As someone who grew up an hour outside of Pittsburgh, and has cousins from Kentucky, I can confirm that there’s rather good reason to associate the two areas. Very similar cultures, so to speak.
Cool post! I am also making an 8-bit-like tracker with web audio (and my name is also Dan B. Weird), but I never found this sort of solution to make it work with the native nodes. I just wound up manually creating wav buffers. Gives you the ability to emulate a lower sample rate and lower pitch resolution (8 bits on NES, I believe), plus you can work around the weird scheduling quirks of the WebAudio api that didn’t really jive with my real time game audio use case. It’s live at deathbit.okay.tools if you wanted to check it out.
This doesn’t seem to work for me in Firefox on iPhone SE 3. After I hit start typing here, the screen just goes blank and nothing appears when I type anything.
Haven’t wired earbuds always sounded better than Bluetooth at the same price point? When I set up my home theater, I first thought to use a Bluetooth transmitter for the audio but it stunk. Quiet sounds constantly dropped out and there was no bass for the subwoofer. Actually using a long aux cable from projector to speaker was night and day.
As for wired earbuds, I can highly recommend JLab as the most durable, and therefore the best for my tastes. Pairs of mine have gone years and through a lot of abuse (dunked in coffee with surprisingly frequency) and still work. I feel like every other brand lasted less than a year for me.
> Following several years of declining health, Clifford died on October 10, 1821, at the age of 74. A state legislator recalled his father attending an auction in 1878 at the old Clifford home “when the last of the fourth generation of cabinetmakers sold the place.” His account includes this heartbreaking detail: “A farmer bought their old planes and tools for firewood, many of them then over 100 years old — he had to go twice with a two horse wagon to haul them home.”
Heartbreaking indeed! I imagine those planes might still be in use today with proper care.
I learned about this from my mother, who, like my father, is a doctor. Invitations addressed to "Dr. and Mrs. Father Lastnames" were a source of great offense to her!
He's the game dev who made Fez, then famously decided to cancel Fez 2 after having some sort of break down (maybe over online abuse?). Not sure why we're voting for him though...
Now that is a name I haven't heard in a long time. I almost struggle to remember where I heard them from, but I distinctly remember reading this site trying to find the next great game for my first-gen iPod Touch. I can't say I've ever followed it closely, but there's a certain sadness bound to happen when a childhood site goes down.
I'll poor one out for TouchArcade (and Joystiq. and Rooster Teeth. Just checked, and gonintendo is still kicking!)
This is awesome! The handle on my favorite mug broke off recently. I tried super gluing it back on, but it broke off after a few trips through the dishwasher (hand washing got old). I was gonna try epoxy next, but I try to avoid that stank whenever I can. Maybe I'll give this a shot.
Which is what I used for years, but recently discovered that Certbot now requires snapd to be installed. I did that and snapd bricked my server: it wouldn't start until I uninstalled it. That's when I switched to Caddy.
I think a large portion of enshittification comes from sites being advertising revenue driven. This leads to them needing more users with higher engagement, so they grow beyond their scope first and then shittify everything when they need to start making money (see reddit). A large reason sites have to be ad driven is that requiring users to sign up and pay for a site is a huge blocker for most people. So I feel like having a standard easy way for users to send money to a site they use for the utility they receive would go some ways to reduce enshittification, not increase it. But maybe I'm just an optimist.
Is this DO specific? Aren't there other hosting providers with competitive rates, or is there something about DO that makes it especially good for this sort of thing?
The YouTuber, DougDoug, has a bunch recent videos blending AI and games in a bunch of ways, and they are all hilarious. I'm generally bearish on AI (mostly because of those videos) but it's not until seeing this game that I think AI might have a future in games. It really adds a fun twist!
I always preferred Joystiq (RIP) to Kotaku, but I'm happy to see more sites moving to this model. I'd much rather just pay writers money so that they give me content than have to wade through ads anymore. And I think it's a model that can work: Defector has been a great successor to Deadspin. Now if only they would do that for the AV Club...
Amazing what gamers can achieve with that much time and effort. It brings to mind the Happy Hob beating the first 5 Soulsbourne games back-to-back without taking any damage (https://www.polygon.com/2019/3/21/18275978/dark-souls-bloodb...). Not actually sure which one I find more impressive!
Those sports games always took up a ton of memory to save. My first GC card had like 59 blocks, and Madden 2002 wanted all of them. Might explain a little bit of what you're seeing.
A year ago, I was making a game for JS13K, where the goal is to make a game that fits in a zip file under 13,312 bytes. I had a two spots that were using the exact same copy-pasted chunk of code, so I figured I'd refactor it into a function to save space, but it actually _increased_ the size of the final zip when I did so.
Turns out zip files compress repetitions of the same exact text _very_ well.
Or, you know, have a Cost of Living/Inflation adjustment every year. That's such a simple idea to me and it's sort of insane to me that not only is that not something that happens, but no one seems to be even suggesting it (or at least, no politicians are campaigning on it). Hell, adjusting the 70's minimum wage to today's dollars puts it at like $24, so just hearing that, I don't know how it shouldn't be around there today, but people talk about $15 like it's crazy.
This topic came up earlier this week, and I just don't see what the big win is. I guess people want to be able to skip setting up a build system for TypeScript, but if you do that, you'll be sending a bunch of extra junk to browsers that will just be ignored. So you'll need to setup a minifier to strip it all out, which means you have to setup a build system anyway.
Is there some other advantage? Easier debugging on the client, I guess, but proper source maps do that pretty well already. I dunno, this just seems to be making a complex language more complex for not much gain.
That said, if the runtime actually used the types for safety or performance, I could maybe see some value added there.
Especially if you format them well. Just use a newline before each `:` and maybe after each `?` (if the value expressions are large), and it'll look great.
And well deserved, too! I was pretty much done with console gaming after the Wii. That was the most excited I ever was for a console (since I was 13), but after the launch, I never played it nearly as much as my GameCube.
I played about 5 games on my Wii U, and didn't even plan on getting a Switch, but my oh my could I have not been more wrong! I think the portability and the power to run pretty much any modern game (albeit with worse graphics) was a true winning combo.
Also, I was just thinking today how it's crazy that Nintendo has been the dominant portable console maker basically since the Gameboy in 1989. There were some competitors, but nothing ever took the throne, just 33 years of being the King. Really impressive!