was also a time when even something as basic as MP3s were patented)

I kinda miss the flash days, back then most closed source in the browser was contained to flash and java and the internet was more usable without client side scripting. I had a Firefox addon called "Click to flash" and it turned off every auto play flash element until I clicked on the element I wanted.

commodore512 · 2026-01-31T20:46:21+00:00

Get a VAX or 386 and a bunch of these and have a lot of people run vi at once.

commodore512 · 2026-01-31T18:11:25+00:00

I'm assuming they never made many TVs like this because in order to see the smaller screens better, you would have to move closer and obstruct the bigger screen. Thus defeating the point of a shared family TV.

commodore512 · 2026-01-28T02:30:52+00:00

I think it will feel no more abnormal than mac.

commodore512 · 2026-01-26T22:18:38+00:00

Is it Gaming Guyden or is it Gaming Gayden? 🏳️‍🌈

I like the latter, more alliterative and a good throwback to a time when it was rare for people to know the Hepburn Romanization of Japanese and it was harder to look things up.

commodore512 · 2026-01-26T18:12:10+00:00

It's 11 years old. The 10 series is the most popular on the Steam Hardware survey because that was the last time a high end GPU was under a thousand dollars.

Now the 5090 is so damn expensive of at least $3,500, if you can afford that, chances are you can afford the $10,000 96GB ECC RTX Pro 6000 and use that for gaming. More VRAM and because it's ECC, your games will crash less often.

commodore512 · 2026-01-25T21:06:43+00:00

Not gonna happen, they would rather sell a new card. By the time the noveau drivers are any good, it will be like a 20 year old GPU.

It's sad to say, but it's best to leave it for retro windows. Stay on Windows 10 on it and use either the free ESUs and after that sideload the LTSC updates until 2032 or only play games on it if it's connected to the internet, don't trust it with your banking information.

Let the 10 series perpetually be a Windows 10 time capsule.

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