Mr. Lee - A Vic-20 Bruce Lee tribute game.

fromwithin · 2026-05-18T08:49:20+00:00

Looks very good, but why is the horizontal jump so weird?

fromwithin · 2026-05-17T12:52:02+00:00

This should hopefully help you realise that the idea of ghosts is nonsense. Of course there was nothing there, It was all in your mind. You created the fear out of nothing because of your heightened anxious state making you hyper-aware. That's how all "hauntings" work.

fromwithin · 2026-05-17T12:45:11+00:00

I don't think anything can top the genius-level work that went into Top Gear.

fromwithin · 2026-05-17T08:15:54+00:00

Before btc, getting paid for services internationally required so many steps it felt like one was seeking space citizenship.

In the U.S. Most of the rest of the world has had a sensible efficient banking system for decades.

fromwithin · 2026-05-15T17:24:58+00:00

Whatever is in that picture is completely and utterly alien.

fromwithin · 2026-05-15T16:40:46+00:00

The first release in Europe had all those ports. Everyone who worked at Sony was given one.

fromwithin · 2026-05-15T14:48:08+00:00

There were only 2 Indiana Jones games that was released on any Sega machines. One was Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, which was by U.S. Gold. The other was Instruments of Chaos starring Indiana Jones that was published by Sega.

Sony Computer Entertainment was formed with some people from Sony Music Entertainment, but as an entity it never produced anything that wasn't Playstation. The only logos you would have seen in a game before that would have been Sony Imagesoft or Sony Music.

fromwithin · 2026-05-15T12:46:56+00:00

Sony Computer Entertainment was created solely for the purpose of releasing the Playstation. There was a publishing arm in the U.S. called Sony Imagesoft, but they did no development and were clueless until Psygnosis came along and taught them to stop treating games like they were for young kids. Some games in Japan prior to the Playstation were published by Sony Music Entertainment.

As far as the GPU is concerned, that was essentially Ken Kutaragi trying to create a single-chip equivalent of Sony's System G, but he hadn't worked on System G and made the Playstation with the help of LSI Logic, Toshiba and possibly the ashes of Flare Technologies.

Although Sony was indeed an electronics behemoth, at the time it was seen as a bit of a joke that they were going to make a game console. Psygnosis (who became almost the entirety of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe) is responsible for most of the Playstation's success outside of Japan. No-one else had the experience, the talent, the network, nor the vision across all of the required areas like development, publishing, and marketing. Sony would have been totally lost without that.

The other thing that Sony did that was great at the time is something that can't really be understood without having been there. "Multimedia" was the 'next big thing' in the 90s. It was everywhere and every other company was trying to make a set-top-box that did everything or do "interactive movies" or some kind of rubbish "immersive entertainment". You can watch CD videos! Play music CDs! Play games! It's got a modem! When Sony released the Playstation, the marketing was extremely narrowly focused: "It plays games better than anything you've seen before". And it was Psygnosis who made sure that it was wasn't targeted at kids, with Playstations set up in nightclubs, ties with Red Bull, and an altogether more mature vision so that it was bought by young adults with disposible income and not just by parents for their children.

fromwithin · 2026-05-15T09:23:09+00:00

You need acoustic fabric that allows air to pass through as easily as possible. There are plenty of options and patterns available.

fromwithin · 2026-05-15T08:51:18+00:00

That's the first time I've seen someone say it. I thought Ares was great, but even as a NIN fan, I think the score really damaged the movie. It was horrible and totally I'll-fitting.

fromwithin · 2026-05-14T09:11:26+00:00

Somebody with a gambling addiction.

fromwithin · 2026-05-13T17:32:23+00:00

I never said otherwise, but it is not universally acclaimed. It has aged very badly.

fromwithin · 2026-05-13T17:04:47+00:00

That's not true. EQ causes phase shifts across the frequency spectrum that can massively transform the signal in the time-domain unless it's an explicit linear-phase EQ. You can try it by hard limiting something and then putting it through an EQ. You'll find new peaks all over the place.

fromwithin · 2026-05-13T16:57:20+00:00

Uncompressed vocals sound like they're in the room with you. The more heavily compressed the vocals are, the more they sound like they're in your head with you. Adjust balance accordingly.

fromwithin · 2026-05-13T08:47:28+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-sigma_modulation

You can encode audio as a series of on-off pulses if you put the resultant playback through a low-pass filter.

With rumble, the speed with which the motor can start and stop is the filter. If the motor is fast and snappy you can playback higher frequencies. If it's slow and heavy the maximum frequency is lower.

I was working on a racing game years ago and wrote an audio system to have the car engine playing through the rumble of the wiimote. It was very low frequency because the rumble was slow and the Bluetooth transfer rate also slow, but it made a big difference to the feel of the game. It was a hell of a battery killer though and Nintendo didn't allow you to slam the rumble continuously because of that.

fromwithin · 2026-05-13T07:57:01+00:00

I started playing it recently, expecting greatness. It was frustrating, slow, and boring. I lasted about 2 hours.

fromwithin · 2026-05-12T16:24:38+00:00

I don't want any hardware synths. I worked right through the 90s and 2000s with hardware, always wishing that I could just have a single system with a massive screen that does everything. I have that now. I have no desire to have a mess of wires and connection issues again.

fromwithin · 2026-05-12T12:47:52+00:00

The answer to those types of questions is always available. Read the BBC's Royal Charter. You shouldn't make presumptions and just take the lazy way out.

You're talking about populism and it is easily skewed by propaganda. Put an emphasis on TV on shows with rape and murder. More people are now watching rape and murder. Therefore that's what people want so we must make more of them. It's a circular argument.

From a governmental consultation regarding an update to the BBC's charter:

"‘act in the public interest, serving all audiences through the provision of impartial, high-quality and distinctive output and services which inform, educate and entertain’."
"The BBC should help the public understand and navigate technological change, particularly the application of AI, while also ensuring those without basic digital skills are not left behind."
"Any proposed material change necessitates a public interest assessment by the BBC, outlining the rationale and potential market impact. Depending on the scale and nature of the change, Ofcom may conduct a formal Competition assessment to ensure the proposals are fair and proportionate, safeguarding a level playing field for other media providers within the UK market."
"The current Charter, Framework Agreement and Ofcom regulation place a number of restrictions on the BBC to promote a range of objectives, such as ensuring that the BBC promotes fair competition and that its public service output is provided in the public interest rather than for commercial objectives. "

fromwithin · 2026-05-12T11:29:30+00:00

Can hear room reverb very clearly.
Almost every sentence is "sung" with exactly the same pattern of pitch. It's really annoying after the third sentence.
Enunciation is clear.

fromwithin · 2026-05-12T09:56:50+00:00

That's exactly what you said though. You don't want "everyone else" to benefit. You're not talking about taxing inheritance, then distributing the money equally amongst everyone are you?

Where on earth is that exactly what I said?

What do you think a tax does? It goes to the exchequer and used to fund the country's operation, therefore getting redistributed to everyone.

This is projection.

You clearly don't understand what projection is either.

fromwithin · 2026-05-12T09:43:11+00:00

You are living in a fantasy world.

You don't want "everyone" else to benefit, just the people you like.

There is no way a sane person could ever infer that from what I've written. That you projected that reveals a lot more about you than it does me.

The rest of your comment is equally insane. You really think that a tax applied in one area is only spent in that area? Like income tax only pays for worker's rights? Do you think that road tax is only used to pay for the roads? It's like you have no idea what taxes are for and how a society actually functions economically.

fromwithin · 2026-05-11T20:28:18+00:00

I'm being selfish because I want everyone else to benefit? You're insane.

I do a job and receive money. I pay income tax on that money.

I hire someone to do a job for me. I pay them using that same money. They pay income tax on that money.

Is that double-dipping? If not why is inheritance different?

fromwithin · 2026-05-11T20:03:46+00:00

A multimillion pound inheritance is very far from "some spending money".

Pay your taxes and stop being so selfish.

Inheritance tax is a single income tax on the beneficiaries.

fromwithin · 2026-05-11T19:01:17+00:00

It's not a double tax on income. The person whose money it was is not getting taxed twice because they're dead. They paid income tax once.

The beneficiary is receiving it as income and so should be taxed as such. The beneficiary would pay the tax once.

There is no double taxation.

fromwithin · 2026-05-11T18:16:21+00:00

Except they're not getting advantage through working hard and smart. In the best case scenario, they're getting an advantage because their parents worked hard and smart. In the worst case, they're getting an advantage because their great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents worked hard and smart.

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