Street Fighter II, the World Warrier
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But more to the point, I am pretty sure it is in reference to not being bloated with crappy JS spyware, no moving photos when scrolling, no ads, no subcribe popups, no 'you only have free 2 articles left', no overriding the f'ing text selection so i cannot copy paste code... So not medium.com basically.
I find the web to be unusable without configuring a Pi-Hole to be my DNS server.
He is expressing nostalgia for a time when information gathering had exciting new possibilities because of the internet was new, but before we over optimized the soul out of everything.
It's a slippery slope, because certainly the page could be more readable, and most people would want that, but then what's the next improvement? Sidebar links to similar blogs you might like?
I wonder though - for long-time coders like a lot of the audience here - have we become inured to reading monospaced fonts, such that we read them easier and are therefore an anomaly in such studies?
I know I cannot code at all with variable-width fonts, but is that because I'm old school and grew up coding in the Time Before when there were only monospaced fonts?
Difficult to read? You needn’t sacrifice the desirable principles of the web for legibility.
Being born in 1985, I never got to experience the arcade glory days (although I had my fair share of arcade fun), but my teenage years corresponded to their successors, the Internet cafés, or cybercafés as we called them. Oh man, a 10 vs 10 LAN match of Counter Strike was glorious, lots of noisy teenagers shouting at each other, booing the opposite team, cheering a particularly good play... As you say, you can't have the same experience online.
I'm a bit sad for today's kids, they have much faster hardware and connections that we did, but they will never get to experience the same excitement.
The huge letdown is when no one wants to be Player Two. The nostalgia high isn't from the cabinet or joystick or rom or screen, it's from two people with incredible enthusiasm to share an ephemeral context of Ryu-vs-Ken together.
8,000 bucks of home entertainment system can dim the lights, drop the curtains, and play matrix 4, but give me a 15 inch TV, Mario Kart, some milk crates to sit on, and some kid bent on destroying me in battle mode. I'll remember one of these in another 30 years.
On the other hand, I'm definitely noticing how much I rely on nostalgia to feel happy. That is its own topic.
Sometimes you just need to throw some duct tape on it.
Street Fighter II paper trails – allocating sprite space by hand - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29657343 - Dec 2021 (67 comments)
I've always assumed that spelling ability was linked to reading a lot when young, but that's just my personal experience so there's probably research somewhere saying that theory's wrong :-)
As an aside, it's a minor miracle that reading is possible at all (ie that we can do it fluidly and without conscious effort rather than as a laborious decoding and sounding out process). There's no inherent reason why the visual and language parts of the brain should be so capable of working together -- they never evolved to do it.)
Is there any software to turn a picture into a sprite like image as shown in the article at varying resolutions?
It would be cool to turn my room into a street fighter 2 like set of sprites.
Why not?
The sprite data was already burned to ROMs, but they could still change the code.