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I’ve tried that before, and it’s often not worth the time. The lord of the article is often an expert Wikipedia Editor and rules lawyer with endless time to argue and revert even when they have no expert or even basic knowledge about the subject.
My brother in god, you can travel from any point of the Earth to any other point on the Earth in less than a week. At what point are modern people going to “deal with it”?
* I’m 40 and most people my age have a story of when they were forced by a manager to beg a customer or client for forgiveness for a “mistake” that often existed only in the customer’s head.
** IANAL but pressuring your subordinate to do something illegal sounds like a textbook case of power harassment
I feel like Generals had the best economic design out of any C&C game. Your helicopters / trucks / bare-footed workers simulate modern logistics by collecting crates of resources from a "warehouse". Once they are collected, you can switch to your secondary economy of pumping oil, getting supplies delivered by the UN, stealing money from the internet, or selling goods on the black market.
What REALLY set C&C apart was its presentation, which was like nothing else* when it came out. It made a serious and earnest attempt like you were actually using your computer as an interface to command an army*, from the "in-universe" installer to the present day setting where "you" choose a side after NOD and GDI hijack your TV, to the non-western battlefields, to the way Kane and General Shepphard addressed "you" personally in the live-action kinematics. The CD music was awesome too.
* Dune II also was known for its great graphics and having strict system requirements * This continued in later games, but they were much more self-aware.
The word you are looking for is “penetrating oil”. The problem with a too broad definition of “lubricant” is that I wouldn’t use Coca Cola to lube my engine or KY Jelly to lube my bike chain. WD-40 is a shitty lubricant for metal-on-metal moving parts, so it’s helpful in that context to say that it isn’t a lubricant.
The two I know of with the least distortion are actually primes from the 1980s. Nikon began allowing a small amount of distortion in their new prime designs circa 2010, choosing to correct it with an in-camera profile.
It's not as bad as it sounds. Getting rid of that last bit of distortion may require relatively major tradeoffs in other areas like brightness.
I'm looking forward to your insights, this is a great comment
The point is to not die or be in a wheelchair by the time you’re 60
On a similar note, Counter-Strike never looked good, but was popular for a long time because it ran great on toaster PCs
SQ3 was actually fun and fair. I don’t remember a way to make the game unwinnable, it let you backtrack to get items or mercy killed you on the spot.
rsync -av $SOURCE $DEST has never let me down. Copy or delete on Time Machine files using Finder never worked for me.
> Problem is I don’t know how to prevent it. It’s been suggested that SSDs are potentially less susceptible to bit rot, so maybe switching to one of those is a wise plan. But I don’t know.
OpenZFS with two drives should protect you from bit rot. ZFS almost became the Mac file system in Snow Leopard.
The hardware was actually pretty great in the end. The unreleased N64 version of Dinosaur Planet holds up well considering how much more powerful the GameCube was.
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Nintendo were largely the architects of their own misery. First, they set expectations sky high with their “Ultra 64” arcade games, then were actively hostile to developers in multiple ways.
The N64 had mere kilobytes of texture cache, AFAIK the solution was to stream textures, but it took awhile for developers to figure that out